On this day, March 1st:

• 1445 - Alessandro Botticelli is born.
• 1692 - the Salem Witch Hunt begins.
• 1780 - Pennsylvania becomes the first American state to abolish slavery.
• 1904 - Glenn Miller is born.
• 1927 - Harry Belafonte is born.
• 1932 - infant son of Charles Lindbergh kidnapped.
• 1944 - Roger Daltrey is born
• 1954 - US tests hydrogen bomb in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini.
• 1954 - Ron Howard is born.
• 1961 - President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• 1966 - Venera 3, a Soviet probe, collides with Venus. It is the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
• 1978 - The coffin of film star Charlie Chaplin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery thr...

• a meteorologist
• a singer
• a ballerina
• an astrologist

things I still want to be when I grow up

• a writer
• a voice actor
• a professional sleeper (available on a freelance basis)

• Soft fur
• Warm mugs
• Ice-cold bottles
• Rain drops
• Flower petals
• Tiny baby hands
• The skin on my legs, after they're freshly shaved and moisturized
• Crisp, new money
• Warm paws
• Microsuede
• The walls of really old dwellings
• Belongings that have been cherished
• Crystals, and other objects that have a Charge
• Memory foam
• Clean hair
• Sand
• Lots and lots of tiny beads in containers
• Dryer-fresh towels

• Rent - $660
• Electric - $98.65, this month
• Credit Card - $171
• Loan - $65
• My cell phone - $70-ish
• Cable - $50-ish
• Insurance - $60-ish

• Being in dark, unfamiliar places
• Bugs, specifically ones that could be on me
• Crickets
• The possibility of our apartment manager discovering we've had cats but have never paid the deposit...
• The thought of getting arrested
• The thought of never accomplishing something with my life
• My bills
• The possibility of changing jobs
• My new job!
• Change in general
• Moldy things I find in my apartment
• The scale, recently
• Mirrors and things they make me do
• Photographs of myself
• My compulsion to consume unspecific intoxicating substances
• Therapy

Oy vey.

• clean room
  • clean off desk
  • throw away unnecessary garbage and nonsense
  • laundry (at least some of it, if not all)
    • fold clothes on shelves
      • organize shelves to fit clothes and possibly other stuff
        • ooh! socks and underwear in tupperware drawers to free up bottom shelf for other random crap, maybe??
• clean out fridge
• clean rat cage
• take out trash

• this top
• this sweater
• this vest
• this sweater
• this shirt
• this tank
• this vest
• this shirt
• THIS CUTE BATHING SUIT

• Livejournal
• deviantART
• Y!Gallery (shut up, I only go for my favorite artists!)
• Jacqueline Bigar's website for my daily horoscope (pisces)
• Facebook
• I Can Has Cheezburger and all the related sister sites
• Cake Wrecks blog

And every sunday:

• PostSecret

• Fly
• Write something good
• Write something of substantial length with a definite beginning and end, preferably a novel
• Look in a mirror and not obsess over something
• Pose for photos
• Exercise
• Get off my ass
• Socialize on a regular basis, without the anxiety and stress
• Pay all my bills every month and have money left over
• Pay off my credit card
• Love
• Move home, but take my friends with me
• Write and perform music
• Get a job I get paid decently for, and also enjoy
• Math, without feeling like a helpless idi...

• Skinny
• Accomplished at something
• Educated
• More financially secure
• Attached romantically
• Happy
• A parent
• Closer to home

• order an Italian Soda as an EYE-talian soda.
  • one day, I will finally snap and ask someone where EYE-taly is located on the globe.
• pay for a <$2 item with a $20 bill.
• try to place an order in my drive-thru without lining up with the drive-thru speaker
  • the drive thru speaker is clearly marked on two sides: "TALK HERE
    
    " on the side and "ORDER HERE" on the front.

• a clean apartment
  • thanks for helping out, maggie.
• OMG THIS .
  • thanks, krissy!
• a gym membership
  • thanks to the generous people at the ymca
• a filing cabinet
• filing folders
• a big bookshelf
  • thanks to my old job for throwing away a perfectly good (albeit dirty) shelving unit.
• a new power cable for my laptop
  • thanks, mom and dad. :)
• a new battery for my laptop would be kill...

• The Airborne Toxic Event (self-titled)
• Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
• Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant (single)
• Augustana - Can't Love Can't Hurt
• Back Door Slam (self-titled)
• Chairlift - Does You Inspire You
• Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts
• Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
• Coldplay - Viva la Vida (or Death and All His Friends)
• The Crash - Pony Ride
• Dan Fogelberg - High Country Snows
• Deathcab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
• Fallout Boy - I Don't Care (single)
• FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
• Fischerspooner - Odyssey
• Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace
• Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
• Gorillaz - Demon Days

• Utah
• California (as a baby, does that count?)
• New York
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Florida
• Texas
• Colorado
• North Dakota (duh)
• Minnesota
• Guam (hey, hey! Its a protectorate!)
• Hawaii (had a layover there once)

• Star Trek: TNG, Voyager, and DS9 (in no particular order)
• Are You Afraid Of The Dark
• Rocko's Modern Life
• Doug
• AAH! Real Monsters!
• M*A*S*H*
• Rescue 911
• America's Funniest Home Videos
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
• David the Gnome
• Talk Soup
• Hey Dude
• Quantum Leap
• Ren and Stimpy