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30 before 30: Update!

March 25, 2013

Its Monday again…ooye! I didn’t do anything exciting this weekend, being  very strict with clean eating and working part time on the weekends I am pretty much dead to the world by Friday and can’t be assed to do a damn thing.

Its starting to get HOT here and I am not sure I like it. Its like a very humid, disgusting soup bowl hot. Haha hopefully that explains it well.

So since I have no amazing weekend photos to show you I decided it was time to update my 30 before 30. Its time I get to work on some more of them but still I have made some progress! I also might be making some changes to the list soon, things have changed a bit since I wrote it 🙂

30 Before 30


1. Teach Abroad for at least 6 months In my 9th month! 
2. Take one trip to a foreign country alone **Technically did but will do a solo trip to be clear instead of just moving!  
3. Finish my Bachelors
4. Get Engaged(double points if married)  **CHANGING THIS
5. Learn a completely new language or two **trying to learn Mandarin 
6. Run a half marathon
7. Buy a completely new wardrobe(get rid of it all and start all over) 
8. Pay off all my debts
9. Go Skydiving
10. Meet some of the many bloggers I come across
11. Take strip dance/pole dance classes *got this done with Snifferella before I left! It was an awesome time! 
12. Cook a whole 3-4 course meal for friends/family *Made my first whole Thanksgiving dinner for friends here in China (I do hope to do this again at home) 
13. Buy myself something ridiculously expensive and not feel guilty about it 
14. Do a mission trip 
15. Take Salsa and/or ballroom dancing lessons
16. Live in my own place for at least 6 months(ALL ALONE) Been living alone for 7 months now! It has its sucky moments but I like no one witnessing my dance parties
17. Start and complete a scrapbook
18. Reunite with some old elementary/high school friends 
19. Take a road trip
20. Take my parents out and pay for it
21. Spend more time with my brother and nephew 
22. Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity 
23. Go to Seattle
24. Get fit, to a place where I am happy with my body(and keep it up) **a work in progress! 
25. Have a whole spa day  **Took a whole day in Thailand when I was living there to get a mani/pedi, a few massages and a lay on the beach. PERFECT! 
26. Learn how to sew/use a machine well enough to make a dress
27. Get a gun license and own my own gun
28. Learn how to play the piano
29. Read the bible everyday for a year 
30. Forgive and Forget **also a work in progress! 
Well…I’ve crossed out 5 of 30 and I still have 2 years to go. I think I might be on the right track. Although a part of me wants to change #4 since I realized I don’t really care if that happens by 30. 

Might change it to: 
(*4) Visit more places in the US 

I have been traveling around Asia like crazy and after meeting lots of foreigners who would love to go to the US I realized there is a lot I have yet to see in my own country. 

Do you have anything you want to do by a certain age?? 

PS.COM: check out my blog on bloglovin you normally used google reader you will be able to follow along here!!

 

Filed in: Other, Social • by Monica •

Oh Mondays….

March 18, 2013

I wasn’t planning to post but I just got back from the gym and I am feeling good so I thought I would share some rambles.

Update on my Facebook deactivation…there is no update. They have not responded to a single email or upload of my ID yet. It is now exactly one week with no response at all. Its super frustrating and I have no idea what to do!

Weight Loss: After my winter break holiday I gained quite some weight and realized I had under 6 months before I go home and it was time to shape up my life!!! So he we are a few days short of a month into better eating and exercise and I am down 10 pounds. I have 10 to go for my goal weight and then I have to learn maintenance. Its hard, and at times it really really sucks but I felt amazing hopping on the scale today and seeing I have lost weight without doing any crazy diets. I have a feeling the next 10 will be much harder to lose than the first but I am ready for it!

Travels: I’m all excited for the Philippines in 2 weeks! I wasn’t sure I was going to do it anymore since I am trying to save as much money as I can to take home but I just can’t be on the other side of the world and not take advantage. Plus its much cheaper to go from here than it is from home. Heading to this island Bohol that my coworker went to during winter break. 4 days of beautiful beach and sun and I will be a very happy girl!!!

I am staying on this beach somewhere!

new swimsuit!!! 

School: I am really glad this class just finished. Even though I do love Ethics the other people in my class were really pushing their religious agenda in the class and it was getting really hard to have any discussions without being bombarded by scripture and in a class with hot social and ethical topics it brings out the crazy in some. I am actually just really happy to be back in school working towards my goals!!

I think that is all I have right now! 


Ooh I am super excited for new episodes of my favorite shows! I hate when they take breaks, don’t they know I am in China and need crap to watch!?!?! 

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Confirm your identity!?!?!?

March 14, 2013

What in the HELL?!!! So I spent most of Monday doing my usual on/off Facebook from work and home like usual then I receive an email from my friend telling me she went to send me a message and couldn’t find me that even our thread was gone, and if I was upset with her and deleted her for some reason. 1. This is not at all something I would do especially not without talking to the person about it. 2. I was seriously on Facebook not an hour before she emailed me. Of course, I respond that I did not delete her and I would check it out…here is what I saw: 

I have no clue why this would happen since I have had the same account since opening it and have NEVER ONCE changed my name or used a fake name.

THEN it proceeds to tell me I can receive a text to the mobile number on my account…BUT as you may recall I am in CHINA!!!! So I can not get text messages to that number, nor does it give me the option of putting in another number where I can get messages. NO OTHER OPTIONS shown just the help button.

After going from page to page and trying to figure it out I found the submit your photo ID. I was freaked out about it but after searching the internet I realized I wasn’t the only one having this problem. So I uploaded the only ID I had on my computer, my passport. Then I received this email.


To which I replied a polite(kind of) email asking what the hell happened and why there is no explanation or way to contact a live person. Then I sent another copy of my passport. 

That was on Monday. Its now Thursday evening(where I am) and I have not yet received another email or have access to my account. 

I know to most people who are “over” Facebook this is stupid BUT my laptop broke down last January and every single picture that was on FB dated before January is GONE unless they give me back access to my account. GONE!!! That is not ok. I can open a new account, its annoying but I can do it. I just want my damn photos so that they are not lost to me for good because of some stupid glitch in the Facebook system. 

After reading a lot of different posts about this I have taken to uploading my photo ID numerous times(going on 20 now) over the last 24 hours and will continue to do so until I get some kind of response either way. 


WISH ME LUCK! 
If this has happened to you please give me tips on how to fix it!! 

Filed in: Other, Social • by Monica •

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