I've often heard this, and I even wrote a previous blog but erased it because I thought it silly, but right now I'm watching A Perfect Score, the one with Robert Deniro and Edward Norton. In it, Deniro says something along the lines of "make a list of what you want, slowly get them one by one," and ... enjoy it or something like that. The moral: having a set goal is good, even if it changes.
I want to work in a smallish city like Santa Cruz somewhere in a scientist recommended country for global warming, living from small house to house as I buy them, somewhat near a college. I as I buy them and pay them off, I'd live them rent them out relatively cheaply to good students. In the end, I want to retire nicely and do a good deed to the future generations.
In the end, I want to live far enough in the country that would be agreeable for a zombie invasion. Yes I'm serious and yes I'm silly. Shut up, this is my list! I’d like at least an acre, hopefully two or even three. I’d like a strong fence that can take charging zombies, and a tall design so the average athletic joe couldn’t climb it, as well as a gate. I grew up opening and closing a gate to my house, so I’m used to the inconvenience. Maybe I’d even have a solar powered opener, like my parents.
Maybe not while I’m working with kids, etc. but certainly when I’m retired, I’d like my home to be quiet self-sustained. I’d like to start with the easiest and hopefully accomplish a lot, starting with chickens and eggs, maybe a goat or two to trim the lawn, maybe even a milk cow or another …not milk cow, land permitting, for beef. If I got really crazy, I could just stick with goats and goat milk, though I’ve never tried goat milk but love cow milk, so we’ll see. If I were successful enough (now that I think of it, it wouldn’t take that much money) I could choose a parcel of land that had a natural spring, dig up a pond, and stick salmon and another healthy fish in there. Then I, and the animals would be really happy. =)
I’d like two German shepherds, one girl and one boy named beauty and beast, or buffy and spike, etc. (lol) and a lab of some sort. I’ve never had a lab but they’re so fun! =) Either way, a third dog of some sort, and of course, kitties. A friend had a good idea, to not have a doggie door as it lets in so much cold/hot air. Then again, she had a shitty one always half broken. Maybe by then, they’d have an efficient one, but it does sound good as far as security goes. Even with all my silly requirements, I do want everything to be modest looking, as to not attract attention during say, a depression.
I’ve always wanted my kids to go to the finest (non-religious/ridiculously academic) academic schools, but with global warming in mind, I’ll have to do my best. I don’t want to have to worry about the advancing parental worries of the internet, etc. but as technology is only growing, them being computer literate is also important. I hope having computers in some sort of family room would be sufficient. Speaking of rooms, I would like a nice kitchen with lots of shelf space + a pantry. I used to want a second fridge but on second thought, that is a lot of energy consumption when things in a fridge might not be that good.
I want a sufficiently roomy kitchen, small dining room that could barely fit 6, a living room/main TV room with treadmill, stair master, and perhaps another future exercise contraption, office where my and my spouse’s desks and computers would be, family room where kid stuff and their computers (two old ones I’m thinking, depending on the # of kids) would be, enough rooms for the kids to each have their own, though I think it would be healthy for them to share a bathroom. As an only child, I feel that having the privacy of one’s own room is important. And finally, a master bedroom with a not-ridiculous-master bathroom. If we were ever to have a jaccuzi of some sort, it would be outside to be shared with everyone, not selfishly in our bathroom.
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