The Hoppy Okapi

It’s been just over a year since I created my 101 Things list, so it seems like a good time to review my progress and update my list – switch out  some of the running goals to reflect this year’s focus on biking, for example, and recognize that the writing section is probably a bit too ambitious, but there are several more cooking projects that I want to try.  Start and end dates remain the same. Check out the revised list below (new goals are green):

Start Date: 8/4/2008

End Date: 5/2/2011

Goals in progress are in blue text.

25% complete as of 8/09/2009

Update 10/18/2009: 29% complete!

Update 01/03/2010: 31% complete!

Running, Sports & Fitness:
1    Run a 5K in under 30 min (best time to date: 34:56, March 2008  )
2   Participate in a bike riding event (Bike The Bay, Aug 2009)
3    Participate in a bike club group ride
4    Try a spinning class (1/21/2009)
5    Ride a Century (100 miles)
6    Do pilates 2x per week for a month
7    Go Kayaking
8    Take rock climbing lessons
9    Swim Laps at My Gym
10    Get A Massage
11    Go horseback riding
12    Go mini-golfing
13    Play tennis 6 times
14    Play table tennis 10 times (8/10/08, 8/17/08, 8/25/08, 11/30/08  )
15    Do 25 consecutive push-ups
Cooking:
16    Make one recipe from every cookbook I own (63 as of 8/4/2008 ) (25 complete as of 1/3/10 )
17    Decorate a Cake
18    Successfully make an Italian Meringue
19    Make homemade marshmallows
20    Make a sourdough starter from scratch (1/3/2010)
21    Create a signature beer drink (8/7/2008 )
22    Create a signature sangria (2/15/2009)
23    Create a signature muddled drink
24    Enter a recipe in a competition
25    Complete four Iron Chef dinners (all dishes featuring a “secret ingredient”)
26    Make my own infused sea salt
27    Make an infused vodka
28    Host a brunch party
29    Make pickles
30    Organize Cooks’ Illustrated Recipes (1/18/2009)
31    Make homemade truffles
32    Grow an herb plant
33    Grow a vegetable plant
34    Make something on our grill (instead of making Chuck cook it!) (10/21/2008)
35    Make chicken noodle soup from scratch
36    Make homemade bagels
37    Make tamales
Blogging & Writing & Reading:
38    Complete a cook-through (or drink-through) blog project
39    Post an entry on BlogHer
40    Write a short story
41    Write a travel essay
42    Write 5 poems
43    Read books so that my “to-read” shelf has <= 10 books
44    Write a mini-cookbook (at least 10 recipes, with pictures)
45    Comment on blogs I read: at least one comment per week for two months(done as of 2/1/2009)
46    Read a mystery novel
47    Put together photo albums for my vacations
48    Make a journal of writing ideas & inspirations
49    Send a secret to PostSecret

Traveling:

50    Hike to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite (in this case, almost counts! 9/16/2008 )
51    Hike a 14′er
52    Take a Beer Tour of Belgium (Sept 2009)
53    Hike the Inca Trail <or> Climb Kilimanjaro
54    Visit the Salton Sea (3/8/2009)
55    Visit a National Park I haven’t been to before
56    Take a backpacking trip, at least two nights (5/24/2009)
57    Visit a US city I’ve never been to before (Austin, 11/16/2008 )
58    Visit a US state I’ve never been to before
59    Visit Anza-Borrego State Park (11/1/2008 )
60    Visit a California Mission I haven’t been to before
61    Visit Catalina Island
62    Visit Pizza Port San Clemente (9/7/2008 )
63    Visit Griffith Observatory (June 2009)
64    See an okapi in a zoo I haven’t been to before
65    Visit a brewery I haven’t been to before (The Bruery! 9/5/2008 )
66    Go to Canada(5/1/2009)
67    Spend a weekend at BigBear (or other ski resort area)
Community:
68    Volunteer for a political campaign (phone-banked for Obama, 11/3/08 )
69    Volunteer on a community project (9/28/2008 )
70    Volunteer at a running (or other sport) event
71    Volunteer on a trail maintenance project
72    Donate $25 to charity/community organizations at least 10 times (KPBS, SDCats)
Music:
73    Finish all the lessons in my piano workbook
74    Learn 5 songs from my ragtime book
75    Take a guitar lesson (UCSD extension, July/Aug 2009)
76    Learn to play 2 songs on the guitar
77    Write a song
78    Join a community choir / singing group
79    Take accordion lessons
Festivals / Events:
80    Go to a film festival (Bicycle Film Festival, Sept 2009)
81    Go to a book signing / author event (done! Ann Patchett on Aug 6, 2008 )
82    Go to the National Sandcastle Competition (July 2009)
83    Go to a food festival (strawberries in Ojai, tamales in Palm Springs, Garlic in Gilroy???)
84    Go to a wine festival
85    Go to a music festival
86    Go to a play (Man From Nebraska, 10/17/09)
87    Go to a musical or opera
88    Go to a parade
Other/Local:
89    See a mainstream movie in a theater (do I really need to make this a goal? Well, yes…13 months and counting since the last time…)
90    See an indie movie in a theater (Race Across the Sky, Oct 2009)
91    Visit a San Diego Museum (6/6/2009)
92    Go to the beach! (Maui, Dec 2009)
93    Visit Chula Vista
94    Visit the San Diego County Fair
95    Go to the Lakeside Rodeo(4/24/2009)
96    Go to 10 new San Diego restaurants (Urban Solace, Toronado, Osteria Romantica, Gulf Coast Grill, Tioli’s Crazee Burger, Cefalu’s, Liar’s Club, Vincenzo Ristorante, Blind Lady Ale House, Pho La Jolla)
Learning:
97    Learn to use photo editing software (counting Picassa for this one, it does what I want)
98    Complete all three levels of “Learn Spanish in Your Car”
99    Take a drawing (or other art) lesson
100    Write an app in a programming language I haven’t used before
101    Learn to snap my fingers

Dropped from the list:

1    Run a 10K
2    Complete a race longer than 10K
3    Take a Cooking Class
4    Go to a conference (professional, BlogHer, ??)
5    Watch three Audrey Hepburn movies I haven’t seen before
6   Take a writing class
7   Write a fantasy story OR create a fantasy universe outline
8   Write 2 book review posts
9   Post a monthly self-portrait (pictures of me that someone else takes are ok)