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The biggest weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

I got accepted into my grad program, and I start school in August.

B may have just convinced me to read the Twilight series.

It sounds too damn hilarious to miss.

Yesterday, we ate trailer park delicacies.

It was delicious!

I'm not sure if I want to call these resolutions... I hate the connotation the phrase "New Year's Resolution(s)" has. These are just things I want to do in the next year... attempt... try... but not necessarily force myself. They are things that will help me make my life better and document. They are things that will help me keep my sanity.

New Year's Whateveryouchooze2callits

1) Exercise regularly:
a) January - March: At least 105 minutes per week
b) April - June: At least 140 minutes per week
c) July - September: At least 175 minutes per week
d) October - December: At least 210 minutes per week

2) Update Heidi's 365 Days of Audipictoautobiography daily.

3) Start selling some of my creations.

4) Make another cosplay costume (still deciding what to make)

5) Start quilting (this will probably be happening much sooner than later)

6) Finish Andrew's cross stitch (the first one)

7) Get my Idaho teaching certificate (it can keep my AZ and IL ones company)

8) Start seriously looking at grad schools that have MLIS programs

9) Visit and meet up with 2_lines folk, Chicago crowd, and Alora (these are all dependent on money)

10) Read 150+ books

Ten seems like a doable number and I can always add/revise as things change.

**The Big Read is an NEA program designed to encourage community reading initiatives. They've come up with this list of the top 100 books, using criteria they don't explain, and they estimate that the average adult has only read 6 of these. So, we are encouraged to:


* Look at the list and bold those we HAVE read

* Italicize those we INTEND to read

* Underline the books we LOVE

* Reprint this list in our own blogs

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1) List 5 celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions.
2) Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust for them [5 - 1, 1 is the hottest].
3) Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
4) Supply photos for said people.
5) Tag 5 friends to do the same

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I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same... ...When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books.
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

I don't think I could ever have expressed this better.

Leave me a comment telling me your favorite television show.

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

1 - If you could send a message to yourself 5-years-ago, what would you say?

Don't sweat the small stuff. Changing your major does not make you a failure. My first two years of college are really painful to remember because I was so unhappy as a music major and I just refused to change.

2 - What is one of your most favorite songs ever?

I haven't listened to it recently, but I have a really special place in my heart for Kokomo by the Beach Boys. I have this really vague memory from when I was probably only about 2 years old of my parents driving me to daycare early in the morning and listening to that song on the radio. It has just stuck with me forever and I'm so very attached to that song.

3 - Who is a writer that you wish would just quit?

Danielle Steele. I loved her books when I was in junior high, but I quickly realized they were all the same formulaic crap. She just needs to stop. Seriously woman. You're rich, you can quit now.

4 - What would you like your life to be like in 10 years?


I will have my masters in library science and be an elementary school librarian. I'll get to help children find books that will inspire them to be readers. Piano Man and I will be living in a house, happily married, playing video games, and having our friends over for jam sessions and noms. Maybe I'll have a child by then... maybe two (I'm seriously leaning towards adopting).

5 - How're you adjusting to being back home?

Surprisingly really well. My first day back was really awkward and terrifying, especially when we went to the grocery store. I just kept imagining myself as the high school kid I was when I last really lived here and I hated that. By the next day I had realized that's not me and that's GREAT and I'll be fine. The hardest part right now is lack of money because I can't really make plans to go out because I just can't afford it. Maybe I'll see who's in town and schedule a big dinner party for people I want to catch up with.

So to answer the question. I'm adjusting just find (except for the lack of Piano Man)*

*Look what you've done to me... regular journal entry and I feel like I need to call Andrew that ^_^.

1) Inventory and pack books, cds, and dvds
2) Clean out fridge and cupboards
3) Clean kitchen
4) Sort out keep, donate, and throw away items
5) Clean dining room
6) Clean living room
7) Clean bath room
8) Clean bed room
9) Mop and sweep floors
10) library and pay phone bill