Bitcoin is a success. Its widely used, almost anything you can now buy with Bitcoin. Adoption is increasing and it will keep getting easier to use Bitcoin as a payment method.
I am with you in the wishful thinking department. I truly want to see bitcoin succeed.
But I'm sorry you have to be realistic: what you say is simply not true. Buying a house or a car, or getting paid by your employer, or paying your taxes with BTC is simply not possible in 2014 in 99.99% of the cases.