Oh my dear non-wedding planning blog, how I've missed you. I, of course, have things going on in my life besides planning a wedding and there are some things I'm just not in the mood with sharing with the entire internet. For now, I have not updated my 101 in 1, 001 since the end of last year so that I shall do. Asterisks are in progress, strike-throughs are complete, comments as needed.
1. Donate hair to Locks of Love Children with Hairloss - Had to change to an organization that takes color-treated hair
* Not planning on more than a trim from now until the wedding and then planning on cutting my hair soon after.
3. Run a marathon
4. Run a Disney race
5. Adopt a dog
6. Cook a Thai dish - This was attempted, not quite palatable -- will probably try again.
7. Cook an Indian dish
8. Eat at an Ethiopian restaurant
9. Eat real sushi
10. Visit California
11. Use my passport
13. Make 10 new friends
*15. Read 100 books
16. Influence a person to make a day zero list
17. Complete a coloring book
18. Buy a car
19. Go to 5 different museums
20. See a drive-in movie
21. Get over my fear of riding bikes
22. Take my parents out to dinner and pay - Dad's birthday 2010
23. Eat breakfast everyday for a week
24. Ride on a motorcycle
25. See a shooting star and make a wish
26. Attend a midnight movie premiere
27. Visit Georgia to meet Jack Have not been to Georgia to see Jack, but I have gotten to see him twice. Knowing the effort we had to go through to get to that point, I'm counting it as done. Ted, Dana, and Jack came to VA in May and this past weekend we spent in TN with them.
28. Make Christmas cards for my friends and family
29. Research/start investment plan; start retirement fund
30. Make a gingerbread house*31. Do one thing a month I have never done- August 2010, went to a movie by myself; September 2010, adopted a dog; October 2010, finished my first nine weeks of teaching; November 2010, cannot remember now that my notes were deleted but I'll come up with it!!; December 2010, bought and put up my own Christmas tree!! (Gosh, I didn't keep track for a year, yikes!!) January 2011, spent New Year's Eve with my love; February 2011, had major surgery/a body part removed, was that gross? Maybe!; March 2011 - picked out an engagement ring!; April 2011 - went to Las Vegas, baby!; May - met my "nephew" for the first time; June - finished my very first school year; July - watched the Harry Potter series; August - first "grown-up" beach trip -- aka no parents!; September - met my future in-laws; October - found out who my true friends are; November - inducted the first class of NJHS at SCMS (as co-advisor)
32. Visit a national park- last weekend we went to Roan Mountain, TN -- we actually stayed in a state park, but we did visit at least on national park, according to my internet searches
33. Go to a fireworks show on the Fourth of July- we tried but it got rained out :(
34. Try 20 new restaurants
35. Live by myself for a year- when I made this list, it was August 2010 and my thought was "even if I meet a guy today, there's no WAY I'll live with him within a year..." yeah... best laid plans :) I'm ok with the fact that this goal won't be met
36. Go a whole day without saying anything negative
37. Donate money to charity
38. Carve a pumpkin for Halloween
39. Get an aquarium
40. Learn to decorate cakes
41. Take surfing lessons
42. Go to an amusement park
43. Go for a whole week without using Facebook
44. Get Water Safety Instructor certified
45. Coach a swim team
46. Buy a work of art
47. Attend a photo exhibition
48. Make a blanket fort
*49.
Listen to 26 bands I've never listened to starting with each letter of
the alphabet.- again, I lost my list, but I pick up the free iTunes
singles from Starbucks when I remember and download iTunes free singles
every week which helps this one.
50. Find a poem that means something to me
51. Sing in the shower
52. Write down every dream I have for a week.
53. Dance in an elevator
54. Make homemade ice cream
55. Read ten literary classics
56. Take a trip to NYC
57. Be a member of the audience in a TV show
58. Go to trivia night at a bar
59. Send a handwritten letter
60. See a musical
61. Stay at a B&B
62. Do the 200 squats challenge (www.twohundredsquats.com)
*63. Attend 10 concerts- Sugarland in Sept. 2010 and will be seeing Jimmy Eat World in Feb. 2011. This summer added another Tim McGraw show. Not sure if I should count comedy shows, but I also saw Gabriel Iglesias and Jeff Dunham. They may end up counting at the end of these 1001 days as I'm just not seeing as many concerts as I used to!
64. Spend one whole day at the cinema
65. Finish writing another 101 things list by the end of 1001 days
66. Visit a brewery
67. Go to a flea market
68. Do something for charity - participated in Angel Tree for our school.
*69. Listen to Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time- lost my list so will probably start over
70. Host a cupcake party
71. Take a zumba class
*72. Visit at least 5 states I haven't been to before- this year I visited NV and TN
73. Go on a vacation- actually went on multiple vacations: engagement trip to Las Vegas for spring break and OBX times two this summer.
74. Go to an art gallery
75. Build a sandcastle
76. Write a short story
77. Go to a winery
78. Get a new pair of glasses
79. Go to the cinema on my own
80. Pay off all credit cards
81. Eat a grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich
82. Go to a food festival
83. Blog at least once a month- technically I failed on this, however, I feel that my frequent blogging on the wedding blog might count if I were to average it out.
84. Have a little red dress
85. Get CPR certified
86. Learn to play poker
87. Make bread from scratch
88. Finish a crossword puzzle
89. Complete the 100 pushups challenge
90. Go to a Redskins game- done times two -- went to the last game of last season and the first game of this season, both against the Giants with very different results
91. Learn to drive a stick shift
*92. Regularly update regular blog about dayzeroproject- note sure how often "regularly" is but I figure if I update all the way from here until it ends, it counts!
93. Go camping
94.
Do something adventurous- I went to Vegas, moved in with Joel, got engaged ... I didn't count all the huge big events in my life last year for some reason but I feel like at this point, something along the way counts.
95. Visit Sea World
96. Make tiramisu
97. Send a secret to PostSecret
98. Become a vegetarian for a week
99. Get a more visible tattoo
100. Put away $2 for every goal completed - this one, I officially suck at. I owe myself $54.
101. Create a budget and stick to it
Completed - 27 (and plan on making a gingerbread house before this holiday season is over!)
In - progress - 8
It's nice to see that I've made some progress this year. Mostly without even intentionally trying. In fact, I think the only one that I did and thought "I can check this off this list!" was getting the tattoo. In 2012, I think I'll be more intentional with some of the things on the list as some take a bit of planning/follow-through to complete. Considering I still have until May/June 2013, I think it's plausible that my list get mostly checked off!
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