My life has never been action-packed. Lazy-packed, more like it. Thought-packed, if we’re being charitable.
To ensure that the next 5.5 years are more adventurous than the previous 24, I submit the following list:
Finish my *%$#!!! Music Education degree, for cryin’ out loud
Take a dance class
Visit Boston in the fall
SKYDIVE!
Meet longtime correspondent Jenness Park
Stare into the Grand Canyon
Put on a one-woman show
Go brunette
See the Statue of Liberty
Set foot on another continent
Write a children’s book
Play a team sport
See a baby sloth
Swim in the ocean
Learn to swim much better before recklessly hurling myself into any ocean
**UPDATE: Get a driver’s license, already!
Whew.
I like this list! And the name of your blog.
Rebekah: Thanks! I like your face.
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Atsa tall order. I was fifty something when I did a one woman show and it was just fine to take that long!
Rebekah: It’ll have to be a very, very short one-woman show… and I tend to prefer duos, so this might not be my best goal. Hmm.
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You’ve already written a children’s book-the one about Lenny and Shelly. We just haven’t illustrated and published it yet….
Rebekah: I am 0% proud of that story and don’t mind starting from scratch.
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Let’s visit Boston in the fall together. What say ye? Maybe in May of 2014?
Rebekah: I can’t predict where I’ll be next year, let alone 2014. But I like the idea.
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I also have a burning need to skydive.
We should totally do it.
Rebekah: Whooooooooo!
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Great! I think that Boston in the spring/early summer will be equally pretty and much less chilly.
Rebekah: Truly, I think ‘Visit Boston Any Ol’ Time’ is a pretty good goal. Perhaps ‘Visit Boston Any Time We Have Plenty of Pocket Money, Because There’s BOUND to Be Good Stuff There’.
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please add: make James and Winter an Uncle and Aunt…come on, we did it for you!!!!! lol
Rebekah: It WOULD be fair, I do love babies… but I suspect Ming or Rach will beat me to it. ‘Aunt Winter’ has a nice ring to it.
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Maybe you have an original, fun idea for a way for me to celebrate my own eternally-long-in-coming-college-graduation? Reference number: 2012
Rebekah: Hmmmm!
You could take a trip to someplace new
You could get a commemorative tattoo (not recommended)
You could throw a big ol’ party/family reunion—- better yet, you could get someone ELSE to throw a big ol’ party in your honor.
You could sign up for a class— not a textbooks-and-homework class, but a dance or music class, some special reward for yourself.
You could get your hair done, fancy prom-style, then go about your regular errands with Big Fancy Hair.
You could have a portrait photo session just for yourself, not family pictures.
Anything sound good?
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Ming Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 4:56 AM
I have a commemorative tattoo, lady. Hmph.
Rebekah: I don’t. Hmph to you!
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Ming Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Well you should. I recommend it!
Rebekah: Nah, not for me.
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Ooh–going on errands with big fancy hair sounds as fun as wearing huge fluffy beaded ball gowns to the hardware store-which Ming and I did once and it was great fun!
Rebekah: I’d forgotten about that! If only one of you had a blog, you could have documented the whole thing. I have evening gowns, but they’re worlds plainer than yours. I would only look slightly overdressed in a hardware store.
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Ours went to Goodwill, lack of storage space. I may never own anything that elaborately embellished again in my life. But it was fun.
Rebekah: They WERE a bit over the top…
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Rebekah: =)
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Maybe you can get Rach to assist with the one-woman show. She has a distinct flair for those of an impromptu and highly shocking nature! Lil’ Kim would blush to see Rach’s early works! Granted, she was a little girl for most of them, and may have jumped the shark at the age of 7. But YOU – you can take the world by storm!
Rebekah: Yeah, I’d say her role as “Pierre” was the shark-jump. Heh!
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What what what? I don’t remember Pierre! Was he the naked knife wielding “little boy”?
Rebekah: HINT—- Pierre lacked one body part.
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