Language & Grammar discussion

If you are not familiar with the term-- these are things you would like to do before you "kick the bucket" :)

Here are 5 of mine:
1) Learn to speak, read, and listen to Spanish fluently
2) Rent an entire island-- one with crystal clear blue water and beautiful sugary white sand
3) Plant a garden that I don't kill by under or over watering
4) See the fireworks in DC on the 4th of July
5) Travel all over the US in an RV

1) learn how and play the violin

2) go to every state in the USA

3) write at least three novels

4) read every book on my TBR list

5) own a home

Stay healthy
Publish a book of poetry
Find another gallery
Get thin

1.) Buy a bucket.


(Hey, it's a start...)

Hahahahahaha!!!
1. Get thinner (apologies to Ruth)
2. Not outlive my children
3. Travel to Europe (and possibly the States) with an unlimited budget!
4. Stay healthy (see #1.)
5. Get lucky one more time!!!!! (Minimum)!

Play the French Horn in a good symphonic orchestra. I played piano, trumpet & Fluegelhorn but never good enough to play professionally (or even amateurishly)

Yes, publishing a book of poetry would be nice.

See all my remaining children & grandchildren lead happy lives.

Not have to go to a nursing home.

Make sure there's not a hole in that bucket, NE :)

I should hope, when the time comes, that my bucket is holy. Death as a concept is tough, but I figure, once you're there, it's the easiest damn thing on Earth (OK, under earth).

1) discover my own especial purpose in life
2) understanding the meaning of life
3) write successful novels.. if i ever get about doing it that is..
4)appreciate life
5) accomplish a revolution. harhar.

Oh, singer! Introduce yourself in the Introduction thread! (It can be any type of song you wish.) Oh. And good luck with #2. I heard Yoda's still working on it, even.

oh, yoda huh. haha was that sarcasm?

anw, i dont even think it can be found.. just mebbe trying to get a lil' closer.

Keep looking for answers, you will. Give up the quest, you will not.

My stab at Yoda-ese :)

Meaning of life = work hard, love someone and have fun....if you are lucky you get to keep health and someone loves you back.

Brush List:

1. I want to work hard.

2. I want to love someone (yeah, yeah, yeah...).

3. I want to have some fun.

4. I want to get lucky.

5. I want to keep my health (in a rib cage).

6. I want someone to love me back (yeah, yeah, yeah).

Brush lists are accomplished pre-bucket list, so they're much easier.

1. Visit uncommon places like Easter Island, Norfolk Island, Bora Bora, Tristan da Cuna, Pitcairn Island, Russia, Cambodia, Machu Pichu, cross the Australian Desert, go canyoning in New Zealand

2. Have a huge house/garden decorated like in a magazine

3. Have a custom made library for all my books in my house in nice wood shelves

4. Learn Latin

5. Be wealthy and do whatever I want whenever I want :D

1. Live a long, healthy, laughter-filled life with my husband.
2. Have a sizeable house (fully-stocked gargantuan library, grand piano, and hardwood taekwondo/ballet room included)
3. A novel or two would be great... though a prerequisite would be enough wealth to allow me to not work.
4. Be fluent in Spanish, Japanese, Latin, and German. (I may eventually manage the first, but the others are on my lazy person's "wishlist")
5. To love, be loved, enjoy my work, and to spread the happiness around.

Hmm... that's more of a wishlist of unlikely things (with the exception of 1 and 5, I'm hoping) than a realistic to-do list.

Ballet room?!!! Do you love ballet too?

Yep- since age 5. Haven't done much since I graduated college, but I do it now and again to keep in shape... when I have a large space and no one's watching. You?

Danced til I was 17...not well! But love it....am now Nat Pres of Friends of Royal NZ Ballet.

So maybe you can answer: why do male dancers (no, not an oxymoron) wear cups bigger than baseball catchers do? Is it art?

No....'tis vanity!

Actually, it is not a cup...it is a jockstrap to keep all the .....bits...in place whilst leaping and turning!! If baseball catchers wore tights, they would look just as impressive.
By the way....size doesn't count (I read somewhere that men need that reassurance)!

Size in cups, you mean? (And how the Bucket List thread turned into the Cup List thread, I'll never know.)

The joy of the wandering thread :)... go with the flow ... roll with the punches ... etc., etc., etc (imagine Yule Brenner as the King walking back and forth on the dais).

From buckets to cups to ounces to ...? I'm sure someone will get us back on track, but until then I'll enjoy the view just watching the wheels go round and round :)

Every male dancer's dream song: "My cup runneth over with..."

(And Sarah, maybe it all relates. Maybe an oxymoronic male ballet dancer with a hemispheric cup is on someone's bucket list. Hey. There are weirder fantasies...)

George Balanchine once said that he would never choreograph a ballet performed in the nude as certain parts of the body, when unrestrained, do not stop when the rest of the body does.

1. read all the books in my house
2. box all the books I've read and give them to whom they belong, sell them to the used book store or donate them to Friends of the Library.
3. retire
4. get my finished novels published
5. enjoy my grandchild

Janice wrote: "George Balanchine once said that he would never choreograph a ballet performed in the nude as certain parts of the body, when unrestrained, do not stop when the rest of the body does."

Heehee! And the older you get the more of those parts you have.

Janice wrote: "George Balanchine once said that he would never choreograph a ballet performed in the nude as certain parts of the body, when unrestrained, do not stop when the rest of the body does."

Well....there's a visual I've never had before!

Nederlands Dans Theatre HAVE performed works in the nude.....must be awfully distracting!!

1. Become fluent in German.
2. Open a communal darkroom alongside my photography career.
3. Have a beautiful unit with a designated place for all of my books.
4. Ensure my family have the lives they have always dreamed of and more.
5. Fall in love. The kind of love that is forever. Not now, but some day in the distant future.

Doesn't Ich bin ein Berliner mean "I am a cupcake" or something? I got ein D in German.

Oh. I am Jelly Roll Morton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n20U8...

I have to think about my list. and I need to watch the movie.

I'm still stuck at #1: Buy a Bucket.

well I always wanted to visit Peru and do the Inca trail, also go to New Zealand and Nepal. And I already did all of it. Well maybe I still want to go back and do South Island of New Zealand.
But now I need to think about the rest of my bucket list.

Depends on where you go....central city has been reasonably well cleaned up....Darfield (the epicentre) 10 km north of Chch is terrible....

1. find an agent
2. find a publisher
3. get published
4. get a squillion readers
5. start all over again

You stole my bucket-to-be.

Debbie wrote: "Depends on where you go....central city has been reasonably well cleaned up....Darfield (the epicentre) 10 km north of Chch is terrible...."
I hope to go back to New Zealand soon. I've only been to North Island and loved it and I heard that South Island is beautiful.

1. do more traveling
2. read more classic lit.
3. stay healthy
4. finish school and get better job
5. be a part of archeological dig as a 2 week vacation

Newengland wrote: "You stole my bucket-to-be."

Finders, keepers!

"1. do more traveling...5. be a part of archeological dig as a 2 week vacation"

Jana, there are lots of ruins where I live...

Here's my provisional list:

1. Learn to be nervelessly calm.
2. Learn to keep a clear mind.
3. Learn not to jump to conclusions.
4. Rebuild my pier.
5. Remodel my house.
6. Remodel my cabana.
7. Transcribe my old journal for Mom to read.
8. Learn French.

Gabi walks where others fear to tread. Careful not to step on the relics!


M, my suggestion is, start from #8, and work your way back, this will give you a sense of accomplishment and by the time you've done all the remodelling, you'll be so exhausted that numbers 1 and 2 will be easier to achieve.

Thanks, Jan! I'm making progress. I've gotten to the part where you learn how to ask the garcon for cream to go with your coffee.

Perhaps all that coffee is incompatible with a sense of calm.

Oh well, I was thinking of deleting that desideratum about nerveless calm anyway.

Always leave room for ataraxia.