I like boring things.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Life Goals

Back in freshman year of high school one day I realized that I had never drank coke out of a glass bottle. It was such a simple act, that seemed like I should have done it at least once, but never had. I decided that I wanted to do it! But it got me thinking about a lot of other little life experiences I had never participated in. And thus was born my list of life goals. Maybe "life tasks" would be a better name as most of these are just silly ideas that I think I really want to do in my lifetime.

I have had this ever growing list since that point, and I only ever seldom remove an item from the list without completing it.

My friend Ryan told me about a website called 43things.com and it is a social network site where people post their lists of life goals. You can see how many other people are trying to accomplish that same goal, and if anyone has already accomplished it. You can cheer other people on too!

I have only posted 35 of my list which are not yet accomplished, and I will be adding them and updating it, as i accomplish these goals.

I feel like the ones I already have accomplished deserve some credit- so here is my list of accomplished life goals:
Drink Coke out of a glass bottle
Attempt Surfing
Record a CD
Meet Someone Famous- Eric Whitacre
Go Swing Dancing
See the World's Largest ____. (ended up being Glass Pumpkin).
Have artwork done of me
Learn a hip-hop combination (thank you Zumba)
Eat a Corndog in NYC
Go to Disney World
Win a raffle or sweepstakes
Ride on a train
See a Broadway Show
Watch the Sun rise
Meet someone with an Authentic British Accent
See an Opera
Have a guy serenade me
Dance around seriously in a public place (Tops)
Sit in the boxes at a performance (Magic Flute at the MET)
Kiss someone backstage
Have a song composed for me
Have a men's choir sing to me (thank you sing in tux)

22- wow it's nice to count them and see how far I have come in only a few years- 35 more- no problem!

See my list of life goals!

If you don't have your own list I would encourage you to start one- it's important to not miss out on the little things in life- and you know making goals for the big things doesn't hurt either!

One of my goals is to visit all 50 states- these are the ones I have been to:

visited 12 states (24%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

An Organized Life

There are some things in life that will always make me happy... without fail.

For example, organization. I love it... I love when everything has it's place.

I find it extremely stress relieving to organize all sorts of things-

and I just discovered that it is even stress relieving to look at pictures of organization.

So for your viewing pleasure and relaxation, I give you...

"An Organized Life"

Closet:

Office:

Kitchen:

Bathroom:

The all important component of Color Coding:

And last, but certainly not least...

Planners:

And just in case you want to learn how to be more organized.....

Organization Starts Here

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ukulele's Rock

I don't know why I have never blogged about her... but for sometime now I have been in love with this singer named Danielle Anderson. Her stage name is Danielle Ate the Sandwich, and I love her sound. I have yet to purchase a CD but today might be the day... I hate being a poor college student! Check her out!

I like this song a lot :) Her lyrics are really wonderful too.

Check out her other music though, so much of it is great. On youtube she does a lot of covers.

Her bad romance cover is amazing...

Enjoy..... :)

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Shadow Box

As some of you may know I am in an organization called SAI at my school. I am editor and in charge of most creative aspects of our organization. We have this thing called our Shadow Box. It is a big case that we can display our SAI stuff in. Stuff being pictures, chapter certificate, a member directory, history stuff... anything we want really. So long story short it is time to change the display. The previous display was nice, but I want this to look really different and have a really creative feel.

This is what the box looks like now:

I have a few ideas...
The first being trees! not only will it give it a more nature friendly feel, but the symbolism of a tree might represent the family trees in SAI. Here is what I am thinking.

This picture gave me the idea of using a tree outline rather than becoming a lumberjack and cutting down a real tree.
So I bought this black board thing. 2 of them actually. Think of it like thick poster board.

This is how the size of the board compares... and remember I have 2.

Now if I am doing outlines of a tree or trees I need to choose a style... Here are 2 types I sorta liked. I need opinions.

Now these trees need to work as a background for the other things. Which brings us to my second idea. How will I display the pictures. Right now there are a bunch of them taped on the walls, so I want to change it up... and use a clothesline style display. sorta like these:

I bought enough cord to do 2 different lines and i bought clothes pins to attach them.
The third idea was flowers. Originally I had this pot that we used for something in the sister hood an thought I could fill it with flowers and use it in the display. Sorta like this:

but the more I think about it the more I wish that I could create a feel like this:

So those are my ideas right now, I could use suggestions on how to get these ideas more polished and actually in the case! I hope this turns out well!
Also if I want to change the background color I could buy fabric to drape, same with the ground. And I have a glass shelf that can be moved to any height that is available for use as well.
SHARE YOUR IDEAS PLEASE!