Just For Me, Me, ME

I've always been a little bit superstitious about revealing a wish. Everybody knows that if you tell your birthday candle wish it won't come true. Also, I have just enough Catholic guilt instilled in me to feel selfish wishing for things that would benefit me. I mean, wishing for World Peace is one thing, wishing for a new laptop is another. But when Sprite's Keeper suggested "Wish List" as the topic for this week's Spin Cycle, I gave the matter some thought. My friend Belinda, who has a much more Eastern bent to her spirituality, says that one MUST put one's wishes out there to the universe if you are ever going to receive them (isn't that kind of what that whole "The Secret" thing was about?).  And what could be more "out there to the universe" than publishing your wishes on the stinking internet?

So, I have decided to just go for it and be thoroughly selfish and wish for everything I want right now. Just for me, me, ME. Well, and my family, but things for them would benefit me too. So, to hell with World Peace and Curing Cancer. Here we go...

Okay, I just realized that pretty much everything on this list could be achieved if we just had a buttload more money. So I guess the first thing on the list would be...

1. A Buttload of Money, which is earned by getting a buttload of jobs. I define the source of the Buttload of Money carefully, as I have a fear of the "Monkey's Paw" syndrome, wherein one asks for something and it's received when a loved one dies horribly and they inherit everything. So...no fiery loved one deaths. Money EARNED from getting lots of JOBS.
2. I'd like a vacation. A REAL vacation, not spending two weeks at my in-laws house in the suburbs. A beach would be nice. And not the beach a mile from my in-laws house. Hawaii? I'd settle for Mexico. Some place away from all...in-laws.
3. Some new clothes. Every morning I stand in front of my closet (or, well...the pile of clean clothes I haven't gotten around to hanging up yet) and stare and hate ALL my clothes. I'm so tired of them. I want new, cuter things. And shoes. Shoes would be nice too.
4. I would like to landscape the backyard. I've gone on and on here about our horrible, grass-free backyard. Here and here I would like to be able to go on and on about our lush, green, not-embarrassing backyard.
5. A maid. I'm not asking for a full-time kind of thing. Just once every two weeks, to be able to come home and walk in and it's all nice and clean and smelly-goody and I DIDN'T DO THE WORK.
6. I would like to redo the attic into a storage room. I think that adequate attic storage would make everything in my life better. Closet space would be freed up. Garage space would be freed up. Lots of freedom. Free, free.
7. I want to have a Spa Day at Burke Williams Spa. For those of you who don't live in Los Angeles, check out this. Burke Williams makes me very happy. It's all very quiet and...quiet. All of the incredibly solicitous people who work there speak in soft, soothing tones and walk gently in soft-soled shoes. You get to walk around buck naked and soak in herbal jacuzzis and steam in herbal steam rooms and drink cucumber citrus water and it's all very...quiet.
8. I want a new laptop. I actually NEED it. And I want it. Really. I do.

I have now hereby released my wishes into the universe. Hopefully, they will manifest themselves.

Okay, I already feel guilty and selfish. Sigh. Maybe I'll feel better if I add...

1. Long, love-filled life/joy/success/fulfillment for my child and husband.
2. World Peace.
3. Cure for Cancer.

That's better.

Comments

[Jan]

I can get on board with all those things. Well, except walking around buck naked at the spa. Some things, like wishes, may be meant to be let loose and unfettered to romp through the universe, but my nekkid body isn't one of them. I'll take a fluffy robe at the spa.

[The Bug]

LOL - I agree with Jan about the spa. Although I'm surprisingly unselfconscious given my current size...

My number one wish (after the ones about people recovering from illness & better healthcare for the universe) is that I would be able to find a good job near where my husband teaches. We currently each drive 35 miles (he goes north, I go south). If I found a job up there then we could move & life would be less like a constant road trip...

[becky]

That is so funny, Jan and Bug, because my first thought with number 7 was, "Oh man, it would be so great to walk around buck naked!" Especially somewhere warm and steamy. Like the spa, or yes, Hawaii. So sign me up for 1 and 7.

Don't feel guilty honey, these are YOUR wishes! Although I just realized I used my birthday wish on somebody else. . .

[Sprite's Keeper]

Smelly goody? Love it!
I know my house will smelly goody on Friday when we get down to some holiday baking!
I know the guilt thing can take the fun out of wishing, but take a moment, just a moment, and imagine that you got everything you wished for. Awesome, right? :-)
You're linked!

[Hollywood Farm]

I read your comment on stiletto mom's "Sheet"s post and it made me think of the one thing I want this year Christmas.....to be back in my barrio-type LA neighborhood!!
I love living on the farm, but this snow is for the birds! I LOVE LA!

[Lisa @ Boondock Ramblings]

There is nothing wrong with wishing for a few things for ourselves...a spa sounds lovely!

[Stacy (the Random Cool Chick)]

Love your list! I'm on board with all of it - though I want to clear out my attic space that I'm using as storage because it would be awfully nice to be able to use the clawfoot tub up there to have a nice soaking bubble bath in. Right now it's surrounded by stacks of boxes... ;)

[D. M. Wright]

I think your list is awesome! That spa sounds heavenly!! Great list!

[elizabeth]

I think it's great to wish for all those things. And I hope they're granted.

[Shannon]

I hope you get it all! Or at least the laptop.

And, your first paragraph reminded me of one of my favorite singers from the old days, Liz Phair. She wrote this:

It's nice to be liked
But it's better by far to get paid
I know that most of the friends that I have
Don't really see it that way
But if you can give 'em each one wish
How much do you wanna bet?
They'd which success for themselves and their friends
And that would include lots of money
I would surely include lots of money
You've got to have shitloads of M-O-N-E-Y

haha!