Goal progress…

Thought everyone might be interested in how the 30 before 30 goals are coming along…

I have added “Citizen Kane” to my Blockbuster Total Access list, although I’ve had “Prince Caspian” for over a month now and I really want to see “The Duchess” next, so it’ll find its way to me in time…

I have been reading, but unfortunately none of it has been on my books to read list. But I am currently reading “Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown and “The Last Unicorn” (my autographed copy!!) by Peter S. Beagle. I also recently read “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by Fitzgerald because I want to see the movie, as well as “Click for Love”, which is a personalized romance novel that my mom got for me for Christmas, haha.

I did acquire a dSLR camera for Christmas, so the next part of that is learning how to use it. Dove Wedding Photography is offering a photography basics workshop at the end of the month that I’d love to take, but I’m waiting to hear back if it is full already or not. Incidentally, this would also take care of “take a class of some sort”.

Also, along those same lines, Ben and I are taking a cooking class at the end of February to learn how to make a Sicilian dinner. So I guess that would count too.

For my “make a new friend” goal, I have signed myself up at meetup.com and am in two meetup groups: Nashville Hip Chicks and Board Game Lovers. Hopefully, I will be able to make a friend through one of these groups.

I’ve also been contemplating what I want my novel to be about, but so far have nothing. Well, actually I had something, but failed to write it down and then forgot it. So there you go.

Happy 2009!

I hope everyone had a great new year’s celebration. Like last year, Ben and I hosted a party at the house. It. Was. Crazy.

Pretty much, at any given time (minus early on), I could probably only name 60% of the people there.

Casualties included one champagne glass (that I know of), one Xbox 360 memory card (we think maybe someone stepped on it?), one deck of Star Wars playing cards (something was spilled on them), and my entire living room (which was victim to someone shaking a bottle of champagne and then opening it in the middle of the room). And, of course, practically every floor in the house is sticky. And there are a bunch of used fireworks and sparklers laying in my front yard.

The lens fell out of Ben’s glasses at one point during the night, and we were sure it would be among the casualties, but, luckily, I found it laying in the middle of the floor.

But, for the most part, I had fun (you know, minus the being upset that everything in my living room is now covered with speckles of stickiness–including all three of my cameras).