• go through your closet
• call your best friend
• go to the library
• visit a department store & collect fragrance samples
• make a flower crown
• stock up on stationary
• go for a walk or bike ride
• make friendship bracelets
• take a fitness class
  • yoga
  • zumba
  • pilates
• write down a list of long-term goals and start doing them
• go to a movie (alone!)
• visit a farmer's market
• take pictures
• volunteer
• feng shui

1950

• All About Eve
• Cinderella
• Harvey
• Summer Stock

1951

• The African Queen
• Alice in Wonderland
• An American in Paris
• People Will Talk
• A Place in the Sun
• Royal Wedding
• A Streetcar Named Desire

1952

• Monkey Business
• Room for One More
• Singin' in the Rain

1953

1910s

• Intolerance (1916)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
• The Immigrant (1917)
• When the Clouds Roll By (1919)

1920s

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
• The Kid (1921)
• Grandma's Boy (1922)
• Dr. Jack (1922)
• Safety Last! (1923)
• Why Worry? (1923)
• Girl Shy (1924)
• Hot Water (1924)
• The Freshman (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• For Heaven's Sake (1926)
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
• The Jazz Singer (1927)

• 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
• 1883 – Benito Mussolini is born
• 1890 – Vincent van Gogh (<3), Dutch painter, dies
• 1892 – William Powell (<3), American actor, is born
• 1905 – Clara Bow, American actress, is born
• 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party
• 1924 – Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case, is born
• 1930 – Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer, is born
• 1938 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born American journalist, is born
• 1953 – Tim Gunn, American television personality, is born
• 1966 – Martina McBride, American countr...

• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Across the Universe
• Aladdin
• An American in Paris
• Beauty and the Beast
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Bringing Up Baby
• Casablanca
• Dumb and Dumber
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Gone With the Wind
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
• Midnight in Paris
• Moonrise Kingdom
• My Week with Marilyn
• On the Town
• Phantom of the Opera
• Pocahontas
• Rent
• Singin' in the Rain

The ones with check marks are my favorites.

• Arabic
  • Taarradhin : a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins)
  • ✔ Ya’aburnee : both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them
• Australian
  • ✔ Petrichor : the pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell
• Basque (Spanish)
  • ✔ Sirimiri : a light rain, a fine drizzle
• Brazilian Portuguese