Someday-I-Will

I see a white sail,

Skipping cross a blue bay,

And I say Someday I Will.

Don't need to know who,

May help you make it come true,

Just say Someday I Will.

Don't have to work it all out,

Don't have to tear it all apart,

All you need's a place to start.

--"Someday I Will" Jimmy Buffett

Some people have a bucket list. I have a Someday-I-Will list, my list of future projects that I am not currently in the process of making happen. And one by one I hope to take them off this list and put them on the Current Goal List, just like I have recently done with the Swim Around Key West and previously with the Long Distance Solo Sail.

I have been reading The Power of Less, which suggests that you become very public with your goals. So I am going to do just that and post my Someday-I-Will list. I may add to it and change it from time to time, but I hope to complete it all, someday.

1. TRANSPAC- a sailing race from Long Beach, CA to Honolulu, HI.

2. Run or bike the coast of an entire state (Probably a small one)

3. Take my family on a one or more month-long cruise on a sailboat

4. Take a long-distance, multi-day SUP/camping trip on the Intercoastal Waterway

5. Write a full-length screenplay

6. Make a short movie

7. Travel- Eastern seaboard of US, Ireland, New Zealand, US Virgin Islands, Southern Pacific Islands, Costa Rica

8. See Jimmy Buffett in a spontaneous show in a small bar, Flogging molly in an Irish Pub ….9. Finish converting Come Monday, my 12’ wooden boat built from scratch, into a sailboat.

So what is on your Someday-I-Will list? Maybe I can steal some ideas to add to my list.

A Dose of Sunshine

As I try to pull myself out of the depression that chronic disease often provides us with, I realize the value of music and images to remind us of the things we love and the people we were before we were overrun with worry and burnout from a failing body. I have been surrounding myself with these things in order to take back control of my presiding mood. And I thought I would share some, I have come across lately, or pulled out of the recesses of my iPod to cheer me up. I hope it brings you a smile.

No Worries Mon, Everything Will Be Alright

Over the past seven years, I have slid into the horrible habit of having a really bad attitude at work. I have become the 'I hate Mondays' kind of a person. In my defense it has been an incredibly hard seven years struggling with hyperthyroidism tearing every ounce of my energy and ravaging my body. Most mornings it was painful to get out of bed and took every bit of my concentration to stay upright. But now that my thyroid has been demolished thanks to Radioactive Iodine, my health has steadily increased to the point where waking up is no longer torture. And I have decided my new role in life. I want to be the VW Jamaican man, bringing sunshine and happiness to everyone he sees. It is who I have always been before my life got turned upside down by a tiny endocrine gland that decided to do her own thing and no longer

listen to authority.