Janice M Cali
Something Totally Different, Mostly
Hugs Help Everything
Today I want to take a totally different tact in my story. First, however, an apology for my writing. I seem to be having trouble connecting my brain with my fingers when typing. Sometimes I leave words out or use the wrong word. The typos my spell checker usually catch, but sometimes the wrong word goes in the right place or vis versa, the right word goes in the wrong place. That said, on with the new stuff.
Several year ago I started a list of things I want to do before I die, and I figure I have about 66 to 67 years ahead of me. I'm working on the getting in shape part of the things that I will do.
Roux Wants to Go Everywhere With Me
1.I want to take an outrigger trip between the Hawaiian Islands, single canoes, with two other experienced guides. This sounds like heaven, camp out on the beaches, carry our food and water with us. I saw this done on a travel show once when in the nursing home and knew I wanted that.
2.Travel the back roads of China, not the cities, get to know the people, try to learn some of the language, learn the cooking and the crafts that are still practiced in the small villages.
4.Go to Fiji
5.Take one year and travel around the United States with my camera and my computer so I can edit the ones I like and write about each day and where I went and what I saw, and try to get wild life photos as well as natural wonders, with which this country abounds.
6.Travel the Alaskan highway from British Columbia all the way to its end and then explore Alaska both on foot, by car, and by canoe. Meet people who live there year round.
7.Have a fresh salmon taco in Juno Alaska
8.In Maine find the place on the beach that serves the worlds best lobster sandwich.
9.With my family in New England have a real, honest to god, Clam Bake on the beach with clams we dig ourselves, I don't mind if we buy the lobster, crab and corn, but we have to dig the clams and clean them..
10. Own my own restaurant with food I make, or at least recipes that I create. That'd be cool.
11.Write a book that someone would want to publish and people would like to read.
12.Create a piece of art that a New York or Los Angeles or Dallas gallery would kill to carry, and a museum would buy.
13.Travel the back roads of all of Great Brittan, which would include Wales, riding Welsh mining ponies, Cornwall, Scotland and all places in between.
14.Once again wear a size 12 and look great in it.
15.Have plastic surgery to remove the excess skin from losing 200 lbs.
16.Get Married, maybe, but not live together full time.
17.Own a New Volvo SUV or Wagon
18. Have a travel trailer that the above could tow, and that had a satellite antenna so I could still access the internet.
Horses Run With Joy
19.Travel to Spain, specifically Andalusia obviously to see and ride the horses.
Not Austrailian Mountains, but close
20.Australia, the outback, the small towns, not the cities, although maybe Sydney to see the opera house, but am not sure. Would rather see all the big and small vegetable markets, meet the greyhounds I know, take Roux with me if she's still with me.
21.Have my farm, with goats, donkeys, ducks, geese, and chickens and of course my horse. Maybe more than two acres, see if I can buy the land on the other side of the stream back so we could let the horses and goats graze there too.
22.Learn to comb cashmere out of a coats coat, efficiently. Learn to milk a goat, learn to make goat milk cheese, and soap.
These are just a few of the things I want to do before I die, and I will, I have a strong belief that somehow, somewhere these are predestined to be things I accomplish. So there.
There is a number 24, actually it's number one:
Old Glory, Fly High, Fly Free
See the Tricentennial of the United States of America, with peace and freedom still in tact and our liberties still in place, and our government serving the people as our founding fathers planned when the wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Consideration. I saw the Bicentennial, and I plan to see the tricentennial that gives me approximately 66 ½ years to do everything else. I'll make it, I'm stubborn I am. Just you wait and see.
Hats off to you Americans, giving deaths, blood and bombs to world, begging prosperity from God? Wow so strange, you are making hell in Afghanistan in the name of terrorism, what you did in Iraq? there was nothing wrong there, Read Bloody Tony Blair report published a days before.
It was not mere Bush, but whole Americans who elected him to play with lives of the world.
I will not pray for death, bloodshed or hell for you Americans, but you be the judge, what you deserve for indeed?