Start Date: September 30th, 2011
End Date: June 27th, 2014
Items Completed: 12
FINANCIAL (1/7)
- become debt free
- improve credit score
- get health/dental insurance
- get proper car insurance
- start a savings account [11.7.11]
- save a 3-month emergency fund
- put $20 into a locked container for every task I complete and go on vacation with the money when the 1001 is over (12/101)
RELATIONSHIPS (0/5)
- learn to say ‘I love you’ in 10 different languages
- spend a weekend together out of town for no particular reason
- leave Chris a love note that he’ll find when he gets to work
- get engaged
- get married!
TRAVEL (3/12)
- go back to the UK
- go to Ireland
- take a Harry Potter tour in London
- take a Doctor Who tour in the UK [took a tour of the BBC Wales Studios and the TARDIS set!]
- go to Italy
- go to Australia
- go to the Caribbean
- go on a cruise
- go to the Glastonbury Festival
- See Muse in a country I haven’t seen them in already
- visit 5 states I’ve never been to
- spend my 30th birthday in a city other than Chicago
SELF-MAINTENANCE & APPEARANCE (0/17)
- see a dentist (teeth cleaning, check wisdom teeth, etc)
- see a doctor (migraines, pinched nerve in tailbone)
- get a massage
- drop at least 40 pounds
- reach a healthy BMI
- buy an expensive bikini and not be afraid to wear it in public
- STOP SMOKING
- take a kickboxing class
- compete in the Warrior Dash
- play a game of roller hockey
- go back to my natural hair color
- wear my hair down for 30 days
- go without drinking soda for 1 month
- finish Bioshock tattoo
- get outer space half sleeve [1st session 10.28.11 here and here!] [2nd session 11.7.11 here and here!]
- get Dark Tower half sleeve
- get Wolverine tattoo
FOOD (1/12)
- cook a different style of cuisine every night for a month
- go one week without buying take out food
- start an herb garden
- acquire a cast iron dutch oven and skillet set
- acquire a deep fryer
- cook through the entirety of my grandma’s recipe boxes and start a blog to document the process
- grow my own vegetables
- make a guinness cheesecake
- make car bomb brownies
- go to all the foodie places on our “must-eat” list (in progress)
- eat a properly made Italian meal in Italy
- eat a meal of locally sourced ingredients or a local specialty in every city I travel to
HOME LIFE (2/4)
- build a new desktop computer [1.14.12]
- build a media server for the apartment
- catalog my entire bootleg collection
- get a kitty! [brought Starlight home 10.11.11! Pic here!]
FAMILY (0/3)
- finish our online family tree
- research my ancestors as far back as possible
- find and contact my biological mom [possibly found her, trying to contact]
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT (0/7)
- get a raise
- finish ALL our websites at work
- take an online class
- learn Spanish
- re-learn Latin
- learn the ins and outs of WordPress
- get more freelance web design projects
SPORTS (3/6)
- go to 10 baseball games
- see a Blackhawks game [Blackhawks vs Winnipeg Jets 10.13.11! Pic here!]
- see a Bears game [Bears vs Packers 12.25.11! Pic here!]
- go to a college football game
- see a Manchester United game at Old Trafford [3.10.12!]
- see a Red Sox game at Fenway
ENTERTAINMENT/ADVENTURE (2/17)
- start ghost hunting on a regular basis
- visit 25 haunted locations (list here)
- go camping
- go skydiving
- go scuba diving
- learn how to swing dance
- learn how to drive a stick shift car
- go to ACEN
- go to C2E2
- go to a comic book convention in a city other than Chicago
- go to the Star Wars night at US Cellular Field
- watch through the entirety of the classic Doctor Who episodes
- re-watch/watch through an entire TV series [8 seasons of NCIS, current through S09E11]
- have a 1-day movie marathon for each of the following series: Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Bourne Series, The Matrix, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Ocean’s 11/12/13, Back To The Future, Godfather, ALL James Bond movies, Hayao Miyazaki and Quentin Tarantino’s works
- meet Alton Brown [book signing on 10.6.11! Pic HERE!]
- meet Muse
- meet the Ghost Adventures Crew
CREATIVE (0/10)
- complete 12 tracks for my Museix project [6/12]
- write a novel
- read 200 books (list here)
- read 5 books on the banned book list
- read all 100 books on the BBC’s Big Read list (list here)
- re-read the Dark Tower [0/7], His Dark Materials [2/3], Harry Potter [0/7], Sandman [0/10] and Southern Vampire Mysteries [0/12] books
- relearn classical piano
- scan ALL of my old concert pictures and put them in an online album
- give nothing but homemade gifts for one christmas
- write a letter to myself to open in 10 years
MISC (0/1)
- own a first edition hardcover copy of Stephen King’s “The Gunslinger”
