Two Successes

Today I have two successes! I have written in LJ every day for a month, and taken my meds every day for a month. I don't feel any different for having taken the meds every day. Nonetheless, I have two more down, and I'm at 12% now.

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is the story of an autistic teenager who grows up to design half of the United States' cattle slaughterhouses to be more humane and not scare the cows. They manage to pull off this character who is clearly autistic, but not overly annoying nor completely impossible to connect with. Which is pretty amazing. Anyway, when I realized the movie was about cows I was a little worried, but it actually kept my interest more than most movies do. The way this girl's mind works is amazing - she can remember everything she has ever seen. And she pictures everything. See, my mind doesn't work in pictures at all. If I see even the most amazing art piece, I won't remember it 5 minutes later unless I'm looking at it again. I guess it's sort of the opposite of her problem - and it is a problem in my case, too - everything is words. I even dream in words rather than images. Anyway, I've strayed from the movie to my personal thoughts, so I'll close here with Four Stars.

Goals for March

Get 10 levels in WOW
Learn inkle weaving
Read Harry Potter Book 5
Take one photo a week
Puzzle book
Learn to embroider
Finish Bones first season
20 sudoku puzzles
6 crossword puzzles
10 snapshots from 100 snapshots
DITL
Post a self portrait
Learn to set up my own sewing machine
Finish American Gods
Finish first season of Glee
Watch 2 movies with different alphabet letters
Walk the dogs 5 times
Play DDR weekly
Eat 3 veggies/fruits a day for a week
Go grocery shopping weekly
Shave my legs weekly
100 pushups program
200 sit ups program
Run
Weigh myself weekly
Eat something I’ve never eaten
Get an A
Visit Las Vegas
Swim with a dolphin
5,000 question survey
Keep car clean
Scan another album in
Send thank you card to Dalke

Set up a house cleaning Schedule

I actually did one on accident! I forgot this was on my list, but Kevin and I desperately needed a house cleaning schedule if we're to move in 2 months. So I set it up. Then when I was going through looking at my list I was like "hey! I did that!" So yay me! lol. Anyway, the schedule is basically half an hour every day at 3pm (unless 3pm is undoable that day because of the SCA mostly in which case it's rescheduled for another time). In addition to this there are 2 hour "pushes" every Friday to make sure everything gets cleaned and out of here on time! 30 minutes is a perfect amount of time, because it just starts to feel like "guh" to me, without feeling excessive, whereas Kevin starts to "pick up steam" at 15 minutes so 20 minutes was too short for him. Today we cleaned our back yard, as much as is possible with the limitations of the size of the recycling container. We'll have to go back to that some time next week and finish it off. We also started in on the kitchen a bit.

Hopefully we'll get in the habit of doing this, and will continue in the new house as well, so we don't end up with the kind of mess that we have now.

According to dayzeroproject.com this officially makes me 10% done with my list. That's some good progress! Of course, it's the bigger things that are left.

100 Snapshots

Forever


Wrong

(you kind of need to know the history of this building - but it was built wrong, essentially)

Day in the Life

Good morning DITL! Yes, I apparently get up at this hour for no good reason now. I must be growing up...


Check my email, LJ, and other important sites.


Check my schedule for the day. I'm free until 3:00 time to clean up for half an hour with my husband.


We're completely out of food - this will suffice for breakfast!


Doggies must go out!


This is what our back porch looks like this morning.


Much cuter


Doggie!


Here's my todo list for the week. It runs Wednesday to Wednesday so it's not too impressive that it's half done...


Homework


Pause for scrabble!


Do some work for the 101 list, too.


Puppies like to play


Even Rogue will pay attention to me for cuddles!




We have a kitty too. He's not so playful.




This mess... must go!


TADA!


Hi DITL! I finally got myself out of my pajamas!


To go to the school for a bit


This is our giant printer. We're pretty sure it speaks Russian, not English...


Drive home pausing for this... it gets worse every week, I swear!

Success! Get Published!

I got word today that a book review I wrote was published on h-net!!

The Fighter

This movie was pretty good, actually. It was really well acted by the guy who played Dickie. I was rather annoyed by most of the characters most of the time though. Which I guess is the point and at least I cared about the characters, which is more than I can say for most movies that I watch. The end is obvious though. I mean, they don't make movies about losers, right? Overall I liked it, but I kinda hope it doesn't win best picture.

New Picture

Books A to Z

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U - The ultimate Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
V
W
X
Y
Z

Movies A to Z

A
B - Black Swan
C
D
E
F - The Fighter
G - The Godfather
H
I
J
K
L - Legend of the Guardians
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T - Temple Grandin
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Authorize in Archery

I did one! It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I guess I know what I'm doing. I'm going to take my new archery card to Lyondomere Arts and Archery next weekend and shoot in my first tournament.

Some Changes

I decided not to keep the school and California related goals on this list. Instead, I substituted some Atlanta related ones (like joining RUM) and some more generic ones, as well as some professional goals. The new list is posted here, and also posted at the Day Zero Project Website. New goals include (but aren't limited to, because I put some of them earlier in the list and can't remember which they were, duh!) :

85Get through the summer at camp

86Research camp budgets

87Research camp grants

88Authorize in archery - Which I did today!

89Get a job teaching

90Make something out of wood

91Try a new sport

92Read a children's book in Russian

93Learn medieval dancing

94Take a train somewhere

95Go rafting

96Complete a 1000+ piece puzzle

97Sort out my wardrobe and donate any old clothes

98Go to Harry Potter World

99Watch 26 new movies, one for each letter of the alphabet

100Read 3 books from the banned books list (http://www.banned-books.com/)

101Read 26 books I've never read starting with each letter of the alphabet

As clarification....

... I do not feel like I've failed because I'm dropping out of school. The failure mentioned was specifically in response to the 101 goals that I will not do because I'm dropping out of school. I'm actually not upset with dropping out. I think that it's ultimately what's best for me for many reasons.

Massive Fail

As some know, I've decided to drop out of school. This means I've failed at everything that requires me to be in school, and everything that requires me to live in Southern California. *sighs* I'm pretty disheartened about this.

Bragging on me!

This is in response to the item which says I will write a list of 100 things I have accomplished in this life time. This was a really difficult list to write.



1. I got my MA
2. I TAed successfully
3. I got my BA
4. I learned all the kids’ names in my Spanish class
5. I survived being sick in a foreign country
6. I learned the Russian alphabet
7. I got better than a 3.5 GPA in grad school.
8. I found some really awesome friends.
9. I graduated from high school.
10. I passed two AP exams
11. I got into Lovett
12. I got a travel grant at CC
13. I won a book award for creative writing
14. I got into CC
15. I got into GSU
16. I got into UCR
17. I travelled around the globe
18. I reset my internal clock
19. I lost 40lbs
20. I learned how to read before kindergarten.
21. I got published in the school creative writing book
22. I won a contest with a photograph I took.
23. I got into FOCUS
24. I scored two goals in baseball.
25. I did jumping jacks on top of Pikes Peak without having an asthma attack.
26. I wrote a 45 page paper
27. I presented at several conferences.
28. I married someone I think is awesome.
29. I learned to develop pictures.
30. I passed pre-calculus.
31. I started working out regularly
32. I went to Stevens for the summer
33. I learned to speak Spanish
34. I learned to drive.
35. I drove around the entire country
36. I paid off all my credit cards after college
37. I went a month without eating an appetizer
38. I beat my parents at scrabble
39. I was president of Tygres Keep
40. I am list minister for Gallavalley
41. I organized my first list
42. I wrote the list of 101 things for 1001 days and kept track of it
43. I authorized for heavy fighting
44. I authorized for archery
45. I authorized for thrown weapons
46. I was lifeguard certified
47. I rescued a kid swimming
48. I was CPR certified
49. I passed my oral comps at GSU
50. I passed colonial Latin America
51. I made deans list through high school
52. I was in PAT
53. I was in Golden Key
54. I learned all 50 states and their locations
55. I learned all 212 countries and their approximate locations
56. I learned all the presidents in order
57. I bought a car
58. I got my armor kit together
59. I got my archery equipment together.
60. I’m a lady in waiting
61. I went to Russia without knowing anyone
62. I went to Guatemala alone
63. I went to Argentina alone
64. I went to the archives
65. I rode a horse even though I was terrified of it.
66. I navigated the airport in Spanish
67. I got into Row Row Row
68. I learned to SCUBA and certified
69. I was on varsity swim team and never gave up.
70. I drove from Kansas to Colorado by myself.
71. I tutored the AVID kids.
72. I beat my dad at chess
73. I got into the SAS photography class
74. I got into SAS
75. I was on the website team for SAS
76. I was published
77. I finished that book review that should get published.
78. I moved to Statesboro without knowing anyone
79. I moved to Colorado without knowing anyone.
80. I had my body fat down to normal in the army scale
81. I went on SAS without knowing anyone.
82. I organized funding for Estrella
83. I kept TK alive for another year
84. I did so without drama.
85. I shot a gun
86. I moved to California
87. I wrote 100 things I’m thankful for twice
88. I tutored the after school kids
89. I brought the after school kids to the bowling alley
90. I did art projects with the babies
91. I won the toothpick bridge contest.
92. I ran a mile without stopping
93. I did 20 pushups in a row
94. I fixed the problem with my ipad
95. I’ve visited 45 states
96. I’ve visited 20 countries.
97. I finished my language requirement
98. I got over my fear of earthquakes
99. I sang in the choir
100. I wrote this list.