Saxolutely Leah

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  • 101 in 1001 List

    Movin’ on Up
    1.) Graduate college
    2.) Have successful observations while student teaching
    3.)Apply to/be in grad school
    4.) Take the GRE, even if it isn’t required
    5.) Work a “big kid” job
    6.) Further my journalism studies
    7.) Find a journalism internship
    8.) Become TEFL certified
    9.) Get an article published
    10.) Get a new car
    11.)Buy a badass camera
    12.)Get a new laptop
    13.)Create a website
    14.) Pay off my credit card
    15.) Make business cards
    16.) Make an outstanding post-grad resume

    Here, There and Everywhere
    17.) Teach English in another country
    18.) Move out of Greeley
    19.) Move to Denver
    20.)Go to Vegas again
    21.)Spend a day in Colorado as a tourist
    22.) Visit all breweries in Colorado
    23.) Ride every roller coaster at Cedar Point
    24.) Visit 5 major U.S. cities (0/5)
    25.) Visit a Buddhist temple
    26.) Go to 5 museums (0/5)
    27.)Run/exercise at Red Rocks and watch the sun rise there
    28.) Go to “The Midwest Clinic” in Chicago annually (0/3)
    29.)Go on an adventure with my roommates
    30.) Visit where I used to live in Michigan

    I Call Shenanigans
    31.) Complete the “Sextuple Crown”
    32.) Go on a typical college spring break
    33.) Get another tattoo
    34.) Complete This Book Will Change Your Life
    35.) Go drunken mini-golfing
    36.) Have a completely USELESS day
    37.) Go streaking
    38.) Have an entire night of debauchery with Jaymie and Amanda
    39.) Try 5 new drinks (0/5)
    40.) Think of one more wildly inappropriate Halloween costume

    Just for Funsies
    41.) Read 75 more books (0/75)
    42.) See 40 movies I’ve never seen (0/40)
    43.) Take another Italian course
    44.) Hike a 14-er
    45.) Go wine tasting
    46.) Go ice skating
    47.) Get a cruiser bike
    48.) Try 20 new restaurants (0/20)
    49.) Do “Project 365”
    50.) Mail a secret to PostSecret
    51.) Buy a game console
    52.) Go to 10 sporting events (0/10)
    53.) Get a perfect score in Scattergories
    54.) Find 3 podcasts I enjoy and listen to them regularly (0/3)
    55.) Visit McDonald’s in “foreign” countries and document kooky sandwiches
    56.)Sing a new song at karaoke…solo!
    57.) Enter a contest
    58.)Get a psychic/tarot reading
    59.) Win money from a lottery ticket (a scratch ticket will suffice…)
    60.) Learn 15 new recipes….successfully (0/15)
    61.) Meet Chris “Birdman” Andersen
    62.) Finish a crossword puzzle book
    63.) See a movie by myself
    64.) Apply for a reality show…for shits and grins…
    65.) Complete a 26 Things Photographic Project

    It's All in the Music
    66.) Perform my senior recital
    67.) Rekindle my love for playing music
    68.) Discover 30 musical artists I’ve never heard of before (0/30)
    69.) See 20 more concerts (0/20)
    70.) Experiment with saxophone and pedals
    71.) Play in a group unrelated to school/scholastic purpose
    72.) Buy/learn an obscure instrument
    73.) Conduct in a concert
    74.) See Bjork live again
    75.) Arrange a Bjork song
    76.) Transcribe 5 more solos (0/5)

    Me, Myself, and I
    77.) Lose 10 lbs
    78.) Be able to consistently wear contacts
    79.) Do something completely out of character (I have yet to discover many things I would NOT do….)
    80.) Figure out what age level I am best suited to teach
    81.) Get allergy shots
    82.) Organize my room and KEEP it that way
    83.) Complete something from every category of “Instructables” (0/16)
    84.) Clean out and organize my iTunes library
    85.) Create a consistent work out plan
    86.) Get a case for my phone
    87.) Go one month without fast food
    88.) Find my cute, Asian piggybank and save money in there
    89.) Learn to burp, or figure out why I can’t 90.) Confront my fear of crickets
    91.) Compile a new list after 1001 days

    Do Unto Others…
    92.) Advocate medical marijuana
    93.) Complete 20 tasks from “We Are What We Do”
    94.) Volunteer somewhere unrelated to school/observations
    95.) Donate 100,000 grains of rice on freerice.com (400/100,000)
    96.) Find a recycling center in Greeley
    97.) Give change to a street musician
    98.) Become a tutor
    99.) Donate old clothes
    100.) Put change in an expired parking meter (because I know how much tickets BLOW!)
    101.) Donate $5 to a charity for every task not completed

Before and After

Posted by leahconcialdi on October 22, 2009

I feel like a vain 16-year-old, but here are before/after picture of my hair.  It’s now sort of burgundy….or a shade of rich mahogany.  Either way, you can’t go wrong with Anchorman references.

I still feel like hell from that pulled pork sandwich (from MONDAY!!), so that’s it for tonight, but tomorrow a HUGE item is going to be crossed off the list.  It’s one of the farfetched ones, but it will be epic.  Absolutely epic.

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