Saturday, July 4, 2009

seventeen before i turn eighteen. the list.

seventeen before i turn eighteen. the list.

(or as like to call it. the list of pure awesomeness. ahem.)

1. learn to play the guitar
2. finish a painting
3. get something published
4. take at least ten photos of strangers. like these cool people
5. go on a roadtrip with friends
6. eat chinese food
7. send a random happy mail package each month to different people
8. take polaroid pictures
9. write and print my own zine
10. fall in love. with God or a new ice cream flavor or art or, heck, with someone
11. wander aimlessly somewhere
12. go to a first thursday downtown
13. make an arty music video
14. design a website
15. begin a rain book
16. do something daring
17. sit in a coffee shop, writing something brilliant on my own macbook

(i stole lots of ideas from elise and hula and lesley and all you wonderfully clever people. thank you.)

happy fourth. i think i'll go to a top of a hill with my silly friends and then home to watch my little brother blow himself up. i love this holiday.

10 comments:

Roberta said...

Hey Mandy...I can offer some "suggention/direction" on a few of your "goals"...no. 7...mail random packages...check out Mary Ann Moss's blog...she's great w'making random journal pages, etc. to send off in great pkgs. to her friends: http://dispatchfromla.typepad.com/
and for no. 9...write/print your own ezine...complete one for sewing on your scrapbook/journal pages...you have a great eye and knack for it and you'd be great. Check out Theresa McFaden's ezines...she does a great job for a great price...if you haven't already...her journal ezines are a great start for you...http://www.paperbellastudio.com/category_8/ezines.htm
Hope this helps, fondly, Roberta

lesley kerr said...

you are beautiful through and through.
all of these thrill me entirely.
i know this year is going to be such a blessing.

lovelove,
lk

e u r a said...

splendid ideas!

i think i'll try out the rain book ...

♥ JB said...

Can I be one of those lucky people that gets a random package? :]

GracieFrances; said...

i really love the list of pure awesomeness.
x

Vicki said...

lol you really like lists!!! i love this one tho - i should do one...a 27 before turning 28 EEK!! lol 10 years older than you :P. love the idea of sending out random packages, people like getting happy mail xxx

ca said...

fantastic list. I may have to create my own list for when i turn 17 in august.

Have fun completing them! and i also am saving for a mac book pro!

Emily said...

Ooooh, good list, my birthday is coming up... I may have to copy you.... -e

Emily said...

lovely lovely blog. i adore this list! can't wait to read more :) xo

Michelle said...

Dude. Lovely list. :) Good luck with it! There's nothing like learning to play the guitar - well, okay, there is. But it rocks. Happy day!