A Bucket List? Hmm....

A lot of the programs I watch on a daily basis have made references to a Bucket List.  I saw the movie (very funny and sad, both) so I get the idea of what a Bucket List is.  To me, it's my *Just once..* list of things I would like to do....just once!

Just once....I would like to take a train ride where I have a sleeper suite or whatever they are called.  Like the sleeper that the *Thin Man* had in the movies.

Just once....I would love to see Australia.  Tour it in a motor home.  I'm not sure with whom...sisters, kids or grandkids.  Maybe all of them.  I want to see kangaroos in the wild, koala bears in their natural habitat, wombats, dingos, all the exotic (to us) animals.  I want to hear that adorable accent spoken everywhere I turn.  My son, Mustachio, loved the country and the people.  He really tried to find a job there but wasn't able to and still regrets that.  He would have put roots down there, gladly.

Just once.....I would love to quickly pack a bag of clothes and take off on a trip to nowhere with no time limit.

Just once....I would love to stay in a 5-star hotel and order room service.

Just once....I would love to go camping on horseback for a weekend, complete with guide.  The problem is that I'm not sure just WHERE I want this to happen.  There are so many wonderful places.......

Just once....I would love to have my kids, grandkids, great-grandkids and my sisters all together for a family reunion.  I want it to last a whole week and we would have rooms at the hotel with a big pool (and a bar with entertainment at night) that is in Guntersville.  Hey, some of my dreams are on the realistic side...LOL!

Just once....I would love to take a ride in a helicopter.  Not one of those 5 minute tourist rides but a real ride around an area that's interesting from the air.  I'm still doing research on that.

Here's one I know I will never live to experience but have always wanted....Just once, I would love to step foot on another planet other than Earth.  I hope that once of my great-grandchildren will live to enjoy that in their future.  My loving Chewlee wanted to go on a spaceship with me and didn't understand why that would never happen (I told her I was pretty sure I wouldn't be around for that....and I am sure I wouldn't pass the physical).   But it pleased me that the idea appealed to her.  Go Chewlee!!!!

Just once....I would love for my kids to be happy to celebrate Mother's Day with me.  I have often felt I failed them because I didn't divorce the Beast.

Just once.....I would love for the Beast to keep one promise he makes.  He has made multiple ones to me over the years but has NEVER kept even one of them.  He's been too self-indulgent to care that he has disappointed me so often.  

Just once....I would like to feel truly loved for myself, warts and all.