Begin Date: June 16, 2006
End Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009
- 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
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.-
See a Broadway play with the dude - 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...
- Visit Elfreth's Alley once in the summer and once in the winter--I managed to get there once in the summer.
Visit the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts- Visit the Rosenbach Museum
Visit the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Penn- Visit the Morris Arboretum
- 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.
Visit the Frickand the Cloisters--we didn't get up to the cloisters but I know we'll be visiting again soon- 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
- 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)
Read 16 works of fictionRead 16 works of nonfiction- Read Bill Bryson's work that I haven't read before--I think I only have two left: Troublesome Words and A Short History
- Attend three ethnic celebrations in Philadelphia--only did one
Subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker. Read them.Go to Camden Yard- Watch an Eagles game at Lincoln Field
Ride in a hot air balloonContribute additional $$ to retirement--short lived though it wasConsult a financial advisor- Write a will, including all the attendant documents
Find out how much a combine costs- Be less bossy—so the dude notices; this item will be complete when he says something about it, without prompting
Make two new friendsMeet up with blogging stitching friends- Host an open house each December--I managed to do it once.
- Catalog books--I started it, now to finish
Write to my grandmothers monthly--I can tell they appreciate the effort I made- Host a dinner party--I'm going to set my sights lower: a cocktail party first
Go one week without tv--in season.I think we learned a lesson about how we use TV to fill the silence- 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! - 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.
Finish 3 FUFOs as pillows--I can whip up a pillow with ease now. I even did one with welting!-
Finish 2 FUFOs as flatfolds - Frame 10 FUFOs--I came really close. I think I did eight.
- Send four needlework items to be professionally finished--I did one.
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Take a sewing class - Take a finishing class--I didn't, but I do learn a new finishing technique every year at camp, does that count?
- Go to the Main Line stitch n' bitch three times--I didn't because I'm a chicken
- Go to EGA Meeting at least once--ditto
- Finish 4 scrapbooks currently in progress: 1999, Alexa, Mackenzie, and the 1998 Poland trip--nope
- Make albums of nephews--nope
- 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
Create cards for each relative's birthday, a couple for the lesser holidays, and some sympathy cards.--I had a nice stock of cards- Get tested for celiac
- Have bunions removed--I got part way there.
- Exercise three days/week for 3 months--I made it two months at a time but never the whole three
- Stretch every day for one month--you would have thought this would be easier
- Lose 50 pounds
Learn CPR- Pick fruit at a UPick farm
Update my cv quarterly- Join a professional organization and attend three meetings
Have lunch at least once with each co-worker (41); group lunches countHave lunch with three people outside my departmentGet the Bulletin on scheduleUnderstand my job well enough to set significant goalsVisit Slovenia- Visit Iceland
Visit England just before Christmas- 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...
- Visit the Biltmore Estate
Visit Newport, RIAttend the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness- Visit Acadia National Park
- Go to the Rockland Maine Lobster Festival
- Visit Chesapeake Bay
- Go whale watching
Go on a picnicInstall toe molding in bedroomRepaint brown bathroom- Paint downstairs bathroom, including trim
Remove downstairs carpeting--all but one room!Replace kitchen counterReplace kitchen floorBuy and install blinds and curtains in dining roomInstall blind upstairs bath- Buy and install blinds in bedroom--bought, sitting in giant boxes still
Find curtains for living roomPaint living room to match curtainsPaint guest room, including trim--still have to do the trim- Fix couch in guest room
Buy chairs for dining room- Fix and hang curtains in guest room--still need to be shortened!
Buy frames for and hang maps in guest roomBuy shelving and hang in dining roomRip up carpet in craft roomPaint craft roomBuy filing cabinet and file patterns in craft room- Create a household inventory--I bought a book to put it in.
- Plant blueberry bushes
Buy a new front doorPlant something in the pot by the front doorPaint shutters or buy new ones- Take the antenna off the roof--the dude is afraid of heights...
- Hang the decorative bowl in the bedroom--you know, it makes such cool patterns on the ceiling in the morning...maybe we shouldn't
Clear of the top of the dresser and keep it that way- Buy grill and patio furniture--and use it!
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Mine ended yesterday, I think. I'm going to do it again...while I didn't complete the whole 101, I did learn a lot about myself and I was prompted to do more of the things I'd been wanting to do for awhile.
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