31. Ebay/Craigslist 101 things. [7-12/101]

Realized i hadn't updated this one. Have sold a few things recently...

7. Shelf
8. Shelf
9. Wii Fit (i have a definite shopping problem with electronics - i was trying to find something in my closet one day and found it in a shopping bag. totally forgot i had it!)
10. Ikea wall art
11. VT vs. UNC tickets (counted this one cause technically i did sell it on craigslist!)
12. Pink Guitar

During the past weekend, i attempted to clean and purge my closet since we were snowed in. I found a lot more stuff i want to sell - so hopefully, i'll be able to add more to this list! I found at least 30 pairs of earrings alone that i want to sell. Yes, i know...i have too much s*!t! lol.

87. Send 20 emails to out of touch friends. [2/20]

#2: Lauren J.

Once again, Facebook has found another one of my long lost friends! I studied abroad in London in '99 for a semester - and i absolutely loved it! I loved the city, the culture, the fashion, the people, the accent - everything! i honestly didn't even want to come back. Anyhow, Lauren was one of my friends from London - who was also my flat neighbor - along with Ollie, Nancy, and Laura.  The girl was crazy - good crazy - and i loved it! She was absolutely hilarious and so fun. I kept in touch with just a few people from London after we all left - so it was such a great surprise when she found me on Facebook. London was such an awesome experience for all of us that did it - so it's great to reconnect with the people who were actually part of that experience with me! Can't believe it's already been 10 years since! Lauren lives in San Francisco now, so i'm hoping the next time i'm in the Bay area we'll be able to get together.

think this was one of our last nights together
before we all went our separate ways back to the US...

42. Watch all of AFI's Top 100 Movies.

I'm losing my mind as i age. I seriously am. Aside from arriving to work early this morning because my alarm clock had the wrong time (an hour advanced), i realized this morning that I had been following the wrong AFI Top 100 Movies Listing!  Instead, I was following the AFI Top 10 of 10 (which was more of the top 10 in each genre). I was wondering why some movies that I had thought were really great didn't make the list. It still doesn't explain why some movies even made the list at all though!! lol.  Anyhow, I wanna stick true to this one though so i'm not going to finagle with it. Luckily, some movies matched both lists - but unfortunately some didn't. From a quick glance, i think i watched 25 movies for - not for nothing - but to pass time?! i dunno. so i'll revise the status of this task later on tonight when i actually compare lists thoroughly!  


**Update: I was right earlier - apparently only 10 of the movies that i had seen so far were on the actual AFI Top 100 List. Oh well, no need to stress - just gonna move on. So i'm going to revise the # for this task. These movies were actually part of the official list:

Schindler's List, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Maltese Falcon, Bonnie and Clyde, It Happened One Night, Rocky, Unforgiven, and A Clockwork Orange (how???!).

42. Watch all of AFI's Top 100 Movies. [29-34/100]

29. The Thief of Bagdad - i think Disney's Aladdin was based off of this - however:
- Aladdin was really King Ahmed - who became blind and then got his vision back later
- Abu was a boy who turned into a dog who turned back into a boy
- Jafar was still scary
- Genie only had a small part in the movie, he was mean, and he needed a pedicure
- oh! and the princess' name wasn't Jasmine - i forgot what it was.

30. Rocky
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Usual Suspects
33. It Happened One Night
34. Sleepless in Seattle

87. Send 20 emails to out of touch friends. [1/20]

#1: Brandi D.

As much as I hate to admit, Facebook is pretty amazing in the fact that you can find almost anybody on there. Bored one day, I did a search and looked up my childhood best friend, Brandi D. – and surprisingly I found her!

Brandi and her family were our next door neighbors when my family lived in Salem Village. We (meaning me, Brandi, my sister Ning, and cousin “LaLa” aka Sheila S.) were pretty much joined at the hip! Anyhow, long story short, my family moved to DC for a year and half, and I was soo bummed that I was leaving my best friend. When we moved back to the beach, we moved into the where my fam lives. We hung out once when we moved back but at that time, Brigadoon and Salem Village seemed like worlds apart (mind you, Lynnhaven Parkway was not connected at all from Princess Anne to Indian River Road!), and we were still young and couldn’t drive, so it was hard to see each other. Her family eventually moved and we lost touch after elementary school.

Anyhow, after doing a search and thinking I may have found her, I sent her one of those “is this brandi d. from blah blah blah…” emails. I wasn’t too sure if it was her – considering I hadn’t seen her since 4th grade…but it was! She lives in Kentucky now with her family – and now has a family of her own! It’s been over 20 years since we’ve talked to or seen each other – but it was so awesome that we were able to reconnect!

ning, brandi and me during a sleepover

i'm assuming this was my birthday party... from L to R:
me, maxine, brandi, sheila (aka lala), heather a. and ning