10 THINGS I WANT TO SEE/DO BEFORE I GO-GO...

[SavvyMoon]

This is along the lines of the 10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ME thread.
Can also be very interesting and spark discussion of things in common;

I guess I gotta start, huh?

1) See Ireland, Scotland and Italy for at least 14 days each

2) Own a Blue and Gold Parrot

3) Have a beautiful, spacious "bird room" in my retirement home AND an outdoor aviary too.

4) See my three kids healthy, happy and settled into great, long term relationships

5) See Bush lose office and never another Bush relative in the White House again!
Hell, never another Ultra-Conservative-Christian Republican in again!

6) See our civil rights and personal freedoms completely restored and protected, by a minimalist government.

7) See terrorists around the world erradicated, and people of different cultures and traditions respecting everyone.
(OK, enough political stuff. Pretty sad, isn't it, when politics dominates a wish list?)

8.) I want to do my Reiki healing and spiritual counseling full time at least for several years.

9) I want to move where the Winters are mild, the Springs are glorious,
the Summers are tolerable, and the
Falls have all the changing colors.
(Anyone know where that is?? Please share!)

10) I want to see the scale read "135 lbs." -- with ME on it!


Savvy*

[AsianPuppies]

1. Attend my husband's commencement from Grad School before we qualify for AARP;

2. Live again where there's trees, streams, creeks, and seasons;

3. Ditto on Savvy's travel plans: Scotland, Ireland and the entire Tuscan region;

4. Get my health balanced;

5. Operate a *true* sanctuary for macaws;

6. Win the Publisher's Clearing House;

7. Have a fully restored 1950's something Ford pick-up (see #6);

8. Have an extended vacation on a remote and stunningly gorgeous secluded beach somewhere in Mexico/South America;

9. See water conservation become one of the foremost consideration in the public's mind;

10. Retire young and become the world's best Gramma. :)

[Joel]

1 : Win the Lotto (preferably 10 million or more - NET).

2 : Get rid of or more realistically, greatly reduce sources of air & water pollution (car-exhaust, factory fumes, pesticides etc. etc. etc.).

3 : STOP putting animals to death because no-body or not enough people want them. (Free MASS IMMEDIATE neutering & release).

4 : NO MORE inhumane raising/killing of food animals.

5 : Human Population Control somehow.

6 : No more welfare as we know it. (only give out healthy, natural, nutritional (no junk) foods to those that legitamitely qualify for assistance - food stamps etc.....)

7 : Tax deductions & bonuses etc. for anyone who is physically fit.

8 : Honest, open-minded, fair, communication (with progress as a goal/result) between everyone while putting sensitivities on the back burner.

9 : Cures for all diseases and free administering of same to those who did not bring it on themselves.

10 : Every bird keeper having a safe, large, full-flight aviary outdoors on their property.

[TooLover]

Hey Joel,

7 : Tax deductions & bonuses etc. for anyone who is physically fit.

Always got to get that in, don't ya?

Who is going to be the judge of the physically fit? You?

[Joel]

Alright E.B. let's keep this thread pure!

No :) , I personally can't be a judge (yet) cause I got a ways to go myself but I am working on it as we speak. I'm sure we could find a panel of judges in each city that would qualify though.......... Now put that cigarette down and start thinking up your ten and please don't make freedom to smoke where ever ya want, one of them. ......... J/K now, don't get all sensitive on me = #8........

I personally will edit out my post completely when you do yours or maybe the mods will clean out the thread periodically to save others from spending too much time reading over the additional comical stuff. Just a suggestion there. 8) ......... Or maybe we can create a separate thread to accomodate side comments/related jokes.

[Graehstone]

The 10 things I would like to see before I go are:

1) Mankind to Terraform and colonize Mars
2) One World Government with Socialistic leanings
3) A USA that has more Schools than Prisons
4) A North American continent with open borders
5) The Iradication of Homelessness and World Hunger
6) A truely Free Healthcare system
7) A USA where Bigotry is a crime
8) A USA where "Home gardening" is not punishable with incarceration
9) The Amazon as a world Treasure and Protected
10) My very own back yard

[LtlWngdAngl]

1- Own a '69 Pontiac GTO Judge
2- Drive in a Nascar Race
3- Own a green-wing macaw
4- own a B&G macaw
5- Breed color mutation ringnecks
6- Own a pair of Prada shoes
7- See the demise of brain washing in young females by magazines such as
Vogue, Cosmo, Seventeen, etc.
8- Pay off my credit card debt
9- Get married (a little far-fetched, I know) and have 4 or 5 parrots instead
of kids
10- See my parents live a stress free life doing everything they've ever
wanted to do...Lord knows they deserve it!

[cgrite]

hahaahah....graeh.....#8 caught my eye......i'm definately with you on that one as well as all your others.....good thread Sav....
i'll have to think bout this....hmmmmmmmmmmm......

so far....what graeh said! accept...i "Finally" have a back yard.....


/GMTA!

[Tiki]

This is really hard because I already have most of what I want: loving husband, my sweet little cockatiels, our own home with huge back yard and I have traveled the world and performed on stage.

1. Win Lotto-so we don't have to work anymore
2. Get my 21 year old body back
3. Get back into acting-even if it is only community theatre-I just don't have time to do it AND work full time.
4. I would like to see a safe way to spay/neuter birds so the males and females can live together with no accidental breeding. I HATE keeping them separate!
5. See an end to terrorism and stop our countries from turning into paranoid "Big Brother" entities. I would like to see gettiing on a plane just as simple as getting onto a bus.
6. Get rid of all the idiot politicians (who shall remain nameless)
7. Get rid of racism
8. I would like to see children being born to good stable families who are able to take care of them properly. There is something wrong when 16 year olds are getting pregant at the drop of a hat (drop of trousers?) and spending the rest of their lives on the dole (God forbid, they are even starting to consider it TRENDY) and some lovely couples I know who would make excellent parents are going through the IVF nightmare.
9. A magic pill so you could eat as much chocolate as you want and never gain weight!
10. Free universal health care-easily paid for if the idiot pollies (see #6) would give up their taxpayer funded travel junkets! At least Australia is better than the USA in this-we do have free emergency care and hospitilization but they are gradually shifting towards a US style system for doctor visits which scares the crap out of me.

[crazy4birds]

oooo this sound fun!

1) live in a 4 story house and have 1 story dedicated to my birds
2)own a horse
3)to live in florida
4)to travel to italy & norway
5)to have a long relationship (with a guy of course!!)
6)to have a job as an animal expert
7)win the lotto (not the small ones)
8)to have president bush win this election
9)owning a petshop
10)starting a bird sanctuary like second chance companions (they dont EVER kill the animals)