I think excitment is the way to go tbh
A few things I've said I wanted over the past 2 years are........
a bigger house (We'd been on the transfer list for 2 yrs, we'd been looking at buying a house but nowhere would lend us the money because I'm self employed, dp kept saying we've got no chance of getting a bigger house, we're stuck here, we can't move to a different area because if we do you'll have to start the business again from scratch, I said no something will happen to make us move) not long after out of the blue I got a letter from the housing association asking if we'd like to move to a 3 bed house in the same street.
I said I wanted a bigger car (I'm a childminder, in order to take on more children I needed more car space) dp said no way can we afford a bigger car, I brought a 7 seater espace for £200 not long after, it's cost me a bit since then to get it in working order but still cheaper than the 1k dp was saying it would cost!
Theres other things too like saying I wanted to earn at least 1k per month from the start of this year, now it looks like I haven't achieved this every month but if you average it out over the last 6mths I have earnt just over 1k per month so far this year now I'm aiming higher more like £1,700 per month and I'd like an 8 seater car when I can.
I wanted to get married but dp didn't I wrote on a piece of paper that we would get married in 2009 and didn't tell dp, he proposed in may and we've set teh date for sept 2009 even though when we got engaged he said he wasn't getting married until 2010 and no i didn't nag him until he gave in though I did suggest it would be cheaper to have a honeymoon in sept rather than may.....