Happy Birthday to Me :)

When I was in my last year of high school I made a list..

You must know that I love making lists. I make pointform notes almost everyday on the things I want to get done. I must have written my will when I was 16. I found it the other day. Give all shoes to one sister. Give all my socks to the other sister. We can tell who I didn't like much at that time :)

..But this list that I found recently is different. It's a list of things I had hoped to accomplish by the time I turned 23.

Today I turned 23.

There are certain things I can check off with no problem on the list:

a Pray 5 daily prayers (without having Mom/Dad remind me)
a Graduate from a university (preferably not UofT)
a Be qualified as a high school teacher (if desperate, teach elementary school)
a Find a teaching job in Peel (if desperate, teach up North)
a Have a steady income (steady enough so that it doesn't bother me when throwing pennies in the water fountain with V)
a Pay my own zakat (of a substantial amount)

Then there are goals that I can't check off but I still feel have been met in some way, shape, or form:

s ...Be engaged to be married (be wearing the ring)
s ...If married, make sure to go to Bora Bora for honeymoon (take a lot of sexy swimsuits)
s ...If engaged, make sure guy knows we’re going to Bora Bora for honeymoon (if he doesn't know, make sure to drop hints everyday until he agrees)
s ...Have my own car (preferably not a Volvo passed down from Dad)
s ...Do not get pregnant until at least being married for 3 years (or at age 26).

I'm not engaged, but I sort of am (or let's just say that so that I feel better about meeting some of these goals). But I'm certainly NOT married, so obviously I haven't gone on my honeymoon yet. And, while the lucky guy does know that we're going to Bora Bora, I'm having second thoughts .. not on the guy! - on the honeymoon destination - I'm now thinking Italy.

There's a question mark beside my car goal because from a previous post you should all be aware of the fact that I'm simply in love with my car. Even though it's a Volvo... passed down from my dad. So this the car goal doesn't even apply anymore.

There's also a question mark beside my getting pregnant goal because I certainly still do NOT want a child at any time soon. When I get married I want to have my husband to myself for as long as I can :D This goal still fits according to my plan.

I figure I must have been more mature than I thought during that last year of high school because none of these goals are too crazy. Are they?

This is nothing like the list I made when I was 11. If I had actually followed that then I'd be an uneducated and unemployed princess living in a mansion with a canopy bed, a balcony overlooking a lake with mermaids, and living with a nonexistent prince - the prince who only lasts in the picture long enough to impregnate me with twins - the twins somehow born in such a way that my belly does not expand an inch. Wow. It'd be cool to be 11 again and actually think like that...

I'm 23. Time to put together a new list.