• ✔ Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
• ✔ The Princess Bride
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Anna Karenina (2012)
• A Little Princess (1995)
• Amélie (rewatch)
• Belle (2021 - Japanese)

• Cinderella
• Sara Crewe
• Matilda Wormwood
• Miss Jennifer Honey
• Sophie Hatter

• Mahmoud Darwish (Palestinian)
• Alexandra Vasiliu (American)
• Federico García Lorca (Spanish)
• Anne Sexton (American)
• Paulo Leminski (Brazilian)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian)

• volunteering
• hiking/walks outside
• journaling
• reading
• baking
• cooking
• driving/road trips
• adult coloring
• blogging
• traveling/exploring new places
• exercising & fitness
• learning languages
• fps video games
• reading/writing poetry
• flowers & gardening
• puzzles
• writing

• ✔ drink more tea in the daytime~
• take photos in black and white~
• have language study sessions~
  • join an official language class~
• ✔ do coconut hair treatments~ (1-2x/a week)
• ✔ wake up at 6-7 am every morning~
• learn about coding~
• get a penpal~
• practice & learn new music on the piano~
• watch classic black & white French films~
• bring my coin purse with me~
• ✔ get into photography again & post on instagram again~
• take a course of my interest in college~
• garden & tend to plants again~
• make a bird feeder~

• The Last Holiday
• Cinderella (1950 & 2015)
• The Princess and the Frog
• Ratatouille

• The Wildest Thing by Emily Winfield Martin
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang
• A Forty Year Kiss: A Novel by Nickolas Butler (Audiobook)

• The Wildest Thing by Emily Winfield Martin
  • "She was one of them."
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
  • "Overhead, the cloud drifted on, brighter than any horse's white coat, and cast no shadows in the dazzling summer sky."
• The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-Mi Hwang
  • " Gliding through the air with her large, beautiful wings, Sprout looked down at everything below--the reservoir and the fields in a snowstorm, and the weasel limping away, a scrawny hen dangling from her jaws."
• A Forty Year Kiss: A Novel by Nickolas Butler (Audiobook)

• (Mexican) arroz con leche *
• panetela de guayaba *
• ✔ pound cake
• raspberry/strawberry almond shortbread bars *
• raspberry almond shortbread cookies
• ✔ pineapple upside down cake
• ✔ vanilla nutella cupcakes *
• torta caprese *
• pumpkin spice coffee cake *
• Lotus Biscoff cheesecake
• scones *
• peanut butter nutella cookies *
• mantecaditos
• cheesecake banana bread crumb cake *
• nutella swirl peanut butter banana bread *
• blueberry bread *
• tres leches cake w/ dulce de leche glaze *
• banana cake w/ chocolate frosting *

• Phil Collins
• John Mayer
• Bryan Behr
• Queen
• Pablo Alborán
• Bad Suns
• Angels & Airwaves

• library science
• data science
• languages
  • TOEFL/ESL teaching
  • Egyptian Arabic
  • Swedish
• web development
  • (front-end, for starters)
  • wordpress
• creative writing
• UI/UX design

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
• Attack on Titan
• Kimi ni Todoke
• Durarara!!
• Steins;Gate
• Fruits Basket
• Death Note
• Hunter x Hunter

• ✔ donate blood at the American Red Cross.
• ✔ buy & wear a special dress.
• ✔ take one polaroid photo.
• ✔ get a manicure.
• ✔ free bday coffee at Starbucks.
• white roses at the beach.
• homemade strawberry cake.
• go to a bookstore.
• ✔ special bday dinner & fav dessert at Mama Stortini's.
• ✔ read "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
  • watch "Pride and Prejudice" (2005) film.

• Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou
• Galatea by Madeline Miller
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• 101 Useful Notary Tips by National Notary Association

• The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey

2024

• The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey
  • "Without saying anything more, Simon and I linked hands and walked out of the garden, toward the celebration."

2025

• Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou
  • "Centered on the world's stage, // she sings to her loves and beloveds, // to her foes and detractors: // However I am perceived and deceived, // however my ignorance and conceits, // lay aside your fears that I will be undone, // for I shall not be moved."
• Galatea by Madeline Miller
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck

• The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
  • "For at that moment, the world is full of wonder as I feel her fingers reach for the buttons on my shirt and slowly, ever so slowly, she begins to undo them one by one."
• Violeta by Isabel Allende
  • "The sky is beautiful..."
• Ao Haru Ride, Vol. 1 by Io Sakisaka
  • "We're in the same class!"
• Ao Haru Ride, Vol. 2 by Io Sakisaka
  • "She says she's not mad at Kominato... anymore!"
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • "Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible ...