Finishing School
1. Finish my Teacher Work Sample (the big student teaching project) before it is due (completed)
2. Survive student teaching (completed)
3. Take and pass Early Childhood Praxis exam (completed)
4. Graduate college! (completed)
5. Take a graduate class (or several)
6. Find a teaching job
7. Do my own taxes
8. Remember to send out Christmas cards (0/2)
9. Learn how to cook 10 yummy meals (2/10)
10. Successfully parallel park without embarrassing myself (completed)
11. Get my own dog!
12. Purchase my own vehicle
13. Write 15 letters to friends and family the old fashion way (15/15)
14. Keep my apartment clean and tidy for a whole week, while I am living in it (0/7)
15. Learn how to change a tire
16. Buy a pair of glasses
17. Host a party at my apartment (completed)
18. Clean out and organize my closet
19. Keep my car clean for a whole month (0/30)
20. Lose 30 pounds (2/30)
21. Be able to run a mile without stopping (0.1/1)
22. Go a month without soda (0/30)
23. Go a month without fast food (30/30) (completed) Do it again (0/30)
24. Remember to take my vitamin every day for a month (0/30)
25. Spend a week on a sleep schedule (go to sleep and wake up at the same times) (0/7)
26. Go for a walk, just because, at least twice a month (4/66)
27. Take time to meditate
28. Take a Tai Chi class (completed)
29. Drink only water for a week (0/7)
30. Dance like an idiot in a dressing room when I fit back into size 12 jeans!!
A Little Crazy
31. Visit a haunted house
32. Get a tattoo
33. Have sex in the woods
34. Share a bath with someone I love
35. Get my fortune read (completed)
36. Go skinny dipping (sort-of completed)
37. Buy some stripper heels, just because
38. Read 50 books (21/52)
~Kiss Me Deadly by Michele Hauf
~Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
~Carrie by Stephen King
~Murder Takes the Cake by Gayle Trent
~Slow Hands by Leslie Kelly
~Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
~Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
~Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
~One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
~Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
~Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
~The Magicians by Lev Grossman
~TTYL
~Pretty Little Liars #1
~Pretty Little Liars #2
~Pretty Little Liars #3
~Pretty Little Liars #4
~Pretty Little Liars #5
~Pretty Little Liars #6
~Pretty Little Liars #7
~Pretty Little Liars #8
39. Spend a whole day in bed reading a book
40. Re-watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy in ONE sitting
41. Re-watch the Star Wars movies in ONE sitting
42. Crochet a new afghan
43. Complete a new cross stitch project
44. See Avenue Q on stage!
45. Beat Super Mario Bros. Wii (completed)
46. Go to a convention in a cosplay costume
47. Watch 100 movies I’ve never seen before (38/100)
~It's Complicated
~The Fugitive
~Donnie Darko
~My Sister's Keeper
~Mamma Mia!
~Definitely, Maybe
~The Hangover
~The Notebook
~Dear John
~She's the Man
~The Box
~Zombieland
~Paranormal Activity
~Alice in Wonderland
~Superman Doomsday
~Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
~Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
~Kick-Ass
~Father of the Bride: Part II
~When Harry Met Sally
~Romeo + Juliet
~The Losers
~Reefer Madness!
~Drop Dead Gorgeous
~The A-Team
~The Time Traveler's Wife
~Jonah Hex
~The 40 Year Old Virgin
~Hackers
~Eclipse
~The Last Airbender
~Going the Distance
~Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
~Easy A
~Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt1
~Batman: Under the Red Hood
48. Go to 3
49. Beat my bowling high score of 165
50. Host a playing card night with my friends
51. Survive a month without needing any money from my parents!
52. Pay off my Visa card (in progress)
53. Don’t overdraw my checking account in 2010 (failed)
54. Don’t overdraw my checking account in 2011
55. Start a change jar, and keep it up throughout 2010
56. Visit a city I have never been to
57. Go on a trip all by myself
58. Travel somewhere out of the country
59. See the
60. Go to a museum that I have never been to
Being a Good Citizen
61. Give blood at least 3 times a year (2/8)
62. Set up recycling bins in my apartment
63. Compliment a stranger every month (6/33)
64. Volunteer my time for a cause (completed)
65. Donate plasma
66. Donate unwanted clothes once a year (0/3)
67. Donate a dollar for each task left undone
68. Mail a Post Secret
69. Leave a Post Secret in a PS book at the bookstore
70. Go a week without swearing (0/7)
71. Go camping with my friends
72. Go fishing
73. Shoot a gun
74. Dress up for Halloween (1/2)
75. Go to a concert
76. Sing karaoke
77. Learn to play a whole song on my guitar
78. Meet someone famous
79. Make a new friend (completed)
80. Dress up and go out once a month (6/33)
81. List 100 things I like about myself (0/100)
82. Buy a ridiculously expensive perfume that I love
83. Do one thing that I thought I would never do (completed)
84. Spend a day without TV/internet once a month (6/33)
85. Learn how to roller skate
86. Go ice skating and don’t break my wrist this time
87. Learn some basic sign language (lets say, 50 signs- I already know the alphabet, so those don’t count) (0/50)
88. Find a bra that actually fits, is comfortable, and not butt-ugly (completed)
89. Do something that scares me
90. Go to a piano bar
91. Put together a 3D puzzle
92. Go to a Cardinals game each summer (0/3)
93. Go to a wine tasting
94. Go tubing/boating
95. Learn to sing a whole song in a foreign language
96. Make a snowman (or woman)
97. Read three of Shakespeare’s plays that I have not read before (0/3)
98. Get up in the middle of the night to see a meteor shower
99. Send someone flowers
100. Finish a coloring book, since that is on lots of people’s lists, and it sounds like fun! (in progress)
101. Have a happy 25th birthday/26th birthday/27th birthday (1/3)
I will start my goals on January 1st, 2010, and the project will end on September 28, 2012.