I have sponsered a dog!!

Check her out! she's a white husky named Flurrie. She's so pretty!

My 2nd donation this year

I'm scheduled to give blood at 12:45 on Wednesday, at the blood drive here at work.

Lets hope they don't botch it up again and make it look like I'm a domestic abuse victim.

To the stars...

This saturday I gave a jewelry making class to a bunch of lovely ladies. It started in the morning, and lasted till well after dark. That's how into it we all got.

So, walking back out to my car in the dark with 45, maybe 50lbs of stones/supplies made my host's husband take pity on me, and he walked me out to my car, and helped carry the stuff. The lesson was given in the mountains of norther jersey, and I remarked on how nice the stars were here compared to how they looked across the river from manhattan.

And he proved to know a lot about astrology. In fact, he holds the key to a mine there in northern jersey where they host star gazing with telescopes and such.

He taught me a handful of stars I could point to and ask about, and told me he'd email me the dates of the next star gazing. I'll study up ahead of time and when the star gazing night arrives I'll be able to pick a bunch out! (hopefully)

Getting over the jitters

I decided that I'm afraid of becoming addicted to caffeine. It's not as though I drink a lot, but there have been those days where I just drink cup after cup of coffee, and then tea... and then come the jitters.

So its been going well. I have my one cup of coffee in the morning, and then switch to decaff or herbal tea to avoid anymore OD-ing

Liv 4 the weekends

Check it!

...now, let's see how long I can keep this up.

The iPhone

Ok, so the new iPhone is coming out on July 11th. I've got my tax return from New York State sitting in my bag, and it'll just about cover the cost of the 16Gig model.

So when it comes out, I'm hauling my butt to an AT&T store and signing up!

I'm thinking visual voice mail will be a big help in making sure I don't let my voice messages go over my limit of 5.

Tickets Reserved

I have officially reserved 2 tickets to the November 19th, 2008 taping of the Daily Show!

Herb Garden Update

I've started the herb garden!

Right now its just a couple of small pots. I've got Basil, Oregano, Thyme, and chives. Half of them I bought potted, and a couple my mom gave me the shoots from her garden.
I also have a little lavender growing kit I need to crack open and start.


They herbs are currently sitting on my tiny kitchen window sill where they'll get enough light. Eventually I want to make a bigger project out of it, but that sill is really the only place for them at the moment. I can't wait to use them in my cooking!

101 Things to Do in 1001 Days

For those of you who are not familiar with this concept, the following is a list of things I've been meaning to do, but just haven't buckled down and done yet. I will give myself the next 1001 days to complete this to-do-list

Items in green are complete, items in pink I'm working on, and those in white I haven't started yet. Click on completed or progress items to see the details of their status!

Get organized:
1. Fully decorate my bedroom
2. Live in an environment where everything has a place, and is not just sitting around in an exposed area/random cardboard box.
3. Clean for 5 minutes every day I'm home
4. Love my kitchen, make it a place where I'll love to cook
5. Sort through all my important paperwork and IDs and documents and store them properly.

Challenge myself:
6. Have my jewelry sold in cape cod
7. Earn a black belt in aikido
8. Resolve not to hit the snooze button once for one week straight. (0/7)

Play catch-up:
9. Make plans in advance to hang out with my best friend at least twice a month
10. Reconnect with my dad's side cousins
11. Not let my voice mail reach more than 5 new messages
12. Visit my old home and school in Kearny

The root of all evil:
13. Earn a 65k salary
14. Be rid of 75% of my current debt
15. Put $101 out of every paycheck into savings

Won't know till I try
16. Attend Burning Man (or equivalent if it becomes too commercial in the next couple years)
17. Determine whether or not I will get motion sick on a cruise
18. See a drive-in movie
19. Experience Shakespeare in the Park
20. Start an indoor herb garden
21. Go hang gliding
22. Go to an incubus concert
23. Send a piece of my jewelry to a celebrity I love
24. See Garrison Keillor perform live
25. Go to a live taping of The Daily Show
26. Gallop on a horse
27. Go horse back riding on the beach
28. Participate in a mass prank
29. Drink real absinthe the right way with friends
30. Create a piece of jewelry using diamond
31. Try 10 New types of cuisine (1/10)
32. Record a song in an actual studio
33. Read or see King Lear
34. Spend at least $100 on a vendor's booth for a promising craft show.
35. Go rock hunting for a precious gemstone (mining or panning emeralds/rubbies/sapphire)

Give a little
36. Sponsor an animal at a no-kill shelter
37. Donate blood at least twice a year (2008: 2/2 - 2009: 1/2 - 2010: 0/2 - 2011: 0/1)
38. Give a $100 Loan to Kiva.org
39. Donate all my extra clothing at least once a year (2008: 1/1 - 2009: 0/1 - 2010: 0/1)
40. Do 100 hours of community service - 4.5/100
41. Present a random homeless person with a slice of pizza

Be thoughful:
42. Write a poem for 10 people I love
43. Post a mission once a month to my spiritual-topic tribe
44. Compliment a total stranger at least once a week
45. Send a thoughtful gift to a different friend each month
46. Send out holiday cards to all the people I love each Christmas

Genesis:
47. Concoct a specialty cocktail drink - ala Liv
48. Record an audio book
49. Make myself an awesome skirt
50. Create a color painting the way raphael ortiz taught me

Learn a thing or two
51. Learn to glaze pottery and make myself a set of mugs
52. Learn to tie a necktie
53. Learn to make beer
54. Learn how to taste wine
55. Learn Reiki
56. Learn to identify 10 each of local birds, trees, and plants (0/10)(0/10)(2/10)
57. Learn fire spinning
58. Learn enough Spanish to carry normal conversation
59. Learn sign language
60. Learn to make jewelry out of precious metal clay
61. Learn to make a spicy tuna roll
62. Learn to make really good chicken makhani
63. Become well versed in the science and practice of eco-housing
64. Be able to identify a real diamond from a fake
65. Learn how to play Go
66. Be able to identify constellations
67. Learn kryptonian (spoken language)

This is my body...
68. Limit caffeine intake to one cup a day
69. Obtain prescription color contacts
70. Get my right cartilage pierced a second time
71. Whiten my teeth (9/20)
72. Splurge on a professional massage every 3 months
73. Weigh 150lbs - 26.0 lbs to go
74. Eat two fish meals a month, not including sushi

Surround myself with things I love:
75. Own a piece of cape cod art work
76. Create a proper display for my crystal collections
77. Have a bathroom with a swan motif, like my grandma's old house.
78. Own an Eco Sphere (Y'know, one of those glass balls with a self sufficient environment for tiny shrimp)
79. Raise a butterfly
80. Keep an Orchid plant in each room of my residence (any room with sunlight)
81. Save up and buy an iPhone
82. Continue stained glass collection
83. Own a queen sized bed
84. Adopt my very own dog
85. Own a fresh water community aquarium

For Love, for laughs, for my sanity:
86. See a movie at a theater once a month
87. Organize a laser tag party.
88. Double date to the Melting Pot at least 3 times a year (2008: 2/2 - 2009: 0/3 - 2010: 0/3 - 2011: 0/1)
89. Get engaged (hopefully)
90. Start going to anime conventions again on a 3x/year basis.
91. Start a private online journal. Give only my best girl access. Like it was in high school.
92. Take at least 10 pictures each weekend for a year, and catalog them in a blog.
93. See a Broadway show
94. Be in an ongoing face to face role play campaign with friends
95. Go on a real vacation with my boyfriend
96. Go scuba diving again
97. Visit Angle Lake, NV again
98. Find a new anime to fall desperately into
99. See more of Yellowstone Park
100. Spend less time commuting
101. Visit Europe