Mission 101 Update

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Little bit of a progress report...

1. Don't drink alcohol on more than 10 of the 1,001 days [2/10! Woohoo!]
2. Obtain a better job [Getting more applications this week].
3. Make a binder or scrapbook of some kind with all of my high-school writing in it.
4. Go to a museum (not the Warhol) [Completed - Carnegie Museum of Art, 5/5/09].
5. Write at least 33 haikus (since haikus aren't my usual style at all) [15/33]
6. Don't dye my hair until at least 10/31/09 (may expand this to the full 1,001 days. I've already sworn not to do it until Halloween, so I decided to include it). [still undyed!]
7. Watch five movies in theaters [1/5 - Saw Terminator Salvation (5/21/09)].
8. Go to at least 5 concerts [1/5 - Saw Freezepop on 5/3/09. Just got tickets to see Blink-182 w/Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco on 8/14!!!].
9. Finish the Playlist 'Verse when it tells me that it's over...don't drag it out.
10. Go back to the ocean. I live near a lot of lakes, but I'm rarely in salt water.
11. Read books by ten authors I haven't read before [1/10 - Douglas Adams].
12. Kiss in an elevator.
13. Get a Twitter [Completed - you can follow me if you want; my s/n is “fearlesslove”].
14. Tweet at a celebrity and get a response [Keltie Colleen, 4/24/09].
15. Knit a scarf [Still incapable of moving to a second row.].
16. Make sure that my music is backed-up every six months, just in case [0/5].
17. Use my re-useable grocery bags instead of plastic ones at least 20 times [3/20].
18. Decide what I really want to major in [Completed. I’m now a Social Work major].
19. Be polite to Jamie when I see her [Saw her on 5/18/09, had a nice chat].
20. Stop leaving clean laundry on my floor/in the basket [much success so far].
21. Write something for We Are Cities.
22. Read "The Audacity of Hope"...
23. And "Dracula". I know that's an odd combination, but both sit unfinished on my bookshelf.
24. Donate blood [Still hasn't happened...fear of needles].
25. Bring my college GPA up to at least a 2.5 [Brought it up from a 2.0 to a 2.26 in one semester!!!].
26. Drink more water [Changed this goal slightly to make it healthier].
27. Send three secrets to PostSecret [0/3].
28. Try to argue with my brother less.
29. Buy a lottery ticket.
30. Start a savings account and have at least $100 in it at the end of this.
31. Learn to belly-dance.
32. Make healthier food choices.
33. Walk at RRBT more often, especially during summer [Have gone twice so far].
34. Go to the Warhol Museum.
35. Try to have a better sleeping pattern.
36. Read something by Chuck Palahniuk that I haven't read yet.
37. Go to my camp at least twelve times [4/12].
38. Eat lunch with a friend at The Maple Tree.
39. Write a bandom pairing I don't read and/or am slightly uncomfortable with [Working on a Gabe/David, which I don’t normally read.].
40. Leave ten wishing stars with general but positive wishes in random places with "Unfold Me" or something similar written on the outside [0/10].
41. Do yoga at least 33 times [0/33].
42. Keep getting all of the free stuff on iTunes, actually listen to it, and then delete the stuff I don't like.
43. Stop spending so much on magazines [Dropped one but still have 4 plus random purchases].
44. Get all of the album art for my iPod so the Cover Flow is easier to use.
45. Go to a zoo [Completed - Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, 4/23/09].
46. Stop buying things that I know I won't wear...like those peacock earrings I wore once.
47. Write at least three letters to (a) soldier(s) [0/3].
48. Decide whether or not to get my navel pierced.
49. Join 'adayinmylife' and complete at least one day in photos.
50. Clean my room so that I can actually put the rug I bought last September on my floor [Completed - 3/15/09].
51. Finally donate old clothes [Completed - 3/15/09].
52. Keep my palm tree, Clyde, alive. I got him in Georgia back in March of '08, and he's fine so far. New plant record for me [He’s still alive! I repotted him on 5/30. None of my plants have lived long enough to need that before…].
53. Do something with the empty 20 gallon aquarium that's been sitting on my floor since...August 2006. Oh wow.
54. Stop leaving change on my floor [Success, if only b/c I have no change…].
55. Also stop losing paychecks and/or taking forever to deposit them (and complaining when there's no money in my bank account [No paychecks, so…].
56. Comment on my friends' posts and things that I read more often.
57. Actually complete my school papers and projects [Success for the Spring ’09 semester. On hold until next semester, obviously].
58. Try to reconnect with Andrew N. [My phone died and I don’t have his number now. Crud.].
59. Say "yes" to everything (unless, you know, somebody offers me crack/asks me to have unprotected sex/tries to sell me a panda or something) on at least 10 different days [1/10 - crazy fun day].
60. Go bowling.
61. Do something sexual that I haven’t done before [Completed many times over. Yay BF <3 lol].
62. Attempt to skate.
63. Have professional photos taken of myself with my brother, because we're 20 and 18 and they were last done when we were 5 and 3.
64. Shave my legs even when nobody is going to see them [Success, mostly because of the BF].
65. Have lunch or something with Devin.
66. Make a homemade Valentine for someone.
67. Take a Political Science class [Starts on 8/17/09!].
68. Give up MySpace for a week [Completed, 2/25/09].
69. Decide whether I want to use my Facebook more or delete it, and then follow through with my decision [Decided to keep it because the BF has Facebook and not MySpace].
70. Finish my "Wreck This Journal".
71. Make at least one new friend at school during the Spring ‘09 semester [Success! Two friends and a boyfriend! <3 Jon, Jacob, & BF (All start with J. That’s weird)].
72. Walk the RRBT from beginning to end and back.
73. Play croquet in the backyard with E., R., and M. again.
74. Write all of the "Haiku Fics" [3 in progess].
75. Type the cookbook that my Grandma E. hand-wrote for her kids and give a copy to each of my cousins - because our parents will never get around to it [in progress. Made it through the Appetizers!].
76. Make at least 10 of the recipes from said cookbook [0/10].
77. Eat at 10 new restaurants [3/10 - Lulu’s Noodles, Shogun, Lucci’s Pizza].
78. Watch or read at least 10 things I haven't yet that are referenced by songs I like [0/10].
79. Try to fight with my mother less.
80. Get back out there and start dating again [Started dating BF on 2/20/09].
81. Love more completely.
82. Write the "Money In My Wallet...Duh" song for Amber.
83. Visit Shannon's grave.
84. Stop texting during class [Fail so far. On hold until classes resume in the fall].
85. Bake an apple pie completely from scratch.
86. Read at least 50 books from the Waterstone’s Top 100 Books of the Century list [10/50].
87. Travel to another state - not Ohio [BF and I are planning to spend a week in Michigan in July].
88. Take the upper hiking trail at RRBT more often than the ground-level trail [Took the upper trail both times].
89. Cut my hair fairly short [Completed, 2/16/2009]…
90. … and then let it grow back to my shoulders [in progress].
91. Fly a kite.
92. Write a collaborative story.
93. Take my vitamin regularly and not just when I’m not doing well [fail].
94. Put a photo of BF & I on display in my room.
95. Exfoliate my entire body with a scrub at least once a month [Goal was added in May ’09, so 1/29].
96. Add a goal in June 2009.
97. Add a goal in September 2009.
98. Add a goal in December 2009.
99. Add a goal in June 2010.
100. Add a goal in December 2010.
101. Add a goal in June 2011.