December 12, 2012

There is a website with a countdown to December 12, 2012. (there is a website for everything isn't there?)This to some people is the 'end of the world'. The countdown currently says 0303 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. Amazing. In many ways. But the direction I am going with this blog entry is...if I have 0303 days left on this beautiful earth, how wisely would I use them? Wise does not have to be in the equation really. Just how would I fill those last days as they count down.

As I was going into March of last year, I had surgery coming up. At the time I had doubts I would survive all that. I won't go into those reasons now. But at that time I had a real live mental clock counting down. Did I use those days 'wisely'. Well, perhaps. Maybe not. Not sure.

My daughter and her husband helped me write my Will and last requests. That was good, I had not taken the time to do that before.  We have that to show for my surgery, along with my scars and my heart that ticks like a clock.

My wife and I had gone out to some nice restaurants. We did have a nice Christmas that year...though with a beautiful wife, three beautiful daughters, and Grand kids...I think a nice Christmas will always be penciled in for me. My cup overflows with love for my family.

But is a nice Christmas, a few great date nights, and an completed will enough to put all my chips on the table and cash in?


Probably not. Not then, not now. Boy, do I need to get busy! I don't know when my clock will run out. None of us really do. My middle daughter teases me that I need to get writing my 'Novel'...one I started years ago. I also have ideas for screen plays, poems, and maybe another novel.

I started this blog out to sort of get the writing bug rolling, good start...but not quite enough.

And there are places on the globe I really want to visit before I check out. There are things I want to do. And I really need a few more adventures before I can call this life full. ADVENTURE. I have long held the belief that life, with all it's bells and whistles,  is the greatest of all adventures. But it is made up of a bunch of little adventures...and sitting around the TV after working for 10 hours each day is not living the adventure.
I'll let you know what I come up with. Wink Wink. Watch what happens.

Cheers, nca

p.s. Leap Day is February 29. That gives us all an extra day before the end of the world. What mischief can I get into between Leap day and the Ides of March? I'm telling you, there's going to be something to blog here.