Accomplishments Thus Far

I thought I would give an update of what I've accomplished so far on my 'Twenty Things to Do During My Twentieth Year List.'

1. Visit a new country or state.
2. Ask one person whom I have just met what his/her favourite book is and read it.
3. Dive into my closet and sort out the clothes I want to give to charity. I shouldn't have done this so early because I often feel like I don't have enough to wear.
4. Make use of my scuba diver's license and actually go diving. I have more plans to go diving again!
5. Finish a painting/drawing/sketch/anything artistic I start but never finish. It wasn't very pretty and below the "artistic standards" I set for myself but at least I finished it.
6. Buy things I like for my siblings and not end up keeping it for myself.
7. Go camping.
8. Get a new and completely different hairstyle. [Note: This may be next one...]
9. Go somewhere with someone without actually knowing where I'm going.
10. Exercise regularly. Seriously.
11. Get my driver's license. I got my Philippines' one and I may get my Oregon one before the year ends.
12. Go skinny dipping.
13. Spend an entire weekend volunteering.
14. Cook a friend (or a group of friends) an entire meal—appetizer, main course, and dessert.
15. Make Dean's List.
16. Sing a song at full volume in public. Ok, maybe in front of an audience of one or two people. [Note: My boyfriend is trying to convince me to sing a duet with him.]
17. Have a decent conversation with my dad.
18. Do a new sport (skiing? bungee jumping? sky diving?)
19. Get a new piercing.
20. Sponsor a child's education for a year.

See? I'm working on my list. Slowly but surely.

Psychedelic?!

A dabble in experimentation; it's not the type of art I normally do nor have I done anything "artsy" in a very long time. It's a mix of acrylics, watercolour, and pens, and a lot of what you see are what I tend to doodle when I'm bored.

Meh!

(Watermark isn't on the original piece.)

#3 Done!

Remember my list of twenty things that I must do while I'm twenty years old? Well,

3. Dive into my closet and sort out the clothes I want to give to charity

Yes, I did it! I got rid of nearly half the clothes in my closet. It didn't take as long as I thought it would because I just kept tossing everything out. It was rather liberating.

I think I'll be able to complete the following five goals before summer ends:

4. Make use of my scuba diver's license and actually go diving.
5. Finish a painting/drawing/sketch/anything artistic.
8. Get a new and completely different hairstyle.
11. Get my driver's license.
12. Go skinny dipping.

I'll definitely be well on my way of completing those twenty things if I get those aforementioned five goals done this summer.

Anyway, I'll try to remember posting 'Before' and 'After' pictures of my closet later today.

It's My Birthday (Tomorrow) and I Can Cry If I Want To

T W E N T Y

The big two-oh! It’s a number that my obsessive compulsive personality likes because it’s nice and round, it’s even, and it’s a multiple of (mostly) even numbers. It also seems much more defining than nineteen. After twenty years my OCD has only worsened. I don’t actually have OCD, well, at least I’ve never been diagnosed with it!

Rather than reflecting on the past to dwell on what I should have and could have done, I made a list of twenty things I must do during my twentieth year. They’re a mix of different tasks—doing something new, finishing something, getting over a fear, etc.

In no particular order they are:

1. Visit a new country or state.
2. Ask one person whom I have just met what his/her favourite book is and read it.
3. Dive into my closet and sort out the clothes I want to give to charity.
4. Make use of my scuba diver's license and actually go diving.
5. Finish a painting/drawing/sketch/anything artistic I start but never finish.
6. Buy things I like for my siblings and not end up keeping it for myself.
7. Go camping.
8. Get a new and completely different hairstyle.
9. Go somewhere with someone without actually knowing where I'm going.
10. Exercise regularly. Seriously.
11. Get my driver's license.
12. Go skinny dipping.
13. Spend an entire weekend volunteering.
14. Cook a friend (or a group of friends) an entire meal—appetizer, main course, and dessert.
15. Make Dean's List.
16. Sing a song at full volume in public. Ok, maybe in front of an audience of one or two people.
17. Have a decent conversation with my dad.
18. Do a new sport (skiing? bungee jumping? sky diving?)
19. Get a new piercing.
20. Sponsor a child's education for a year.

Some are rather silly like #3 and #6 but I actually need to get around to doing them. I’ve been meaning to clean out my closet for some three years now but the task just seems so intimidating (I have a lot of clothes… Most of which I never use anymore), and whenever I buy things for my siblings I always end up keeping them for myself and feeling guilty when they say, “I like that! Why didn’t you buy it for me?”

Some are exciting like #8 and #12. Whenever I go for a haircut I don’t even have to say what I want because my hair stylist knows, and I don’t think running up around a friend’s pool and jumping in to swim as a child counts as skinny dipping.

Some seem impossible like #15 and #17. Making Dean’s List means having to do so many more things (studying more productively, not procrastinating), and then there’s my dad…

I'll post updates each time I cross something off my list!

I have 365 days to complete these twenty things. Actually, I believe I have 366 days because 2008 is a leap year! Anyway, time starts now!