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101 Goals in 1001 Days

My List so far:
Start: 01/01/2010 End: 09/28/2012

Health & Fitness
1. Lose 30 pounds and keep it off for 1 year (Currently Weight 156lbs 01/01/10)
2. Exercise regularly for 6 months (3-4 times a week; cardio and strength training)
3. Run a half marathon, triathlon, full marathon
4. Eat a 2-3 pieces of fruit or vegetable a day (nuts count too)
5. Drink at least 2 litters / 9 cups of water a day
6. Floss and brush teeth 2x day for 1 week/ 1 month
7. See a gynecologist about menstrual cycle & pap smear
ACTION STEP: Set an Appointment
8. Do the P90 Challenge
9. Take the Special K Challenge
10. Try a different exercise class every week
� Yoga / Boot Camp / Aquatic classes / Dance classes / Spinning
11. Become a yoga instructor
� Next Level One 100Hr Module July 1-7th (7:30 - 5:30) in Los Gatos $1045

Recreation
12. Start Ballroom dancing again - Enter a Dance Competition (with Lee)
� Salsa / Hustle / Cha Cha / Tango / Waltz
13. Ride my bike to work for 1 month / 6 months (at least 2x a week)
14. Go on hikes more often - at least once a month for 6 months / 1 year
15. Camping in Yosemite / Lake Tahoe / on the beach
16. Have a BBQ/ Picnic every month in the summer
17. Go white water rafting
18. Ride a jet ski
19. Go to Burning Man
20. Go to Coachella

Things to Learn
21. Learn the moves to Michael Jackson's Songs (Also Beyonce�s Ring on it video)
� Thiller / Smooth Criminal / Bad
22. Become an advanced Scuba diver - master diver
23. Learn to ride a motorcycle / get motorcycle license
24. Take a massage class and treat Lee to a weekly 30 minute back & neck massage / monthly 1 hour full body
25. Learn to play the piano - learn 2-3 songs by heart
26. Learn to play the guitar - learn 2-3 songs by heart
27. Become a Sommelier or a Bartender
28. Learn how to make 5 mixed drinks and serve to my friends
29. Learn how to use the sewing machine (Beverly fabrics?)
30. Complete the Rosette Stone for Mandarin

Things to Create
31. Create a website for mom's classes
32. Create something from all my saved ticket stubs
33. Start a vegetable garden / herb garden
34. Start a compost pile
35. Complete Photo Projects - Black and Whites of me and Lee / collage for Uncle Rudy and Lee's Parents
36. Take a picture every day for one week / month / 6 months / year
37. Start a Scrapbook
38. Homemade/ Organic Shampoo
39. Make homemade yogurt

Things to Do (For Me)
40. Create a schedule for all my goals � exercise, work, etc.
41. Go one week without shampooing my hair (1 month?)
42. Take pictures in a photo booth with close friends
43. Yelp at least 100 restaurants/ businesses I have visited [13/100]
44. Listen to classical music for 30 minutes a day for 1 week / 1 month
45. Find a house with Lee and move into it - make it a home
46. Find the perfect dog for me and lee / find the perfect cat
47. Read the books from 101 books to read before you die - see spreadsheet
48. Read 30 minutes a day for 1 week / 1 month / 3 mo / 6 mo etc
49. Blog / keep a journal - everyday writing
50. Do the Master Cleanse
51. No television for 1 week / 1 month
52. Do yoga/ tai chi in the park
53. Salsa Dance on the 3rd street Promenade in Santa Monica
54. private
55. Get admitted into grad school (Law School / Education/ teaching?)
� Bring up GPA
56. Apply for the Peace Corp
57. Get a tattoo I won't regret (after I lose weight)
58. Change my hair in a drastic way - color/ length/ style
59. Fix / recreate blog to my liking
60. Cook dinner every (week) night for 1 week / month
61. Volunteer at an Animal Shelter

Things to Do (For Others)
62. Clean Lee's apartment from top to bottom
� Bathroom, closets, storage unit, kitchen, living room
63. Declutter Mom's garage, back rooms, upstairs little room, Andi's Room, backyard
64. Learn to cook something Lee likes / Chinese recipe without his help
65. Volunteer at an Animal Shelter (Training 01/06/2010)
66. Donate Blood every 3 months (01/06/10)
67. Throw a themed/ costume party
68. Throw and all out Halloween party
69. Make a haunted house for Halloween and have the friends help
70. Make everyone�s Christmas gifts by hand (nothing purely store bought)
71. Cook Thanksgiving Dinner all by myself and have the whole family over for the holidays

Travel / Places to Visit
72. Watch a Broadway musical in New York / see the statue of liberty / ground zero
73. Take a trip to South America - Argentina, brazil
74. Vacation in Mexico
75. Go on a Cruise
76. Take a trip to China / teach English in China
77. Volunteer in a foreign country
78. Take a week long road trip with Lee to Seattle / Vancouver
79. See the Grand Canyon � ride a donkey to the bottom

Business / Career
80. Start a dog walking business - get two more clients than you walk
� Make tshirts and flyers to advertise (website?)
81. Get a Full Time Job
82. Get Promoted
83. Be Earning 50K - 80K by the end of this 1001 Days
84. Ask people to write references for me

Finance
85. Create a budget and figure out where your money is going
86. Open a saving account and save $100 a month for 6 mo / 1 year / 2 years
87. Bring up credit score by 100 points
88. Get an American Express Card
89. Pay back Lee for Tires / Europe / Wells Fargo CC $5000
90. Pay Back Mom for Europe $10,000 - not possible in under 3 years

Saturday Nite Rentals

-Shaun of the Dead ('04) with Simon Pegg
-Love Actually ('03) Colin Firth & Hugh Grant
-Ronin ('98) with Robert DeNiro
-The Professional ('94) with Jean Reno
-Philadelphia ('93) T Hanks & D. Washington
-Scent of a Woman ('92) with Al Pacino
-Fried Green Tomatoes ('91) with Jessica Tandy
-Lifeboat ('44) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
-Gone with the Wind ('39) with Clark Gable- yum!

Free time

Ballroom Dancing - beginner's nights are Friday nights but there are also beginner's classes on Saturday and Sunday. $12 for the lesson of two or more dances and you get to party for the rest of the night! I think it's a good deal. . .

South First Billards - Great atmosphere

SDROWSSAP

For the "Fritz" entry you must know who came before nikkipikkel, he was a rather accident prone individual and we haven't heard much from him lately. I believe he is still circumnavigating the globe in a hot airballoon, but no one knows for sure.

For the "fucking bastards" entry the password is a number. The number of voices in my head.

For the "Whore" entry the password is the official name of my first hamster. Now I called him a lot of things but the name I'm looking for is also the name of his father. . . (this should help weed out all of the ppl that don' pay attention- you guys are undeserving )

For the "I think he likes me" entry all you need to know is what my favorite drink is. All lower case if it matters. For those that know me this should be easy. And for those of you that actually saw this little module, props to you too for checking out the whole page.

Out of Date

Wednesday. 5.7.08 2:15 am

This has to be the most neglected blog on nutang. Looking at the Saturday Night Rentals module, you would think I haven't seen a new movie in 5 years. But that's not true. I skipped my qualitative analysis class to watch a pirated "Enchanted" the other morning. Then I got a 60 on my last midterm. I guess I should have done more analysis. ..

I was suppose to be writing these tech focused blogs, 5 throughout the semester, and now here we are in the last three weeks of the term with only one down. A half ass one to boot. sigh

I just don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to do it and you can't make me! However you can punish me. Sweet, sweet punishment in all your various forms.

I haven't done much in 5 years. I'm where I was.

how very depressing

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Correspondence

Wednesday. 4.2.08 11:38 pm

Original Email:
A meal at mcdonalds is $10 each day. Breakfast at school is at least $3. Lunch is at least $5. Disneyland food was $30 each day.

I want an extra $300 a month to pay for food, costumes for my show, regular hygiene products, a helmet, etc. If there is concern that i might use the money carelessly, i will agree to collect reciepts to show you to ensure the money is spent on necessaties

Mother's Reply:
I am already paying Mr Williams $300/month to rent 1/2 of Ruth's bedroom and for some meals, which I presume is dinner. Do you eat dinner at his house? You could make pasta. I could drop off groceries if you e-mail me list every Sunday or Friday afternoonA meal at mcdonalds is $10 each day. You eat at Mcdonald"s everyday? or was this for Disneyland only?.

Breakfast at school is at least $3 (That is $60 a month, you could spend on costumes or movies or clothes; Why don't you wake up 30 minutes early & eat brkfst at home? make bagel & cream cheese, fruit, milk, juice, cold cereal, etc....... )
Lunch is at least $5 (OK).

Disneyland food was $30 each day (are you saying you've spent $200 in 7 days, and that you are out of money today and need $$ right now?).

I want an extra $300 a month to pay for food (OK), costumes for my show (this is not a necessity, get a job!), regular hygiene products (OK), a helmet (we have lots of helmets in the garage), etc.

If there is concern that i might use the money carelessly, i will agree to collect reciepts to show you to ensure the money is spent on necessaties (do that!).

Your cell phone costs me $40/month. I now pay Mr Williams $300/month for rent + $300 for your spending money, for a total of $640/month.

Mr Williams says he will not allow you to stay in his house when he is promoted, because he will need to travel for a week at a time and cannot trust you to be at his house alone. You will have to look for another place to stay as soon as he announces his promotion. Why doesn't Ruth's mother like you?

Wake up!! Realize that in exactly 8 months you will have no income unless you start working. No rent, no pocket money, no cell phone, no nothing!!! Get 2 jobs this summer while getting some vocational training. Save for the cold winter.

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Tech Tasks

Wednesday. 3.12.08 8:49 pm

Individual Tech Tasks

Below is a description of possible individual technology tasks designed to provide you with opportunities to use new and developing technologies.

MANDATORY

1. Create a blog and make at least five entries throughout the semester related to you major and how technology affects it. MANDATORY FOR ALL. You may use any service (search for various sites that allow you to do this e.g. blogger.com)

Entry One: I bought a smart phone: The Palm Centro.
My bf, who works for Sony, and is rather tech saavy asks me why I need a smart phone. The first question should have been, 'do you even know what a smart phone is/does?' Answer: no. All I know is that my plan costs more.

Here is my reasoning - Andi is leaving sprint so this is my last chance to upgrade to a snazzy new phone for a fraction of the cost. (Andi was also moving in but that is another story.) Also - I don't have a laptop of my own. I'm borrowing my bf's. So I thought a smart phone was a nice in between (between having a laptop and not having a laptop?) Admitedly I'm a little drunk on new tech toys. I bought a flat screen for my desk top and the bf brought home a PSP which has been glued to my hands for weeks. So I was excited about the opportunity to get a new toy.

I think I'm off track . . . how technology effects my major . . . well i can now recieve emails on my mobile device which allows me to communicate and network with people no matter where I am. I am more able to read about the latest innovations and to jump on any opportunities that may present themselves.

hmm . . . for the first entry, I think that was pretty good.

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Gone baby Gone

Thursday. 2.21.08 1:01 am

she moved out of the house a couple of weeks ago. she was told to find a job, and not to return until she did.

so she left.

that was a Sunday. she wasn't back monday or tuesday. but the school hadn't called so she was still going. mom was worried. she tried to hide it.

one day she sent an email. she had a place to stay and food to eat. she was safe with good people who would drive her wherever she wanted to go. a place to sleep. said she wasn't planning on coming home except for clothes.

selfish bitch.

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Ignorance is not an Excuse

Sunday. 6.10.07 10:30 pm

I started this blog so long ago. Its crazy to go back and read the shit you pounded out on a keyboard nearly 5 years ago. You remember odd little things about each entry - either the event being described or the reliving of the event as you typed it out later.

23 years old now. New BF. New Job. New outlook. New Direction.

Same friends though . . . a couple of new addtions have spiced up my lif e a little.

Things haven't really changed though. I'm not any smarter than I was then. No more confident or tactful. I'm making the same mistakes but in different ways.

Maybe that's learning - Not making the exact same mistake over again.

I keep thinking I really need to start growing up. But I have no idea of what it means. Only that it is something I should be working towards.

I don't know why. Maybe I'll be a better person, more successful and happier. But I'm not unhappy now and those changes would actly makeother people happier than they would make me. Maybe I just don't know.

A Fortune Cookie told me today that "Ignorance is not an excuse". What the hell is that suppose to mean?

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Snow Season

Friday. 11.24.06 11:42 pm

I didn't hit the slopes once last season and I'm looking to make up for it this season. I've only been snowboarding but I'm interested in trying to ski as well.

I know it can be kinda expensive but I have ways to reduce your costs and increase your fun! And for those of you with your own equipment (patrica/dasha) this is an offer you can't refuse . . . read on!

1. I have a truck so I can drive up to four passengers. It's a nice truck too - two words people: SEAT HEATERS.

2. I'm currently in the process of sweet talking my way into cabin in Truckee. So hopefully we could have a place to crash if we want to stay more than just one day (hint hint andi). Note: This place may not have running water see #4.

3. I'll bake you treats for the drive up - anything you want (within reason).

4. I'll buy you alcohol (or at least I'm willing to share my alcohol)

5. There is no #5. I can't think of anything else that could make this deal sweeter. If you need a #5, then you're too damn cheap for me anyway.

So what do you say? Who's in?

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