didn't finish this in time, but it was a good effort!

FROM AUGUST 30, 2009 UNTIL MAY 27, 2012

KEY

• italic = in progress
• struck-out = dropped
• ✔ checked = completed

[17/101]

EDUCATION & INTELLECTUALISM

• ✔ Take SAT
• Get accepted to college
• Become fluent in spoken Japanese
• Become fluent in written Japanese
• Give 100,000 grains of rice with (free rice.com) [www.freerice.com] [300/100,000]

TRAVEL & CULTURE

• Go to Boston
• ✔ Go on an over-night trip without my family
• ✔ Go on at least five road trips [5/5]
• ✔ Drive all night to meet someone in the morning
• Get a passport
• Visit another country
• ✔ Go on a spontaneous trip/vacation
• See at least five plays [0/5]
• See at least two musicals [0/2]
• Go to at least two music festivals [1/2]
• ✔ Go to five concerts [5/5]
• Go to a ballet
• Go to a butterfly house

PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH

• ✔ Learn to style hair better
• ✔ Have a spa day
• ✔ Learn how to stop saying, "No," when I mean, "Yes."
• ✔ Get over my fear of being in love
• ✔ Grow my hair out
• ✔ Be happy
• ✔ Learn to like my smile
• ✔ Be comfortable singing in public
• ✔ Drink sixty-four ounces of water a day for six months [180/180+]
• Drink a cup of tea everyday for six months [1/180+]
• Wear sunscreen every day for three months [0/90+]
• ✔ Take a yoga class
• Get an exercise bike
• ✔ Learn to swim better
• Join a gym
• Complete the two hundred sit up challenge
• ✔ Find out blood type and donate blood
  • i donated blood but they didn't tell me my blood type. :c

READING

• ✔ Read the Lord of the Rings trilogy & The Hobbit [4/4]
• Read The Tale of Genji
• Read everything written by Chuck Palahniuk [4/11]
• Read everything written by Neil Gaiman [2/9]
• Read War and Peace
• Join a book club
• Read fifty non-fiction books [2/50]
• Read seventy-two chapter books aloud to siblings [3/72]
• Familiarize myself with ten new poets [0/10]
• Finish the 101010 challenge [2/100]
• Finish the 111111 challenge [0/121]
• Finish the 121212 challenge [0/144]

CREATIVITY & FASHION

• Publish a short story
• ✔ Begin writing a novel
• Knit a blanket
• Knit a hat
• Knit leg or arm warmers
• Knit a dress for Rosie
• Complete NaNoWriMo 2009
  • Complete NaNoWriMo 2010
• Win a writing contest
• ✔ Buy at least five articles of clothing in patterns/styles that I've never tried before [5/5]
• ✔ Experiment with more make-up techniques and styles
• ✔ Wear my hair differently every day for a week [7/7]
• ✔ Wear a pair of high heels for a whole day without killing myself
• Write a poem that I actually like

COOKING

• ✔ Learn to cook well
• Learn how to make Chai tea from scratch
• ✔ Make dinner for my family every night for one week [7/7]
• ✔ Bake something from scratch five times [5/5]
• Make a birthday cake for someone from scratch
• Make crumpets
• Make Butterbeer

HOME

• ✔ Move out of my parents' house
• ✔ Adopt/rescue an animal
• Have at least five plants [2/5]
• ✔ Have an aquarium
• Have a saltwater aquarium

FAMILY & FRIENDS

• ✔ Throw a surprise party for someone
• ✔ Write a heartfelt letter to someone I love
• Send flowers to someone
• Find a puddle-jumping buddy and jump in puddles with them wearing a raincoat and rain boots
• ✔ Have a tea party
• ✔ Have a picnic
• Overnight someone fresh baked goods
• ✔ Have five movie nights [5/5]

RANDOM

• Finish AFI's top 100 movies list [6/100]
• Get my license
• Get a car
• ✔ Create and stick with a blog here
• ✔ Improve handwriting
• ✔ Leave notes in books at the library & B&N for people to find [5/???]
• ✔ Kiss someone at midnight on New Year's Day
• ✔ Spend an entire night outside without a tent
• ✔ Spend the night on the beach
• ✔ Stargaze with someone I love
• ✔ Watch the sun rise with someone I love
• Review every movie/book I read/watch for a month [0/???]
• Buy a new laptop
• Start a dream journal
• ✔ Get a job
• Create a bank account
• Create a savings account
• Find a new band every month [11/29]
• ✔ Walk up and talk to someone I've never met before at least three times [3/3]
• ✔ Compliment ten random strangers [3/10]
• ✔ Laugh until I cry