Month 3 update

[mitanika]

Oooh... late again, but who cares.

1. Buy property
2. Stay in an ice hotel and see the Northern Lights
3. Run a 10k race and don’t finish last - Suffered a bit of a setback but am up to about 8k in the running department now.  I stopped training over Easter due to a few reasons and am finding it really hard to get back into it.  Just gotta get out there and put one foot in front of the other.
4. Write to ten people I don’t keep in touch with anymore [0/10]
5. Get a job working with animals
6. Get my computer fixed
7. Take boxing classes
8. Read the whole Bible - Reading at the moment
9. Take a Bible class
10. Get two people to donate blood instead of me [1/2] - I need to start scouting for my second 'victim'!
11. Continue with my tithing at the same rate 
12. Get Certificate III in Companion Animal Services
13. Go speed dating
14. Finish that necklace
15. Go to roller derby tryouts
16. Write 3 short stories that I’m proud of
17. Make sushi
18. Have a fancy dress party for my 25th- I'm having a stupid depression midlife crisis thing at the moment and I'd rather die than have a huge birthday party.  All I really want is to wear a pretty dress and eat cake.  I can do that by myself.  I don't need no party.  I do however have until November before calling off the party and I hope I snap out of this state soon!!!
    
19. Buy myself an expensive piece of jewellery that I love- just because
20. Go to a shooting range
21. Buy a “story” Wii game and complete it
22. Run a 5k race and don’t finish last - Can run about 5k quite easily now.  Can't believe it!
23. Drink milk every day for a week each month [1/33] - I've let this one slide a little, purely because it means that I have to buy extra milk for myself and I can never be bothered!
24. Get involved more online and make friends
    
25. Post on LJ at least once a week  - Getting there
    
26. Learn how to cook a roast chicken meal
27. Take mum away on a mini break
28. Learn 10 Bible verses [2/10] - 1) Psalm 25:5 "Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my saviour, my hope is in You all day long"  2) Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your light shine before men so that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in Heaven"
29. Go on the catapult in Surfers Paradise
30. Go out and get fun drunk and don’t come home until really late
31. Grow a sunflower
32. Every two months or so, do something cultural that you wouldn’t normally do, see a play etc [0/17]
33. Sort out my ipod and BUY everything legally!!!
34. Write down everything I eat for two weeks [0/14]
35. Write down everything I spend for two weeks [14/14] 
36. Work out a budget and stick to it!
37. Learn to juggle
38. Look into becoming a Big Sister
39. Have an internet free day once a week [1/143] -  This one is really hard and am struggling with it!  It wasn't supposed to be this hard!
    
40. Cut out bread/pasta/carbs for two weeks x 4 [0/4]
41. Read 20 “classics” [0/20]
42. Watch 20 “classics” [4/20] - I've actually expanded my list of classics to about 30.  Some are so boring and some have been a lovely surprise.  I still intend to blog about this!!
    
43. Suck it up and write to Azelia for Katrina’s contact details
44. Buy a bridal magazine and pick out a dress
45. Have a fake hens night
46. Actually put that Spanish CD onto my ipod and LISTEN to it
47. Write an OTIS report
48. Become more involved with GodlyGals
49. Go along to one of those free library events
50. Buy a puzzle magazine every month and don’t stop til you win a prize! - I actually changed this in my head to enter any free competition.  Considering I'm trying to save money, it's not so great spending $7 on a magazine every month so I changed it.  And won!!  Definitely need to blog about this one!!
    
51. Don’t bail on people just because you feel like it 
52. If you can’t make it to church, listen to a DestinyChurch podcast - Haven't been very vigilant with this one and it makes me homesick!
53. Find a 5 min Christian podcast and listen to it on the way to work - I did manage to find one but the lady's voice irritated me so much.  I need to find a replacement.
54. Go to the races and place a bet
55. Register as a bone marrow donor - I physically can't do this one for the same reason I can't give blood, because I lived in the UK apparently I may have Mad Cow Disease.  I didn't realise that.  Am so bummed I can't do this.  Will think of something else.
56. Go vegetarian for a week x 4 [0/4]
57. Eat really, really healthy for a week x 4 [0/4]
58. Go horse riding
59. Take part in some kind of eating challenge
60. Have a cocktail night
61. Complete NaNoWriMo
62. Go to a comedy club
63. Get ten recommendations for new music and review [0/10]
64. Get ten recommendations for new books and review [0/10]
65. Get ten recommendations for new movies and review [0/10] 
66. Go to that restaurant in Brisbane that just does desserts
67. Take a sign language class
68. Become more involved at church - I've kind of taken a backwards step in this.  I was doing really well, I even got my blue card so I could work with the kids group and then, I don't know what happened.  I'm in this awkward situation with this guy from my church and it's only awkward in my head and because I am a really mature person (and have a dumb work schedule) I've stopped going to church.  I need to build a bridge and get over myself, stat!
69. Visit Laura, the town
70. Get down to 50kg - I've now lost all the weight I put on whilst travelling and now only have a few more kilos to get rid of.  However, these last ones are pretty stubborn and I think I look fine the way I am.  I don't *need* to lose the weight but if I do so whilst training for my races, then that's a bonus.  Basically I like to eat.
71. Be more assertive
72. Fix the watch Judy gave me and wear it
73. Have another room clear out- and this time it’s war on clutter
74. Actually take all my stuff (that I still have from the first clear out) to the Salvos
75. Put Bio Oil on consistently for four months - Coming up to four months soon and I really don't see an improvement.  I don't really care anymore and I know they'll fade over time anyway.  I'll finish the bottle and that will be that. 
    
76. Have a loose change jar 
77. Write a will and funeral ideas
78. Learn how to make a paper crane
79. Buy something off etsy.com and frame it and hang it up
80. Don’t take any crap from anyone
81. Learn a poem by heart - I think I've chosen my poem.  Well, I had anyway.  I decided to learn "Seal Lullaby" by Rudyard Kipling and was just looking it up online so that I could provide a link in case anyone was interested ( http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seal-lullaby/) and then I rediscovered Kipling's poem "If", which I totally love and is longer and would be more of a task to learn.  What the hey, I'll learn both!
82. Get ID in a fake name
83. Grow nails long for a month - I can't believe how easy it was!  However, long nails totally irritated me and so I've cut them short again... but am regrowing them because I liked the way they looked.  Hopefully I can overcome the irritating-ness... 
84. Learn how to play chess
85. Do 4 shoeboxes for kids overseas [0/4]
86. Keep my room continuously tidy for a month
87. Post 100 Operation Beautiful post-its [6/100] 
88. Send in a postcard to Postsecret
89. Attend a protest -  My friend Shelly is totally saving the world and has heaps of contacts with organisations.  She's said she'll let me know when certain protests were coming my way.  I was thinking about it and there's actually not a lot I feel completely passionate about.  Like, civil rights movement, I would have been there, waving my baner with MLK but I'm pretty apathetic about political movements of the noughties.  But I would certainly march for children's rights in the developing world, that's for sure.
90. Read 10 auto/biographies of people I admire [0/10]
91. Rejoin Open Doors
92. Keep a prayer journal for a month
93. Do some kind of thing where you buy birthday/Christmas presents for kids
94. Do the 40 hour famine
95. Put 50 notes in books about dealing with depression, divorce etc [0/50]
96. Cook at least once a week
    
97. Visit/write to my grandparents at least once a week [4/143] 
98. Donate my hair - My hair is now getting long enough that I can start thinking about donating it.  However, I'm yet to find a company in Australia that needs hair... America has 'Locks of Love' and I assumed that there would be a similar Australian version but I can't seem to find it. 
99. Put together a playlist of all the songs that remind me of overseas
100. Get my eyebrows done
101. Learn to drive manually