| kerowyn_16 ( @ 2011-02-10 22:16:00 |
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101 Goals in 1001 Days
Let's see how far I've gotten... these are completed, these are in progress, and these are failed or abandoned.
Total goals completed: 37/101
Total goals failed: 6/101
Get out of the kitchen:
1. Go to the ballet.
2. Go to the opera.
3. Go to two plays, a drama and a comedy.
4. Go to Shakespeare in the Park three times. (2/3)
5. Go to a jazz club three times. (2/3)
6. Go to a film festival.
7. Go to a live comedy show.
8. Go to ten baseball games.
9. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
10. Go on a hike lasting at least six hours.
11. See a movie at a drive-in theater.
12. Go to the beach and swim in the ocean.
13. Go to the mountains and build a snowman.
14. Go to a park and fly a kite.
15. Go to ten museums. (5/10)
Tech Museum
Rosicrucian Museum
Albuquerque Natural History Museum
Bradbury Museum of Science
Route 66 Museum in Barstow
16. Take Sam to Viognier (or comparable) for a chef's tasting dinner with paired wines.
17. Go camping three times. (1/3)
18. Go on a road trip to another state.
19. Go on a weekend trip by myself.
20. Visit five different countries. (0/5)
Get back in the kitchen:
21. Bake a batch of fractal cookies.
22. Bake five different kinds of bread.
23. Cook five different fish dishes. (4/5)
Poached salmon w/ dill sauce
Sushi
Cajun salmon pasta
Baked Salmon
24. Make ravioli from scratch.
25. Eat seven fruits or vegetables that I've never eaten before.
26. Make wine from three new fruits (i.e. not grape or apple). (0/3)
27. Make ten jars of jam.
28. Give up soda for a month.
29. Eat vegetarian for one month.
30. Eat vegan for one week.
Make things:
31. Complete my Starry Night cross-stitch.
32. Complete my Night Fairy cross-stitch.
33. Complete three hardanger proejcts. (1/3)
34. Frame all my completed cross-stitch projects.
35. Frame and hang all of our wall art.
36. Mount our sword and wedding kimono.
37. Sew a summer dress and wear it in public.
38. Sew carboy cozies for our carboys.
39. Make a Princess Leia Halloween costume.
40. Knit something.
41. Build a rocket and set it off.
42. Build a functioning radio from parts, and explain to Spam how it works.
43. Make something useful at a pottery class.
44. Make Christmas stockings for me and Spam.45. Do a puzzle with over 1000 pieces.
46. Complete 5 Sunday New York Times crossword puzzles without help. (2/5)
47. Build a rig and take aerial photographs.
48. Take a photo every day for a year, and make something interesting out of the result.
Get in touch with my heritage: 49. Put together a family tree using the Wheelwright memoirs.
50. Add to the family tree with a visit to Grandma J and her genealogy work.
51. Attend six Sons of Norway events. (0/6)
52. Learn rosemaling by painting three different pieces.
53. Make something using a chip carving technique.
54. Host a Smorgasbord.
Read, watch, play:
55. Read every non-reference book in our library (as of the day I finish cataloging it, so it's not a race against Sam buying more books!)
56. Catalog our library on the computer.
57. Read Godel, Escher, Bach.
58. Read the Bible.
59. Read all my Asimov's magazines.
60. Read ten "classic" novels I've never read before. (2/10)
Heart of Darkness
Diary of Anne Frank
61. See every Academy Award winner for Best Picture. (30/80)
13. Rebecca
23. All About Eve
25. The Greatest Show on Earth
26. From Here to Eternity
27. On the Waterfront
28. Marty
29. Around the World in 80 Days
33. The Apartment
35. Lawrence of Arabia
39. A Man for All Seasons
40. In the Heat of the Night
43. Patton
44. The French Connection
46. The Sting
49. Rocky
50. Annie Hall
51. The Deer Hunter
53. Ordinary People
54. Chariots of Fire
55. Ghandi
56. Terms of Endearment
58. Out of Africa
60. The Last Emperor
62. See every Academy Award winner for Documentary Feature.
63. Beat Pikmin in 9 game days.
64. Upgrade my computer to Windows XP.
65. Buy a new mp3 player.
66. Listen to my entire music collection all the way through.67. Sell or give away my unwanted CDs and movies.
Take care of myself:
68. Achieve a weight of 140 pounds by day 500.
69. Maintain that weight within 5 pounds until day 1001.
70. Walk a half marathon.
71. Walk a full marathon.
72. Work out with weights for at least 30 minutes twice a week for at least six months.
73. Do 100 crunches without stopping.
74. Work out to a yoga video five times. (0/5)
75. Do a pull-up.
76. Find a local dentist and have a cleaning/checkup.
77. Whiten my teeth.
Be a responsible person:
78. Complete a home inventory.
79. Buy renter's insurance.
80. Write a will.
81. Write an advance health care directive.
82. Be an informed voter in all elections for the next 1001 days.
83. Take a CPR and first aid class.
84. Assemble a first aid kit for the house and car.
85. Give blood ten times. (4/10)
86. Set up automatic off-site encrypted backups for all important documents.
Everything else:
87. Adopt a pet.
88. Redeem our aluminum cans for cash for six months.
89. Keep a journal and write in it at least twice per week.
90. Handwrite and mail a letter to someone once per month. (1/34)
91. Call my mom, my dad, and my brother each a minimum of every two weeks.
92. Complete a certificate in accounting at De Anza.
93. Volunteer to prepare taxes at College of San Mateo in spring semester.
94. Solve a Rubik's Cube in under 10 minutes. (Best time: undefined...)
95. Play the first movement of (that sonata I can't remember the name of right now - to be filled in once I find the sheet music!) on my trumpet.
95a. Figure out the name of that sonata!
96. Relearn to throw a ball not-like-a-girl.
97. Get a dining room table and chairs or a new sofa set.
98. Resilver the armoire mirrors.
99. Convert our wedding photos to digital prints. (5/17/08)
And finally:
100. Create a scrapbook that documents my completion of the first 99 goals.
101. Donate $10 of my personal money to charity for each of the first 99 items not completed at the end of 1001 days.