I saw about
3/4 of the movie on TV the other day. It did make me think. I literally have never had an honest to God vacation my entire life. I've had to work my entire life sice my teens. Then had to take care of my 1st wife when she contracted a terminal illness (Yup, been on the care giving end). that's the reason I tried talking Kristina out of marrying me. I know the pain of having to deal with this. I didn't want Kristina going thru it. When you love someone with all your heart, how can you willingly put them in a position to watch you slowly fade away? Knowing that as time goes on, the fickle finger of fate will require enormous amounts of time and well being taking care of you? Eventually left to deal with cleaning things up and getting on with life when it's finally over? Needless to say it didn't work and we tied the knot about
a month after finding out. darn pushy woman!
That being said, I have serious mood swings and go crazy being home with no real work and the same 'ol walls closing in. It's really hard no having a job to go to. Further, I don't have any friends in Georgia to hang with to relieve the boredom during the long days waiting for Krissy to come home. This leads to way to much time inside the old noggin' thinking grim thoughts. The GFMPH get together was a blast. Looked forward to it for months. Close to a vacation as I've come. Absolute blast!
So, I've been thinking bucket list. We're going to California for 2 weeks in Sept. Krissy has never been. That's where I was born. So eager to show her the sights in Northern California and she can't wait either. Tentatively we plan on a trip to England and Scotland either in the spring or fall (don't want a conflict with GFMPH). Because Kristina is working hard at her nursing career and probably starting school for her BSN, that limits our travel to twice a year at most.
Isn't that what most of us want? To go to new and interesting places and do new and interesting things that are probably not at all good for us? Kristina has always said how much she wants to travel. Even though I traveled quite a bit doing Facilities Management for the military and government, that was work so I never saw anything but the hotels and whatever base I was at. So, what does this overly verbose ramble have to do with a bucket list? It changes your thoughts about
"The List" even something like Kristina's young age plays a big role in the list
Travel as much as possible
Do things that make Krissy's work and school as easy as possible
try to build good memories like concerts, festivals, etc.
Find meaningful gifts and trinkets to help with fond memories of our time together
Find things to do that keep me moving and happy. Not cranky staring at these four walls
reduce "things" or make plans to limit my footprint making things easier for Krissy to deal with in the end.
build a GT40 replica kit car
sail from Maine down the east coast, thru the Panama Canal and up the west coast
Work to stay well enough to do these things
oh, and drive Kristina crazy with just the right amount of male stupidity
(that one should be first, it makes me happy and giggle. Love the *** looks)
Wow, that's tthe most I've written or shared since this all started.
Cheers
Post Edited (palanon) : 5/12/2015 11:04:45 AM (GMT-6)