1.Divest my portfolio of almost ALL stock. Move that money to land investments in ripe, undiscovered central Wisconsin. The landscape, the gorgeous schools, and the libraries impressed me. There is almost nothing corporate up there!
2. Buy this blue house.
Master bedroom is 11 X 20 Gas heating 2nd bedroom is 11 X 12 Carpet 3rd bedroom is 13 X 11 Master bedroom is carpeted Dining room is 13 X 12 Stucco/slate Kitchen is 10 X 11 Wood siding Living/great room is 24 X 12 Storage/out-building(s) Range Composition roof Microwave oven Detached garage Clothes washer TV cable available Clothes dryer Lot size is between 1/4 and 1/2 acre Refrigerator Estimated annual taxes: $1977.0 Water softener Dishwasher
Isn't it lovely? Nice BIG rooms so I can do BIG art and I can entertain. Unbelievably it is listed at $79,000! A steal!
3. Get a job at the local Super 8…part time, say 3 days a week. It's probably minimum wage which is I think around $10 per hour. But the benefit package is irresistible….Free swimming ANYTIME! Free rooms when you travel! And I would get to meet travelers. Plus I will be paying SS taxes so one day when I am old I will get a SS check just like the rest of you.
4. I would be located one hour north of Madtown and 3 ˝ hours to Minne. Perfect for music and other city stuff. Enroll at UW-Madison. Finish my B.A. Get my teacher's certificate and land a job at the local high school as an art teacher. Teach in the winter and for two weeks in the summer, go off to distant lands to paint…Europe, Asia, Africa (maybe I'll run into Rory saving the world!), and the rest of the world. I could give my students the universe!
When I achieved tenure then I could retire from teaching (I would be about 40) and I could go back to my art career, or open an art studio, or whatever I want.
5. I wouldn't have too much time for men, but there was a whole page of lovelistings in the Holy Grail if I got interested or lonely. You know, rambling around in that huge blue house by myself.
6. Finish my USA travel. I plan to capture Alaska on a Seattle fly-in, then a cruise to the land of the northern lights.
7. And most of all I got the feeling that an art/writergirl would do very well there. It is an area that is currently sparsely populated, but in the midst of an economic development. Do you know "Northern Exposure" series? Kinda like that, except this is real. I would get to be a pioneer!. I LOVE that aspect of this whole proposition.
I have to check out a few more things, yet as of right now, it is perfect.