The Ideal Life

I'm a dreamer. I dream and dream all day and night. I'm working on becoming a doer as well. I just found out that I have deep physiological issues stopping me from becoming a doer. But until then, here are the dreams I have for my future.

House

I want to live in the country, but not miles and miles from civilization, or red neck or hill billy county. Just a place, maybe not to far from a small town or a little under an hour away from a regular town with a mall and all that. I don't want a huge house, or a tiny house. A normal house with good, honest regular people in the area sounds perfect. I'm don't necessarily want a farm, to much work. Or a very huge property. But maybe my neighbors could :)

I would like a garden

I have a book from the library about growing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs (I'll grow some flowers too ^_^). I've been wanting a garden for years but once again those deep, physiological issues stopped me from doing anything. The only part I know I would hate about having a garden is weeding. I plan to use every trick and cheat available. Deep issues or not, that part will suck, however more rewarding the garden is because of it. But anyway, saving money and maybe making a little (there is a farmers market in that little town I talked about previously in this post) by growing some of my own food would be awesome! And apparently it gives the gardener a deep sense of satisfaction, which is always a nice thing to have.

Pets

I already talked about my pets, but I'll expand a little...

Now that I have a couple archers in my dream life, there will be a lot of room for my dream dog! Matt agreed to having a Standard Poodle instead of a Labradoodle, so now it's even less of a dream than before even though I would have gotten one regardless probably! I also want that snake, I know I want at least one horse. Oh, and probably some chickens just for the next thing I'm going to talk about...

My own business. 

I have the ability to turn any picture into this http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1683187639054&set=a.1680446330523.96948.1218496584&type=1&theater 

I've already sold several copies. When I get Adobe Illustrator (and I actually am soon!) I can make many more things like this and even do it with peoples own pictures. I can work on this while I run my fruit and vegetable stand. Yep, my fruit and vegetable stand. I can also sell home made jam, pony rides, hot dogs and my art work. It'll be the weirdest stand on the road :D I know the horse/pony will cost more than it will make on pony rides, but while the kids are on the pony the adults will be looking at the merchandise. (Matthew will be making the rest of the income :)

The above idea is only if this doesn't work out, or until this.

What's better than owning your own road side business? Going to college for 7 years and traveling around the world or sitting in a laboratory dealing with dinosaur bones! Yep, I want to be a paleontologist. This also conflicts with my other desires... you can't really be a paleontologist and live where ever you want. You need to live where you can have a job. And they don't build laboratories and museums in small country towns. This is where my dreams conflict. Sure I can still have my poodle and a small garden, but I don't really want to live in the city... I'm going to help.com about this. But later, at a better time to post (It's 1 am right now).

So this is where my dreams don't quite add up. I'm scared that I won't be able to find work in this field I have so much passion for because of the economy and it's not in high demand blah blah blah. So I'm scared I'll waste money getting degrees I can't use for much of anything and not find a job and not live in that little town. So I'll waste years I could have had my road stand and country house. But then if I just go straight to that then I might miss out on my dinosaur dream...