Time

I've been thinking a lot about being busy and lifetimes and eternity and a million other heavy topics lately. A Bible study I'm a member of recently asked in one of the devotionals, "what three things would you like to accomplish in the course of your life?" The week's focus was on redeeming time and making the most of opportunities. I'm not certain really, about life goals, I mean.
I guess I'd like the basics, for starters. I'd like to be happily married, with a job I enjoy (whether or not I'm actually at a workplace, working from home, or my family is my main occupation) and I would like the picture perfect clean and inviting living room with an adorable pet and a couple of children laughing and all of that...
Mainly, I want to be able to look back on my life and feel that the people who knew me would want to re-live all the time we had together because it was worthwhile. I'd like for my children, if I do ever have any, to think of me now and again and call me a few times a month of their own volition. I'd like to be truly proud of the adults my children become.
As for more inconsequential things, I have always wanted to be an author of some sort. I'd also love to live abroad for a year or so. I would love to find some capacity or place where I can be a teacher of some sort, not a real school-teacher but maybe simply a mentor?

Oh, and I love sleeping, so I would love to someday have a bedroom that is perfectly minimalist with a bed that is so incredibly comfortable and soft AND I would be unbelievably happy if I could honestly have one week literally free of duties and responsibilities so I could lounge and sleep as much as I wanted. I don't care if that would in reality be unbearably boring, I still want to dream about it. Hmm, that's especially funny since that would be wasted time this post began by talking about redeeming time...ah well. I guess some time can only be redeemed by being 'wasted' a bit.