Things I Want to Do Before I Die and Things I've Been Planning for Years...

My updated and shortened list from my Myspace page due to lack of time...

Things I have been planning for YEARS and finally have a chance to do in the very very near to kind of near future:
1. Buy Ikea stuff for my apartment like a new bed and furniture and organize it nicely. (the next two-three weeks I hope!!!)
2. Visit Thailand and travel Asia (the next few months)
3. Get my Masters soon(this may take a couple years though)


Things I want to do before I die:
1. Learn how to snorkel properly and take awesome snorkeling photos from ALL over especially Asia and maybe the Caribbean
2. Travel ALL over Taiwan!!!
3. Get my Masters
4. Become Fluent in Mandarin: speaking, reading, listening and YES...even if it kills me...WRITING!! (I am TERRIBLE at writing Chinese characters!!)
5. Learn Japanese or maybe even Cantonese
6. Re-learn German
7. Do some good and help others and preferably doggies!
8. Swim with the dolphins
9. If I stay in Taiwan, I would like to open my own business importing Fair Trade and Recycled products and clothing.


Places I want to visit(updated)
1. All OVER Taiwan
-Kenting
-Shitou Bamboo Forest
-Hualien/Taroko Gorge
-Keelung
-Beitou hot springs
-Maolin and Wutai
-Penghu Islands
-Orchid (Lanyu) Island
-Kinmen(Jinmen) Island
2. Anywhere in Japan that is cool, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hokkaido
3. Maldives
4. Singapore
5. Hong Kong
6. Vietnam
7. Boracay Philippines
8. Goa India
9. Nepal and/or Tibet for a spiritual and culture understanding journey
10. Mexico...Puerto Vallarta maybe??
11. Caribbean for snorkeling
12. Smaller islands in Thailand like the Similan Islands
13. SPAIN...I had a chance to go and I got screwed over...twice...I WILL go to Barcelona one day!
14. Greece..Santorini(Thira)
15. Provence, France
16. Hawaii
17. Macau

"I Con't Get No Sleep"

A line from one of my fave club songs, "Insomnia" from Faithless

DJ Tiesto's version of the song from Sensation White
Reminds me of clubbing in Amsterdam...

The exhaustion is starting to set in again...or maybe it is because Boyfriend and I had to walk my dead scooter on Wenshin Rd. starting from the Xiang Shang intersection to Xitun...about a kilometer...in the 30 some degree celsius weather with high humidity.

We took turns pushing the scooter and in between he would ride his scooter and literally push mine with his foot while I "flinstoned" it and used my right foot to get it moving so he could push it along easier...

Scooter shops are closed on Sunday and the only one really opened was one he knew of...and it was the one that was a kilometer a way...

Before that things were ok except for my bed which I will go into later in more detail which will explain why I have this song lyric as my title...

So I will try to post pics and stuff of animals for adoption or news from Taichung PAWS on this blog. I am going to do what I can to help these animals and this organization! Plus I am meeting some wonderful people and they are expats and...they are NOT grumpy!! :)

As for my sleep..or lack thereof...I have been sleeping terribly and it is starting to affect me mentally and physically. I keep having headaches when I wake up...I'm exhausted. I am constantly having nightmares and weird dreams...a few weeks ago, I had a dream/nightmare that I was in my old house back in my Ohio and this guy(and a kid dressed the same but not his son) in creepy red face paint was trying to chainsaw their way through the front door and slaughter me with the chainsaw...I hate shit like that...I saw "Hostel" a few years ago and still wake up sweating with images from it...

My bed is literally as hard as a rock. I wake up with pains. Boyfriend complains about back pains from it...

you know, I was getting really bad before I went to Green Island and on Green Island, slept so hard and deep and when I came back it wasn't that bad...but now...it's bad again. I'm miserable.

So I am buying a new bed...I don't effin care. Boyfriend is trying to reason with me and play "Devil's Advocate" by asking me questions like "But how will you move it when you DO move out?" or, "How are you going to put it together?" (He asks that because I want Ikea and Ikea products are DIY) or, "Why don't you just leave the bed and get a new mattress??"

Here's why:
1. I have no room...My apartment is cluttered...getting a new bed means I can put my Christmas tree and suitcases under there and give me more room for organization.
2. This bed is ugly as sin...it came with the apartment, has done it's job but now it is time to go! It is dark brown wood and darkens my already small room...My white Aneboda bed from Ikea will lighten my room making it more cheerful and look bigger!!!
3. I don't know what size bed linens to get for this bed!!!! I only have one pair of sheets and there is no size on them! I know Ikea's sizes so that will help!!!!
4. My parents have Ikea beds in the guest room and my room...I've slept in them and slept fine! I miss them!!!
5. You can flip the mattress on Ikea beds
6. COMFORT!!!!!!!! Decent prices as well
7. ENGLISH on the tags...or at least Dutch and/or German.

The thing is...during the day I'm exhausted!!!! But Once I get in this bed...I can't sleep...It's around 23:45 and I should be sleeping peacefully after my hectic debacle with my scooter, but even after I read a bit (which normally helps me fall sound asleep) I am awake and dreading not being able to fall alseep and probably can't sleep until 1am...It is times like this where I wish I'd had a couple mojitos or glasses of wine after sitting on a lovely terrace at a restaurant on a sunny day conversing with family and friends and laughing...since this hasn't happened yet in Taiwan, I can only imagine this in Holland since that has happened a few times there...

Anyway, Boyfriend has been busy and we haven't booked Kenting yet...I don't want to be here on my birthday...Not that I don't like it here..but it's that fear of turning one year older and not enjoying your life as I should and seeing the things I said I would see by now, being adventurous, experiencing different things and trying to remember that I AM STILL YOUNG!!! I'm not arthritic yet!!! I've been starting to feel old since I don't go clubbing anymore, or go drinking and partying and only stay at home and teaching kids doesn't help that image either when they were all born when you were 15 or 16!! AND when New Kids on the Block has announced a REUNION tour!!! And TEN YEAR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION...oh dear god...

Serenity now!!

See what this bed is doing to me!?! I could be washing these petty, silly thoughts away in a soft, dreamy bed rejuvenating me for the week....but NO!!! I'm here ranting these petty thoughts on a blog...

OK...time to find a way to get some rest...