Every year, I've bought something for the two children of my game night hosts. This year is the same, except that I have much less time to do so due to my upcoming trip to Hawaii. Yet, I have an idea of what to give them now, and will be ordering their gifts before the holidays.
It's nice to have people to whom I give gifts, to share with. I had an insurance policy from a fraternal benefit society which wouldn't allow me to designate these two children the secondary beneficiaries of this policy. So I'll look to leave these kids a little something in my will, and hope that nothing happens to me anytime soon.
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My year-end Hawaii trip keeps coming nearer and nearer. And I'm looking forward to it. I have to make sure that I have all the little things needed for this trip, and have been an active customer of Amazon since the day I was irrevocably financially committed to this trip. Since this is a bucket list trip, I will be sure to get lots of photos of the trip and make some sort of travelog for it.
Although I intend to travel with RQS, I have a good feeling that it will be hard for her to keep up with me due to financial reasons. This is a reasonable believe, based on our previous careers. So, if I'm going to be doing a bit of travel, I will need a profitable line of business to pay for it. I have some ideas of how I will achieve this, but will avoid talking about it for now.
By the end of the year, I will have taken two bucket list trips, and plan to take more in the next few years. Having checked off Alaska and Hawaii, I'll have to go much further afield for my next bucket list trip. I'm hoping that I can check off more than one of my destinations with one trip. But this takes time and money. For example, there is a cruise that will spend 6 days in Iceland, plus several more days in the Norwegian Fjords. One problem: This is one expensive 35 day cruise! So I will likely need to be more realistic in how I check off items on my bucket list. I could spend a week in London with my niece, then sail back to New York on the Queen Mary 2. This is expensive, but a realistic way to do things.
Hopefully, by this time next year, I will be able to check off another item on my bucket list.
