Tuesday, January 15, 2008

The challenge . . .

So here's the list. (I'm adding as ideas come to me.) Some are silly, some are fun, some are difficult and some (possibly) life changing. It should be a 1001 days full of interest.

The project will run from Jan 15, 2008 to October 12, 2010

  1. Read Don Quixote (0/1)
  2. Go to the opera in San Francisco (0/1)
  3. Go an entire year without overcharging my account (0/12)
  4. Climb Mt. Tamalpais (0/1)
  5. Give blood 6 times (0/6)
  6. Have a massage (0/1)
  7. A-Z challenge. Visit a place for every letter in the alphabet (0/26)
  8. Have dinner at Oliveto (0/1)
  9. Have dinner at the French Laundry (0/1)
  10. Confirm my beneficiaries (0/1)
  11. Pay off my credit card (0/1)
  12. Save 3 months worth of salary in my Emergency fund. (0/1)
  13. Have 3 physicals (0/3)
  14. Give up Diet coke for 3 months (0/1)
  15. Sell my old books (0/1)
  16. Get a library card and stop buying so many books! (0/1)
  17. Go to the Cartoon museum (0/1)
  18. Go to the Asian Art museum (0/1)
  19. Take vitamins every day for a month (0/30)
  20. Try haggis. (0/1)
  21. Learn to paint (0/1)
  22. Buy a house plant and keep it alive for a year. (0/1)
  23. Get properly fitted for a bra (0/1)
  24. Buy some sexy underwear. (0/1)
  25. Move out of California (0/1)
  26. Write at least one letter a month. A real one, not one sent by email. (0/36)
  27. Go to a dermatologist and have the melasma and broken capillaries fixed. (0/1)
  28. Get a mini-stereo
  29. Finish all the pages in my various journals before buying a new one. (0/1)
  30. Buy a laptop (0/1)
  31. Organize photos (0/1)
  32. Take part in National Novel Writing Month (0/1)
  33. Make a disaster preparedness kit (0/1)
  34. Have a deluxe pedicure when my toenails grow back (0/1)
  35. Stop biting my nails for 3 months (0/3)
  36. Go to a museum exhibit every other month (0/18)
  37. Save a deposit for a house (0/1)
  38. See a financial advisor (0/1)
  39. Go an entire week without being negative about anybody or anything (0/1)
  40. Buy a coffee table (0/1)
  41. Finish the needlepoint project I started during the Clinton administration (0/1)
  42. Go to a new restaurant once a month for a year (0/12)
  43. Learn to Argentine Tango (0/1)
  44. Floss every day for 3 months, got to make it a habit.
  45. Go out for my birthday (0/3)
  46. Use all my vacation days (0/20)
  47. Read Moby Dick (0/1)
  48. Go to the movies every other month (0/18)
  49. See Shakespeare in the park in the summer (0/3)
  50. Vote. (0/1)
  51. Go back to New York (0/1)
  52. Visit the Cowgirl Creamery (0/1)
  53. Buy cfls for all my lamps (0/1)
  54. Recycle for 3 months (0/3)
  55. Figure out what to do with the electronic photo frame or donate it to charity (0/1)
  56. Ride my bike to work for 3 months (0/90)
  57. Go to LA. (0/1)
  58. Have a hot dog at Tail o the Pup (0/1)
  59. Buy a decent pair of ballroom shoes (0/1)
  60. Buy and drink a bottle of Perrier Jouet for my birthday (0/1)
  61. Do the entire Artists Way 12 week course, not just 2 weeks (0/1)
  62. Read Sparrow (0/1)
  63. Buy a Creuset casserole (0/1)
  64. <Lose 50 lbs. (Starting weight 244 lbs) (0/1)
  65. Visit my friends in Europe (0/1)
  66. See Ireland.(0/1)
  67. Volunteer at 12 Habitat for Humanity build dates.(0/12)
  68. Take an adult ballet class.(0/1)
  69. Learn enough French to actually read Candide in the original.(0/1)
  70. Finish the Avenue of the Giants half marathon - May 4th 2008.(0/1)
  71. Learn to make a souffle.(0/1)
  72. Make a photo book of my New York Vacation.(0/1)
  73. Visit Alcatraz.(0/1)
  74. Take a yoga cure (0/1)
  75. Blog at least once a week for a year (0/52)
  76. Learn to make real Cajun gumbo
  77. Buy a really hot bathing suit and wear it in public
  78. Buy stock in Proctor and Gamble
  79. Visit the Winchester Mystery House
  80. Save for a new car
  81. Get married
  82. Collect all 50 state quarters
  83. See Spamalot
  84. Go to the Grand Canyon
  85. Wax my car 12 times
  86. Start a Roth IRA
  87. Try kayaking
  88. Complete a marathon
  89. Go to Montreal, Canada
  90. Fall in love
  91. learn to knit something other than a scarf
  92. Fix my horn comb and bone fan
  93. Get the amber necklace restrung
  94. Start weight training
  95. Improve my work skills
  96. Update my Career Networking Profile
  97. Make a recipe folder
  98. Put together a car maintenance folder
  99. Get a dining room table
  100. Have friends over for dinner
  101. Join a choir
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