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Never let it be said that I don't think big.
mood: 
restless
restlessmusic: Candlebox--Far Behind
So I'm going to do this thing. And as I don't have 101 things right off the top of my head, I'm going to list them here. Obviously I'll update the list and my journal as I do them, et cetera.
- Take responsibility for my money.
- Start a nest egg.
- Pay off the credit card.
- Put money in a general savings account.
- Learn to knit.
- Sell my creations via etsy and other such venues.
Start a fitness plan.- Train for a half-marathon.
- Run a half-marathon.
- Learn to bellydance.
- Finish Autumn Leaves
- Get Autumn Leaves published.
- Get a tattoo.
- Learn to upholster.
- Reupholster the sofa.
- Get a decent desk chair.
- Go green.
- Get a laptop (furthering the "go Green" mentality)
Submit short stories for publication.- Put at least 75% of money made through side ventures in savings.
- Loose 80 lbs or get into a size 8, whichever happens first. *that's 50 to get me healthy and 30 to get me comfortable.
- Look amazing in a two piece.
- Know I look amazing in a two piece.
- Volunteer regularly for something.
- Use the yarn that's gathering dust in my yarn stash.
- Learn an instrument.
- Go at least six months without drinking any kind of soda.
- Learn to cook.
- Bring my lunch to work at least three times a week for at least six months.
- Allow myself to take completely self-indulgent myspace-esque pictures and post them on the 'Net.
- Finish painting my apartment.
- Finish my craft room.
- Learn prayerbook Hebrew--work on conversational Hebrew.
Wear nothing but dresses for thirty days.- Wear makeup to work every day for thirty days.
- Say yes to everything for an entire week.
Talk to strangers.- Go to a karaoke bar.
- Visit Build-A-Bear and create a stuffie.
- Buy $100 in food cards. Give food cards away to the people with the cardboard signs in the street.
Read four books in a month.- No whites for thirty days. That is, no white flour, white sugar, white bread, etc.
- Go to the art museum
That's all I got so far. Suggestions are welcome!
2) Do what we do: start a Roth IRA (they're funded by after-tax dollars, which means you won't get pinched by the Feds when you turn 69 1/2), and have an automatic withdrawal every month. That way, you're forced to do it, and you'll begin to learn how to live without the small stipend you send to your future self.
7) Is it bad that The Wife and I are going to do that using Wii Fit?
11) Finishing a book/story has been on my list of goals for a decade. Okay, finishing it to my satisfaction, because I did finish a novel, and it blows.
13) If The Wife can get two, you can get one. DO IT, DOUG!!!
18) How is a laptop green?
22) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
7. Not at all. I'm all for any kind of technology that's used for fun.
11. I read a really great essay by somebody (Maybe Stephen King?) that talked about knowing when to stop editing. Also, knowing when you're just being picky. Apparently ALL writers/actors/musicians EVERYWHERE have a tendency to think their work sucks (at least the real ones, the superficial douches think they shit moonbeams) and it takes someone outside the process, say a friend or an agent, to tell them their work's decent.
13. Oh, I want more than one, but I keep putting it off/don't have the money. Hence the monetary responsibility, so I CAN start saving a get the things I want.
18. It uses a LOT less energy than a PC.
22. I know. When I say "look good" i mean, I want to think I look good. So 22 kinda feeds directly into 23. These two came about specifically because of this past week. I went home and was going through some pictures of me my senior year of college and was like "Jesus, I was hot. How did I not know I was smokin'?" So yeah.
7) Good, because I feel like a bit of a cheat.
11) I remember Stephen King had a formula in On Writing ... been a long time since I read that. Good book. Informative. However, I know my novel sucks. It's far too immature, the antagonists have little to no substance, the protagonist is whiny, and the conclusion is rushed and a total clusterfuck.
18) Even if you plug it in?
23) What I meant more was that, you may look good to someone else at a point before you feel good about yourself. Which always seems to be the trouble between men and women; we have a bit more of a sliding scale for "grading".
Oh, and this post, worthless, no pics, blah blah blah. ;)
7. You're only a cheat if the avatar's the only one doing the work.
11. Well, as long as it actually sucks and you aren't be modest. Is it salvageable at all?
18. Oh yeah. Think about it, a desktop isn't just the CPU--which is also bigger than any laptop on the market. It's drawing energy with your monitor, speakers, printer, etc. Incidentally, I count anything I have to plug into my power strip in that because if it gets plugged in it's using energy. Some study a while back actually showed how a laptop was better, but i forget what the actual number was. Something like only 25% of power or some such.
23. Oh, I know. That's why their two separate entries. Because I know there will come a point where I look awesome in a two piece. But this is not necessarily the point in which I feel I look awesome in a two piece, you see?
And yeah, once I lose all the weight I want to lose, I do believe I will turn into one of those little myspace whores.
18) Never thought about it that way. I was contemplating getting a laptop next time anyway. My problem, though, is that I leave the computer on continuously, so as to keep the Wii online, so, it might make any sense to go laptop for me.
23) I'd be amused to no end if you turned into one of those people.
18. You can leave a laptop on and plugged in all the time. It' still drawing way less energy than a regular desktop. They actually make those stand things so you can set up a laptop like a desk top (with a wireless keyboard etc) that's probably what I'll end up doing in all honesty.
23. You realize, now I must do a myspace photo spread to prove a point, yes? And I actually was one of those people when I first got my digi-cam.
I would suggest putting a goal about performing in front of people (even if it's just karaoke) But that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Good luck. I know you can do everything on here.