[faerie_moon_x]

It's Friday so let's make a fun topic.

I was thinking we should all share the awesome yet completely unrealistic plans we make when mania hits us.

I'll start:

Yesterday I was thinking about how many people struggle to get good mental health care. From med pushing therapists to horrible experiences in hospital, everyone has some sort of dilema.

So, I started planning a Mental Wellness facility.

This place would be a place that anyone with mental health issues could go, for free or cheap if they have no money and without a lot of red tape. Each patient would have a wellness plan tailored just for them. There would be only thearpists, doctors, and staff who were caring, epithetic, and open minded. There would be things like accupuncture, cooking classes to learn a healthy diet, exercise classes for people of all physical ability, yoga, tai chi, and mediation. It would be on a beautiful piece of land with woods to explore and streams to sit beside. No one would be forced to do anything they were uncomfortable with and you could go there to seek refuge for a day or a week or whatever you needed until you felt well.

It would also be a community center like this forum where we could help each other as well as seek the professionals. And so, no one would feel like an alien or alone or left out.

So, you know, if I ever win that power ball or something.... mental wellness facility.

[BlueInanna]

Sign me up! Can we have massages? I will think of more on this... can't seem to keep my eyes open right now...

[Trippin2.0]

A break-room! My friend (related to be by marriage) has recently opened an Ayurvedic Spa, she's Indian so all the remedies and treatments are authentic, her mom makes the herbal remedies and incense herself and she sells them at the spa...

I thought that adding a break-room to such a facility would be marvelous for people like me with temper tantrums and rage issues.

I was thinking a nice sized room, with 1 wall of shelves filled with cheap easily replaceable breakables of different shapes sizes and weight.

Take your pick, fling at the open wall, scream and curse while you please, its sound-proof. Then when you're anger is spent go next door and get an indian head massage or hot stone massage, whatever floats your boat!

I have since ammended my idea, firstly because it seems silly to pay to break shyt and is there even a demographic to market such services to?

So now I want a break-room in my house one day!

[comicgeek007]

I thought I had super immunity to needing sleep. My goals were actually pretty small, sewing a corset by hand in one night.

[faerie_moon_x]

Blue: Of course there would be massages. Wellness for everyone!

Lia: That is an awesome idea. I used to work at Pier 1 Imports and any time an item broke we had to break it more to make sure people wouldn't steal them out of the dumpster. Smashing crappy $50 vases with a hammer is rather theraputic. LOL

[Nessa213]

One of my my grand ideas was along the same lines as a Wellness Facility. Kinda sorta.

I was going to start a summer camp for kids. It was going to have a whole bunch of classes centered around the arts. One for acting, one for drawing, one for dancing... you get the idea (and of course it was much more elaborate than that). I had gotten so far as sketching out the building plans of the building I was going to have built. It was a intense kind of vision. I mean, yes... it'd be AWESOME to pull that off. But... unrealistic to the point of comical.

I also had a fairly unrealistic idea of starting my own graphic design firm. This one was MUCH more "achievable" but still extremely unrealistic. Even before I started getting clients (ya know, like you're supposed to in order to "work your way up") I was going to dive right in and rent out office space and everything. Started pricing out rents for offices... never ended up getting any clients though. (Not that I tried all that hard in the end.)

[faerie_moon_x]

Comic, that's actually a much bigger goal than you'd realize. Once I planned to crochet every member of my family a blanket in 2 months.... I finished 3 of them out of 30....

Nessa: Those are both great ideas! If only we didn't need money and clients for all these things.

[comicgeek007]

Originally Posted by dark_heart_x

Comic, that's actually a much bigger goal than you'd realize. Once I planned to crochet every member of my family a blanket in 2 months.... I finished 3 of them out of 30....

Nessa: Those are both great ideas! If only we didn't need money and clients for all these things.

I actually almost met my.goal, too. didn't sleep at all.

[herhusband]

Well if we can play with it. My most awesome grandest idea ever was to buy British Petroleum then run for A state seat in congress. All at the same time. Along with 3 hour naps every day or so. Didn't work out . But it was worth a shot. So back on the med express.

[A Red Panda]

Some of my brilliant ideas:

1. Decided I wanted to run a three-level club: Dante's. Each level would be a different type of music and have a different decor to make Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
2. I decided to start scrapbooking. I've done maybe 5 pages?? have loads of supplies stashed at my parents house.
3. Go back to uni and do some random degree.
4. Quit job and backpack around the world until I ran out of money.
5. LOTS of trip-planning.
6. A half-way "house" - apartment complex. Give the homeless somewhere to live, an address and whatnot, and find them jobs. Once they have a job, can start on saving them money until they can get their own place and move out.
7. Start a tour-guide company.
8. Run a hostel
9. Once I wanted to start sewing my own clothes and figure out how to make my own bras so that they'd all fit me TOTALLY properly! (will someday own a sewing machine and see how that goes! haha. But the idea was a MASSIVE craving at one point while I was in uni!)

Amongst others which I can't remember right now. haha. I think they're all pretty awesome!

[Nessa213]

Originally Posted by CheshireCatGrin

Some of my brilliant ideas:
9. Once I wanted to start sewing my own clothes and figure out how to make my own bras so that they'd all fit me TOTALLY properly! (will someday own a sewing machine and see how that goes! haha. But the idea was a MASSIVE craving at one point while I was in uni!)

I did this exact same thing!! Ironically it was also centered around finding the "perfect" bra. I went to garage sales and bought EVERY sewing pattern I could get my hands on. All the extra fabric I could find (regardless of whether or not I had a use for it). To this day I STILL have dozens of yards of fabric that will probably NEVER get made into anything.

In college I went to a party with the ugliest dress I think I have ever worn. But I made it myself dang it!!

[Sometimes psychotic]

I wanted to move to the west coast live on the beach out of my car and sell my art for a living.

[Blubberman]

I'm not sure if mania ever hit me, but while I was depressed I had this short periods of mood boost/ anger boost with awesome ideas like:

1. Make a big party with everyone in my school and declare to my childhood crush (Which I suddenly cared of)

2.Hacking some devices (Total disaster)

3. Making a YouTube channel with short movies

4. Making my own comic about batman and joker which was too violent(I finished three pages XD)

5. Visiting Prague in summer again by car (Never finally did)

6. Make my own bussiness making futuristic movie/videogame cosplay costumes

7. Make a bussiness with stupid weapons like smoke bombs or extensible boxing gloves

8. Buying toons of horse masks and throw a crazy horse mask party (I'm still planning that cause it is definitely awesome)

9. Making an Alice in wonderland videogame (Until I found out I had no idea how to)

10. Going into a strike shouting random things like "LEGALIZE MAYONESE" or "UNICORNS HAVE RIGHTS TOO,OKAY?" With some friends just for amusement (Until I realized it was pretty dangerous)

[WrongEverything]

1) I wanted to move to Russia and get a job with Intel, despite having no educational training in that field (yet) and/or knowing Russian.

2) violin lessons, was hoping i'd be a prodigy.

3) Stayed up copying scripture out of the Bible, hoping to capture the most important parts in my notebook. Made it through Genesis (ch. 1) - religious mania.

4) Autobiography, wasn't very good, didn't make it far.

I usually just over-reach and plan a zillion things for my future, and when i crash, i end up picking up the pieces.

[faerie_moon_x]

These are all so great!

I also once had a dream of making my own bras. Just goes to show you that it's a problem across the board, I think. I wanted to start my own company to make bras, actually. I was going to call it Dee's (as in D's, haha.) Because, at the time is when department stores such as Target, JC Penny, Sears, etc stopped carrying D size or larger bras and only went up to C. It made me so angry. And even at "fancy" places like Victoria Secret the only bras they ever had for me were grandma bras. I was only 20 years old... here I was surrounded by cute fun things, and they are handing me a grandma bra. So yeah, I was on a tyraid mission. I never even got so far as the fabric, though. Just the company name.

Blubberman.... this is hilarious!

10. Going into a strike shouting random things like "LEGALIZE MAYONESE" or "UNICORNS HAVE RIGHTS TOO,OKAY?" With some friends just for amusement (Until I realized it was pretty dangerous)

You're right it could be dangerous, though. It would make a funny video, though, if all the people were actors.

WE, this sounds like me on random things.

2) violin lessons, was hoping i'd be a prodigy.

I get it in my head I will be awesome at something without much effort, then of course I'm not. I once bought a guitar and tried to learn without lessons....

These are all great stories!

Well let's see:

1. Write a best seller
2. Write a self-help book (couldn't help myself, but wanted to help others.)
3. Open my own restaurant (I love to cook.)
4. Start my own clock making company

Those are the 4 that recur frequently.

[faerie_moon_x]

Originally Posted by jeffro1972

Well let's see:

1. Write a best seller
.

I'm with you on that one, Jeff. I've had that one for a long time. Since I was 12, I think.

Don't give up, though. You never know! Even if you don't write a best seller you could still get your writing out there. That's the mind-set I try to stay in now.

I've actually started writing poetry again for the first time in 20 years. A couple of weeks ago, the fog that is always in my lifted for a little while. That was nice.

[faerie_moon_x]

That's great! Keep at it. I go through cycles where I write a lot and then I can't write anything. I'm in the can't write anything phase at the moment. It's really annoying!

[A Red Panda]

oh! I've got more.

- attempted to teach myself German
- wanted to learn Latin and started in on that one
- often get the impulse to make a cos-play costume. That I would never wear. Have in fact been convinced that I'd do an AWESOME job at it... lol
- contemplated opening up a book store in this town.
- wanted to go hitchhiking across the country (only didn't as I had a pet at the time I think)

[Nessa213]

Originally Posted by CheshireCatGrin

- attempted to teach myself German
- wanted to learn Latin and started in on that one

I've done this too!!! Mine were Italian and Polish though. Actually got decent at Italian but Polish was pretty impossible for me.

I also did a costume! Mine was for a set of Harry Potter robs. Heh... that I wore to a midnight release... a book release. Slytherin... naturally. But I also made myself and all my friends our Renaissance Fairs costumes too one year.

[A Red Panda]

Originally Posted by Nessa213

I've done this too!!! Mine were Italian and Polish though. Actually got decent at Italian but Polish was pretty impossible for me.

I also did a costume! Mine was for a set of Harry Potter robs. Heh... that I wore to a midnight release... a book release. Slytherin... naturally. But I also made myself and all my friends our Renaissance Fairs costumes too one year.

I am quickly coming to the conclusion that you are awesome!

Also, with the book writing? I've done NaNoWriMo for the last four years... and I can push out the 50k in a week. hahaha. So I've finished a few novels.

I just can't get my butt in gear to edit them!

- I also get the urge to pretend I'm a carpenter and build furniture. Fortunateley I don't own the tools or have the space to attempt this one!!! Or I would.

[WrongEverything]

"- attempted to teach myself German
- wanted to learn Latin and started in on that one"

(Sorry dunno how to use quotes)

I'm serious when I tell you that I've tried to teach myself:

German (2yrs)
Spanish (3yrs+)
Japanese (manic whim)
Russian (manic whim)
American Sign Language (yep.. you guessed it manic whim)
add a quarter semester of french and italian in, and that's what i've tried to teach myself.

I gravitate heavily toward languages/learning for some reason.

[A Red Panda]

OOOOH yeah I've taught myself bits and pieces of ASL too!

I think I tried to teach myself Swedish as well. An ex of mine was Swedish.

I've wanted to teach myself Chinese before. That was inspired by learning a few phrases!

It's one of my "hobbies" that I wish I'd stick to though! I'd love to be fluent in another language!

[Trippin2.0]

Haha! when I was 16 I was teaching myself French, that lasted a good couple a months, I was sure I would perfect it and sound super mature and sexy with my new language! Then when I was 18 I was writing a bestseller, bwaahahaaaa! I can write, but not as well I imagined at that time. Plus all the teachers going on and on about my talent really inflated my already inflated thoughts. So I wrote a type of autobiography, but when it was done it was super morbid, even the hunour, so I deleted it! I got it into my head twice now to "run away" by being a flight attendent I still toy with the idea because I get the airline's updates.

You guys are reminding me of fun times with this thread