Today I accomplished one of the biggest goals of my life, which also happens to be part of my 101 Things in 1001 Days list. I got my learners driver licence! So now I can legally learn how to drive a car on the road. For my non-Kiwi followers, here in New Zealand one can sit the theory test to gain a learners permit at age fifteen. I’m twenty-one, so six years overdue, but at least I have finally done it!

All up it’s been a really nice day, and fairly restful. January is full of birthdays in my family (there are five!) so the last few weeks has seen me crafting and birthday shopping, celebrating and, eep, eating a lot of less-than-waistline-friendly foods! This week is going to be much less hectic and I had a really nice afternoon relaxing and catching up on internet things (blogs, emails, auctions, etc.) before getting some exercise.

Speaking of exercise, I really must do more of it. I’m trying to do something six days a week, but it barely counts if it’s less than thirty minutes! I have a yoga video (yes, as in VHS, lol) but there isn’t really much room in our tiny loft living room to do it, so my yoga workout is basically from memory, plus a few poses I cut out of a magazine years ago. Aside from yoga I’ve been walking a little bit and incorporating running intermittently with that. My fitness level isn’t good enough for me to run the whole way, but my goal is to work up to that.

I’d actually really like to join the university gym, which is $250 for 12 months, but I don’t have the money to spend on that right now, unfortunately. It would be great if I eventually join though, because I have some decent gaps between classes next semester and I could work out during them. They’ve got a climbing wall which I have my eye on! Hehe.

To be quite honest, I’m getting insanely bored of this summer break. While I want to make the most of summer and enjoying not stressing about studying, I really miss the learning. I miss classes, I miss the subjects and I miss the people! It’s nice to know that, so far in my academic career, I am really enjoying it and am capable of doing it well. I know some people just don’t enjoy the academic side very much and I imagine it would make life a bit difficult, especially if there is pressure from parents to get a certain degree or do extremely well.

Anyway, tomorrow morning my mum, sisters and I are off to Life Pharmacy to get facials! They’re free there at the moment and I think it sounds divine!

Before I go, I have some exciting (I think) posts coming up, including a photo one full of some epic cute, so stay tuned! In the meantime, why don’t you ask me something?

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It’s been a ridiculously long time since I’ve updated my list of 101 Things in 1001 Days, in fact I hadn’t even so much as glanced at the list since about May! Very slack of me but my excuse is that I’ve been very busy doing important things. Anyway, now I’m less busy doing important things, I thought I’d take a look at said list and to my surprise I’ve actually completed a few new things and some other things are in progress and some others require a general update. Hence the purpose of this post, obviously!

Develop more self-confidence – Completed
Ok, while technically this is the sort of thing that is continually in progress throughout life, for the purpose of this exercise I’m going to say I’ve completed it because, in comparison with this time last year, I have bucket loads more self-confidence. Hurrah!
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I jumped on the bangwagon at the beginning of the year to accomplish 101 goals in 1001 days. I actually haven’t listed 101 things yet because I can’t think of any more, but as they come to me I will add them.

This is a general update of goals I am in the process of completing, some of which will never technically be complete because they are the sort that are never ending, e.g. believing in myself and what I can do — I imagine I will still be reminding myself at 70 that, yes, I can make awesome pastry and…I dunno, knitted scarves. Actually, at around 70-75, I plan on taking up drugs.

But, I digress, so here is my actual update!

Get my learner driver license.
I was supposed to have gone for my test at the beginning of this month, but I had a depressive moment in January and haven’t studied much since then. Bad Sam, I know. It’s not that hard to study for, really, I just have to memorise the answers and Bob’s your uncle, but I’ve been lazy. However, I will make the effort from now on to study and thus take the test at the beginning of March. Either way, I want to have done it before my 21^st birthday because I don’t want to be the dork who can’t legally drive on the road at 21 for shit’s sake. Not that other people who don’t drive at that age are dorks. Just I would consider myself one.
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