This is, verbatim, a journal entry of mine from January 17th and 18th, 2016, back when I did a lot of writing prompts. It’s interesting to look back on now.

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Another writing prompt I saw online was to list out 100 things that you want. At first I thought that sounded kind of selfish, but then I thought about it and realized that things you want don’t have to be material, and wanting things doesn’t indicate a lack of God’s blessings, but it can give you appreciation for what you already have and how you can better yourself, your life, and the world around you. I don’t know if I can come up with 100 things, but I’ll list as many as I can think of now.

1. A family of four. David and I are a nice little happy family of our own, but we want two kids. I don’t care what genders.

2. A fulfilling career. This one is tricky. I don’t mind my job entirely. I like pharmacy (otherwise I wouldn’t have suffered through six years of school for it.) But it’s so…thankless. And that is really defeating and makes me not want to do it sometimes.

3. I want to live a really long life, as long as I am with it and able to get around.

4. I always want to have at least two cats. Never seven again, but three seems like a happy number.

5. I want my sponsor child in Rwanda, Nyituriki, to know I love her and that God loves her, too.

6. I want a white Christmas at least every other year (stop with the global warming!)

7. I want our kids to have a really close relationship with our parents.

8. I want our kids to know that there is nothing they can do to make David and me love them any less.

9. I want a cure for endometriosis.?

10. I want endometriosis awareness to become so prolific that no woman in the future has to suffer years before diagnosis and receive ineffective treatments.

11. I want a cure for celiac disease (so I can eat gluten again!)

12. I want to not pass down celiac disease or endometriosis to my children.

13. I want to rock a minivan someday.

14. I want my kids to find things they love to do that make them happy.

15. I want to find a church home (but first, I need the encouragement to get there in the first place.)

16. I want David to never experience the kinds of things I have experienced in regards to my health.

17. I want us to be able to celebrate at least our 60th wedding anniversary together. (That will be in 2070.)

18. I want our cats to live long, happy lives.

19. I want our kids to not be allergic to cats or peanuts.

20. I want our kids to be healthy.

21. I want more bookshelves so I can buy more books.

22. I want all the kids who come to our hospital to leave alive.

23. I want our kids waiting for heart transplants to get them soon.

24. I want David to snore less (or never!)

25. I want flowers every week (that are feline-safe.)

26. I want Nala to stop peeing everywhere.

27. I want to never suffer a miscarriage.

28. I want these upcoming fertility treatments (whatever they are) to work fast and well.

29. I want my favorite book, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, to be made into a movie, starring Sebastian Stan as Johnny Nolan.

30. I want Peter Jackson to make more movies about Middle Earth.

31. I want to have a good, easy pregnancy that goes to term.

32. I want our kids to love Doctor Who as much as I do.

33. I want to retire at the age of 60.

34. I want our kids to have good, decent friends they can rely on.

35. I want an updated version of Oregon Trail that you can play on a Wii U console.

36. I want season four of Sherlock.

37. I want to go back to the U.K. Many times if necessary.

38. I want to not be a chronic pain person. It needs to go away. It’s been almost two years, and I’m really tired of dealing with it every second of every day.

39. I want AT&T U-Verse to get on board with an actual local forecast on The Weather Channel. The regional thing sucks.

40. I want a finished basement (with a wine cellar for David.)

41. I want to always have one or two sponsor children through Compassion International so I can help improve the lives of vulnerable children and show them God’s love.

42. I want the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

43. I want these headaches and migraines to stop. And have them not be caused by a brain tumor.

44. I want Zoe to settle down for her afternoon nap. Good grief, she’s clingy today.

45. I want the roads to be driveable tomorrow morning!

46. I want Doctor Who to never end. It’s such an amazing show. Thank you, knee surgery, for getting me hooked (on Sherlock, too.)

47. I want an awesome swing set in our backyard for our kids.

48. I want to use the pool more. We’ve barely used it the past two years. Maybe once we have kids we’ll be in it more.

49. I want this winter to be short. The last two winters were so ridiculous, a shorter one would be nice so we can get the Christmas lights down before April.

50. I want my parents and David’s parents to live long lives to see their grandkids grow up.

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That was enlightening. Interesting how some of them already happened. Number 23…eventually did come to pass by July.❤️Number 36…coming soon! Number 43…well crap. Number 45…the roads were barely driveable. Number 49…it was still snowing in May.

I’ll keep a close eye on this list every now and then…you never know what may come to pass in life.

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