The long and the short of it

So I've been doing some thinking about my goals in life. And mostly about the fact that I really don't have any at the moment. Now I know that probably sounds bad, but it's just that I'm between goals, shall we say.

Around the time that I was graduating from high school I had two main personal goals.

The first was to buy a new-to-me car. One that had a few more features than the '86 Chevette I was touring around in at the time. Good ol' Blue Betty. She was a great car, but she lacked some of the finer things in life, like power anything (steering & brakes for instance) and a radio that didn't turn off and on at every bump in the road.

The second was to live alone. At that time I had only ever lived with my parents and brother (like most people that age I think), but I also knew that I was embarking on a period where I would be living with roomies at least until I graduated college. Suffice it to say that my first roomie situation didn't exactly turn out well. The next ones were much better, of course. But I still wanted to live alone, for many reasons. I wanted to have my own space and be able to decorate it the way I wanted to. I wanted to be able to come and go without an interrogation. I wanted to only have to clean up after me or alternatively, not clean up if I so desired. But ultimately I knew that if I one day I got serious with a guy and we lived together/got married then I'd regret not having that alone time even if it was just for a year or two.

So fast forward about six years. I've realized my two goals. I got my new-to-me car, Silver Stella, in 2003. She was everything I was hoping for and more. I've recently moved to an apartment for one, me! And I've also done some other super cool things like move across the country and find a great job that I really enjoy.

So the question is, what now? I guess I have some thinking to do.

Any thoughts, suggestions, stories you'd like to share? Maybe you've done (or are working on) something that might inspire me?