What would you do given the chance? | ADHD Information
Kfranks...absolutely NOT corny!! In fact none of your ideas are corney, except maybe ... Floof...you, man, are sadistic!
Michelle...I hope you and the family stop to see me when you're in Greece!
And bring pics of all the other places you've been to show me. 
GPKid...I like your idea about adopting a cat who also has one year to live....it's really is sad when our feline friends are passed from one owner to another to another to another.
GypsyWomyn38459.58034722221) Shoot the doc who told the bad news
2) make a friend with a private jet so that I can escape on it to a beautiful, tropical beach island, incognito.
3) Buy a lifetime supply of sunblock (I'm sort of pale), a bathing suit, and a pair of dark sunglasses
4) make a secret phone call to my best friend so she could fly out and join me
5) Learn to surf
6) Adopt a pet who also has only one year left to live
7) mix nice drinks, read good books
8) skydive once
The first thing I would do is go and buy a huge birthday cake from my favorite bakery, and I'd have them load it up with extra frosting. I'd get a gallon of icy cold milk and a fork, and I'd eat it until it was gone. (I would be sure do do this as much as I could possibly stomach over the entire year.) I would round up my family and go Tahiti/Bora Bora, Hawaii, Australia, and then head over to Greece, Italy, and I'd want to fit Alaska in there also. All along the way, I would eat as much sugar as I could. (For a fleeting moment, I thought maybe I'd go back to drinking, but then figured it'd be dumb because I'd be hung over the whole year). I'd want to have a clear mind to appreciate the beauty of being with my family and seeing all of the new surroundings.
P.S. Great topic!! Thanks for creating a couple of really good minutes in my mind!Hmmmmmmmm....goldenmoment38479.7996759259I would get a house with a big front yard, and make a giant hedge maze to the front door. I would tell all my friends:
right-left-right
left-right-left
That would be the secret code to find your way to the front door. Also, I would design the maze so that there would be a secondary maze interleaved with the first one, but not connected directly, so that the secondary would lead to the back yard. Then I'd get some dogs, not mean dogs, but dogs that bark alot, and put them in the back yard. Then I'd order some delivery pizza, stand at an overlooking window in the house and watch the pizza guy try to nervously navigate the maze with dogs barking at him from every direction, but only I would know that the dogs cant get into the main maze.
Muhahahah!
I would give him a big tip though.
Spend each and every waking moment with my family. Give them a year they would never forget. Teach my son all that I know (what little that may be) Make amends with people I might have hurt down the road, and last but not least, look at my husband every morning like it was the "first morning".
I know, kinda corny.
kfranks38458.7937152778[QUOTE=kfranks]Spend each and every waking moment with my family. Give them a year they would never forget. Teach my son all that I know (what little that may be) Make amends with people I might have hurt down the road, and last but not least, look at my husband every morning like it was the "first morning".I know, kinda corny.[/QUOTE]
NOT CORNY! In fact, quite beautiful.....maybe we should all do that anyway.
[QUOTE=Mark Goode][QUOTE=GypsyWomyn]Hypothetically, if you knew you had only one year to live [/QUOTE]
Panic.
[/QUOTE] You are too funny. I saw a book the other day called '100 things to do and see before you die'. I guess I would start doing those!
I would get a house with a big front yard,
and make a giant hedge maze to the front door. I would tell all my
friends:
right-left-right
left-right-left
That would be the secret code to find your way to the front door.
Also, I would design the maze so that there would be a secondary
maze interleaved with the first one, but not connected directly, so
that the secondary would lead to the back yard. Then I'd get some
dogs, not mean dogs, but dogs that bark alot, and put them in the
back yard. Then I'd order some delivery pizza, stand at an
overlooking window in the house and watch the pizza guy try to
nervously navigate the maze with dogs barking at him from every
direction, but only I would know that the dogs cant get into the main
maze.
Muhahahah!
I would give him a big tip though.
[/QUOTE]genius!
i would get smashed and laugh myself out of life lol
FOR A WHOLE YEAR THEN I WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS ON MY DEATH BED LOL 
And if I had quit smoking, I also would start again!
I would spend a good deal of my time with my little girl. I would create CDs for her with all the music I feel is important for her to know. I would write down all my words of wisdom for her. I would take plenty of time to breathe her into my soul to carry a part of her with me.
Then, I would take my husband to some exotic local. There we would be able to lay around eating the best foods around. I would spoil him and myself with the expensive wines we adore. Probably start smoking again (Boy, do I miss the selfish delight of it). Lay naked on a beach wearing SPF 50-- even knowing I will die, I still don't want a tan. Have plenty of sex.
With unlimited funds, I would set my loved ones up for life with the things they would need. A house, education, travel, etc. Donate money to research whatever was killing me. Then, spoil myself rotten.
R.I.P.
Thought I'd drudge this topic up again, since there are so many new members who might enjoy posting to it.Floof...now that you have that house...are you gonna build your maze?
Probably start smoking again(yay), and eat as much junk food as I could find. I'd spend a ton of money on new computer and guitar stuff, and write/record as many songs as I could!Oh yeah, I'd move back to the beach and go surfing every freaking day again! yay!
Todd38478.9404861111Hypothetically, if you knew you had only one year to live (and in good health during that year), and you could do anything you wanted in that year, $$ no object, what would it be? Well, this is your chance. Let your imaginations carry you away! Care to share?
I think I'd want to travel to Greece with a good friend, where we'd have our own quaint stucco dwelling overlooking the blue Mediterranean. I'd have all the books I've always wanted to read (for pleasure!) on my shelves. A different 'wrap' to wear each day (no underwear, ever!). Nothing to bind me, physically or mentally. Pure relaxation, good food, good music and good conversation with a good friend.[quote=yellowdog]Wouldn't it be awful, if you knew that to be true and you couldn't afford to quit your job ...[/quote]
Yes, that would be awful! But remember, money ($$) is no object....so you could afford to quit your job....and do ANYTHING you always wanted to.
Travel all over the world with my family and delight in the sparkle I see in my children's eyes as they see things and experience things for the first time......a snow-capped mountain......swimming with dolphins.....a breaching whale.
Then I'd make lots of tapes for my kids to listen to as they go through life changing events. Such as graduating from college, marriage, birth of their first child, etc.
Oh, and then I'd find a cure for whatever I'm dying from so I wouldn't have to go!
I guess I'd probably just spend some more time with certain people. Maybe post a weblog. Try to get the rest of the mess cleaned up before I left. Laugh, cry, be honest. Enjoy nature and appreciate the things around me. Get a great hair cut and some new clothes. Talk to God.
Wouldn't it be awful, if you knew that to be true and you couldn't afford to quit your job ...
[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn]Hypothetically, if you knew you had only one year to live [/QUOTE]
Panic.
If money was no object just spend time with those I love. Go on a trip that had lots of fun things to do.