How toothpaste could increase my drinking problem.

Tooling around online as usual (one day, I'm gong to keep a record of things I google so you bastards can see how random I am) I came upon an add for new Tom's of Maine products. I am a fan of Tom when I'm feeling extra granola. Looking through the toothpaste (bc clearly that is mindblowing) I notice that several now come in fennel flavor. I know I should remember what that would taste like, but it was not there in the ol' memory. So I googled it, and shabam. Fennel is one of the main ingredients for the most delicious drink on the planet. Absinthe. Can I just state here that I am a fan? And it was right around this time last year in fact that I had my last encounter with the green fairy. We had a lovely chat around a campfire, and it was good. Jenny might say otherwise, but she is a creative writer. (Bc clearly that explains it...)

Granted absinthe is more anise-flavory (yes, for new readers, I make up my own words) but still. The idea of it boggled my mind so much that when I came to, I had ordered said toothpaste. It's just damn toothpaste! What am I thinking.... there goes the money I was saving for my brother's christmas present.

In other not so exciting but still libation type news ( bc according to Merriam-Webster, it can also mean the act of drinking ceremoniously) (and I only had to check how to spell ceremoniously twice), I'm headed to Columbus tomorrow for a weekend of celebration. I'll get to see the marrieds and party like a rock star. 'scuse me, party like a WW1 fighter pilot. They were hardcore, dontcha know. And if I'm lucky we'll make it to Sandusky on Saturday and get to ride roller coasters (clearly you can see the major flaw in this logic). I am working from home tonight to make up the 4 hrs I'm missing tomorrow, so tonight, I will be extra cranky. But if you want to hear about gas repressurization as a method to increase oil production, then I'm you person.

Question to everyone: Should I put the Daily Snaps on here everyday, or just have a link that you can go look if you feel so compelled?

I'm off to go write about the wonders of Oklahoma oil country. For some reason it makes me want to channel Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood and shout "Bastard in a Basket!" But then maybe, maybe thats not the best thing to do when you sit in a cubicle.

Daily Snaps.

I love my ridiculous green coat and my "work" shoes.

That evil dog. She didn't eat my camera cord at least!

Photographic Insight

I'm cheap. I decided not to fork over the $24.95 to flickr. Instead I signed up for a photobucket account. You can find that.... here

I don't have many photos up yet, but I thought you readers would appreciate this little gem. Look at that hair. Look at that sheer contemplation. I was aloof before aloof was cool.

I am still taking a daily photo but I can't seem to find my cord. I am afraid the dog ate it. Again.

Update, Schmupdate. I'm going to be a blogging queen.

Top 100 Movies

So I'm on my lunch break and decided to look into another one of my 101 goals. I think the most time intensive one will be #38- Watch all 100 of the AFI's Best Movies of All Time. I found the list, which I will post here so I can reference back to it. Several on the list are among some of my favorites, so I'm going to go ahead and count them. Some I have seen, but if it has been only one or two times, I will rewatch for the sake of the game.

Here's the list, I'll bold the ones I've seen enough times to qualify checking off as well as use that to represent the ones I do see, so I know what is left:


1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
6. Gone with the Wind (1939)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Star Wars (1977)
14. Psycho (1960)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
17. The Graduate (1967)
18. The General (1927)
19. On the Waterfront (1954)
20. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
21. Chinatown (1974)
22. Some Like It Hot (1959)
23. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
24. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
25. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
35. Annie Hall (1977)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
40. The Sound of Music (1965)
41. King Kong (1933)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. Shane (1953)
46. It Happened One Night (1934)
47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48. Rear Window (1954)
49. Intolerance (1916)
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
51. West Side Story (1961)
52. Taxi Driver (1976)
53. The Deer Hunter (1978)
54. M*a*s*h (1970)
55. North By Northwest (1959)
56. Jaws (1977)
57. Rocky (1976)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan's Travels (1958)
62. American Graffiti (1973)
63. Cabaret (1972)
64. Network (1976)
65. The African Queen (1951)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982)
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
73. Butch Caddidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
76. Forrest Gump (1994)
77. All the President's Men (1976)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. The Wild Bunch (1969)
80. The Apartment (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
83. Titanic (1997)
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
92. Goodfellas (1990)
93. The French Connection (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994)
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
99. Toy Story (1995)
100. Ben-Hur (1959)


So it looks like I have a lot to watch. I'm ok with that. It looks like I'm going to have to actually get a netflix account though. unless some of you readers have any of said movies and want to sit on the couch with a large bowl of popcorn with me. I'm actually excited about this project because there are many movies on the list, older ones especially, that I have always wanted to see but never got around to it. So, #38, I'm gunning for you.

Scratch #5 off the list.

So my religious myspace readers know about my list of 101 goals to complete in 1001 days.

Well #5, you get a big fat check mark. Welcome to Barely Aware. (Get it? Get it? A-Ware? My last name? Tell me I'm not the only one laughing...)

I feel like I'm off to a good start here, my friends. And for any new readers, I figured I'd go ahead and re-post my list of goals.

My 101 goals to complete in 1001 days (to be completed on July 24, 2011) are as follows:

1. Sponsor a woman soldier overseas

2. Send someone flowers just for fun

3. Buy an angel tree Christmas gift each Christmas of the project

4. Sing karaoke, with a group counts.

5. Start a real blog, not on myspace Complete 10/27/2008

6. Start taking a daily photo Complete 10/29/2008
   

7. Write one letter a month to someone important

8. Start recycling and keep up with it for a minimum of one month with plan of continuing the good habit.

9. Use the Wii to work out at least 4 times a week for a period of one month with plan of continuing the good habit

10. Hang up the photos on the red wall

11. Drink half my body weight in ounces of water for 30 straight days

12. Take vitamins everyday for a period of one month with plan of continuing the good habit

13. Take zumba once a week for 3 straight months

14. Budget 10% of each paycheck to put into savings

15. Pay off credit cards

16. Take a new art/craft class at Michaels, Zen Clay, etc.

17. Go geo-caching

18. Write a will

19. Send out real Christmas Cards with real stamps with a hilarious picture of Calypso or something similar

20. Travel out West to Colorado or similar just to see the mountains or desert, depending on which state I hit.

21. Reorganize my closet so that my work clothes are on the closer side while the t-shirts that I love but don't get to wear as often now that I have a job are on the farther side.

22. Tell someone how much I appreciate them each day for a month, following the alphabet (someone with name beginning with A, B, etc). We shall dub it The Andrea's Alphabetical Appreciation month, until we can come up with a better name.

23. Make a pie from scratch.

24. Brave the Beltway to visit Chris Short and go to at least 3 of the Smithsonian museums

25. Take photo-booth photos on seven separate occasions.

26. See ten foreign films

27. Learn to snowboard

28. Visit the Andy Warhol museum

29. Take someone important to me to Topsail Island

30. Get at least 3 other people to come with me to the Mystery Hole

31. Send a message in a bottle

32. Send 5 postcards through www.postcrossing.com

33. submit 2 secrets to PostSecret

34. Do the dishes every day for a straight month with the plan of continuing the good habit

35. Learn to play chess

36. Meet my brother's girlfriend and NOT make fun of Michael in front of her during that first initial meeting.

37. Get a passport

38. See all of AFI's top 100 movies

39. Participate at least one time in http://gimmeyourstuff.blogspot.com/

40. Read ten books that have been on the Banned Books list that I have not previously read

41. Clean out my office which no longer looks like an office but more like an explosion.

42. Get my Little Dipper tattoo

43. Walk/run in a marathon that raises money for a good cause

44. Go to a planetarium

45. Carry change with me to give to the Salvation Army Santa Claus people every time I am shopping at Wal-Mart this winter.

46. Donate 2 dollars to charity for every task I don't complete on this list

47. Try soymilk

48. Have Dave or someone similar take my picture with the dog in a semi-professional manner that I could give to my grandmother so she can finally replace the photo she has hanging up of me from 11^th grade.

49. Make/decorate a birthday cake for someone

50. If I meet someone special, go watch airplanes/people at the airport with them.

51. Learn to play poker

52. Make 3 people soundtracks of songs that make me think of them.

53. Put up outside Christmas lights

54. take 3 new people to Coopers Rock

55. buy a dress that I actually feel pretty in and can wear on a casual everyday type basis

56. Write down one nice thing about myself every day for a month

57. put all the bags of sea glass I have floating around into one decorative jar

58. get rid of all my socks that are missing a mate

59. cook a real dinner that isn't just something that can be microwavable at minimum of two nights a week for a period of one month with the plan of continuing the good habit

60. keep my car clean for a period of one month with the plan of continuing the good habit.

61. help mom put up the Christmas tree and keep my damn mouth shut when I think she's put too many lights on it.

62. continue to look online at least once a week for that magical dream job that I still have no idea what it is.

63. spend one day where I don't plan to do anything that involves getting out of bed (other than necessary functions) but rather enjoy being lazy and watching tv or reading for pleasure. This day can only occur on a day where I am feeling happy, and not depressed because the stay in bed when I'm depressed days never turn out good and usually lead to stay in bed bc I'm depressed weeks.

64. if I like someone, and I mean in that kinda way like someone, actually tell them and not wait around hoping they get the point.

65. for the period of one month write down something everyday that I am thankful for.

66. learn to play the Star Wars theme on a guitar and prove that I've done so to at least 3 witnesses

67. go on a trip with mom. I don't care what kind of trip as long as it is an activity or in a place that is not ordinary to us.

68. write a letter to my grandmother telling her how much I appreciate her for being a big factor in my life

69. make vegetable soup in my crock-pot

70. talk to my dad on the phone for more than 5 minutes once a week for a period of one month with the idea of maybe hopefully continuing it thereafter

71. attend a hockey game

72. taste three new varieties of cheese

73. buy a telescope

74. clean out my bedroom at home so that it doesn't look like a high schooler still lives there

75. get the oil changed in my car at the exact mile that it is supposed to. (will check car to find this number and post it)

76. visit Savannah, Georgia

77. steam clean (is that what that cleaner thing is?) my carpets

78. try a new fruit or vegetable (this includes ones I swore I did not like as a child and haven't touched since) once a month. Oct 08-edamame
    

79. learn to knit and make something more difficult than a scarf. Preferably a shrug or a handbag

80. make a self representative piece of art to hang on my wall

81. paint my unfinished shelves that I have sitting in the office black and use them as end tables in the living room.

82. buy a small filing cabinet and put all those important documents that I always lose in it, like my birth certificate and job information and bills that I have paid

83. take a group of friends and go play bingo somewhere like the VFW once

84. do an activity where I actively spend time with my brother, even if it is just drinking on Christmas Eve while watching A Christmas Story after mom and dad go to bed like we did last year.

85. write a positive blog for every negative blog for a 30 day period (not 30 days of blog, just whenever I blog in that period) in hopes of continuing the good habit of positive thinking.

86. get rid of all my shoes that I haven't worn in the past 6 months.

87. knit/crochet 6 shaws/lap blankets to give to people in the nursing home.

88. put change in someone's parking meter when its run out so that they don't get a ticket.

89. volunteer with some type of youth organization. e.g. Big Brother Big Sister, Kaleidoscope, etc.

90. take a course or have someone good with cameras teach me to take quality photos.

91. bake cupcakes and take them to work for no particular reason

92. go through facebook/instant messenger/phonebook and delete the people I don't talk to anymore but just keep around to read about what they are doing. Complete 10/29/2008
    

93. actually mow my yard during the summer months

94. keep a plant alive for 5 months with hopes of keeping it alive long after

95. get a Christmas present for my lonely neighbor kid friend.

96. sell five items on ebay without purchasing anything in return.

97. have a yard sale

98. clean out my fridge and freezer

99. read three non-fiction texts on WW1
100. chat up one person I think is cute, whether in a grocery store, at the bar, giving me a speeding ticket, etc . October 31, 2008. Thank you Halloween. :)
101. create a new list at the end of the 1001 days to complete.

So that's the list. I did take a photo today to start my Photo-of-the-Day goal. I just have yet to suck it up and pay the Flickr fee to post them. Boo I say. Boo!