What's on your "BUCKET LIST"???

I want to work less and enjoy my husband and family more, I am determined to find balance. We have decided to buy an onsite caravan some where 2 hours from home and pet friendly so we are able to go home after work on a Friday and collect the dogs and then off we go.

We spent the last weekend checking out parks and vans, next weekend will be the same. I am determined to do something about it.

I want to spend more time with my sisters and have planned a holiday just we girls for later this year.

I want to work less and enjoy my husband and family more, I am determined to find balance. We have decided to buy an onsite caravan some where 2 hours from home and pet friendly so we are able to go home after work on a Friday and collect the dogs and then off we go.

We spent the last weekend checking out parks and vans, next weekend will be the same. I am determined to do something about it.

I want to spend more time with my sisters and have planned a holiday just we girls for later this year.

I plan to go on a long awaited holiday.  It's been four years since we took a break. 

My husband would like to hire a yacht on the Whitsundays.  I think I could could be up for that.  I have always wanted to go to Italy so that is high on my list.  Less work and more time spent with friends and family. 

A simpler life where I have time to take in all the beauty around me. 

I want to meet up in Sydney with one of my besties who lives in Auckland for a girls weekend or week.

I have my diploma in counselling which I would like to put toward some  volunteer work when I am strong and confident again. 

I must admit I haven't spent much time thinking about what I want to do when I am finished treatment.  Probably because I still feel  pretty much in shock to find myself in this situation.  However, these were things on my bucket list before BC.

Hey huny

Unbelievable!!!!  I cannot believe our two posts are the top two feature posts currently on the main page.  For today we will revel in this.  I guess being BCNA Beasties (hee hee) means we think along the same lines.

I luv your post and you always get me thinking.

I really have never had a bucket list.  Can you believe that????  I know you have and I got to be apart of one of your quests on your list and got to share such a wonderful special time with you while you were here in Perth.  Amazing how BC and BCNA can connect two people from different states in our case Australia but can also do for the World.  BCNA is an incredible organisation and I never get tired of saying that.

Number 1 on my bucket list is - to get this alien boob of mine sorted.  That being either being able to rejuvenate the dying cells from my rare reaction to radiation or whether that means being able to get the cells rejuvenated enough for me to be able to have the boob off and for the skin to be healthy enough to heal. Huge ask but I BELIEVE it will happen. We all know Miracles do happen.

Number 2 was to return to Bali to see my beautiful Balinese friend and her family as I have missed them so much.  I get to do this with my special sisters and hubbies and in the process we are managing to get brother inlaw who has had the stroke to get to travel and to get to visit his brother who is an expat and lives on Lembongan Island in Bali.  We haven't quite worked out how we are going to get him off the boat yet but we will all carry him if we have to. 

Number 3 was to reduce working so much and to actually sit back and enjoy the small things in life.  BC got that one sorted for me along the way.

Number 4 is to teach myself to be less stressed.  I am slowly learning to do that with the help of my Yoga class, my visualisation boards, my meditation etc.  A big ask but worth the trouble.

Number 5 is to somehow leave chemo brain behind as for someone who held down 3 jobs and had an immaculate house inside and out etc. I am finding the chemo brain hard to deal with so I am working on that so any suggestions ladies would be ever so helpful.  I am doing a research study currently which is through the Sydney Cancer Centre, Department of Oncology.  So I am hoping this helps.

Number 6 is to be fit again and lose weight.  Big challenge.

These are not in any particular order.

I will keep thinking of more things to add to my bucket list Mel .Because of you I have realised how much a bucket list or a dream come true is so important..  Maybe Wall of China, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sky Jumping, absailing.  The list of hopes and dream can go on.  Nothing is impossible as we have found since being able to conquer breast cancer and make it through chemo and radiotherapy and now the ongoing medications................

You are a major inspiration in my life and I thank you and feel I am so lucky to have you as my BCNA Beastie.

Luv my Beastie to the moon and back.  Mich xoxoxoxoxo

Hey huny

Unbelievable!!!!  I cannot believe our two posts are the top two feature posts currently on the main page.  For today we will revel in this.  I guess being BCNA Beasties (hee hee) means we think along the same lines.

I luv your post and you always get me thinking.

I really have never had a bucket list.  Can you believe that????  I know you have and I got to be apart of one of your quests on your list and got to share such a wonderful special time with you while you were here in Perth.  Amazing how BC and BCNA can connect two people from different states in our case Australia but can also do for the World.  BCNA is an incredible organisation and I never get tired of saying that.

Number 1 on my bucket list is - to get this alien boob of mine sorted.  That being either being able to rejuvenate the dying cells from my rare reaction to radiation or whether that means being able to get the cells rejuvenated enough for me to be able to have the boob off and for the skin to be healthy enough to heal. Huge ask but I BELIEVE it will happen. We all know Miracles do happen.

Number 2 was to return to Bali to see my beautiful Balinese friend and her family as I have missed them so much.  I get to do this with my special sisters and hubbies and in the process we are managing to get brother inlaw who has had the stroke to get to travel and to get to visit his brother who is an expat and lives on Lembongan Island in Bali.  We haven't quite worked out how we are going to get him off the boat yet but we will all carry him if we have to. 

Number 3 was to reduce working so much and to actually sit back and enjoy the small things in life.  BC got that one sorted for me along the way.

Number 4 is to teach myself to be less stressed.  I am slowly learning to do that with the help of my Yoga class, my visualisation boards, my meditation etc.  A big ask but worth the trouble.

Number 5 is to somehow leave chemo brain behind as for someone who held down 3 jobs and had an immaculate house inside and out etc. I am finding the chemo brain hard to deal with so I am working on that so any suggestions ladies would be ever so helpful.  I am doing a research study currently which is through the Sydney Cancer Centre, Department of Oncology.  So I am hoping this helps.

Number 6 is to be fit again and lose weight.  Big challenge.

These are not in any particular order.

I will keep thinking of more things to add to my bucket list Mel .Because of you I have realised how much a bucket list or a dream come true is so important..  Maybe Wall of China, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sky Jumping, absailing.  The list of hopes and dream can go on.  Nothing is impossible as we have found since being able to conquer breast cancer and make it through chemo and radiotherapy and now the ongoing medications................

You are a major inspiration in my life and I thank you and feel I am so lucky to have you as my BCNA Beastie.

Luv my Beastie to the moon and back.  Mich xoxoxoxoxo

Hey Hazel

You reminded me I should have added Tassie to my Bucket List.  My daughter paid for a trip there during my chemo and radiotherapy for me and hubby.  It was such a beautiful and amazing place but I was still so very very ill so I didn't get to enjoy it the way I would have liked.  I did get to walk the Salamanca Markets though which was fabulous because our accomodation was close by.  Def want to go back there.  Also would luv to get to NZ. 

A mental note to add to my bucket list.

I hope you get to follow your dreams and wishes.  Wishing you wellness and happiness.

Luv always, Mich xoxoxoxoxo

when I finished my treatment I got a pink ribbon tattoed on my inner left wrist, I love it. I do like your idea of the butterflies, I just may add those to mine.

Mich the chemo brain thing, do you know when it goes away becuase I feel like mine has never left somedays I struggle to mind words and I am now 8 months post chemo. I think these days its just I am still in recovery and I struggle.

Have a lovely day ladies.

Donna

when I finished my treatment I got a pink ribbon tattoed on my inner left wrist, I love it. I do like your idea of the butterflies, I just may add those to mine.

Mich the chemo brain thing, do you know when it goes away becuase I feel like mine has never left somedays I struggle to mind words and I am now 8 months post chemo. I think these days its just I am still in recovery and I struggle.

Have a lovely day ladies.

Donna

I cannot believe how many ladies have said they want less stress in their lives.  I don't care what studies say that stress doesn't cause cancer, I believe that it does or that it has some effect on dormant cancer cells. 

My bucket list is small. 

I want to finish my degree in Communications.  That will happen in just 4 weeks time.
I want to do my honours year this year.
I want to become a paid freelance journalist writing about food production and agriculture.
I want to make my own decisions.  I'm making that happen now.

I don't need holidays or things, just a purpose in life so that I have reason to live for many more years.

Cas x