Things That You Would Still Like to Do...

**nubka** · 02-03-2011, 09:18 PM

As I am only 52, here are some things that I would still like to do in my life (and, no, they don't all have to be big, epic things.)

Live in Japan
Visit the Anne Frank House & her home on the Merwedeplein
Visit Auschwitz/Birkenau

Learn to play the piano
Learn to fence
Work in a florist shop
See Plushy skate live

Get dressed in a beautiful kimono
Cruise the Greek islands
Live next door to Disneyland
Cook fried potatos without having them totally stick to the bottom of the pan!

What about you...?

**MikiAndoFan#1** · 02-03-2011, 09:41 PM

Nice thread!

I would like to:

See Miki skate live and get a chance to meet her
Meet Hikaru Utada and go to one of her concerts
Learn how to ice skate
Visit Japan, South Korea, China, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, Romania
Learn Japanese
Attend figure skating competitions
Eat sushi
Meet Meryl Streep
See Portugal win Eurovision

**Aceon6** · 02-03-2011, 09:41 PM

Play golf in Scotland and Ireland
Eat my way through Barcelona
Learn how to make good chocolates
Become an accredited mediator

**The Village Idiot** · 02-03-2011, 09:42 PM

Zorb.

**PDilemma** · 02-03-2011, 09:46 PM

Go to Ireland
Go to mainland Europe
Go to New Orleans, New York City, Yellowstone, and many, many more....
(Okay, I just want to travel)

Learn to skate
Make a good risotto
Own a house
Write a book
Not worry about money
Bake an angel food cake that is not deformed
Attend a skating comp.
See games in more baseball stadiums.

**Artemis@BC** · 02-03-2011, 09:55 PM

Well, I'm hoping to fulfill my New York bucket list items this spring, but others would include:

~ swim with manatees
~ snuggle a koala
~ snuggle a sloth
~ see the polar bears in Churchill before it's too late

~ visit Ireland, the Isle of Mann, Greece, Egypt, Costa Rica, Antarctica, New Zeland, Vietnam, Russia ... and a bunch of other places
~ take a Danube cruise
~ become a highly paid travel writer or movie critic
~ see a federal NDP government get elected (and not disappoint!)
~ find the perfect pair of jeans
~ learn to play mandolin. or banjo. or both
~ win the lottery or otherwise become financially independent so I can open a used book store without worrying about having to make a profit
~ attend an Olympic skating event where Canadians win gold (oh, wait, I already did that

)

**D&Sfan4ever** · 02-03-2011, 10:02 PM

Travel, a lot...
Own a house
Get married and have children
Become a lawyer (this year hopefully, I'm crossing my fingers)
Not worry about money
Go to the winter Olys
Go to a Megadeth concert... and an Edguy one
Learn to play the piano and/or guitar (an electric one if possible, but I'm not picky)
Work in the UN

**KatieC** · 02-03-2011, 11:51 PM

Learn how to play the piano
Live on my own with my dream library (you know, the one with a sliding ladder and fireplace and a leather chair with brass studs)
Travel to Italy and Greece, and make it to Uganda
Not worry about having enough money
Work internationally in elections
Get paid to do something I love

**cruisin** · 02-04-2011, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by nubka

As I am only 52, here are some things that I would still like to do in my life (and, no, they don't all have to be big, epic things.)

Visit Auschwitz

I've done that. Probably one of the most important and devastating things I've ever done. I still get chills and tear up when I think about it, many years later. Knowing about, reading about, seeing photos of what happened there is bad. But, actually being there. Seeing the different buildings and their contents. Walking in the footsteps of so many who were murdered - it's just numbingly horrifying.

As for something I would like to do, I would like to live in Tuscany and travel around Europe at my leisure. These things don't have to be things we could actually ever do? Right?

**millyskate** · 02-04-2011, 12:27 AM

Get married and have children
Adopt a child
Get a photo book published
Open a shop
Eat in a 3 Michelin star restaurant
Spend a week in a spa resort/hotel
Be a skating photographer

**RockTheTassel** · 02-04-2011, 12:48 AM

Learn to swing dance
Bake something and have it actually turn out tasty
Read every book I currently own
Become fluent in another language
Travel to at least five other countries
Get to the Adult Gold level in figure skating
Attend the Winter Olympic Games
Join the Navy
Be as content as possible with whatever crosses my path.

**mmscfdcsu** · 02-04-2011, 12:59 AM

Have a huge bathtub and great bathroom. Perfect for 5 hour baths complete with candles, champagne and a supply of paperback books. Apartment bathtub doesn't quite cut it.
Learn to play the violin
Take voice lessons
Retire now, leaving lots of time in the day for skating while everyone else is at school or work
Live on a houseboat
Buy a house on the lake.
Travel around the world to experience opera in differing settings.
But greatest fantasy

. Get to put on my skates and stand on the ice near the boards for even 10 minutes of an elite Mens Practice session. To feel the speed and power and be on that side of the boards would be a dream come true.

Win Powerball so that I can do all the things I listed above.

**smurfy** · 02-04-2011, 01:02 AM

-Travel.....Visit Machu Pichu, Antartica, Japan, Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Portugal plus others
-See more areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, N Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, US, Canada
-Spend more time on hobbies: reading, photography, scrapbooking
-Attend more skating
-Meet that special someone
-Cook and bake more
-Contribute/be productive once I retire
-Do something that scares me

Nubka - Anne Frank house is very worth visting. I went as an adult, and could not believe how much of the book (read in jr hight) just popped up in my memory. I did go to Dachau also, and though sad/horrific, as a citizen of the world, it was something to see and reflect on. I am not sure how to word it, but it was a place one should go and pray/acknowledge.

**Allen** · 02-04-2011, 01:14 AM

Travel wise: Angkor Wat, Machu Pichu, South Africa, Dubai, India, Bali, Tahiti, Alaska, Russia

Eat at El Bulli in Spain.

Work wise: Make tenure with no problems. Receive a Fulbright grant.

Life wise: For Oliver and I to adopt a child in the next few years, definitely before we are 40

I want to go to as many skating competitions as I can
Be a spectator at the Olympics for both Figure Skating and Gymnastics
Become a judge in either Figure Skating or Gymnastics
Get the weight off and start dancing again

**KikiSashaFan** · 02-04-2011, 01:15 AM

Finish my degree
Attend an Olympic Opening Ceremony
Travel to each continent (my country list is too long to post)
Run a full marathon
Learn another language
Get my scuba diving certificate

**Buzz** · 02-04-2011, 01:36 AM

Have children
Travel to Spain
Watch a World Cup final
watch skating at the Olys
find a full time job
Walk amoung the piramids
Learn to dance the tango
read War and Peace

**cruisin** · 02-04-2011, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by mmscfdcsu

Have a huge bathtub and great bathroom. Perfect for 5 hour baths complete with candles, champagne and a supply of paperback books. Apartment bathtub doesn't quite cut it.

Just renovated the master bath (the shower was leaking). And we just ripped out the Jacuzzi, because in 25 years, I think we used it 4 times. Put in a make-up/vanity area instead.

**mmscfdcsu** · 02-04-2011, 02:19 AM

Originally Posted by cruisin

Just renovated the master bath (the shower was leaking). And we just ripped out the Jacuzzi, because in 25 years, I think we used it 4 times. Put in a make-up/vanity area instead.

. When I had more time, I used to stay in the tub for hours at a time. I had a great old bathroom in KCMO. Deep, deep tub with a window over the middle of it. I used to love to open the window in the winter and fill the tub with hot water. Candles, classical music and that cold fresh air pouring in. Those were the days.

**pollyanna** · 02-04-2011, 03:20 AM

Jump out of an airplane.
Spend a year or five slumming through Europe.
Complete a fully rotated double axel.
Shag at least 5 porny celebrities. And John Zimmerman.
Go skiing in New Zealand.
Attend all the figure skating events in all the Winter Olympics until I am 80.
Earn a Masters and PhD in History.
Meet a bunch of FSUers.

**Really** · 02-04-2011, 03:33 AM

I want to see my children and their families happy and comfortably settled.
I want to dance at my granddaughters' weddings, should they get married.
I want to dance on my 50th wedding anniversary (which could possibly be around the time a granddaughter gets married?).
Anything after that is gravy.

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