1. sky dive (check)
2. bungee jump off the Victoria Falls bridge (check)
3. raft the Nile and the Zambezi (check)
4. see Machu Pichu
5. visit 30 countries before age 30 (26 down and just under 7 months to go)
1. Get married.
2. Have babies.
3. Adopt black babies from the U.S.
4. Live in Cuba for the summer. (Which might come true this summer!)
5. Read the Bible as many times as years of life. Or more.
Ooooh Fun.
1. See my children choose to be baptized.
2. Be completely debt free–no mortgage, nada.
3. Visit all Seven Wonders of the World.
4. Drive crosscountry and stop to see everything along the way.
5. Live overseas for at least a year.
I need more than 5. Glad there’s no real limit to my day dreams
1. Get married and be an awesome wife and mom
2. Take a hot air balloon ride
3. Be in the audience when Oprah does her “Favorite Things” episode
4. Lose the weight and keep it off for life
5. Travel to Hawaii
1. Download and subscribe to REVEAL: The #1 Worship Podcast.
2. Drive from Los Angeles to New York City in a VW Bus, stopping at every rest stop along the way.
3. Take a hot air balloon ride.
4. See Mark Knopfler in concert.
5. Love.
1. Go to NYC in December
2. Write a children’s book
3. See my mom accept Christ
4. Go to the Great Wall of China (check)
5. Go to the Serengeti (check)
1. Make more babies
2. Buy someone a house
3. Go on a safarie in Africa
4. Build a Fine Arts Studio and Performance Hall
5. Spend a month Italy with Don
1. Hold my grandbabies
2. dance on a mountain top
3. Shoot (pictures) of a safari in South Africa
4. Donate 2 gallons of blood
5. Help a single mom finish college
Los…seriously. With your posse of midgets that hang out at Ragamuffinsoul that are all excited about Africa…and since you know somebody here already (cough cough) why don’t you and them come on over…I am positive we can arrange a little som-som’em. Hello. Seriously. My five would be:
1. Raise enough support to stay here for the rest of our lives
2. See my family live in total abandonment for Christ
3. Live my life in total abandonment for Christ
4. Be a sex goddess for my hott husband for the duration of our marriage…(I can see this being a problem in our 80′s)
5. Learn to sing…like really sing, able to belt out without being ashamed or embarrassed by the way I sound.
1. Lose half of my fat ass (cuz I’d still have alot left over)
2. Write a book about my family.
3. See my children make an impact for Christ.
4. Learn how to drive stick.
5. Travel to one of those really remote caribbean islands and see if I could survive (I’ve seen like, eight seasons of Survivor–I could totally do it. )
1. Marry an amazing woman (done)
2. Teach my boys to be real men (in progress)
3. Jump out of a perfectly good airplane (done)
4. Smuggle Bibles into China (done)
5. Dive with sharks (done)
It’s a good thing my list is a lot longer than 5! I would be a little nervous if it was shorter. Fortunately, as I mark off the “to do’s” on my list, the more I add to it. My theory is that if I always have at least 5 more things on my list, I’ll never die.
I’ll let you know how this theory works out over time…
Write a book.
See Radiohead live.
Be at a Yankees World Series clinching win.
Get inked.
Walk my daughter down the aisle.
Play in a rock band.
Produce a hit record.
Tour Paris with my wife.
Raise my children to be happy and equipped for life.
Spend a week at a beach like the ones on the Corona commercials.
Someday, I want to move back home to Baton Rouge.
Go on a “food tour” around the country.
Write a book about my life.
1. Visit Italy, again, cuz the first time was way too short.
2. SCUBA AGAIN…ANYWHERE, where no wetsuit is required.
3. climb half-dome….I know I live right here next to it. Should have done it already.
4. See my son (high functioning autisitic) have an exciting social life and career as an adult; get married, him, not me.
5. Keep my marriage relationship hot all my life.
1. See my kids live for Christ and rock (either figuratively or literally)the world!
2. Live without debt
3. See a blind man see/the lame walk
4. Travel the world with my hubby
5. Live without fear or regret
1. Doing exactly what I’m doing now
2. Something to invest in the next generation
3. Play guitar in a band like ‘Jimi Hendrix’ if that is possible
4. Kids that turns the world upside down (for Christ)
5. See what makes the biggest difference to folks all over the world
1. Write the darn book. What “the” is referring to, I’m not yet sure.
2. Take my Husband someplace awesome. Where this someplace is, I’m not yet sure.
3. More tattoos.
4. To hear from the Munchkin’s lips that she understands.
5. To see all of my children happy.
Lose 30 pounds and keep it off (change the destructive eating patterns in my family tree)
Be completely out of debt and give, give give (change the destructive spending patterns in my family tree)
Write a book
Get married to an amazing godly man
Have lots of kids and raise them for the Lord
2) Win the nobel peace prize. – Did you know the $ you win from this comes from Mr. Nobel’s invention of dynomite? He always thought of it as blood money.
3) At some point in my childrens life, older than H.S., to have them thank me for being their dad.
RAIN IT DOWN
1. give your life to Christ
2. share Christ with others
3. have fun, fun, fun ’til your daddy takes your T-bird away
4. experience authentic, top-quality, hole-in-the-wall barbeque
5. celebrate Christmas year ’round.
That is so funny because I have done a few of them, and every time I think, wow, I can check that one off the list.
Here they are/were:
See Pat Benatar in concert
See Randy Travis in concert
Go to Africa and help in an Orphanage
Visit Oxford England and have a pint at the Bird and baby Pub where my hero’s CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien created Narnia and Middle Earth.
Owe no one anything but the debt of love.
Adopt kids (we have one now)
See American reverse Roe Vs Wade
That’s seven, sorry
In No Particular Order
1. Swim the great barrier reef
2. Write the book I’ve been noodling around with for a while
3. See my father come to Christ
4. Two words: backpack Europe
5. See gas get back below $1.00 a gallon (I’ve seen it before)
1. sky dive
2. bungee jump
3. locally adopt kids
4. be on tv
5. write a book
1. sky dive (check)
2. bungee jump off the Victoria Falls bridge (check)
3. raft the Nile and the Zambezi (check)
4. see Machu Pichu
5. visit 30 countries before age 30 (26 down and just under 7 months to go)
1. Get married.
2. Have babies.
3. Adopt black babies from the U.S.
4. Live in Cuba for the summer. (Which might come true this summer!)
5. Read the Bible as many times as years of life. Or more.
Ooooh Fun.
1. See my children choose to be baptized.
2. Be completely debt free–no mortgage, nada.
3. Visit all Seven Wonders of the World.
4. Drive crosscountry and stop to see everything along the way.
5. Live overseas for at least a year.
I need more than 5. Glad there’s no real limit to my day dreams
In no particular order….
1. Get married and be an awesome wife and mom
2. Take a hot air balloon ride
3. Be in the audience when Oprah does her “Favorite Things” episode
4. Lose the weight and keep it off for life
5. Travel to Hawaii
oh, I forgot to say that I have seen Pat Benatar and Randy Travis in concert so I can check thoughs off my list.
1. Do something in my spare time that would impact the world somehow. If 4 kids get water. Sweet.
2. Be in a band again.
3. Write a screenplay…hey I started that today!
4. Be a gameshow host
5. Have a posse of midgets.
Hmmm….only 5. Ok:
1. live in Africa for a time
2. skydive (great pic) – hopefully not the lst thing i do before i die.
3. adopt a child from Africa
4. visit every continent with a looooooong stop in bora bora
5. conquer every wii game ever developed
1. Download and subscribe to REVEAL: The #1 Worship Podcast.
2. Drive from Los Angeles to New York City in a VW Bus, stopping at every rest stop along the way.
3. Take a hot air balloon ride.
4. See Mark Knopfler in concert.
5. Love.
1. Go to NYC in December
2. Write a children’s book
3. See my mom accept Christ
4. Go to the Great Wall of China (check)
5. Go to the Serengeti (check)
1. Make more babies
2. Buy someone a house
3. Go on a safarie in Africa
4. Build a Fine Arts Studio and Performance Hall
5. Spend a month Italy with Don
1. Hold my grandbabies
2. dance on a mountain top
3. Shoot (pictures) of a safari in South Africa
4. Donate 2 gallons of blood
5. Help a single mom finish college
go to a mccartney show.
that is the most important one i can think of right now.
Los…seriously. With your posse of midgets that hang out at Ragamuffinsoul that are all excited about Africa…and since you know somebody here already (cough cough) why don’t you and them come on over…I am positive we can arrange a little som-som’em. Hello. Seriously. My five would be:
1. Raise enough support to stay here for the rest of our lives
2. See my family live in total abandonment for Christ
3. Live my life in total abandonment for Christ
4. Be a sex goddess for my hott husband for the duration of our marriage…(I can see this being a problem in our 80′s)
5. Learn to sing…like really sing, able to belt out without being ashamed or embarrassed by the way I sound.
1. Lose half of my fat ass (cuz I’d still have alot left over)
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2. Write a book about my family.
3. See my children make an impact for Christ.
4. Learn how to drive stick.
5. Travel to one of those really remote caribbean islands and see if I could survive (I’ve seen like, eight seasons of Survivor–I could totally do it.
My smiley got jacked up.
1. Marry an amazing woman (done)
2. Teach my boys to be real men (in progress)
3. Jump out of a perfectly good airplane (done)
4. Smuggle Bibles into China (done)
5. Dive with sharks (done)
It’s a good thing my list is a lot longer than 5! I would be a little nervous if it was shorter. Fortunately, as I mark off the “to do’s” on my list, the more I add to it. My theory is that if I always have at least 5 more things on my list, I’ll never die.
I’ll let you know how this theory works out over time…
Write a book.
See Radiohead live.
Be at a Yankees World Series clinching win.
Get inked.
Walk my daughter down the aisle.
Play in a rock band.
Produce a hit record.
Tour Paris with my wife.
Good fun!
Raise my children to be happy and equipped for life.
Spend a week at a beach like the ones on the Corona commercials.
Someday, I want to move back home to Baton Rouge.
Go on a “food tour” around the country.
Write a book about my life.
Top 5 gotta’s;
1. Visit Italy, again, cuz the first time was way too short.
2. SCUBA AGAIN…ANYWHERE, where no wetsuit is required.
3. climb half-dome….I know I live right here next to it. Should have done it already.
4. See my son (high functioning autisitic) have an exciting social life and career as an adult; get married, him, not me.
5. Keep my marriage relationship hot all my life.
1. See my kids live for Christ and rock (either figuratively or literally)the world!
2. Live without debt
3. See a blind man see/the lame walk
4. Travel the world with my hubby
5. Live without fear or regret
1. Doing exactly what I’m doing now
2. Something to invest in the next generation
3. Play guitar in a band like ‘Jimi Hendrix’ if that is possible
4. Kids that turns the world upside down (for Christ)
5. See what makes the biggest difference to folks all over the world
1. Write the darn book. What “the” is referring to, I’m not yet sure.
2. Take my Husband someplace awesome. Where this someplace is, I’m not yet sure.
3. More tattoos.
4. To hear from the Munchkin’s lips that she understands.
5. To see all of my children happy.
Lose 30 pounds and keep it off (change the destructive eating patterns in my family tree)
Be completely out of debt and give, give give (change the destructive spending patterns in my family tree)
Write a book
Get married to an amazing godly man
Have lots of kids and raise them for the Lord
1. Write a book.
2. Buy a house.
3. Be completely debt-free (which #2 will probably make impossible)
4. Get married.
5. Have babies
1) Own my own business
2) Win the nobel peace prize. – Did you know the $ you win from this comes from Mr. Nobel’s invention of dynomite? He always thought of it as blood money.
3) At some point in my childrens life, older than H.S., to have them thank me for being their dad.
4) Learn magic
5) Find the career I’m supposed to be working in.
1. Walk the great wall of china
2. Skydive
3. Drift a rc drift event in Tokyo Japan
4. Win the japanese rc drift series
5. Have a child in each country