You have a whole day to do anything you want, how would you spend it???

I would cook a great breakfast,and the maid would wash the dishes! I would take a long walk with the kids and Cale, go on a picnic, maybe to a nice, clean lake and walk along the shore. Then read a little while, and take a little nap. Then head home and work in the flowers and gardens until dark. Get a nice long shower and lay under the stars until I was very sleepy, then sink into bed and fall asleep! Sounds like a great day to me. I can't wait until June, maybe I will do it (all but the maid part!!)

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), January 25, 2002

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In that I have everyday to do as I wish, (due to congestive heart failure and a VA pension) I would seek a craving for soft shell turtle meat as a cure for this craving. The $21.00 per day pension does not allow anything other to happen. That is after I pay electric, phone, insurance, groceries, rent, haircuts, ect. I have about $6.50 per day to work with. Y'all tighten up.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), January 25, 2002.

Wake up in the morning to a clean house, have a hot cup of coffee that's already made, a big breakfast (someone else cooked), and then the kitchen cleaned up ( by the cook!), go outside and work in the yard and garden until dark, (the cook might bring me a nice snack while I take a break), the temperature being about 70 degrees all day with a slight breeze. Take a nice, long shower, maybe a bite to eat and then fall into bed with clean sheets that have hung on the line to dry.

-- Annie (mistletoe6@earthlink.net), January 26, 2002.

For my anniversary this year, Lance took me to Grapevine, TX for the weekend. We left early on a Friday morning, shopped, went to a movie, had a wonderful dinner, spent the night in a nice hotel, got up and had a delicious breakfast and a leisurely trip back on Saturday, stopping at an outlet mall in Gainesville on the way home, where we did some Christmas shopping and I bought a couple of books in a deep discount bookstore (nothing over $5!), one on kitchen remodeling and one on cross-stitched Christmas stockings (full of patterns!).

The shopping wasn't really the best part, though. It was just getting to spend time together without the interference of the phone, the bills, the job, etc. Next time, I think we'll take the kids; that's the only thing that could make it better!

-- Christine in OK (cljford@mmcable.com), January 26, 2002.

I would choose a warm fall day. We would camp on the shore of Lake Crescent with a small sailboat. Sailing, fishing swimming and snuggling by the campfire. If I don't want to cook, we can sail or walk to the lodge to eat.

Of course, I would want this to last longer than one day.

-- Laura (Ladybugwrangler@hotmail.com), January 26, 2002.

I spend every day as I want to already..but if you mean the "ideal" day doing anything I wanted to with $$$$ not an option, etc...then my day would be spent having all of the children and the grandchildren here for a whole day of fun and picnicing; iced tea and lemonade on the porch with barbecued chicken and salads and perhaps a game of horseshoes later on....a beautiful three-layered cream cake for dessert and then when the sun goes down, just enough of a cool breeze to use my neat old shawl on the porch..THAT would be the perfect day, indeed!

-- lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), January 26, 2002.

Home from church again; this time with a sick child instead of a sick me. I am ready for a vacation in Florida. Since I can do whatever I want on this pretend day, I'm going to extend it to a week and the whole family will go camping along the Gulf Coast. Maybe we'll take a drive down through the Florida Keys one day, and visit the Evergledes on another day. Disney World is not my thing; we prefer the outdoorsy, camping type of vacations.

Oh, and all this will be done in the 15-passenger van I got when I fantasized spending my unlimited amount of money in one of Melissa's other "pretend" threads. As my mother says, "If wishes were horses we all would ride."

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), January 27, 2002.