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101 Things in 1,001 Days
This is my list of goals to complete between January 1, 2009 and September 29th, 2011. It will be updated as I finish or make progress on said goals. Journal entries relating to them will be linked. If you're interested in doing this, more information can be found here.
1. Graduate high school with honors. Completed 5/22/09. It was a wonderful, wonderful night.
2. Attend Berry College. I'm here, baby! :D
3. Have a super-cute, super-bright dorm room! Check. Proof to come.
4. Develop more of a personal style--and actually wear the clothes.
5. Travel outside the country again.
6. Dye my hair.
7. Make a meal for someone I love.
8. Learn to make three new desserts.
1. Funfetti Cookies
2.
3.
9. Learn to make three new breakfast foods.
1. Alyssa's version of scrambled eggs. :9
2.
3.
10. Learn three new dinner/lunch recipes.
1.
2.
3.
11. Try a recipe somehow related to Francesca Lia Block's books.
12. Be settled and confident about my major.
13. Get involved in chorus again. I'm in Concert Choir.
14. Join and be active in some organizations at college. In Listen and Philosophia Relogioque; looking at Psych Society and Empower.
15. Dance with someone in a public place.
16. Wage an epic watergun battle.
17. Use my Polaroid film!
18. Write my friends when we start college.
19. Have 101 livejournal entries.
20. Go at least one month without soda.
21. Make a PostSecret postcard.
22. Make a bento lunch.
23. Get a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses. Completed 6/20/09. They're white. :)
24. Find some tennis shoes to wear around campus that I actually LIKE.
25. Finish three projects from Learning to Love You More.
1.
2.
3.
26. Finish a novel.
27. Complete another NaNoWriMo.
28. Read Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
29. Post a Livejournal entry in my own handwriting. Completed 6/25/09. Entry here.
30. Start writing Things I Love Thursday entries. Do it for at least four weeks in a row.
Week One:
Week Two:
Week Three:
Week Four:
31. Convince at least one other person to give NaNoWriMo a shot.
32. Wear my adorable owl slippers around the dorms. :)
33. Enjoy my first month at the CDC (Child Development Center). I adore my job.
34. Feel infinite. Completed 7/6/09 in a way I would not have imagined. Yes. Yes.
35. Go to prom. DANCE. Completed 4/25/09. One of the best nights of my life!
36. Fill up the journal I got in France.
37. Keep my dorm room somewhat organized for at least the first semester of college.
38. Go to a beach and take a picture of the sunrise or sunset. Completed 7/1/09.
39. Get involved in LISTEN at Berry, if it still exists. If not, goal will be changed to doing something to help out the GLBTQA community. I'm in Listen! Wh00t.
40. Draw a meal I've eaten. (Check out this list!)
41. Self-publish a book.
42. Find some form of church to attend--if an actual church can't be found, then have a home service with online sermons.
43. Make a video of some sort for YouTube.
46. Take a self-portrait every day for one month. (There's a group that does this for 365 days.)
47. Have a photo shoot with friends. Completed right before my move to Berry. Quite a few of these pictures are on Facebook.
48. Watch Mirrormask.
49. Read something else by Neil Gaiman. Completed 7/2/09. It was Stardust, and I quite enjoyed it.
50. Try five new restaurants. Completed 7/29/09.
1. Kobe, a Japanese restaurant. It was yummy~! Similar to Kanpai.
2. Lambert's, home of the "throwed rolls". It was, much as I hate to say it, good ole Southern cookin'. We had six boxes of leftovers.
3. Lulu's, Jimmy Buffet's sister's restaurant. It was out in the open, mostly--no real walls, so you could see the docks, with lots of mist fans to cool things down--and it was very good. Very relaxed and beach-y.
4. The Landmark Diner. Not bad; seemed like they had a decent array of Greek foods, which might be worth a return visit.
5. Dr. D's. This is a small restaurant where the food is still cooked by the owner. Cheap and good.
51. Buy a book of poetry.
52. Capture one day of my life in photographs.
53. Hang out with people other than the ones in my typical group. I'm calling this one completed, but it's ongoing. I went out with Kyley and friends a few times for lunch and she went with me to Gulf Shores, and I've gotten closer to people at school I didn't really talk to before.
54. Go to Rocky Horror.
55. Go to the park and play like a child. Have some sort of evidence. The evidence can be found in pictures on Facebook. :)
56. Learn how to dance to Thriller.
57. Email Ms. Hornik.
58. Communicate with Francesca Lia Block.
59. To be continued...
This is my list of goals to complete between January 1, 2009 and September 29th, 2011. It will be updated as I finish or make progress on said goals. Journal entries relating to them will be linked. If you're interested in doing this, more information can be found here.
1. Graduate high school with honors. Completed 5/22/09. It was a wonderful, wonderful night.
2. Attend Berry College. I'm here, baby! :D
3. Have a super-cute, super-bright dorm room! Check. Proof to come.
4. Develop more of a personal style--and actually wear the clothes.
5. Travel outside the country again.
6. Dye my hair.
7. Make a meal for someone I love.
8. Learn to make three new desserts.
1. Funfetti Cookies
2.
3.
9. Learn to make three new breakfast foods.
1. Alyssa's version of scrambled eggs. :9
2.
3.
10. Learn three new dinner/lunch recipes.
1.
2.
3.
11. Try a recipe somehow related to Francesca Lia Block's books.
12. Be settled and confident about my major.
13. Get involved in chorus again. I'm in Concert Choir.
14. Join and be active in some organizations at college. In Listen and Philosophia Relogioque; looking at Psych Society and Empower.
15. Dance with someone in a public place.
16. Wage an epic watergun battle.
17. Use my Polaroid film!
18. Write my friends when we start college.
19. Have 101 livejournal entries.
20. Go at least one month without soda.
21. Make a PostSecret postcard.
22. Make a bento lunch.
23. Get a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses. Completed 6/20/09. They're white. :)
24. Find some tennis shoes to wear around campus that I actually LIKE.
25. Finish three projects from Learning to Love You More.
1.
2.
3.
26. Finish a novel.
27. Complete another NaNoWriMo.
28. Read Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
29. Post a Livejournal entry in my own handwriting. Completed 6/25/09. Entry here.
30. Start writing Things I Love Thursday entries. Do it for at least four weeks in a row.
Week One:
Week Two:
Week Three:
Week Four:
31. Convince at least one other person to give NaNoWriMo a shot.
32. Wear my adorable owl slippers around the dorms. :)
33. Enjoy my first month at the CDC (Child Development Center). I adore my job.
34. Feel infinite. Completed 7/6/09 in a way I would not have imagined. Yes. Yes.
35. Go to prom. DANCE. Completed 4/25/09. One of the best nights of my life!
36. Fill up the journal I got in France.
37. Keep my dorm room somewhat organized for at least the first semester of college.
38. Go to a beach and take a picture of the sunrise or sunset. Completed 7/1/09.
39. Get involved in LISTEN at Berry, if it still exists. If not, goal will be changed to doing something to help out the GLBTQA community. I'm in Listen! Wh00t.
40. Draw a meal I've eaten. (Check out this list!)
41. Self-publish a book.
42. Find some form of church to attend--if an actual church can't be found, then have a home service with online sermons.
43. Make a video of some sort for YouTube.
46. Take a self-portrait every day for one month. (There's a group that does this for 365 days.)
47. Have a photo shoot with friends. Completed right before my move to Berry. Quite a few of these pictures are on Facebook.
48. Watch Mirrormask.
49. Read something else by Neil Gaiman. Completed 7/2/09. It was Stardust, and I quite enjoyed it.
50. Try five new restaurants. Completed 7/29/09.
1. Kobe, a Japanese restaurant. It was yummy~! Similar to Kanpai.
2. Lambert's, home of the "throwed rolls". It was, much as I hate to say it, good ole Southern cookin'. We had six boxes of leftovers.
3. Lulu's, Jimmy Buffet's sister's restaurant. It was out in the open, mostly--no real walls, so you could see the docks, with lots of mist fans to cool things down--and it was very good. Very relaxed and beach-y.
4. The Landmark Diner. Not bad; seemed like they had a decent array of Greek foods, which might be worth a return visit.
5. Dr. D's. This is a small restaurant where the food is still cooked by the owner. Cheap and good.
51. Buy a book of poetry.
52. Capture one day of my life in photographs.
53. Hang out with people other than the ones in my typical group. I'm calling this one completed, but it's ongoing. I went out with Kyley and friends a few times for lunch and she went with me to Gulf Shores, and I've gotten closer to people at school I didn't really talk to before.
54. Go to Rocky Horror.
55. Go to the park and play like a child. Have some sort of evidence. The evidence can be found in pictures on Facebook. :)
56. Learn how to dance to Thriller.
57. Email Ms. Hornik.
58. Communicate with Francesca Lia Block.
59. To be continued...