Living the dream life

@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
February 23, 2010 5:37pm CST
You can design your dream life. Anything you want. You can live wherever you want. You can do whatever you want. You can be with whomever you want to be with. Anything goes. Where will you go. What will you do? Me, I can see myself in Hawaii, in a little house about halfway up Haleakala on Maui, with a nice view of West Maui and the ocean on both sides. I have an unlimited library, music library, enough money that I don't have to work if I don't want to, my children are there, my cats are there and I can go snorkeling whenever I want. What about you?
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• United States
24 Feb 10
My husband, kids and I were just talking about this tonight at dinner. If I had the choice to pick a life I would have to pick what my husband calls the "prairie" life because it reminds him of the show Little House on the Prairie. I would live in a warmer climate area perhaps a state like Georgia, I want a small log cabin house in the middle of nowhere near a lake. I want to be able to live of the land of sorts where we have cows for meat and milk, chicken for eggs and a veggie garden for fruits and vegtables. I want to home school my children and have a small crafting business that will allow my husband and I to both work from home. I want to have it to where we don't have to leave the house but maybe once a month for supplies. But while I want to be able to live simply I still want to have television and internet, phone I am not so big on but I guess I will also need in case there is an emergency.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
You know they have serious bugs and snakes there, right?
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
Oregon maybe, no humidity, fewer bugs and snakes, pretty country!
@olydove (1209)
• United States
24 Feb 10
I'm right there with froggies but not in Georgia! I think I would rather be in Southern Oregon, or even Northern Idaho. Oh and aside from the lake I want a creek running through my property. I'm not much of a crafty person but I would make money farming and selling the produce, mylotting, and hubby would work on cars because that's what he loves to do!
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• Canada
23 Feb 10
I wouldnt be with you 2 thats for sure lol. I wouldnt have a worry in the world. Id have a man (or more than one?)to take care of everything. He'd be the one to buy my jet, he'd be the one making sure all my castles and mansions around the world are always ready for MOI when Id decide to go there. Id be able to spend my time at my paintings. Then Id sit by the ocean and watch you two in the water lol
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
23 Feb 10
Castles and mansions are kind of cold and drafty, well castles are any way. But I guess if you can afford a jet, you can afford insulation!
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• Canada
24 Feb 10
Yup, you got it Dawnald. Its my dream of the day but it could change tomorrow lol.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I could relate to living in a castle for a bit...
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
25 Feb 10
Well I can see myself swimming with the Dolphins in a deep blue sea with the Hot shining down on the Sea They glide me through the Water and I can feel the calm from them Gissi is on the Beach watching
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
25 Feb 10
Yep when isn't he
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
25 Feb 10
He does sleep, doesn't he?
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
25 Feb 10
and barking at you
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@yugasini (12893)
• Secunderabad, India
24 Feb 10
hi dawnald, i like your dream if it is written in your fate,that will happen if not think that you are unlucky,you have mentioned about little house,view of ocean side,library,enough money,no work,children,what about your husband or spouse,even you does not leave your cats also,why you missed your husband,have a nice day
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
Even if it doesn't happen, I know I will visit Hawaii every so often and snorkel. That will be enough. Husband is on very thin ice right now...
@yugasini (12893)
• Secunderabad, India
25 Feb 10
hi dawnald, thanks for the comment,i wish all the best in your venture/dream,have a nice day
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@Gany15k (1673)
• India
24 Feb 10
I want to talk to my love.Love is something more precious thing in life.Not everyone are gifted to get a good a love life.I'm also not gifted.I wish to talk to her by just seeing her eyes. It is a great feeling.But unfortunately I couldn't get it.Hope I will get in my dream life.Thanks for starting this discussion.Have a nice day.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I'd like to find the real love of my life too...
@joss32 (6)
• Estonia
24 Feb 10
I would get immortality infinite wisdom and wealth.Then I would buy a nice lil house a nice white suit and watch humanity destroy itself.It's a slow process but well worth it.Oh and a cane with a sword.I plan different paths to take if ever this opportunity arises.I know it wont but I need something to do at nights.I sleep little and plan too much.This tires me well sometimes half a minute and i sleep.Even after High caffeinated drinks :)
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
Hopefully those of us who are snorkeling won't be destroyed...
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@nannacroc (4049)
24 Feb 10
A Scottish island all of my own with only the people I invite living there. No loud music no cars just peace and quiet.
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@nannacroc (4049)
24 Feb 10
Suits me, just need plenty of woollies.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I'm thinking brrrrrrrr.....
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I just saw an Illinois lamb around here somewhere...
• Australia
24 Feb 10
But Dawn, there is no ice skating in Maui! Could you swap that for board riding? Well, here goes it for boring old me. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else or doing anything else or with anybody else. I love my life just the way it is. Of course, if there was a way of stopping the humidity here, I'd be in on that, but otherwise I'm happy the way I am.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I don't skate anyway, I just watch. But I'd want to have enough funds to occasionally see a live event. Of course I expected you to say pretty much that. But maybe we can send some of the humidity elsewhere!
• Australia
24 Feb 10
We have been talking about moving to Tasmania (that little island off the southern coast of Oz) but it has only been talk. However, much more summer humidity and . . .
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
It does look lovely...
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
28 Feb 10
You've obviously thought this through. I never have but what I would like to do is travel the world looking for places like yours in Hawaii. I'd like to live in various places, here and there, maybe somewhere in England, Scotland or Wales, maybe in Europe somewhere, not in cities but country towns and perhaps on an island somewhere...no idea where...the Seychelles or maybe even somewhere in the Pacific. It would be really great to have someone to travel with and enjoy things with...I wonder if there would be any gentlemen myLotters who would be interested in accompanying me?
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 10
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 10
Nope, just a mental block, nothing interesting to say...
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Feb 10
dawnald I know this sounds silly butif I could design my dream life it would be right back to Tustin where we were so horribly evicted but not to ElDorado Gardens,no indeed no take that back this is my dream life we would have a ton of money ,we would buy El Dorado Gardens put the rent back down to about 800 a month, rent to ordinary working people, and I would be back in our old apartment but it would be with a new furnace and a built in shower that I could walk into with grip bars for me so I would not fall, my son would be in a very high paying job as a computer programmer par excellent and I would manage the place, collect the rents and also as we would have lots of money if a man or woman lost a job I would offer a break on the rent u ntil the person got a new job, maybe cut the rent in half for awhile for this person as we have plenty of money anyway and really help anyone who through no fault of their own were laid off, we would not evict anyone who lost a job, those who trashed the apartments or bothered other people might get evicted but not someone who got laid off, if nothing else I would see they got some kind of stop gap job until they could find the job they were suited for.Also my son would have a new car with driver lessons so he could drive and he would retire in his sixties. ah what a lovely dream life. I would have a garden too.[
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
May you get your dream life!
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
Hooray Cynthia's on, but sorry that the problem isn't fixed yet. :-(
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
24 Feb 10
It has taken me 2 hours for tis post to open up. am going insane and have to get someone to fix the problem that I am experiencing with Mylot. Just wanted to say that we always try to fix what happened to us and to make it better for other persons who may be suffering like we did. Your dream is beautiful and I am going t pray for it to come true for you. You are a lovely lady. Now I suppose it will take another two hours before I can answer this post from Dawn!
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@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
25 Feb 10
i can see myself with my wife by the beach in our residential dream house built in stories. at the roof top or the balcony, we will spend sometime together. by that time, when i am already retired, i can see myself doing stuff at the Lot.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
25 Feb 10
Hi, I'm waving at you from my sailboat...
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
25 Feb 10
sounds good to me!!!
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
25 Feb 10
would you want us to welcome you with the musical band? and we are going to have a fiesta celebration.
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• Philippines
24 Feb 10
I would be in a big house, with 10 dogs, and a family of my own. I would have my own library, and it's open to the public. I'll also have my own NGO to help the homeless children in their education, and a shelter for animals. I would also like to have enough money so that I won't have to work ever again and I can help all those that I want to help... And Oh, I would also love to have a great body, well tanned, well built, and not have to exercise ever again in my life. Hahahaha.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
NGO? A dog or two would be nice also, but I'm a cat person. Maybe I could teach them to clean their own litter boxes!
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
You're better off getting young animals accustomed to each other. No telling what might happen with older ones...
• Philippines
24 Feb 10
oh, NGO, that's Non Profit Organization. Like a social service thing. I never had a cat, maybe I should try it once. Though I'm pretty sure my dogs would not be happy about it. Hehehe
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@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
24 Feb 10
erehwon, my dear. have you heard of that place? or have you seen the little book that describes the place... i simply can't recall the author, because what i recall are the things he wrote about the place... and i am sure that the author is a he... i read the book after reading "of human bondage" by somerset m... but your dream reality, if you allow me to coin an awkward phrase, poses some contradiction in terms of money... who can determine when money is enough... i think, the principle and diary of thoreau applies here...
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
Erewhon by Samuel Butler, I've heard of it but never read it...
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
Good night!
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
24 Feb 10
you're correct. thanks, dawnald... now i am going to sleep...
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• Philippines
5 Mar 10
Form I just want to go on traveling around the world while I have a business that doesn't need me physically. I might visit you in Hawaii, right?
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 Mar 10
Stop on by. Do you like snorkeling?
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
24 Feb 10
I imagine myself living in England, in the countryside to be exact. Somewhere nice with lot of greenery a small cottage perhaps but with lots of room for my dogs. I would love to be surrounded with lots of shelties licking me. Dogs are my passion. I would like to have a fireplace to stay there reading when it is a cold day.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I can see myself doing that when it's warm and retiring back to Hawaii when it's cold.
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
24 Feb 10
A BIG house, with 3 or 4 master suites, and a separate area for the cats. Loads of money. A 2 story high library all wood with a spiral stair case and those ladders that roll along so you can get to the upper shelves. An elevator. A home theater (with those surround sound chairs) and a huge room for the videos. A stable with a few horses (and someone to take care of them so I only have to go out to ride.) A lap pool and a hot tub (and people to clean and take care of them too.)
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I like how you think... yes, cleaning people, very important!!!
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
25 Feb 10
I was going to write about an idyllic life in the country with lots of animals and beautiful sceneries complete with people I would pay handsomely for doing all the work for me but upon reflection I decided that it would all come down to money. I just wish for enough money to do what I want in life whenever I want and not have to worry about it. That’s it...I’m sick of worrying about our bank balance! My dream life? Enough money!
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
25 Feb 10
Yup me too...
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@jesssp (2712)
• Canada
24 Feb 10
I would have a lot of money and waterfront property with a brand new custom built house on it but I'd still keep the original husband and cats (haha). I would also go to school, maybe open a little business, or both. I think I would try a whole bunch of different things, since my dream life would have unlimited funds. We would have fun building our home and getting everything the way we want it and then we would be able to start a family worry free.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
I can see myself learning another language and studying some things too...
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
24 Feb 10
I am honestly quite happy where I live but I do love to travel. My dream is packing only with carry on luggage and travelling to so many different places. If it was far away then I would want to travel first class or at least coach. Then if I got tired of wearing the clothes then I would just throw them away and buy new ones! Oh, I would have to have a laptop too and would buy books en route. Not having to work would be so heavenly to me. Blessings
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
24 Feb 10
That sounds pretty good to me! I'd love to travel everywhere.
@sushie93 (1355)
• France
1 Mar 10
I like tis type of discussion cause it really inspires my imagination huhuw: I will have a little house in the space and i could do teleportation to travelling around the world and come back to my house. I will have a very good photographic apparel and i will visit mouains, oceans and others planet to take an unique picture of them
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 10
Ooh, I like the teleporting idea. sometimes travel can be so tiring, but when you get there it's great!