featured (i.e. lists I like or am updating a lot lately)

• things to try
• nail polish wishlist
• things to do before I die
• ice cream flavors I would invent

about me

• reinvent myself
• things I am bad at
• things I am good at
• things I want to say
• weaknesses
• happy alphabet
• random things about me
• things everyone else seems to love but t...

life

• what i've learned so far
• rules to live by

words

• putting things away right after I'm done with them
• making new friends
• being tactful
• craftsmanship
• being independent
• making money
• going more than two weeks without buying anything for myself
• running
• sports
• making eye contact
• timing things appropriately
• being patient
• talking
• getting ahead in life

aka: chapters of my life

• a noise like silence
• we are small
• somehow happiness
• the first time she knew the word 'plaintive'
• let's be beautiful together
• scare tactics
• what is 'different'
• as if she knew the meaning of fear
• dilemmas of the can-never-grow-up girls
• small changes
• i must have been asleep for days
• qualifications
• sometimes i still

• almost everything can sound like a metaphor if you think about it a certain way.
• even in the "real world," most people are full of shit.
• not everyone is as impressionable as me.
• things are rarely as big a deal as people make them out to be.
• we are all only human.
• feelings are complex and not meant to be expressed in words.

mottos I've adopted.

• there is no such thing as ordinary
• be ugly
• "All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to." -Oscar Wilde
• "勇敢才能快樂"
• be-sweater all the things
• if the situation is awkward, "lah"
• remember we are all human

• do well in school
• do well in social relationships
• wear what i want instead of what i am comfortable with
• read more
• write more
• cook more
• waste less time
• improve my Chinese reading skills
• be less childish
• think more; don't just talk endlessly without thinking
• listen more; don't just answer randomly without listening first
• be happy with what I've got, because I've got everything I need to be happy

• typing fast
• imagining
• falling asleep almost anywhere (just not on planes)
• memorizing sounds/voices/things I hear
• being able to repeat back things people said while I was asleep
• fainting
• getting out of trouble
• organizing the files on my computer
• being honest
• photography
• singing the right notes
• handwriting
• speed-reading
• putting pretty words together to make a poem

• pumpkin pecan cinnamon swirl
• orange-lime zest
• lemon ginger
• apricot with hint of cherry
• honey apple walnut crisp
• spiked iced tea
• mint chip tangerine
• apple pear gelato with a hint of cinnamon and clove
• rocky road with a coconut twist
• ginger chocolate cherry
• hibiscus plum sorbet

• quotes (funny, poetic, motivational, or just things that resound deeply with you)
• poems
• compliments (but only if they are true)
• friends
• a message that just lets me know you're there
• links to neat things (design, architecture, or craft-related)
• beautiful sounds/songs

• glitter graffiti
• make origami garlands and hang them on someone's house
• put cryptic message post-its on someone's door
• put a random greeting card in someone's mailbox
• make someone Cheer Up pancakes
• weigh 110 pounds or less
• try on all the pretty dresses in a store
• write a secret on the crease of someone's hand
• knit graffiti a pillar/fence/trashcan
• walk around/go shopping while holding a giant sunflower
• have children
• have a cat named Sunday
• make a quilt
• knit a sweater that I will like/wear
• knit a sweater a month for a year
• finish reading one whole book in Japanese...