What's So Special About Me. . .
           My wish list compiled over the past few years. . . .  some are cheesy yes, but would you expect anything less from me? :) Some I've actually fulfilled, some I never will... but a girl can dream can't she?




~take off NOW for a spur-of-the-moment vacation ~design, build, and decorate my dream house ~invent a holiday   ~spend a romantic weekend in a luxury hotel     ~spend the day osculating  ~travel for three months with just one carryon bag   ~fall in love with the right person at the right time for both of us   ~    achieve more than is expected of me, faster, more efficiently, at less cost, for greater impact    ~pass up the next chance to criticize  ~attend a party on the terrace of a New York City penthouse    ~be a doctor that makes housecalls  ~keep an exotic tropical fish 
~learn three jokes that get laughs every time  ~get married on a snowy eve in a candlelight ceremony
~stop craving material things  ~have enough space for my CDs  ~spend a summer in a chalet high in the Swiss Alps   ~develop close friendships with people of different generations  ~own a collection of cacti and succulents  ~find inner peace  ~receive an impassioned love letter ~finish paying off my college loans
~spend a month in another century    ~raise my IQ  ~acknowlege my weaknesses   ~ be a mentor  ~visit a new museum each month   ~command a submarine so I can yell 'Dive!  Dive!  Dive!'  ~drink tequila and lick salt from my hand on a beach in Mexico  ~spend a day in the British Museum   ~save half a year's salary  ~live without television  ~play the lead in a community theater production  ~slip into bed beside someone who's not expecting me ~receive two dozen roses from an admirer  ~stop being judgmental  ~smell the freshness of the desert after rain  ~find my great love in life  ~set aside time each day to be totally alone  ~learn to kickbox  ~schedule one day a week for creative thinking - all day  ~discover a cure for cancer  ~determine what is the one thing in life I want most ~get a tattoo  ~learn to roller blade  ~skinny-dip under a waterfall  ~throw a party people will talk about for years  ~observe an avalanche (from a safe distance)  ~experience an epiphany  ~finish everything I set out to do  ~see where the red salmon spawn on Lake Clark in Alaska  ~attain my official 'ideal weight' -lol  ~tell those I love how much I appreciate them  ~avoid the symptoms of menopause  ~celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans   ~snowmobile in Finland  ~make love in a public place  ~paint a sidewalk mosaic ~spend five days focusing on each of my five senses - one day per sense  ~learn and use a new word each day  ~discover a sibling I didn't know I had  ~stick to an exercise regimen - for the rest of my life  ~spend a day watching the sun move across the sky  ~mud slide in the rain  ~ keep in touch with far-flung relatives  ~write a children's book  ~be in goal for one period of a professional hockey game  ~look good without make-up  ~ride horseback thru Ireland  ~not just meet but exceed the expectations of the people I love   ~give away everything I haven't worn in three years  ~learn French  ~take a course in sculpture  ~swim with dolphins
~count my blessings   ~design a coffee table for people like me that use it as a footstool  ~fall in love
~find an extra $1,000 in my bank account  ~share a small tent in the wilderness with the one I love 
~spend a rainy Saturday listening to opera on the radio   ~remember to stop and smell the roses  ~do nothing all day and feel no guilt  ~send flowers to the one I love for no reason  ~spend a week in a cabin in Vermont with massive amounts of snow outside  ~make love on a bearskin rug in front of a roaring fire
~accept that pain and disappointment are part of life   ~concentrate on everything I do  ~eat less meat
~go on a 'zoo tour' around the world  ~measure up to my own expectations  ~build up my strengths 
~diminish my weaknesses  ~remember my dreams and try to construe their meaning  ~touch a whale
~seek harmony  ~consider the alternative  ~accept that its okay to be me  ~capture a great moment on film  ~earn a cool nickname  ~create vs. complain  ~make sure *I* make the choices that shape my life
~praise vs. criticize  ~accept life for what it is and embrace it  ~take up yoga   ~move to the place where I've always wanted to live  ~learn to bend under stress, not to submit to it  ~identify my mission in life
~dream in color  ~be the wind beneath someone else's wings  ~frame a picture  ~make love in the ocean
~study the biographies of the ten people I most admire  ~have a fireplace in my bedroom  ~send flowers to my mother-in-law on my spouse's birthday  ~see the Northern Lights in Sweden  ~become a renowned surgeon  ~draw outside the lines  ~make a difference in the life of someone I care about  ~spend a vacation volunteering at a camp for kids with cancer  ~be photogenic ~love my job  ~be a hero to someone ~be courageous - not fearless- in the face of danger or difficulty  ~walk behind a waterfall  ~be my lover's best friend  ~finally learn to drive a standard-shift car  ~see thru the image to concentrate on the substance  ~read Good Night, Moon with a child  ~dress in an authentic costume from the Elizabethan Age  ~ be liked for my inner qualities  ~drive along the Oregon coast  ~cuddle with my lover on a midnight sleigh ride  ~watch the Star Wars trilogy in a single sitting  ~ search for the end of the rainbow ~eat a strictly vegetarian diet for a month  ~ walk thru a door marked 'Authorized Personnel Only'  ~persuade a smoker to quit the habit  ~speak gently, act openly  ~overhear my work being praised  ~decorate one room of my house with photos of my travels  ~run away for a romantic weekend with my spouse  ~scratch my name in the wet concrete of a fresh sidewalk  ~raise some eyebrows  ~install a redwood hot tub on the porch and use it year-round  ~feed a manatee ~embrace the ordinary  ~dye my hair purple  ~be a storyteller for children at the local library  ~put a message in a bottle and float it out to sea  ~have breakfast in bed every day for a week  ~stay in a medieval castle  ~build an elaborate sand castle  ~do everything with my less dominant hand for a day  ~create the bathroom of my dreams  ~acquire the courage of children  ~spend a day blindfolded  ~grow old gracefully  ~renew my wedding vows   ~teach myself to be ambidextrous  ~get a vanity license plate  ~do a hat trick in a hockey game  ~do lunch and a hotel with my lover  ~sleep on satin sheets  ~get a pager ~ have a walk-in closet  ~photograph yellow daffodils against a white snowstorm in a spring storm  ~make candles  ~learn Latin  ~age like wine, growing richer and more complex with the years  ~ teach a child to read  ~jump in a mud puddle  ~retain the curiosity of a three year old  ~find a message from my spouse  ~breakfast by candlelight on a cold, dark winter morning  ~'kidnap' my mate for a romantic getaway  ~have an artist caricature each member of my family in a group portrait  ~have someone declare their love for me publicly - lol  ~double my money in a single year  ~go thru a year without catching a single cold  ~be a voice in a Walt Disney cartoon  ~think of what I would do if I only had three months to live, and do it  ~run an inn in Vermont  ~be snowed in with my lover during the 'blizzard of the century'  ~compile my own box of 64 Crayolas  ~have long hair  ~inscribe a message of love in the icing on a cake  ~watch a rainbow til it disappears  ~surpass my own expectations  ~build a six-foot snowman  ~see Niagara Falls from both sides of the border  ~see the 114-foot indoor waterfall in Detroit's International Center  ~live in a penthouse with a private elevator  ~ask questions with the innocence of a child  ~use metaphors in my speaking and writing  ~study Shakespeare with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London  ~break the rules  ~wear violet-colored contact lenses  ~live to celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary  ~build a large, tiled bathroom including jacuzzi, double-head shower, and room for a treadmill  ~live in a castle with a moat  ~continue my education - for the rest of my life  ~drink a bottle of wine that's older than I am  ~stop snoring  ~earn recognition and respect for what I do  ~play beach volleyball  ~buy a brand new house  ~start a tradition of half birthdays  ~coin a phrase  ~take underwater photographs  ~attend a poetry reading  ~go to a costume ball dressed as Wonder Woman    ~compile a funniest home video of my family  ~instill hope  ~work a four day week  ~get caught in the rain  ~be given a proposal as that in EverAfter. .   ~conquer my fears  ~meet a lover thru a personal ad  ~give each person I love the thing they want most  ~unknow the one thing I would rather not know  ~ask God one important question  ~receive an honorary degree  ~build a secret hideaway for just me and my lover to escape to  ~live in a house with an unobstructed view of the mountains   ~see Juliet's balcony    ~read all of this year's National Book Award winners  ~nap on the beach and wake up tan  ~see the Stanley Cup finals  ~join a book group   ~list 100 good things that have happened in my life  ~picnic in a snowstorm   ~wrap presents beautifully  ~discover the meaning of my life  ~improve my communications skills  ~particiapte in a paint-gun ' war'  ~tour the fairy-tale castles of Luxembourg  ~have my palm read and be thrilled with what I'm told  ~like what I see in the mirror ~pick a topic and study it in-depth  ~be carried across a puddle  ~shave a peach  ~participate in my local 'race for the cure' for cancer research  ~fire a gun  ~love myself  ~burn candles in the bathroom  ~simplify my life  ~find Camelot or re-create it ~be admired for my sense of humor  ~be an organ donor  ~kiss a frog and find a prince  ~get stuck in traffic with a glove compartment of tapes I love   ~look for the silver lining  ~ have a fine wine named after me  ~face reality   ~sight Elvis  ~ be accepted to NHS  ~be listed in Who's Who  ~ find my knight in shining armor ~be the subject of a love poem  ~live with love  ~maintain beautiful skin  ~admit my failures  ~have an outdoor shower  ~finish an all-day sucker  ~listen to Copacabana atop Copacabana ~stop rationalizing ~sample Chubby Hubby ice cream at Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont ~ have enough confidence in myself to ask for help  ~ be a princess for a day  ~ enjoy a domestic life without discord  ~have a friend that serves as the sibling I've never had  ~stroll a beach on each of the continents  ~laugh often and hard  ~put my marriage first  ~spend a rainy weekend curled up in front of a fire with a book  ~pay the highway toll for the car behind me  ~learn to spell  ~leave my mark  ~learn to play the violin  ~learn to play the guitar ~design decorative tiles  ~find outlets for my creativity  ~have someone read ME a bedtime story  ~get a totally unexpected job offer  ~see my name in lights  ~rekindle hope ~ be awakened from sleep by my Prince Charming  ~watch a movie in a theater with no crying babies or people talking   ~lean tai chi - and do it for the rest of my life  ~receive unconditional love  ~learn to successfully guard my heart  ~know what I am not  ~sleep in a canopied four -poster bed  ~stop working on weekends  ~find two tickets to somewhere great under my pillow  ~live in a place where summer never comes and winter never ends  ~be blindfolded and taken to a wonderful destination  ~get a see-thru shower curtain ~go to the opera on a regular basis ~ be careful what I wish for. . .