You ever feel like you've got so many things going on that you're not really sure which one to turn to first? I'm not even talking about the actual work and parenting and cooking and laundry that fills my days. I'm just talking about all these things that I keep thinking I'm going to get around to.

Don't you wish you had the time to perfect all kinds of amazing skills? I would really love to be a best-selling novelist, a published poet, a master gardener, an artisan chef, and a great photographer. I would also like to travel all over the world, and learn to speak a couple foreign languages well. Oh, and re-learn to play the piano.

I totally don't get those people who say that if they win the lottery they're just going to keep going to their day job so that nothing changes about their life. Or that they can't imagine being retired because they think they'd be bored.

Are you kidding? I think I'd like to retire now. Or else, live the life of a noblewoman in Jane Austen-era England, when a young lady's focus was expected to be on her "accomplishments:" reading, studying foreign languages, painting, playing the piano. No actual work, just hobbies. Except minus the whole part where you're not allowed to vote or speak your mind or have a life apart from that of your husband.

One of these days, I think I'll get to spend all my time the things that actually sound fun to me. One of these days.