My Bucket List
Not in any special order, priority or date of time accomplished. Just a random list of things to do or things I've done.
Learn to sew.
Buy a two piece swim suit.
Learn to ski.
Wear mini skirts.
Sing alto.
Learn to fly.
Be a social worker.
Go to college.
Get married.
Have kids.
Have grandkids.
Find my high school BFF.
Do square dancing.
See Ronald Reagan.
Hot Air Balloon Ride.
Sing solo or a duet.
Meet Andy Williams.
Buy a brand new car.
Make a book of my writings.
Lose weight and keep it off.
Organize Dad's MFI and family slides.
Make girls school stuff keepsake books.
Make My Favorite Things Shutterfly book.
Visit Switzerland.
See the Eiffel Tower.
Eat a Belgium Waffle in Belgium.
Take a cruise.
Get a daisy tattoo.
Make Log Home Shutterfly book.
Meet the new owners of the Log Home.
Revisit the old places; where we lived, high school, Flagler Museum, Vizacaya
See the Grand Canyon.
Get published.
Meet my drunk driver.
Get a gun permit.
Sing in the choir.
Walk a mile in the Susan B. Komen Race.
Publish Cancer Journal.
Organize pictures.
Be at the Missionary Flights 50th Anniversary Banquet in WPB and Ft. Pierce.
Speak publicly without sounding nervous.
Make Beldin, Keller and Our Beldin Family Shutterfly books.
Preserve family recipes for girls.
Swim with the dolphins.
Downsize.
Move to Robin Ann Lane.
Go on a cruise with Joan.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Reflections from a yard sale warrior
It's times like this I wonder why I haven't retired from doing yard sales. My heating pad is on the highest setting and the warmth is soothing my aching back. The doses of Zyrtec and cough medicine will soon mask my allergy ailments from sitting outside during two 'high tree pollen' days. And Advil will kick in and relieve the extra aches and pains from cleaning out, setting up and and running a two day yard sale.
This yard sale had sunny, cool days and the usual funny moments. Like the customers who jumped when the Sully plush toy talked to them. Or the couple who wanted to give us rock bottom price for all our books and one of them was wearing a McKay Used Book Store tee shirt. And the older gentleman who bought the spiffy hat even though his wife told him it was too small for his head.
Retiring from doing yard sales would be a loss of an annual purging for profit and taking control over ''stuff' instead of 'stuff' controlling me. Though I have passed the yard sale baton onto my daughter and her neighborhood, I feel like she still needs me until her daughter is old enough to step in. But the biggest loss of all in not doing our yard sale would be the loss of quality time with my three wonderful daughters and grand kids.
So probably I will postpone retiring for a few more years. Surely when the next yard sale time rolls around the memory of how old I feel right now will have faded. Yard sale warrior will rally to do it again!
This yard sale had sunny, cool days and the usual funny moments. Like the customers who jumped when the Sully plush toy talked to them. Or the couple who wanted to give us rock bottom price for all our books and one of them was wearing a McKay Used Book Store tee shirt. And the older gentleman who bought the spiffy hat even though his wife told him it was too small for his head.
Retiring from doing yard sales would be a loss of an annual purging for profit and taking control over ''stuff' instead of 'stuff' controlling me. Though I have passed the yard sale baton onto my daughter and her neighborhood, I feel like she still needs me until her daughter is old enough to step in. But the biggest loss of all in not doing our yard sale would be the loss of quality time with my three wonderful daughters and grand kids.
So probably I will postpone retiring for a few more years. Surely when the next yard sale time rolls around the memory of how old I feel right now will have faded. Yard sale warrior will rally to do it again!
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