With the cold weather lately, I realize just how much I love when the sun shines! I followed Keri Smith's idea ad drew the sun in my journal.....I wanted to make a journal just for her 100 ideas but I haven't found the perfect journal yet so I just swiped this idea for my list and put it in one of my main journals.  It's not perfect, I'll be the first to admit I can't draw. My journal is lined and I had limited colors. I did find a nice lemon scented(mmm!) Crayola marker. It took me less than 5 minutes but it felt really good! I think it also helped my goal of embracing my inner 8 year old. I would love to do it again, start the 100 ideas journal and maybe make more terrible drawings that make me happy. I'm also realy excited about fingerpainting. Just gotta remember this is for me not like I'm trying to win an art contest :)

http://www.kerismith.com/funstuff/100ideas.htm

The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days
Start date 1/5/10
End date 10/2/12

Change myself
-accept failure
-accept who I am
-let go of regrets and embarrassing moments
-Cool my worrying and find a healthy way to deal with stress
-become more assertive and unselfconscious

Learning/Growing/Reading/Music
-Perfect basic math
-Improve spelling
-Improve Vocab
-Read the US Constitution
-Learn to sew
-Study Christianity
-Study Greek and roman philosophy and mythology
-Get my directions straight, North east south west
-Learn to read a compass
-Learn basic massage
-Do NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo
-Memorize Keat's Ode to a Nightingale
-Have a good understanding of Latin when this is all over
-Become a handy gal who can fix a lot of things!
-Learn basic construction
-Learn ukele
-find a penpal
-Read all of Virginia Woolf's novels
-Memorize an entire Shakespeare play
-Read at least 10 classics that I've never read
-Memorize all the state capitols
-Take archery lessons
-Fill up my story notebook
-Reread Charlotte's Webb
-Reread Anne of Green Gables
-Get A+ certified
-Get certified in Microsoft Office
-Learn how to make 3 different cocktails
-Try 5 different types of (new) foreign food
-Borrow 6 random cds and widen my taste in music (hopefully!!)
-Take a self defense course
-Read everything my favorite author (Jean Rhys) has written
-Listen to Bessie Smith
-Read Atlas Shrugged
-Read a big thick Russian novel *in English*
-Listen to Leontyne Price, in her prime, sing Vissi d'arte
-Listen to all of Frank Sinatra's recordings
-Read a book on every American president
-Read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
-Read the Great Gatsby

Fun
-Perfect a magic trick
-Make animal balloons
-Share my favorite childhood films with my love
-Paint rocks
-Learn to play Mahjong
-Make a soundtrack to my life
-Catch a firefly
-Fill a journal w/inspiring quotes, lyrics and images
-Spend a day watching the Rocky, Star Wars or Friday the 13th collection
-Watch Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla or Devil Girls from Hell
-Turn the lights off and watch "wait until dark"
-Learn Happy Birthday in 3 Languages
-Learn to say I Love You in 10 languages
-Learn how to whittle little sticks into figurines

Buy
-Muff and matching coat, hopefully vintage
-Smoking jacket, hopefully vintage
-Typewriter
-Sexy robes and caftans
-More Lingerie/sexy under garments hehe
-Accordion , Harp, Violin, or shamisen
-An Elsie Massey Original Hat and start a hat collection!
-Kooky umbrella

Body/Image
-Learn to do my nails nice
-Get strong and have muscles (not huge ones, just ones that look nice on a gal like me!)
-Loose 15 pounds (or more) a year
-See a dentist
-See a dermatologist
-Go a month without junk food
-go paintballing

Give
-Blood
-At least two of my coats next winter
-Achieve 1000 clicks on care2.com
-Donate 100,000 grains of rice through freerice.com


Random
-Have breakfast by candlelight on a cold, dark, winter morning
-Complete 50 goals in 50 days
-Complete 100 goals in 100 days
-Move out of the small town I live in
-Have a candlelit bath
-Take a self defense course
-Learn some karate
-Develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for sake
-recite Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy

Cooking Related
-Make my own ice cream
-Learn to cook 10 different meals
-Perfect making home made chocolate pudding
-Learn how to make perfect vanilla cupcakes
-Learn to cook with my slow cooker
-Bring my own lunch and snacks to work
-Start shopping at the farmer's market
-eat a piece of food for each letter of the alphabet
-eat superfood for two weeks
-make a gingerbread house for Christmas

Career/School
-Get a job as CNA
-Enroll in LPN school
-Try to do better at my job
-Stop working at call centers!!!

No progress yet.....I've been sick and blah......

So I haven't really gotten much done so far with my goals! I've been sick, which can really screw things up and I'm miserable at my job! Ugh!! Time to take some action though :) 

One of my biggest goals was to see the opera La Boheme. I did on 10/12 with the love of my life (an extra bonus) had a wonderful time.......I can't believe it really came true though!

My alias is Disco Cranmango according to the alias finder at Bad Girl Swirl

Cameron Tuttle is awesome.....I've read two of her books & have the journal(that I've yet to write in) and love them. However I am not sure I could ever live up to the bad girl thing. I'm just been way too sheltered and innocent my whole life, but it would be fun to try.

Also, I found a new book that I love Keri Smith's Living Out Loud. It's filled with all kinds of creative goodies that I am finding very helpful. One thing I really like is her focus on journals. I've had such a hard time keeping a journal because I've always worried that someday someone might find it and not find it good enough or interesting enough. What I'm learning from the book is that it's all about being creative and not caring about what others think about it. Her website is equally pleasing, with her illustrations and inspiring things. I definitely want to start a journal of her 100 ideas and read more of her books.

My monthly goals aren't going so well! Ugh, but my last goal of cutting down on soda is going pretty well. I have cut back on a lot!

Anyhoo, this week's goals


work out 5 times (walk for 30 minutes) and keep record on here

Day 1 of 5-Done! I worked out 30 minutes today..... my slight headache that i had when i first started working out though got way worse.....errr

oh well, I'll keep trying!

UPDATE * Day 2-DONE!! 
Update-COMPLETED!!!

My weekly goal

I tend to drink way too much soda......at least 2 a day so starting this week, my goal is to: 
To limit myself to no more than 3 sodas this week total

Health Goals
Cut down on soda...a lot, starting this week
Work out 3 times a week or more
Start riding my bike