• Novels
• Nonfiction books
• Quiet moments
• Good conversation
• Exercising
• Watching and playing sports
• Healthy food
• Keeping things neat
• Polite, courteous people
• HGTV
• The library
• When people compliment me
• Making a wish at 11:11
• Cosmopolitan magazine
• Shoes
• Listening to the radio
• Celebrity crushes

When you are stuck in the same town you've been living in for over half your life and your two best friends are posting pictures of their marvelous world travels on your facebook, you can't help but get a little bit (okay, a LOT) jealous, and maybe also a little upset that you've never really been anywhere worth mentioning to anyone.

So I can dream up all the places I want to go (and maybe, if I ever have any money to my name, I'll be able to go there for real.)

If I were to be really precise, I would have to write down every city, state, and country in the world, but I'm narrowing it down to some more specific places.

• the Mediterranean Coast
• Portland, Oregon
• San Francisco, California
• Upstate New York

Courtesy of Audrey:

• ✔ Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
• The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
• Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
• The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
• Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
• Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1971)
• ✔ The Big Lebowski (Coen brothers, 1998)
• The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
• Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
• Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
• City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund, 2002)
• The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996)

• For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• ✔ Maus Art Spiegelman
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowels

Specific Goals:

• get on listography at least once a week (to share unnecessary information about me with Internet strangers)
• lose 5 pounds by the end of February
• work out 3 times a week, minimum
• by the end of January, be able to wrap hands around heels in pilates.
• keep up the vegetarianism!
• get in 3 servings of vegetables every. day.
• take time at least once every week to play music
• take time at least twice every week to listen to music
• manage to share one compliment or random act of kindness every day
• every time you buy new cleaning/drugstore/food products, choose something more environmentally friendly than the last time.

• Rose gold wristwatch http://www.windsorstore.com/Rose-Gold-Lu...
• Khaki suede oxford flats http://www.makemechic.com/p-37355-maryan...