• 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 ∞
aug 7 2011 +