What do you want?

I want my husband and I to comfortably live to old age and die in our sleep, holding our wrinkled old hands.

I want to live in the same town for longer than two years. In the same vein, I want a condo.

I want to adopt an older child.

Hammock with an ocean view and a monkey butler.

My needs are few.

No miniature elephants?! Just think he could ride around in the cupholder of your Fit!

Good health, happiness, friendship and good fortune. Emphasis on happiness. I know I’ll find my way there, but sooner rather than later would be great.

A horse!

I want a new job that is in my field, well-paying, a reasonable commute, with great co-workers.

I want him to love me the way I love him.

Safety for my child.

Financial security.

A partner in life who will be my sounding board, advisor, lover and refuge.

In that order.

I have a lot that’s better than I deserve, but I’d like to be in “the zone” more. That trance-like state where you’re looking for the right word, or note…fiddling with a found-object and turning it into something interesting…getting caught up in a cause or project that takes you out of yourself. That place where you don’t even question if you’re happy. You just—are.

A shrubbery.

Some decent Mexican food would be nice. That I didn’t have to make myself.

Money. Scads and scads of money. Just piles of it lying about everywhere. A truly ridiculous amount of money is exactly what I want.

Pretty much everything else in my life is awesome.

I want things to be the way they were.

Failing that, a taco.

I wanna rock ‘n’ roll.
So put anudder dime in the jukebox baby.

See, I thought I was happy, and now I can never be happy until I have a miniature elephant.

Would you settle for a house hippo?

Unconditional love.
…oh, and Twizzlers.

An autographed picture of Randy Mantooth and a baby’s arm holding an apple.

The sweet sweeth release that death brings.

I want the deli to actually make a profit.

Then I want a new house closer to my kid and her new baby girl.

I also want all of you to get what you want. Plus world peace, of course.

I want my one year old to sleep all night and my three year old to just be potty trained already!

Oh and a slightly bigger house. Just big enough so the kids don’t have to share a room.

To remember.

In the short term: I’d like my son’s father to voluntarily move out of my house instead of making me go through the shitty process of evicting him.
I’d like more time in the day to do the things i love doing instead of using up most of it doing things I have to do.
In the long term: I’d love to find a BF/ future husband who enhances my life and appreciates the things I bring to the relationship, so I can be a good example to my son on what a healthy relationship is.
I want to travel and explore.