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- Learn how to sew with a sewing machine.
- Crochet or knit a purse/bag.
- Learn how to make candles.
- Go backpacking.
- Go skydiving.
- Get a tattoo.
- ✔ Get a pedicure.
- Crochet an afghan for Mom & Dad.
- Return to Egypt.
- Go on a vacation by myself (as Andrea did).
- Visit a winery.
- Learn how to kayak.
- ✔ Apply to be a bone marrow donor.
- Join a community band or wind ensemble.
- Find a pair of heels I like and that I can walk in.
- Adopt a puppy/dog.
- Stop watching television for one month.
- Learn how to curl my hair with a curling iron or hot rollers.
- Read the rest of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
- Read the entirety of Proust's In Search of Lost Time
- Lose enough weight so that I'll look good in profile.
- Run a mile under 9 minutes.
- Go stargazing.
- Visit NYC, if just for a day.
- Take another yoga class.
- Visit the west coast.
- Clean out my room and donate lots of stuff.
- ✔ De-clutter the apartment.
- Purchase a steam mop.
- Build my portfolio up to 20 choice pieces of creative writing.
- Write at least one journal entry a day for an entire year.
- Make a scrapbook of my time here in VA.
- Go out in bright red lipstick and feel confident.
- Collect all the seasons of The X-Files on DVD. (0/9)
- Host a cocktail party.
- Buy a new pair of glasses.
- Volunteer somewhere other than at CL.
- Eat at the Bilbo Baggins restaurant in Alexandria.
- Crochet pillow covers for living room. (0/4)
- Bike to Mason for class for one week. (During daylight only.)
- ✔ Go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Uni Mall.
- May 09, 2010 w/ Mona and Ellen!
- Recruit at least one person to volunteer @ CrisisLink.
- Finally buy a Nikon D60 Digital SLR.
- Visit Assateague Island.
- Go horseback riding.
- Visit Amish country.
- Visit the Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Georgetown.
- ✔ Learn how to do dramatic eye-makeup on myself.
- Lose **** pounds.
- Avoid refined sugar for one month.
- Get my hair cut above my shoulders.
- Avoid soda--diet or regular--for one month.
- Watch the original Star Wars movies!
- Practice yoga every single day for one month.
- Read the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe.
- ✔ Make felt/fabric flower accessories.
- ✔ Be vegetarian for one month. (28/28)
- Be vegan for five days. (0/5)
- Try a raw food diet for two weeks. (0/14)
- ✔ Abstain from fast food for one month. (__Includes__ Subway, Chipotle, etc.) (30/30) (completed 12/02/09)
- Grow my own kitchen herbs.
- Renew my CPR and community first aid certifications.
- Hand-dye yarn.
- Learn how to make jewelry.
- Add a minor to my degree. (creative writing or archaeology?)
- Make wine jelly again.
- Make sweet potato pie.
- Buy fresh flowers for no particular reason. Five times. (2/5)
- 1 - 12/18/09
- 2 - 03/12/10
- Go to the Maryland Oktoberfest.
- Decorate the walls of the living room somehow.
- Visit the National Archives.
- See a free show at GWU's Lisner Auditorium.
- Go to some sort of performance at the Kennedy Center.
- Go kite-flying at the Washington Monument.
- Sit in on a Supreme Court ruling.
- Go to a free lecture, concert, or poetry reading at the Library of Congress.
- Visit the National Arboretum.
- Happy hour at Hawk and Dove in DC.
- Take a free salsa lesson at the Lucky Bar in DC.
- Go to Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe in Dc.
- Visit the Claude Moore Colonial Farm.
- Go to a concert.
- Go to Chinatown in NYC.
- Really participate in NaNoWriMo.
- Abstain from television for one month. (0/31)
- Take one random picture a day for an entire month.
- Make & send a PostSecret card.
- ✔ Make good handmade gifts for my friends for Christmas.
- Go to a protest/attend a protest/protest something publicly.
- Take a water aerobics class.
- Trace my DNA with the Genographic Project.
- Take a real, official IQ test.
- Leave a book somewhere random with a note in it stating that the person who finds it should keep & enjoy it.
- Join a book club.
- Join a writer's circle/club/workshop.
- Catch-up on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire trilogy.
- Take an ACE class for fun.
- Pay a compliment to a stranger, 10 times. (3/10)
- Participate in a charity walk of some sort.
- Visit Philadelphia, PA.
- ✔ Read 3 books recommended by 3 friends/family members. (0/3)
- From Heather: Despair by Nabokov
- From Liz: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- From Ellen: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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