Soma: You asked for it …

50 Things I’m Looking Forward To

in no particular order.

1. Paying off more debts!
2. Ice-skating.  There’s a rink right by my place.
             (note: find out schedules)
3. More snow! – if it comes.
4. October, and Asparagus’ and Soma’s wedding!!!
5. March, and possibly visiting the Mango for the last time in the city of our fledgling adulthood.
6. Coffee tomorrow morning (I think it shall be hazelnut vanilla).
7. Actually using my gym membership and getting some muscle tone.
8. Writing more in my paper journal.  I hadn’t since November, and suddenly today in my studio, I was pouring out words (it happened to be in my packback with my music), and it was such a relief – I had missed my innards.
9. Playing music I love.
10. Playing the music my university piano teacher told me I wasn’t ready for.
11. Playing the music my other university piano teacher (the one who filled in for the other when he went on sabbatical) told me I was ready for.
12. I think 10 and 11 are almost the same; I look forward to realizing this fully.
13. Buzzing my friend across the street, the one I hadn’t seen since "league of composers" days, whom I bumped into recently when I took a shortcut through his parking lot – buzzing his apartment, and saying, "Let’s go play!"
14. More volunteering at 10,000 Villages.  (Last Monday was my first shift and let me tell you, I am PSYCHED.  I can feel the love and care in the objects I unpack and put on the shelves.  Hey, I even managed to sell a drum to some guy, and that was one fifth of the day’s sales.)
15. Eating the chocolate cake I just took out of the oven.  (Not tonight, though.  Tomorrow at the family gathering.)
16. Finally unpacking ALL of my books and having them ALL in the room I live in.
17. Being better friends with U, if he wishes it.
18. Going to my university town someday to visit.
19. All those beautiful walks to and from work.
20. Bringing out the xylophones in baby class.
21. My year-end recital, where I will probably gawk at my students’ progress.
22. Going to a movie sometime, with friends.
23. Surprise-visiting C at her clinic and getting my eyes checked.
24. New glasses and new frames!!!
25. Getting a credit card.
26. Using up more of my bath product collection.
27. Calling H and other colleagues from work and actually having a social life with them.
28. Sending random funny cards to people.
29. Getting lost in a wood and resting my head against a tree trunk.
30. Commissioning a trio from Mr. Steadfast, and getting my students to play it.
31. The total lunar eclipse (I forget exactly when this year).
32. My hair growing even longer.
33. Sharpening wooden pencils.
34. Going to the beach in all weathers.
35. Finding more music I used to love at the big music store nearby, in bargain bins, waiting to be loved again!  (I just found "The Sundays – reading, writing, and arithmetic" !!!)
36. Playing more LPs.
37. Going to P1’s and Asterope’s church and having more amazing talks with the nun or whoever.
38. Hearing the twins talk.
39. Cross-stitch projects slowly coming to completion.
40. Soup.
41. Reading George Eliot novels I haven’t read yet.
42. Planning the garden on some stormy February night.
43. Getting the garden started in the spring.
44. Making pickles – way more than last year!
45. Tutoring in the summer?
46. Not working in the office anymore.  (I’m phasing it out.  I need that time for other things.)
47. Having fires in my parents’ backyard, using the cherry logs from Oma’s former home.
48. Making envelopes.
49. Discovering which friends I can share massages with.
50. Pelting the Mango with her own stuffties.