I thought it might be easier to track my 101 things in 1,001 days progress if it had it’s own fancy page. Here’s the original post about the list. I’ll still blog about the ones that deserve blogging about, but this will be a quick way for me to track my progress along the way.
Work and Money make the world go round
1. Pay off credit card debt ( 1 down!)
2. Put $150 per month (at least) in savings account (11/33)
3. Open IRA
4. Put $150 per month in IRA
5. Get a new job
6. Get life insurance (1/26/09)
7. Join a professional association (such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals)
We Are Family/You Gotta Have Friends
8. Write Grandmother a letter at least twice a month (24/66)
9. Call Grandmother on the phone once a month (11/33)
10. Go flying with Travis
11. Visit friends in Richmond 4 times. (0/4)
12. Go on a trip with my sister
13. Go on a trip with my cousins, sister, and Grandmother
14. Finish Kylie’s Christmas stocking
15. Touch base (email or phone) with a different friend each month (11/33)
16. Compile a cookbook of “family recipes” with stories/anecdotes (12/21/08)
17. Visit Glouscester with Grandmother; record stories from her childhood
18. Bring friends to visit Chilhowie
Good Things Inside and Out
19. Find a church I like and attend regularly
20. Clean out closet and donate clothes to Goodwill (or other charity) (11/15/08)
21. Volunteer at a soup kitchen or similar organization
22. Get a massage
23. Get a facial (3/22/09)
24. Splurge on a great bag
25. Splurge on a pair of great shoes
Travelin’ Thru
26. Take a tour of (a selection of) Virginia’s wineries
27. Take an architectural boat tour of Chicago
28. Take a vacation with my (immediate) family
29. Go on a vacation with friends (no family)
30. Visit Charleston, SC
31. Visit 1 country I’ve never been to before
32. Visit 5 states I haven’t visited before (1/5; Michigan (10/09)
33. Road trip to Maine in the fall
34. See the Pacific Ocean (again)
35. Go to Montana with Katie Box
36. Drive the Oregon Trail or Route 66
37. Visit RMWC (without being bitter)
DC and NYC
38. Visit the United State Botanical Gardens (12/20/08)
39. Visit 5 of the Smithsonian museums (0/5)
40. Visit the Holocaust Museum
41. Ride the paddle boats at the Tidal Basin
42. Take a duck boat tour of DC
43. Volunteer at the Cherry Blossom Festival
44. Ice skate at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden
45. Go to the Newseum
46. Visit the National Zoo
47. Go to the sing-a-long Messiah at the Kennedy Center
48. Visit Pentagon 9-11 Memorial
49. See a Nationals game in the new stadium
50. Road trip to NYC (5/8/09)
51. See New York City in every season (3/4: winter in 2/09, spring in 5/09; summer in 7/09))
52. See Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
53. Ice skate in Central Park
54. See Ground Zero (2/15/09)
Health, Fitness, and all that Jazz
55. Follow a vegan diet for one week
56. Do the Couch to 5K program
57. Run in a 5K race
58. Go for a walk or work out 4 times a week for a month (0/16)
59. Do Wii Fit every day for a month (0/30)
60. Reach my (pre-plastic surgery/skin removal) goal weight
61. Research and have plastic/skin removal surgery
62. Take a multi-vitamin every day for a month (30/30)
You’re Never too Old to Learn New Things
63. Read the complete works of Jane Austen (0/6)
64. Read 20 books (in addition to the Austen collection) (5/20: Lucia, Lucia; Twilight; Belong to Me; Unhooked, Julie & Julia)
65. Visit a Presidential library
66. Read the Bible cover to cover
67. Get and use an Arlington County Library card
68. Take a class that features something I’ve never done before
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
69. Cook Thanksgiving dinner for friends (11/23/08)
70. Go to a Renaissance Fair
71. Enter baked good in Apple Festival
72. Learn how to properly peel a pomegranate
73. Brine a turkey (11/23/08)
74. Plant a vegetable garden (even if in containers)
75. Host a Christmas party
76. Take a cake/cupcake decorating class (2/14/09)
77. Try 5 new restaurants. (5/5: Aladdin’s (in Shirlington) 11/15/08); Tiffany Tavern (Old Town Alexandria) 11/18/08); Amsterdam Falafel (12/21/08); CoCo Sala (1/14/09); Luigi’s (1/29/09))
78. Try 15 new recipes (11/15: maple glazed carrots; ginger pumpkin cheesecake; chocolate bourbon cake; chocolate espresso snowcaps; red & green Christmas balls; cookie press cookies (spritz and shortbread – I’m counting as one recipe), homemade Barefoot blueberry muffins; chocolate caramel crackers; heritage bundt cake; tortilla black bean pie, fried oysters!)
79. Regularly visit a farmer’s market (is once/month during the warmer months “regular?”)
The Rest of the Story…
80. Start knitting again; complete 10 items (in addition to Kylie’s stocking) (1/10: dishclothes)
81. Blog every day for a month
82. Buy an external hard drive for music and pictures (10/09)
83. Participate in the NYT’s Polling Place Project (11/9/08)
84. Document a “day in the life” in photographs
85. Attend at least 1 McDonnell for Governor campaign event (grassroots roundtable 2/7/09)
86. Volunteer for the McDonnell for Governor campaign regularly – fail
87. Attend a Division I College Football game
88. Attend a Division I College Basketball game (preferrably an ACC team)
89. Attend a NHL hockey game (10/09, Caps v. Flyers)
90. Do something exciting and fun for my 30th birthday (5/2/09)
91. Watch all of the best picture nominated films before the Ocsars
92. Kiss under the mistletoe
93. See Matt Wertz in concert
94. Tag a butterfly
95. Go skiing
96. Fly a kite
97. Go to a Haunted House
98. Deliberately accessorize at least once a week (53/143)
99. Go to midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
100. Ride a roller coaster
101. Watch Casablanca
Define “exciting and fun?” :)
You can knock off #49 on the DC and NYC list!
Amen on #37.