And while I'm on a blogging roll, if I won the big lottery...
I don't know if it's 'cause Tim's working way late tonight or because I've got all this creative energy flowing now that I've worked out every evening for 45-60 minutes for a total of 10 straight days (I refuse to step on a scale until I've reached day 30 though), but I find the words just spilleth out my fingers and over my keyboard these days.
And so, while I'm in the mood, I thought I'm publish my revised list of Stuff I Would Do If I Won The Big Lottery. Because it's changed a bit. As you might have guessed.
I wouldn't do all of these at once, but I would do them all at some point.
1. Quit my job. It's not that it's a bad job. It's not. But it's not my dream.
2. Start showering in the mornings instead of the evenings. Don't ask why I have to wait to win the lottery to be able to do this. I just do, ok.
3. Go back to the gym and train for 2 hours every day like I did when I was in marathon mode.
4. Run another marathon at Disney World.
5. Go back to school part time to study early childhood development and learning I'm particularly interested in how children learn from birth --> preschool.
6. Open a bookstore that specializes in children's books. There would not be a single "Goosebump" or "Sweet Valley High" (or whatever the hell the going pre-teen angst series is these days) among them. Bobbin would help me pick the winners. There'd be a snackbar area that caters to kids - healthy snacks but fun ones, and there'd be a puppet show area, a reading circle area for scheduled storytimes, a bunch of kid sized comfy chairs for reading on their own and "big chairs" for snuggling up with a parent to read together. There'd be tables and chairs for scheduled craft activities, and we'd do lots of totally fun art projects, and draw pictures of the stories and characters after storytime.
7. we'd completely finish the basement and build a detached garage and a workshop for Tim
8. we'd take a trip to Europe, the three of us, and I'd show Bobbin all the castles in Germany that I visited and played in when I lived there as a kid. And we'd time it so that we could catch a formula1 grand prix.
9. Volunteer at an elementary school (Great suggestion from Debra, and one I'd like to find a way to do even if I don't win the lottery. It's just a lot easier to do if I don't have to work full time too ;-))
10. Go visit family! Or have them come visit us for a long time (since we'll have the basement completely redone :-)
11. Do some major landscaping outside. We'd hire someone for the heavy lifting but I'd want to work with a designer and actually design part of what we'd do and do some of the planting and stuff too.
12. Keep Bobbin in daycare only part time. And when she started kindergarten, I'd time my day so I could drop her off and pick her up so I have more time with her every day.
13. Get a full spa treatment once a month: hair, massage, facial. Aaaaaah.
14. Read more books (books with lots of pages, small print, and no pictures :-)).
15. Maybe try my hand at writing a children's book. And illustrating it ;-)
Comments
You might enjoy poking around on this site: http://www.picturebookart.org/Home
Sure, it's Eric Carle, but there's other fun stuff on there too. And, if you ever visited me in Massachusetts, I'd take you there. It's a fun place!
And if you ever do open that bookstore, you should read this book. http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780975276341-1
It's a fun read, and he talks a lot about his bookstore experiences, specifically his children's bookstore experiences. He now runs the bookstore at the Eric Carle Picturebook Museum.
Posted by eJuana on April 12, 2008 7:03 PM.