Goal Completed

Today is my second anniversary with John. ( <3 ) Shortly after I woke up, he made me breaded lemon chicken for brunch (since I woke up around noon.) After a little bit of running around, I managed to find some matches, and we were able to have a romantic candlelit lunch. Shortly before a thunderstorm. :D

Goal #73: Complete.

Completed Goal!

I completed a new goal yesterday! I finally decided that I was done with looking for Sound of Music and West Side Story and found them online. Then I watched them. So goal #26 - Watch four classic musicals is now complete.

West Side Story: I really liked this one. Though the beginning was SO LONG. The drippy opening credit shot was five minutes. It is a little bit dated, of course. The gangfight thing at the beginning was really funny to watch. Neither gang seemed that bad, really. They both just wanted to hang out. Not like gang movies that come out now.

Sound of Music: I've seen a lot of parodies of a lot of parts of this film. OH MY GOD, IT'S SO LONG. I mean, it's really good, but it's hella long. The middle part, when the kids go from hating her to loving her, went much faster than I expected. I would really like the soundtrack for this movie.

'Nother Book!

I went camping with my dad early this week, and my sister brought the third book in the series I've been reading. It's actually a trilogy. I can't remember the name of it, though. The book itself was called The Reckoning. It was so good! I loved it! I actually started rereading it immediately, which is something I don't think I've ever done. I'm also currently drawing fanart of it. The last novel I drew fanart for was .. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Which came out a while ago.

Bookssss

I thought I posted this a while ago, but the servers (or something) were messed up, so we couldn't post new entries. Anyway.

I finished two more books! I finally finished Wicked, by Gregory Macguire, and just last night I finished The Awakening, by Kelly Armstrong.

I liked 90% of Wicked. The first 90%, to be specific. It was the same issue I had with Gunslinger, actually. It was a normal plot for most of the book, and then bam! Philosophy. Not really what I wanted. I think that the Wizard being her father was meant to be more of a shock. Even though I haven't seen the play, I'm much more familiar with that version of the story because I know the music so well. It was.. really not the same story. :<

As for The Awakening, I still really like this series. (The Summoning being the first book.) Trilogy, I suppose. Technically. But it's about a group of kids from age 15ish - 16ish who all have some sort of magical power. It's aimed at highschoolers. But I really like them! They're super enjoyable to read. There's one book left, The Reckoning, I believe. Ellie owns it, and she's gonna loan it to me as soon as she can.

This brings my total book count up to 35.

Two Major Purchases!

Yay! Over the last week or so, I completed two different goals, both in the "Major Purchases" category. My older stepbrother bought himself a new TV a couple weeks ago, so he gave his old (still very nice TV) to my little sister. She then gave me her old-but-still-nice-and-newer-than-mine TV. It's got wonderful picture, sound, and it's got all the right plugins. I don't need my VHS workaround anymore! :D

And, second, I finally spent my Detour money on a Wii! I'm so excited! I was originally gonna wait until after E3, but after research and advice, I went with one of Gizmodo's Deals of the Day and got it with free shipping, plus a 30$ game credit, which I spent on a dance pad for DDR3. I've also got Raving Rabbids and Super Mario Galaxy waiting, as well. I'm thrilled. I'm probably gonna ask my dad for the Wii Fit for my birthday or something.

Also, I finally started actively working on my 'get in shape' goal. I exercised yesterday a whole ton, and I plan to keep working at it until it's done.

#4, #30, and #50

I made some pretty big progress today!

First, I completed goal #30: Drink one bottle of water every day for a week. I really love drinking water, but I have a hard time carrying the bottle around with me, especially with my bag so full of school things already. I have it clipped to the bag via a carribeaner, but it always bangs the bottle into things all the time. :/ But, I finished the goal! I think I'm going to try and locate my bit (half liter) bottle, if only because it doesn't make a silly noise when I drink out of it.

Then, early this afternoon (technically late this morning?), Virginia and Amanda (mostly Amanda) taught me how to use Bare Essentials makeup. I know that the brand is spelled differently, but I can't remember how it's done right now. But the makeup was really easy to do, once I saw it done. I'm going in early next week to buy my own starter kit, so that I'll have the stuff for Detour.

Finally, after doing makeup stuff, we all went out to the cross stitch store in Minnetonka, and I bought a little starter kit thingy! It's Pooh and Eeyore, and it's super cute. I've been working on it for a couple of hours, and I've got nine rows done! Well. Nine rows of Eeyore. But still! Its fun!

Goal #100 - Bake a Layered Cake

Goal #100 is complete~! :D

Me, John and Laura baked a layered cake on Monday, March 22. We had a lot of fun making the batter and frosting and stuff. We didn't make enough frosting to cover the cake, though, and we didn't make it thick enough, so it looks like this terrifying green liquid oozed over the top layer of the cake.
Also, something is wrong with John's oven, and it doesn't heat up when it says it has. So.. the oven wasn't hot enough when we put the cake in, so when the cake came out, it wasn't done. We caught it on the top layer, but not the bottom. So the top layer was done, but fell apart, and then the bottom layer was whole and nice, but not cooked all the way through. xD

The parts that were baked all the way were delicious. I intend to post pictures once I find my camera cord.