Dreams, wishes, and just simply want it

In search of my personal self, expressing myself, and doing what I want to do, there are two things I would like to do/get right now.

First is writing a children book. I always like to read and I'm a big supporter of educating society through reading. Since I had a daughter, I've been reading her (children) books, from books that were meant for baby to toddler books and I can see that my daughter loves them too. However, there is 1 problem to this hobby. As good and positive as it is, to read books requires me to buy the books and as I am trying to educate my daughter in English, I have to buy imported (English) books and here comes the problem, in my country, imported books are not cheap - it can be considered a luxury item (at least for me it is). The average children book must cost about Rp. 100-200K. Just so you (the non-Indonesian) get the idea of how expensive they are - with Rp. 20,000, you can buy a pretty satisfying lunch (rice with meat & vegetable), so Rp. 100,000 means 5x lunch! I have been trying to buy discounted imported books by going to book fairs, but it wasn't going too wel (since the biggest book fair is only once a year and the discount was not that great either). I thought that there must be people out there who have the same dilemma as me, so that when I got the idea. A children book in English language written by local writer and published locally should be (much) cheaper than imported books, right? True, I found 1 or 2 of these local writer but somehow I always found mistakes in the book - a language mistake. I don't want to seem cocky, but I think I can do better (at least the language part, I don't know about the story part...yet). So.....here I am dreaming about becoming a children book writer started from zero and no clue what-so-ever. And to avoid embarrasment to myself as someone who can only dream, I will not say anything about it until the dream is realized.

Second, I want to will get a tattoo. Yesterday, out of nowhere, me & my hubby chatted about tattoo, about how I like that show Miami Ink and that those guys & gal are such good artists, my favorite episode, and how tattoo is personal, what kind of tattoo do we want to get, bla...bla..bla...and the important part of the chit chat was that he gave me permission to get a tattoo. (I have been wanting to get one but he didn't allow me). So, while this permission is still fresh, I am going to think what tattoo I'm going to get. As I told my hubby, the tattoo will be related to me, or my daughter or my beloved dad. Right now, I'm leaning toward the 3rd. Again, I will not talk about this until it happened since I'm kinda a big coward in needle and pain, not to mention my paranoia about getting AIDS or other illness from the needle, and so on. So, God knows it will took a lot of me to go ahead with this plan.