Day 28 Crying

I've cried a couple times. :/

I cried for the first time playing FFVII.

I cried last night because I was thinking of sad things.

I cried when I had a fight with my mom today.

Day 18! DATE

Yesterday I went on a date with Adam, so that's one date. We went to Thunder Bay Grille, so that's one new restaurant. AND I ate coconut shrimp and shrimp scampi, which I am counting as one new thing that I haven't eaten before.

I still have to draw something this month, have a "me" day (which I'm not sure what that entails really) and write in my livejournal.

I've been playing FFVII a lot. =] It's awesome.

Day 16/1001 SNOWMAN

Today I built a snowman with Lisa. His name is Captain Blarmy. =]

Day 11/1001!

So, I read over my list again and I am surprised to find that I have not cried yet. Weird.

I feel like 100 movies is A LOT and I think I will combine the classic movies and disney movies into that 100. But, then I need two more things on my list. So I need to do something about that. One of them will probably be "see a drive-in movie".

I've started stitching my insect sampler again and am about to do the backstitching on the whole middle section.

I still do not get out of bed when my alarm goes off. Sad face. :/

Also, I forgot to count seeing Sherlock Holmes as a girl night. Cos it was.

Adam put Final Fantasy VII on my laptop and I started playing it. I am quite excited at the thought of finally beating my favorite video game. =]

I saw District 9 with my brother and his girlfriend. It was decent, though not what I expected at all. An unsettling, and believable story of what might happen if an alien race were to land on Earth. Well, minus all the stuff that happens with the main character. x'D

Day 7/1001

Hello! =]

I have taken a little break from writing in here, mainly because not a lot has occurred list-wise. I started back into school with what will be the last half of my senior year. Pretty exciting? Kind of. It's annoying because I'm ready for college but I have to do get this out of the way first.

I checked out Schindler's List from the library. I haven't read past the prologue yet. I've seen the movie and I wanted to read the book since I'm in a reading about the Holocaust mood (If that makes sense).

I've been trying to remember to pray every night, but I forgot a couple times.

Today was a snow day and I basically lazed around all day. I don't think it counts as a "me day".

I worked on my cross-stitching sampler today. I stitched throughout watching Mulan, but I didn't feel like I got a lot done. I'm working on a strawberry right now. =]

Day 3/1001

Woo! I prayed last night, too. xD

I finished reading a book today called Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf about a Czech girl named Milada who is taken away from her family by Nazis. It explains in the back of the book that in 1939 Hitler controlled Czechoslovakia and assigned one of his favorite officers (Reinhard Heydrich) to be its "protector". Apparently this Nazi helped develop the final solution for the Jews. Resistance fighters parachuted into Czechoslovakia to assassinate him, and though it didn't go as planned he died from injuries from the attack. Hitler, outraged, sought revenge. Nazi intelligence believed there was a tie between the Czech resistance fighters and the town of Lidice. In reality, there was no tie, but Hitler took his revenge. Soldiers went from house to house and ordered families to pack for a three day interrogation. The men were separated from the women and children. The men were taken away and shot. The children with blond hair, blue eyes, and a certain nose size that matched Aryan standards were put into the Lebensborn program which was a Nazi program that included kidnapping non-Jewish, non-German children who had Aryan features and forcing them to learn the German language and German customs and then having them adopted into German families. They were given new German names. The women were sent to a prison camp and treated as the Jews were in the concentration camps.

Only 17 of the 105 Lidice children survived the war, but those 17 were returned to the family they had left. The children that weren't seen as "suitable" in Nazi standards were killed with poisonous gas. Out of the 500 citizens that lived in Lidice, 340 men, women, and children were killed.

To complete his revenge, Hitler destroyed the town itself and all evidence of it. Today, it is still an empty plot of land to serve as a reminder of the emptiness of war. Overlooking the town is a museum, a sacred space, and a rose garden.

This story showed a very interesting side of the war that isn't widely known. I really enjoyed the book, though its sad that this is an actual part of history. Its sad how she slowly forgets her native language and struggles to remember where she came from and who she really is.

Day 2/1001

So, last night I prayed, which is something on my list. =]

Also, I looked up the word of the day and it's "constitutional" as in "I wanted to take a constitutional, but it is far too cold outside". I didn't know it could be used as a walk. =]

Today I worked on my 100 movies list. Then, I went over to Lisa's and I watched West Side Story, which is a movie on the list. It's added at the bottom of the blog, though it isn't finished yet.

Also, I watched the first episode of season two of Dexter with Adam.

Day 1/1001

I'm really excited about my list. It's a good feeling to have goals written down and to have a certain amount of time to accomplish them. 1001 days is 2.7 years. In that amount of time, I hope to have a lot of the things I've written in my list accomplished. If not, I won't be heartbroken, but seeing which ones I complete and which ones I don't will be fun. =]

I'll try to post here as often as I complete something and also to keep track of the days.

Today is day one, and I didn't do anything towards my list today. I stayed at home all day and went on facebook, took a shower, ate, and uploaded some CDs onto my laptop that I got for Christmas. I studied some lines for a play I'm in at school and called my boyfriend, Adam. I also played with my brother's cats that we're pet-sitting until he is no longer at his girlfriend's house. After dinner I worked on making this list since my friend Lisa wanted to make one with me. Today was a very lazy day.

~Kimberly