The Third Degree

What this page is about!

1. Vacuum once a week – Uhm, this is going to be hard, my vacuum died!!!! I really really need to buy a new vacuum. It’s June. I have NOT completed this. I seriously need a new vacuum.
2. Learn to tie a tie
3. Sell off most of my possessions – probably not happening now, I kinda like my stuff
4. Move across the country – not happening now
5. Move as few things as possible with me - not happening now
6. Earn A’s in graduate school – not happening now
7. Go on a date 1/2/09: CCG and I had dinner and then saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was good. Then he promptly started acting like a girl. I had one date. Then I had multiple dates. Then I didn’t date. Then I am again. It sucks being a single girl sometimes.
8. Get a new DSLR
9. Take more pictures than last year
10. Walk a marathon
11. Save $500 Done
12. Go to a concert
13. Eat fast food NO more than once a week Did this the last week of February and am planning on doing it again for quite some time. After surgery I made the decision to change my diet quite a bit and see how much better my body feels! I’m excited for the change!
    
14. Write one hand-written letter a week
15. Lose 20 pounds – I’m down ten pounds thanks to surgery. Let’s see if I can keep ‘em off! Done! Happy Birthday to me!
16. Get new glasses
17. Buy a little black dress (never owned one before)
18. Buy myself a nice piece of classic jewelry – Silver hoop earrings! Fancy pants, I know.
19. Keep blogging for a network – Still doing this! Actually stopped doing this in April. Except outside of WEGO Health. Something had to go.
20. Buy my own blog domain - Research has begun.
21. Look into buying a photography domain - Research has begun.
22. Make photography business cards
23. Use said photography business cards
24. Participate in NoBloPoMo
25. Succeed in NoBloPoMo
26. Watch Mama Mia - I watched it … almost didn’t like it. Still torn.
27. Get a pair of skinny jeans I tried on a half-dozen pair and don’t like how my body looks in them. Instead I bought a long shirt/short dress and leggings and wore them. I feel super cute in that.
28. See a Broadway (or off Broadway, heck) show
29. Keep track of every book I read (see Bibliophile page) Shit. I’ve forgotten about this. Damnit. I need to update it.
30. Write at least one sentence to “review” each book I read (see Bibliophile page) See above. Shit.
31. Keep track of every movie I watch (see Media page) This is not happening. It stresses me out way too much!
    
32. Pay off Chase card - done in January!!!
    
33. Pay off Capital One card (2008 will be my year-outta-credit-card-debt) This will be done in November or December. SO proud of that!
34. Cut out sugar (and all sugar substitutes) for at least a week
35. If I make it through the week, try for a month
36. Cut out fast food for an entire month
37. Eat like a vegetarian for an entire month
38. Visit five new states (January – Georgia & South Carolina)
39. Visit a foreign country
40. Begin nose job research
41. Learn to drive a stick shift
42. Work on 3^rd tattoo design
43. Try out a new musical artist – Kanye West … Ne Yo … Adelle … Joe Purdy new stuff for me. Blip.fm has been a fantastic resource for new musical artists!
44. Visit a museum
45. Meet a blog friend in person (I don’t think I’ll be going to BlogHer so this will be an outside event!) I have a few plans in the works for this one and for #46. EWOKMAMA!!!!
46. Meet a second blog friend in person This should be happening multiple times in AUGUST!!!
47. Continue growing my hair out (1/2/09 trimmed & colored, 4/19 ready to chop it all off and just being patient) Bwahahah! 6/27 I chopped it all off again. Could not be patient and love what I did with it instead.
48. Try Ethiopian food
49. Find a South Carolina “home” church - not happening now
50. Meet someone famous (I have never met a celebrity. I should start hunting them down.) (Pictures essentially confirm my mother offered a member of the Wu Tang Clan grapes and strawberries in the elevator. Fabulously embarrassing!)
51. Splash in the ocean
52. Learn to cook a fabulous new staple meal Orzo, chicken, green beans & carrots. NOM.
53. Get a massage – thank you Acupuncturist!!!
54. Give a massage
55. Finish a cross-stitch
56. Wear my hair really big in public (don’t ask me, it’s a goal, give me a break) – did this Salsa dancing … we called it my porn star hair. It was huge and fabulous!
57. Ride in a cab
58. Buy a non-traditional colored shoe (purple or green or something!) – I bought yellow wedge heels this weekend. I cannot wait to wear them!
59. Find a job I like while going to graduate school – not happening now
60. Organize my CD collection
61. Organize my music on iTunes
62. Organize my music on my iPod
63. Take a cooking class (thanks Angie)
64. Bake a cake from scratch
65. Bake brownies from scratch
66. Take a workout class
67. Be able to do 50 (real) push ups in a row
68. Find a new tea I like (Tazo Earl Grey – tasty stuff. I will probably try many more new teas this year.)
69. Try a new coffee drink (Soy vanilla latte … the whole soy this is new for the year. I don’t mind it as much as I thought I would.)
70. Don’t drink alcohol for an entire month 10 days prior to and while healing from surgery alcohol was a no-no so I was a good kid. Go me!
    
71. Color a section of my hair a non-traditional color
72. Get a manicure
73. Get a pedicure – did it, almost hated it. Want someone to massage my calves full-time now though.
74. Post a Vlog
75. Repierce my nose – scheduled to do that 5/24
76. Buy a fun new hat
77. Wear blue eye shadow
78. Go camping
79. Hike in the Appalachian mountains – most likely not happening
80. Ski on the East Coast – most likely not happening
81. Plant a tree (thanks Angie)
82. Play a game of poker 4/18 … two rounds … didn’t win anything but had fun learning
83. Try a new beer
84. Visit a National Monument (Does a national historic site count? The original campus at USC was amazing and VERY old.)
85. Wear a headband
86. Buy and keep a houseplant alive
87. Bleach my teeth
88. Visit with Michelle & the girls in Virginia when they’re there - most likely not happening
89. Get a kitty - I don’t think this is going to happen. I think I’d rather pay off my debt or own a Blackberry instead.
90. Volunteer at least 100 hours – Research has started on where I want to spend my volunteering hours. I am contacting a few places in April. It’s on the month’s goals list. Found somewhere to volunteer, now just working out what I can do for them with the little time in life I have.
    
91. Drink 64 ounces of water every day for a week – done. The weeks after my surgery have held so much dry mouth it’s been EASY to drink so much water. I’m still doing it. I’m working on the month thing!
92. If I can do it for a week, make it a year month
93. Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination – done in February. Will do another in April. I loved this!
94. Buy a matching bra & panty set
95. Clean a drawer (thanks Angie) - my whole dresser (six drawers!) has been cleaned out
96. Tithe
97. Read the entire Bible from cover to cover again
98. Improve my posture
99. Work from home – Still doing this!
100. Leave my city once a month - (January – Atlanta, Georgia and Columbia/Charleston, South Carolina; February – traveled all over the north Oregon and south Washington coast; March – Gervais, OR, where my parents live; April – trip to Castle Rock, WA, May – headed to the beach! May – Cannon Beach & Hug Point, Oregon. June – uhm, sadly I only went to Gervais, OR in June. I wasn’t very brave that month.)
101. Dance in the rain - so invigorating
102. Jump in a puddle
103. Reform my DVD collection
104. Buy a gift for a stranger
105. Be fitted for a bra
106. Take one hot bath a week (instead of three or four)
107. Memorize the lyrics to a song not in my regular genre (DONE! Miss Independent by Ne-Yo. For some reason I love this song! I also am really digging Jamie Foxx & Ne-Yo’s She Got Her Own.)
108. Do some more health networking
109. Make a list of 110 resolutions for next year