Keep Your Eye on the Prize

The problem with that is, of course, that you get to yearning so much you want to cry. Or at least, I do.

I’ve decided I don’t want to just make a bucket list of interesting places to get to someday–I want to see everything. And I want to live in different places. Preferably without job-hunting. So I’m plotting how I’m going to uproot. I need to prepare first, though I’d rather just run off. Need to lay a financial foundation (buy my books! Tell your friends!), need to get healthy, need to get ready.

Towards that end, I’ve decided to learn Spanish. It’s useful right here where I live, it’s spoken both in Europe and South America…it’s a good second language. (My second language was German, but alas I’ve let that slide. A lot.) Now to figure out where to start…I’ll probably have to buy a course. (And after Spanish…hmm. Chinese is supposed to be incredibly hard, but also incredibly useful…some Asian language probably, because I want that side of the world too. And maybe I could pick German back up…oh, hey, how widespread is Hindi? It’s a big continent, but I know India has a lot of languages…)

Also I should look into getting a passport. Though my plan is to start small(er) by seeing as much of the U.S. as I can.

I am still making progress on the other things I mapped out! Yesterday I discovered (again) how incredibly useful full-screen mode in Scrivener is to keep me focused on writing, not internet playing. Right now I have FIVE tabs open–normally it’s 30+.

Dishes are getting done more often so they don’t stack up. I’m working on ways to get more crap out of the house so I don’t have to clean around it. I’m bribing the kid to declutter.

I’m teaching myself to like vegetables. (Last week I had CELERY instead of FRIES with my chicken sandwich!) I walked to work and back today. I’m drinking my water. I’m (mostly) not spending unnecessary money.

I’m doing this.