10 things

…that make life worth it.

1. Well-told stories. Really good ones; the kind that make your imagination explode

2. The perfect coffee buzz

3. Amazing Grace

4. Honest conversations that ramble into the wee hours

5. Dancing

6. Sleeping the sleep of the just…in a really comfortable bed. Goose feather pillows, supersized mattress, 1,000-thread-count sheets, etc. etc.

7. Pretty things

8. Laughing until you cry, and then laughing some more

9. Working with other people to make something beautiful

10. Unconditional love

…to do before I die.

1. Learn to shoot

2. Spend the night in a castle

3. Tour Italy (properly, this time: Milan, Venice, Tuscany, Rome, Naples, Sicily, the whole bit)

4. See the basement of the Louvre

5. Live on a houseboat

6. Drive on the Auto-Bahn

7. Run a marathon

8. Run a bookstore - or a coffeehouse - or a circus

9. Ride an elephant

10. Dance all night

…that I’m procrastinating about.

1. Updating my blog (heh)

2. Sorting through about a million pictures that I should probably post sometime this age

3. Reading any more one-acts

4. Sending my mail

5. Making doctor’s/dentist’s/who-else-wants-to-charge-for-my-health? appointments

6. Writing much of anything

7. Practicing my scales (much harder after the calluses on your fingertips have gone away)

8. Putting my finances in order

9. Applying an appropriately critical eye (and, likely, sewing kit) to my closet

10. Having some potentially really awkward conversations

…that I am mortally afraid of.

1. Spiders

2. Snakes

3. Centipedes

4. Creepy crawly things

5. Flying things with stingers

6. Being alone

7. Being unloved

8. Being unneeded

9. Being unwanted

10. Being alone