list my "someday" goals

I had an involved daydream not long ago about opening a ‘new again’ store, selling refurbished and/or refreshed goods. Not sure it would fly in this ultra-conservative, big-box-store-addicted, everyone’s-a-doctor town though. We would contract with artists and handyman-types who could take the old junk, make it work again or re-jig it into an art piece, and then get a cut upon sale of the item. We met a fellow recently who has a truck and is trying to build a business of hauling away people’s junk so that he himself can reinvent it, but I know he’s struggling. I thought maybe I could approach him with this idea – perhaps a place to retail his finds would help him out, and I’d have a constant source of junk. Together, we’d be able to keep more stuff out of landfill, maybe. That’d be good.

I now plan to someday ride the “bullet train”, Shinkanzen, from Tokyo.

I’ve always wanted to go to Tokyo, but now I have at least one activity on my itinerary (besides ‘stand in the street in awe’, that is).

ありがとうデーブ!

Edit: that gobbledy-gook above is supposed to be “Thanks Dave!” in Japanese characters… guess it doesn’t translate ;o)

I recently heard of ballroom dancing for those without a partner – ballroom line dancing. I think it has to go on my list of things to try someday :o)

chocolate sushi as per Ru’s discovery

Maybe for our New Year’s Eve celebration, if there is to be one?

• create a ‘life line’ and storyboard as per Karen’s suggestion
  visit the two hemp stores downtown
  visit the Libido (for women) shop downtown
  
• explore my home town like a tourist would
• learn to draw/sketch
• take 43 self-portraits
• live in New York City for a year (or at LEAST spend a Christmas and New Year’s Eve there)
• have all my cookbooks spiral bound

Now that I’m enrolled in three courses for next term (gulp!), and am planning to enroll in two further courses in the summer session (bitter gulp!), I’m thinking that next fall – instead of expensive, demanding university courses, I’m going to reward myself with more fun pursuits. I’d like to take Kate’s Mindfulness Meditation workshop, cuz I work for her and she always offers to let me join in for free; a belly dancing class – this time with my Mom; and a learn-to-draw class.

WAY better than smelly ole BScN classes!

• be vegetarian again
• visit all 13 provinces and territories of Canada
• donate to the laptop.org project
• volunteer for/donate to a literacy initiative
• scan or read then recycle all my magazine articles

I set up a blog for my garden progress. I’ve only ever looked at one other blog, so I’m not sure I’m doing it right, but it’s just what I wanted – a place to mount pictures & perhaps a few thoughts/discoveries that I can go back to year after year to see the progress. It’s boring for anyone but me, but if you LIKE being bored and wanna look, here’s the URL: http://www.rintinsgarden.blogspot.com

• have Mom & Judith in for dinner
• make a sturdy, washable, size-adjustable lunch bag

• put up a 100-mile-diet website for the London area
• be carbon-neutral
• make my garden journal electronic (blog maybe?)
• build a beautiful piece of wood furniture all by myself