Something I've always wanted to do is write a story. I don't care if I'm published (although that would be awesome), but I've always wanted to write a book.
I guess now's as good time as any to get started. I can't talk, since I lost my voice (yay), so I might as well start.
It was a dark and stormy night.... No, I don't like that.
A cool summer evening... No, not that either.
I guess I shouldn't start it yet. But, when I do, I'll probably post parts to get comments on.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Top banned books
I have always had a really big problem with banning books. I don't understand why people want to ban books. I love reading, I have a room full of books. I really want my own library within my house one day. So I just don't get it.
Well, #9 is to read all top 10 banned books of the 20th century. So, here they are:
Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century
10. The Grapes of Wrath [1939] John Steinbeck
9. Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928] D. H. Lawrence
8. Slaughterhouse-Five [1969] Kurt Vonnegut
7. To Kill a Mockingbird [1960] Harper Lee
6. Fahrenheit 451 [1953] Ray Bradbury
5. The Catcher in the Rye [1951] J.D. Salinger
4. Tropic of Cancer [1934] Henry Miller
3. Naked Lunch [1959] William S. Burroughs
2. Ulysses [1922] James Joyce
1. 1984 [1949] George Orwell
They will be marked in bold once I've read them.
Well, #9 is to read all top 10 banned books of the 20th century. So, here they are:
Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century
10. The Grapes of Wrath [1939] John Steinbeck
9. Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928] D. H. Lawrence
8. Slaughterhouse-Five [1969] Kurt Vonnegut
7. To Kill a Mockingbird [1960] Harper Lee
6. Fahrenheit 451 [1953] Ray Bradbury
5. The Catcher in the Rye [1951] J.D. Salinger
4. Tropic of Cancer [1934] Henry Miller
3. Naked Lunch [1959] William S. Burroughs
2. Ulysses [1922] James Joyce
1. 1984 [1949] George Orwell
They will be marked in bold once I've read them.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Movies and Books for my list
I wanted to post AFI's top 100 movies (the 2007 list) so you can follow along with my progress (or if you just want to count how many of these you've seen!). Any movie that I have already seen is shown in bold/italics. Any movie I see moving forward will be marked the same way, but with the addition of date that I saw it.
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin’ in the Rain
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler’s List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General
19. On the Waterfront
20. It’s a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like it Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. ET The Extra-Terrestrial
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lifes
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunger
54. MASH
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan’s Travels
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President’s Men
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
83. Titanic
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense
90. Swing Time
91. Sophie’s Choice
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show
96. Do the Right Thing
97. Blade Runner
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story
100. Ben Hur
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin’ in the Rain
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler’s List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General
19. On the Waterfront
20. It’s a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like it Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. ET The Extra-Terrestrial
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lifes
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunger
54. MASH
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan’s Travels
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President’s Men
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
83. Titanic
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense
90. Swing Time
91. Sophie’s Choice
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show
96. Do the Right Thing
97. Blade Runner
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story
100. Ben Hur
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
60 of my 125 tasks
The Mission:
Complete 125 tasks in a period of 1125 consecutive days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific -no ambiguity in the wording- with a result that is measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must be realistic and have some amount of work on my part.
Why 1125 Days?
This is my version of a bucket list. I don’t want to wait until I’m going to ‘kick the bucket’ to do things I really want. I’m also not good at resolutions. But, maybe with a realistic timeline (1125 days= 3 years) I will be able to do some of these things.
Start Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
End Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Bold - Completed Item
1. Print pictures for parents wedding gift (picture frames)
2. Create art for the living room
3. Create album of wedding photos
4. Create wedding shadowbox
5. Make ten invitation templates (0/10)
6. Make wedding programs
7. Make thank you card templates
8. Watch all the AFI’s Top 100 movies (2007 list) (28/100)
9. Read the top 10 banned books (1/10)
10. Attend a concert of someone famous I haven’t seen live before
11. Attend an open mic night
12. Complete NaNoWrMo (National Novel Writing Month)
13. Go to a movie alone
14. Find 100 things that make me happy (0/100)
15. Write a book that is no shorter than 50,000 words.
16. Take a cake decorating class
17. Try 30 different recipes (0/30)
18. Bake bread
19. Decorate a cake with fondant
20. Make homemade ice cream
21. Cook dinner at home, everyday, for two weeks
22. Take lunch to work everyday for 1 month
23. Backup all my music on my external hard drive
24. Clean off my computer’s hard drive
25. Learn how to use Illustrator
26. Upgrade to CS3 at home
27. Use reusable shopping bags instead of plastic when I go to Aldi
28. Rid my life of plastic bottles
29. Find a recycling center around my apartment and take all the cardboard boxes to it
30. Lose 10 pounds and keep it off (0/10)
31. Drink one more glass of water than soda everyday
32. Take a dance class
33. Wear a bikini in public
34. Work out three days a week
35. Draft a living will
36. Change my name
37. Organize the bedroom closet
38. Clean the litter box every other day or buy a self cleaning litter box
39. Get a new passport
40. Backup portfolio pieces on disc
41. Set up an Etsy store
42. Sell something on Etsy
43. Create a budget
44. Put $20 into savings account each month (0/160)
45. Get joint account
46. Get joint checks
47. Pay parents back for school
48. Donate old clothes
49. Make a donation to the Humane Society
50. Send an e-mail/letter to an old friend
51. Send Christmas cards
52. Go out to eat with husband at someplace new
53. Host a dinner party
54. Buy a house
55. Replace computer
56. Buy a new camera
57. Get new dishes
58. Get new pots and pans
59. Buy Beauty and the Beast
60. Go on a cruise
61. Go on an airplane
62. Go on a road trip
63. Go camping
64. Go somewhere spur of the moment
I am still working on the rest of the list. More will come, but this is my beginning.
Complete 125 tasks in a period of 1125 consecutive days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific -no ambiguity in the wording- with a result that is measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must be realistic and have some amount of work on my part.
Why 1125 Days?
This is my version of a bucket list. I don’t want to wait until I’m going to ‘kick the bucket’ to do things I really want. I’m also not good at resolutions. But, maybe with a realistic timeline (1125 days= 3 years) I will be able to do some of these things.
Start Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
End Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011
Bold - Completed Item
1. Print pictures for parents wedding gift (picture frames)
2. Create art for the living room
3. Create album of wedding photos
4. Create wedding shadowbox
5. Make ten invitation templates (0/10)
6. Make wedding programs
7. Make thank you card templates
8. Watch all the AFI’s Top 100 movies (2007 list) (28/100)
9. Read the top 10 banned books (1/10)
10. Attend a concert of someone famous I haven’t seen live before
11. Attend an open mic night
12. Complete NaNoWrMo (National Novel Writing Month)
13. Go to a movie alone
14. Find 100 things that make me happy (0/100)
15. Write a book that is no shorter than 50,000 words.
16. Take a cake decorating class
17. Try 30 different recipes (0/30)
18. Bake bread
19. Decorate a cake with fondant
20. Make homemade ice cream
21. Cook dinner at home, everyday, for two weeks
22. Take lunch to work everyday for 1 month
23. Backup all my music on my external hard drive
24. Clean off my computer’s hard drive
25. Learn how to use Illustrator
26. Upgrade to CS3 at home
27. Use reusable shopping bags instead of plastic when I go to Aldi
28. Rid my life of plastic bottles
29. Find a recycling center around my apartment and take all the cardboard boxes to it
30. Lose 10 pounds and keep it off (0/10)
31. Drink one more glass of water than soda everyday
32. Take a dance class
33. Wear a bikini in public
34. Work out three days a week
35. Draft a living will
36. Change my name
37. Organize the bedroom closet
38. Clean the litter box every other day or buy a self cleaning litter box
39. Get a new passport
40. Backup portfolio pieces on disc
41. Set up an Etsy store
42. Sell something on Etsy
43. Create a budget
44. Put $20 into savings account each month (0/160)
45. Get joint account
46. Get joint checks
47. Pay parents back for school
48. Donate old clothes
49. Make a donation to the Humane Society
50. Send an e-mail/letter to an old friend
51. Send Christmas cards
52. Go out to eat with husband at someplace new
53. Host a dinner party
54. Buy a house
55. Replace computer
56. Buy a new camera
57. Get new dishes
58. Get new pots and pans
59. Buy Beauty and the Beast
60. Go on a cruise
61. Go on an airplane
62. Go on a road trip
63. Go camping
64. Go somewhere spur of the moment
I am still working on the rest of the list. More will come, but this is my beginning.
My new direction
So, this blog started as a blog for my wedding. But, I've changed my mind. My wedding is less than 2 months away, so I won't have a lot to write about. Instead, I'm working on my list of 125 things I want to do in 1125 days (thus the name of the blog). That should be posted later today. Follow my movement as I try to complete my list!!
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