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| I finally finished it! My list...99 Things to Do With My Life Before I Die
1. Earn a BA or BFA in musical theatre from a school I actually wanted to attend
2. Perform in a musical with a professional theatre company
3. Perform in an opera (need not be professional)
4. At least audition for a straight play
5. Teach private voice to my own studio
6. Take a ballroom dance class
7. Take a tap dance class
8. Become more proficient on piano
9. Learn to bar chord on guitar
10. Write a song I'm proud of
11. Go to Coachella
12. Become a mother (if not naturally, than by adoption...or both) and not just a mother, but a good mother
13. Take my children (or child) to Disneyland
14. Live in the LIFE cottage (as in the board game) complete with frog pond and white picket fence
15. Learn to surf
16. Go skydiving
17. Go white water rafting
18. Cage dive with sharks
19. Swim with sting rays
20. Snorkel in Oahu with the sea turtles
21. Visit Vermont in the fall to see the changing leaves
22. Visit the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
23. Take a road trip across the country, coast to coast
24. Hike the Grand Canyon, rim to rim
25. Go "real camping"...I mean in a tent
26. Go on a real backpacking trip...as in living out of a backpack
27. Ride in a hot air balloon with Grandma Joan in mind
28. See a show on Broadway
29. Be in New York on December 8th for John Lennon memorial
30. Watch a meteor shower in a good star place
31. Sleep on a beach
32. See the Amazon Rainforest
33. Go on a cruise
34. Live six months in a foreign country
35. Do service work in Africa and see a giraffe in its natural habitat
36. Visit Germany (see what is left of the Berlin Wall, visit Dachau, spend time in Dresden)
37. Visit France (go to the top of the Eiffel tower, tour the Louvre, see the Notre Dam Cathedral, spend time in Loire Valley- the garden of France)
38. Stay at a bed in breakfast in an Austrian village
39. Visit Australia, specifically the Sydney Opera House
40. Visit New Zealand and eat a kiwi
41. Visit Greece, particularly Athens
42. Visit Italy (gondola through Venice, see Florence, see Rome)
43. Visit Prague, Czech Republic
44. See the tulips in Holland
45. Visit England, particularly London
46. Visit Ireland
47. Visit Sweden
48. Visit Finland
49. Visit Norway
50. Go whale watching in Iceland
51. Stay the night in a hostile in Europe
52. Go on a "Holy Land" tour in Israel
53. See the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
54. Shop for clothing in Japan
55. Visit the Redwood forest and try to hug one
56. Visit India (see the Taj Mahal, study with yoginis)
57. Visit Switzerland
58. Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity
59. Volunteer with Sierra Service Project
60. Volunteer to usher at a professional theatre company
61. Volunteer at the voting polls for a presidential election
62. Volunteer to be an animal observer at a zoo
63. Go to the airport and take the next outgoing flight, no matter where it is headed to
64. Search for Taco's Pepe in Utah
65. Go to Seattle
66. Become more proficient in German
67. Become fluent in French
68. Read Les Miserables in French
69. Form/join a book club
70. Read the Bible in its entirety
71. Find my church
72. Learn to truly forgive myself and find peace with my sins from the past
73. Learn how to accept a compliment
74. Visit Ma'ma's grave
75. Become a vegan one month
76. Try acupuncture
77. Run a mile in under seven minutes
78. Gain the confidence (and the body) to wear a swim suit in public without a cover up
79. Grow and eat my own vegetables
80. Have a garden with giant sunflowers
81. Send an uplifting message in a bottle
82. Kick the nail biting habit once and for all
83. Come to terms with onions...as to broaden food horizons
84. Take a cake decorating class
85. Take a pottery making class
86. Take a painting class
87. Learn to sew
88. Finish my T-Shirt quilt project
89. Knit something other than a scarf
90. Own Egyptian cotton sheets
91. Own a polaroid camera to document my life with
92. Learn to play chess...well
93. Get a tattoo
94. Make a snow angel
95. Be on a game show (preferably Family Feud)
96. Memorize all the words to "We Didn't Start the Fire"
97. Watch AFI's list of Top 100 Movie's of All Time
98. Say "I Love You" to someone and truly mean it
99. Learn to accept and love myself unconditionally and fully | | |
| The thing about kidney stones is....
They suck. | | |
| The truth of the matter is...
Nobody cares if you listened to Bright Eyes before they were cool.
Nobody cares if you find Sylvia Plath "so relatable".
Nobody cares if you buy all your clothes at thrift stores.
Nobody cares if you don't buy all your clothes from thrift stores but they look like you do.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares what song lyric your username or bio are from.
Nobody cares if you own a polaroid camera or if you use it.
Nobody cares if you only drink your coffee black or if you only drink herbal teas.
Nobody cares if you've read Perks of Being a Wallflower 73 times.
Nobody cares what two colors you dyed your hair this time.
Nobody cares if you only go to the undiscovered, sushi bar, not the trendy one.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares if you stopped listening to The Decemberists because they "sold out."
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares if you do slam poetry.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares how many concerts you've been to in tiny, little venues.
Nobody cares how long you've been a vegan.
Nobody cares how old your converse sneakers are.
Nobody cares if you haven't listened to the radio in four years.
Nobody cares if you're Miranda July's biggest fan.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares how many times you've seen Juno.
Nobody cares if you refuse to see Juno because it's become to mainstream.
Nobody cares how many tattoos you have.
Nobody cares how many times you've gotten God knows what pierced.
Nobody cares if you paint.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares if people you don't like happen to like the same bands you do.
Nobody cares.
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| I don't know if anyone still reads this. Probably not. The truth is, my life isn't all that fascinating to me so I don't feel inclined to write about it very often. I've been thinking a lot lately. The orange blossoms are everywhere and that always makes me feel like it's summer and summer has always been a time of self reflection for me. I'm almost 20. I have no ties. I want a change. I want to go somewhere and do new things. I want to take classes and join book clubs and travel everywhere from Kansas to France. I want to experience life. I want to be bold. Amelia said "Fears are paper tigers" and even though she and her plane were lost, at least she dared to face those tigers. She tore them to shreds and flew into the confetti. I want to do that. | | |
| "Thought I'd been in love before
But in my heart I wanted more
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you"
-John Lennon
I know exactly what you mean, Mr. Lennon. Exactly what you mean.
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