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)
