An Outrageously Ambitious List of Goals (Part I)

as i sat here on the couch (which has also served as my bed for the past week) this afternoon, i half listened to my boyfriend kevin, as he talked on the phone with a friend of ours.

"how's liz? she's...you know how when people get really old and you keep all the stuff they need really close to them so they're surrounded by all their shit? that's what she looks like. no, it's...cute."

i slapped down my US Weekly, suddenly no longer interested in What Bachelorette Ali Is Hiding and embarrassed at having chosen to read that when i am flanked by Meditation As Medicine, I Am Nujood: Age 10 And Divorced, and the Michel Thomas Method on Speaking French. upon breaking my foot, i was determined to see it as an opportunity to get it all done - to reinspire my curiosity in the world and to roll around in learning like a pig in shit.

so today, after reading about 30 online lists such as Photoshop Disasters, What White Celebrities Would Look Like As African Americans, and the 35 Coolest Toilets In The World, i got the feeling that i might just be spinning my wheels. so maybe it's time to utilize this recovery time. so, i have decided to make an (drumroll)

OUTRAGEOUSLY AMBITIOUS LIST OF GOALS!

1. learn French
2. read 1 book a week
3. memorize all my lines for To Kill A Mockingbird
4. make a ten-year plan
5. figure out what to do with my life after September 27
6. learn to sew/make my own clothes
7. meditate
8. yoga every day again (once my body will let me)
9. write a play

now that i write it out, that doesn't seem like OUTRAGEOUS. in fact, it doesn't even seem unreasonable. if i treat myself like i'm being home-schooled, it actually appears as though i could get all this done pretty easily by the time i'm healed. i mean the learning French thing, that we'll just have to try hard at and see how it goes, but still. and the play...well, it doesn't have to be a LONG play, and i could actually work on an adaptation i've had in my head for a couple years. one to two hours for everything else and i should be good. right?