My hair is cut!

I got 7 inches cut off my hair.

:cringes:

Now I have 30 days from last friday to keep it down.

Picture coming soon!

My Movie List

Any Help?
A - Angels and Demons
B - Beer for my horses
C
D
E - Elf
F - Four Christmases
G Gettysburg
H
I
J - Julie and Julia
K
L - Lil Abner
M - Miracle
N
O
P Paranormal Activity
Q
R
S- Shawshank Redemption
T - Talladega Nights
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

August's Deep Question

If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?

Hard question! I've found something to love pretty much everywhere I've been (and really spent time).
States: Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Colorado, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, California, Texas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Kentucky, you name it!
Countries: Germany, definitely.

Part one of the 5000 question survey

Part one
1. Who are you? I'm me...thanks for asking.

2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you?
A: I find humor in almost everything
B: I'm easily distrac---oh a squirrel
C: Although it may not seem like it, I enjoy quiet time :-)

3. When you aren't filling out 5,000 question surveys like this one what are you doing?: Teaching Preschool

4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn't like at the time).
1: Yearbook
2: German
3: Band
4: English
5: Science
6: Math

5. What is your biggest goal for this year? : Finish my 101 things

6. Where do you want to be in 5 years? : With a family in a house

7. What stage of life are you in right now?: Weird awkwardness between newlywed and old married lady

8. Are you more child-like or childish? : Childlike

9. What is the last thing you said out loud? : "Ok"

10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now? : Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes? : Nope

12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same? Get better

13. Does time really heal all wounds? No, of course not

14. How do you handle a rainy day? Ideally? Sleeping in, realistically? Going status quo

15. Which is worse...losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights? Loosing luggage

16. How is your relationship with your parents? Good

Will you miss them when they are gone? Of course

17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you? Yes

18. What is the truest thing that you know? Nothing is certain but death and taxes

19. What did you want to be when you grew up? Circus clown, marine biologist, teacher or a stand-up comedian

20. Have you ever been given a second chance? Of course

21. Are you more of a giver or a taker? Taker

22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind? I try to

23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you? My miscarriage

24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you? My miscarriage

25. Who have you hugged today? A lot of people, there was a family reunion

26. Who has done something today to show they care about you? My mom

27. Do you have a lot to learn? Of course

28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be?

A De-cluttering and organization

B Spanish

C Math (all aspects)

29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how other people make you feel? How they made me feel

30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship? Honesty, Heart and Humor

31. What 3 things do you want to do before you die?

A Go to new york

B Be a mom

C Go to a tropical Island

32. What three things would you want to die to avoid doing?

A Losing loved ones

B (I'd rather deal with other unpleasantness than leave my family and friends)

C

33. Is there a cause you believe in more than any other cause? Humankind

34. What does each decade make you think of:

The 19..

20's: Flappers (and grandma)

30's: Depression

40's: War

50's: Sock-hoppers

60's: Greasers

70's: Woodstock

80's: Me! (and bad hair)

90's: Emo

2000 (so far): Clueless and Mean Girls

2010's: Kids that don't know how to do anything for themselves

35. Which decade do you feel the most special connection to and why? I've always fancied myself more of a Civil-war era lady :-)

36. What is your favorite oldie/classic rock song? Yesterday

37. What country do you live in and who is the leader of that country? USA and Obama

If you could say any sentence to the current leader of your country what would it be? "What the fuck are you thinking?"

38. What's your favorite TV channel to watch in the middle of the night? Food Network

39. What Disney villain are you the most like and why? Cruella DeVil and I have no idea, she's just my favorite

40. Have you ever been a girl scout/boy scout? Yup

41. If you were traveling to another continent would you rather fly or take a boat? Fly

42. Why is the sky blue during the day and black at night? Because otherwise we'd not sleep

43. What does your name mean? I have no idea

44. Would you rather explore the deeps of the ocean or outer space? Ocean

45. Word association

What is the first word that comes to mind when you see the word:

Air: Head

Meat: Balls

Different: Strokes

Pink: Cotton Candy

Deserve: Earn

White: Snow

Elvis: Rhinestones

Magic: Words

Heart: Broken

Clash: Titans

Pulp: Ficton

46. If you could meet any person in the world who is dead who would you want it to be? Einstein

47. What if you could meet anyone who is alive? Robin Williams

48. Is there a movie that you love so much you could watch it everyday? No, but NCIS would fit

49. You are going to be stuck alone in an elevator for a week. What do you bring to do? A book, a notebook, a pen, a pillow and an ipod


50. Have you ever saved someone's life or had your life saved? Not that I'm aware of
51. Make up a definition for the following silly words...

Fruitgoogle: Internet search for dessert

Ambytime: That special hour when Amby comes out to play

Asscactus: What happens when you poo in the desert

52. What was the last thing you made with your own hands? Sand Castle

53. What was your favorite toy as a child? Books

54. How many TV’s are in your house? 1

55. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Swim

56. How do you feel when you see a rainbow? Giddy

57. Have you ever dreamt a dream that came true? Yup

58. Have you ever been to a psychic/tarot reader? Had my palm read at the festival once

59. What is your idea of paradise? Contentment

60. Do you believe in god and if so what is he/she/it like? Yes and forgiving

61. Do you believe in Hell? Yes

62. What one thing have you done that most people haven't? Spent a summer overseas

63. What is the kindest thing you have ever done? I don't know

64. Are you a patient person? Sometimes

65. What holiday should exist but doesn't? Sleep in day

66. What holiday shouldn't exist but does? Tax Day

67. What's the best joke you ever heard? The Aristocrats

68. Where is the most fun place you have EVER been? Hard to say

69. Is your hair natural or dyed? Natural

70. Do you have any deep dark secrets or are you pretty much up front? A few secrets, mostly upfront

71. What is under your bed right now? Boxes and dirt

72. If you were in the Land of Oz would you want to live there or go home? Depends on who was with me

73. If you drive do you frequently speed? Yes

74. What is the world's best song to dance to? "I don't feel like dancing" Sister Scissors

75. What song was on the last time you danced with someone? Probably something at work, I dance with my kids all the time

76. Do you prefer Disney or Warner Brothers? Disney

77. What is the first animal you would run to see if you went to the zoo? Dolphins

78. Would you consider yourself to be romantic? Sometimes

79. If the earth stopped rotating would we all fly off? No

80. What is the one thing that you love to do so much that you would make sacrifices to be able to do it? Travel

81. If you (and everyone) had to lose one right or freedom, but you could pick which one everyone had to lose, what would you pick? I don't know, good question. Maybe the right to vote, because it doesn't seem to do any good anyways

82. If you had to choose would you live on the equator or at the North Pole? Equator

83. Would you rather give up listening to music or watching television? Music

84. What do you think makes someone a hero? Bravery and selflessness

85. What cartoon would you like to be a character in? Family Guy

86. Name one thing that turns your stomach: Child abuse

87. What was the last thing you paid for? Muffin

88. Are you a coupon clipper? Sometimes

89. Get anything good in the mail recently? Nope

90. Which would you rather take as a gym class...dancing, sailing, karate, or bowling? Bowling

91. In Star Trek people 'beam' back and forth between different places. What this means is they stand in a little tube and their molecules are deconstructed and sent to another tube somewhere else where they are reassembled. Only problem is when the molecules are deconstructed the person is dead. When they are put back together it is only a clone that has all the dead person's memories. So...

Is the person who gets beamed the same person on both ends? Holy crap, someone was bored with this question

92. What insects are you afraid of? Poisonous ones

93. If you could print any phrase on a T-shirt, what would it say? "Umm, I've got nothing"

94. What's the most eccentric thing you have ever worn? My Tie Dye

95. If you could pick one food that you could eat all you wanted but it would have no effect on how much you weigh, what food would it be? Pasta

96. What are your parents interested in? Fishing, sewing, White Sox baseball

97. Have you ever caught an insect and kept it as a pet? No, not long term

Have you ever caught and tamed a wild animal? Nope

98. What is more helpful to you, wishes or plans? Plans

99. When do you feel your life energy the strongest? In the summer

100. You are spending the night alone in the woods and may bring only 3 items with you. What do you bring? Knife, Light and water

My list

I did some math and I have until Monday, April 30 2012 to finish this.

My list
Code:
Goal : unfinished, not started
Goal : in progress
Goal : completed
Goal : altered (with reason stated)

Self

1. Make a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days
   
2. Complete a project 365
3. Lose 5 pounds every month until I reach (private)lbs (0/32)
   
4. Cook a real meal at least 2 times per week
   
5. Clean out, organize and maintain the cleaniliness of the bathroom cabinets
6. Prune wardrobe of things that do not fit/I do not wear
7. Try and drink at least one full bottle of water every day for the first 6 months. Increase a bottle every 6 months.
   
8. Get new glasses and at least one pair have to be bright and different
9. Eat out (including lunch at work) no more than two times a week
   
10. Spend 10 days (not necessarily consecutively) without internet
11. Accumulate (private amount) in savings and keep it. If it is spent, reaccumulate before spending it on stupid stuff
12. Get pregnant (and maintain a healthy pregnancy)
13. List 101 things that make me happy
14. Read at least one fluff book per month (0/32)
    
15. Limit myself to 5 personal (not work-related) books from the library at one time
    
16. Write a monthly budget and stick with it.
    
17. Replace all of my old underwear and bras
18. Complete a 30 day exercise program
19. **Private**
    
20. Attend at least 2 yoga sessions
21. Get a facial a year (0/2)
    
22. Go to the movies alone
23. Go camping
24. Try at least 10 new foods (0/10)
    
25. Buy a subscription to All You
26. Knit a scarf for each immediate family member
27. Go through our stuff and have (or contribute to) at least one garage sale
28. Finish the photo mural frame
29. Put the California pictures in an album
30. Check out an Indie movie at the Cinema Center
31. Eat at 20 new restaurants (0/20)
    
32. Organize and use the desk/office area in the apartment
33. Drink one glass of water for every glass of non-water beverage
34. Get a new haircut and do not pull back into a bun for at least a month
35. Continue attending monthly meetings (1/32)
    
36. Get an appropriate pair of dress shoes
37. Get appropriate new sneakers
38. Get professionally fitted for a bra once a year (0/3)
    
39. Buy (and handwash) new 3 new bras.
40. Make a visual to-do list so that I am reminded of my goals
    

Total Goals: 40

Family and Friends

1. Keep everyone updated via personal blog at least once a week. Once a month, include pictures. (0/32)
   
2. Take a 2-3 day vacation (out of town) with Matt each year (0/3)
   
3. Attend (and enjoy) 10 year class reunion
4. Host at least 5 dinner parties (0/5)
   
5. Go visit nonnie
6. Have at least one photoshoot with friends
7. Regular date night with Matt per week, at least one per month needs to be out of the house (0/32)
   
8. Send someone an anonymous gift or flowers
9. Create a list of people to cultivate (and re-establish) personal relationships with. One personal, one internet
10. Sent at least one "real" email per week to someone on each list
11. Have brunch with the girls
12. Do a pubcrawl with friends, really letting loose and enjoying myself (assuming I am not pregnant or on medications that prohibit it).
13. Attend an away hockey game
14. Take Matt whitewater rafting
15. Make a family 101 list for Matt and I to accomplish together
16. Have a picnic with Matt at a park
    

Total Goals: 16

Work

1. Write at least one post-it note for the mirror every month (0/32)
   
2. Bring in a treat every other month for the breakroom (1/16)
   
3. Turn in paperwork on time
4. Keep personal shelf orderly
5. Keep on top of all of the paperwork aspects of the job
6. Acquire at least 5 more training hours than necessary
   

Total Goals: 6

Community and Environment

1. Smile at a stranger every day
2. Buy the food/drink for someone behind me once a year (0/3)
   
3. Use reusable shopping bags whenever I go shopping
4. Pick up random litter as I come across it, every time
5. Take the grocery cart back for someone in the parking lot every month
6. Hold the door open for strangers
7. Participate in random acts of kindness day
8. Write a letter to the editor when I feel strongly about an issue
9. Be sure to write notes to companies when I receive excellent service
10. Over-tip someone that deserves it at least once a year (0/3)
    
11. Spend more time on the porch, getting to know the neighborhood
12. Walk in the three rivers parade
13. Attend one community event every season (4 months) (0/9)
    
14. Be more proactive in infertility awareness (writing DC, bill proposition, sharing personal experiences)
    
15. Actively recycle our recycle-able waste
    

Total Goals: 15

Miscellaneous

1. Throw out, give away, sell or otherwise eliminate at least 101 items from my life (0/101)
   
2. Maintain (and use) an indoor herb garden
3. Try new recipes regularly until I have at least 10 things I can make well from memory (0/10)
   
4. Make a quilt out of my favorite old t-shirts
5. Print, frame and hang at least 5 photos I have taken (0/5)
   
6. Organize my hard copy photos and store appropriately
7. Organize my hard drive (including purchasing a new portable hard drive if necessary)
8. Get passports for Matt and I
9. Get muffler fixed on car
10. Send a postcard to post secret
11. Watch 26 movies (one for each letter of the alphabet) (1/26)
    
12. Answer at least 32 of the 50 questions that will free your mind (Link) (1/32) **I may write more, but only one will count per month)
    
13. Make 5 favorite lists
    
    • NCIS episodes
    • Grey's episodes
    • Classic Movies
    • Comedy Movies
    • Romance Movies
    • Action/Mystery Movies
    • Sci-fi/Thriller Movies
14. See a play at the Civic Center with Matt
15. Attend a beer tasting (and note my favorites!)
16. Reach Gold status on the nest (6,001 posts) ***CHANGED due to idiots on the nest getting me banned** TBD
    
17. Get professional pictures of matt and I taken (esp since we didn't have professional engagement pictures done)
18. Leave 10 random sweet notes in library books (0/10)
    
19. Get makeover at a make-up counter
    
20. Complete the 5000 question survey (Link)
21. Join (and participate in) Postcrossing
22. Participate in at least 6 IComLeavWe (0/6)
    
23. Send a letter to my future self to be opened on the 1001st day
    
24. Review this list at least once a month, update it publicly (with pictures when possible) with changed, completed, or in-progress goals.
    

Total Goals: 24

101 goals listed

The beginning

I guess this is day one as it's 12:30am. Day one of my 1001 day journey.

I tried something like this before, but I gave up.

I'm going to try again.

Dear me,
Welcome to the next 1001 days of your life.