My Birth Plan

Tentative thoughts on my "birth plan":
I will start by saying that I am not naive enough to sit here and say "This is exactly how I want everything to go down. No exceptions."
Every labor is different and everyone responds to the pain differently.
With that said, I would like to try to go as long as possible without an epidural. Partly because the epidural scares me more than labor (I know I weird). But mostly because in my head it makes sense to want to be able to feel what your body is going through so that you know more of what is going on. Let's see if I can think of a better way to explain my crazy logic...
How are you supposed to learn to golf if your arms are numb? How would you know what to do?
I know there are Doctors there and everything but nobody knows what is going on with your body better than you.
I also don't like the idea of being confined to the bed once you have the epidural. I want to be able to get up, walk around, change positions, maybe even squat on a birthing ball, who knows, but I want to be in control of what I want. That sounded a little princess-ish huh? well, they tell me I can pretty much say whatever I want while in labor and get a free pass from everyone so why not take advantage of it? :)
I am also toying with the idea of getting the epidural during the "Transition phase" of labor. (For those of you not lucky enough to have experienced the fun of birthing class, this phase it right before pushing and your contractions become WAY more intense and and close together). If I got one at this point I would want a "light epidural" where they give you enough that you are not in such pain but you can still feel what's going on.

So that is my up-in-th-air-we-will-see-how-I-handle-the-first-contraction-then-everything-might-go-out-the-window plan.