The Favorite Color Swap

September 8, 2013 | Jen Pace Dickenson

I haven’t participated in a blog swap in forever, but this one sounded fun! Check it out here.

31 by 31

September 4, 2013 | Jen Pace Dickenson

I turned 31 last month and here are the goals I accomplished during the year I was 30…

Throw my stepsister a baby shower
Make As in all my classes
Participate verbally more in my classes
Start a local travel blog
Learn Spanish
Join a gym
Join the Saluda Fire & Rescue Auxiliary
Volunteer with the Preschool Outreach Program at Buncombe County Public Library
Get a tattoo
Dip-dye my hair purple (I got purple highlights instead)
Have monthly Pinterest parties (August, September, October, November, December, January)
Buy a new computer
Paint and decorate my bedroom
Exercise and eat healthy
Join a book club (I joined several online and we read Between the Lines, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Night Circus, What Alice Forgot, Gone Girl, The Fault in Our Stars, The Kitchen House, Hourglass, Silver Lining Playbook, and Eleanor & Park.)
Take a cake decorating class
Donate to charity (Make a Stand Lemonade, Komen Race for the Cure, Cancer Research UK, Toys for Tots, Somaly Mam Foundation, Amazima Ministries, Animal Compassion Network, and Pint Night with Oskar Blues Fundraiser)
Eat five things I’ve never tried before
Go to a comedy show
Buy/make a “Where I’ve Been” map and hang it on my bedroom wall
Attend a book signing
Watch (and review) 26 movies I’ve never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (I didn’t get letters Q, U, V, or X but I’ll let it slide…)

I didn’t accomplish all of my goals so these are some I will continue to work on until I turn 32! 🙂

Visit every brewery in WNC (I didn’t visit them all but I went to The Thirsty Monk, Highland Brewing Company, Lexington Avenue Brewery, Southern Appalachian Brewery, Wicked Weed Brewing, Green Man Brewery, and Wedge Brewing Company.)
Read (and review) 100+ books (This is an insane goal… I probably read 50, which is more realistic!)
Go to the NC Zoo in Asheboro
Learn how to use a gun
Volunteer at Henderson County Public Library (Didn’t need to because I got a librarian job!)
Have a Favorite Things party
See Unto These Hills in Cherokee
Get a summer internship at a major library (Didn’t need to because I got a librarian job!)
Watch (and review) 10 classic movies I’ve never seen

September Goals

September 1, 2013 | Jen Pace Dickenson

I haven’t done this link-up in a few months so there’s no recap… Here’s what I hope to accomplish this month!

Get another tattoo
Lose four pounds
Read three books
Visit Greece
Post on my other two blogs
Go to the NC Mountain State Fair
Start flossing again
Go to the shooting range
Get a mani/pedi

August

September 1, 2013 | Jen Pace Dickenson

Wow, I have been such a horrible blogger! I didn’t post last month at all. So for my “Happiness 365” series here are my “Days 213-243” in Instagram photos… (Unfortunately they posted backwards!)