#18 Get a PhD

I'd like to work at my education enough to get a Dr. in front of my name... for the challenge of it, the accomplishment of it, more than anything...

#17 - Watch a space shuttle launch

I've always thought that would be so awesome! I was just looking at some pictures of the latest launch. To witness something from this planet going out into space, into the great openness.

***Update, December 2011 - Ok, I realize they have retired the space shuttle program, so it will have to be some other space craft launching off of this planet.

#16 - Write a Book

I am in the "thinking about it stage" of writing a book about myself and a journey I've been taking. It will be about my story and the healing journey I've been taking. We will see if I can get this done before I die... Life tends to happen sometimes!

Then I have other book ideas floating around in my head. I think would call this one a success if any of them got done!

#15 - Be in Times Square on New Year's Eve

I'd just like to experience that once, the magnitude of it all I think would be mind-blowing. To really see all those people in one place and to be a part of something that is an American icon would be great. I'd like to be able to say "I was there" or "I did that once" when I die.

#14 - Learn How to Be Happy

I mean really be happy. I let the way other people behave dictate how I feel about myself and the world in general. I want to learn how not to do that.

#13 Attend an NFL Football game

I don't really care which team, but I want really good seats on the 50 yard line. I just like football.

#12 Learn how to manipulate the space-time continuum

Ok, so this one probably won't happen, at least in my lifetime, but I can dream right? I have way to many interests, hobbies, tangents, skills, etc. I am literally a jack of all trades, master of none. I know how to do a lot of things, but not necessarily well. I like to learn new things all the time and then run out of time or ways or energy or patience to finish them. If I could just stop time, bend it, make it last longer maybe I could finish something once in a while, or at least learn it a little better. Also, if I could travel through space, I could visit my friends and family that live so far away at a moment's notice. (Milwaukee, here I come!) Also, traveling back in time to visit my ancestors and see exactly what happened instead of all of this guessing all the time!