Anna of 1001 Days: Leavin' On a Jet Plane

We bought tickets! We are going to Slovenia for my 40th birthday (pause here so you can argue that I am not really 40. Go ahead, everyone else does.) We go October 6 and return October 15.

I'm too excited to sleep!

101 Things

1. ~~Go to one cultural event per month for three months~~(3/3)
2. ~~Try 12 new-to-me restaurants~~ (12/12)
3. Find out about three interesting foods, seek them out, and try them. (For example, xiao long bao, found in Philadelphia, eaten 5/30/09) (1/3)
4. Attend a pow wow
5. Take nieces to New York City at Christmas for a play and to see the store windows. Maybe ice skating.
6. Visit Elfreth's Alley in the winter
7. Visit the Rosenbach Museum
8. Visit the Morris Arboretum
9. Visit the Atwater Kent
10. Visit the Cloisters (NYC)
11. Visit Fallingwater
12. Go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
13. Visit Iceland
14. Visit three of the following states overnight: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Wisconsin (0/3)
15. Visit the Biltmore Estate
16. Go to Paris for 10th anniversary 07-14-11
17. Study French so I’ll be more fluent when we go to Paris
18. Read the Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction that I have not read (1/53)
19. Learn all the capitals of the 192 UN recognized countries, ~~that includes you, Honduras~~ (171/192)
20. Watch Roger Ebert’s 102 Films to See before you die (list below) (3/65)
21. Earn 5 Merit Badges from “You Can Do It!” (0/5)
22. Take a cookbook out of the library every other month and make dishes from each (4/16)
23. Trace my ancestry back to the old country (not Canada) (3/4)
24. Paint downstairs bathroom, including trim
25. Install blinds in bedroom
26. ~~Fix couch in guest room~~
27. Hem curtains in guest room
28. Create a household inventory
29. Cut down the black cherry tree in the back yard, grind stump
30. Landscape backyard
31. Create raised vegetable gardens in the backyard, so that the whole back yard is landscaped or raised beds with gravel paths
32. ~~Take the antenna off the roof~~
33. Organize the basement
34. ~~Convert all videos we own to DVD; get rid of VCR~~
35. ~~Fix or replace DVD player~~
36. Build a Habitat for Humanity House
37. Volunteer walking shelter dogs
38. Go on a volunteering vacation
39. Volunteer with Philadelphia Cares 4 times annually (0/12)
40. ~~Sort scrapbook supplies and donate the things I don’t use, preferably to people who do therapeutic scrapbooking with MR kids~~
41. Finish current WIP—Elizabethan Rose
42. ~~Finish current WIP—Spots II~~
43. Finish current WIP—Treasured Tulips
44. ~~Finish current WIP—Scared Silly~~
45. Finish current WIP—Watercolor Geraniums
46. Finish current WIP—majestic rooster
47. Finish current WIP—knot garden
48. ~~Finish current WIP—apple sampler~~
49. ~~Finish current WIP—folk art thread keep~~
50. ~~Finish current WIP—Tree of Life Window~~
51. Finish 5 FUFOs as wall hangings
52. Send four needlework items to be professionally finished
53. Go to EGA Meeting at least once
54. Finish 4 scrapbooks currently in progress: 1999
55. Finish 4 scrapbooks currently in progress: niece 1
56. Finish 4 scrapbooks currently in progress: niece 2
57. Finish 4 scrapbooks currently in progress: 1998 Poland trip
58. Make albums of nephews 1 and 2
59. Make album of nephews 3 and 4
60. Make a happiness album, an 8x8 album of things that make me happy
61. Make short videos of the girls
62. Finish my pinwheel charm quilt top
63. Make a piece of jewelry with the beads I bought two years ago in Oklahoma
64. ~~Make all my Christmas presents for Christmas 09~~ (20/24)
65. ~~Finish my purple felted bag~~
66. Make the Amy Butler Overnight case
67. Finish felted wool blanket
68. Use every stamp Sissy and I have
69. (Re)learn punchneedle and complete three punchneedle projects (0/3)
70. ~~Complete catalog of books~~
71. Purge five things from every room in the house on (each) November 22, National Declutter Day (1/3)
72. ~~Organize craft room~~
73. Host an open house
74. Host three cocktail parties (0/3)
75. Host three dinner parties (1/3)
76. Go to pub quiz five times (0/5)
77. Write a note to my grandmothers each month (15/33)
78. Host five game nights (1/5)
79. Go OUT on a date once a month with the dude (13/33)
80. ~~Meet three new blogging friends IRL~~ (3/3)
81. ~~Exercise three days/week for 3 months~~
82. Stretch every day for one month
83. Lose 50 pounds (14.5/50)
84. ~~Pick fruit at a UPick farm~~
85. Eat five fruits and veggies every day for three months (21/90)
86. Try to be more positive-- At the end of each day, take five minutes to write down in a journal every good thing I did or experienced that day (203/1001)
87. ~~Take a Pilates class~~
88. Learn to row a Dragon Boat
89. Get a massage, annually (0/3)
90. Become flexible enough to do splits again
91. Write a will, including all the attendant documents
92. Write and send off a book proposal
93. Create and practice a 30 second elevator pitch for myself
94. Write and send a fan letter
95. ~~Watch an Eagles game at Lincoln Field~~
96. ~~Pay off second mortgage~~
97. Put things from NH attic on e-bay
98. ~~Help parents clear out NH house for sale; take my things out of the house and find places for things in my house--or discard~~
99. Finish the family cookbook
100. Talk to my mother on the phone—or in person—weekly (50/143)
101. Post updates about this list once per month (11/33)

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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Leavin' On a Jet Plane

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