Jess

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  1. 1. Deal with my depression
    4 entries . 12 cheers
    23 people
  2. 2. find my motivation
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    29 people
  3. 3. Stop binge eating
    1 entry . 15 cheers
    311 people
  4. 4. carpe diem
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    573 people
  5. 5. Find myself and love what I find
    2 entries . 16 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. Be Focused And Determined And Make Things Happen
    3 entries . 8 cheers
    316 people
  7. 7. Go for a midnight picnic
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    71 people
  8. 8. celebrate obscure holidays
    6 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  9. 9. eat better foods
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    25 people
  10. 10. find at least one thing each day that makes me happy
    25 entries . 6 cheers
    173 people
  11. 11. lead someone to Christ
    2 entries . 21 cheers
    248 people
  12. 12. leave flowers on the grave of a stranger
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    3 people
  13. 13. Look for opportunities to say dramatic lines like, "You'll live to regret this" or "Hello, my name is Indigo Montoyo. You killed my father! Prepare to die."
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    14 people
  14. 14. Create a life filled with beauty, truth, mystery, love, purity, hope, passion, wonder, magic, and lots of Life.
    14 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. Stop making sudden assumptions about people before meeting them
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. leave notes in library books
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    540 people
  17. 17. travel the world
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    18,583 people
  18. 18. Have a Mad Hatter Party
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. Keep embracing the fantasy, and never stop believing in the things and beings that are 'unreal.'
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  20. 20. grow my own pumkin patch
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. learn to write with my left hand
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    640 people
  22. 22. be the change i want to see in the world
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    297 people
  23. 23. Let go... everything's gonna be all right
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    3 people
  24. 24. learn more origami
    3 entries . 1 cheer
    7 people
  25. 25. Just...Be patient. Stop rushing life. Really breath in everything amazing that surrounds me-while it's there.
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    2 people
  26. 26. Make more friends... good ones!
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    2 people
  27. 27. Improve my Karma.
    1 cheer
    225 people
  28. 28. draw, paint, and pastel-ing more often ^^
    10 entries . 9 cheers
    1 person
  29. 29. Learn to trust again, and trust wisely
    6 entries . 11 cheers
    190 people
  30. 30. watch ponyo
    2 people
  31. 31. pray more
    3,061 people
  32. 32. Work towards a new goal each month for a year
    1 entry
    1 person
  33. 33. Build a Tiny City and Burn or Explode It
    2 people
  34. 34. get braces
    1 entry
    588 people
  35. 35. Take photographs worth posting on flickr
    1 entry
    1 person
  36. 36. Reawaken my dream life
    1 entry
    9 people
  37. 37. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
    7,171 people
  38. 38. Have one day that's better than a 7
    1 person
  39. 39. Learn to say "Hello" in 10 different languages
    1 entry
    4 people

How I did it
How to have a good day when I wear makeup
It took me
4 months
It made me
Finally... =)


How to see the thing that is genuinely beautiful about every person
It took me
1 year
It made me


How to finish making my bag
It took me
1 week
It made me
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Recent entries
Learn to say "Hello" in 10 different languages
In honor of World Hello Day... 4 hours ago

November 21st is World Hello Day. So I’m thinking that I ought to try to learn some today.

I know these four:
Hello (which is also the Scottish word for Hello)
Hola (and a few other different forms of it)
Konnichi wa
Bonjour

I’m wanting to learn these—
Norwegian
Gaelic
Russian
Hebrew
German
Chinese

—to really learn them and be able to say them off the top of my tongue.



Take photographs worth posting on flickr
Create a flickr 3 days ago

I don’t actually have a flickr account. But I absolutely love looking at everyone else’s photos. I’d like to travel to more places and take more pictures—Meaningful pictures—so that I can have photographs to look back on and be proud of.

Of course this ties in with a lot of my other goals. I know that if I do my other goals, I’ll definitely be able to have more wonderful times and photographs from them.



get braces
Untitled 3 days ago

This is something that I’ve always wanted and needed to do.

When I was twelve, I finally got my first set of braces. The orthodontist that I went to didn’t know what he was doing. He messed up a lot of people’s teeth, left his work, and fled. It’s a very rare case, but luckily, the next orthodontist took out the braces and my teeth were back to the way they were before. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any money left on my dental plan to ever afford getting braces again.

It’s been over seven years since then. I have a pretty big gap, and it makes me really self-conscious. My husband is in the military, and I now have dental insurance. But shockingly, I don’t think the insurance will pay for much of anything. I’m in my second year of college, and I’m just about to say “enough is enough” and spend my own money on the braces. I know I would feel better about myself if I could finally afford to get this done.



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