It's been over a year (!) since I started my 101 in 1001 list, so I thought it was time I revisited it. It looks like I need to step up the pace a bit. Also, there are a lot of things that I thought I put on my list but didn't (live with Afsheen and no one else, fly first class, etc.) that I have been busy completing and now can't check off. Oops.
1. Renew my passport.
2. Run a marathon.
3. See a movie at Grauman's Chinese. [Saw Batman Begins there for David's birthday 2005.]
4. Visit another country.
5. Develop all the rolls of film that I've shot over the past few years.
6. Fit into my pretty black dress again.
7. Volunteer for something I believe in.
8. Stay at the same address for at least 12 months. (Right now I'm on my fifth in two years.) [Now on my 6th, but we're staying put, so expect this one to be completed July 4, 2006.]
9. Visit the San Diego Zoo. [Completed sometime over Memorial Day weekend, 2005.]
10. Go sailing with my Opa and Popo.
11. Go skiing. (I have never been downhill skiing, unless you count the time my friend Amanda and I took our cross-country skis down a hill and over a road when we were 13.)
12. Visit my family in New Jersey.
13. Go camping.
14. Read at least 10 of the books gathering dust in my nightstand/around the room. [As of 10/24/04, I've read one qualifying book, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography. Also, I've realized that I need to be more specific here, so nine books I still need to read/finish are Salt: A World History, A Cook's Tour, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Faithful, Watching Baseball, Heir to the Glimmering World, Katherine Graham's Washington, Don't Panic, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.]
15. Subscribe to the Sunday New York Times.
16. Cook one recipe from each of the cookbooks I own.
17. Take a language class.
18. Visit LACMA.
19. Visit MOCA.
20. Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and see William. Also pretend that I am in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
21. Take a surfing lesson.
22. Convince Afsheen to get a Disneyland Annual Passport. [Completed May 2005. Thanks, Matthew, Kacy, and Daniel!]
23. Redesign my webpage. [Completed 10/24/04, at least for now.]
24. Vote at the polls. (I've only ever done absentee.) [Completed November 2, 2004, as well as a couple of other times.]
25. Frame and hang the posters in our closet.
26. Make the switch. [I now own an iBook and half an iMac, so I think we can consider this one complete.]
27. Buy and wear a watch.
28. Beat Tiger Woods on the GameCube.
29. Go to the balloon fiesta.
30. Go to Hollywood Forever.
31. Get a puppy. [Completed January 30, 2005. Yay, Paddington!]
32. Go to the Getty.
33. Start improv training again.
34. Use my sewing machine just to see how it works. (Or *if* it works... I got it for free from my old job.)
35. Complete a knitting project. [Completed several times over now, thanks to Survivor and the West Hollywood Stitch n Bitch.]
36. Play a round of golf.
37. See a game at Fenway.
38. Go to Vegas. (I've never been.)
39. Go to Magic Mountain.
40. Get a new cell phone before my current one completely falls apart. [Completed sometime in fall 2004, though really this is an ongoing issue.]
41. Make a mix CD for someone. [I made my summer mix and gave it to lots of people, so I'm counting this one as completed June 2005.]
42. Sort through my clothes and get rid of the ones I will never wear again. (Carpenter jeans, I'm looking at you.) [Completed sometime in early October, 2004.]
43. Join a gym that is actually convenient for me to go to. [Completed around September 7, 2004 -- thanks to Afsheen for the wonderful anniversary gift.]
44. Learn enough Farsi to not feel completely lost at Family family gatherings. Also enough to swear at Afsheen.
45. Actually go out for drinks with my girlfriends/coworkers/former roommates, instead of just making vague promises to do so.
46. Cook Thanksgiving dinner.
47. Buy cute sneakers that aren't Converse One Stars. [Completed fall 2004.]
48. Join AAA. [Completed whenever it was that my car was broken into.]
49. Organize my CDs so I know where they are.
50. Convince Paulie to move to LA.
51. See James play live.
52. See Karaugh play live.
53. At the very least buy both their new CDs.
54. Watch Pulp Fiction, Spinal Tap, Titan AE, the Trois Couleurs trilogy, and all the other movies that
I've been told to see eleventy fuckillion times.
55. Visit my friend Jamie (possibly in the Ukraine).
56. Actually get together with my quasi-cousin Paul and his girlfriend.
57. Track down at least one old friend I've lost touch with. [Completed! But I still am terrible at keeping in touch. And I'm still looking for Rochelle Graub.]
58. Eat at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. [Completed sometime in spring 2005, thanks to Sara.
59. Launch the so-not-top-secret website that Rachel and I came up with.
60. Actually put my photos in my photo box.
61. Buy a rolling pin.
62. Bake treats for Sullivan.
63. Look into Birthright Israel before I'm too old. [Looked into it, yes. And also decided against it.]
64. Swim in the ocean.
65. Take a trip with Afsheen to someplace where we don't know anyone and get to stay in a hotel. [We sort of did this when we got Paddington, but I don't count it as a vacation really.]
66. Write a letter to my Nana at least once a month.
67. Store my jewelry somewhere other than a big plastic souvenir Red Sox cup.
68. Track down a copy of Pirates, which I worked on but never saw. Maybe I should go stalk Eric McCormack while we still work on the same lot.
69. Go to the batting cages before the next time I play softball.
70. Visit Nicole.
71. Actually read the New Yorker when it arrives each week.
72. Throw a party.
73. Spend a night on the Queen Mary.
74. Write a spec script.
75. Be published (writing or photography) somewhere other than my website or my friends' websites.
75. Learn the Hebrew alphabet.
76. Buy a new jacket.
77. Learn more about JET, consider applying.
78. Re-learn the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It.
79. Ride a bike.
80. Re-watch Jurassic Park.
81. Make sushi at home.
82. Read enough of Afsheen's econ textbook to not feel like an idiot when I listen to Marketplace.
83. Perform onstage, or at least audition.
84. See Stella live. [This may be trickier now that they've turned into a TV show.]
85. Find out whatever happened to Jian Ghomeshi.
86. Re-visit Elfreth's Alley.
87. Subscibe to the Economist.
88. Stop taking logging jobs. [Blissfully completed September 2004.]
89. Stop working opposing shifts with my boyfriend. [See above.]
90. Clean out my car 100%, including the box of random crap in the trunk. (My trunk has not once been empty since I bought the car over two years ago.)
91. Fly a kite.
92. Buy a pair of work shoes that are comfortable but not flip flops or sneakers.
93. See The Lion King with NotYourEmily and Storey. [Sadly I don't think this one is very likely now that the show's closed.]
94. Make coffee at home in the mornings instead of buying it before work.
95. Find a better place to sort the mail than the dining room table.
96. Work on a show that isn't about people competing for a prize. [Completed June 2005.]
97. Drink an Irish car bomb.
98. Lose my t-shirt tan. [Painfully completed at last Sunday's Red Sox game, August 21, 2005.]
99. Post my list before Afsheen does. [Completed right away. Ha!]
100. See the otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
101. Subscribe to KCRW.
