An end to a great vacation

I came home from our Fourth of July trip on Monday. Dragging myself to work this morning was hard. Not only was I sleep deprived from hearing the patter of little feet (and then the sudden stop of little feet paired with a thud and the cry of a little mouth) in the morning, but I was sad because the replacement for thouse wonderful sounds of little children was a phone ringing and a fax machine modem.

I'm too sleepy to finish this, so I'll just stop now.

Okay, now it's the next day, so I'll finish what I had to say.

So I dragged myself to work yesterday, and coming back to the rat race made me realize how much I'd rather be sitting around and writing music or stories, or making pottery or knitting or something. I want to be creative and make money at it.

Visiting with my family also made me realize I have people that would support me in whatever I decide to do. Well, except maybe if I decided to do nothing. I don't think they'd support me in my quest to do nothing.

Now I just have to decide what I want to do.

11 things I could/should/probably would do (in no particular order)

1) Get married, preferable within the next two years or so. (Maybe sooner, if I could swing it.)

2) Write a musical (hopefully one that doesn't suck)

3) Write a three-act play

4) Write a novel (one that people would actually read)

5) Take a pottery class

6) Be in a play, and actually get paid for it

7) Move out of my parents' house (somewhere where I could do the other ten things on this list)

8) Play the piano better

9) Get one of those spa/make-over things for myself (I've been feeling pretty dowdy lately)

10) Go on a really cool trip with Stink Pants #5, Noona and BusinessMan! (like to the Caribbean, or a cruise, or something)

11) Start my own business, like a store, where I could sell all the stuff I make

I'd also like to write more interesting stuff for this blog, but I think I'm trying to do that now.

So there's my list. I'm sure I'll add more as the days go by. There's always new stuff to do, right? And whatever I do, I'm sure I have friends and family that will think it's a good idea. They might not all agree, but some of them will agree with me, and that's better than nothing. I suppose if no one agreed with what I was doing, then I hope they'd tell me.