Q & A - #12 - "Where do you see yourself in 15 years?" ~ Anonymous (AKA edenzdream)

If there's one thing I've learned in my 28 years, it's that banking on your plans down the road is nearly always a waste of time and worry. I really don't have a clue where I'll be in 15 years. 10 years? 5 years? 

If you'd asked me just 5 years ago, where I thought I'd be right now, I would have gotten very few things right. Sure, I'd get 3 points for thinking the wife and I would still be together (3 points because of today's quitting rate). Aside from that, I'd have been completely wrong. I left my job to go back to school. I wrote 2 novels. My wife and I switched churches. My parents moved out of state. My grandfather went to be with Jesus. We traveled to Italy, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, and New Orleans.

So I'll guess! 15 years of guessing coming right up.

I'll be 43 years old. (Dang.)
I'll still have all my hair. That's the truth! Both of my grandpas had all their hair their whole lives.
Lisa and I will have lived in 2 states other than California. Potential sites include New York, Washington, Tennessee, Colorado, and Australia.
I'll have 4 books written and published, all from different genres. (Remember? I'm guessing.)
My brother will be married. My sister won't be. (She'll kill me for this.)
I'll no longer be driving a car because I'll have some newfangled transportation machine.
Lisa and I will have 2.3 children -- Elijah and Sarah. (Any good ideas about what we should do with our third of a child?)
We might have adopted them.
My sister will live overseas.
My wife and I will have traveled to Australia, Hawaii (she's never been), St. Lucia (to revisit the Honeymoon spot), Greece, New York, Texas (for some reason she really wants to go there), and Israel.
My wife and I will be belly buttons deep into photography, especially of our cute kidsies.
I'll be teaching creative writing and adolescent literature at the University of Washington.
I'll weigh 200 pounds. (How's that for positive thinking? No weight gain in 15 years.)
I'll know Spanish. Or German. (I might end up going back to the birth roots.)
My parents will be retired and touring the States in a Winnebago.
I'll have a new laptop. Please, oh please.

Here's to hoping.
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