The List

These goals are not completed.
These goals are in progress! (11)
These goals are completed! (11)

1. Read one book for each month of the project OUTSIDE of school books:
  • October 2010 - The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
  • November 2010 - Anthem - Ayn Rand (NaNoWriMo!)
  • December 2010 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • January 2011 - Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
  • February 2011- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  • March 2011- From Eternity to Here - Sean Carroll
  • April 2011 - The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • May 2011 - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (re-read)
  • June 2011 - John Adams - David McCullough
  • July 2011 - The Likeness - Tana French (re-read)
  • August 2011 - The One Hundred - Nina Garcia
  • September 2011 - The Sea Wolf - Jack London
  • October 2011 - Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
  • November 2011 - Characters and Viewpoint - Orson Scott Card (NaNoWriMo!)
  • December 2011
  • January 2012
  • February 2012
  • March 2012
  • April 2012
  • May 2012
  • June 2012
  • More to come...its just too long right now!
2. Finish the entire series of LOST...all seasons in a row! (6/6)
3. Graduate from Southern Virginia University.
4. Read the Book of Mormon from start to finish.
5. Edit my wedding video footage.
6. Succeed in producing a cooked, stuffed, and carved turkey.
7. Travel to 5 states I haven't been to before (4/5).
  1. North Carolina
  2. Alabama
  3. Louisiana
  4. Mississippi

8. Go to New York City with Tommy.
9. See at least one big theatrical production. (A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas - Houston, TX, Alley Theatre).
10. Go to five concerts! (0/5)
11. Have my portrait drawn/painted by a street vendor.
12. Take the GRE and pass.
13. Choose water over soda 50 times at a restaurant. (12/50)
14. Donate a new book to a library.
15. Learn how to introduce myself in American Sign Language.
16. Take kickboxing lessons.
17. Run a 5k race.
18. Run a marathon.
19. Become CPR and First Aid certified.
20. Apply for a "real job".
21. Participate in the Sketchbook Project each year. (Find out about it here.)
22. Read Les Miserables and attend a production of it.
23. Go to a Kings hockey game!
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27. Watch a viewing of Rocky Horror Picture Show in costume.
28. Write a song for the piano, words and all.
29. Memorize "The Little Tree" by e.e. cummings.
30. Scream really loud off of a big cliff, like in Garden State.
31. Dye a colored streak in my hair - pink??
32. Own a typewriter.
33. Go to a tribute band concert.
34. Ride on a legitimate train (the Metro doesn't count!).
35. Write and illustrate a children's book.
36.
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38. Read all the Chronicles of Narnia books (in order of Narnian years!) (1/7)
  •  The Magician's Nephew
  •  The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
  •  The Horse and His Boy
  •  Prince Caspian
  •  The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
  •  The Silver Chair
  •  The Last Battle
39. Go to a religious service of another non-Christian faith.
40. Index 30,000 names for the FamilySearch Indexing program. (3,000)
41. Visit/volunteer at a hospital, nursing home or hospice long-term.
42. Go to New Orleans!
43. Sleep under the stars.
44. Skinny dip in a natural body of water!
45.
46. Go to the Dr. Pepper museum...mecca!
47. Learn how to change a tire.
48. Change the oil in a car...by myself!
49. 
50. Adopt a pet.
51. Earn a score of 100+ in a game of bowling.
52. Write a letter to a congressman or senator.
53. Knit something.
54. Eat at a Sonic's Drive-In, Taco Cabana, and Whataburger in the same day.
55. Go to a zoo.
56. Go to a water park.
57.
58. Visit the Alamo.
59. Order a custom-made item from an artist on Etsy.
60. Go to a rodeo.
61. Sing in a choir outside of church.
62. Become a "regular" somewhere.
63. Watch a meteor shower.
64. Give something of my own to a stranger on the spot when they need it, no matter what the cost.
65. Donate blood. 
66. Rescue someone or something.
67. Go to an instrumental performance or concert.
68. Bake French pastel-colored macarons with real, expensive ingredients.
69. Leave someone a really, really big tip.
70. Wear red lipstick every day for a week straight.
71. Walk in a Relay for Life marathon.
72. Go to a book signing, get a signed book, and thank the author for telling their story.
73. Write something I'm grateful for in my journal every day for a month straight.
74. Order a cheeseburger with everything on it and eat it all.
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76. Write something in Sharpie on a bathroom stall.
77. Get a driver's license in another state.
78. Learn to play Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" on the electric guitar.
79. Put all of our wedding pictures into an archival album.
80. Attend a record store during Record Store Day.
81. Write an appreciation letter to Bruce Springsteen.
82. See an art house film in an independent theater.
83. Go to a support group meeting.
84. Watch the sunrise on a beach.
85. Revisit the Vietnam Memorial in D.C.
86. Participate in a poetry reading.
87. Watch The Sound of Music all the way through.
88. Go on a bike ride.
89. Own Robin Hood and The Great Mouse Detective on DVD.
90. Learn how to use chop sticks.
91. Join a book club.
92. Donate all the clothes and shoes I don't use to Goodwill.
93. Make a piece of jewelry.
94. Go to and actively participate in a community bingo night.
95.
96. Participate in and complete a novel in NaNoWriMo. (Find out about it here.)
97. Go to a film festival.
98.
99. Finish my Senior Show (senior capstone display for Art majors at SVU).


Along with writing about it, I will document the completion of each goal with a picture or video.

Phew!! This should be fun!

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