One Small Victory
Woo HOOOO!! I just woke up and I still have my eyebrows! Take that, Stupid cancer!
So, here’s for you, Jen! I’m starting a list of 99 things I want to do some day. One thing for each day of chemo. I thought it’d be easy, but I’ve always been sort of a work-now-play-later kind of girl, and it’s hard to come up with 99 fun things! But here goes: (well, this is a start…)
1) Do a recital of vocal repertoire
2) Take a belly dance class and wear those sparkly costumes…come on, Jen, you know you want to go, too!
3)Take surfing lessons. (You and me, Kevin! And Lucy!)
4) Go to Macchu-Picchu. I think I’d prefer to backpack it, so I won’t miss any of the sights.
5) Ride horses through a rain forest.
6) The year I turn 40, I plan to run my first Ultra marathon. A short one. In a really pretty place. I’ll just go slowly, eat alot, and cruise!
7) Flamenco dancing. Again, cool costumes! (Come on, Monique!)
8) Set a PR at the Avenue of the Giants Marathon
9) Find True Love!
10) Some how bully that true love into dancing with me!!! 
11) Learn to make yummy sugar-free desserts
12) Eat said desserts.
13) Play the piano every day.
14) Play chamber music!
15) Find a long-term project that will help disadvantaged kids.
16) Learn to snowboard!
17) Do voice-overs.
18) Somehow, someday, acquire a piece of land
19) Gain control of my finances!
20) Sing opera. Even if I have to sing only the old lady parts!
21) Sing concert repertoire with good orchestrae.
22) Martial arts…learn how to use that 5-foot staff in my spare bedroom that I haven’t gotten around to using in 10 years!
23) African dance?!
24) Go to cultural events more often
25) Find time, at least once a week, to spend time with friends.
26) Sometimes buy new clothes BEFORE I need them!
27) try hang gliding
28) Safari?
29) Kick it for a while on a desserted island!
30) sky dive, without a tandem instructor.
31) moutain bike more often
32) Learn to speak German better
33) Climb a big mountain, though I’m afraid of heights, and might just be doing it for the bragging rights.
34) Learn to grow my own organic veggies.
35) Someday have a gorgeous flower garden to hang out in.
36) Trapeze, or other aerial art!!!! I’ve been meaning to do that for years!
37) Backpack in Point Reyes
38) Run the Dipsea Race
39) Kayaking
40) start a gang of Ultralite flyers! Spend sometime up in the clouds!
41) Go on an archeological dig. Or maybe my nephew and I will go on a paleontology dig…
Uhhh…still thinking on the rest. So far, that’s my “Bucket List”, sort of like that movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Not that I plan to kick the bucket anytime soon…obviously, with all these plans. (Plus, I am blessed with a reallly good prognosis!) Maybe it should be called the “Full Bucket List”.
March 10th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
LOL! I love that you wake up in the morning and scorn your cancer!! Keep it up girl!!