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30 Days of Truth: Day 5
Ah, a wonderful topic today, ladies! Let your imaginations run!!
Today's topic: Something you hope to do in your life.
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Re: 30 Days of Truth: Day 5
I hope to visit 6 of the 7 continents. I figure I can skip Antarctica.
3 down, 3 to go.
On a more serious note, I hope to have more children but I don't know if that is going to be possible. We are going to have to wait until Kate is in kindergarden to start trying and I don't even know that we will be able to have another baby once we start trying. We had a hard time conceiving Kate, and I don't know how much more of that DH is going to be willing to go through.
ETA: I just thought of another one. I hope to get my masters degree someday. I found out that I was accepted to grad school and that I was pregnant the same week. Obviously grad school was put on hold, but I would like to go back some day when Kate is older.
Ditto kiarox, I would love to go back to school someday and get a master's degree or really challenge myself again academically. I feel like I rushed through my education and didn't really challenge myself. I always felt like I was awful at math and science so I avoided it like the plague -- and I feel like I am so behind in my knowledge in those fields and can't even hold a conversation with my scientist husband.
Mostly, I know it sounds cheesy but I think of this every day, I definitely want to have a couple more children and really want to grow old with my husband and have a wonderful marriage -- until the end. I want to see my children live healthy, happy lives. This is the greatest thing I could ever ask for.
Oh, so many things. Can I just copy and paste my 30 Before 30 list?
Travel. I haven't really been anywhere. I want to see the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, Alaska, Hawaii, the Caribbean, Greece, Ireland...
Ditto. Love this...
I hope to get the book I'm currently working on published.
I hope to go to London, Australia, and the Galapagos Islands.
I hope to return to teaching college, but this time to teach creative writing.
I hope to mentor another would-be writer.
Go back to school for my Masters at UT. I was to scared to come to Austin for UT. San Antonio was closer to home and not as scary. I regret not graduating from UT. I want to try to get into the Higher Ed. program at UT eventually. Probably not for a couple years.
I also want to pay off my school loans. Winning the lottery would really help.
The things that are strongest on my heart are doing missions and fostering a child/children (when mine is/are older). I also think I might want to live overseas for a while, but am not as confident about that.
Oh, and I've always wanted to swim with dolphins.
I would like to go back to school for a graduate degree. I also think that I want to have one more biological child and then when they are a little older I would like to adopt. This is something I have thought about for a long time, but has been weighing on my mind a lot lately.
Ditto what the others have said about long healthy marriages, healthy happy kids, etc.
Ya, I'm going to ditto this.
I don't want to travel extensively, so that's out. International travel in particular freaks me out and I'm not an anxious person at all. I pretty much have my dream job and do not currently want to do any further education as far as NP etc. Yeah, I love my kids, hope I don't ever have to go through a divorce again and want us all to be healthy/happy, but that's what everyone hopes for right
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The best I can come up with right now is that I hope to save someones life. As in, I'm the right person, in the right place at the right time. Randomly. And because of my training, I'm able to provide immediate life saving medical treatment and be, I dunno.. A hero? I already feel like a hero on a regular basis, but that's doing my job and I'm well equipped with support and testing and tools. To be able to make a split second decision in the field just when someone needs it most - that would be a true test of my talents.
BTW: I've had to stop reading ahead on the blog for future post questions because I keep overthinking them and then I don't have the balls to post my long drawn out thoughts.
ETA: I do NOT want to deliver a baby unexpectedly!!! Not even in the ER. I could and would if I had to, but it's not on my "hope" list at all.
Run an entire 5k.
Move up at work.
And live happily ever after.
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I've never had specific dreams like visiting all the continents, or getting ____ done before I die. I've always just had a vague idea about how I wanted to live my life, and how I want to look back on it.
I hope to look back and have:
Taken the time to go on family vacations ... to anywhere, as long as we go.
Enjoyed something about each phase in my life. Such as being young, being married with no children, being pregnant, being a new parent, and on and on.
Confidence in the decisions I made.
Made a good imprint on the world. Something as small as having a happy adult child, or had successfull marriage, or remained positive throughout life ... any of these will due.
Of course I want to raise a happy, healthy family and have a long, loving marriage with my husband.
I would like to go back to school to get a degree. I don't have one now and its a huge, huge regret of mine.
I (we) would also like to build our own home one day. DH is from a family of real estate gurus and construction experts, so we'd like to tap into that and build our dream home.. eventually.
And I'd love to win the lotto or something so we can pay off our ridiculous medical debt in one big swoop instead of having it looming over us for the next who-knows-how-many years. Boo.
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I hope to raise a healthy, productive child. I see DSS and really consider him a success. I absolutely love watching the person he's really becoming now, and look forward to more of that, and to know what kind of adult he will be. I want to start from scratch. I want to see my own person succeed, as vain as it may be. I know that I have been a huge contributor to DSS' life, but not 100%. I want to see if I can do it myself, all the way through. I think that would be the most rewarding challenge I can think of.
Of course I want to get my degree, travel Europe, etc. I just really love tangible rewards.
I'd love to have a book published. In fact, I've already written several children's books. I just don't have the balls to follow through...yet.
I also want to make sure that our family, when it's complete and the kids are old enough, takes a big trip over to Russia to explore where DH grew up, get to know the culture and language, etc. So I guess that's not only Ukraine, but Russia proper, too (see Moscow and St. Petersburg).
Hmm, I already did one.
Let's see. I think I would most like to visit the 7 modern wonders of the world. With or without kids in tow. I'd also love to write a chapter book for pre-teens or a picture book for little kids.
Hmm, one of mine is I hope to find a job that I truely love and don't mind going to everyday. I am so much a "grass is greener" person and with every job I have, I always feel like there is something better out there. I have it pretty good right now, but I do not enjoy coming to work. Cant imagine feeling that way forever.
I also want to learn Spanish. I have tried to teach myself several times but cant seem to stick with it...maybe I should take a class.
I just really would like to get better at enjoying the moment. I find that I get so wrapped up in "future" deals that the little moments sometimes pass me up and I would like to slow that down. I also definitely wouuld love to finish my degree so that when I do go back to work, I can get into something that I love. And the real topper of that list, is to really have a terrific and long life with my children and husband.
Ain't no "maybe" about it.
I would like to go back to school and get a degree. Then maybe it'll shut up the little voice inside my head telling me I'm stupid. I was on a 20 year plan until I got PG. Now it's looking like a 30 year plan. Ha.
I would like to go visit Europe but my DH is like bride's DH in that it's like pulling teeth to get him to go. Him and MIL seem to think that all countries that aren't the US are third world countries and are no more than disease centers. Germaphobic much?
1. give Reagan the antidote that cures RS.
2. spend at least 2 weeks exploring Europe.
I also hope to be able to publish books (non-fiction) and travel everywhere. I'd especially like to go to Spain, Italy, Greece, Sweden, and Japan. I have fingers crossed for some tentative plans to go to France again early this summer.
I hope I have a daughter.
**the nestie formerly known as karen2508**
I hope to be a good mother and wife. I hope that I don't make the same mistakes that my own parents did in their marriage. I hope that I am able to be a supportive mother without being suffocating. I hope to be a good person, overall.
In the more tangible sense, I hope to become a criminal defense attorney.
I want to be able to escape every summer (with the family) somewhere.... My husband wants that somewhere to be a little country town in Italy. I would take that, but several other places pop into mind too. I'd love for this to be a place we visit every summer, and be a part of our lives, letting our children experience a different culture and language.
At home, I just want to be a good mom. The stress from work is eating me up lately.
I hope to live in Vienna one day (or Ireland or Scotland).
My other big hope is to one day own my own working kiln...and have an outlet that can handle it. (I owned one but we just put it out with big item trash as we weren't sure if it worked and we didn't have the outlet/powersource to run it. I miss creating with clay. My ultimate hope would be to live in a place in one of the above with my DH and have my studio with kiln and endless clay. (and a wheel...I'm not the best at using the wheel, but it's so relaxing and centering for me to just make it and destroy it)