#73 my brother, his moustache and a whore’s teddy bear
September 5, 2010
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TRAVEL & ADVENTURE
1 go camping with the girls
2 contemplating going tandem skydiving but i have to think if i really want to put that on. i know i do but my GOD the fear…
3 go on a full on road trip of some sort (i have to think about that one a bit more)
4 sleep in the backyard with agie’s mozzie net so i don’t wake up swollen with bites (in summer)
5 go to uluru
6 go to perth
7 go on a holiday BY MYSELF (not like italy where i then stay with 100 relatives)
8 take a road trip with the girls with NO DESTINATION. only plan is that we have to come back 3 days later
9 go to the sydney mardi gras
10 go fishing. i’ve only ever gone trout fishing and i’m pretty sure that doesn’t count for anything.
11 go haunted house hunting like i used to in uni
ORGANISATION
12 do a 7 minute clean up of my room 5 nights a week
13 go to sleep by midnight every night for 2 weeks
14 make a list/budget for one month to see where the hell all my money actually goes
15 file my paperwork instead of piling it next to my bed, under my bed, and random other piles on the floor. for 6 months (hopefully i’ll like my organisation and keep it going)
16 pass on my travelling book and post another 2 (I AM QUEEN LAZY)
17 combine all my superannuations (all 75 of them)
18 make a list of all of my books (omg, that is such a daunting task)
19 make a ‘borrowed/returned’ book for my friends to sign in and out my books when they borrow them cos i know i’ve lost at least 50 books like this
20 work like a dog mon-fri for a whole week. no stuffing around on the net, no winding down after clients, work like a robot. have to do this in this job before i leave cos i’m pretty sure in a new role i’d be like that anyway
21 organise what i’m going to wear to work the next day for a fortnight instead of running around like a frekin lunatic in the morning with mismatched clothes
22 snooze button banned for a fortnight
23 wake up at 8am every work day for 2 weeks (this should maybe coincide with the sleeping before midnight)
24 limit myself to 24 hours whereby i have to respond to people’s emails and smses. this includes my student, my relatives in italy (including the ones i don’t like) and invitations
25 take my threadless photos and send them in
FITNESS/HEALTH
26 do 6 months of ballroom once a week plus social
27 perform in latin or ballroom
28 bronze medal ballroom
29 gold medal latin
30 do 10 tai chi classes
31 try hot yoga at least 5 times
32 do 10 meditation classes. if after 10 i still think it’s a waste of time and i could be spending it salsaing, then i have to do another 20.
33 cycle …..kms every week for 3 month. i first have to work out how many kms i’m already doing and multiply it by at least 5
34 take vitamins every day for 3 months
35 go back to boxing for 3 months (if arm gets better)
36 go swimming twice a week for 3 months (if arm gets better)
37 go horseriding with Uncle Paul
38 cleanse my face every night for a month
39 floss for 30 days strait
40 make my bike and public transport my only method of transport for 2 weeks (before you think i am a petrol chugging freak, it takes me half an hour to drive to work and over 2 to PT in… so…)
41 do some kind of 3-5 minute abs workout every night before i go to bed. do this for one month
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD, ALL COVERED IN CUSTARD (please see # )
42 have breakfast every day for a month
43 have an open invite bbq once a fortnight throughout all of a summer
44 cook for my family once a fortnight for 3 months
45 compile at least 10 of my favourite nonna recipes and write them down with mum and relative’s help
46 order at a japanese restaurant ‘what the chef likes’ (what’s the japanese word for that?)
47 buy those tablets that make anything you eat after them with lactose not affect you and then eat the following: double cream icecream, hot milk with teddy bear biscuits and savoiardi and hot milk with a drop of marsala.
48 eat at lentil as anything
49 have packet miso soup for fourthirtyitis for a fortnight at work
50 try a day of fasting during ramadan
51 make christmas cookies and give them out at Christmas AND during Jristmas (christmas in July)
52 make bread! on 3 separate occassions
ARTSY
53 print my favourite photos onto canvas
54 complete a photography portraiture course / book (only if it’s really damn good)
55 make a giant three or four (or five if i’m really lazy) year blurb book
56 cake decorating course (if arm gets better)
57 make a kite and fly it
58 put up photos of all my friends and family at work. everyone else does it! (maybe not ALL my friends and family… maybe not my family at all in case a client every feels vindictive… maybe this is a shit idea. yeah it is.) ok it’s changed to put up photos that i’ve taken at work without any people in them
59 get a canvas, a black texta, and doodle on it every day until it’s filled. 50% black
60 take 101 photos in 101 days in black and white. of nothing in particular.
61 buy 3 items i love from etsy
62 modify three items of clothing (not as in hemming my jeans, as in making them extra pretty)
63 make my dad pretty labels for his homemade limoncello
GETTING SMARTER
64 do my TESOL certificate
65 do NO volunteer work for 3 months
66 buy and read 10 books in italian and review/outline them
67 actually go to my graduation (not that this means i’ll get smarter but it WILL show mum that i was, at one stage of my life, a little intelligent)
68 learn how to use the word ‘would’ in italian and be able to use it perfectly without wanting to inhale the words back into my head for fear of saying it incorrectly
69 learn how to speak in the polite form in italian and have it come second nature – NO SWAPPING between 2nd and 3rd
70 make our family tree. make one giant decorative copy for Uncle Dom’s house in italy
71 learn 50 basic words in auslan (i originally wanted to write here that i would do the summer course but realistically i can’t quit work and be pov for three months)
72 learn the words to 5 songs that i currently sing nonsensical rubbish to (i can think of one coldplay and one nirvana song)
73 watch three italian movies without the subtitles
74 read a book on buddhism (buddhism for dummies will suffice)
MISCELLANEOUS
75 get laser 6 times on bikini and underarm (gross i know but i really wonder if it works!)
76 get back in contact with Luana. She’s the most awesome person ever and i can’t believe I missed out on seeing her in italy.
77 get my gun licence
78 allow liza to choose 3 scary movies that i will watch without closing my eyes at all, except to blink
79 take 8 drum lessons from agie (if arm gets better)
80 no talking for 24 hours – midnight to midnight. make this on a work day for maximum torture from sarah and jo
81 (i thought 101 wouldn’t be enough but i’m halfway and i’m struggling to think of more) make a list of 101 things i’ve ALREADY done
82 build a full on sick asse sand castle
83 walk a friend’s dog (cos i certainly have no interest in getting one)
84 change my nose stud to a ring for at least a fortnight
85 compliment someone when i see something that i like instead of just thinking it. no time limit to this
86 buy or make a free hugs tshirt and wear it (especially on holidays)
87 get my cards read
88 learn how to say supercalifragelisticexpialidocious backwards like julie andrews said it
89 get uncle Dom to teach me how he pretends to pull money out of kid’s ears
90 get one of those unkillable plants for my office (not a plastic one, those green bamboo things)
91 put up my chandelier
92 go to the tulip festival or another flower festival with mum
93 wake up before the sun with cass and agie in phillip island and watch it come up on the beach
94 play the previously banned ‘pass out’ game three times. and not vomit. it was banned for a reason
95 go to a local play or dance that a family member is NOT starring in
96 officially make ‘Jristmas’ (Christmas in July). Advertise it, make pressies for people, talk about it on fb… possibly put up the tree while mum’s out?!
97 get back into my quotes list. work out a good place to keep them all.
98 find a kick ass computer chair like Felis’. jealousy? must be from an antique/opshop/side of the road in scumshine
99 visit Alexi
100 clean the inside of my car for half an hour every 2 months (preferably with Liza). Keep this up! (she’s got hiiiiiiiiigh hopes!)
101 find somewhere that sells meat that is from an animal that hasn’t had a shit life. buy it, cook it for family, eat it.
