How would you describe the perfect day?

Joanne's FAVORITE answer:
What a coincidence that you should ask this. Earlier today it had occurred to me that I was actually HAVING the perfect day! I woke up with a lovely person, had a great conversation over tea, took an early walk on Venice Beach, and played a few hours of tennis in beautiful sunny weather. I drove home thinking about the fact that my number 1 school is having their meeting today, and I will maybe hear something soon. I have a great trip coming up, and lots to look forward to this weekend. So, there are all the pieces of my happiness puzzle: good people, hope for the future, sunshine, exercise....Of course, now I'm about to call Dell tech support, so its all shot to hell :)

Joanne's answer:
I think some version of a perfect day might go something like this: spend the night in a cute bed-and-breakfast on the waterfront, wake up to a beautiful warm day and head out to the beach. This particular beach should be somewhere tropical, where I can snorkle and see some really cool fish. And my friends should be with me on the beach - a bunch of us, like a big party. We BBQ for lunch on the beach, snorkle, play in the waves, chill...then go back to the hotel, get cleaned up (and dressed up)...and then my friends go off and do their own thing while me and the guy I'm with (we're in love, of course) go to a fancy dinner and then to a really great musical that I've been dying to see. We have some champagne after the play, then go back to the B&B and have lots of awesome sex. =)

And the other answers!

1. A QUIET day with no plans and I can do whatever I want...I want...I want...I want...I want...for me!!

2. I had at least one perfect day. I woke up on the morning of my 48th birthday in South Dakota and celebrated with my son, daughter-in-law and my grandson, had a wonderful picnic and then flew home to Mass and had dinner with my husband and two daughters. It will forever be in my memory as a truly perfect day for me.

3. This is my perfect ENDING to the day:
Laying out a blanket on the soft white sand…Watching the sun set peacefully into the darkness of the land…
A glass of wine in my withering hand…
And soft music on the radio of a traveling band…
My head resting gently on my lover’s chest…
While glancing as the moon reveals its monthly’s last crest…
A seagull’s call from far out west…
And the lapping sound of the ocean at rest.

4. The perfect day would involve me sleeping completely undisturbed until I naturally woke up on my own. (I don't think that this has happened since I went to stay with you for your Graduation.) I would play with [my daughter] for an hour or two as someone else made, served, and cleaned up breakfast. Then, [my daughter] would go away. Everyone would go away and leave me the heck alone. I would crank my own music and take my sweet-ass time taking a shower, getting dressed, and sipping coffee. I would proceed to spend most of the rest of the day writing (well) in a perfectly clean office as I munched grapes and expensive nuts. As evening approached, I would put on makeup, sip wine, and eat cheese (which would NOT on this perfect day make me incredibly constipated) as I cranked more of my favorite music. THEN, I would go OUT of the house. I would see a movie, um..... AND a play - yeah, AND I would go dancing at an 80s dance club and then go to a big dancehall where a big band was playing swing music and [my husband] and I would know how to swing dance (well), or maybe we would go square dancing and he would just be willing to give it a go and have a good time. At home, he would rub my feet as I sipped amaretto or sambuca and listened to more awesome music. I would not be too tired to have sex and could fall asleep knowing that the next day I would once again be allowed to sleep as long as I damn well pleased. Wait, I'm pretty sure that a delicious dinner is supposed to be in there somewhere...

5. I would wake up about 10:30 in the morning to find Pamela Anderson on one side and Carmen Electra on the other. I would then call the lottery and find that I had just won 367 million dollars. Aah life is good!!!