Saturday, November 19, 2011

Finished the List- Does that count as a checkmark?

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, I finally came up with the last ten items for my Day Zero challenge, check it out!

93 Publish my cookbook
94 Go to Shamrock Fest
95 Go see a Shakespeare in the Park show
96 See someone famous on stage
97 Enter a baker's dozen (13) recipe contests (0/13)
98 Post to my food blog once a week for two months (0/8)
99 Take a class in HTML
100 Do my Rosetta Stone 3x week for a month (0/12)
101 Take an art or craft class

I'm really excited and trying to get going. I thought I would try an easy one to start and was going to find out my blood type, my brilliant plan was to text my mom and ask.

Meg: What's my blood type?
Mom: A. Probably negative.

So half way there. A few years ago my mom gave me a folder of ALL my childhood medical records. No idea what I did with them. But, trying to find them led me to find some interesting other records in my filing cabinets, as well as almost twist my ankle on the boxes of crap in the room with my filing cabinets. I thought it would be kind of ironic if I fell and punctured something, had to go to the ER and get my blood type that way. So, today I decided to tackle a different challenge- Goal 27: Get rid of 100 things. Time to purge.

Other goals I've begun and will speak about later:
11: Read 100 books (Currently reading Jodi Piccoult's "Keeping Faith" and Umberto Eco's "Foccault's Pendulum")
74: Clean out my closet (as I get rid of 100 things)
31: Make an iTunes play list of 101 of my favorite songs

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Day Zero Challenge

So, I love goals. And I love being busy. And who hasn't heard me constantly list things as "Bucket List" items, but it doesn't feel like I'm ever going to cross anything off the list. So, when I saw a friend sign up for the Day Zero challenge I was excited: 1001 days to accomplish 101 things. It sounds easy until you start creating the list, and trying to figure out what you can possibly accomplish in less than years-- most likely I won't be able to bungee jump off the bridge over Victoria Falls by then, but getting off my butt and finally running a 5K? Hey, if Michael Scott can do it, so can I! Not to mention, the timing is just about perfect, I'll finish right around the time I turn 30, so you may hear me talk about my "30 or Bust" list, same thing.

So, wanna see what I'm going to be doing for the next three years? Still need ten goals, taking suggestions!

1 Get a tattoo
2 Answer the "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind" (0/50)
3 Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the Alphabet (0/26)
4 Go camping
5 Find out my blood type
6 Get a massage
7 Dance in the rain
8 Send a secret to PostSecret
9 Buy a lottery ticket
10 Go horseback riding
11 Read 100 books (0/100)
12 Graduate
13 Go skydiving
14 Complete a coloring book
15 Host a dinner party
16 Spend a day at the beach
17 Sing karaoke at a bar
18 Take a dance class
19 Make ice cream from scratch
20 Put change in someone's expired parking meter
21 Take surfing lessons
22 Read the Koran
23 Visit the Louvre PARIS
24 Explore Ancient Ephesus TURKEY
25 Hike the Appalachian Trail USA
26 Open a cookbook to a random page and make whatever is on it
27 Get rid of 100 things (36/100)
28 Make a pie on Pi day
29 Choose 10 countries and read a book by an author from each (0/100)
30 Design and name a cocktail
31 Make an iTunes playlist of 101 of my favorite songs (0/101)
32 Take a photo of the same place every month for year and then turn it into a calendar for the next year (0/12)
33 Tour a scotch distillery
34 Eat lobster in Maine
35 Listen to a new artist every day for a month
36 Listen to the Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (0/500)
37 Take a cooking class
38 Get an A in a class
39 Run a 5K race
40 Reach my goal weight
41 Go to the dentist
42 Put away $10 for every goal completed
43 Pay off my credit cards
44 Establish a $1000 emergency fund
45 Save a 6-month emergency fund
46 Leave a 100% tip
47 Read a book in Spanish
48 Go white water rafting
49 Go camping in Acadia National Park
50 Make a list of 101 quotes that inspire me
51 Move out of condo
52 Get a piano
53 Learn to play "Turning Tables"
54 Get a dog
55 Get a fish
56 Get a pedicure
57 Have a spa day
58 Have a girls weekend
59 See a show on Broadway
60 Go to a winery
61 Re-write my will
62 Audit my retirement plans
63 Go to DisneyWorld
64 Own something from Tiffany's
65 sing on a stage (not karaoke)
66 make a microfinance loan
67 go to high tea
68 Ride a segway
69 volunteer at least 10 hours
70 See a ballet- either live or filmed
71 Buy a wine a month to "collect", can't drink within year of purchase
72 Go to Citronelle for dinner
73 Host a girl's night 1x/ month for 6 months (0/6)
74 Clean out my closet
75 Stop biting my nails
76 Grow my own herbs
77 Grow heirloom tomatoes
78 Record a song in a professional studio
79 Get 12 stories recorded from Grandma (0/12)
80 Take a wine tasting class
81 Bowl a strike
82 Attend a live filming of a TV show
83 Go to Monticello
84 Visit Mount Vernon
85 Take a DC Cruise
86 Knit a baby blanket
87 Visit Museum of Bad Art
88 Buy a Hopkins sweatshirt
89 Eat pescatarian for 2 weeks (0/14)
90 Win a night of pub trivia
91 Try out for Jeopardy
92 Conduct a job interview