I realise that title sounds rather existential but it's really not.
It's Christmas Eve, and I am notoriously hard to buy presents for. I'm the type of person to go 'I don't know' every time you ask me if I want anything. This isn't even just in relation to Christmas; I could be hanging out with you and you could ask if I wanted food or a drink and I'd say the exact same thing.
Either way, Christmas being a day away has made me consider things that I actually would like to have at some point in my life, but moreso in the next like. 5 years.
Peircings.
Woah, how absolutely wild and crazy. I used to have my earlobes peirced, but I took them out one day and never put them back in; I think I took them out before doing PE or something. Either way, I don't mourn them very often, but in more recent years I've had a nagging in the back of my brain that WANTS me to get some sort of peircing.
So, in the next 5 years, I'd rather like to get a tounge peircing. That one was inspired by some lady who I'd seen when I was maybe 8; she had one, and overall she was just really really cool. I don't really remember her very well, but the fact she had a tounge peircing stuck with me, and now I want one of my own.
I'd also maybe like an industrial peircing (I did have to Google what it was called. I searched 'bar peircing at the top of the ear' so thank God it picked up what I was putting down). I'm less set on this one mostly because I don't know if it'll look that nice on me, but they're cool in general so I'll keep it on the backburner and we'll see if my thoughts change drastically.
Pet rats.
Okay so this one is likely going to take me longer than 5 years, as I'm going to have to wait until I have money, the correct knowledge and expertise to care for them, and a place of my own to live in.
As a kid you tend to ask your parents if you can get a pet cat or dog or fish, and sometimes they'll say yes. My parents aren't like that; they're not particularly big animal lovers (my mum has a thing against cats and small rodents since you can feel their bones), and I don't think they wanted to have the extra hassle of looking after a pet of some sort on top of having two kids. I don't hold any resentment for this fact, I probably would've done the same thing.
Either way, for the past 5 years I've wanted to own some rats. They are, to put it bluntly, so fucking cute I feel like eating glass. I don't possess any knowledge about how to properly care for them, so I'm going to have to put in the effort to find decent resources, but it's likely going to be worth it when I have some of my own.
A haircut.
I'm fully aware that me not having one of these is entirely of my own volition, but what if I ask for something and I fucking hate it?
It's been maybe a year since I had a haircut and my hair's grown really long and I, frankly, dislike it. It's less a gender thing and more a maintenance thing; I like the concept of long hair on myself (in a 'I kinda look like someone's weed smoking couisin' way) but in practice I'm not fond. It keeps getting in my eyes.
Herein lies the crux of my issue. I don't like it long, but what if I ask for something shorter and it looks ugly?
Hopefully in the next few months or something I'll figure it out and I can get this shit chopped off.
General Accessories
I like rings and necklaces and the like. They feel nice to have on, but I don't actually have any.
I'm going to spend my time finding these peices and then actually wearing them. I think all together they'll look quite nice.
Wine Gums and Peached Iced Tea.
This one is incredibly easy for me to get. I have them at my disposal, but I just don't have them right this very second and I miss them :'[
That's about it. There's my 5 year plan in a simple post. Now all I have to do is be proactive about it...