- Start fencing again: review/repair equipment and buy new shoes (got suitable shoes 3/8/09)
- Draw/paint tattoo design
- Contribute 50 dollars to the Costa Rica Amphibian Protection folks
- Organize my BPAL imps and create/post a swap list
- Finish patch-work skirt
- Organize and discard/gift away old art supplies
- / Donate un-needed/wanted books to Prison book drive (FINISHED)
- /Visit a zoo (Audubon Zoo, New Orleans April 3 2009)
- ✔ Floss for 30 days in a row (0/30) (trying this in March)
- /Make hard cider (2/28/09 - it turned out okay)
- / Make Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings (FINISHED w/help from birdfigment)
- /Re-pot begonia
- / Start DJ-ing at WXDU again with the hubinator (FINISHED started shift again in Spring 2009)
- /Get a potted kaffir lime tree and keep it alive (alive as of 3/28/09)
- / Go to local steam punk night at Hell (problem: no more Hell) Went to V-Day event at the Mansion, 2009
- / Buy a new pair of black jeans that fit well (FINISHED 1/3/08)
- /Have my “I’m older than Jesus” birthday party
- /Visit the Hemlock grove in Raleigh (before it dies) (FINISHED 7/23/09 It was kind of lame. Things in Cary generally are.)
- /Clean out scary hall closet (FINISHED 7/20/09 And it was a very good thing to have done)
- /Organize my closet – donate unworn clothes
- /Fix the damn dish washer or throw it out (purchased part – need to install) (gave it away to Justin)
- /Make a savings plan for saving towards a house with the hubby (bought house!)
- /Make Pecan Tassies
- /Get or make a nice daily use purse to replace my scruddy backpack Purchased new laptop bag Dec. 14 2009
- /Have a holiday party - Halloween Gothic Luau 10/31/09
- /Find a Philippino restaurant within 6 hour drive and visit it (if there is one) or in Twin Cities (ate at Inihow - Chapel Hill, 2/3/2010)
- /Get mold of teeth made for TMJ treatment
- /Visit the JP Raulston Arboretum
- /Try acupuncture for headaches
- /Organize spices into jars
- /Get back in touch with one old friend (Paul? Joey?) SUCCESS! Back in touch with Paul, we had coffee on my trip to MN
- /Be able to run a mile in under 8 minutes
- Either watch one Netflix DVD a month or cancel subscription (2/33)
- Contribute 50 dollars to the Prison Dharma Society
- Contribute 50 dollars to the Dark Skies Foundation
- Contribute 50 dollars to the Costa Rica Amphibian Protection folks
- Visit the Costa Rica Amphibian Center and volunteer for two weeks or longer
- Walk dogs at the animal shelter once a month (unless its awful) (0/33)
- / Donate un-needed/wanted books to Prison book drive (FINISHED)
- Volunteer to tutor kids in math
- Put 10 dollars in a travel fund for every item on this list completed
- Go visit Great Dismal Swamp
- Go visit Snow Goose migration area
- Go see Seurat painting in DC
- Visit Rhode Island or Alabama
- /Visit the JP Raulston Arboretum
- /Visit the Hemlock grove in Raleigh (before it dies)
- Visit a country on a continent that isn’t North America or Europe
- /Visit a zoo (Audubon Zoo, New Orleans April 3 2009)
- Visit Hiddenite NC mines and prospect
- /Find a Philippino restaurant within 6 hour drive and visit it (if there is one) or in Twin Cities (ate at Inihow - Chapel Hill, 2/3/2010)
- /Be able to run a mile in under 8 minutes
- /Get out of bed by 10:20 every morning for 60 days straight (0/60) (Starting attempt, 3/9/09)(second attempt start 4/1)
- Start fencing again: review/repair equipment and buy new shoes (got suitable shoes 3/8/09)
- Start fencing again: check out 3 clubs, decide on one
- Start fencing again: go once a week to club
- Start fencing again: renew my USFA membership
- Start fencing again: fence in a local tournament
- Start fencing again: fence in a DC tournament
- Start fencing again: fence in Europe
- Eat nothing but vegetables for lunch 3 days a week for eight weeks (0/8)
- /Be able to run a mile in under 8 minutes
- ✔ Floss for 30 days in a row (0/30) (trying this in March)
- /Try acupuncture for headaches
- /Get mold of teeth made for TMJ treatment
- Be able to do 30 full push ups in a row
- /Get out of bed by 10:20 every morning for 60 days straight (0/60) (Starting attempt, 3/9/09)(second attempt start 4/1)
- Go out and hit tennis ball against back board for an hour thirty times (6/30)
- Practice juggling and show the hubinator how thirty times (0/30)
- Do not add salt to my food for three weeks
- Make croissants from scratch
- Roast a duck
- Make chicken adobo
- /Make hard cider (2/28/09 - it turned out okay)
- Make naan
- Make a Bouche de Noel
- /Make Pecan Tassies Finished 12/24/09 Not as good as mom's :(
- /Make Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings (FINISHED w/help from birdfigment)
- ADDED Use all usually unused kitchen appliances at least once: ice cream maker, waffle iron, electric wok, GAVE AWAY castle shaped bundt pan, fried cookie iron
- Make a housekeeping plan with the hubinator (and hopefully stick to it)
- /Organize my closet – donate unworn clothes
- /Clean out scary hall closet
- Clean out my desk
- Make curtains and hang them in the kitchen
- /Organize spices into jars
- Make interesting alchemical labels for spice jars
- /Re-pot begonia
- /Fix the damn dish washer or throw it out (purchased part – need to install) (gave it away to Justin)
- Organize all my/hubby’s books and read any unread books I own
- Sew a frock coat
- Send Riawa 8 post cards (2/8)
- /Get back in touch with one old friend (Paul? Joey?)
- Send my old elementary school teachers my dissertation
- Send card/letter to Eleanor and Ludwig
- Have folks around for a Diplomacy game
- Start a monthly board game night (first meeting 2/24/09, second 3/15/09)
- /Get or make a nice daily use purse to replace my scruddy backpack
- Learn to shoot a rifle
- Take horseback riding classes – learn to show jump
- Organize my BPAL imps and create/post a swap list
- / Start DJ-ing at WXDU again with the hubinator (FINISHED started shift again in Spring 2009)
- /Get a potted kaffir lime tree and keep it alive (alive as of 3/28/09)
- / Go to local steam punk night at Hell (problem: no more Hell) Went to V-Day event at the Mansion, 2009
- Organize and discard/gift away old art supplies
- /Have a holiday party - Halloween Gothic Luau 10/31/09
- /Have my “I’m older than Jesus” birthday party
- Finish the major arcana in my tarot deck
- Decorate and make functional the windowbox thingy I got to stash jewelry and oils
- Read a book together with the hubinator and discuss it
- Start learning Japanese (20 hours)
- Finish learning the other Chinese Calligraphy strokes I haven’t got to yet
- Make a sexy holloween costume that the hubinator wants to see me in (and wear it out somewhere fun)
- Make a fun cosplay costume for Convergance and Animazement
- Go to Animazement
- /Make a savings plan for saving towards a house with the hubby (bought house!)
- / Buy a new pair of black jeans that fit well (FINISHED 1/3/08)
- Buy or make some nice piece of clothing that is either olive or dark brown
- Go roller-skating
- Make fancy hair sticks
- Play basketball with a group of friends
- Fly my kite that has been sitting in the closet for over 10 years
- Save for and investigate sky diving classes for hubinator’s 40s b-day present
- Decorate 3 wooden boxes (2/3)
- Learn some rudimentary Spanish
- Finish patch-work skirt
- Read an anatomy textbook
- Read a neurology textbook
- Write lyrics for music hubinator provides
- Create NPR style parody of War of the Worlds
- Help the hubinator learn French
- Draw/paint oyster PG Wodehouse quote broadside
- Repair all of my jewelry that has broken
- Draw/paint tattoo design
- Participate in 100 snapshots on LJ
(leaving last 3 for wiggle room… will revisit in 6 months)
feb 7 2009 ∞
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