The results of my 101 things in 1001 Days

Back in June of 2006, I made a list of 101 things I wanted to get done in 1001 days. March 8th, 2009 was the official end of the project. I got 49 of them done, and there are about ten others that remain half done.

The 49:
1 Go to Europe (DONE May 07)
2 Turn thirty (DONE 6/22/07)
4 Take a Papermaking or other art class (DONE 12/13/06)
6 See Los Angeles (DONE 6/22/06)
12 Take an official tour of a city, even if it just Minneapolis (DONE - Berlin 3/25/08)
13 Organize my CDs, both music and computer (DONE 7/20/06)
14 Whiten my teeth (DONE June 07 - ditto)
15 Go to The Science Museum (DONE 6/25/08)
17 Take Writing 2 (DONE Dec 07)
18 Make an informative opening page for soelo.com (DONE)
21 Set aside an arts and crafts area in home (DONE - because my roommate is cool, he did it for me.)
22 Get a dishwasher and washing machine (DONE 7/3/06)
23 Read at least 33 books (one per month) (DONE Sept 2008)
28 Put something on soelo.com in addition to my blog (DONE)
29 See a Panda Bear (in captivity, most likely) (DONE 3/24/08)
31 Buy more wine and learn which wineries I like (DONE)
32 Learn to make a wine spritzer that I like (DONE Nov 06)
33 Attempt to improve my handwriting (DONE, but just the attempt)
34 Drive along the west coast (DONE June 18-21, 2006)
39 Knit, crochet or sew something nice enough to wear in public - and wear it. (DONE, if my wallet counts)
40 Make one birthday or Christmas gift (DONE Feb 7, 2009)
42 Post to my blog on 87% of the days in a month. (27/31) (Done Dec 07)
47 Fill the tank with gas - drive till it’s half gone, take pictures, and then come back (DONE 10/11/08)
49 Learn to make homemade chai (DONE Oct 06)
51 Memorize 'If' by Rudyard Kipling (DONE July 31, 2006)
52 Journalize my time from age 18 to 28 (DONE I used a timeline instead)
56 Make a nice long blogroll (DONE - via rss and gmail)
57 Get my car's rear axle fixed (DONE June 12, 2006)
58 Try ordering groceries online (DONE Jan 08)
60 Update my immunizations (DONE 8/7/08)
61 Go on a blind date (DONE Sept 07)
62 Go on a real date (with someone I know or meet, not a fix-up) (DONE July 07)
64 Get rss archives down to below 100 (DONE, but then I switched to Google Reader)
70 Set up scanner (DONE Nov 30, 06)
74 Tag most of my blog entries (DONE Dec 27, 2006)
77 Organize my books and list the ones I own but haven't read (DONE 07/02/07)
78 Go to the Como Zoo (DONE May 07)
80 Buy and use a Tetsubin (DONE June 06)
86 Get a passport (DONE May 16th, 2007)
87 Make a significant contribution to a Wikipedia article (DONE Summer 07)
89 Make cookies from scratch (DONE July 08)
90 Make another dessert from scratch (DONE Nov 08, Baked Brie)
91 Make an entire meal (entree, two sides and a beverage) myself (DONE Feb 07)
93 Make an asian noodle dish in my wok (DONE May 08, Chicken Fried Rice)
94 Play board games with my friends (DONE)
96 Retake Calculus 2 (DONE Aug 08)
97 Flirt with a stranger (DONE)
98 Use craigslist for something (DONE Jan 07 - my apartment)
99 Get some more videos for my ipod (DONE - the ipod broke and I got it fixed and I never use it to watch videos anymore)

Just over a month left

 until the end of my 1001 days. I am going to try to check of a lot of things at the end, like I did in the beginning.

These are the ones I am working on:
21. Set aside an arts and crafts area in my home
37. Take a trip somewhere using only public non-airplane transportation (i.e. bus, train, helicopter, taxi)
39. Knit, crochet or sew something nice enough to wear in public - and wear it. (does a wallet count?)
40. Make one birthday or Christmas gift
41. Go Snow Tubing somewhere official, with tube rental and lift
79. Travel the Grand Rounds
90. Make another dessert from scratch
92. Purge the clothes I no longer wear

Fill up, drive until tank is half empty, take pictures and drive home.

Fill up, drive until tank is half empty, take pictures and drive home.
Originally uploaded by soelo
We ended up in Silver Bay.

33 books

33 books
Originally uploaded by soelo
Only 29 are shown, since I got rid of two and have lent two more out.

Six months until the end of my first 1001 days

March 8, 2009 will be the last day of that project. I am sure I'll start another list soon after that.

I got six of my 9 things done this summer, and to get that same rate on my 101 things, I need to get 68 of them done.

Read in August

30. 'How to be Good' - Nick Hornby
31. 'Travels' - Michael Crichton

'Good' was a novel that I had to push myself to finish. 'Travels' is a collection of essays from Crichton's life from the late sixties to the early eighties. It starts with him in medical school, goes on to describe many trips he took and finishes with an exploration of metaphysics. The middle was my favorite part. I am planning a blog post centered on the book, and it has really piqued my interest in Crichton himself.

I started reading 'New Moon' last night, the second book in Stephenie Meyer's vampire series. I'd picked 'Twilight' for my book club to read, thanks to a friend's suggestion. At least two of my other friends and three family members are now into the series. Most of us can't wait for the movie in November.

Current Events

I have updated my 101 things post, checking off a few more things while I was changing the text back to all black. I made cookies in July, took my Calc final Wednesday and got my immunizations last Thursday. I don't have my grade yet.

I start a new class, Elections and Political Parties on August 25th. In most classes there is at least one annoying person (although Calc2 was mercifully lacking one) and I just know there will be more than one in this class.

An arch in Utah's Arches National Park has collapsed. Utah was so pretty when I visited it with my mother in 2003. We talk about going back all the time.

The last item on my list of 9 things to do this summer was to visit another State Park in addition to Frontenac and Afton. When my grandfather died in June, he was buried in Fort Ridgely Cemetary, which is inside the Fort Ridgely State Park. Then when I went up to Sunset Lodge with my boyfriend and his family in July, we visited Itasca State Park and walked across the headwaters of the Mississippi. I had not even realized/remembered either of those until I pulled up the list of Minnesota State Parks and saw them both on the list.

Book List

27. 'Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions' - Edwin A Abbott
28. 'The Big Love' - Sarah Dunn
29. 'The Dark is Rising' - Susan Cooper

Flatland was bit too political for my taste. The Big Love was simple but not overly predictable. The Dark is Rising seemed to get repetitive at times, but it still made me want to see the movie.

101 and 9 things update

9 things in 92 days - June 1 - August 31, 2008
2 Move - this is in process right now - I'll probably post about it when it's over.
4 Pass Calculus 2 - I got an A on the first of 3 tests.
7 Visit Science Museum - planned for tomorrow
8 Eat at Fogo de Chao - done on June 6th - the rolls are so good!

33 books
26. 'Under the Banner of Heaven' - Jon Krakauer

101 things
Make a scrapbook of all my travels - I have started, and I hope to be done with 1992-2001 by the end of the summer. 2002 was the first time I took a digital camera on vacation, so I am only committing to finish the trip from which I already have the physical prints. But, I also joined snapfish to get the digitals printed and am pleased with the results so far.

Make an informative opening page for soelo.com - I was working on a huge list of Web 2.0 sites as well as a nice dashboard for myself. I just put them both together.

Journalize my time from age 18 to 28 - I have been percolating on this quite a bit lately. I am thinking more like a timeline than an actual journal.

Chic Lit

23. Solo - Emily Barr
24. Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner - which I reread because I was about to read the recent sequel:
25. Certain Girls - Jennifer Weiner

And last night I started "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. It's an investigation of the Fundamentalist Mormon sects, and the violence some of their members have committed. Sure it's a timely read, but I bought the book in 2006 after seeing Krakauer on Anderson Cooper.

9 things in 92 days - Summer 2008

June 1 - August 31, 2008
1 Ride Ripchord at Valleyfair
2 Move
3 See the new Grizzly Coast at MN Zoo
4 Pass Calculus 2
5 Finish Scrapbooking 1992-2001
6 Visit Mpls Inst of Art
7 Visit Science Museum
8 Eat at Fogo de Chao
9 Go to Fort Snelling or some other State Park, aside from Afton where I'll be camping Labor Day weekend.

Italics mean the item has been completed.

Germany and Prague - Day 5

Thursday, March 27 - Berlin Day 2

Today I went on the Discover Berlin tour from Berlin Walks, which I highly recommend for an overview of the city. Our tour guide was Jacob and we met outside the Zoo Tiergarten station. We took the S-Bahn a few stops and then saw the TV tower from far away. We went past the Berliner Dom, saw the roof of the Synagogue, and then hit Museum Island. There Jacob pointed out the bullet holes in some decorative columns, and explained how they were made during the Battle of Berlin. I think he said the Soviets made them.
Seeing the Gedachtniskirche's bombed out remains and now being in front of these bullet holes had a sobering effect on me. WWII had played out on the very ground beneath my feet. Many of the buildings and roads around me had been destroyed and rebuilt. It's one thing to learn or read about war, or even to watch it in a movie. It is quite another thing to have physical remains of a war in front of you.
We continued over the island and stood in the Lustgarten while he told us about the Altes Museum (Old Museum) and then the Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace). We then continued down Unter den Linden ("under the lime trees") past tons of buildings of historical importance and took a break in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Consruction on The Gate began in 1788, and since then it has become the ultimate symbol of Berlin's history of rule by the Prussians, Napoleon, the Nazis, the Soviets and now it's reunification. It was part of the Berlin Wall and witnessed Reagan's speech where he implored, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
After walking through the gate, we could see the dome over the Reichstag building off to the right, but turned left towards the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The Memorial is a non-square city block covered in 2,711 large concrete slabs called stele (plural: stelea or steles). They vary in height from 8 inches to almost 16 feet, and the ground slopes down toward the center. The overall effect is chaos and order coexisting. The architect stated he wanted to show a supposedly ordered system that had gone awry. It was pretty somber walking through, even though the optical effects were interesting when I was near the center. One of the pictures I took there is now the wallpaper on my Blackberry.
After we all met up on the other side of the Memorial, we walked over to the parking lot of an apartment building and Jacob told us the story of Hitler's last days. We were standing right above the bunker where he killed himself, and Jacob explained how it was all just a pile of concrete rubble now. We walked past the former Luftwaffe headquarters and over to a section of the Berlin Wall that still remains on Niederkirchnerstrasse. Here he told us the story of the Wall coming down. We headed over to Checkpoint Charlie and then up to Gendarmenmarkt where the tour ended. I was surprised to see an Obama bumper sticker stuck to the sidewalk near Checkpoint Charlie.
I took the U-Bahn to Friedrichstrasse station to get batteries for my camera. The charger was not charging them in the camera, so I had been using my Blackberry for pictures during the whole walking tour. I then walked over to the Pergamon Museum. Inside I saw the Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Market gate of Miletus. I climbed to the top of the Pergamon Altar and then saw a scale model of the site of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.
After that, I bought some food at a grocery store and headed back to my hotel. Tomorrow I take the train to Prague.

Day Six

Germany and Prague - Day 4

Wednesday March 26 - Berlin Day 1

I got up and headed back to Kurfürstendamm. I bought the transit half of the Berlin Welcome card and then headed over to KaDeWe, a big department store. I was looking for an adapter and some food, so I went up several escalators to the electronics department. There were no adapters in sight, but I did find a wall charger (with a Euro plug) for mini USB devices. Both my Blackberry and digital cameras are mini USB, so I grabbed it. I went up one floor to the food department. Wow! I got to see the hundreds of varieties of cheeses with my own eyes. I grabbed various things and went up to a register, but the woman said I had to go to register by the soda, since she couldn't ring up beverages. Okay, I guess. The guy ringing me up by the sodas gets annoyed that I have something electronic in my basket and tells me I have to buy that down on the electronics floor. Hmm, this is less like a store than a mall. Anyway, I head back to my hotel and have some lunch.

The Welcome card is both a 48 hour transit pass and a discount book, but I have to go to a Berlin infostore to get the discount book. I stop at the one in Neues Kranzler Eck to pick it up before heading over to the Zoo. It gets me 3 Euros off the 12 Euro admission.

Inside the Berlin Zoo, I wandered around looking at the outside animals, like elephants, goats, water bucks and giraffes and then went into the Primate house. Monkeys and Apes can be fun to watch, but I always like the lemurs the best. I can see the Gedächtniskirche from the southern end of the zoo, and get a few more pictures. I finally come to the Giant Panda, named Boa-Boa. This was my initial reason for coming to Berlin, to see a Giant Panda, and nearly every vacation I take involves a visit to a zoo or aquarium. Boa-Boa was pretty underwhelming since he was sleeping. Who can blame him? Being that cute must be exhausting. The enclosure can be viewed from 3 sides so while my first few pictures just look like a pile of fur, the ones from the other sides show a definite Panda shape. There is a picture of Boa-Boa wide awake here.

The Panda exhibit was attached to the Predator building. Inside there were wolverines, mongooses, meerkats, lions and my favorite, jaguarinos. I can't seem to find the English name for them, but they look like domestic cats that can tear you apart. I went through a bird building, past the sea lions and then out to see the Polar Bears. No, Knut wasn't out. I finished off with the rhinos, tapirs and hippos. Here are lots of other people's pictures of animals at the Berlin Zoo and here is my picture of a hippo. The oddest thing about the zoo was the number of adults I saw feeding or trying to feed the animals. One man was feeding the birds some seed and a woman was trying to get the tapirs to eat hay out of her hand.

Day Five

101 things Update - One Year to go

I made a list of 101 things that I wanted to do in 1001 days. On that page, red means done and green means in progress.
I only have a year left, since my end date is 3/8/09
Right now I have 29 things done and 8 in progress, so I am not on pace to complete them all.

Things I know I won't do:
Buy a condo or a house
Go to a live KOL meeting
Take 3 additional classes (at most I'll get 2 others)

Things I probably will:
Get contact lenses and wear them
Make an asian noodle dish in my wok
Journalize my time from age 18 to 28
Make a scrapbook of all my travels - I will at least start this one
Go Snow Tubing somewhere official, with tube rental and lift
See a live play
See some petroglyphs

Panda Trivia

There are only four cities in America that have Pandas on display in their zoos: Washington, DC, San Diego, Memphis and Atlanta. The only other cities outside of Asia with Pandas are Mexico City, Berlin, Vienna and Madrid. If I go through either Berlin or Vienna on my way to Prague, I'll try to see one.

There are two subspecies of Giant Pandas, Ailuropoda melanoleuca melanoleuca which is the most common, and Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis, which only live in the Quinling Mountains.

While Giant Pandas are classified in the bear family, the Red Panda is not a bear, but is more closely related to raccoons and is considered the only living member of the Ailuridae family.

I'm the One That I Want

22. I'm the One That I Want by Margaret Cho

A book about her painful childhood, drug use, bad romances, sucky career problems, body image issues and final descent into alcoholism. But it is really funny.

Dead trees

My book list updates since the end of August:
17. Life of Pi
18. The Amber Spyglass
19. Girls' Night Out
20. Twilight
21. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

Okay, if I am going to get to 33 by March 11th, 2009, I only need to read 12 more. I totally slacked off on my personal reading while I was taking the Writing class. It didn't help that we had to read 3-5 essays each week.

Double O Seven

2007 in review:

January - I packed all of my possessions, got a new apartment thanks to Craigslist, and moved in the last week of January (movers rock). I also got Microsoft certified in Excel 2003.

February - I unpacked most of my stuff and started making dinner at my house once a week, starting with chicken lettuce wraps. I also got to go to a Minnesota Wild Game.

March - I started the month by booking my airfare to Europe in May and applying for my passport. The rest of the month spent I booking hotels and tours.

April - My grandparents moved out of their house and held an auction to get rid of stuff.

May - Europe!! But first, I had to beg and plead for my passport.

June - I turned 30.

July - I reread Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and the Half-Blood Prince and then read the Deathly Hallows. My niece and I hit Borders at midnight for the Deathly Hallows release party. I saw Order of the Phoenix at midnight the day it came out, and 3 more times in the theater.

August - It started with the bridge collapse. It ended with the first meeting of my Writing 2 class.

September - I met a guy online, started dating him and made him my boyfriend, all in 30 short, rainy days. We went to the Renaissance Festival on the 29th.

October - I visited Duluth with the new boyfriend and I transformed myself into Medusa for Halloween. My brother-in-law and I took my sister to see Jim Gaffigan at the Orpheum for her birthday.

November - I finally got to see MIA in concert at First Ave.

December - I stopped biting my nails. I used the method of wearing a rubber band on my wrist. It served as a reminder and on the few times I did bite, I snapped the rubber band. Lastly, I posted to my blog on 27 of the 31 days in December, which was one of my 101 things to do.

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Happy Birthday, Mom and Tanya

I went all of September without posting - oops! I can give you a list of excuses if you really want them, although they would be the typical "work, school, reading, writing and socializing."

Bookwise, I finished The Amber Spyglass, read Girls' Night Out and am working on The Dark Is Rising. I might take a break from it though. The movie comes out on Friday, and I'd rather not be in the middle of the book while I see the movie. Also, I have tons of school reading to do and our book club just picked Twilight by Stephanie Meyer for October. It was my suggestion because some of us wanted something creepy to read. That's about as creepy as I want to get. But it's 544 pages, so I'd better get reading.

and Even More Books

Short Stories
6. White Angel - 15
7. The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas - 12
8. Nebraska - 5
9. What a Word Means - 3

And this morning I finished Life of Pi - 319

That makes a total of 7,192 pages.

I don't know if am going to go for the Amber Spyglass next because I feel like I need a break from heavy, deep stuff for a bit. Maybe I need something funny.

Books

Done With:
12. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman - 399
and
13. Serenity - 257

Reading:
14. Little Earthquakes - 448

Ex Libris

From June 2006 to March 2009, I am trying to read 33 books for my 101 things project.
The numbers are page counts.

Short Stories
1. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth - 16
2. The Year of Getting to Know Us - 16
3. Cold Snap - 11
4. Ghost Girls - 13
5. Saint Marie - 12

Regular Books
1. Eragon - 544
2. Baggage - 327
3. Emily Ever After - 320
4. The Guy Not Taken - 289
5. Wuthering Heights - 394
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 870
7. A Wind in the Door - 211
8. Dirty Girls Social Club - 308
9. Miracle - 256
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 652
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 759

Total (4,982 pages so far)

Currently reading:
12. HDM: The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman - 399

Planned:
13. Little Earthquakes - 448

101 Things status

3. Buy a condo or house
I will be moving at the end of January, but to another apartment. I don't want to have a mortgage payment plus maintenance fees on a condo, which are often hundreds of dollars a month.
4. Take Papermaking - DONE as of 12/13/06 - I got a B+

11. See some petroglyphs - It turns out that there are some very close to the town where my grandparents live. But, they are only open in the summer.

17. Take Writing 2 - not planned for Spring '07 anymore, maybe Summer

21. Set aside an arts and crfats area in home - this will be in the apartment

32. Learn to make a wine spritzer that I like - made 2, one on the sweet side. Fresca is actually my favorite thing to mix lately.

33. Attempt to improve my handwriting - I have written out a long poem twice now. I am purposely going slow and staying neat. I guess the speed comes with time.

35. Compile my own "pantry list" and have it complete in my kitchen at least once - I have made it, but not had it all in my kitchen

49. Learn to make homemade chai - made it twice, once from a mix and once from "scratch", it was okay but had to strained.

59. Take 3 additional classes (not writing or papermaking) - Chemistry will be this Spring

70. Set up scanner - I bought a new printer with scan capabilites

74. Tag most of my blog entries - most are, thanks to the new version of Blogger

82. See all 128 episodes of Dawson's Creek in order. (started on June 25th, 2006 and should be done by the end of the year on TBS) - I stopped watching a few episodes after Mitch dies. I might finish, but I certainly needed a break from the angst.

83. Rent a game console and games for a week - it turns out that Blockbuster and Hollywood don't rent the consoles anymore. I did start playing my PS1 and have a PS2 game (Katamari Damacy) that I can play at my sister's house.

88. Get one KOL character to 50 ascensions - I think soelo just finished number 14.

101 things in 1001 days

My list of 101 things to do in 1001 days
Which I stole from Triplux and many others.


My dates are 06/12/2006 to 03/8/2009

1. Go to Europe (DONE May 07)
   
2. Turn thirty (DONE 6/22/07)
   
3. Buy a condo or house
   
4. Take a Papermaking or other art class (DONE 12/13/06)
   
5. Declare a major
   
6. See Los Angeles (DONE 6/22/06)
   
7. See Seattle
   
8. Own all of my Top Ten movies of the year (In progress, lists made...)
   
9. Either ride Ripchord or Bungee Jump or Skydive
   
10. Compile a list of my 100 favorite songs
    
11. See some petroglyphs
    
12. Take an official tour of a city, even if it just Minneapolis (DONE - Berlin 3/25/08)
    
13. Organize my CDs, both music and computer (DONE 7/20/06)
    
14. Whiten my teeth (DONE June 07)
    
15. Go to The Science Museum (DONE 6/25/08)
    
16. Finish a short story - one that is started or a brand new one
    
17. Take Writing 2 (DONE Dec 07)
    
18. Make an informative opening page for soelo.com (DONE)
    
19. Update all of my other websites
    
20. Get on a schedule - more than just "work school sleep work tv sleep"
    
21. Set aside an arts and crafts area in home
    
22. Get a dishwasher and washing machine in apartment/condo (DONE 7/3/06)
    
23. Read at least 33 books (one per month) (DONE Sept 2008)
    
24. See a live play
    
25. Host at least one Geekfest
    
26. Go to a live KOL meeting
    
27. Attend a convention or show at a convention center
    
28. Put something on soelo.com in addition to my blog (DONE)
    
29. See a Panda Bear (in captivity, most likely) (DONE 3/24/08)
    
30. Keep a daily journal - about boring stuff that only I care about
    
31. Buy more wine and learn which wineries I like (DONE)
    
32. Learn to make a wine spritzer that I like (DONE Nov 06)
    
33. Attempt to improve my handwriting (DONE, but just the attempt)
    
34. Drive along the west coast (DONE June 18-21, 2006)
    
35. Compile my own "pantry list" and have it complete in my kitchen at least once (list done)
    
36. Go to a local festival that is not in Minneapolis or St. Cloud
    
37. Take a trip somewhere using only public non-airplane transportation (i.e. bus, train, helicopter, taxi)
    
38. Make and use a Christmas Card List (has to be08)
    
39. Knit, crochet or sew something nice enough to wear in public - and wear it.
    
40. Make one birthday or Christmas gift
    
41. Go Snow Tubing somewhere official, with tube rental and lift
    
42. Post to my blog on 87% of the days in a month. (27/31) (Done Dec 07)
    
43. Have at least one book made from my photos
    
44. Take multi-vitamins regularly (In Progress)
    
45. Organize a real scavenger hunt
    
46. Volunteer
    
47. Fill the tank with gas - drive till it’s half gone, take pictures, and then come back (DONE 10/11/08)
    
48. Make a scrapbook of all my travels (In Progress)
    
49. Learn to make homemade chai (DONE Oct 06)
    
50. Read a book on Arthurian Legend
    
51. Memorize 'If' by Rudyard Kipling (DONE July 31, 2006)
    
52. Journalize my time from age 18 to 28
    
53. Finish my Interests inventory
    
54. Learn something about everything
    
55. Learn everything about something
    
56. Make a nice long blogroll (DONE - via rss and gmail)
    
57. Get my car's rear axle fixed (DONE June 12, 2006)
    
58. Try ordering groceries online (DONE Jan 08)
    
59. Take 3 additional classes (not writing or papermaking) (In progress - Politics)
    
60. Update my immunizations (DONE 8/7/08)
    
61. Go on a blind date (DONE Sept 07)
    
62. Go on a real date (with someone I know or meet, not a fix-up) (DONE July 07)
    
63. Get email archives down to below 100 (I don't think I will ever do this)
    
64. Get rss archives down to below 100 (DONE)
    
65. Set up bill-paying plan or auto-pay
    
66. Have either the bio-hazard symbol or my name in Hebrew tattooed on my arm
    
67. Attend a yoga class
    
68. Draw one comic strip, and post it. (Dialogue and background done for 2)
    
69. Move all stuff in storage into apartment. (In Progress, there are still about 25 boxes in my friend's basement)
    
70. Set up scanner (DONE Nov 30, 06)
    
71. Finish scanning pictures
    
72. Organize those pictures
    
73. Print out / archive my blog (archiving started June 06)
    
74. Tag most of my blog entries (DONE Dec 27, 2006)
    
75. Ponder a change of blog format/host
    
76. Reduce paper clutter / handle paper monster
    
77. Organize my books and list the ones I own but haven't read (DONE 07/02/07)
    
78. Go to the Como Zoo (DONE May 07)
    
79. Travel the Grand Rounds
    
80. Buy and use a Tetsubin (DONE June 06)
    
81. Check out and read 3 books from the Minneapolis Public Library
    
82. See all 128 episodes of Dawson's Creek in order. (started on June 25th, 2006, stopped after Mitch died)
    
83. Rent a game console and games for a week (Done sort of, got a PS2 and played Katamari)
    
84. Hold the water taste test for my friends
    
85. Finish the small painting and hang it somewhere (In Progress. It's abstract, so it is hung but not finished.)
    
86. Get a passport (DONE May 16th, 2007)
    
87. Make a significant contribution to a Wikipedia article (DONE on Eragon Live in summer 07)
    
88. Get one KOL character to 50 ascensions (In Progress, soelo is at 27)
    
89. Make cookies from scratch (DONE July 08)
    
90. Make another dessert from scratch
    
91. Make an entire meal (entree, two sides and a beverage) myself (DONE Feb 07)
    
92. Purge the clothes I no longer wear
    
93. Make an asian noodle dish in my wok (DONE May 08)
    
94. Play board games with my friends (DONE)
    
95. Build a Sandcastle
    
96. Retake Calculus 2 (DONE Aug 08)
    
97. Flirt with a stranger (DONE)
    
98. Use craigslist for something (DONE Jan 07 - my apartment ... and again in Sept 07 where I found my boyfriend)
    
99. Get some more videos for my ipod (DONE)
    
100. Get contact lenses and wear them
     
101. Purge my videotapes