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1. Lose 5 lbs.
2. Run a 5k race - completed 18.07.08 in approx. 31 minutes.
3. Run a 10k race - completed 12.10.08 in 1:00:52 (Munich marathon 10k)
4. Run a half-marathon
5. Do a triathlon
6. Drink 5 cups of water a day
7. Learn freestyle swimming
8. Go swimming 4 times per month
9. Keep up with rowing
10. Find a good moisturizer
11. Moisturize daily
12. Take better care of teeth
13. Learn to ski - Learned and forgotten. The lesson for this one is that I hate going downhill, in any form of transport, with slippery sticks attached to my feet topping the list
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14. Get a yearly physical
15. Visit 5 new countries
16. Get a proper flash for my camera
17. Get two new (to me) lenses for my camera and use them
18. Upload 25 new pictures to flickr per month
19. Participate in 10 photography challenges (excluding project 365)
20. Complete Project 365
21. Explore Munich
22. Organize scavenger hunt
23. See a game at Allianz Arena
24. Watch Seinfeld with Michael
25. Donate 1500 NIS per year to Fat Meir’s Kitchen - Sizable donation made February 2010 to cover last three years, hope to continue doing so, wishing I didn't have to.
26. Go on an overnight motorcycle trip
27. Cook a whole chicken - Done twice. So easy. Interesting post from Michael Ruhlman should get you to do it too.
28. Cook a perfect steak
29. Make sushi - Done at a sushi workshop at Fat Meir’s Kitchen recently. Still have to try at home.
30. Cure olives
31. Make pickles
32. Make ice cream
33. Get Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from my home to yours
34. Make a cookbook of favourite family recipes, including photos and distribute to family members
35. Hang pictures on walls at home
36. Buy a lamp for the kitchen - Sort of done. Well, not really, but I've moved out of that apartment and the new kitchen doesn't require one.
37. Buy a lamp for the hallway - We bought three really cool paper lamps at winter Tollwood. Two are hanging already and we need to hang the third.
38. Have a proper guest bathroom kit at the ready
39. Buy print from Geninne
40. Buy art on Etsy - Bought beautiful prints from this gorgeous store.
41. Buy a mid-century sideboard
42. Make the apartment more colourful
43. Have Miriam make me a custom vinaigrier
44. Clean apartment for 5 minutes every day
45. Camouflage litterboxes
46. Reupholster living room furniture - Done by the super-talented father-in-law of my former colleague. Photos once we train the cats not to wreck them.
47. Fix and hang mirror bought on eBay - We hung it up a few months ago. Unfortunately when we came home from our last trip up north we found it shattered on the floor. Bummer.
48. Finish knitting a scarf
49. Learn salsa - Did four courses at a school in Munich and loved it, but stopped dancing after our trip to Cuba.
50. Read camera manual
51. Make a photo book
52. Learn to play chess
53. Make scratched paintings on canvas
54. Live a more sustainable life, reducing consumption and making things myself - In Germany, recycled almost everything, grew a garden, tried to shope locally. Now in England, doing everything to make things from scratch, buy locally, and generally leave less of a negative impact on the earth. Am thisclose to dumpster diving.
55. Plant a herb „garden“ - Done successfully in Munich, currently germinating next batch for our English garden.
56. Make vinegar - Turned some old wine into white wine vinegar (intentionally). Took forever. Now want to start a red wine crock.
57. Make yogurt - completed June 2008 (I'm leaving out the precise date because I *may* have done this before the official start date).
58. Start my own compost heap - Accidentally put kitchen waste in the garden-waste-only bin. Have ordered a proper bin (they are heavily subsidized by the council here) and will transfer the contents when it arrives. Need some worms, but found a tackle shop in town, so should be ok.
59. Pick fruit at a self-picking field
60. Make jam from self-picked fruit
61. Purchase carbon offsetting for flights whenever possible - I've done this on every flight it's been available on so far and will continue to do so.
62. Buy most produce at the farmer’s market
63. Plant a tomato plant
64. Can my own tomatoes
65. Take lunch to work 3 days a week
66. Start a monthly savings plan (€350)
67. Start a monthly shipping savings plan (€150)
68. Put €10 in savings for every completed task
69. Launch my website
70. Take editing/writing course
71. Buy a style guide
72. Find a passive income stream
73. Learn to use Trados properly
74. Raise favourite client’s rate
75. Get a good office chair
76. Attend a conference other than ITA - Attended a very interesting food translation seminar in Inverness, Scotland, in June 2010, held by the Scottish chapter of the ITI.
77. Get an external hard drive - I got a couple of these. They don't have the best capacity and aren't top of the line, but damn, I feel like I'm drinking my files out of a flask. Gorgeous. I got one in black and one in a pinkish shade
78. Find who owns translation rights to AT
79. Learn 50 German words per week for 1 month (total 200)
80. Get Pimsler German CDs - Bought in US in November 2010. Discovered that they would have been helpful when I first started learning German (though Michel Thomas was an excellent audio program too), but were a bit too simplistic at this stage.
81. Find a place to hem all my jeans
82. Revive and keep up blog
83. Participate in http://www.nablopomo.com/
84. Sell red Crumpler bag and use money towards photo gear
85. Learn to parallel park
86. Drive a Smart
87. Drive a Trabi
88. Construct a cat perch
89. Find a way to make the cats get along
90. Send a postcard once a month
91. Read 101 books - Stopped counting. I read between two and three books a week, so I've got this one WAY covered.
92. Subscribe to British Homes and Gardens
93. Subscribe to delicious. (Australian version) - Subscribed to the English version after all. Love it. The Oz version was prohibitively expensive.
94. Send 6 care packages a year to a friend or a relative
95. Get new bed linens - Have bought a couple of sets recently. Love you, TK Maxx!
96. Sew bed cover
97. Teach M my family tree so he stops crying at the mention of yet another cousin
98. Use airmiles
99. Declutter iTunes and get rid of stuff I don’t like
100. Watch an entire season of a TV series on DVD - Watched the entire Alias series with Michael. Started watching Mad Men but streaming takes too much juice out of my mobile wireless; may revisit once we have proper broadband.
101. Find and perfect pizza dough recipe - From Jamie Oliver's "Jamie at Home". Love Jamie.