I would love to be able to travel around the world and seeing different cultures and ways of life. I think as we move through life we can become entrenched into thinking our way of life is best. i wanna go see the world and appreciate it and other people for their strenghts and weakness. As we move from childhoold to adulthood there is just never enough “time” to do things we reallly wanted to do. I think alot of people just settle for what life gives them instead being an active participant in their own lives. :-x
I absolutely hate riding the bus into town, dealing with all the “stuff” at work. Work totally stresses me out, but I have to work. I am an old fashioned gal. My fantasy is a nice little place in the country. Me at home cleaning, in the kitchen bare foot and pregnant, cooking, taking care of the kids and hubby and our home. I want my man to be the bread winner. I have no problems with the man being in charge. I’d like to have an orchard where people can come and pick their own apples, plums, blueberries and strawberries, whatever we would grow. I could make jam and jelly to sell, maybe some baked goods. And of course knitted items!!! I guess that sounds a bit unrealistic in these times, but that is what I have always wanted. My boyfriend works outside, and I love when he comes home so I can take his boots off, rub his tired feet, give him a back rub and make a good meal for him. I am big on cooking from scratch. If possible, that is how I make everything. Noodles, bread, pie crust, spaghetti sauce, whatever. I totally don’t mind household chores at all. Nothing is more satisfying than scrubbing the soap scum from the tub and making it sparkle! :teehee: I think I was born in the wrong era.
Winning the lottery, hiring a cleaning person once a week, hiring a cook, and then working from home…maybe doing computer consulting/training very, very part time (just so I wouldn’t get bored).
Similar to what auburnchick said…I’d have full-time staff. I’d never clean the house, do laundry, cook, care for the dog or wash the car, etc. ever again. I’d never pick up a paintbrush again, either. No more home improvement projects at all - I’d have employees to do it all.
I guess my fantasy is to have the time/money/energy to do whatever I want, whenever I want.
was anybody else a little afraid to open this thread? :teehee:
I will come back later and tell you mine… i have to go start cutting up the fruit and such for tomorrow after scanning the rest of the forum… but mine involves this.
Inis, we’re EXACTLY in the same boat! I’m unemployed too at the moment and it’s freaking me out. I don’t have much ambition. I just want a decent job with a decent salary, and enough time to do the things I like and some volunteer work.
Apart from that, I want a puppy and a washing machine. I’m tired of going to the laundromat. I live in a small appartment and it’s not possible to have one. I know it sounds stupid, but you have no idea how much I dream of that. :teehee: I just want a “normal” place to stay. Not a small student appartment. A normal place with a washing machine, dryer, and maybe even a dishwasher!
It’s definitely not impossible, in fact, it will certainly happen sooner than later. But for some reason it seems so far away!
I want a nice, spacious, light, airy house. I want to be able to pay bills or buy everyday things without having to look at our bank balance first. I’d love a little extra help with the girls, just to give me breathers or allow me to get a haircut! I’d hire a housekeeper in no time flat. I dream of taking a cruise and I’d love to take a nice, unhurried visit to Japan. I’d go to the spa every other week or so. I’d love to have some time to continue my personal study of Sylvia Plath, and I want to get my college degree. I’d go see a Braves game with primo seats by the home dugout. Heck, we’d travel around and see ballgames at tons of different stadiums!
I’m totally with Iza on the not-a-student-type-place. I’ve lived with two different groups of people, and I don’t want to do it again. I want my own place. And a working dishwasher.
Right now, my dream is to be done school, live near where I work and near my dbf (it takes me an hour to get home from work, then 1.5 hours to get out to see him :wall: ) My job would be something that I don’t have to take home with me, and I don’t have to be on-call for. And in my field, so I don’t “waste” all this money I’ve spent on my education. Something that I could work from home on once or twice a week, but could stop at the end of the day. Too bad I have no idea what I would do in this job :teehee:
I do not want to be in the country. I want to be out of the suburbs and in the city. There are a few good walkable neighbourhoods, where you can actually walk to the grocery store/market. I would live near public transit (I could knit on the subway!) I don’t need a lawn if I have a park nearby. No more mowing and raking! No more stinky fertilizer! No more keeping up with the neighbours or else the property values will drop! I would have a bicycle and actually be able to ride it somewhere. I wouldn’t have to depend on a car.
I would want to be close enough to the water that I could walk to the beach/waterfront, but far enough away that I didn’t have to smell it on the bad days :ick:
Inis, you have opened a huge can of worms… I could keep going for hours :mrgreen:
oooo!!! I want to make an ammendment!!! I wasnt to live EAST of where I work, so I get to drive west in the morning and east in the evening… no more sun in my eyes and much more wrinkle prevention!
Hehe…I’ve had the someone-else-to-do-the-work fantasy when I was growing up. I think it’s better for adults because I never appreciated it as a child. I get to live what I love now, which is stay at home. I’m not a great housekeeper at all (why clean when you can knit? seriously!) but I enjoy baking and playing with my kids.
If I had my druthers, though, we’d be living somewhere else with no mortgage (this is a possibility when you live in CA and sell your house to move out of state). We’d have a house with lots of room with trees and a stream. There would have to be several trees for kids: the kind with branches just low enough to climb and high enough for a tire swing. We’d have an office so hubby could work from home and a pool with a super shallow end and a deep end so it would be just like the beach. We’d have koi and dogs (hmmm…someone to clean up after them). There would be lots of kids on our cul-de-sac and they’d come to play in the treehouse that hubby would build in his woodworking shop. We’d enjoy a small group bible study fellowship that we would share hosting responsibilities for.
Then we’d have extra moolah so we could home school the kids and travel. That way we could have real-time geography/cultural immersion/language classes!
lol Contiknitter you better not have my dream! That’s the farm I grew up on and as far as I know it is still mine…lol
That is my dream though. I am not ready for it yet but every so often I think that I am inching closer to it. The full truth is that my brother will have that particular farm one day and it is most likely that I will have my grandparents farm. I dream to build a new house on my 250 acres of land. Farm it organically (my mother tried to tell me today that I wouldn’t do that if she had anything to say about it. I had to gently remind her where she would be if I was living on that land since I don’t officially take it over until she is gone…lol), raise a bunch of friendly animals with nary a care about someone wanting to eat them. Have some kids… the kids picture to me is actually a sort of foster care type situation. Maybe have a Roloff style punkin’ patch in the fall.
The good news for me is that unless something really drastic happens or unless i drastically change my view, i will be able to do it. the only thing i am finding that is changing though is that the picture is getting bigger and bigger all the time…lol
Oh, my! I totally agree!! My fantasy is to be able to travel around the world, spending enough time in each culture to really learn their ways… mode of dress, style of music, types of foods and methods of preparation (I am a nutritionist after all) and of course, what they knit!
I want to be done with school and have a real job and a decent car and a decent apt and maybe even a real boyfriend. Doesn’t sound like that hard of a thing, but it’s turning out to be. I’m so tired of school, which of course makes it harder for me to give it the final push to finish. Since I’m in grad school working alone every single day with essentially no help or input from anybody except maybe once every month or two, it’s very hard to stick to a routine and stay driven. I’m so frustrated I just want to cry. So yeah, being done is my little dream.
My big dream is to have a huge pile of money fall from the sky so that I can travel the world and buy several homes is my favorite parts, like Palawan in the Phillipines and Durban in South Africa and a cabin up at Glacier National Park and a fabulous penthouse in Seoul.
I understand every single word you are saying. I went through exactly the same thing. No help, no input, not even a slighest bit of interest from my “advisor”. :wall: Oh yeah and no boyfriend for a long, long, long time. :teehee:
The good news is… it will end!!! And I know it sounds far away, that you hardly believe it will ever end, but believe me, this day will come.
