No particular order, but I need to:
Visit the Arctic.
Raise some kids well and see them succeed.
Get something published.
Have a home where I can build an awesome library with floor-to-ceiling shelves and one of those rolling ladders.
Go to a really, really fancy party, the kind with tuxes and ballgowns. Just once. My prom sucked, and I need to do the girly princess thing properly at least once.
Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Mom’s Yorkshire puddings are incredible – she makes individual ones, and when done, they’re crispy/crusty outside, and melt-in-your mouth goodness inside, with a couple big air pockets. When I’ve made them (with mom supervising my every move!!), they’ve come out chewy. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong, nor can mom.
Well, the corollary to that goal is winning the lottery – or robbing a bank, depending on my mood that day. 
Neither are likely to happen any time soon (I don’t play the lottery, and I haven’t seen the inside of a bank in at least 5 years), but I will never not want to learn how to fly. I might go back to wanting to fly small planes, which is how I started (I got the bug after a friend took me up while practicing for his instructor license), but I have wanted to fly for the last 9 years and I will continue to want to fly. Always. 
There’s a knack to it. You have to learn to throw yourself at the ground and miss. 
In the world? :eek: I’ll happily send you mine
Hum… remember, I’m old, so I’ve already done alota stuff…
I’m pretty at peace with my life.
I’ve traveled more than most other poor country gals.
My face has been seen in millions of living rooms daily for over a year.
I’ve been an expert in my chosen field, if only on local levels.
I have worked with, and had the respect of, world renowned doctors in multiple fields, even a Nobel Laurate.
I’ve been a mother.
I’ve loved and been loved, and am loved.
I’m comfortable in my skin.
I can be alone comfortably.
I have books.
I have cats.
I have a library ladder.
I have a sense of humor.
I wanna dip in the Arctic Ocean.You wanna visit the Arctic.
**Road Trip !!! **.
Work my way out of poverty: Check.
Take a few years off in my early 40s to just kick back and take it all in: Check.
Feel a need to go back to work again and be productive: Check.
Live comfortably with very few requirements to sustain my happiness: In progress.
Avoid major health problems until the day I die: TBD.
Watch my children grow into happy and succesful men, and create families of their own.
Sail around the world with my husband.
Skydive.
Take a ride in a hot air balloon.
RV around America/North America with the hubby.
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[li]See my children established in their careers.[/li][li]Hold my grandchildren.[/li][li]See a game in every MLB park.[/li][li]Watch my team win the World Series.[/li][li]Catch the big one (fish, that is).[/li][/ol]
I couldn’t cut it down to just five, sorry.
See India and Turkey. I have to make it to Istanbul, just once. I want to see the whirling dervishes.
Go on an archaeological dig.
Have a child, and be a good mother.
See a launch from Cape Canaveral.
Swim in the Pacific Ocean. I’ve already swam in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico (when a hurricane was blowing in!)
Celebrate New Years in Times Square. Hopefully, I’ll get to do this one this year!
Go on tour with my friend Sarah’s band, even as a roadie.
Live with the Rainbow Children for awhile, not forever, just a few weeks.
Have another child.
Get a novel or non-fiction book published.
Travel the world.
Lose thirty pounds.
Get elected to public office.
All rather mundane ambitions but still rather worthwhile IMO.
[ul][li]Through hike the Pacific Crest Trail.[/li][li]Visit Egypt, Europe, Australia and Angkor Wat.[/li][li]Stay married. We can work out the details about staying happy as we go.[/li][li]Share at least one of my wife’s top 5.[/li]Start some sort of a business that lets me work with my children (maybe doing remodeling–it was good enough for my dad and me.)[/ul]
Well this thread clears something up for me, anyway. I post infrequently because I appreciate the incredible writing you folks do here. Now I know that evidently a fair number of dopers are literary types, published or unpublished. Probably doesn’t mean I’ll feel any more comfortable offering my meager thoughts on any topics but it’s nice to know I’m legitimately out of my league.
Top 5
I figure I have the best chance with the second item on my list, and really, I’d be happy with that.
Can I watch?
( See my post )
I’m not pregnant again (yet!) but would you really want to see a groaning, shrieking, overweight, exhausted member of the female sex push a swollen, mucus covered, half finished, wailing, incontinent human being out of body parts you have previously thought of as a playground?
Yes. But to delve into it would be a serious hijack, moreso than this is already. However, the answer is yes.