I'm doing 30 things
After many obstacles I finally saw an opera! My parents got me season tickets to the Austin Lyric Opera. I saw Pagliacci and absolutely loved it. I also have tickets for The Marriage of Figaro and Faust.
sarah11yeah's Life List
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1. have one completely epic night that i will always remember
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2. watch the AFI Top 100 American movies
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3. learn spanish fluently
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4. smile more
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5. travel the world
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6. go skydiving
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7. Get 8 hours of sleep
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8. bungee jump
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9. eat healthier
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10. learn sign language
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11. learn to belly dance
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12. learn to fly a plane
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13. don't give in
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14. use facebook only when necessary
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15. Run around town in a bear suit
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16. Read more books
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17. Find balance.
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18. be nice to everyone
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19. fight for the things I believe in
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20. Learn to tango
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21. ride in a hot air balloon
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22. exercise
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23. reinvent myself
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24. visit the salton sea
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25. write a novel
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26. Learn to cook
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27. meditate daily
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28. have a technology free day every week
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29. track my calories every day
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30. Read the news
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How I did it
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How I did it: Through an internship, I created a Consumer Advisory Board of homeless and formerly homeless individuals in Houston for the Coalition for the Homeless. I recruited these individuals from all over the Houston area through a variety of homeless services. They will meet and come up with solutions to homelessness from their personal perspective and then offer these solutions to the Coalition so they can work to enact them. They just had their… Read how I did it…
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How I did it: I took a class at my university to learn to play guitar. It was a great class and got me started. Now I still feel motivated to play and can't wait to learn more songs, and eventually write my own. Read how I did it…
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How I did it: I took lessons in Galveston, Texas with a hippie named Bryan at C-Sick Surfing. Bryan was very knowledgeble about surfing techniques, currents, how to read waves, what boards to use, and basically taught us everything we could ever know about surfing. The lesson was only 2 hours, but with Bryan's teaching I managed to learn to surf perfectly in that time slot. I didn't get up on the board until the very end, but once i did it was the perf… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
I should change this goal to smile more at guys. I am soooooooooooo bad at this, have always been. For some reason, the moment I think a guy is cute, I can’t stand to even make eye contact, let alone smile at him. ugh. how do I get over this? I tried to consciously do it at the supermarket today and it was a total failure!
Now is the perfect time to accomplish this goal. I am moving to a new city away from everyone I know and love. I can be whomever I want to be which is such an exciting prospect. I just got my hair cut short for the first time, am buying a new wardrobe once I get to Austin (thrift store heaven!), and think I’m gonna make red lipstick a daily part of my routine. Now I just need to focus on the changes I will make on the inside. I really want to work to be more outgoing, something I have improved so much over the past couple years. I also want to focus more intellectually and spiritually. I have gotten into the habit of wasting my time on television instead of things that will actually improve my mind. Lastly and most difficult I need to work on how I act around guys. I’ve spent my life diverting glances and pretending like I hate the entire male gender because of my own insecurities. It is time to show the open and friendly self that I really am. So in a way I’m not really reinventing myself, just finally revealing the real me. :)
