Really, I must be bored AND lonely AND crazy to be pulling this stunt AGAIN, but it amuses me highly, and it's like gambling: If I "win," then my life's even better than when I was just doing it for amusement. Am I making sense? Am I over-justifying doing something that's really just petty and self-torturing?
Anyway, a friend on here wrote a recent entry in which she listed things she wanted to do in her lifetime. Being a copy-cat, I want to list my own targets to aim for in my quest to do things:
- travel to countries other than the US (I've traveled a lot of the US, but I've never been outside of it. I've never even set foot on Canadian or Mexican soil)
- Meet, in person, everyone I know only on-line. Really, it's for selfish reasons. I want to hear their real laugh.
- Have some of my fiction published. Well-received would be nice, too, but getting published is a more sensible goal.
- Meet a famous man who deserves to be kicked in the nuts, and actually kick him in the nuts. (I'm willing to entertain suggestions. I'm also accepting donations for my legal defense fund when the police come calling. Oh, and I am being sexist here, but that is not to say there aren't horrendously irritating women who deserve a little public humiliation. I just think humiliating a woman can be taken the wrong way when it's a man doing it, and they don't have the easy-target dangly-bits men do.)
- Finish the New York Times Sunday Crossword in under thirty minutes. (I'm not even close, now, but I just thoroughly enjoy crossword puzzles, and they're very, very difficult).
- Quit smoking (but not right now, OK? Right now, my cigarettes are about the only thing keeping me from kicking EVERYONE in the nuts.)
- Lose a little weight. Maybe after the previous goal.
- Being an atheist and horrible liberal, I'm don't care much if I get married, but I'd really like to have a whatever-you-want-to-call-her to spend many, many years "growing old together" with me. (I'm sure she's out there, but I'm not making it any easier for her to find me sitting here on this computer, am I?)
- Write a screenplay that is then actually made into a movie. Ideally, I'd like to do a trick only Jon Waters and Mel Brooks have accomplished: Make a movie that is turned into a play that is then made into a movie ("Hairspray," and "The Producers"). Of course, I'm tone-deaf, so it's unlikely I'll be writing any musicals soon . . .
- Have many pet cats. Maybe a few dogs that get along with the cats. Maybe a few rodents the cats can't eat. Maybe a lizard big enough to harm a cat that tries to harm it (guess what I'll name that lizard, and win a prize! *Prize is fictional and should not be confused with actual prizes, either living or dead). Maybe random other cool non-human pets.
- Dye my hair blue, again. This time, though, I'll bleach it, first, so it's more noticeable. (Am I a little old to be dyeing my hair? Too bad . . . I like it!)
- Get a tattoo that I'll actually smile at when I'm twenty years older.
- Have James Randi teach me how to bend spoons "with my mind."
- Design and run a "haunted house" one Halloween. (I LOVE Halloween!)
- Have a complete home-theater system, including remote-control lighting and Mountain Dew on tap in the corner. (I'm too much of a movie-buff NOT to put this on my list.)
- Make a difference in someone's life. Be a positive influence. Help someone be better. I'm not particular about who. I just want to make a difference . . . The more the merrier!
Well, that about sums it up. Wish me luck!
There might be more, later! I've been collecting videos on YouTube I think people should see. I'm not being original, but it is an interesting way for people to get to know me.
Alright, you voyeurs and voyeurettes, stop making me blush!
Peace.