Start Date: 3/6/09
Completion Date: 12/2/2011
Not Started / In Progress / Completed
Creative
1. Take a photography class
2. Take a PhotoShop class
3. Buy 2 new lenses for my camera
4. Take another creative writing class or attend a workshop
5. Learn 20 songs from memory on the guitar
6. Learn how to sew
7. Attempt to knit, once, just to say I did
8. Go to BlogHer (2009, Chicago)
9. Complete NaNoWriMo
10. Complete a Flickr 365 project of some sort, even if it's not self-portraits
11. Read 25 books: 1.) Ghost Rider, 2.) In Defense of Food, 3.) On the Road, 4.) Traveling Muisc, 5.) The Book Thief, 6.) Born to Run
12. Reupholster my grandfather's rocking chair and move it from my parents' basement to my living room
13. Post something to blog daily for 90 days
14. Make 2 more Minica movies
Home & Garden
15. Try 100 new recipes
16. Bake bread from scratch
17. Learn how to roll sushi
18. Build my own square-foot garden
19. Maintain a vegetable garden for 1 season
20. Figure out/learn great-grandma's kuchen recipe
21. Find a recipe for biscuits and gravy the way that Duke likes it (brown gravy instead of cream)
22. Start composting
23. Learn a manual labor skill that is valuable to our home renovation
24. Paint an entire room by myself
25. Sprout seeds indoors for outdoor planting
26. Learn how to make tea the proper British way from The Hairy Pretzel
27. Go to bed with an empty, shiny kitchen sink every night for 30 days, crazy Flylady style
28. Buy a new pet turtle
Health & Fitness
29. Buy the equipment and get back into thermal biofeedback
30. Lose 40 lbs (15/40 as of January 2010)
31. Complete the P90X program
32. Run a 5K
33. Go 30 days without eating meat
34. Go 15 days without consuming HFCS
35. Attempt to ski, snowboard, or wakeboard once
36. Take swimming lessons
37. Roller skate Baumann Park
38. Get my first manicure (9/3/09)
39. Get my first pedicure
Financial
40. Add $5,000 to my emergency savings account
41. Make a $400 car payment to myself every month for one year
Travel
42. Take a vacation by myself
43. Visit 1 state I've never been to before (New Jersey, October 2009)
44. Leave the country
45. Return to North Dakota for no reason (no funeral, wedding, or other event) and with no plan and giving no notice
46. Tour the Farnsworth House
47. Spend a night in a skyscraper
48. Visit Marc at school
49. Put my feet in an ocean (in Atlantic City, October 2009)
50. Visit a national landmark I've never seen before
51. Ride in a hot air balloon – Modified to Skydiving, completed 9/1/09
52. Go to the Chili Bowl one more time, even if it kills me (DONE. ALIVE. 2010.)
53. Go to the Knoxville Nationals one more time
Family
54. Start a monthly Sunday brunch tradition
55. Write a letter to my great-grandmother at least once a month
56. Play a game of tennis with my mother
57. Go to at least 2 "Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives" restaurants with my Dad - (1) 3/22/09, Donatelli's in White Bear Lake, MN, (2) Glenn's Diner in Chicago.
58. Write a song with Wags
59. Sing a karaoke duet with Pipes
Charity/Volunteer/Activism
60. Volunteer at a no-kill shelter or dog rescue group
61. Volunteer for a political campaign
62. Join a community organization
63. Raise $1,000 for Little Angels: 2009 total: $1,010.
Work
64. Spend one day on ride-along with a service technician
65. Spend one day in the field with an installer
66. Practice Inbox Zero for 30 days straight, both email and paper variety
67. Figure out how to program my "new" phone that is almost 3 years old
Miscellaneous
68. This one is private.
69. Make 5 new friends that I didn't know at all on the start date
70. Go an entire weekend (Friday, 4:30 pm to Monday, 7 am) without checking my email, cell phone text messages, signing into IM, Twitter, Facebook, or any other social network that may or may not be invented yet
71. Grow my hair to my tailbone – Completed 9/4/09 and verified by independent witness Dano
72. Learn how to put my hair into 3 different up-dos by myself
73. Get a tattoo
74. Change a tire 100% by myself
75. Install my new car horn (5/28/09)
76. Clean out my car once a week for a month
77. Go at least 6 months without eating at a Hooters: Last visit March 11th, 2009
78. Visit the Cherry Valley Historical Society
79. Learn to play poker or any other card game of Duke's choosing - Euchre, 3/21/2009
80. Host a Sequence tournament
81. Have a New Deck Party even if the new deck isn't finished
82. Buy chaps
83. Ride in a combine again
84. Spend one more night scraping mud from a sprint car or midget
85. Go to a race track I've never been to before (May 24th, 2009, Anderson Speedway)
86. See 10 movies in the theater: 1.) Taken, 2.) The Soloist, 3.) Terminator: Salvation, 4.) Away We Go, 5.) Up!, 6.) Bruno, 7.) Funny People, 8.) District 9
87. Make every effort to track down my old friend Bill from the old AOL sprint car board
88. Write snail-mail letters to 10 different people, out of the blue. 1.) 6/16/09
89. Send holiday cards, but the holiday doesn't have to be Christmas
90. Replace my wardrobe using certain friends as my What Not to Wear experts
91. Buy a hat that has nothing to do with keeping warm or keeping the sun out of my eyes
92. - 101. Go to at least one event of each: MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, NHRA (Joliet, June 2009), NASCAR, IRL (Milwaukee, May 2009), WoO (Eldora, May 2009), PBR
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