As of February 9, 2010, I'm participating in Day Zero, the 1001 Day Project. That means I have until November 6, 2012 to complete the list. The bolded ones have been accomplished; the italicized ones are in process. And yes, there are slightly more than 101 items on here. Here goes!
Hobbies
1. Join a choir
2. Learn to knit
3. Go berry-picking
4. Open an Etsy shop
5. Take a pottery class
6. Decoupage a piece of furniture
7. Create a scrapbook of my LA year
8. Take shooting lessons at a firing range
9. Attempt to learn conversational Hebrew
10. Watch all six seasons of “Dawson’s Creek”
11. Buy a “good” camera & learn to photograph well (My version of "well," anyway!)
12. Learn to play at least one song, no matter how simple, on my guitar
13. Watch the Oscar-winning Best Pictures of each of the past 20 years (15/20)
Body
14. Take a yoga class
15. See a chiropractor
16. Lose at least 20 lbs.
17. Get a Brazilian wax
18. Walk, run or jog a 5K
19. Learn to French braid
20. Take a self-defense class
21. Take vitamins daily for one month
22. Get a hot stone or deep tissue massage (Now addicted!)
23. Have my star & heart tattoos redone (0/2)
24. Run at least a mile without feeling like I’m going to die
25. Go to bed before midnight every weeknight for two weeks
26. Try swimming again (the exercise kind, not the for-fun kind)
27. Be professionally fitted for bras – & buy nice ones that fit as a result!
Life
28. Get a car (DONE! 2008 Honda Civic. Three cheers for car payments...!)
29. Live alone (It seems that living with a boyfriend is the new living alone. This counts, I say so.)
30. Move to Ohio (Brief, but it happened.)
31. Learn to change a tire
32. Apply to be on Date Lab (They didn't choose me. Jerks.)
33. Attend my 10-year high school reunion
34. Say yes to 10 things I'm initially inclined to say no to (210: Tried a whole, fried soft-shell crab; met up with a couple I'd only "met" via Twitter; attended Rendez-Vous New England; spoke to another blogger my phone)
35. Unsubscribe myself from all the email lists that clutter my inbox
Reading & Writing
36. Begin writing a book
37. Go to a blogger meet-up (I attended Rendez-Vous: New England in September 2011!)
38. Be paid to freelance something – anything!
39. Catalog all my books on GoodReads.com
40. Participate in Nablopomo or something similar
41. Read at least one book a month for a year (12/12: June: The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld; July: "The Awakening" & "The Struggle" by LJ Smith; August: "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Wiener; September: "The Fury" & "Dark Reunion" by LJ Smith; October: "The Return: Nightfall" by L.J. Smith; November: the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins; December: "LA Candy" & "Sweet Little Lies" by Lauren Conrad; January: "Sugar and Spice" by Lauren Conrad & "City of Bones" by Cassandra Clare; February: "City of Ashes" & "City of Glass" by Cassandra Clare; March: "Clockwork Angel" by Cassandra Clare; April: "Matched" by Ally Condie & "Dead in the Family" by Charlaine Harris; May: "City of Fallen Angels" by Cassandra Clare, "Bossypants" by Tina Fey, "Dead Reckoning" by Charlaine Harris, "Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard & "Look Again" by Lisa Scottoline)
42. Read all the books I currently own but haven’t yet read
43. Send at least three letters to the editor of any three publications (7/3 - FriendlyAtheist.com, The Forward, Lovelyish.com, JTA, Cleveland Magazine, The Daily Kent Stater, & Glamour - and five of them were published!)
Technology
44. Learn to use Photoshop
45. Give up Twitter for a week
46. Give up Facebook for a week (Twice!)
47. Finish & launch my résumé website
48. Buy a hard drive & back up all my work
49. Move my blog to Wordpress, self-host, or redesign
50. Attend SXSWi or some other technology conference
51. Organize & print digital photos, then arrange them into actual photo albums
People
52. Send 200 letters/cards to friends & family
53. Send flowers to my mother & grandmother
54. Send five letters to people who have influenced my life (2/5 - KH, EF)
55. Write to Paolo & Ani at least once a month for 12 months (2/12)
56. Ask out a guy I don’t know (though this one can be nullified if I start dating someone before accomplishing it!)
Spirit
57. Learn to read Hebrew again
58. Read the Torah (in English!)
59. Go to services at three new synagogues (2/3 - Suburban Temple Kol Ami, Congregation Bet Ha'am)
60. Buy some sort of headstone for Dave’s gravesite
61. Attend services at a Unitarian Universalist church (with my mom in Oct. 2011)
Food & Drink
62. Try sake (while in a liquor store in Boston with Mike - and it was free!)
63. Flavor trip (I LOVE LEMON JUICE.)
64. Try absinthe (while in Boston with Nathan, July 2010)
65. Try Indian food (while in Philly with Rachel & Andrew, Sept. 2010)
66. Try Korean food (Beef bulgogi, YUM)
67. Eat at Pasta Mia (with Jeff, Michelle & Rachel, June 2010)
68. Buy a waffle iron
69. Learn to like coffee (I now like lattes. I think this is the best I'm going to get from my taste buds.)
70. Give up pop for a month (Sept. 11-Oct. 11, 2010)
71. Try 10 new beers (10/10 - Magic Hat Wacko, Sam Adams Summer Ale, Troeg's Sunshine Pils, Red Hook Rope Swing, Allagash White, Dream Weaver Wheat, Checker Cab Blond Ale, Wyden's Pear Cider, Great Lakes Burning River Pale Ale, Franziskaner Hefeweisen)
72. Give up meat for a month
73. Bake a cake or cupcakes from scratch (rainbow cupcakes with Allison, September 2010)
74. Identify my signature dish, a go-to for parties
75. Complete the Great DC Brunch Tour’s original list (abandoned when I realized we nixed some lame places on the list in favor of better places, which counts!)
76. Begin a cookbook or recipe cards using recipes I like & ones my family sends
77. Dine in at least three restaurants owned/staffed by reality show contestants (Philly's El Camino Real, D.C.'s Good Stuff Eatery & NYC's Social Eatz)
Travel
78. Go camping
79. Visit Boston
80. Fly first class
81. Stay at a hostel (NYC, March 2011)
82. Visit New Orleans again (May 2011)
83. Travel out of the country (Israel, January 2011)
84. Visit my cousin in Chicago (July 2011)
85. Go on a vacation with my mom
86. Get bumped from a flight for ticket vouchers
87. Go on a vacation, even just a weekend getaway, with friends (Las Vegas, Sept. 2011)
88. Buy myself a night in a hotel, just because – even if it’s in my own town (Boston, Sept. 2011)
Fun
89. Skydive
90. Geocache
91. Go to a planetarium (I think my new home planetarium counts - and is even cooler!)
92. Ride in a hot air balloon
93. Go to Eastern Market (Sept. 2010)
94. See a Post Secret exhibit (And Frank signed my book!)
95. See the Cherry Blossoms (Summer 2010)
96. Attend a Broadway show (Planning to see Newsies in May 2012 with my childhood best friend!)
97. Learn football. Like, for real.
98. Attend or host a clothing swap
99. Throw a party with a clever theme ("Top Chef Comes to the Cleveland House," a quickfire/amuse bouche party, July 2010)
Compassion
100. Donate blood
101. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
102. Spend under $10 on a meal & give a $10 tip
103. Leave notes in a Post Secret book at a bookstore
104. Donate money to five friends who are fundraising for charity (5/5 - Chris for MS Walk, Marisa for Relay for Life, Jill for NO/AIDS Walk, Jaclyn for Joey's Auction, Sam for Alzheimer's Memory Walk)
105. Go to Arlington National Cemetery & pay my respects at Justin’s headstone
Finances
106. Save at least $2,000
107. Complete a No Spend Month
108. Organize & archive my bills (This mostly involved shredding them.)
109. Pay off my small credit cards –
110. Go 12 full months without deferring my student loans
