Friday 9 March 2012

First 39 Goals





Right, just realise I need to actually upload the goals! This is just the first page, with a blurry, rather crap webcam picture to prove it is actually written somewhere else.
SO
1. `Finish degree
2.  Buy first horse
3.  Finish Rider of the Damned
4.  Have a book published
5.  Develop drawing to a level where humanoids are not difficult
6.  Visit the pyramids at Giza
7.  Go to Rome, Venice and Florence
8.  Take a tour round the Middle East
9.  Touch one of the Lipizzaner stallions. Not A Lipizzaner, one of THE performing stallions
10.  Successfully train a stunt horse
11. Ride at a level to ride said stunt horse
12. Own a bullock, a goat and a pony
13. Own an acre of woodland/forest
14. Go three years without falling off of a horse while still riding regularly
15. Make Lekjih as an articulated to scale model dragon
16. Get my boot design made
17. Build my yard with onsite forgery and workshop (see plans)
18. To be braver
19. To own a house in or near my yard
20. To have a piebald gypsy horse named Lancelot
21. Swim with dolphins
22. Watch the sunrise in Africa (I want to know if it looks that beautiful in real life)
23. Sit with a lion, a tiger and a cheetah (obviously not all at once)
24. Go to Burghley
25. Ride in a carriage and four
26. Win a red ribbon (though not at any cost)
27. Manage to make photorealistic art, both a traditional piece and a digital piece
28. Take part in a battle charge film scene
29. Meet the Queen, orreigning monarch
30. Make my own set of proper tarot cards
31. Ride an elephant
32. Take up archery and swordmanship. Continue them to a level where they are actual skills.
33. Ride a white (not grey) horse through London, carrying a sword (not sure why I like the idea of this so much *shrug*
34. Go foxhunting
35. Learn to play violin
36. Learn French, German, Italian and Spanish to a degree of fluency
37. Tell someone what I think of them (no idea who. Could be good or bad. This is a goal 'cause most people keep this sort of opinion to themselves)
38. Have a house with Romanesque features
39. Own a border terrier called Parsley

And that's it for the first page, the other 41 (due to the weird layout of the paper) are overleaf

Monday 23 January 2012

Achievements Got!

This blog was inspired by my moment at the bus stop today - waiting for the bus, I decided to finally write one of those X Number of Things to Do Before I Die. I have 80, because there were 80 lines on the paper. To make sure I do them all, I'm going to incite a little healthy peer pressure on here by posting my list.

Before I do that however, I'll post a few things I've already managed to do in my short life, so no-one asks why they're not on there.

Fly an aircraft - Done with the RAF section of the CCF
Fall off of a moving horse - Less said the better, though it was really quite funny
Moved out - Renting a room due to being at University
Been a tour guide in a museum - School work experience
Worked at a Riding School - Volunteered myself
Have hair over a metre long - Got
Own a Bengal - Done
Own more than one cat - Three
Done Bronze Duke of Edinburgh - most of it
Been a member of the School Council - NEVER AGAIN. Not even a student rep.
Planted a tree - on the Eco-Council
Been a Peer Mentor - Only had one mentee. Must've terrified him into being on time. Not on purpose of course.
Won an argument with a Catholic - Numerous occassions (always friendly sparring
Stood for Election for the Monster Raving Loony Party at school - came fourth with 31 votes
Been to Turkey - Twice
Swum with a flatfish - I liked that flatfish. He'd be dead now D:>
Completed a pokedex - major achievement that XD
Pulled a kitten out of a cat - Well, helped in the process. I had to hand over on that and encourage from the other side so she could brace on me. No desire to repeat this, it goes here.
Been to a multitude of museums in and around London .- 'Nuff said
Read all the Harry Potter books - Harry is Jesus
Learnt Latin - at a basic level. The memories come and go.
Argued against vegetarianism on the basis of ethics - as opposed to a vegetarian who doesn't like the taste of meat
Dissected a heart - twice (the twice is the real achievement. I'm very squeamish)
Won a fight - a catty, bitchy affair where somone started on me so I floored her. This was year 7.... yeah.
Won a real fight - Someone started on my younger brother so I hit her. This was primary school.... yeah
Visited Perge in Turkey.
Smoked a Turkish water pipe (can't spell nagheela) - rose tobacco, single puff, was ten, drank a half bottle of coke.
Had an internet "relationship" - and to be honest, it didn't really count in my opinion, therefore I have never had an actual boyfriend

Can think of no more right now, and it is late, so night night!!