- moved overseas alone – twice
- came back
- saw the pyramids
- got married
- was featured in a major magazine and local newspaper
- lived through a revolution – the Arab Spring
- traveled through Europe
- became a teacher
- made cheese at home
- had 40 staples removed in my mother in law’s apartment with scissors
- rescued several pets
- worked at the most ridiculous university ever
Things I’ll Do When It’s Gone
- have kids
- buy a house
- learn to swim in Hawaii
- start my own business
- start a donkey sanctuary
- be published by someone somewhere – anywhere
- win something
- get fit
- grow a beautiful, big garden
- move to Miami like The Golden Girls
- go to Malice Domestic, Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime conventions
- visit Botswana
- Roadtrip
- stay married
- never buy 1 ply toilet paper
- not eat crap