Thirteen Things I Absolutely Must Achieve Before I Die.

In no particular order.
(Actually, in the order that I think of them, but that is not to indicate a scale of importance.)

1. Drink coffee without sugar or milk. Cafe noir if you will. It just sounds so goddamn cool.
2. Live with my French lover in a Parisian attic. It is preferable that he be an artist of some kind. Eat croissants for all meals, travel by bicycle, sing Piaf songs in the street when we're drunk on cheap red wine and ...well learning how to speak French would be excellent too.
3. Have long, lovely geisha hair. Maybe I should stop cutting my it.
4. Be a Mummy. This means that I want children who call me so. Ideally, all different colours. The rainbow family is so in but to my credit, I've always wanted one. Sorry Angelina, I thought of it first. Damn, maybe I should've gotten a paten.
5. Have a cat that's mine, all mine (as opposed to a family one) and name it after a great writer.
6. Get published, whether it be with my novel or my poetry. Oh or short stories! And I hate writing articles but I guess that would be OK too.
7. Familiarise myself with the numbered streets of New York. I think that living there would be a wonderful way to do this. My New York includes but is no limited to: bagels, people calling you 'buddy', picnics in Central Park, Breakfast at Tiffany's style parties, random blues bars and cosmos at an unrecognisable cuisine.
8. Own my own merry-go-round. In my garden maybe.
9. India. One day I will go to India with its spices and colours, smiles, old trains, its cows, its beads and its heat.
10. Love somebody without abandon. Offspring don't count. I want to love someone in that first-sight, whirlwind, can't breathe without each other, you complete me way. Oh and if it could last, that'd be lovely.
11. Make a difference. I have no idea how but it must be done.
12. Go snorkeling to get over my fear of the ocean. Fishies!
13. Own a punch buggy. Oh yeah. And, if possible, a vintage Astin Martin. OH YEAH.

I shall pause there because I love the number thirteen.