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Eight Crazy Nights: Day 1 - Jessica Andersen
by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | December 21, 2008 | Sunday at 12:14 pm | 125 Comments
It’s the start of Eight Crazy Nights: a giveaway every day for Hanukkah, the festival of fried foods and wrestling bits of candle wax out of the menorah after cramming the candles in their bases each night for a week-plus-one.
But that’s beside the point. Our first giveaway is for an ARC of Jessica Andersen’s Dawn Keepers. We have three to give away, and Doc Jess will select randomly from your comments, provided you answer her question:
If we posit that the world *is* going to end on 12/21/2012…what is one thing you absolutely want to do between now and then?
Leave your comment, and you’re entered to win. You have 24 hours - ready, set, go!
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Anony Miss said on 12.21.08 at 12:59 PM • [link]
Thing number one: sink a whole lotta money into designing and building a ship so I can colonize another habitable planet!!
Mary M. said on 12.21.08 at 01:06 PM • [link]
Hmm… having so short a time span influences the answer a lot… Normally I would have said I wanted to find true love and have children, or bought the house of my dreams, or found my true calling in life and realized how I could make the world a better place. But what use would those be if the world was going to end in 4 years?....So I think I’d do something completely selfish and go work on a cruise boat that travels around the world - the goal would be to visit all the countries I haven’t seen yet before they don’t exist anymore! At least see my current top 5: Egypt, Morocco, India, Ireland and Peru. Plus all the islands I might cross along the way :-DDD
Anna the Piper said on 12.21.08 at 01:22 PM • [link]
I want to see Great Big Sea perform on their home turf in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and belt out “Rant and Roar” at the top of my lungs in the middle of a crowd who can sing it like they mean it.
Faellie said on 12.21.08 at 01:30 PM • [link]
Give up work, live off my savings, and spend the time in my garden. I’m reclaiming a quarter of an acre of steep scrubland overlooking the sea, turning it into a terraced garden. I don’t have a deadline for finishing, because a garden is never finished, which is both a blessing and a curse. A four year deadline, with no work to get in the way, is just about perfect.
PS I might still spend quite a lot of time reading, too.
Alyssa said on 12.21.08 at 01:31 PM • [link]
See a unicorn
DeeCee said on 12.21.08 at 02:10 PM • [link]
Make it to Ireland to kiss the blarney stone and take the time to really say goodbye to my extended family.
MJ said on 12.21.08 at 03:37 PM • [link]
See the country. I’d love to go to Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Montana and Maine.
Peggy P said on 12.21.08 at 04:13 PM • [link]
Stop watching my weight and eat Krispy Kreme donuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch and fried chicken for supper with a milkshake at every meal and never eat another salad!
Dee Carney said on 12.21.08 at 04:30 PM • [link]
My first answer isn’t for public consumption (hee!), so I’ll have to go with my second answer. I would have to take a trip to New Zealand. Have you seen the pictures of that place? Just wow.
Lisa J said on 12.21.08 at 04:31 PM • [link]
Only 3 years and a few days left, I would adopt a child and make a difference in their life for as long as we have. Unfortunately the process takes so long, it probably wouldn’t happen.
Silver James said on 12.21.08 at 05:04 PM • [link]
I would live without regrets, love with all my heart, and embrace both the joy and sadness each day brings.
Ann said on 12.21.08 at 05:05 PM • [link]
Take a fastfood and rollercoaster ride-hopping trip across the U.S.
Jane said on 12.21.08 at 05:08 PM • [link]
I think I’d end up doing a lot of boring things I’ve put off because I can’t stand the thought that the world would end with my laundry undone and dustbunnies in the corners of my apartment. I want a day of knowing all that junk is DONE DONE DONE.
Deirdre said on 12.21.08 at 05:22 PM • [link]
go on a world cruise and see all those places I yearn to see.
Get somewhere near the bottom of my TBR pile.
Leslie H said on 12.21.08 at 05:26 PM • [link]
First of all, there is no correlation between the end of the world and my turning fifty. No, really.
Personally Dec 12, 2012 should be my champagne reception for my latest bestseller.
When Isaac Asimov was asked what he would do if he found out he was dying, he said “Write faster.”
Sarah Frantz said on 12.21.08 at 05:35 PM • [link]
Ooh, Leslie, I like that one. Write faster. I’d work harder, but I’d live harder, too. I’d live to love and spread that love with my children and husband. Nothing profound, I guess.
When I was a teenager, my answer to that would have been, “Have (good) sex” and then “Bear a child.” But I’ve done those, now, very happily, so I don’t have a very long list.
elianara said on 12.21.08 at 05:45 PM • [link]
I would spend three years working and saving as much money I can, then spend a year traveling the world. I would like to see Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, as many states of USA as I can, Ireland, Iceland and several other places. And then the last week I would like to spend with my family.
Joanne said on 12.21.08 at 05:45 PM • [link]
LOL Leslie! (but the end of the world comes when you look in the mirror and see that you look like your mother’s friends)
My end of the world list:
1- Read Rehv’s book
2 -Read the 750 books Nora Roberts has already written that she has put away for future publication
3- possibly spend time with my family… as long as I don’t have to cook the Last Supper
Courtney said on 12.21.08 at 05:58 PM • [link]
I’d finish the d**n book (that I’m writing and have been writing for the past I don’t want to think about how many years).
Shannon said on 12.21.08 at 06:07 PM • [link]
First Kiss. I want one…would be awesome if it was with a specific individual, too…
Angela James said on 12.21.08 at 06:12 PM • [link]
Oooh. Want.
Let my 4 y/o experience whatever she wants. Live at Disney World if she wants. Spoil her rotten since I won’t have to worry about raising her to be a good person :P
Oh, and I’d totally start smoking again because I guess I won’t care too much about lung cancer at that point!
A.Banana said on 12.21.08 at 06:12 PM • [link]
Time to get that villa in Tucsany. I’ll eat all the fine Italian I can lay my lips on, and lay all the fine Italian men I can get my hands on.
Pam P said on 12.21.08 at 06:13 PM • [link]
Take time off from working and travel to see more of the world, so I can remember all the fascinating places wherever I end up after.
Ahlison said on 12.21.08 at 06:25 PM • [link]
I would take my internal filter off and tell friends that I love them and tell others how their negative behaviour effects others. I’d spend my time doing the things that I love - and fight to prevent the end of the world. Because really - I’m a smart bitch and I’m sure that I can help!
Spider said on 12.21.08 at 06:35 PM • [link]
When I was 5 years old, my mother read to me (with me??) Barbara Cooney’s book Miss Rumphius
, and I’ve always held her goals as the marks of an ideal life at the back of my head. So, if the world is going to end, then I would like to have said that:
1. I have traveled,
2. I have lived by the sea, and
3. I have made the world more beautiful in some way.
Melissandre said on 12.21.08 at 06:50 PM • [link]
I would ditch my practical job, and move to New York to work in the theatre. It wouldn’t even have to be a job onstage; I would be willing to dress sweaty actors or make prop food.
Quivo said on 12.21.08 at 07:05 PM • [link]
Buy nearly every book in existence, then every bag of M&Ms;in existence, then consume them all :D
KimmieB said on 12.21.08 at 07:13 PM • [link]
I want to tell my downstairs neighbors that an inability to speak English, does not mean an inability to common courtesy. And while doing that, I want my dog to drop a giant poo on their doormat.
And cuddle my family more, too, I guess.
Katie Ann said on 12.21.08 at 07:17 PM • [link]
Finally get a dog (or three).
EB said on 12.21.08 at 07:19 PM • [link]
I always said I’d travel. I’d love to go to Australia and Japan. Although I look at my “to read” pile and I’m pretty sure I’d try to read as many as I can, discarding anything that doesn’t capture my attention asap.
S. W. Vaughn said on 12.21.08 at 07:30 PM • [link]
Pack up my husband and son and move to Japan for a year. Maybe even forever, since forever’d only be like four years.
Lexie C. said on 12.21.08 at 07:30 PM • [link]
Easy—backpack across Asia from as soon as I can get my Passport re-validated to the very last day on earth (with occasional stops to see my family).
Christine McKay said on 12.21.08 at 07:34 PM • [link]
Start with that bicycle trip from one side of the United States to the other - the Women Tours one I always look at and wish I had the time to do. Follow it up with Michigan’s Shore-To-Shore ride, a 250 mile, 5 day horse ride from one side of the state to the other ( I did part of it in 2004, but was drugged up beyond belief because I cracked ribs early in the week - I remember sand and chafing, that’s it).
ShivC said on 12.21.08 at 07:52 PM • [link]
the first thing i’ll do is QUIT SCHOOL. being a doc isn’t going to do much for me when the world ends, loll .. then im going to bum around the world.. to finally come back home and spend the rest of the time with my family (would also like to experience love once).
Angela said on 12.21.08 at 07:56 PM • [link]
I would wake up each morning and do whatever it is that I want to do that day. No matter what it is. Travel to see friends far away? Yes. Go see the world? Absolutely. Visit family? For sure.
I would spend it seeing and doing everything that I ever wanted to. The one thing I do not want is to have it end and me be thinking “I wish I would have….”
Elizabeth said on 12.21.08 at 07:59 PM • [link]
Travel. It’s a stock answer but I love to travel only I don’t do it because I’m too concerned with money and being able to take time off work and what do I do with the cat? If I knew the world was going to end I’d go every where I want to go like Egypt and Scotland and I’d go see the Grand Canyon. I wouldn’t care about money, hell I’d go into debt, and I’d take the cat with me.
Kelly Anne said on 12.21.08 at 08:04 PM • [link]
Travel! See everything of the world I can and hopefully fall in love along the way!
Anna said on 12.21.08 at 08:05 PM • [link]
I’d also like to travel more before everything goes kablooey.
aninsomniac said on 12.21.08 at 08:30 PM • [link]
My answer is like the 3-more-wishes wish: I would stop it from happening! I like my life! I don’t particularly like the world, but I do wish to stay in it. And see all over it.
-anin
Pamk said on 12.21.08 at 08:33 PM • [link]
Travel and spend as much time with my family as I can.
Suze said on 12.21.08 at 08:35 PM • [link]
I’m philosophically opposed to end-of-the-world prophecies. I was a little nervous about reading Jessica Andersen’s first 2012er book because of that, although it was quite enjoyable and never devolved into the screed I was half-expecting.
When my grandma was about 75, she was diagnosed with some variety of blood cancer. With death imminent, she quit taking care of herself, gave away all her stuff, spent her money foolishly, and ate whatever she wanted. And then she didn’t die. So there she was, coming up on 80, fat, broke, and with none of her stuff. (She’ll be 91 in February.)
So I’m having trouble picturing my life in the end-days. Is everybody aware, or just me? Is the world staying pretty much the same and I’m the only one living my life differently? Or is there just chaos as everybody decides they’re going to follow their bliss? How would you travel around the world if all the airlines folks just stopped working, because they’re following their own bliss? Would there even be people who cared if your passport was valid? Would there be anybody working in the fancy restaurants I’d want to go to?
All that said, if I knew the world was ending, I’d finish one of the novels I’m writing. Just so it can be done, and I’ll have left something of me behind for future alien archeologists.
Icewyche said on 12.21.08 at 08:40 PM • [link]
If I knew the world was ending, I’d love to dance on stage with a major ballet company before it did. Hey, why not? :-)
evabaruk said on 12.21.08 at 08:44 PM • [link]
I want to travel on the Trans Siberian Railway from China to Moscow. Then run naked though the finest hotel in Moscow whilst eating ice cream.
Either that or confront the love of my life and ask him why he’s such an ass.
rebyj said on 12.21.08 at 08:46 PM • [link]
Forget all that travel, professional ambitions and mushy love stuff..I wanna get laid..it’s been 7 years and my old hormones are on their last gasp and demand it!
JaneDrew said on 12.21.08 at 08:48 PM • [link]
FINISH MY DEGREE!!!
(*ahem*... yeah, that’s a point of stress at the moment)
JD
Jennifer C said on 12.21.08 at 08:55 PM • [link]
I’d like to travel with my boyfriend, then just learn as much as I can.
rayvyn2k said on 12.21.08 at 08:59 PM • [link]
Quit work and spend time exploring the museums in London and Paris with my husband…the love of my life who I was lucky enough to meet and marry eight years ago.
Kristine said on 12.21.08 at 09:04 PM • [link]
I would love to visit Australia, swim with sharks (preferably thresher sharks, but I’m not picky), find what I’m good at, and spend as much time as possible with my family.
Rachel said on 12.21.08 at 09:13 PM • [link]
1. read all the books on my shelf
2. have some snotty, bratty kids
3. travel the world.
*preferably not in that order.
cyclops8 said on 12.21.08 at 09:41 PM • [link]
I want to travel the world.
Lisa N. said on 12.21.08 at 09:48 PM • [link]
There are so many things I would like to do: travel to Greece, Egypt and Spain, kiss all the boys I wished I’d been brave enough to before, read all the books I can, see the ball drop on New Years at Times Square, and take my parents on a trip to Europe.
Ashley said on 12.21.08 at 09:55 PM • [link]
I have to pick only one thing? okay, apart from the obvious spend time with my loved ones and see the whole world thing, I want to beat Fable on my Xbox. Twice. Once as a good guy, and once as a bad guy. I’ve been trying for YEARS but never have time to get to it. So yes family, I love you, and I would most likely spend Ragnarok with you, but It’d be nice to finish this blasted game before I die. Which, even if the world does not end in 2012, may not happen at the speed I’m going.
Spamword Slowly17: I’m slowly going to finish this game, if it takes me 17 years to do it.
Lovecow2000 said on 12.21.08 at 09:55 PM • [link]
Learn Persian and see all the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Also, I would like to see Machu Pichu.
Breanna C. said on 12.21.08 at 09:55 PM • [link]
I’d marry my boyfriend and go live on the beach in Hawaii, because he’s never been there.
Lori S. said on 12.21.08 at 09:57 PM • [link]
Polish off my TBR pile and have a big O in all of the destinations on my travel list!
KCfla said on 12.21.08 at 10:12 PM • [link]
I’d probably quit work, sell my house, buy that sailboat. Load it up with my family and stuff and sail off into the sunset.
Ann M. said on 12.21.08 at 10:19 PM • [link]
I love that Anna wants to see GBS in concert. Had to do a double take on it.
I’d love to go to Denali and spend time hiking up there. For warmer weather.. I’d love to learn how to scuba dive and then go back to the Great Barrier Reef and really see the Reef.
Stacey P. said on 12.21.08 at 10:22 PM • [link]
Considering the fact that one of my requests to my husband before having children was that he had to take me to see England/Scotland/Ireland—and my son is now 19 months old with a second little one on the way—I’d say the hubby is way overdue to fulfill that one before the world ends, :)
Aside from that, I can’t think of anything I’d do differently—just keep living my life as I see fit.
Lori said on 12.21.08 at 10:35 PM • [link]
I would, of course, spend time with family & friends. Aside from that I would want to travel. I have a nice long list of places I would love to visit before I die and if I knew I only had 4 years I’d need to get going.
Security word = going41. Yeah, I definitely have 41 places I’d want to go.
Denise said on 12.21.08 at 10:37 PM • [link]
Assuming I could scrape up the money, I’d love to tour Europe. Especially Ireland where many of my long-ago ancestors came from.
earthgirl said on 12.21.08 at 10:44 PM • [link]
Go to Nepal, India, Bangladesh…
And agreeing with ShivC on wanting to experience love. :/
willaful said on 12.21.08 at 10:52 PM • [link]
Cramming those candles - oy veh!
Honestly, I don’t know if I’d do anything differently. Maybe ask my husband to quit work so we could go traveling together. Move the Laura Kinsale books higher up in my TBR. But mostly I’d want to keep doing what I’m doing now. I like my life.
Renee said on 12.21.08 at 11:04 PM • [link]
I would throw the biggest birthday party ever, since my birthday is today-December 21, and the world would end on my birthday, in 2012! “Party like it’s 1999” would have nothing on the 2012 edition! :-P
k-chan said on 12.21.08 at 11:04 PM • [link]
Skip out on college, marry an Irishman and go live in Ireland for the rest of my life.
ms bookjunkie said on 12.21.08 at 11:32 PM • [link]
I’d read as much Romance as possible between now and then. I might as well die happy!
But wait! I’m already doing that! Hmmm. I’d quit my studies, get a part time job (to feed and house me and buy me books) and spend all my free time reading. All that glorious time without studies and homework! All that money to spend on books because, what’s the point in saving when there’s no future?! I’d also spend my savings on books. . . Are you sure the world isn’t really ending in four years?
Dr. Strangelove said on 12.21.08 at 11:35 PM • [link]
Drink a cup of hot chocolate on the summit of Denali.
shaina said on 12.21.08 at 11:39 PM • [link]
i would like to get a job and move in with someone (or several someones) i love, and spend as much time enjoying myself and my friends as possible.
Diane M. said on 12.22.08 at 12:03 AM • [link]
Do all the traveling the DH and I would like to do and get both kids through high school.
Virginia Hendricks said on 12.22.08 at 12:07 AM • [link]
I’d say go through the joys of motherhood, but if the world is going to end I wouldn’t probably want to bring a child into the world. So I guess I would say travel the world and see all the ancient wonders. And then spend as much time with family as I can.
Jenn with 2 Enns said on 12.22.08 at 12:22 AM • [link]
I’d read past my bedtime (wait, I already do that), eat whatever I wanted, drink whatever I wanted (and not worry about a hangover), make even more passionate love with my hubby, hire someone else to clean the house, get a motorcycle and travel around on it, spend more time in beautiful places! Mostly, though, not to be shmaltzy, I’d make sure I let the people I love know they were loved.
Appomattoxco said on 12.22.08 at 12:24 AM • [link]
Fling my doors wide for all those travelers out there. I know I can’t get to all the places I’d want to see so I’d let it be known that I want the world to come to me. The fridge is stocked the coffee and tea is on. Rest awhile, tell me a story and don’t mind the dog hair.
Spam word hand 67 waay too obvious.
Kat said on 12.22.08 at 12:30 AM • [link]
Watch my first grandchild be born. See my daughter get married. Enjoy my youngest’s graduation.
Find a way for my husband to be in the same county I am and still be able to afford food and shelter.
darlynne said on 12.22.08 at 12:36 AM • [link]
Take my family and my sister’s family to stay in the best hotels around the world until the money ran out, which would hopefully be on 12/20/2012.
jude said on 12.22.08 at 12:44 AM • [link]
Retire. Cash in the IRA and travel to NZ, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Wales, England although not necessarily in that order. I take that back, NZ is first up…
Lori P. said on 12.22.08 at 01:04 AM • [link]
Definitely travel. I have always wanted to go to the U.K. and Germany and do some research on my ancestry, and also visit Japan because I find their culture to be so fascinating.
Franziska said on 12.22.08 at 01:06 AM • [link]
Dive the Great Barrier Reef and in the Red Sea and for sure
throw the biggest and wildest toga party for all my friends
Dawn H said on 12.22.08 at 01:33 AM • [link]
Go on a cruise (anyplace warm!) and learn to scuba dive :-) as soon as I finish my degree.
Thinking tropical thoughts….blizzard warning posted for my area tonight and I have to go work. I may have to pack a few books to read in preparation for being snowed in once I get there.
Sassee said on 12.22.08 at 01:39 AM • [link]
If the world was gonna end on 12/21/2012? I’d probably do whatever the hell I wanted that last month (most of it pretty X-rated, so I’m not going to elaborate here!), and prior to that I’d run around passing the snark to everyone I meet. Ultimately, I want to go out with a big, goofy grin on my face and know that I made at least one person smile from now until the end of the world.
Arsie said on 12.22.08 at 01:44 AM • [link]
I want to travel. To see as much of the world as I could between now and then.
It would mean abandoning all my responsibilities and becoming a feckless traveller with no pay but what I could make working under the table in between hitching around, but who cares if the world will end?
Anna the Piper said on 12.22.08 at 01:44 AM • [link]
Ann M@11:19:
Oh, I don’t just want to see GBS in concert, I do that every year when they come to Seattle. I want to see them *in Newfoundland*. Because that? That would be one hell of a final concert. :)
And they would, of course, be playing their version of “End of the World”. The only version of that song that involves two bouzoukis!
Eli said on 12.22.08 at 01:48 AM • [link]
I don’t know that I’d really change anything. Maybe be a bit more fearless. Work a little less, play a little more. Don’t know that I could spoil the neice and nephew more than I already do. I’d probably go ahead and take them to all the places I want them to see as they get older.
Betty B said on 12.22.08 at 02:02 AM • [link]
I’d love to have the grand tour of America, visiting all those places I’ve only glimpsed through my lovely novels…
Sara Hurt said on 12.22.08 at 02:24 AM • [link]
I would take my kids to disney world and spend as much possible time with my family that I can.
Virginia Shultz-Charette said on 12.22.08 at 02:35 AM • [link]
Twice I had earned trips to Egypt and twice it was called off due to terrorism. But WTF, if the world is going to end soon-might as well see the Pyramids, Abu Simbel, etc. and take my chances.
Staple said on 12.22.08 at 02:37 AM • [link]
I’d switch majors from engineering to modern foreign languages and learn as many as I can. That would be the first thing. I have too many things I’d like to do to list here and you only asked for one :)
Jennie M. said on 12.22.08 at 02:42 AM • [link]
I would finish college. Then I’d get married and move to Japan with my husband, but first I have to learn japanese. ;) And while there I’d finish reading all the books in my tbr pile.
Meggrs said on 12.22.08 at 02:43 AM • [link]
I guess I’m a little stuck on what the definition of “world ends” might be. An asteroid wiping out human/animal/plant life for a proscribed amount of time, or an asteroid (okay, stuck on asteroids, but seriously, what else reasonably kills an entire planet in one day?) actually destroying this ball of rock beyond planet status?
Cause if it’s the latter, then yeah, what’s the point of doing anything beyond the selfish, since you can’t take it with you. Live in the moment. Do what you want, not what society needs/demands/expects.
But if it’s a case of “everyone and everything who’s alive NOW will die, but there’s potential for future life” I imagine there might be value in putting together a project designed to help the next wave of sentient Earth inhabitants, organic or not, to figure out how to avoid some of the crap we’ve done in our time here.
It really comes down to why we all get wiped out on a certain day, yanno? Is it our fault (climate change)? Is it a big rock from outer space that we can’t dodge (that asteriod again)? What do we have to offer future inhabitants—and most importantly, how do we offer a sense of legacy, of continued existence that we currently manage through other means, such as art and procreation?
Yeah, I’d wanna know that before I commit to my 2009-2012 schedule. :)
Karen W. said on 12.22.08 at 02:43 AM • [link]
I’d say do a lot of traveling, but let’s be honest: I’d like to make it through even a little bit of my towering TBR mountains!
Gram said on 12.22.08 at 02:43 AM • [link]
I think I would continue what I am doing, I’m retired!
It’s days72, but I hope there are many more!
amy lane said on 12.22.08 at 02:52 AM • [link]
I’d keep writing, keep teaching, keep loving my children, and maybe slip in a trip to Hawaii or anywhere off of the goddamned continental U.S., because I’ve never been anywhere outside of the US besides Canada.
I’d also teach something meaningful. I’m mortally tired of this teach to the fucking test bullshit that has poisoned the youth of America, and I’m ashamed to be a part of it. (story96—but I’ve got a lot more in me!)
Deidre said on 12.22.08 at 02:58 AM • [link]
Spend the whole time with my family, kiss them, hug them and tell them that I love them.
Deidre
alia said on 12.22.08 at 03:17 AM • [link]
Anonny Miss has the spaceship angle covered… but if it really was The End of *Everything*... It would be fun to juggle at the top of some other mountains (not sure Arthur’s Seat in Scotland counts as a mountain, but I juggled there!)... pull my kid out of school, do some world tours with the whole family. Swim with the dolphins in Namibia. Make pancakes for Terry Practchett.
SusanL said on 12.22.08 at 03:31 AM • [link]
Either finish redoing my house, or burn it down and just forget it.
Lori Barnes said on 12.22.08 at 03:38 AM • [link]
I would sell our home and husband take a early retirement and get a house on the sound and buy a boat, wake up early to sit on my porch overlooking the water and watch the birds and spend every moment showing my kids what’s important in life.
photoquest (at) bellsouth(dot)net
Saint Fool said on 12.22.08 at 03:45 AM • [link]
Sell the house and hit the road with lots of unread books. And as I finished each one, I’d leave it for someone else to find and read: “Joe, you won’t believe what I found on the top of the Eiffel Tower, and I just can’t stop reading it!”
Lori Ann said on 12.22.08 at 03:47 AM • [link]
I’d spend a lot of time with my family, eat whatever I want, read all the books I have delayed reading, and watch all the movies I have delayed watching. I would do some traveling. I have always wanted to see England, Scotland, Greece, and Australia. I wouldn’t worry about debt as much so I might go on a shopping spree - just to know what it feels like to really splurge.
Fionn said on 12.22.08 at 04:09 AM • [link]
Stab myself with a balloon sword, and go, “Oh, fate! How cruel thou has treated me!”
Seriously. I would kill to do something like this.
Spam: now16. Apparently, even spamwords think I should do it now.
GeekGirlsRule said on 12.22.08 at 04:15 AM • [link]
I would desperately love to take my husband to see Manchester United on their home turf. He got to see them when they played an exhibition game here a couple of years ago, but I’d really love to take him to see them in England.
Prue said on 12.22.08 at 04:18 AM • [link]
Pack up everything and travel the world and read while doing it. I studied Maya Archaeology and loved it. Maybe that’s why I have actually dropped everything to complete my dream in reality. Maybe deep down I think the world is going to end and I am really following my dreams??
Lol, I was blocking it out the end of the world myths, but the Nightkeepers have brought it all back up.
sadieloree said on 12.22.08 at 04:26 AM • [link]
Travel Europe. If I’m gonna see it, I guess now would be the time. Though I suppose I’ll want to take the hubs and kids with me, so no hookin’ up with foreign hotties. Oh well. lol
Perkinator said on 12.22.08 at 04:27 AM • [link]
Find True Love and well be totally irresponsible…I want to play like when you were a kid, without worry and with total joy and abandon.
Timba said on 12.22.08 at 04:42 AM • [link]
I’d like to Scuba dive with my S.O.
..It’s not as easy as it sounds, I’m medically prohibited from underwater activities. :(
Peyton said on 12.22.08 at 04:52 AM • [link]
I would travel to every continent and have amazing adventures!
Delena said on 12.22.08 at 05:01 AM • [link]
Throw caution and social stigma to the winds, fly to Florida, and marry him. Who cares that he’s 10 years younger? He makes me happy.
CourtneyLee said on 12.22.08 at 05:34 AM • [link]
Blow all my money on a fantastic vacation during which I outfit myself in custom-made designer clothes every day, get my hair and makeup done every day, and spend a lot of time with my husband and children.
FallenAngel said on 12.22.08 at 06:37 AM • [link]
Umm… my security word is decision38.
There’s a lot of things I would want to do between now and then, but 38.
One thing for sure, the celibacy will come to an end.
FallenAngel said on 12.22.08 at 06:38 AM • [link]
not 38. That was what I meant to type.
security word this time is over32. No, it’s not been over 32 years of celibacy.
Jessica said on 12.22.08 at 06:39 AM • [link]
Have a child.
Tabatha B said on 12.22.08 at 06:44 AM • [link]
I just have to find myself a scotsmen to see what he wears under his kilt.
;-)
Megan said on 12.22.08 at 06:50 AM • [link]
See the northern lights!
Amy S. said on 12.22.08 at 07:05 AM • [link]
Go to Hawaii and find a hunk on the beach.
Anne Morand said on 12.22.08 at 07:18 AM • [link]
I would…. move into a library and learn as much as I can or write that book that I keep thinking about.
Moth said on 12.22.08 at 07:23 AM • [link]
I would hope to have had one of my manuscripts published by then.
lizziebee said on 12.22.08 at 07:40 AM • [link]
Hmmm three years to go. No, four. Four years to go exactly, huh? Hmmmm.
Move to Switzerland and live on the side of a mountain in a little hamlet/cottage thing that they’ve got going there, visit all the Scandenavian countries, drive from London to Beijing (so I get to go through all of eastern Europe, far eastern Europe/middle of Asia and Mongolia). Go over to Japan, get in a cruise ship and float over to Hawaii, then up to Canada, across Canada (I Love Canada), and get in another cruise ship and float over to Ireland. Then I’d live in my little hamlet with my husband (because hell, with that short a time left, we’ll get married, so I can live in Switzerland too) and just live. Grow a bumper vegetable patch, learn how to make my own furniture, and other homey stuff.
Write that recipe book and Mills & Boon :D
Martha Lawson said on 12.22.08 at 08:12 AM • [link]
Go to New Orleans!!
Jamie said on 12.22.08 at 08:16 AM • [link]
I would give up the career that I am going to grad school for—I like it well enough, but it’s not for me. But I have too much debt to do anything else for awhile.
Instead, I would travel the world, working different jobs, meeting different experiences, living life to the fullest and making to regrets. Student loans be damned.
ev said on 12.22.08 at 08:17 AM • [link]
The one thing I would want to do is never have to between now and then is to go on vacation with my husbands family again. Ever.
They have actually managed to ruin Disney for me. Forever.
Lisa Hendrix said on 12.22.08 at 08:42 AM • [link]
Go on safari in Africa. No question. It’s been on my life list since before I had any concept of a life list.
believe85
That’s *got* to be significant.
an said on 12.22.08 at 09:00 AM • [link]
i’d go diving.
in the mountains, in the atlantic, in the pacific, in the mediterranean, over by australia, in asia. all over the world.
i’d go hang out in a desert, to see what it is like.
Collette said on 12.22.08 at 09:36 AM • [link]
Spend every moment with my husband watching my son grow. (I can’t help it—I’m feeling pretty sappy today. Otherwise…go to India.)
Caffey said on 12.22.08 at 09:42 AM • [link]
Oh love the cover!
Oh besides making sure I read every book I had! I’d not sure what books I could bring to heaven with me so I’d have to get them all read before then, LOL. That includes so many I want to buy LOL
I’d go to visit Scotland! I want to see those MIK (Men In Kilts) and visit some castles. If they don’t have much, then I’ll need to time travel back to Medieval too! LOL I love the question!
Lori T said on 12.22.08 at 09:48 AM • [link]
I would spend every minute enjoying and appreciating my wonderful family…plus, I would try and get through my entirely too large to be read pile.
Danielle said on 12.22.08 at 10:24 AM • [link]
Well, leaving aside the obvious “spend time with my family”, I’d learn to fly a helicopter! It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but the expense is prohibitive. However, if the world’s ending in a few years then there’s no need to save for the future.
Why a helicopter rather than a plane? Helicopters are much prettier, and I love that they can hover. It’s like that extra kick in gravity’s teeth: planes have to keep running away from gravity, but helicopters can hang around and smirk at it.
Maggie Moony said on 12.22.08 at 10:54 AM • [link]
I would go out of my mother lovin’ mind. Seriously. The End of the World (as we know it) would be the perfect time to do all the crazy shit you wanted to do. So I would:
Go get a bunch of kittens and puppies from the pound (It’s the end of the world, I don’t think they’re going to have waiting periods), buy awesome pet supplies, buy copious amounts of Vodka and other Hard A, round up some friends and party like the world is ending (which it is). Basically, be as hedonistic as possible. The world’s ending, what do I care?
Sugarless said on 12.22.08 at 11:11 AM • [link]
Take a lover, Travel a bit more, take some more time to relax (with a book!) instead of working so damn hard for the future and learn to cook, then have cooking parties with my friends and family (accomplishing three goals: eat more delicious food, learn to cook and spend more time with the people I love)
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