More like a meme... exercises from chapter 5

I'm supposed to do these quickly, so the answers are spontaneous.

The Virtue Trap Quiz

1. The biggest lack in my life is: children (whoah, whoops, did I say that out loud? Oh well, too late to go back now!)
2. The greatest joy in my life is: my life. That was the first thing that came into my head, but I guess other things that rushed in after were: Dave, O'Malley, and where we live.
3. My largest time commitment is: YTC? IDK, it's pretty open right now.
4. As I play more, I work: better.
5. I feel guilty that I am: responsible for what happened to Dave last week.
6. I worry that: Dave will have another seizure.
7. If my dreams come true, my family will: continue to be happy for me.
8. I sabotage myself so people will: pity me.
9. If I let myself feel it, I'm angry that I: am fat.
10. One reason I get sad sometimes is: everybody dies.

Apparently I'm supposed to be able to tell from this if I'm self-destructive?

Make a list of Forbidden Joys, things you would love, but aren't allowed to do.

1. Spend a ton of money on things I want without thinking about it
2. Put purple streaks in my hair
3. Spend a ton of money on things I want including thinking about it
4. Go away ("disappear") on a spontaneous vacation
5. Don't let anybody know where I am for a few days
6. Turn my phone off for a whole weekend
7. Have more pets: a rabbit, a ferret, a couple more cats...
8. Buy fancy formal dresses
9. Eat nothing but crazy junk for an entire day
10. Is a secret, so there!

You have to be careful when she makes you do these kind of lists... often she will turn right around and tell you to do the stuff on the list. For example, she's already told me to post this "somewhere highly visible." Um, yeah, I think my blog counts.

Wish List

1. I wish I felt healthy.
2. I wish I were thinner.
3. I wish I could do both PME & BATS.
4. I wish I had a nicer car.
5. I wish we had chosen a bed already.
6. I wish I didn't have to worry about health insurance.
7. I wish we had already started our family.
8. I wish we were trying to start a family now.
9. I wish there was a *little* more room in the dining area of our apartment.
10. I wish we could paint here!
11. I wish all my plants would come up, live, thrive.
12. I wish a stranger would follow my blog.
13. I wish for publishing about this process to be helpful to someone else.
14. I wish I had all the money in the world and I never had to worry about finances.
15. I wish to be well known and respected as an improviser, and for the people that I respect and look up to would want to work with me.
16. I wish I had focused more on music when I was younger.
17. I wish for Dave to be well and never have another seizure.
18. I wish!
19. I most especially wish... for the global disarming of all nuclear weapons.