Random

• Go parasailing on the back of a boat.
• Build a robot
• Become a master dart thrower
• Catch an octopus in a tide pool (then let it go).
• Go to comic con, reconvene with inner nerd
• Learn parkour
• Move to Portland, Seattle, Vancouver--somewhere up that way; make a bunch of friends in a prolific art community--painters, writers, musicians, sculptors, vegetarians; tattooed, pierced, avant garde people--not pretentious, but freethinking and experimental aesthetics; make music, have art parties, drink lots of tea & coffee--learn from each other, encourage productivity. Act as muses & inspiration to one another. Have wild, unexpected adventures of the most random, fantastical nature.
• Get crazy good with a revolver.
• Go windsailing
• Visit Morocco with Tulls
• Go out with some drunken cows out at night to tip-over fratboys.
• Have a vacation involving downhill/cross-country skiing & snowboarding by day & a hot tub at night.
• Have a baby in Mrs. Pacman
• Stand under a waterfall.
• Deliberately pay a toll for the person behind me.
• Try fencing.
• Get a mohawk (? And if not, give my son a mohawk one of these days when he's too young to fight it!! mwahaha).
• Have long hair when I'm an old lady.
• Sleep in the following attire:
  • a tiny t-shirt and thong sometime. Haha
  • A camisole & boy shorts
• Bungee Jump and/or Sky Dive.
• Scuba-dive.
• Audition to be on TV or in a movie… even if you’re just an extra.
• Run a marathon.
• Stand up in front of a large audience and tell a great joke. Note: they must be laughing with you.
• Go deep sea fishing and learn to filet and cook your own fish.
• Go white water rafting.
• own a gun.
• also, get another taser. It's a little less drastic & more practical.
• Get an old truck (like a turquoise toyota tacoma with a camper shell), drive it, and learn to work on/maintain it.
• Get more tattoos (a dragon, owl, unicorn, and...rainicorn? dunno. only time will tell.....). Probably get half-sleeves done.
• Write issues, too; compose & publish well-written & well-supported sociological arguments.
• Live off the grid, conceal my identity, disappear. Mail routed to a mailbox on an empty lot, picked up on an unlicensed black vehicle with tinted windows. Haha, just kidding--or am I?
• eventually find time to read all the books worth reading that are on my to-read list...multiple times, if needed.

Other

• Write well-written monthly/seasonal letters to distant friends & family, reporting noteworthy family/personal/local events & observations; keeping in better touch that way.
• Pets! Lots of pets & animal friends!
  • Get (rescue) a border collie, australian shepherd, yorkie, or some kind of awesome dog (from the pound or a rescue group).
  • Keep & care for a pet fox
  • a cat named Coppernicus.
  • 2 friendly crows named Zoltan and Vladmir.
  • An appaloosa named Sultana.
  • A black stallion.
• Learn how to tune up & maintain truck/car.
• Plant & grow a vegetables/etc. garden at home. Take in some animals. Share interesting mutual friends with my love.
• Buy some property. Buy LOTS of property, here and there.
• Buy/build a home. Make it a home. With a secret garden. Self-sustainable & eco-friendly!
• Create a rehabilitation center. Rehabilitate wild animals and reintroduce them to the wild. Work with raptors, especially.
• Have a remote ranch/farm with horses and goats, dogs, and cats, peacocks, and raccoons, etc.--somewhere where it rains a lot (see Dream Home)
• Raise goats, or have a goat or two--make goat cheese, goat yogurt, sell them locally at the farmer’s market.
• Grow a garden. Grow wild herbs and tall willows and cottonwoods. A garden of fragrant flowers, and particularly alstroemeria, to trim occasionally and set out fresh on the table. Honeysuckle, and trees and bushes and flowers for the hummingbirds and butterflies to visit often.
• Handfeed hummingbirds & hang hummingbird feeders outside the sunroom.
• Have a sunroom.
• Decorate my home with our art. Mural the walls.
• Rewire plastic ornaments to become noisily animated robotics with more finesse than early prototypes.
• Have people over from time to time; feed them well with home cooking.
• Found a black cat rescue society.
• a simple life without extravagance and lots of money in my savings account--and for kids' education. (x2)
• a roomful of colorful novelty decor & trinkets like Juno
• Celebrate Christmases & the best holidays festively, and with fun get-togethers with friends and family

Art, etc.

• Write erotic novels & publish them under a pen name.
• Design tattoos.
• Write a book and get it published.
• Write & publish multiple books.
• Write more novels/childrens' books/graphic novels.
  • finish this New Babylon novel in some written or visually satisfied form.
• Record one or two albums: 1 for covers, and 1 for all original songs.
• Write songs on keyboard/piano.
• Design game & animation characters.
• Make at least 1 CD.
• Make glorious music. Write songs and perform at gigs, on stage.
  • finish at least this one album & pick up on all these half finished kickass songs we've got started.
• Film more movies (make a weird looking heroine--not G.N.D--not starlet, or bombshell--just weird and uniquely attractive. and a guy who isn't casanova.)(and people fumble things they could have just picked up, and sneeze at random, and cough occasionally. AND blow their noses.) & documentaries.
• Create another graphic novel.
• Late-night writing binge involving tea; tea-coma writing purge in a cozy room with weird lighting, preferably a lava, jellyfish and/or mushroom lamp, firefly jars, lotus-shaped floor luminaries, fiberoptics, blacklights, and/or tiki wall torches.
• Make more metal sculptures. Sculpt more in general.
• Create/organize an artist’s workshop, and work on new projects.--create mixed media art dolls.
• to create (and make a living with) awe-inspiring wordless story-telling art a la Waterhouse, Klimt and many contemporary digital artists...with masterful, experimental techniques; to render imagined otherworldly things with lifelike realism, emotion, intensity, character--to draw the viewer into that world, and to sort out that world enough to narrow it down from one picture to the next and flesh it out and make it happen, again and again--always improving.

Career

• Finish graphic novel
  • Publish graphic novel
• Teach a class.
• Finish up with my formal education. But keep learning till I kick the bucket.
  • Get a bachelors degree, at the very least.
• Steadily build & improve upon portfolio with both personal & commissioned works
• Work as an art/animation teacher at a university.
• Work for Cartoon network--at least just for a little while.
• Start my own business, run from home. Be my own boss.
• Reach a position of influence in the professional community, network, make things happen, 'Somehow' organize events without getting overly bogged down in constant socializing (still having plenty of time for my family).
• a career that affords these things, as well as variety, allows for solitude, and is never mindnumbingly confining. Because your work is you and you are your work. You can't always expect a good day, but you should settle for nothing less than a satisfying. honorable life--in which work is key.

For/with my peeps

• Have a Bollywood monsoon romance moment.
• Donate significantly to NPR & PBS.
• Play an epic game of living room pictionary with friends, and drinks, and good food?
• STwaWF, while thoroughly inebriated. haha
• Fly kites on the top of a mountain.
• "Make What the Bleep" with puppets.
• Find that one with whom I know the best day of my life will come easily, with many more to follow, better and better. Love someone forever, and be loved in return with equal fervor--someone as strong as me, who I can respect. Who respects me also.
• Marry that fellow--my best friend, the love of my life. Be proposed to beautifully. It gotsta be romantic, sucka.
• Buy a pair of doves and set them free with my soulmate
• Share a sunrise with someone who gets it.
• Build a life and a home and a family together.
• Catch a ride in a hot air balloon.
• Sleep on the beach under the stars (in Key West?).
• Go see the fireflies in Thailand.
• Do a wild west photoshoot. Trail dust town?
• Celebrate Christmases & the best holidays festively, and with fun get-togethers with friends and family

Spiritual (see 'things i need to work on')

• Always give yourself and live your life for the greater good of others, that is, after all, why you are here. But find the balance to take care of your health, too.
• Learn to LAUGH at the little things instead of taking things so seriously. Laugh more. Laugh at yourself most of all.
• Live life preserving & restoring harmony with nature.
• Wholeheartedly pursue & attain my goals & ambitions.
• Tell stories that I want to read, create art that I want to see, write music that I want to hear...especially do it yourself, if it needs to be done and no one else seems to be doing it.
• Continue to watch kickass movies, read good books and be inspired by them for the rest of my life.
• Make more coffee
• Drink herbal teas on cold blue mornings.
• Read more good books, learn more, fire up passions, get the know-how.
• Make wonderful, deep, intense memories. Live a life of stories to tell.
• To love instead of hate, to forgive instead of staying bitter, to be the best person I can be,
• To be rich, emotionally, physically, spiritually. And to enjoy comfortable, warm surroundings.
• To be quicker on my feet and more observant of the world around me.
• Get the hell out of Dodge. Go to that wild blue horizon.
• Give more gifts. Teach more. Clean more. Feed more. Be there more. Call more. Show affection...more. Never let ambition make you miserly.
• Die gracefully before I become too much of a burden on anyone.
• Fight to disperse in equality and create harmony in the world
• Learn to do more than I say. Learn to under-promise & over-deliver.
• Be a better friend & family member, and stay in touch with the people who love you instead of shunning them and disappearing for weeks at a time. Like, maybe try writing sometimes...
• learn to keep my mouth shut at appropriate times...and thus project an aura of quiet inner strength, genius and mystique.
• a simple life without extravagance and lots of money in my savings account--and for kids' education. (x2)
• Be entirely, unfailingly content with how ever things end up.

Health & Self-Improvement

• Be a better vegetarian. Eat raw & organic more often.
• Be vegetarian for a year (except for seafood & mutton). :D
• Stay in shape; continue running, working out, exercise at least 30 min. every day.
• Use a bicycle (whenever possible) instead of a motorized vehicle.
• Live close to water at some point.
• Spend more time outdoors
• Cook more often
• Wear more leather, more flannel, more plaid, more browns, more gray-blues, more natural greens.
• a chic black leather jacket, a wardrobe of no-nonsense earthtone (including dark blue) warm, snuggly comfy clothes for all occasions (plaid flannel button-downs, cotton shirts, long sleeved sloppy sweaters, and black slacks, and form-fitting jeans) that double for the wives of detectives, celtic fiddle gigs, street-savvy women from 90's movies, and comfy nights at home with a book, low light, a fertile ivy in a hanging pot, a black cat and a warm cup of tea when its raining outside.

Frivolous, Superficial

• Get sleeves
• Get a mohawk
• Get a septum piercing
• Get a motorcycle
• Buy those custom handmade silver rings and bracelets that cost obscenely more than anyone should spend on vanity...and then pass them onto my kids one day.
• The trouble is, to do these things, says, "I'm spitting in the eye of the Establishment! And those who judge me based on these things are the Establishment." It also says, "My body is my canvas, I am a work of art, the world is a work of art, and beauty is priceless," (it is a social statement) but to make this happen, I must spend obscene amounts of money on art to wear...to look a certain way, to play into this scam, no less.
  • But is it playing into the scam, if, by buying these handmade pieces & tattoos, you are supporting local artists & helping them to make a living doing what they love (creating art that can be worn--that becomes a part of someone's identity--vanity, perhaps, but aesthetics...there is a thin line between the two)? There is no crime in that. It's different than buying $60 t-shirt from Buckle 'hand distressed' to look countercultural/anarchist-- in a sweatshop across the world (paid despicably low wages by a soulless, corrupt American corporation). Capitalism isn't the devil--some people claim it is and then drop $500 on sleeves, but money is good to have, and even artists need money...how better to spend it than supporting other artists so that one might wear beauty?
  • ...perhaps by donating to charity. Feeding those who are starving in other countries.
  • Great, do that. And then get more tattoos. And more jewelry. If you earn it, what's the crime on spending it on those who also need it to get yourself things that you love & enjoy? If no one buys tattoos & jewelry, then artists cannot stay in business, and one more beautiful things leaves the world! Isn't that a terrible thing? So wrestle with that, and one of these days, get ten more tattoos...