June 23, 2008
Can you hear me? Is this thing on?
So, HI! I know no one is reading, but I've decided that after nearly a year of silence, it might be time to get back into the action. It's been a year of ups and downs, but it's definitely on the ups right now. I won't bore you with the details, except to say that I'm still in Munich, still with M, have a fantastically dull job but work with awesome people in a beautiful office right in the heart of the city.
And what better way is there to get back on track than a new 101 in 1001 list? So here it is. My start date is... right now, so my completion date will be March 21, 2011. Some of the items are lame, and I reserve the right to change them later on. Let the games begin!
- Lose 5 lbs.
Run a 5k race - completed 18.07.08 in approx. 31 minutes.Run a 10k race - completed 12.10.08 in 1:00:52 (Munich marathon 10k)- Run a half-marathon
- Do a triathlon
- Drink 5 cups of water a day
- Learn freestyle swimming
- Go swimming 4 times per month
- Keep up with rowing
- Find a good moisturizer
- Moisturize daily
- Take better care of teeth
- Learn to ski
- Get a yearly physical
- Visit 5 new countries
- Get a proper flash for my camera
- Get two new (to me) lenses for my camera and use them
- Upload 25 new pictures to flickr per month
- Participate in 10 photography challenges (excluding project 365)
- Complete Project 365
- Explore Munich
- Organize scavenger hunt
- See a game at Allianz Arena
Watch Seinfeld with Michael- Donate 1500 NIS per year to Fat Meir’s Kitchen
- Go on an overnight motorcycle trip
- Cook a whole chicken
- Cook a perfect steak
- Make sushi
- Cure olives
- Make pickles
- Make ice cream
- Get Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from my home to yours
- Make a cookbook of favourite family recipes, including photos and distribute to family members
- Hang pictures on walls at home
- Buy a lamp for the kitchen
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.- Have a proper guest bathroom kit at the ready
- Buy print from Geninne
- Buy art on Etsy
- Buy a mid-century sideboard
- Make the apartment more colourful
- Have Miriam make me a custom vinaigrier
- Clean apartment for 5 minutes every day
- Camouflage litterboxes
- Reupholster living room furniture
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.- Finish knitting a scarf
- Learn salsa
- Read camera manual
- Make a photo book
- Learn to play chess
- Make scratched paintings on canvas
- Live a more sustainable life, reducing consumption and making things myself
- Plant a herb „garden“
- Make vinegar
- Make yogurt
- Start my own compost heap
- Pick fruit at a self-picking field
- Make jam from self-picked fruit
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.- Buy most produce at the farmer’s market
Plant a tomato plant- Can my own tomatos
- Take lunch to work 3 days a week
Start a monthly savings plan (€350)Start a monthly shipping savings plan (€150)- Put €10 in savings for every completed task
- Launch my website
- Take editing/writing course
- Buy a style guide
- Find a passive income stream
- Learn to use Trados properly
- Raise favourite client’s rate
- Get a good office chair
- Attend a conference other than ITA
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- Find who owns translation rights to AT
- Learn 50 German words per week for 1 month (total 200)
- Get Pimsler German CDs
- Find a place to hem all my jeans
- Revive and keep up blog
- Participate in http://www.nablopomo.com/
- Sell red Crumpler bag and use money towards photo gear
- Learn to parallel park
- Drive a Smart
- Drive a Trabi
- Construct a cat perch
- Find a way to make the cats get along
- Send a postcard once a month
- Read 101 books
- Subscribe to British Homes and Gardens
- Subscribe to delicious. (Australian version)
- Send 6 care packages a year to a friend or a relative
- Get new bed linens
- Sew bed cover
Teach M my family tree so he stops crying at the mention of yet another cousin- Use airmiles
- Declutter iTunes and get rid of stuff I don’t like
- Watch an entire season of a TV series on DVD
- Find and perfect pizza dough recipe
Posted by raptorgirl at June 23, 2008 08:01 PM
Woohoo! Welcome back to the world of blogging. I think you can do everything on your list with no problem.
Thanks! I think so too, though a half marathon and a triathlon might be pushing it a little... I just did a 3k run and want to die a little (but mostly because it's a squillion degrees out with an elevnty billion humidity percentage.
Welcome back to the blogsphere baby! That's one mighty list, though I don't doubt you can do it ALL. You know I'm there for you on the workout/triathlon front, too. :)
Glad you're back!
I also want to learn canning and to do tomatoes (64).
For #100, I'd like to suggest 30 Rock, Season One; I think you'd really appreciate the humor.
Good luck! Just curious, were there any items left from your previous 100 in 1000 that didn't get done? Were they transferred to this list? And if not, why?
Thanks, y'all!
doomy, I've signed up for a 5k run in three weeks as a start. I've got an ironman at home to harass with questions, but I'm glad to have you as a backup :).
Lifey, I was hoping to maybe combine two tasks in one by watching a season of Seinfeld, but I'll keep that one on ice - it's quite hard to get any of those here at a reasonable price so I might have to find someone to borrow a series from.
Mom, stop being such a mom :). I finished about half of the last list, and no, the undone items are staying on that list. I'm aiming for fun, doable things this time.
Let me know if you need an address for #94.
