Day Zero Project

By Friday, January 20, 2012, I would like to:

(Italics are those currently in process. Strikethroughs are items completed.)

1. Travel overseas again (Canada/Mexico do not count)
2. Read Illiad OR The Odyssey
3. Purchase either two kayaks or one canoe
4. Go on another canoe/kayak trip
5. Go properly vegetarian for one month (no fish allowed)
6. Be vegan for a week.
7. Read the Bible cover to cover
8. Finish wedding cross-stitch
9. Finish a paint-by-number
10. Put together wedding scrapbook
11. Have a spa day
12. Visit Niagara Falls
13. Insure wedding rings
14. Donate food to food pantry
15. Paint inside of house
16. Read and recite Beowulf
17. Go to the opera
18. Go to another broadway show
19. Burn new Rajaton CD
20. Get car detailed
21. Watch the sun rise
22. Complete a basic Welsh course
23. Learn how to knit
24. Really enjoy one day from beginning to end
25. Organize closet under the stairs
26. Get living will written
27. Go camping again
28. Take K to top of Mt. Ampersand
29. Visit Mabee history site
30. Visit Albany Schuyler mansion
31. Finish Wales book #1
32. Finish Wales book #2
33. Read book on time period of 1483-1500 in England
34. Encourage parents to draw up will
35. Visit CO again
36. Visit FL again
37. Get a dog
38. Buy new house
39. Get bar and fed. bar certificates framed
40. Frame Wales pic that J gave me at my engagement party
41. Visit Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen
42. Visit 3 farms from where we get our food (2/3)
43. Go on a wine tour
44. Pay off all private school loans
45. Increase retirement savings to 15%
46. Pay off car
47. Donate to WAMC
48. Donate $ to Humane Society
49. Hike Gertrude’s Nose again
50. Run a mile.
51. Participate in an orienteering meet
52. Swim 50 laps
53. Swim 100 laps
54. Participate in a 5K run
55. Have a child
56. Get to goal weight
57. Start a compost heap
58. Maintain a garden
59. Save up for new downpayment on a house
60. Purchase a DSLR
61. Be an expert at using the DSLR
62. Finish writing new novel
63. Edit Nanowrimo novel
64. Get chickens
65. Learn how to use my sewing machine
66. Be more self-confident
67. Go snow-shoeing
68. Buy new bedroom furniture
69. Buy new dining room furniture
70. Buy new living room furniture
71. Send my parents to Hawaii for their anniversary
72. Put up shelves in closet under the stairs
73. Make a list of 25 things I like about myself
74. Make a list of 50 things that make me happy
75. Write K a love letter
76. Update my resume
77. Wear heels at least once a week
78. Make and give a book on how to make pasteles to my family for Christmas
79. Make and can my own salsa
80. Buy and learn how to use a pressure canner
81. Sell something on Etsy or at the Farmer’s Market
82. Visit Lake Placid
83. Complete the Couch to 5K program (2/27)
84. Ride 100 miles on the Expresso bike (45.1/100)
85. Do all 24 weeks of Buff Brides again, even though I’m no longer a bride
86. Write in my diary at least once a month
87. Ride my bike down the canal path to Schenectady
88. Ride my bike to the Farmer’s market
89. Design professional looking labels for my jam
90. Keep a political journal
91. Go one month without drinking any coffee, tea, or soda
92. Make pesto from scratch
93. Make it through OHS
94. Do something so utterly fantastic for my husband, to thank him for all he does for me
95. Take the Animal Law II class
96. Figure out how to get my parents to treat me like an adult
97. Invite my cousin J over for dinner, or take him out for the day
98. Complete a 12-place Fiestaware set with serving pieces
99. Invite over or go out to dinner with E and L
100. Invite over or go out to dinner with V and K
101. Keep this list updated