As of February 9, 2010, I'm participating in Day Zero, the 1001 Day Project. The ones that are crossed out have been accomplished; the italicized ones are in process. 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. Taking shooting lessons at a firing range
9. Buy a “good” camera & learn to photograph well
10. Learn to play at least one song, no matter how simple, on my guitar
11. Watch the Oscar-winning Best Pictures of each of the past 20 years (0/20)
Body
12. Take a yoga class
13. Get a Brazilian wax
14. Weigh 150 lbs.
15. Walk, run or jog a 5K
16. Take a self-defense class
17.
18. Have my star & heart tattoos redone
19. Run at least a mile without feeling like I’m going to die
20. Go to bed before midnight every weeknight for a month
21. Try swimming again (the exercise kind, not the for-fun kind)
22.
Life
23. Live alone
24. Move to Ohio
25. Purchase a car
26. Learn to change a tire
27.
28. Attend my 10-year high school reunion
Reading & Writing
29. Begin writing a book
30. Participate in Nablopomo
31. Be paid to freelance something – anything!
32.
33. Go to a blogger meet-up someplace outside of DC
34. Read at least one book a month for a year (3/12)
35. Read all the current books I own but haven’t yet read
36. Send at least three letters to the editor of any three publications (0/3)
Technology
37. Learn to use Photoshop
38. Give up Twitter for a week
39. Give up Facebook for a week
40. Finish & launch my résumé website
41. Buy a hard drive & back up all my work
43. Attend SXSW or some other major technology conference
44. Organize & print digital photos, then arrange them into actual photo albums
People
45. Send flowers to my mother & my grandmother (1/2)
46. Send 200 personal letters to friends & family (26/200)
47. Send five letters to people who have influenced my life (1/5)
48. Email Paolo & Ani at least once a month for 12 months (0/12)
49.
Spirit
50. Learn to read Hebrew again
51. Read the Torah (in English!)
52. Go to a Tikkun Leil Shabbat service
53. Go to a service at a Unitarian church
54. Buy some sort of headstone for Dave’s gravesite
55. Attend Shabbat services every Friday for a month
Food & Drink
56. Try sake
57. Try absinthe
58. Try Indian food
59.
60. Buy a waffle iron
61. Give up pop for a month
62. Try 10 new beers (1/10 - Magic Hat, Sam Adams Summer Ale)
63. Give up meat for a month
64. Bake a cake or cupcakes from scratch
65. Complete the Great DC Brunch Tour’s original list
66. Begin a cookbook or recipe cards using recipes I like & ones my family sends
67. Dine at at least three restaurants owned/staffed by reality show contestants (0/3)
Travel
68. Visit Boston
69. Fly first class
70. Visit New Orleans again
71. Travel out of the country
72. Visit my cousin in Chicago
73. Go on a vacation with my mom
74. Get bumped from a flight for ticket vouchers
75. Go to the cabin with friends, if my uncle will let me use it
76. Buy myself a night in a hotel, just because – even if it’s in my own town
Fun
77. Skydive
78. Go to a planetarium
79. Ride in a hot air balloon
80. See a Post Secret exhibit
81. Attend a Broadway show
82. Learn football. Like, for real.
83. Attend or host a clothing swap
84. Throw a party with a clever theme
DC
85. Go to Eastern Market
86.
87. Visit the National Archives
88. Go to the Dupont Farmers Market
89. Take a tour of the White House
90. Watch a Supreme Court case be argued
91. Spend a day enjoying the Newseum by myself
92. Go to Arlington National Cemetery & pay my respects at Justin’s headstone
Compassion
93. Donate blood
94. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
95. Spend under $10 on a meal & give a $10 tip
96. Donate money to five friends who are fundraising for charity (2/5)
Finances
97. Save at least $2,000
98. Organize & archive my bills
99. Pay off my small credit cards – Old Navy, Target, etc.
100. Switch my credit card to one with a lower interest rate
101. Go 12 full months without deferring my student loans (5/12)
Additions!
* Complete a No Spend Month
* Watch all six seasons of “Dawson’s Creek”
* Flavor trip
