101 Things in 1001 Days

Start date: December 3, 2007
End date: August 30, 2010

  1. Go back to Europe.
  2. Go back to Israel.
  3. Eat dinner alone at a restaurant.
  4. See a movie (not at a festival) by myself.
  5. Learn to snowboard.
  6. Get a professional massage.
  7. Get a facial.
  8. Get manicures and pedicures regularly.
  9. Date someone who is not an unemployed actor/writer/comic with a day job yet still creative and quirky.
  10. Fall in love.
  11. Get married.
  12. Start a family.
  13. Find a job I truly enjoy.
  14. Get cake pans. Received these as a Hanukkah gift from my sister. (December 2007)
  15. Bake a layer cake.
  16. Take a cake decorating class.
  17. Successfully make a lattice pie crust.
  18. Take a cooking class.
  19. Bake a challah.
  20. Successfully make rugelach.
  21. Organize all of my recipes.
  22. Paint the walls of my apartment.
  23. Spackle the nail holes in the walls in my apartment. Done! January 26, 2008.
  24. Fix the knobs on my hall closet.
  25. Organize my linen closet. Done! May 17, 2008.
  26. Get rid of the vertical blinds and replace them with cute panel curtains.
  27. Sell my car. Sold the Civic on December 14, 2007.
  28. Buy a new car. Bought a Honda CR-V EX-L on December 14, 2007.
  29. Take a martial arts or boxing class.
  30. Find a tennis buddy.
  31. Lose the remaining 10 pounds.
  32. See a screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Went on August 9, 2008.
  33. Go to the LA Zoo.
  34. Go to the Getty. Went there on a date, May 2008.
  35. Go to MOCA.
  36. Go to Disney Concert Hall.
  37. Take my Little to Disneyland. Went on January 19, 2008.
  38. Take my Little to San Diego.
  39. Re-pot the plants in my apartment that need re-potting.
  40. Transfer more money into my savings account regularly.
  41. Bring lunch to work at least three days a week.
  42. Take dance lessons.
  43. Join a new book club.
  44. Go to a spa.
  45. Spend a weekend in wine country, preferably with a boy.
  46. Buy a condo/house.
  47. Wear my hair naturally curly for two weeks in a row. Completed December 16, 2007.
  48. Get an iPod with enough space to hold all of my music.
  49. Buy a piece of furniture for my kitchen that will replace the baker’s rack. Purchased! July 2008.
  50. Finish my book proposal.
  51. Assemble an earthquake kit.
  52. Adopt a dog.
  53. Floss everyday for a month.
  54. Get my shoes resoled.
  55. Make money selling baked goods.
  56. Ask a guy out.
  57. Buy a piece of furniture that doesn’t come in a box.
  58. Increase my annual salary.
  59. Redesign my baking blog. Done! March 2008
  60. Build a website for my baking business.
  61. Set up an Etsy page.
  62. Go wine tasting again.
  63. Go back to the Hollywood Bowl.
  64. Kiss a boy on New Year’s Eve.
  65. Print and frame some photos I took.
  66. Host another “girls’ night in” party.
  67. Watch a sunrise.
  68. Organize everything stuffed into my file folder box.
  69. Buy artwork to hang in the dining area.
  70. Make a budget and stick to it.
  71. Learn more HTML and Java.
  72. Write something that gets published.
  73. See Barenaked Ladies live again.
  74. Go to another Guster show.
  75. Learn to knit.
  76. Go ice skating.
  77. Build a snowman.
  78. Host a game night.
  79. Go on a cruise.
  80. Finish transferring my CDs to my laptop.
  81. Live somewhere I don’t need quarters to do laundry.
  82. Work somewhere I don’t have to dress up.
  83. Sync Outlook and my Blackberry.
  84. Read books I bought but never read.
  85. Organize all of my digital photographs.
  86. Put all of my prints that are not in albums, into albums.
  87. Backup digital photos onto a CD or thumbdrive.
  88. Eat at Yang Chow.
  89. Take the coins that have been sitting in a jar for the past year to Coinstar. Got a $19.07 Amazon gift certificate from the machine. (January 2008)
  90. Learn how to play poker.
  91. Take a road trip.
  92. Learn to rollerblade without looking like an idiot.
  93. Get a LASIK “touch-up.”
  94. Post on my blog daily for a month.
  95. Walk for AIDS Walk LA or another benefit walk. Did the Susan G. Komen walk with my mom and sister on March 15, 2008.
  96. Go to at least two MLB games a season.
  97. Go on a Jdate without Googling the guy first.
  98. Re-join Netflix. Rejoined in May 2008.
  99. Buy a pair of jeans I just can’t live without.
  100. Go back to my natural hair color.
  101. Take a self-defense class.