Goal 088: Send out Christmas cards to family and friends.
I mailed them out this morning. They aren't all the same card (since I have some people who aren't Christmas people) but hey... they're all out and I've finally done this for the first time ever.
Goal 089: Put $20.00 a month in my change jar on WhatGoesAround.Org for a year.
OK... so this one is now impossible because WGA combined with Network for Good. I'll still donate $20 a month -- it'll just be different.
Goal 027: Read "The Devil Wears Prada".
As quite a few people told me, this was a waste of the paper on which it was printed. It was a whiny rich girl complaining about the nature of her work as the personal assistant to a bitchy boss and her personality cult. I wanted to scream at her to just find another job but oh well... some people have to learn the hard way. My favorite part: when she gives all the clothes from the magazine to a secondhand store and walks out with $38,000 -- enough for her to live on for a year and write.
Goal 042: Read to kids at an elementary school.
I read to my kids today!!!! *bouncebouncebounce* We read a cowboy book and some Dr. Suess. It rocked!!!!!!!
Goal 025: Read "Reading Lolita in Tehran".
It was an *interesting* book. It took me a little while to get into it because it's written very much in a text-critical fashion where novels are deconstructed. What I did like was that Azar compared what was going on in the books to what was going on in Iran at the time.
I was fairly horrified at the treatment of women in Iran but it was nothing that I didn't already know. It was interesting to see how the stuff in the books played out in contrast to what was going on politically at the time.
Goal 026: Read The Kite Runner
I just finished The Kite Runner and whoa...
It made me want to order more "We Will Not Be Silent" shirts in Farsi and English. It made me want to drop everything and go to Afghanistan and work in a women's clinic. It made me want to give every penny I have to orphanages.
It moved me.
Goal 046: Read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.
I finished the 8(?) in the series and am working through The First Four Years which isn't technically part of the collection since it was published posthumously.
The books were inspiring because it really showed the creativity one has to use in life. The family could have easily starved and I know the parents really sacrificed so that their kids could have everything they needed. The thing that was so wonderful is that even during the awful times, everyone was so happy. I guess attitude is a part of life?
Goal 063: Watch The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
I just watched it and OMG it was awesome. Everything was good:
the casting, the way they took care of the scenes, the voices of the
animals, the way they did Aslan's sacrifice (very tastefully done!)...
Some highlights:
-the beaver house
-the White Witch's sleigh and castle
-Mrs. Macready
-the battle
-the sacrifice (REALLY meaningful if you understood the allegorical symbolism -- I'm amazed I didn't cry)
-the coronation
-Aslan on the beach and then disappearing
I'd been avoiding it because the cartoon scared me when I was 6
years old; and while I've read the books and all that, I knew that the
sacrifice scene would probably reduce me to tears. I'm either
really jaded or really medicated because that scene didn't make me cry
though it was an OMG scene because it was so well-done.
Goal 071: Achieve a BMI of 24.9 or less.
Goal 072: Make it through the whole Taebo: Advanced tape with no breaks.
Well... my Taebo basics tape was broken and I wasn't feeling like yoga, so I decided to try the Taebo: Advanced
tape and see how far I could go. I made it about 25 minutes in
having not done it for... more than 6 months. I'm going to
replace the Basics tape since it's a good compact workout for
days when I need it. I also have the tape essentially memorized
so I could just theoretically do the moves to some decent music.
