Challenge #6: Day 1 (Slug Bug Silver)

I'm sure you've guessed it. 

Challenge #6: Take a picture of a different VW Bug each day. 

so... here is Slug Bug Silver. I drove all around my sister's neighborhood thinking finding one would be a piece of cake... It wasn't. It took me 7 minutes to find one!

Challenge #5: Day 7 (DONE)

I watched the first season of the following shows (short commentary on what I thought of them):

United States of Tara: really good. great mix of comedy and drama.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: really funny. so wrong it's good.

How I Met Your Mother: funny and a great story. basically "legendary".

Castle: so good. each one is intense but good humor in it too.

Parks and Recreation: great characters. similar feel as the office.

Weeds: holds you attention. great story and characters. awesome.

Nurse Jackie: honestly watched it because it was short. surprised me with great drama in story lines.

I liked this challenge. It gave me the opportunity to try out a bunch of shows I've never had the chance to follow and I really liked most of them. I suggest doing this if you can. You don't have to do seven shows or even do it in a week, but give a few new shows a go. I think you'd like it. 

Challenge #6 which begins tomorrow will be announced later this evening. (I hope)

Challenge #5: Day 6 (the end is near)

I've watched a season of six different shows. 1 more to go and I've got 21 hours. I'm going to bed. See you all at a more reasonable hour. 

Pleasant dreams 

xoxo

Challenge #5: Day 5 (i might actually have a chance)

Here are the standings so far:

Completed:   season 1 of United States of Tara

season 1 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

season 1 of How I Met Your Mother

season 1 of Castle

In Progress: season 1 of Parks and Recreation

I might actually be able to complete this! 

Challenge #5: Day 3 (progress...)

Finished the 1st season of United States of Tara!

Watched first 3 episodes of the 1st season of Castle.

Watched 3.5 episodes of the 1st season of How I Met Your Mother.

So much TV!!! 

Challenge #5: Day 2 (finally a challenge...by default)

I've decided this weeks challenge is to watch an entire season of a show I've never seen before for each day. So, 1 season from 7 different shows I've never followed over the span of a week (from yesterday). The seasons can be watched at any time (i.e. I can watch a season of one show and then half of another in one day or half one day and the other half the next) So, no particular order is necessary.

So far, I've watched 10 out of the 12 episodes in season 1 of United States of Tara. Love it so far by the way. Maybe I'll do better review of it when I'm finished with the season. If I have time that is... I'll be watching a lot of TV!

Challenge #4: Day 7 (You Better Believe It!)

That's right. I completed another challenge. I wrote 7 letters. Mailed 6 of them and because it was okayed by the person who gave me the challenge, I had one sent by messenger. Yup. Hand written... and because I thought it would be even more "old school", I made my own envelopes. That's right! One is made from a napkin. That one was for the guy who gave me the challenge and the others are made from paper bag. Bought the stamps today and mailed all of them at 11:59pm Tuesday. Way to wait for the last minute. I know. By the way, sorry for this challenge being not being super exciting or anything update wise.  But, here is a nice picture of all of the letters right before I mailed them out.

Next challenge is: You will find out later today... or when I do... this means... less time for me to complete it. Whatever it is, I need to get it done by next 11:59pm Tuesday night.

Challenge #3: Day 7 (purple, yellow, and all the others)

I've been without internet as well as the capability to move pictures to a computer that does have internet... which I couldn't access... I'm dog/house sitting currently and can't get onto the internet at the house, so now I'm at school between classes updating :] 

Anyhow, Sunday I wore purple and went to a King's game. Unfortunately, they lost, but it was still a good game and I had a lot of fun hanging out with my family. We ended up sitting really close to this guy who won an Olympic gold medal for team bobsledding. The medals this year look really cool. 

Yesterday, I wore yellow. Exciting thing about the day... the power at school went out and my friend Laura got the teacher to cancel class. (Way to go birthday buddy!)

Today, I had to wear all the colors at once. So, what did I wear? My bathing suit. Duh! And my sweet snap bracelet that I got from Chegg.com since my bathing suit didn't have orange hearts on it. Going to see "An Education" today with my sister FINALLY, then I've got an Art midterm. Not looking forward to that, but at least after 9pm I won't have to worry about it anymore.

As always, looking for more suggestions. Please post any ideas, good or bad, in the comments. Thanks!

Starting tomorrow: Challenge #4: Write a letter to somebody every day and mail it (old school style).

any one have any stamps or envelopes I can have??? 

Challenge #3: Day 4 (blue)

(I'm rambling... beware) Waking up at noon is the nicest thing. I realized I've been wearing all blue since I woke up. Plus my sheets and comforter are blue. My towels are blue. 

Today my neighbors are having a house warming party. I'm looking forward to that. Then I'm of tho dog sitting. Just a heads up. King's game tomorrow so the color of the day will obviously be purple. I'm just so happy with like 95% of what's been going on in my life. I've had to deal with some pretty deep things as of late and I think I'm getting better at handling myself. Am I finally growing up? (fear!)

Hope whoever reads this has a remarkable day! Cheers!

Challenge #3: Day 3 (green)

best morning: wearing green. did well on test. did bad on test. new friends. professor's house. tea and crumpets. chickens named Satan. ilml

Challenge #3: Day 2 (orange)

Meh... sorry this is late. Busy day! And not going to be going to bed tonight, bad life decisions. But hey, I prefer the night. This way I can enjoy every bit of it whilst reading for class! Today's color^ orange :P

Challenge #3: Day 1 (red)

Picture taken this morning before going to elementary school. 1 color down, 5 to go!

Challenge #2: Day 7 (salsa... mmm :)

I honestly though about failing this one today... but I was too close. TOO close. So yes, I have completed the NO MEAT challenge. If you haven't guessed it already, I got through this meatless day with salsa :] If I can't have one thing I love, then, I WILL HAVE ANOTHER! I love this salsa though. It's the best. Most of what I consumed today was probably this salsa. 

PS. Tomorrow starts Challenge #3: Wear a different color of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet) everyday and 1 day I have to wear all the colors at once. There is no particular order in which I have to wear the colors. The REASON for this week's challenge is that it's PRIDE WEEK here at my school and I figured this would be a good way to show my support! 

Challenge #2: Day 5 (something old, something new, something borrowed, something... tofu?)

The weekend has finally come to a close and I've been less productive than I'd like, but what's new (something old)... At least I've still kept on track with my challenge. The only really note worthy piece of news is that for the first time yesterday I tried tofu. Verdict: it was better than I had expected, but it's not something I'd add to my everyday eating. Other than that, I'm looking forward to this coming friday because I'll finally be able to showcase my ballroom dancing skills and I'll be wearing a dress my sister gave me over christmas vacation (something borrowed) ... had to come up with something for that... :] . Two more days of not eating meat then, a NEW CHALLENGE (something new)!

What will it be? You'll just have to wait and see.

Challenge #2: Day 3 (late night snacks)

Another successful day toward the completion of the no meat challenge. Getting late night snacks is a bit difficult seeing as only fast food places are open late... my solution. Jack in the Box curly fries and vegan tacos! second night in a row i've had vegan food. pretty legit. 

Challenge #2: Day 2 (sushi... again?)

Ok, I wasn't expecting this either, but I guess sushi is going to be a reoccurring subject this week. 

Here's the deal... I woke up for my morning class and because over night I had a charlie horse, I woke up... UNABLE TO WALK, as well as ridiculously tired from my lack of sleep. What a great day to have BALLROOM DANCE at 9am, right? Right. So after somehow managing to get to dance (only observed since I couldn't move like the natural prima ballerina that I am *cough* yeahright *cough*), I did some group work for a project at the caf, where I know plenty of the staff who made fun of me for being there from breakfast until lunch. I should have grabbed something for lunch before I left, but decided instead to be an idiot. I took a quick nap hoping to gain some energy before heading off to work, but when I woke up realized, "Hey! I only have enough time to get to work... no food! Oh no!" 

So I raced to get something that is pre-made at the caf... and the only thing that didn't have meat was the cucumber avocado sushi... which I don't understand why it's sushi, but am very grateful for it's existence nonetheless. I unfortunately didn't get to eat said "sushi" until I got back from work. However, receiving news of a raise sure made me forget my hunger pangs! 

I think tonight for dinner I'll be having a vegi-burger (one thing my school is really good at)! 

Oh, and just incase anyone was wondering... I've just been informed by my roommate and Snapple that armadillos always have four babies and they are always all the same sex. Interesting.

Challenge #2: Day 1 (sushi)

It's only the first day into my no meat challenge and I've been invited for sushi... this would be no problem if I didn't include fish into the meat category, which, I don't understand why people would ever separate it in the first place (which is why I didn't). Well, if I go out, I won't be eating any sushi. So far so good in the challenge though :] 

Just an Intro & a Quick Update on the Challenges

So, I've decided to make this blog to keep track of the weekly challenges that I've decided to start doing a week ago. The first one was to drink 18 cups of tea in one week. I have just completed this one and starting today (my weeks run from Wednesdays to Tuesdays) I cannot eat meat (fish included) for a week... you'll get the idea soon enough. I am always accepting challenge ideas, so please leave them in the comments if you have any (thank you in advance!) So here is a an example of what I'll be posting (copied from my Facebook where I started this challenge idea...)

(2/24-3/2)
Goal #1: drink 18 cups of tea

2/24 (7:47pm) ... first cup into the challenge!

first cup of tea 2/24 here's to weekly challenges!

2/24 (8:56pm) ... brewing my second cup currently, just found out... i don't have enough tea bags... how's it that i've already found this to be harder than i thought...? well, this is a challenge, at least now this one is a bit more challenging now :/ 

2/24 (9:07pm) ... 2nd cup! i think that's plenty tea for an hour and a half...

2/26 (2:29am) ... 2 more cups down today so that puts me at 4 cups total so far

2/26 (11:49am) ... not even noon yet and i've already got 3 cup in! PROGRESS <-- it feels good

2/27 (12:54am) ... just finished off another cup and it just started raining :] total cups so far: 8 cups still needed: 10

2/28 (11:45am) ... huge lack of tea drinking this weekend because i went home. drank one cup only. gunna have to make up for this big time. currently drinking... cup #10 (more like downing) and then moving onto cup #11 before the night is up. that leaves me 7 cups for monday and tuesday. i can do this!

after downing cup #10 2/28

3/1 (5:50pm) ... downing cup #12 before banging out a water color for class tomorrow... DONE! now onto watercolor... brewing cup #13 :]

3/2 (12:21pm) ... 12 hours and 5 cups still to go. meh

3/2 (5:12pm) ... on cup #17 now :] doing art hw. i swear this class is going to kill me!

drinking tea and doing art

3/2 (11:42pm) ... 18 cups of tea! Challenge #1 complete

 

Hopefully I get more interesting. I will try to do longer posts or updates that include a bit more insight than those above. And more likely daily instead. If you have any suggestions I am open to them. 

Cheers!