• GROUPON
  • kickboxing classes
  • pole dancing classes?
    • or just try Body & Pole
• APPOINTMENT FOR LASAR HAIR REMOVAL
• dance classes at Liberated Movement
  • etc.
• MM profile
  • look for paid shoots
• burlesque dance for Aissa's show
• crazy leopard thong at Starlight in Jamaica, Queens
• audition at new clubs
• life couching with Leon
• set up meetup.com group
• look for vacations, jobs, etc.

• skyscanner (for flights, hotels, etc.)
• airbnb (to rent out room)
• couchsurfing.org (to find a couch, duh)
• questions with HSBC internet banking
  • 1-800-975-4722
• the vedanta academy (look up)
• kibbutzes
  • samar
  • grofit
  • ktura
  • ne'ot smadar (best hippie commune ever)

OPTIONS

• THAILAND
  • Volunteer to teach in Northern Thailand ...
• KIBBUTZ
  • List of Kibbutzims
• HIPPIE COMMUNE
  • Places to consider in CA
  • Directory of communities around the worl...
  • Pacha Mama in Costa Rica (work exchange?)
• WWOOFing
  • How to become a WWOOFer
• ASHRAM/MONASTERY

• HoopDance Summer Series
  • Saturdays: Fundamentals and Flourish II (Beginner to Adv Beginner)
  • 2-3:30pm
  • July 13, 20, 27, August 10, 17
• Donation-based yoga in the park
  • Sundays at 11:30am
  • July 7th: Lauren H.
  • July 21st: w/ Ally
  • August 18th: w/ Stacey
  • September 1st: w/ Lauren S.
  • September 15th: w/ Syama
• FREE Tai Chi, Chuan Yang style
  • 8AM, Sundays
  • 89th Street at Riverside
• Monthly Reiki Share led by Jyogan "John" Hakata-Kohler

• shpongle
• the doors
• enigma
• mecca bodega
• nitin sawhney
• karsh kale
• puscifer
• tool
• a perfect circle
• incubus
• saul williams
• blackmill
• sunlounger
• armin van buuren
• DJ tiësto
• ATB
• BT
• bliss
• ravi shankar
• ganga
• MC yogi

• PVC dress with mesh at gothic renaissance
• feathered angel wings
• feathered boas
• more piercings
• tibetan singing bowl
• harmonica
• tambourine
• accordion?
• ✔ buddhist prayer beads (learn how to make your own?)
• orchid

• ✔ buy new copy of the upanishads
• the ramayana
• ✔ books on kali
• find that time out magazine book you bought
• finish the mahabharata (this will be a grueling read)
• re-read the bhagavad gita & vedantasara
• ✔ love is letting go of fear (for some reason i keep seeing the word "god" in the title; connection?)
• ✔ finish the sociopath next door
• a book on India's history (find a good source)
• the ethical slut (finish it)
• ✔ ishmael (BEST BOOK EVER!)
• ✔ māṇḍukya kārikā
• Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber

So maybe I DON'T know what I want, but I do what what I DON'T what, and by the process of elimination I can find out what I'm really after.

NOs

• NYC!
• smart phones
  • keypads are too small for inspired, hypomanic writing (typos everywhere; autocorrect makes mistakes!)
  • technology is not "intuitive" no matter what marketers say (i have yet to find a phone that can read my mind, let alone figure out what i'm trying to type!)
  • always on the internet / constant distraction
  • connects people, but simultaneously keeps us at bay from each other (how many people use cell phones to hide, huh? the ol' lower head and pretend to text to avoid a...

• liberatedmovement.com: donation-based dance classes! HOLY SHIT, THERE IS A GOD!
• yogalaff.com: free laughing yoga class on Wednesdays @ 5:30PM
• Lip Service parties at HoS (House of Scorpio): JULY 12, $10
• Chadley's BDSM parties
• Taste Parties
• THAI CHI @ 8:00AM, Sundays, Riverside Park
• River to River ; Shakespeare in the Park
• various music festivals (look into)
• Bettie Page clothing store: 303 Bowery
• Thursday night dance party at Brooklyn Museum, 6/20, 7-10PM
• National Gallery of Art, WHEN ART DANCED WITH MUSIC exhibit
• Solstice Studio tribal dance classes (sent email; will await reply?)
• Purple Passion
• Shag in Williamsburg

• eyebrow kit
• dentist appointment!
• look for work abroad (in India, Thailand, etc.)
• search for work "off-the-books"
• ✔ CALL DAD!
• ✔ LAUNDRY!
• ✔ buy gemstones
• meditate every day in silence for about 1 hour (to clear your head and figure out what you want and how you feel)
• battle your OCD little by little every day (it's okay to be a little messy and off balance)
• ✔ SIGN UP FOR VOLUNTEER WORK! YAY!
• ✔ buy the essential oil of Lotus!
• ✔ yoga!
• clean up your room fully (reorganize, dust everything off, vacuum, etc.)
• apply for Medicaid or other government health insurance

• sri durga chalisa
  • श्री दुर्गा चालीस
  • I salute Goddess Durga, who bestows happiness, ends all miseries, the radiance of whose light is limitless and all-pervading.
• kalika ashtakam – galad rakta munda vali kantha maalaa
  • श्री कलिकाष्टकम् – गलद्रक्तमुण्डावलीकण्ठमाला
  • From Her neck is hanging a garland of severed heads from which blood is dripping down. She is extremely dreadful and making a terrific sound, and Her entire being is manifesting the great yearning to merge with Mahakala.

• ✔ organize a birthday party
• ✔ pay credit card bill by 1/18
• Amma Satsang at Namaste on 1/6 (spiritual discussion and bajan singing); 6-8PM; FREE! -
• NVC on 1/7 (make reservations)-
• research teaching abroad programs
• look into a kabutz (ex: Kabutz Baran)
• ✔ learn Sanskrit
• find that blasted voodoo doll!
• ✔ laundry!
• clean room thoroughly! (reorganize)
• put up self-made paintings on wall
• ✔ check out progressed chart and transits

• ✔ vacuum cleaner
• ✔ a pair of comfy heels (+ insoles)
• ✔ towels
• ✔ kali statue
• ✔ hair conditioner
• ✔ contact lens solution
• mirror for door-
• ✔ yoga mat
• ✔ 2013 calendar
• ✔ 2013 Planet Watcher calendar
• yarn and tools at Beads World
• ✔ headphones
• ✔ candles
• ✔ new boots
• ✔ gloves
• ✔ incense
• ✔ sage smudge sticks
• ✔ mini handbag
• ✔ long socks
• blood type test
• ✔ LIFEFACTORY water bottle @ the container ...

• morning yoga at sunrise (my windows face east): sunrise time is 5:30ish now
• ✔ bike on beautiful days
• ✔ schedule in yoga classes at YTTP & MYoga
• ✔ continue chakra meditations
• ✔ learn new breathing techniques
• ✔ learn new mudras + meanings
• feng shui yo' room, gir'!
• laughter (maybe laughing yoga, too)
• ✔ bellydancing classes at CoSM (or elsewhere, who cares; dance, breathe, move, love)
• ✔ dance
• ✔ dance
• ✔ dance!
• BURNING MAN!!!-
• ✔ but mostly, practice good intention

• free kayaking @ the piers-
• ✔ BAM! theater
• shakespeare in the park-
• zip-lining & other such activities brought to you by the D.O.T. (august)-
• NYC wine & food festival (nycwff.org, 10/11-10/14)-
• ✔ brooklyn botanic gardens
• governors island: biking & FIGMENT-
• american museum of natural history: creature's of light, suggested donation of $19
• coney island museum, $5
• metropolitan museum of art
• nuyorican poets cafe
• fat cat
• discounted bowling at chelsea piers
• ✔ sullivan room! (funkbox sundays)
• ✔ bar 13: dubstep mondays
• cielo
• ✔ house of yes

• send Felipe photos
• ✔ edit LJ
• eat a healthy salad
• take antibiotics in the evening
• do 15 min breathing exercise (get Felipe to join?)

• Argonite Star necklace:
  • Jewelry crafts store: gold necklace, flower beads, rings, looping plier
  • Namaste bookstore: sunstones (gold and indigo)
  • Use opalite, boot laces, and small beads
  • Instead of beads in the back, use feathers??
  • Name of necklace is Orgone Generator (machine that accumulates positive energy)
• Natal chart necklace
  • Sunstone for center?
• Tank tops from Flavour or Forever 21
  • Pastel beaded necklace from Aldo
  • Russian purple flower shawl
• Yellow cheetah top by Nicki Minaj? Support bullshit artists and corporations?
• Buy round coffee table from Ikea to make ...

• TSA
• pot farming? (alexei's idea)
• stripping!
• pro-domming (take two)
• government jobs
  • FEMA
• yoga instructor
  • get certified!

Let's start with the most recent:

• Had tele-conference with an astrologer; she provided me with great insight (DO NOT FORGET!): that sometimes in life there is a need for a period of contemplation and self-reflection. She informed me because I am a natural extrovert and have come into this world to assert myself, I might find it hard to accept this period of slow-down. However, though this may not be a most productive time for me, this introspection is needed so that later on something great may be manifested. I felt most at ease after hearing this, and had tamed some of my frustration. I've been flying back and forth between alone time and social time, but overall, socializing feels forced now. I need to be okay with going inside myself, and maybe... just maybe... I can actually use this alone time to work on my art. :) All things in good mea...

• ✔ read a book by Chögyam Trungpa (Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism)
• get workout clothes that DRIES
• MOROCCAN OIL for curly hair-
• chakra workshop-
• Basic Sanskrit class at Namaste? ($25)
• Purple tank top at F21
• ✔ Seabuckthorn toner
• ✔ Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
• Museums
• the beach
• biking
• plan out trip to Canada?
• plan a trip to Pittsburgh
• LAUGHING YOGA! (free on Wednesdays)
• NVC first Mondays!
• FIGURE OUT YOUR TRIP TO INDIA BY THE END OF THE MONTH! MAKE A DECISION, BIATCH!
• manage your mula!
• GROW SOME CAJONES! (trust yourself, feel grounded in your body, GO FOR IT!)

• ✔ eye doctor appointment
• ✔ BLACK BRA
• ✔ Do WebTA
• ✔ red flower for Ma Kali
• ✔ socks & stockings
• ✔ mini handbag
• new clothes (original stuff)
• ✔ LAUNDRY (wash jacket) (+ pick up paper towels)
• ✔ clean boots
• ✔ thoroughly clean room (& apartment)
• ✔ YOGA!
• ✔ get plant from mom
• cactus & orchid?
• ✔ buddhist beads & incense (+ smudge sticks for meditation)
• continue reading Baudelaire
• ✔ money management
• ✔ call Musta (& set up appt.)
• shop for stuff online (t-shirts, original stuff; shpongle, etc.)
• looking into traveling (or working) abroa...

VALUABLE LESSONS IN INDEPENDENCE

• moved out of my dad's place for the first time!
• paying my own bills, yo!

RELATIONSHIPS

• loved and lost (2 and 1/2 year relationship; learned that everything is survivable, so long as it doesn't kill you!)
• dated around a lot, and learned that not only am a pro at dating, and fearless; but that essentially i'm above all that already
• celibacy (i can do it and not feel weak in self-control)

LIFESTYLE

• started eating much healthier
• cut back on cigarettes dramatically (full-on quitting soon?)
• dropped hard drugs, cut back on partying, and matured into a nice, sophisticated y...

• ✔ FORGIVE YOURSELF FOR MAKING MISTAKES
• make chakra necklace with 7 different stones
• ✔ look for new work (FEMA, D.O.L., parks department, national forestry, government work, admin, etc.)
• ✔ volunteer as much as possible with NY Cares! outreach, outreach, outreach!
• try out laughing yoga
• ✔ attend YttP classes every other day (keep track)
• ✔ daily meditation (solfeggio frequencies, chakra balancing)
• ✔ practice positive thinking. remember that though you may not be able to get rid of negative thoughts, you can supplement them with positive ones!
• make natal necklaces
• PAINT! until your heart's content
• ✔ BREATHE! every breath counts
• ✔ make a ModelMayhem account

• http://www.endangeredlanguages.com
• http://www.meetup.com

• ✔ the holy mountain
• ✔ requiem for a dream
• apocalypse now
• dil se
• elements trilogy by deepa mehta
  • ✔ water
  • fire
  • earth