I just want to see how I'm doing. So do you, I bet!
3. Clean out my closet, hang clothes nicely, take cast-offs to Goodwill. So I did this. But my closet is now a clothes-barfing mess again. I sense this will be an ongoing struggle.
6. Go on a Kogi taco quest with Charley, Darlene, and whoever else wants to join me. I did this! Well, Darlene wasn't there, *sobsnifflehic*, but she will be one day, I'm sure. I've actually been on several Kogi quests now. One involved The Alibi Room, friends from all different aspects of my life, and me getting sloppily, spazzily drunk and rage-Twittering about Weezer. Good times.
12. Re-write Projects #1 and #2 and give them to readers. These are
things I wrote last year that I haven't touched since I finished them.
But they both need tweaks and outside opinions. Project #2 has been through these steps. Project #1 is basically re-written, but I'm losing interest in it. I'll probably just proofread and call it a day.
13. Start Project #3, in the same vein as #1 and #2. Did this! Doing this right now!
16. Write something totally cool for the new Grok. Don't know if I want
to do another ongoing story, but it's always a temptation. Did this! And it is serialized, so suck it, March 11 version of Sarah.
17. Do the ScriptFrenzy thing. According to friend Sarah O., "a bunch of us" are going to do this. Sort of did this. Participated, didn't finished, but have basis for thing I'm going back to once Project #3 up there is completed.
19. Improve my D&D character's backstory. Right now, she actually doesn't have much of a backstory beyond "can shoot good" and "is blind, but NOT because I had a really hard time painting eyes and finally just gave up." Say hello to my secret society-connected Monster Hunter with flaming arrows!
25. Go on a Bay Area jaunt with Megan and get into trouble, like we have in the past. But not too much trouble. Yes! Re-live it now!
29. Find a short-sleeved black cardigan to rotate with the every-disintegrating one I bought at Anthropologie 5 million years ago. I don't want to look like a ragamuffin at my friend's wedding in May, but the outfit I'm envisioning involves this cardigan. Done. No ragamuffins here.
30. Actually participate in Wardrobe Remix. I joined ages ago and have posted like 2 photos. What would help is if I could figure out how to take a self-portrait on my cam--oh, hey! Yes. Not as much recently, but yes.
31. Learn how to take a self-portrait on my camera. Yup. It's come in handy in non-WR situations as well.
33. Get my boots re-heeled. Two pairs are in need of surgery. Boot surgery was successfully accomplished.
36. Get a cupcake from Magnolia Bakery. One of the first things I did on my last trip to New York. Vanilla cake, chocolate frosting, glorious.
37. Go to the Golden Age comics exhibit at the Skirball. Is it cheating to include something I pretty much know I'm going to do? I don't think so. Not only was this totally accomplished, but it was accomplished with awesome people like Darlene, Paul, Carla, and my blog-less friends John Charles and Katherine. Get a load of our super-team right here.
45. Obtain a decent hairdryer, perhaps with a diffuser? Perhaps that one that looks like a freaky hand? Well, I do have a new hairdryer, and it does have a diffuser, but its level of decent-ness has not yet been determined. I'll let you know.
52. Go to a reading/book signing featuring an author I admire. Attended Amber Benson's thing at the Best Library in the World. Great Q&A, great moderator (Tom Lenk!), and I absolutely loved the book.
57. Interview someone from Gossip Girl. There might have been a certain something involving a certain someone named CHUCK BASS. Stay tuned.
59. Start doing yoga again. My class from last year seems to have fizzled out, meaning my general aura is much less namaste than it should be. Yoga has been started again. My aura? That's...in progress.
75. Somehow convince Kristina to make me a custom Sackboy. I don't know how, but I guess I did this (see #21!). Along with convincing Kristina to create her own list and convincing Kristina to participate in Grok. What else should I convince Kristina to do? I'm open to suggestions.
79. Actually comment/tell someone when they write a blog post I like.
So many times, I'll read something, find it brilliant, then close my
browser. Lame. I think I've been pretty okay at the commenting. Sometimes I get sort of overwhelmed and frazzlepated and then it's almost too much to even READ all the blogs I like, but whatever. I'm working on it.
82. Visit my college campus and go check out my old dorm. Bonus points if I can somehow gain access to my old dorm room to see if my initials are still carved in the doorway. Uh-huh. We couldn't gain access to the actual rooms, though -- no one home.
88. Find some of those geek-goth fingerless glove/armwarmer things for my jaunts to colder climates. I didn't so much "find" them. Rather, the immensely talented Sarah W. MADE THEM FOR ME. Everybody tell her to open up an Etsy store or something.
93. Wear my favorite vintage dress more often. I put it on a bit of a pedestal, I think. But it is meant to be worn. I wore the hell out of it at my friend Sonjia's wedding last month. However. Due to some rather enthusiastic rug-cutting, there may or may not be a bit of a hole underneath one of the arms now. So maybe it does belong on a pedestal.
So that's...what? Almost a quarter of this bitch taken care of? Not bad. Of course, scanning past some of these I have not yet done (like sending Matt his poster, OH MY GOD) is majorly guilt-inducing.
My enthusiasm for the poster has waned significantly so if you wanted to throw it away and check that bad boy off, please do!
Or mail it to me as a signpost for personal growth! Either way.
Posted by: Matt | June 11, 2009 at 12:38 PM
I like your list. I like even more when I am around to see the stuff getting actively checked off the list!
Posted by: mary | June 11, 2009 at 02:11 PM
I've made a little progress on my own list, maybe I'll do an update post soon.
Posted by: Mike Miller | June 24, 2009 at 09:48 PM
Wow... you've made so much progress! I'm a little jealous!
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