From Oct. 1st 2009 until June 28th 2012
Endeavors...to make my life more interesting
- Learn oragami
- Practice tarot readings
- Hone the perfect wolf whistle
- Obtain motorcycle operators license
- ABATE class, Lake County Government Center, $50
- Take SCUBA lessons
- JR's idea, to help him overcome his fear of water
- Mix ten new alcoholic beverages (2/10)
- Invite friends to test them out
- Memorize four constellations in the night sky (0/4)
- One for each season
- Be able to identify them
- Learn to bellydance
- Remember how awesome those dancers in Thailand were?
- Buy some DVDs and practice at home until I'm comfortable enough to take a class
- Silver Moon Dance Studio
- Study up on two new languages
- Korean
- Sanskrit
- Old English?
- Cook more adventurously!
- Make sauce from scratch
- Use my Indian cookbook
- Don't let JR do all the work!
Self Indulgence...to make my life more comfortable
- Find the perfect shade of red lipstick
- ✔ Try on cats eye glasses
- Wear a knit bikini
- Sample fifteen kinds of tea (6/15)
- Sample twenty kinds of wine (5/20)
- Buy five pairs of cute underwear (0/5)
- ✔ Paint my toenails a cheerful color once a month
- Purchase a Burberry coat or purse
- Hunt down the perfect pair of combat boots
- ✔ Have a corset custom-made to fit me
- Send flowers to myself
- Get nape piercing
- ✔ Smoke a cigar, just because
- Bleach my hair platinum blond
- ✔ Try a variety of unique haircuts
- See my list of haircuts
- Take a bubblebath once a week
- Try to relax in the bath, don't just sit there and stress out!
Responsibilities...to make my life more ethical
- ✔ Donate to the Independant Cat Society
- Help a turtle to cross the road
- ✔ Switch to fluorescent lightbulbs
- ✔ Buy food for a homeless person
- Foster a dog
- Preferably a troubled breed
- ✔ Take part in Operation Beautiful
- Operation Beautiful
- Carry post-it notes in my purse
- Participate in a worthy boycott or protest
- PETA
- LGBT Change 10/10/09
- ✔ Volunteer for SWOP- Sex Workers Outreach Project
- Providing condoms to prostitutes
- Working the check-in counter at free HIV testing clinics
- Convert to animal-friendly cosmetics
- Teach English abroad in an underprivileged country
- Haiti
- India
- Rural China
Professional...to make my life more successful
- ✔ Build my savings account back to where it was before the wedding
- Personalize my cubical at the office
- Write three "Thank You" notes to mentors who have encouraged me
- Graduate from Purdue
- English major
- Advertising minor
- 3.75 GPA
- Apply to Grad Schools in and around Chicago
- Law school?
- Northwestern
- University of Chicago
- Obtain a job with a Chicago-based ad agency that has branches overseas
Artistic...to make my life more colorful
- ✔ Submit written work to a literary magazine
- Fill an entire coloring book!
- Mail a PostSecret
- Pose nude for a figure drawing class
- Be seen or photographed wearing nothing but body paint
- Enter a photography contest
- Conduct five formal photoshoots (0/5)
- Complete 100 Houses Photo Project
- Complete 26 Things Photo Project
- Complete "100 Kisses" Photo Project
- Thanks Diana for the inspiration!
- Become more comfortable with digital photo editing
- I can't keep relying on my 35 millimeter camera, it's practically an antique.
- Take a series of unique self portraits
- (Self Portraits I Want)
- Continue to update my listography once a week
- Maintain an ongoing list of "Lists to Complete"
- ✔ Collect recipes on handmade recipe cards_
- Cook them all!
- Join a photo-sharing website
- Get a tattoo that represents my aspirations as a writer
- A quote, maybe?
- A fountain pen
- Create wall art from something unusual
- Vintage picture frames
- Album covers
- Complete three scrapbooks (0/3)
- Wedding
- Thailand
- All about me
- ✔ Keep an inspiration journal of...
- Quotes
- Magazine snippets
- Fabics
- Get better at scrapbooking
- Practice a wider variety of techniques
- Use more tools, even if they're intimidating or expensive
- Stop relying on scraps! Buy some new supplies
- Update profile on scrapbook.com
Adventures...to make my life more exciting
- Take a drive with no destination and spend the day in a newly discovered town
- Build a pillow fort in the living room and sleep there
- Tour ten different wineries (1/10)
- Go to fifteen concerts (3/15)
- Check out ten different Chicago festivals (3/10)
- Attend five Chicago Horror Society events (3/5)
- ✔ Ice skate in Millennium Park
- Nyotaimori- eat sushi off a naked woman
- ✔ Hire a prostitute and hang out with her all day
- Take her out for milkshakes
- Visit Skywalker Ranch, the home of George Lucas
- My idol
- Drive down Route 66
- Done this before, under less-than-ideal circumstances
- Attend the World Bodypainting Festival
- Seeboden, Austria
- Third week in July every year
- Make perfect grilled cheese sandwiches with green tomato slices
- Just like daddy used to make!
- Experiment with different kinds of bread and cheese until I get it just right.
- ✔ Go back to Mardi Gras
- Go to gay bars
- Actually flash someone this time
- See five local bands perform (3/5)
- Model Citizens
- Harley Poe
- Others?
Body and Fitness
- Do stretches before bed
- Eat breakfast every day for one month
- ✔ Eat organic for one month
- Learn to make homemade guacamole instead of always buying it
- ✔ Drink more water
- Start with three glasses a day
- Build up to the recommended eight glasses a day
- Run 60 minutes a day on the eliptical
- Not 30 minutes
- Not 45 minutes
- 60 minutes
Home Improvements...to make my life more cozy
- Buy a wine rack and fill it
- Own a set of copper cookware
- ✔ Display five pieces of art in my living space (5/5)
- ✔ Buy funky, vintage furniture at a thrift store
- Hang pots and pans on a suspended rack in the kitchen
- Like this
- Clean the chinchilla cage every three days
- ...so the apartment doesn't smell like chinchilla poo
- Don't always make JR do it!
- Move to Chicago proper
- Lakeview neighborhood
- Loft apartment
- Have a big, stone fireplace in my living room
- Or even a little stone fireplace!
- It doesn't have to work. I just like the way it looks.
Social...to make my life more friendly
- Make and send five care packages to far away friends (0/5)
- Host Thanksgiving dinner for the family
- ✔ Pick up a girl in a gay bar
- ✔ Hook up with a friend
- ✔ Join the Rocky Horror Picture Show cast
- And perform as Frank-N-Furter
- ✔ Make a girl cry
- You know the girl I mean...
- Host a dinner party
- Buy a table and chairs first!
- ✔ Host a tea party
- With a nice tea set
- And finger sandwiches
- Spend the whole day with Grandma
- Shopping in Chicago
- Buy her lunch
- Just like old times
oct 1 2009 ∞
jun 1 2019 +
jun 1 2019 +