Today's the day!
I've been compiling stuff for the new list since a little before Christmas. Some are hold-overs from the last list, most are new...
In no particular order:

1. See the Pacific Ocean
2. Find a new place to live 12/6/2009
3. Start business for real
4. Spend an entire weekend making art 8/28/10
5. Set up studio for real.
6. Read 10 books I own and have never finished:
7. Go ice skating or roller skating
8. Travel to Paris, Berlin or Barcelona
9. Make a piece of clothing skirt- june 2010
10. Help someone Helped Tina
11. Volunteer somewhere Saint Elizabeth's quilt project 9/11/10
12. Get my stuff into at least 7 stores. currently at one store
13. Go to Lancaster or the Pocanoes
14. Say 'yes' to all invitations for a month
15. Get a massage (03/10)
16. Cook for other people
17. Eat vegetarian every day for a week August 1-August 8, 2009
18. Follow horoscope every day for a month May 2010. Nothing happened
19. Do at least 20 sit-ups every day for a month
20. Play hookey and do something fun
21. drive in one direction and stop at interesting things
22. Get a mamagram
23. Go to a party alone Memorial day party at D&A's
24. Write/illustrate children's book
25. get book published
26. Go to a first Friday/gallery night somewhere
27. Take a class
28. Feed the Koi in the Arboretum
29. Bake bread from scratch
30. Work on a film/ TV show
31. Go to a fancy restaurant like City Zen in DC or Alinea in Chicago
32. Compliment a stranger 1/5/09 Told the guy selling 'Street Sense' that I enjoy his voice.
33. write 5 letters for bad customer service
35. Write 8 letters for good customer service
35. *secret* fall in love
36. Get into a juried art show Art Whino's Mortal Plush show
37. Throw a party
38. Clean out attic
39. Cut debt in half
40. Sing Karaoke in front of people (was that ever a bad idea!)
41. Get in shape
42. Look really nice for one week
43. Attend a live taping of something Wait Wait Don't Tell me 7/16/2009 also! jimmy fallon show! 12/8/2009
44. Find the best burger in DC
45. Don't leave house for one weekend.
46. Figure out recording vinyl to digital
47. Buy a new computer
48. Go to an American City I've never been to before. SEATTLE!
49. Get a great coat.
50. Spend a weekend in NYC (3/26-27/10)
51. *secret* get married
52. Get rid of useless junk in process!
53. Sell a painting I've sold 2!
54. See a foreign movie at AFI or E st. (Jacque Tati movie at AFI)
55. Find a new job Start at Art Enables 8/3/2009
56. Walk a dog
57. Go to the beach
58. Get my name in the paper (preferably non-nefarious notation) Won Best Local Crafter Washington City Paper 2009
59. Paint a self-portrait
60. Win something Won Best Local Crafter (2nd year in a row!)
61. Participate in an illustration Friday or Flickr group thing.
62. Finish DFW's Infinite Jest Started 1/2/2009
63. Throw a dinner party
64. Grow a vegetable garden tomatoes for days 7/25/2009
65. See the Whitney Biennial 3/26/2010
66. Go to a drive-in movie theatre
67. Buy one nice piece of clothing
68. Go a week without making fun of people (not even in my own head)
69. Contribute to 'This American Life'
70. Make a list of things I am thankful for
71. Make a budget and follow it for at least a month
72. Keep a food journal for a month
73. Go on a picnic
74. See a natural waterfall
75. Take photos of friends
76. Bring lunch to work 4 days a week for a month
77. Take a fall weekend-getaway
78. Take a spring weekend-getaway
79. Do a painting of a building
80. Set up vacation savings account
81. Find/see a long-lost friend Technically, I was found by Keith V. 1/10/09
82. Tell someone who deserves it to fuck off
83. play tourist for a day
84. Go to a music festival Pitchfork
85. Enter some kind of competition
86. get a manicure and pedicure April 16, 2009
87. Curate an art show Arts on N August 2010
88. Try my hand at printmaking (non-gocco)
89. Take a yoga class
90. Write letters to Grandma
91. Make a quilt
92. Get Rosetta stone/ learn french 1
93. Do one of those 'Last minute' travel deals
94. Draw something at least every other day
95. Ride one metro line entirely from start to finish, watch people
96. Wear red lipstick every day for one month
97. Knit a sweater
98. Join a knitting group (or book club)
99. kiss on the first date
100. Rent a convertible, drive somewhere
101. Bake perfect french macaroons

Ok, so I'm going to start up the list again! With a start date of January 1, 2009. WHich, honestly, makes it feel more like resolutions, but it's a start at least.

I'm up to about 70 things- feel free to contribute suggestions!

How did I do?

well...uh....hm.

let's see
1. visit paris again (Didn't happen. I dream about it a lot...but until the dollar gets stronger, it's just not possible for me to afford to go anywhere right now)
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2. go to a baseball game 9/4/2005 Phils V. Nats3. knit a sweater BEGAN July 2007. Like pretty much everything in my life, i startred and never finished. It's hard to motivate yourself toknit a sweater in the summer. I have the back and 1/4 of the front finished. I'll keep going.

4. get a squished penny from the seattle space needle my brother scott gave one to me thanksgiving 2005
5.help out on a friend's record (name must appear in the "thanks" at least) soccer team - volunteered civility
did it
6.take a class. any class
7. go to a bar i think is too good for me january 2007
8 get a stranger's phone number 2/19/06 i won't call him, but colleen says it counts
9. buy a cheese i've never had Smoked Rofumo- 8/4/2005
10.ride a rollercoaster (didn't do this one. should put it on the new list maybe?)
11.get crazy high-lights in my hair
12. repair the dent in the trunk of my car did this august 2007
13.make curtains for my newly painted room did this september 2005
14. sort receipts
15. sort bills
16. clean out my closet
17. read 5 books on my shelves i've never read The best american unrequired reading 2003 (3/29/05) . The Kid - Dan Savage (4/21/05)
18. develop all the film i've shot and never developed ( I started doing this and lost interest. oh digital cameras, you have ruined me)
19. clip my cat's nails
20. read bob woodward's book
21. tour the whitehouse
22. see a play at a theatre that isn't mine The Velvet Sky at Wooley Mammoth 1/31/2006
23. meet sarah vowell
24. get a french manicure (I put this one on the list because i thought it would force me to try to grow my nails. I don't think anything ever will make me grow my nails.)
25. find a new job perhaps the biggest coup of all august 2007
26. see karl rove fired (ideally help him get there) he resigned, but i'm still counting it.
27. clean my room. completely. this i did. but it's gotten so bad, i won't allow myself to count it.
28. bake a cheesecake for someone else 12/2005
29. change the outside lightbulb 8/15/2005
30. set up my dvd player in my room 9/11/2005
31. ride a vespa 4/5/2006
32. get a facial december 2007
33. read at least one issue of the new yorker and harper's cover to cover
34. throw a dinner party- complete with written invitations
35. play hookey and go to a movie Everything is Illuminated 9/28/05
36. build a snowman dec. 2006 & dec. 2007
37. write three letters in response to great customer service. Go Antiques 11/2005
38. write three letters in resonse to poor customer serice #1 Jiffy Lube
39. write a children's book (this is going on the new list to be sure)
40. get children's book published
41. get in shape joined a gym august 2007. getting there. slowly. half-point.
42. buy one nice *nice* piece of clothing
43. learn HTML/webjunk
44. go to asheville with chris mcd
45. attend a lecture Tom Wolfe- the human beast jefferson lecture for the NEH 5/10/2006
46. go to a book signing Neil Gaiman 9/29/2006
47. fly a kite 6/17/2006
48. spend all day in one museum
49. buy a cheap stock
50. build a sand castle
51. get a massage (this i might have to put on the new list- strangers touching me freaks me out so i also put 'get a facial' which i did do)
52. go to a drive-in
53. ebay 10 items
54. spend a weekend in NYC. incl. lodging. none of that northern NJ junk october 2007
55. read something by Proust
56. paint a self portrait (why didn't i do this? new list!)
57. import all my superchunk to my itunes STARTED Aug. 30 2005
58. sew a dress
59. record all worthy records and 7"'s to my computer
60. make some stuff and have a booth at a craft fair/eastern markety thing did i.
61. dine at an expensive restaurant Les Halles with Colleen (8/6/05)
62. get a mamagram
63. drive around the entire beltway (this was stupid. i'm glad i didn't do this)
64. add team america to my DVD collection 4/2006
65. find an interview suit to match my brown tweed shoes
66. make a cute bag for myself
67. keep houseclean for an entire week
68. go bowling colleen's birthday august 2006
69. spend an afternoon on my backporch just reading
70. find/meet/view martin freeman with my own two eyes.
71. write one song a1 burian sto1e my c0at (9/18/2005)
72. get out of debt. at least halfway
73. do the 24 hour comic thing
74. get netflix list to under 75 (this one is also stupid and probably impossible)
75. kiss on the first date
76. reupholster something
77. go to the zoo 9/28/05
78. write a letter to my parents and tell them how much i love them. (it was an email. does it still count? I think yes)
79. hit the powerball number at least once. just the powerball #
80. eat vegetarian for one week
81. watch every episode of gilmore girls
82. take a bubblebath by candlelight
83. make dinner from a recipe i've never tried (at least 6)
84. go to the shore
85. tell someone 'i love you'
86. don't check email for 24 hours dinosaurland trip with chris
87. write 12 letters to KC 6/27/2006
88. thoroughly CLEAN OUT the car
89. walk that bitch of a hill in my neighborhood 3 times a week (a few weeks hit 'twice')
90. learn my neighbors names
91. put together a portfolio (this is a good goal. put it on the new list!)
92. go to vegas or graceland. either way- elvis impersonators.
93. see something at WOlftrap
94. go to a comic con/ small press expo (did this. october 2007 i think)95. for one month, accept every invitation that comes down my path
96. spend an entire day doing nothing in my pajamas late august 2006. mostly out of depression, but i'm still counting it.
97. buy one piece of original art 2/19/200698. attend the live taping of letterman, conan or a game show
99. go a week without making fun of people
100. somehow contribute something to 'This American Life'(this needs to go on the new list)
101. learn enough french that i can read 'the little prince' in french. ideally become conversationally fluent.

this is my 101 things to do in 1001 days. I have until April 28, 2008 to finish.


1. visit paris again
2. go to a baseball game 9/4/2005 Phils V. Nats
3. knit a sweater BEGAN July 2007
4. get a squished penny from the seattle space needle my brother scott gave one to me thanksgiving 2005
5.help out on a friend's record (name must appear in the "thanks" at least) soccer team - volunteered civility
6.take a class. any class
7. go to a bar i think is too good for me january 2007
8 get a stranger's phone number 2/19/06 i won't call him, but colleen says it counts
9. buy a cheese i've never had Smoked Rofumo- 8/4/2005
10.ride a rollercoaster
11.get crazy high-lights in my hair
12. repair the dent in the trunk of my car
13.make curtains for my newly painted room
14. sort receipts
15. sort bills
16. clean out my closet
17. read 5 books on my shelves i've never read The best american unrequired reading 2003 (3/29/05) . The Kid - Dan Savage (4/21/05)
18. develop all the film i've shot and never developed
19. clip my cat's nails
20. read bob woodward's book
21. tour the whitehouse
22. see a play at a theatre that isn't mine The Velvet Sky at Wooley Mammoth 1/31/2006
23. meet sarah vowell
24. get a french manicure
25. find a new job perhaps the biggest coup of all
26. see karl rove fired (ideally help him get there) he resigned, but i'm still counting it.
27. clean my room. completely.
28. bake a cheesecake for someone else 12/2005
29. change the outside lightbulb 8/15/2005
30. set up my dvd player in my room 9/11/2005
31. ride a vespa 4/5/2006
32. get a facial
33. read at least one issue of the new yorker and harper's cover to cover
34. throw a dinner party- complete with written invitations
35. play hookey and go to a movie Everything is Illuminated 9/28/05
36. build a snowman
37. write three letters in response to great customer service. Go Antiques 11/2005
38. write three letters in resonse to poor customer serice #1 Jiffy Lube
39. write a children's book
40. get children's book published
41. get in shape
42. buy one nice *nice* piece of clothing
43. learn HTML/webjunk
44. go to asheville with chris mcd
45. attend a lecture Tom Wolfe- the human beast jefferson lecture for the NEH 5/10/2006
46. go to a book signing Neil Gaiman 9/29/2006
47. fly a kite 6/17/2006
48. spend all day in one museum
49. buy a cheap stock
50. build a sand castle
51. get a massage
52. go to a drive-in
53. ebay 10 items
54. spend a weekend in NYC. incl. lodging. none of that northern NJ junk october 2007
55. read something by Proust
56. paint a self portrait
57. import all my superchunk to my itunes STARTED Aug. 30 2005
58. sew a dress
59. record all worthy records and 7"'s to my computer
60. make some stuff and have a booth at a craft fair/eastern markety thing did i.
61. dine at an expensive restaurant Les Halles with Colleen (8/6/05)
62. get a mamagram
63. drive around the entire beltway
64. add team america to my DVD collection 4/2006
65. find an interview suit to match my brown tweed shoes
66. make a cute bag for myself
67. keep houseclean for an entire week
68. go bowling colleen's birthday august 2006
69. spend an afternoon on my backporch just reading
70. find/meet/view martin freeman with my own two eyes.
71. write one song a1 burian sto1e my c0at (9/18/2005)
72. get out of debt. at least halfway
73. do the 24 hour comic thing
74. get netflix list to under 75
75. kiss on the first date
76. reupholster something
77. go to the zoo 9/28/05
78. write a letter to my parents and tell them how much i love them
79. hit the powerball number at least once. just the powerball #
80. eat vegetarian for one week
81. watch every episode of gilmore girls
82. take a bubblebath by candlelight
83. make dinner from a recipe i've never tried (at least 6)
84. go to the shore
85. tell someone 'i love you'
86. don't check email for 24 hours dinosaurland trip with chris
87. write 12 letters to KC 6/27/2006
88. thoroughly CLEAN OUT the car
89. walk that bitch of a hill in my neighborhood 3 times a week
90. learn my neighbors names
91. put together a portfolio
92. go to vegas or graceland. either way- elvis impersonators.
93. see something at WOlftrap
94. go to a comic con/ small press expo
95. for one month, accept every invitation that comes down my path
96. spend an entire day doing nothing in my pajamas late august 2006. mostly out of depression, but i'm still counting it.
97. buy one piece of original art 2/19/2006
98. attend the live taping of letterman, conan or a game show
99. go a week without making fun of people
100. somehow contribute something to 'This American Life'
101. learn enough french that i can read 'the little prince' in french. ideally become conversationally fluent.