Round One Over

My 1001 days have expired. I did 51--haha! more than half--and partially completed 15 more. That's 2/3rds which is a lot farther than I thought I was going to get last time I calculated. I think I'm going to do this again. I'll be working on my new list for a little while. Thanks for reading!

Begin Date: June 16, 2006
End Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009

1. Go to one cultural event per month for three months--I didn't do this in three months, which is what I had planned, but I did do some things
   
2. Find my local library and get a library card (and get a Philadelphia library card) I never did manage to get a Philadelphia card. Now I don't work in Philadelphia any more.
   
3. See a Broadway play with the dude
4. Take nieces to New York City--I think Sissy and I are going to do this in the next couple of years. You know, before the elder one won't do things with us anymore...
5. Visit Elfreth's Alley once in the summer and once in the winter--I managed to get there once in the summer.
6. Visit the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
7. Visit the Rosenbach Museum
8. Visit the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Penn
9. Visit the Morris Arboretum
10. Visit the Athenaeum--you know, I think I meant the Atwater Kent, but I didn't get there either, and I should have. I mean, I've been out of work for a month! Nothing but time on my hands.
11. Visit the Frick and the Cloisters--we didn't get up to the cloisters but I know we'll be visiting again soon
12. Go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--I still want to do this, but it's so hard to make plans when we're in New England; there's usually too much family stuff going on
13. Watch the 49 films on AFI's Top 100 films that I have not already seen--perhaps the problem is that there was a reason I haven't seen them (like no real interest)
14. Read 16 works of fiction
15. Read 16 works of nonfiction
16. Read Bill Bryson's work that I haven't read before--I think I only have two left: Troublesome Words and A Short History
17. Attend three ethnic celebrations in Philadelphia--only did one
18. Subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker. Read them.
19. Go to Camden Yard
20. Watch an Eagles game at Lincoln Field
21. Ride in a hot air balloon
22. Contribute additional $$ to retirement--short lived though it was
23. Consult a financial advisor
24. Write a will, including all the attendant documents
25. Find out how much a combine costs
26. Be less bossy—so the dude notices; this item will be complete when he says something about it, without prompting
27. Make two new friends
28. Meet up with blogging stitching friends
29. Host an open house each December--I managed to do it once.
30. Catalog books--I started it, now to finish
31. Write to my grandmothers monthly--I can tell they appreciate the effort I made
    
32. Host a dinner party--I'm going to set my sights lower: a cocktail party first
33. Go one week without tv--in season. I think we learned a lesson about how we use TV to fill the silence
34. Finish current WIPS, including Elizabethan Rose, Toy Gatherer, Hardanger Napkins, Alpine Garden, Treasured Tulips, St. Basil's Cathedral, Watercolor Geraniums, majestic rooster, Dolly Mama's Freebie, Enchanted Alphabet, Anna's Bird.--I did finish some of these. Next time they each get their own number!
35. Finish 6 FUFOs as wall hangings--I did one, but I have a new relationship with my sewing machine, so I think the others should be a snap.
    
36. Finish 3 FUFOs as pillows--I can whip up a pillow with ease now. I even did one with welting!
37. Finish 2 FUFOs as flatfolds
38. Frame 10 FUFOs--I came really close. I think I did eight.
39. Send four needlework items to be professionally finished--I did one.
40. Take a sewing class
41. Take a finishing class--I didn't, but I do learn a new finishing technique every year at camp, does that count?
42. Go to the Main Line stitch n' bitch three times--I didn't because I'm a chicken
43. Go to EGA Meeting at least once--ditto
44. Finish 4 scrapbooks currently in progress: 1999, Alexa, Mackenzie, and the 1998 Poland trip--nope
45. Make albums of nephews--nope
46. make 8 more wreaths so I can change the front door wreath every month. Don't spend more than $75 on this project.--I have several wreaths for the door, but there are still a few I need to make
47. Create cards for each relative's birthday, a couple for the lesser holidays, and some sympathy cards.--I had a nice stock of cards
48. Get tested for celiac
49. Have bunions removed--I got part way there.
50. Exercise three days/week for 3 months--I made it two months at a time but never the whole three
51. Stretch every day for one month--you would have thought this would be easier
52. Lose 50 pounds
53. Learn CPR
54. Pick fruit at a UPick farm
55. Update my cv quarterly
56. Join a professional organization and attend three meetings
57. Have lunch at least once with each co-worker (41); group lunches count
58. Have lunch with three people outside my department
59. Get the Bulletin on schedule
60. Understand my job well enough to set significant goals
61. Visit Slovenia
62. Visit Iceland
63. Visit England just before Christmas
64. Visit four of the following states overnight: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, or Wisconsin--two out of four. I thought the dude was going to finish his library degree (WI) sooner...
65. Visit the Biltmore Estate
66. Visit Newport, RI
67. Attend the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness
68. Visit Acadia National Park
69. Go to the Rockland Maine Lobster Festival
70. Visit Chesapeake Bay
71. Go whale watching
72. Go on a picnic
73. Install toe molding in bedroom
74. Repaint brown bathroom
75. Paint downstairs bathroom, including trim
76. Remove downstairs carpeting--all but one room!
77. Replace kitchen counter
78. Replace kitchen floor
79. Buy and install blinds and curtains in dining room
80. Install blind upstairs bath
81. Buy and install blinds in bedroom--bought, sitting in giant boxes still
82. Find curtains for living room
83. Paint living room to match curtains
84. Paint guest room, including trim--still have to do the trim
85. Fix couch in guest room
86. Buy chairs for dining room
87. Fix and hang curtains in guest room--still need to be shortened!
88. Buy frames for and hang maps in guest room
89. Buy shelving and hang in dining room
90. Rip up carpet in craft room
91. Paint craft room
92. Buy filing cabinet and file patterns in craft room
93. Create a household inventory--I bought a book to put it in.
    
94. Plant blueberry bushes
95. Buy a new front door
96. Plant something in the pot by the front door
97. Paint shutters or buy new ones
98. Take the antenna off the roof--the dude is afraid of heights...
99. Hang the decorative bowl in the bedroom--you know, it makes such cool patterns on the ceiling in the morning...maybe we shouldn't
100. Clear of the top of the dresser and keep it that way
101. Buy grill and patio furniture--and use it!