Bucket List

Ok...I'm sure that everyone has seen "The Bucket List" with Morgan and  Jack. Both living their lives and sharing adventures on their own bucket list during their twilight years.

But why does anyone create one?

To escape? To keep track? To think of things they will never-ever do in their lifetime and actually never do them?

People should just live.

We have one life that the good Lord gave us...why cats have nine is beyond me but that's another blog I guess.

Everyone should just be...live one day at a day...experience it. Embrace it. Enjoy it. Believe in it...it's your life. It's up to you to make the most of you...the world is your oyster (not really but it's a figure of speech)... :-)

At some point in our lives, we are a point where we work. Some work to educate others. Some work to clean the streets. Some work to protect us and keep us all safe. Well, you get the point...people work. Some 9 to 5 (good movie by the way), some work banker's hours (not exactly sure what that is and don't care as long as they don't mess with my money), and others work 18 hours at sea on a the most dangerous 4.5 acres of U.S. sovereign territory in the world (and on the finest carrier in the Fleet - USS Abraham Lincoln).

Anyway, I'm going to humor all of my blog readers (yes, you are my Super 8) with my list...get ready, here it comes (and in no particular order):

1. To walk my daughter down the aisle.
2. To see my son grow into the man with the heart of gold I know he already has.
3. To be me.
4. To watch Pete Rose be inducted into Cooperstown (it's a bucket list, not reality people).
5. To visit Athens (not the Georgia one).
6. To take a cruise...that isn't paid for by the Navy.
7. To be debt-free.
8. To see the Grand Canyon (yes, I've never been).
9. To see Las Vegas...and walk away with money.
10. To find that one...(that's another blog too).
11. To see a live moose...in the wild...and not one that's stuffed at Cabela's.
12. To learn how to cook really good (learned from the best, Granny Ruby and Mom) but still more to learn.
13. To see the pyramids.
14. To visit the Holy City.
15. To have a house on a lake.
16. See to my kids graduate college...OU preferably. Boomer Sooner.
17. To be a good dad.
18. To retire as a Captain...
19. To visit Europe...and enjoy it all over again!
20. To fly first-class...anywhere on a long flight. Doesn't really count on short ones now does it?
21. To visit Portland. Yes, Oregon...I hear the people and the donuts are fantastic!
22. To be content...

Well, I guess I could keep on but I just can't write or think any more tonight...it's been a long week!

Point is, it's your life...it's your bucket list...think about it, write it, be it, live it...hopefully you could rename it "my life" instead!

Just scooting...tomorrow, Mariners vs Phillies game!