The Goals

  1. Get accepted to BYU.
  2. Graduate with a Bachelor’s degree.
  3. Publish one of my books.
  4. Write a novel.
  5. Go through the temple.
  6. Get more involved in Family History.
  7. Publish my journals.
  8. Use my passport in Europe.
  9. Use my passport in South America.
  10. Use my passport in Asia.
  11. Take a cake decorating class.
  12. Successfully sew a complete project from start to finish.
  13. Plan a wedding.
  14. Lose weight.
  15. Own several pairs of glasses.
  16. Be comfortable in my own skin.
  17. Have a black baby (adoption or…)
  18. Learn how to make Thai Yellow Curry.
  19. Learn how to French braid my hair.
  20. Learn a new language.
  21. Go on a cruise.
  22. Travel the East Coast.
  23. Buy a house.
  24. Restore a farmhouse.
  25. Develop my own “style.”
  26. Take art classes.
  27. Learn how to make my own blog backgrounds.
  28. Get a Henna tattoo.
  29. Relearn how to play the flute.
  30. Read the Book of Mormon (again).
  31. Index 5000 names.
  32. Find a work out I enjoy doing.
  33. Read Don Quixote.
  34. Read Count of Monte Cristo.
  35. Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
  36. Reread the Giver.
  37. Have a successful website (hopefully selling my books)
  38. Learn Calligraphy.
  39. Design a wedding invitation that is actually used for someone.
  40. Go to Florida to visit Jessica.
  41. Go to Canada.
  42. Go to Mexico.
  43. Get health insurance.
  44. Get married.
  45. Have babies.
  46. Feel comfortable in a bathing suit.
  47. Give blood.
  48. Donate plasma.
  49. Do my own taxes.
  50. Save money for a trip.
  51. Buy a new car.
  52. Be quoted.
  53. See every Cary Grant movie.
  54. Give money to a homeless person – whether or not they will use it on booze.
  55. Pay for a stranger’s meal at a restaurant.
  56. Take Sally Doll out to dinner.
  57. Learn all the words to a rap song, and “sing” it successfully.
  58. Maintain a vegetable garden.
  59. Buy a new camera.
  60. Own a great set of pots and pans - use them.
  61. Read the Ensign cover to cover for a year.
  62. Memorize the words to On the Street Where You Live and I Could Have Danced All Night.(My Fair Lady)
  63. Play the flute in Church as a musical number.
  64. Give a Book of Mormon to someone.
  65. Whiten my teeth.
  66. Keep my room clean for a month.
  67. Survive a media fast.
  68. Develop a testimony of fasting.
  69. Play organized basketball again.
  70. Follow a team from beginning of the season to the end of the season.
  71. Write my parents’ memoirs.
  72. Convert five people to The Hunger Games
  73. Successfully care for a plant.
  74. Finish my stats class.
  75. Go to bed by 10 p.m. every night for a week.
  76. Make it to Church 10 minutes early every week for a month.
  77. Learn about a political issue and follow it or help do something about it.
  78. Take a stand about something important.
  79. Give my phone number to a guy.
  80. Go on a second date.
  81. Stand up for myself.
  82. Create a budget – and stick to it.
  83. Go skinny dipping.
  84. Go horseback riding.
  85. Find a reason to dress up in a period costume.
  86. Go to a show in Vegas.
  87. Kiss a guy with an accent.
  88. Attend every temple in the U.S.
  89. See Mackenzie play basketball.
  90. Be in Ohio for Thanksgiving again.
  91. Visit my Grandma and Grandpa’s graves over Memorial Day.
  92. Wear a hat in public.
  93. Put blue or pink or red in my hair.
  94. Learn how to cook a tofu dish.
  95. Take a friend to King’s Island.
  96. Bring a “friend” to my family reunion.
  97. Move out of Utah.
  98. Go to New York.
  99. Stay at a Bed & Breakfast.
  100. Pray more.
  101. Volunteer for the Red Cross.
  102. Give up chocolate for a month.
  103. Graduate with honors.
  104. Earn my Associate's degree.
  105. Read a biography for every U.S. President.
  106. Keep a personal deadline - the first time.
  107. Finish something early.

Monday, August 23, 2010

79. Give a Guy My Number

Last summer I was unemployed and not in school. It meant that I had a lot of free time. So I made arrangements to hang with a friend in Salt Lake and drove up there a little earlier than she was off work. I had time to kill and the best way for me to waste hours is to go to a book store. I get lost in book stores!

When I went in search of a chair so I could sit and read my book, I noticed this really cute black guy reading a magazine. I smiled at him, and then sat down to read. Glancing, only occasionally, at him sitting next to me. After a few minutes he said, "Can I ask you a question?"

And we started talking from there. He told me a lot about himself. His name is Wade. He's originally from Georgia, moved to Utah to live with his uncle. He really respected his uncle and the way he treated his wife and so he found out why: the Church. So he joined the Church, worked as an orderly somewhere and lived in Bountiful. He plays basketball a couple times a week. Wasn't in school, but was planning on going in the future.

He seemed quite perfect. Well, not perfect. But he was beautiful, and he was black and he was talking to me. When my alarm went off telling me that I had to get back to my car, I got up the nerve and told him that if he was ever in Provo, he should probably call me.

He texted me as I walked to the car telling me that I was beautiful, smart and sexy. I was twitterpated. I spent the rest of the week texting him. He never actually called.

The point was, I worked up the nerve to give him my number. Which is a huge step for me, and completed the goal, even if nothing came of it.

*A month or so later, he asked me to send him a picture of me. It kind of freaked me out, so I sent him a picture of a llama. He texted me fairly consistently with "Wasup?" and never anything more substantial. I grew bored and annoyed of him. We don't text anymore.

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