WaldenBooks

Saturday is the last day WaldenBooks in the Pine Ridge mall will be open. It is closing along with all 400 Borders Bookstores. I have worked for this bookstore chain for three years, and now it is gone. Tomorrow will be my last day of work at said bookstore. It's going to be a very odd and bittersweet moment. It will be sad to see the store that way, it is already depressing! So empty with people picking through it like a bargain basement warehouse. But at the same time it will be nice to have it over, to not be in liquidation... to be able to dedicate myself to my new job and to my house and things like that. Also, in a way it kind of feels like a new start to me... I've done this for three years so now it's a new path leading to different things. My job at Borders took me so many different places and my life is 100% different from when I started. So, who knows maybe now as this chapter closes a new one will enter that will take me through even more experiences.

60 16

So, I'm going to do something that I mostly stole from my cousin. Mine is a little different, but I got the idea from her. I am going to do 60 things over the course of the next 16 months... so starting today and going through the end of next year. Here is what I will hopefully be doing:

1. Buy a Christmas gift for a child in need

2. Send someone a kind letter each month

3. Secretly deliver cookies to someone

4. Do the 12 days of Christmas for someone

5. Go to the Playmill

6. See the Christmas lights on temple square

7. Go to Oregon

8. Go to the Blackfoot Fair

9. Go to Fightmares

10. Take Tyson to The Pie Pizzeria

11. Go Camping

12. Hike to three different places

13. Get weight under 110 lbs

14. Run a 10 minute mile

15. Stick to my meal plan for a month

16. Don’t cut hair

17. Visit the dentist

18. Learn to do eye makeup better

19. Learn to skateboard

20. Put hair in Liberty Spikes

21. Get a manicure

22. Learn to swing dance

23. Read all of D&C as well as the Book of Mormon

24. Have FHE every week for two months

25. Read scriptures with Tyson 5 times a week for a month

26. Finish project list

27. Plant a garden

28. Send out Christmas cards

29. Organize Computer Documents

30. Type journals

31. Get all pictures onto the computer

32. Stick to chore plan for a month

33. Make a pre-engagement picture book

34. Make a year two picture book

35. Make stars

36. Finish first draft of current story

37. Make a recipe book

38. Make myself a hair accessory

39. Make a woven bead bracelet

40. Try to fly a homemade kite

41. Update 101 things story

42. Learn Origami

43. Make a tree skirt

44. Finally take “Christmas pictures”

45. Beat Tyson at chess

46. Learn to make jam

47. Learn to Juggle

48. Pay off ISU

49. Start food storage

50. Read Wheel of Time

51. Work on Genealogy

52. Learn to play Magic with Tyson

53. Make Taffy

54. Get a 0 on wii disc golf

55. Make Pickles

56. Let go of 99 red balloons

57. Learn to write with the cool pens

58. Read a non-fiction book

59. Re-learn a song on the ukulele

60. Journal at least 4 times a week for 6 months