101 Things in 1001 Days
Start date: December 3, 2007
End date: August 30, 2010
- Go back to Europe.
- Go back to Israel.
- Eat dinner alone at a restaurant.
- See a movie (not at a festival) by myself.
- Learn to snowboard.
- Get a professional massage.
- Get a facial.
- Get manicures and pedicures regularly.
- Date someone who is not an unemployed actor/writer/comic with a day job yet still creative and quirky.
- Fall in love.
- Get married.
- Start a family.
- Find a job I truly enjoy.
Get cake pans.Received these as a Hanukkah gift from my sister. (December 2007)- Bake a layer cake.
- Take a cake decorating class.
- Successfully make a lattice pie crust.
- Take a cooking class.
- Bake a challah.
- Successfully make rugelach.
- Organize all of my recipes.
- Paint the walls of my apartment.
Spackle the nail holes in the walls in my apartment.Done! January 26, 2008.- Fix the knobs on my hall closet.
Organize my linen closet.Done! May 17, 2008.- Get rid of the vertical blinds and replace them with cute panel curtains.
Sell my car.Sold the Civic on December 14, 2007.Buy a new car.Bought a Honda CR-V EX-L on December 14, 2007.- Take a martial arts or boxing class.
- Find a tennis buddy.
- Lose the remaining 10 pounds.
See a screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.Went on August 9, 2008.- Go to the LA Zoo.
Go to the Getty.Went there on a date, May 2008.- Go to MOCA.
- Go to Disney Concert Hall.
Take my Little to Disneyland.Went on January 19, 2008.- Take my Little to San Diego.
- Re-pot the plants in my apartment that need re-potting.
- Transfer more money into my savings account regularly.
- Bring lunch to work at least three days a week.
- Take dance lessons.
- Join a new book club.
- Go to a spa.
- Spend a weekend in wine country, preferably with a boy.
- Buy a condo/house.
Wear my hair naturally curly for two weeks in a row.Completed December 16, 2007.- Get an iPod with enough space to hold all of my music.
Buy a piece of furniture for my kitchen that will replace the baker’s rack.Purchased! July 2008.- Finish my book proposal.
- Assemble an earthquake kit.
- Adopt a dog.
- Floss everyday for a month.
- Get my shoes resoled.
- Make money selling baked goods.
- Ask a guy out.
- Buy a piece of furniture that doesn’t come in a box.
- Increase my annual salary.
Redesign my baking blog.Done! March 2008- Build a website for my baking business.
- Set up an Etsy page.
- Go wine tasting again.
- Go back to the Hollywood Bowl.
- Kiss a boy on New Year’s Eve.
- Print and frame some photos I took.
- Host another “girls’ night in” party.
- Watch a sunrise.
- Organize everything stuffed into my file folder box.
- Buy artwork to hang in the dining area.
- Make a budget and stick to it.
- Learn more HTML and Java.
- Write something that gets published.
- See Barenaked Ladies live again.
- Go to another Guster show.
- Learn to knit.
- Go ice skating.
- Build a snowman.
- Host a game night.
- Go on a cruise.
- Finish transferring my CDs to my laptop.
- Live somewhere I don’t need quarters to do laundry.
- Work somewhere I don’t have to dress up.
- Sync Outlook and my Blackberry.
- Read books I bought but never read.
- Organize all of my digital photographs.
- Put all of my prints that are not in albums, into albums.
- Backup digital photos onto a CD or thumbdrive.
- Eat at Yang Chow.
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)- Learn how to play poker.
- Take a road trip.
- Learn to rollerblade without looking like an idiot.
- Get a LASIK “touch-up.”
- Post on my blog daily for a month.
Walk for AIDS Walk LA or another benefit walk.Did the Susan G. Komen walk with my mom and sister on March 15, 2008.- Go to at least two MLB games a season.
- Go on a Jdate without Googling the guy first.
Re-join Netflix.Rejoined in May 2008.- Buy a pair of jeans I just can’t live without.
- Go back to my natural hair color.
- Take a self-defense class.