You might have seen this on other blogs. I love the idea, so I took a few days to think of things I’d like to accomplish and came up with my list.
A lot of my goals have to do with food and health, but I’ve thrown in some other things to mix it up. I hope I can complete them all, of course. I’ll keep blogging about my progress to have some accountability built in. Right now I think #54, Send query letters to agents, will be the hardest thing to do. We’ll see.
Want to make your own list? Head over to Day Zero to get started.
Start date: September 1, 2009
End date: May 29, 2012
Bold items are completed
Health
1. Run a 5k
2. Run a 10k
3. Eat vegetarian for 1 week
4. Fit into wedding dress again
5. Bring lunch from home for 1 month
6. Do yoga at least 30 minutes every week
7. Drink no soda for 1 month
8. Drink no soda for 6 months
9. Do at least 20 crunches every day
10. Don’t drink coffee for one month
11. Learn how to meditate
12. Take vitamins every day
Food/Cooking
13. Visit a winery
14. Have guests for dinner once a month
15. Eat 10 things I’ve never had (2/10 antelope, oysters)
16. Make pate a choux
17. Organize recipe collection
18. Make a gingerbread house
19. Can pasta sauce
20. Eat only local foods for 1 month
21. Learn how to use grill
22. Go on a cupcake tasting in Austin
23. Make five different kinds of jam
24. Create 12 new cupcake/brownie flavors
25. Make tamales from scratch
26. Complete Daring Baker challenge every month (2/33)
27. Complete Daring Cook challenge every month (2/33)
28. Make flavored vodka
29. Go to a nice restaurant by myself (Bar Tartine, November 20)
30. Go to 10 new restaurants (3/10, Frank, Bar Tartine, Alamo Square Seafood)
Family/Household
31. Get professional family pictures taken
32. Pay off all debt but house
33. Back up photos
34. Write a will
35. Build a garden patio
36. Create a butterfly garden
37. Make emergency kit for car
38. Make a compost bin
39. Redecorate office
40. Decorate space over fireplace
41. Write a family mission statement
42. Successfully grow corn in the garden
43. Start a Roth IRA for myself
Travel
44. Go on an unplanned road trip
45. Go to Malaysia
46. Hike Bastrop State Park
47. Go camping
48. Travel by train
49. Stay at a bed and breakfast
50. Go to a peach orchard
51. Go to Fredericksburg
Creativity
52. Revise a novel from NaNo
53. Enter a short story contest
54. Send query letters to agents
55. Crochet a sweater
56. Recover glider cushions
57. Sew a dress
58. Do 365 project with no skips
59. Blog at least 3 days a week
60. Go to a blogging conference (FoodBuzz Blogger Festival 2009)
61. Make a quilt
62. Get local restaurant website up and running
63. Comment on 5 blogs a week
64. Have a homemade Christmas
65. Buy a typewriter
66. Take a class
Entertainment
67. Read 101 books (2/101)
68. Watch every movie Woody Allen directed (5/45)
69. Watch no TV for 1 week, including Netflix instant
70. Go to an Alamo Drafthouse Feast
71. Watch all Oscar best picture nominations every year
72. Get a library card
73. Buy no brand-new books for a year
Service
74. Build a house for Habitat for Humanity
75. Give blood
76. Send gifts to 5 people for no reason
77. Donate $10 for every item I don’t complete
78. Pay for the person behind me in line
79. Make 10 red tent meals for mamas
80. Donate to 5 different charities
Personal
81. Determine my style and update wardrobe
82. Buy no new clothes for 6 months
83. Save $5 for every item I complete
84. Have a spa day
85. Get leaves tattoo
86. Get eye exam
87. Get a mani/pedi 5 times
88. Dye my hair a nonstandard color
89. Attend 5 AustinMamas events (1/5)
90. Spend an entire day without turning anything on
91. Don’t wear jeans for one month
92. Wear only skirts or dresses for two weeks
93. Buy flowers for myself once a month (1/33)
94. Order business cards
Just for Fun
95. Make a sand castle
96. Watch the sunrise and sunset on the same day
97. Send a message in a bottle
98. Ride in a hot-air balloon
99. Leave 100 notes in public places
100. Dance in the rain
101. Go to a psychic
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I hiked around Bastrop State Park two weekends ago. Really pretty wooded park just an hour east of Austin. So many pine trees that it smells like Christmas. Saw lots of lizards and two white-tailed deer. Lots of natural solitude. I highly recommend it! There’s also a 13-mile scenic drive from the north end of Bastrop S.P. over to the sister park Buescher S.P. I haven’t done that yet, but I hear it’s a lovely and scenic drive.
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