Goals (Pipe Dreams?):
- Get my book published
- Find a job (actually, that ought to be first)
- Hell, find a fantabulous job that I will love and that has great benefits, on site daycare, and liberal vacation
- Finish my Teresa Wentzler “Fantasy Triptych“
- Quit feeling depressed
- Create some snazzy diaryrings
- Go to the British Isles!
- See a Shakespeare play, preferably my favorite, Othello or my second favorite King Lear, at the New Globe Theatre in London
- Decorate my house in medieval accents (I love Design Toscano)
- Get more involved in the SCA, and finally get my AoA
- Research my and my husband’s genealogy (I’ve already done a great deal of mine)
- Make something out of cross stitch for my mother-in-law
- Hell, make something out of cross stitch for my husband
- Get some poetry published
- Design a Tudor home and have it built
- Hell, own a castle in Scotland, Wales, or Ireland — or even England
- Make perfect scented candles for my new house
- Stop coughing
- Be a better wife and mother
- Grow an herb garden so I can make my own comfrey ointment, among other remedies
- Find out exactly what herbs Carrabba’s uses with its bread and olive oil and grow them in my herb garden so I can have that treat whenever I want it
- Write another book
- Learn archery
- Read more
- Make some really good friends — not just work acquaintances
- Give my husband a son
- Go to my next high school reunion a successful writer
- Stop hurting Husband with my diary
- Go to Pennsic at least once
- Be a better housekeeper – even (strangle me now) an enthusiastic one
- Have enough money to hire a maid who will be an enthusiastic housekeeper for me
- Make my family proud of me
- Make some beautiful SCA garb
- Get a part time job as a minstrel at the Renaissance Festival…
I’m sure I’ll think of more some time. Watch this diary for more dreaming.