Lifetime Goals
1. Have a party and serve everyone fruity drinks in pineapple shells
2. Look good in a swimsuit - or, I should say, feel like I look good in a swimsuit
3. See an active volcano (preferably the one on Hawaii's Big Island)
4. Live in Manhattan
5. Kiss the foreheads of my own children goodnight*
6. Get paid for something I have written or created.
7. Go to every single state in the Union. (Just getting out and touching the ground doesn't count).** 25 more to go!
8. Drink margaritas in Mexico
9. Own a dog - preferably from puppy to adulthood
10. Have a FULL DAY at the spa. One of those that costs a fortune and involves lunching in a robe between facials and wraps and mudbaths and vichy showers.
11. Learn to take fantastic photographs
12. Go a whole year without forgetting the birthday of one single person I love
13. Take my mom on a hot air balloon ride
14. Not worry about money
15. Pick blueberries. Apparently I did this as a child, but I don't remember it.
16. Hire someone to do all cleaning and laundry
17. Go to Santorini, Greece, and have a beautifully romantic visit there
18. Read the Bible, cover to cover. I've tried a couple times, but get very bored with all those begots and begats in the beginning, so that I'm easily distracted.***
19. Be graceful
20. Watch a space shuttle launch
21. Karate-chop a board with my bare hand
22. Go to Coney Island. Yes, I've heard it sucks, but I really want to go!
23. See the Sphinx and the pyramids in Egypt before they blow away
24. Get a really great, accurate psychic reading
25. Go on an African safari
26. Travel through the Bermuda Triangle (without disappearing, of course)
27. Have a house with a gigantic porch and rocking chairs where I can sit and drink sweet tea or something else lovely
28. Ride in a sleigh, cuddled up with Wilman, with a blanket over our knees and thermoses of hot toddies in our hands
29. Own a MiniCooper
30. Speak Italian beautifully
31. Play in a band. A cool band.
32. Have a well-stocked, endless wine collection
33. Learn to sail
34. Swim with manatee and/or dolphins
35. Own my very own photo booth, and have anyone who comes over do a series of photos for me. Also do my own on a regular basis.
36. Be able to fix my own car
37. Own and run a bookstore. Serve wine there.
38. Own and run a fantastic bar
39. Visit Cuba before it's taken over by McDonalds and Starbucks
40. Figure out what I want to be when I grow up
41. Make homemade pasta
42. Bake and decorate a cake so beautiful, it looks store-bought
43. Be less self-conscious
*to be continued*
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*Don't get too excited here - this is not some sort of sly unveiling of a personal scandal. I'm just saying I want kids someday. Not that I already have them and that something or someone is keeping me from kissing them goodnight. Ha.
**Wow, I've been to 25 of them. That's better than I thought. Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont!
***I realize this is odd, considering that I am not particularly religious.
posted by Guinness_Girl @ 1:00 PM
3 Comments:
What a lovely list! I share a longing for quite a few of the things you've listed. It's not necessarily odd to want to read the bible; lots of not-particularly-religious people read and study it. (I've always wanted to read the Qu'ran out of curiousity.) To help get through the "boring bits" you might try reading The Message version. It's very accessible prose.
Thanks, Kyleen! I appreciate the suggestion. :)
Monkey - Aww, thank you! I would LOVE to go to Wisconsin! Especially if I can procure one of those cheese foam head things. I suspect I could just buy one on the internet, but that's not as fun.
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