Blog Challenge Day 29

Your aspirations.


My aspirations have changed overtime like anyone else's.  I found an autobiography that I wrote when I was in about 5th grade.  We had to write this section about what our future would be like and when I read it as an adult I was floored.  In my future I had said I would go to college close to home, become a hematologist, own the house I lived in and get married.  Well, I went to Central Washington University which is very close to home, but it wasn't the first place I wanted to go when I was in high school.  I was looking at Gonzaga or St. Mary's College in Tacoma.  I wanted to be a hematologist because my mom is one.  She's actually a Medical Technologist and works in hematology.  Well I became a Medical Technologist, but I work in microbiology, making me a microbiologist (not too far off from my prediction).  When my Grammy passed away, Mom gifted me her half of the house, so I do own part of it.  The only prediction that didn't come true was getting married.  When you're ten I think predicting 3 out of 4 futures that come true isn't too bad!


So I guess the lesson I should learn from that is that I really need to be serious about the aspirations I want to achieve because my self-talk is so convincing even I believe it!


My current aspirations are:


1.)  To someday own a time-share or house here-->

2.)  To travel to Italy someday.


3.)  To make my house as off-grid as possible.  We've got the barn and fenced in pasture for animals like sheep, goats and cows.  We've got the chickens and vegetable garden going pretty good.  We're working on a root cellar, compost pile, and a hand-pump on our well.  We'd love to get solar and/or wind power someday.


4.)  To get new carpet in my living room along with a nice flat screen and sound system (especially since our current TV's screen keeps jumping at loud sounds...yeah it's old enough to still have a tube system).


5.)  To get my Specialist in Microbiology registry test taken, which is equivalent to a Master's degree in Clinical Microbiology.


6.)  To pay off all my credit cards and student loans paid off. (Which with all that I've listed above will be pretty impossible!)


7.)  To have a happy and fulfilling life where I am surrounded by people I love and who love me back.