Showing posts with label new years. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new years. Show all posts

belated resolutions

environmentally
+ use zero (/less) paper cups at restaurants and coffeeshops
+ take short (7 minute?) showers
+ attempt to buy things that use less plastic...

artistically
+ art projects with garrett
+ do more things i don't know how to do
+ make more things that look like anthropologie

socially
+ remember that no one enjoys hearing me complain
+ more quality time with people
+ volunteer in austin/be civically engaged
+ learn new things. lecture series from friends. teach me something you know.

physically
+ remember to think about food
+ make more food
+ go to st. ed's group fitness classes
+ figure out some sort of run to make possible the Running 1 Mile goal


favorites movies & music of 2010.

for garrett.

...foreign movie:
The Secrets in Their Eyes (even though it won a 2009 Oscar)
...mind-blowing movie: Catfish (without having seen Black Swan)
...movie seen on a date: West Side Story at the Paramount
...movie that made me cry the most: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, pt. 1
...real-life funny movie: The Kids are All Right
...not-just-a-kids-movie movie: Toy Story 3
...worst movie: Tie between Leap Year and The Backup Plan
...movie jen and i walked out of: Death at a Funeral (American version)
...movie jen and i should have walked out of: Main Street

...album I didn't like at first but then loved: The Wild Hunt, The Tallest Man on Earth
...album for stormy feelings: High Violet, The National
...album i can't get out of my head: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West
...soul revival:
Songs for a Break Up, Fitz and the Tantrums
...album that i listened to before it threw up on the radio: Sigh No More, Mumford and Sons
...album for nostalgia: So Runs the World Away, Josh Ritter
...singles: Fuck You by Cee-Lo Green, Go Do by Jonsi, and Round and Round, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

:)

happy 2010!

it's a new decade! i'm not feeling incredibly nostalgic, but maybe just because i'm not at any other sort of turning points. i'm 19 and in the midst of college. however, now is as good a time as any to evaluate and re-evaluate.

TO CONTINUE.
+ working out, walking, running, just moving & being active
+ keeping up with friends
+ changing and getting better at photography and design
+ 4.0, or getting good grades

TO WORK ON.
+ zero plastic bottles
+ drinking more water
+ bringing my own mug to coffeeshops
+ opening up & not being afraid of things
+ being the type of person i want to be
+ volunteering and joining organizations
+ starting a photography website and start selling photos

SHORT TERM.
+ apply to the Time Internship (due in 2 weeks!)
+ design my resume
+ photo website!
+ print photos at school


"Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives." (Stranger Than Fiction)

"Your bones are not made of glass. You can take life's knocks. So get him, for Pete's sake!" (Amelie)

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