Some of these things may be unrealistic, but hey, I can dream. I think big, but I mind failure. I don’t really have an order of importance, so it’s in alphabetical order. So yeah… on with the list:

• Appreciate the little things in life
• Be a published photographer
• Be completely debt-free by the time I’m 30 (a.k.a. pay off college loans)
• Be considered a role model
• Be in a movie
• Be in a play
• Become conversational (at minimum) in at least 5 languages
• Become fluent in Spanish
• Work for a non-profit or do some long-term volunteer work
• Dye my hair (or get highlights)
• Get all the way across the ropes course that I couldn’t finish @ RYLA
• Get back in touch with Clare
• Get into college
• Get married and stay married
• Get my own bank account
• Get over my stage fright
• Get rid of my “Jersey accent” (I’m getting there!)
• Go hiking
• Go horseback riding
• Go skiing
• Go Swing dancing
• Graduate from Cornell
• Have a conversation with a Hollywood celebrity
• Have a career I truly enjoy
• Have a groupie
• Have a loft in NYC
• Have a loft in San Francisco
• Have an old fashioned cottage with wildflowers all around it like in the movie Matilda
• Hold no grudges
• Learn sign language
• Learn to cook
• Learn to do laundry
• Learn to line dance
• Learn to play golf
• Learn to play the cello (Especially Prelude 1 to Bach’s Cello Suite)
• Learn to play the piano
• Learn to sail
• Learn to sew
• Live somewhere that I can sit out in my yard at night and look at the stars
• Meet the people I consider role models
• Meet Natalie
• Own my own (successful) business
• Retire young and dedicate myself to things I really enjoy
• Speak in proper English for an entire week. No slang, no abbreviating, no Jersey accent.
• Spend a day at a really nice spa
• Take a road trip across the USA
• Travel Europe (especially Spain, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Greece)
• Try Bubbletea
• Visit the Grand Canyon
• Work for a top Internet company
• Work in California
• Work in New York City
• Write a book