Wishlist

The other day I realized that there were things I wanted to accomplish but I simply couldn’t remember them. I keep to do lists but not a wishlist of places I want to visit and things I want to do. So here it is, my wishlist. It is in the making and I will be adding to it so when the time comes, I can plan more efficiently and start crossing items off.

TRAVEL

• Winnipeg
• Italy
• Greece
• Seattle, Portland, & Vancouver
• India
• Istanbul
• Visit Lenka, wherever she is
• Quebec City
• Barcelona
• French Riviera
• I want to see the Aurora Borealis
• Pittsburgh to have Halushki at Kelly O’s diner Accomplished 1/16/2009.  It was good Halushki… but mine is better!

HOME

• Have good, luxury bedsheets that fit my bed and look lovely Accomplished June 2009
• Get a Monte Carlo Automobile accomplished January 2007
• Get a full size bed Accomplished Fall of 2006
• Get new flatware for my kitchen, I’m tired of using forks and spoons that had been my parents’ through the 80’s and then my grandmother’s through the 90’s. Accomplished 3rd day of Spring 2008
• Flat screen LCD Television setBought it from Walmart online and it should be delivered early June 2009
• Ikea’s EXPEDIT bookcase for $79.99 to keep up in the loft and store my vinyl records in…. I think.<1>(I got it! Memorial Day Saturday May 2009 – Ikea was having a sale and the expedit’s were only 49.00! I bought a black/brown one and it looks perfect in my loft holding my vinyls records!
• I want a nice couch up in the Loft and not the crappy futon I picked up off the street that someone was throwing away. Accomplished Summer of 2008
• Have a pretty garden – June 2009, This is crazy but I just noticed– I DO HAVE A PRETTY GARDEN!
• Fix rotted window in dining room August 26, 2009!  Yeha Bralor Construction!
• Fix rotted window in the loft August 26, 2009
• Fix shower in bathroom and maybe even swap out my bathtub and replace it with washer and dryer from kitchen.  NEW SHOWER – August 2009!  It looks great.  One day I may swap out the bath tub but right now, it’s fine as it.
• Get siding fixed in courtyard– I melted siding in two places because I didn’t move the grill far enough away when cooking. I’ve learned my lesson but the wall never healed. Fixed August 2009- I called Anthony, the guy who takes care of my community and he sent a handyman over who replaced the melted siding with new siding in a slightly different shade.  I am going to assume the color difference is owed to the sun and will even out.. eventually.
• New Garage Door - Basically I was told if I don’t fix the door, my association would fine me.  I decided to get a whole new door even though that was the most expensive option.  The lower half had already been replaced and the top portion was separating.  Sure I could have gone cheap but it would have come back to bite me.  I knew it.  So I got a whole new door – ACCOMPLISHED AUGUST 2009
• Nice good Towels that don’t leave behind lint and all match without holes.
• Get hardwood flooring in my dining room and parlor.
• Wireless speakers that connect to my laptop, uh, wirelessly- so I can have music untethered throughout my house, or perhaps an Internet Radio?
• I want to clean out my attic and garage and have shelves — so I can store my stuff in a very non-complicated, very organized way.
• I would even like new carpeting up in the loft— the carpet up there is in really bad shape.
• Fix my back patio! It’s so nice out there except the bricks are all uneven because it wasn’t really installed right the first time– instead of being built up- it’s kinda sunken PLUS there is a tree that was planted right next to it and its roots have caused massive damage to the patio.
• Own a House with a rock or brick exposed wall

WARDROBE

• Trench coat, a really good, long lasting trench coat.
• A wardrobe of classic, good quality clothes — clothes that I wear– clothes that I love.

LIFE & LIVING

• Bake
• Cook
• Buy or build a desktop computer. 12/28/2009 Bought a desktop computer from T&S Computer and Upgrades!
• Get fit– exercise, yoga, lift weights Accomplishing this January 2009, joined LA Fitness
• LOVE
• Experience passion
• Spend time on my own, and enjoy it
• Push away from the computer– I spend an awful lot of time reading RSS feeds but it recently dawned on me that this is totally dead time. I am not GAINING anything from these blogs– I am not learning, I am just wasting time. I either have to start culling information from these blogs OR I need to push away and find something enjoyable that is going to give me back something.

• Learn the ability to do simple household tasks without having to find motivation
• Vacation
• Get financially sorted
• Have a family of my own
• Learn to rise about the stress and drama of life
• Understand people’s urges and behaviors
• Be wise
• Be classy
• Simplify my life and stop clinging to items
• Retire at 45 with enough money to live comfortably until I die
• Get married to a man I love and who loves me and bear a healthy child(ren)
• Learn to crochet
• Spend time at the shore
• Study NLP
• Paint, Sketch
• Own and play the Theremin
• I want a cat- A Siberian cat because they are supposedly hypo-allergenic.
• Learn to ride a motorcycle

READ

• Read Atlas Shrugged (i gotta stop pretending)
• The Constitution (and get it)
• Declaration of Independence

WORK

• Own a business, make money for self, be totally independent
• Have passive income streams
• Make money on the Web through Websites via advertising
• Love what I do!
• Be in a situation where I can win without having to kill myself trying.