What are your feelings about milk?
Milk is yum. I used to drink it a lot, but I’ve cut down on it a lot. Only use it in pancakes.

What are your feelings about cheese?
Cheese is GOD

What are your feelings about yogurt?
Depends on the product, most of it is yummy

How do you feel about soy milk?
Gross. ’nuff said

How far are you from the nearest cow?
I have no idea, but I think it is a 15 minute drive or so.

And then it stopped.

I got nothing but blank pages, the so called white screen of death (similar to the blue screen of death as in NOTHING WORKS!). The site worked, but that was about it.

Then I went searching online for possible solutions and with a simple click I found one of them. Disabling all your plugins and then enabling them one by one to see who the culprit was.

Did that. and now everything seems to be in working order.

But before that happens, the integration back in to society will happen. I’ve already got the part of going to a gym down, now comes the getting a new place and getting a job. I’m still not quite sure what I want to do. Everyone has opted for Children’s Day Care again, but I can’t see myself back there again. And I was definitely not planning on working in a store or something like that.

I might be thinking of doing some volunteer work, but I need to figure out if the social security people are okay with that, since I am still getting paid via them. I’d definitely volunteer at an animal shelter, which, coincidentally also resides on my 101 in 1001 list.

And some may kick me for saying this, but I am actually, genuinly interested in how certain people from my past are doing. I think I’m not made to keep grudges against people no matter how much I think they hurt me. Well actually that is not true, I am indifferent towards my father. But you can’t ask me to take the first step, that would be like kicking myself in the shins several times.

Alright that is enough for now. I leave you all with a cute picture of Lucky Charlie:

Lucky Charlie

@asdotnet what would be a perfect day to share with a friend, what would you like to do, see, visit whatever.

There are actually several things I’d like to.

1. ROADTRIP! I’ve got this thing with roadtrips. I love driving, though I can’t actually drive, but I love to sit in a car and just GO. I need to talk someone into doing this with me. One of my 101 in 1001 list is visiting every province in our country, and that is a great reason for a roadtrip.

2. A day of visiting churches and taking pictures. I love churches for their architectual value and I’d love to go on a trip visiting various churches and discuss their use.

3. Sit in a cafe and just talk and watch people.

These are mine. what about yours?

This completed one is buying the postcards. Here’s a picture of some of them.

Then I disabled Google Gears. ANd presto! it worked again. so Bu Bye Google Gears!

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Idea: Day Zero
Start Date: 29th May 2009
End Date: 24th February 2012
Status: In progress, complete

Completed goals will have the date of completion and a link to the post behind it.

Health/Self Image Improvement

001. Lose at least 30kg in weight (6 / 30)
002. Go to the gym twice a week for six months
003. Get a massage once every two months
004. Get my hair trimmed every two to three months (depending on length) (0/33)
005. Cook a healthy meal four times a week for a month
006. Eat at least one piece of fruit and/or vegetables each day for a month
007. Keep a positive diary for 1 month and write in it once a day
008. Eat no candy for one week (0/7)
009. Try 3 (three) different vegetables for a month (I really dislike them)
010. Ride my bike to therapy twice a week for two months (0/2)
011. Go to the dentist every 6 months
012. Take up swimming again
013. Write a letter to my future self once a month (ongoing)
014. Get myself a completely different look twice (0/2)
015. Get a complete medical check up
016. Work Out 30 minutes a day on days I don’t go to the gym for a month (0/1)

Mental Learning

017. Read about one random subject on Wikipedia once a week (if possible do more)
018. Get better acquainted with HTML
019. Get better acquainted with PHP
020. Get better acquainted with Adobe Photoshop
021. Get better acquainted with CSS

Financial

022. Pay off 75% off my debt (if possible (100%)
023. Have €1000 on savings account
024. Get a job
025. Put aside €50 a month (3/33 = €300/€1650)

Home Life

026. Find a new place to live
027. Buy a good set of pans
028. Get a complete set of kitchen utensils
029. Buy a new fridge
030. Get a new desk
031. Get proper closets
032. Clean everything I don’t want or need out of the house
033. Organize/Clean up all photographs in albums. (nearly done)
034. Keep my rooms clean for 1 month (0/1)
035. Learn one new recipe a month for 4 months (0/4)
036. Get a plant and make sure it does not die for one month (and longer after that (0/1)
037. Organize my paperwork (and keep it that way)
038. Buy maps and folders for paperwork

Internet

039. Blog every day for a month (not including ‘photo of the day’ posts) (0/1)
040. Post a comment a day on other people’s sites for two weeks (14/14)

Photography

041. Get a Nikon D40x (29 May 2009)
042. Follow a photography study (either online or at a college, depending on price)
043. Do a photographic series on bugs (to lessen a phobia I have)
044. Do a photographic series on trees (any and all trees)
045. Do a ‘day in the life of’ photographic series of me
046. Take pictures to document everything I’ve accomplished this list
047. Take 1001 Amazing (in my eyes) pictures (0/1001)
048. Get at least one image published
049. Have a camera with me every day for a month (either the small Canon or Nikon) (1/1)

Creativity / Arts & Crafts

050. Finish 5 scrapbook albums
051. Create a memory board with photographs from #45
052. Create 101 cards
053. Learn how to play the guitar
054. Create 7 goodbye cards for group members for the end of therapy (1/7)
055. Create 7 goodbye cards for therapists for the end of therapy (0/7)
056. Go to Breda’s Design Museum
057. Create Christmas Cards instead of buying them one year (0/1)
058. Create 1 mom centered scrapbook album with memories (0/1)

Computer/Gaming

059. Find and get a N64 with Mario and Zelda games.
060. Finally finish GTA IV

Numbered

061. Read 101 books (4/101)
062. Watch 101 new films (3/101)
063. meet (face to face) five people I know from the internet (0/5)
064. befriend at least one (1) new person (1/1)
065. Go to the cinema 5 times (0/5)

Doing Good

066. Volunteer at an Animal Shelter
067. Donate €1 for every incomplete task to an animal shelter, if the amount is under €50, donate €50 to an animal shelter
068. Send something to PostSecret

Traveling

069. Visit Ireland
070. Visit England (preferably London)
071. Visit every Province in the Netherlands once
072. Go to 5 different animal parks (0/5)

Unsorted

073. Have a computer free day once a month and do something creative/read/go out
074. Get cherry blossom tattooed on left under arm
078. Get Ivy tattooed on right under arm
079. Design an Angel tattoo with a tattoo artist (Nijmegen)
080. Go to Beekse Bergen (a popular zoo in the Netherlands) with someone (it has been a while since I’ve been there)
081. Get a drivers license (or, at the very least, start with lessons)
082. Adopt a dog
083. Decorate my home at least once for Christmas
084. Properly celebrate at least one birthday
085. Pay for lunch 5 times when out with a friend (0/5)
086. Go to my niece’s and nephew’s birthday twice (0/4)
087. Go out on a real date
088. Give out one compliment a day for a work week (Mon-Fri)(0/5)
089. Go out with a friend once a month
090. Join Postcrossing
091. Send 101 postcards and receive 101 postcards (5/101) + (6/101)
092. Buy postcards for Postcrossing (May 30th 2009)
093. Write a letter to my future self for 1 year write 1 paragraph a month [0/12]
094. Write down a memory about my mother every month for future children (0/33)
095. Write an inspiring letter, sign it with ‘pay it forward’ and leave it somewhere to be read
096. Watch 10 movies from the year I was born (1983) (0/10)
097. Ride a Rollercoaster
098. Tell Angelique I’m proud to still be her friend after everything we’ve been through
099. Find 1 new artists every 2 months and blog about them (0/16)
100. Blog about (and/or take photo) each item when finished or in progress
101. Make a new list after completing all 101 things

In old Ireland, the Celts regarded the Ivy as a symbol of determination, death, and spiritual growth. When portrayed with its spiral growth around a tree it represented rebirth, joy and exhilaration.

I am not sure yet, but there are a lot of beautiful Ivy tattoos out there. Including this one, which is a Mendhi style, done by wonderful artist Dawn Grace:

Mendhi style Ivy, done by Dawn Grace