So, I haven't updated in 8 months or so haha.
Today is the big day. I'm leaving Colorado and heading off to Cornell College in Iowa. I move-in on Tuesday and classes start the next monday. So, I hope everyone has a great week-end while I'll be stuck in the car the next two days XD

Alright, so I saw this community: mission101_2009 on my f-list on LiveJournal, and thought that it looked interesting. It's a community to post the list of goals that you want to get done in 1001 days, starting on January 1st. That means you'll be done by September 29th, 2011. So I decided to try it, and hope for the best! My goals are not going to necessarily be in order, especially as I'm not even sure I have 101 specific goals. So...here we go!

1. Participate in NaNoWriMo and complete the month
2. Go to Ireland
3. Graduate High School with straight A's (or close)
4. Select a College to study at
5. Make new friends at college
6. Keep in touch with my current friends
7. Ask someone out
8. Learn a new martial arts
9. Join a fencing club
10. Join an archery club
11. If possible (as in, if I'm still in the state when it happens) go to NDK
12. Read The Lord of the Rings (again)
13. Finish the Children of Hurin
14. Start learning Japanese
15. Finish Star Ocean
16. Finish Final Fantasy X
17. Play Final Fantasy VII
18. Get a Job!
19. Gather enough music to fill up my iPod (still have 4.5GB left...with 3244 songs on it already, and 4.3GB of video and 3.5ishGB of photos)
20. Meet someone famous
21. Go to a J-Rock concert
22. Go to Warped Tour
23. Get a boyfriend
24. Drive up to Rocky Mountain National Park by myself (or with friends)
25. Snowboard
26. Join a choir in College
27. Read a book in Mandarin
28. Read all the books for AP Literature, and finish them
29. Iron my clothes
30. Cosplay (as something...dunno what)
31. Cook a real dinner (not just macaroni and cheese...like actually cooking)
32. Bake a cake
33. Drive to another state
34. Do an all-nighter and then stay awake all that next day
35. Learn how to play guitar
36. Write a song
37. Get a poem published
38. Read a Shakespearean play for fun
39. Participate in a play
40. Get along with my roommate (whomever that may be)
41. Watch the Dark Knight
42. Help my friends when they need it
43. Go to D.C. and visit the Smithsonian
44. Go see the Sakura trees in D.C.
45. Play at least one hole of Golf with my dad
46. No Mental Breakdowns
47. Get at least a 4 on the AP Literature Test
48. Get at least a 4 on the AP Statistics Test
49. Go to another SCA event
50. Go to Pensic (dunno if I spelled it right)
51. Buy/make a kimono (even a simple one)
52. Learn/re-learn how to use a sewing machine
53. Make an outfit for myself
54. Finish my hooklatch rug (that I started...in...middle school I think? it isn't that big...*sigh*)
55. Take photos of the sunrise
56. Take photos of the sunset
57. Take photos of the Purple Mountain Majesties (aka the Rock Mountains)
58. Have a penpal overseas
59. Take a picture of the ocean
60. Finish Kingdom Hearts 2
61. Ride a horse
62. Go on a horseback trip
63. Make a snowfort
64. Have a snowball fight
65. Take voice lessons again
66. Go camping
67. Catch a fish
68. Attempt to make sushi
69. Find a new author to read
70. Read something by Stephen King
71. Sing a song in Mandarin in class
72. Find a foreign band (not Mandarin, Japanese, or Gaelic)
73. Finish the Life of Pi
74. Spend all day reading
75. Learn ballroom dancing
76. Go to a club
77. Watch Azumi 2
78. Buy alice nine.'s upcoming album VANDALIZE
79. Try a new genre of book
80. Watch a foreign film
81. Play Guitar Hero on Expert
82. Eat a Japanese meal
83. Finish my dolphin puzzle
84. Get accepted into Colorado College
85. Get accepted into College of Wooster
86. Get accepted into Mount Holyoke College
87. Get accepted into Smith College
88. Go to an anime convention
89. Have a movie marathon (of some kind)
90. Do DDR for 3 hours without stopping (for more than 2 or 3 minutes)
91. Learn to drive a stick shift
92. Ride in a horse-driven carriage
93. See an IMAX movie
94. Go to a Planetarium
95. Learn how to do an Ebay auction
96. Successfully sell something on Ebay
97. Finish the 100 themes challenge on DeviantArt (with Poetry...I still have over 30 left I think)
98. Tye-die something
99. Get on Dean's List
100. Play at least 30 minutes of DDR a day
101. Get a Date for Senior Prom!

and that's it! Hopefully the goals make sense, though if they don't feel free to ask clarifying questions, I'd love to answer them. Also if you think something doesn't seem to work, let me know and if so help me to change it! Thank you and wish me luck!

O.o
it's been...two months?? Haha, I've been ridiculously busy lately. Finished the first semester of my Senior Year. Had my last final yesterday. Got accepted into three colleges. Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnisota, Cornell College in Iowa, and University of Colorado in Boulder. Got the Dean's Scholarship for Cornell College, which is $10,000 a year, and just based on merit. That's exciting. My friend Brian came to visit on Halloween, it was a lot of fun. Uhmmm...finished all of my college applications, so that's a ton of stress given away. Saw Matt a couple times to watch a bunch of movies haha. I miss him. I miss all of my friends. I went ice skating with a few of my senior friends on wednesday. Pretty sure I'm going to get all As and Bs for this semester which is a huge relief. I turned down my role in the spring musical, which is going to be the Music Man. I was a townsperson, so once again a walk-on role. I'm sick of them. I'll probably help during Tech Week. Uhhh...I get to go to a Kung-Fu school for a field trip in Mandarin. We're also going to have a karaoke competition in Mandarin too. Uhmmm...lots of other stuff probably happened too, but can't really remember it. if you actually would like to read it well I usually just post on Livejournal, as I'm on there all the time, as there are a bunch of communities I belong to there. Got some cool penpals for J-Rock, specifically the GazettE XD I'm dagorwen on livejournal, and my journal is friends only, so you'll have to join or whatever XD
I don't actually have anything to post sadly. I've been lacking in inspiration. Maybe next semester will be better, or even this break. I've just been fantasizing about things that'll never happen so ya...Hopefully I'll be on more regularly and hopefully catch up with the...391 deviations I need to go through...-_-;
Now, I'm off to my Indiana Jones marathon...as I've never seen any of them haha. I'll be back later hopefully XD

So I'm totally going to try to participate in National Blog Posting Month. Let's see if I can do all of November haha. My blog is at [link] if anyone cares to check in on how my progress is going haha ^^

Also! So I went to the Sassyback Tour on Monday. It was amazing, absolutely amazing. I lost my voice though, and still can't sing my normal range or really talk, so it's kinda funny. Sing it Loud was actually really good, so that was fun. Got a cd from one of the members for $5, and he signed the cd, which the case was already dysfunctional...so apparently I'm lucky? Also got the singer to sign my school ID, since I had nothing else for him to sign. Also got one of the members of Forever the Sickest Kids to sign it too. They were all very very nice. I was at the meet and greet for Cobra, along with my friend Kayce. It was a lot of fun, they were all really nice. They signed my poetry book. It looks really cool now. The other bands were really good too. I bought a color-changing shirt so that's sweet. When Cobra came on, I was screaming just like everyone else haha. I sang along to every song as loud as I possibly could (hence the non-existant singing voice), and yet my friend Kayce was singing too...but she didn't lose her voice...*pout* so ya, dead tired the next day, but managed to make it to school in one piece and I survived the day, lucky didn't really do much that day haha.

Then last night I had a chance to go see Archbishop Desmond Tutu speak downtown at the Wells Fargo Theater. I had to drive down there, and take another kid with me, but that wasn't too bad. The tickets for us were free so that was amazing. We had a couple interesting conversations on our way downtown haha. The archbishop was amazing. He is such an inspirational speaker. He is so animated, plus he had us laughing at a bunch of parts. I'm not religious. I'm going to just say that right now. Yet, even though a lot of his speech was about us being a part of God's plan and we are his help, I still got a lot out of his speech, besides those things. I'm not going to become a Christian just because I heard his speech. But it made me realize how frustrated I got at drivers during traffic or who were just being bad drivers. I don't know their situations. I don't know what they are going through at that moment, or what they went through that day or week. They could be having the worst week ever, and I would never know. I should FORGIVE people. That is the message I received from him last night. I shall try to remember that as the days and weeks slowly progress to December, and eventually May (when I finally graduate!)

Also! I do believe I shall be going to the The Academy Is...concert this sunday which really makes me happy. I also desperately need to be studying for my AP Statistics test, which I really don't feel like doing, and will most likely do it tomorrow during study hall, which is really bad, but I'm just so ridiculously tired. I have a bit of a cold still, which has been exasperated by the concert, and then by the late night last night. I just got up from an hour and a half nap that I was planning on daydreaming through but instead fell into an exhausted sleep and didn't wake up til my mom pounded on the door, which totally scared the heck out of me. And I do believe that is enough of a post to last awhile....haha

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