Steps to take immediately:

In order to make progress on my list these are all the remaining tasks and steps I'm going to take immediately:

Sew something without help
-This is more a matter of money than anything else. I'm putting it off until I get my fall disbursement check for school, but I'm pretty sure I could do something simple now, like a viking apron. I can't make everything I want, but I think I can do halfway decent at something simple. So... Finaces!

Warp the loom without help
-The loom is now packed in a box in the garage, so, it'll have to wait until after I move. And after I get that summer disbursement check so I can buy some nice yarn. But, I have instructions on how to do it again, and I think I can handle it.

Learn the Hebrew Printed Alphabet
-I'm taking Hebrew at school in the fall, so if I don't do it by then, I'll certainly do it then.

Have garb appropriate to 13th Century Ukraine
-Honestly, I need a teacher, and I don't know anyone here willing to teach. I really want to do this one, so I'm leaving it on the list, but I doubt I'll be able to while I live in Meridies.

Pass my student teaching
-Fall semester!

Authorize for Heavy Fighting
-I need to start making more regular practices, and fix my shield.

Learn to set up my own sewing machine
-I really need to try to do this at some point, and see if I can figure it out. But the sewing supplies are packed, so it will have to wait until I move.

Go Rafting
-Sign up for trip on first day of school.

Learn the Hebrew handwritten alphabet
-Again, this is a job for the fall

Bake cupcakes
-I think I'm going to do this as a welcome home gift to us when we move.

Take Derech Torah class
-In progress

Make a pie
-I'll probably do this on 3/14 next year, just to be clever.

Find 10 wines I like
-I think I have 3 that I like, but I haven't written them up. So I should write them up, and then ask the guy at the wine store for more suggestions.

Make a new 101 list
-At the end of this list

Scan all photo albums
-Again, they're all packed, so I'll restart this as soon as I move.

Learn 50 new things by clicking random wiki articles
-One a week gets this done in a year. I need to be better about doing this though.

NaBloPoMo
-June? Depending on the theme... I tried to do April but it was all about poetry. lol.

Hockey Game
-Not exactly the right season for it. I'll talk to my husband about it in a few months.

Baseball Game
-Kevin and I have plans to go to a Dodgers game but we still need to buy the tickets. So I'll talk to him about doing this.

Buy a house
-In Progress

Spend a day at the beach
-I've got a hotel for a whole week at the beach! I paid for it off my credit card reward points that I haven't spent since 2005 lol!

Work on a Habitat House
-Waiting for the temple to say something about this.

Make a hippocras
-Christmas

Complete a coloring book
-I need to find either one of my coloring books. They're probably packed, so I'll get back on this when we move.

Make an herb garden
-Silly to do it here... have to wait until the move.

Write on 10 creative writing prompts
-1 a month gets this done in about a year.

Spend a day writing and photographing my neighborhood
-Obviously, this is after I move.

Complete a photo scavenger hunt
-This actually sounds like a good thing to spend some time doing maybe tomorrow.

Double store important photographs someplace besides flickr
-Tonight I'll ask my friends where they recommend and maybe explore a little. Then over the next few weeks I'll go through my flickr and download the ones I want to keep.

Take a self portrait every month for a year - starting on my 31st birthday will let me finish this one right as t he list ends in September 2013.

The Halfway Point

Today is day 500 of 1001 - the halfway report. I'm 71% finished! Here is an organized list by what's done and how recently it was done. This week's report:

Finished

Volunteer with children with disabilities

Progress

None

I think it's time for some changes of things that don't mean much to me anymore. Leaving the list is: 

Learn Pysanky

Read a children's book in Hebrew

Open a cookbook to a random page and make it 

Find 10 beers I like

Count to 10 in 10 languages

Renew my passport

Added to my list: 

Make an herb garden

Write on 10 prompts from creativewritingprompts.com

Spend a day exploring and photographing my neighborhood (after I move)

Do a photo scavenger hunt http://www.diva-girl-parties-and-stuff.com/photo-scavenger-hunt-list.html

Clean up my flickr

Take a self portrait every week for a year starting 10-1-12

April 30th update

Completed:

See a Shakespeare play at the Shakespeare tavern
Make one good thing a day my FB status for a month

 In Progress:

 Take Derech Torah class
Learn 50 new things from wikipedia

Movies A to Z

Completed Movie List

A - Accidental Husband
B - Black Swan
C - Camp Rock II
D - Despicable Me
E - Emma
F - The Fighter
G - The Godfather
H - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
I - It's Complicated
J - Jingle all the Way
K - King's Speech
L - Legend of the Guardians
M - Michael Clayton
N - NeoNed
O - Old Dogs
P - Phineas and Ferb
Q - Quills
R - Rookie of the Year
S - Sherlock Holmes
T - Temple Grandin
U - UHF
V - Volcano
W - Wet Hot American Summer
X - XMen First Class
Y - You Did What?
Z - Zulu

NeoNed

This movie starts in a mental hospital, where a neonazi named Ned has murdered a guy but pled insanity. He meets a black woman who thinks she's the reincarnation of Hitler. They fall in love. I honestly couldn't care less about either of the characters. The plot-line was predictable, other than that the characters were both nuts, and not even well portrayed nuts. The movie is from 2005, and I'm shocked that it's that recent. I was pretty bored throughout.

An amusement park

Today I went to 6 flags over Georgia. It's early in the season so we were able to pretty much just walk from one ride to another without much waiting. A lot of it was really fun. The only problem came at the very end, really. I was too fat to fit in a roller coaster, but not enough so that I had to get off. Just enough so so that my back wasn't flush against the seat. It HURT. Nonetheless, I'd go again, which is good since I have a season pass now to there and white water.

Updatey!

Completed this 2 weeks

Eat kosher for a week

Progress this 2 weeks

Take Derech Torah class
Make a good thing my FB status every day
Learn 50 new things through the random button on wikipedia
Keep a food diary for a month (so now I know I'm eating less than I burn so why don't I lose weight?)
Buy a house (mortgage applied for)
Volunteer with children with disabilities (Application filled out)
Be able to count to ten in ten languages (Spanish and Russian)

Wiki Learning #3

Today I learned that adult howler monkeys do not often rely on their tails for locomotion, but juveniles frequently do. Meaning I saw a juvenile one in Guatemala, and it was still friggen huge!

Updatey!

Completed this 2 weeks

Cut my hair off short
Eliminate non fitting clothes from my wardrobe (and some that fit but I'll never wear)
Get rid of 100 things


Progress this 2 weeks

Take Derech Torah class
Find 10 wines I like and figure out similarities between them so I can guess at new wines
Learn 50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia
Donate blood
Keep a food diary for a month
Buy a house

Wiki Learning #2

Link

Apparently, it's possible to be a tourist in Antarctica, and not just on a cruise! Oh man, I WANNA GO!

Plans for how to finish this!

What I can do in March and April to finish this list!

Start Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2011
• End Date: Thursday, September 29, 2013


Entertainment
1. Read 50 random articles on wikipedia

If I do this weekly I can do this in a year and be done.

2. Sew something without help

This one is suffering from a lack of money. It honestly should probably be removed, but I really really wanna do it.

3. Warp loom without help

Same with this one.

5. Learn pysanky

This one is suffering from a lack of attention to it. And lack of a teacher.

6. Learn Hebrew printed alphabet

I'll probably take Hebrew at school and do this then... I'm working on it though, slowly.

9. Have garb appropriate to Ukraine 13th century

Money issues... no money to buy fabric. :(

11. See a Shakespearean play at the Shakespeare tavern

Lauren is supposed to be looking up info on Much Ado About Nothing. So, yeah.

14. Pass my student teaching

Fall semester

15. Take a camera everywhere for 2 weeks

I'm 2 days into this goal actually. So I should be able to cross it off in April.

16. Go through my closet, and get rid of stuff that doesn't fit

When I'm packing to move I suppose I'll do this at the same time.

19. Authorize for heavy fighting

Heavy fighting is hurting my shoulder, like, a lot. So I haven't been doing it. I should probably change this goal, really.

21. Learn to set up my own sewing machine

Lacking a teacher

22. Read a children's book in Hebrew

After the class I imagine...

25. Attend a baseball game

Kevin is working on this one for me...

28. Attend a hockey game

I think Kevin is working on this one, too.

29. Go rafting

There's a school trip, but it's not cheap, so I'm possibly reconsidering this one, or possibly waiting to see what finances look like in the summer.

30. Learn the Hebrew handwritten alphabet

Again, I'll do this in the class

31. Watch 26 movies one for each letter

I only need a couple more movies. I'm kinda waiting until Kevin goes back on night shift in April to watch them though.

35. Complete a coloring book

I have one of the Hebrew alphabet I'm working on... though I haven't for the last few weeks. i need to get back to it. And find it again..

44. Bake Cupcakes

Right now I'm kinda out of money to do this.

48. Take a photo a day for a year

Even carrying my camera around all the time I'm not doing this. Maybe I'm not as into photography as I thought.

51. NaBloPoMo

April I'll try it!

53. Take Derech Torah class

In process. Will be until Summer.

54. Spend a day at the beach

Tabby and I are talking about doing this as it gets warmer. Probably end of summer though given my work schedule.


57. Help build a Habitat for Humanity House

My Temple suppposedly does this every year, so I'm waiting for them, since Habitat hasn't gotten back to me about working for them by myself.

59. Make a hippocras.

Feels like kinda a winter thing. I'll probably do it for Christmas.

63. Visit an amusement park

It is the time of year for that. I should go. I wonder if anyone is interested in going with me...

68. Get rid of 100 things

I'll finish this by getting rid of clothes that don't fit, when we move.

69. Keep a food diary for a month

April!

81. Open a cookbook to a random page and make it - providing no one is allergic to it

Have to get the kitchen cleaned first.

82. Make a pie

Have to get the kitchen cleaned first. And probably buy a pie tin, and other expensive things.

83. Renew my passport

$$$... :(

84. Buy a house

Working on it. That's why all the money troubles in the first place.

87. Donate blood

Have an appointment.

90. Scan in old pictures to make digital copies

Old pictures are now at mom's house. Needs to wait until I move now.

92. Make one good thing a day my facebook status for a month

April!

93. Find 10 beers I like and figure out similarities between them so I can guess at new beers

What I'm finding is that I don't really like beers at all. I'm doing much better with wines though.

95. Find 10 wines I like and figure out similarities between them so I can guess at new wines

Be more adventurous!

96. Make a new 101 list at the end of this list

Not yet :p

98. Be able to count to 10 in 10 languages

If I learn one a month I'll be done right around the end of this list I think.

What I learned from Wiki

Thing the First:

All members of the genus Conus, sea snails, are venomous and can hurt you.

New Goals

I changed a few things. Got rid of some goals that I couldn't do because of time or money or interest. Added a few more...


88Learn 50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia
89Learn to count to 10 in 10 languages
90Donate blood
91Renew my passport
92Keep a food diary for a month
93Participate in NaBloPoMo
94Take one photo a day for a year
95Attend a hockey game
96Attend a baseball game
97Eliminate non-fitting clothing from my wardrobe
98Take a camera everywhere for two weeks
99See a Shakespeare play at Shakespeare tavern
100Cut my hair off short
101Buy a house

Beet Soup

I tried a beet soup that a friend from Australia sent me, via a mutual friend from Russia. Supposedly it's a traditional meal there. The recipe is as follows:

So as I told you it's cold soup type and we call it Svekol'nik (Svekla = beet in russian)
You need wash, peel beet and cut it into cubes (size near 1x1 cm)
Add cold water (2 l for 0.5 kg beet) add slightly vin?gar and salt and boil, after boiling decrease fair and cook it within 40-60 min in little fair (it must be almost boil, but not boil) After it chill soup and put in the fridge
you also need cook potaoes and eggs (If you do not eat eggs just don't add it)
So soup is practically ready!
When you wish refresh by cold soup you need just take beet broth from the fridge, fill a tureen and add potatoes (cut in the cubes), eggs, cocumbers and spring onion. I like also add some mustard. Enjoy!

[later, in Skype chat, Marina clarified in answer to some questions:]

grate eggs and cucumbers into cubes, onion - small pieces

Keep the broth separate from the potatoes, eggs, cucumbers and spring onion until ready to eat, otherwise the solid ingredients swell.

My basic thoughts were... it was... not very good. I mean, I don't know exactly what went wrong, but it wasn't very good. It's possible I just don't like beets - I've never had them before (to be honest, I thought they were turnips!) it's also possible I don't like cold soups. Whatever the issue, I don't think I'll be repeating this one.

New Update

Completed this 2 weeks
Finish the Book About Me

Progress this 2 weeks
Learn the Hebrew printed alphabet - one letter at a time!
Have Garb appropriate to 13th century Ukraine - Talked to Jadi about what I wanted it to look like, and she's working on it - it's a cross between Viking and Byzantine.
Read To Pray As a Jew - I've read 3 chapters so far.
Watch 26 movies one for each letter - I only need 3 or 4 more movies!
Complete a coloring book - I bought one that is the Hebrew alphabet, I'm working through at one page a week :p
Take a Taste of Judaism class - signed up
Take Derech Torah class - Got a loan from a friend to sign up, and will do so as soon as paypal puts the money in my account.
Talk to the Rabbi about conversion - I tried!
Get rid of 100 things - books!

Year End Update

Hey, it's the end of the year, and that means it's the end of the month, and that means it's time for a 101 list update!

Completed this 2 weeks:
Get a 3.5 GPA for a semester (Actually, I surpassed this with a 3.8!)
Purchase a learn Hebrew book
And I remembered I'd actually gone a week without fast food at camp, so that's done too and marked off this week!

Progress this 2 weeks:
Read to Pray As a Jew
Watch 26 movies one for each letter
complete a coloring book - I bought a new one - this one of the Hebrew alphabet. :p
Take Taste of Judaism class - I signed up - it's three Tuesday evenings in January/ February
Find 10 beers I like and figure out similarities between them so I can guess at new beers
Find 10 wines I like and figure out similarities between them so I can guess at new wines
Get rid of 100 things - mostly this has meant selling books.

Since Sunday is my one year anniversary on this project, and the rest of the things on the list seem to require a bit more thought and planning... here's a new section: Things I should work on immediately:

Authorize for combat archery - I need to authorize to fight first, and to do that... well that's a whole 'nother goal.
Sew something without help - I need to accomplish goal: learn to set up my sewing machine first.
Warp loom without help - First I need supplies: string and cards. So this two weeks, I will either find or purchase these two supplies.
Learn Pysanky - I will look up patterns and supplies this two weeks
Learn the Hebrew printed alphabet - two letters a week gets me this in a relatively short time frame, especially considering i already know a few letters.
Have garb appropriate to 13th century ukraine - I will read the book I bought about this, and figure out what would be appropriate.
Read To Pray as a Jew - Just keep reading
Complete puzzle book - one a week should do it
Pass my student teaching - this one kind of automatically starts in January.
complete a sudoku book - figure out how many puzzles I have to do a week in order to do this.
Complete a crossword book - same
Authorize for heavy fighting - restrap my shield
Learn to set up my own sewing machine - Requires finding someone who knows how to set up my sewing machine I suppose.
Read a children's book in Hebrew - after learning the alphabet, and some words, obviously!
Make something out of wood - i keep hoping they'll offer another chair making class at an event I'm going to!
Take a train somewhere - delayed
Go rafting - look up school trips and prices
Learn the Hebrew handwritten alphabet - after learning the printed one
Watch 26 movies - one for each letter - Watch one new movie a week, this will be done in 6 weeks.
Complete a coloring book - do the Hebrew one along with how I'm learning the letters
Bake cupcakes - bring to SCA event that I'm supposed to bring a dessert to. I've forgotten which. :p
See an off broadway production - find schedules for theaters
Try a new recipe every month for a year - guess I'd better start this one.
Take Taste of Judaism class - easy enough
Take Derech Torah class - just gotta pay and sign up
Spend a day at the beach - will have to wait until summer!
Finish the book about me - figure out how much I have to do in a week
Work on Habitat House - keep reading synagogue bulletins for info on this
Talk to the Rabbi about conversion - repeat if necessary - get up some damned nerve! His office hours are Tuesdays... I should be able to make it the 10th.
make a hippocras - on hold
Visit an amusement park - spring might be a better time for this!
Read a Children's book in Russian - on hold
Go to a zoo - February
Open a cookbook to a random page and make it - providing no one is allergic to it - why not I can do this.
Make a pie on pi day - obviously has to wait until 3/14
Eat Vegetarian for a month - I think I'll schedule this for March
Eat Kosher for a month - I think I'll schedule this for April
Unpack from camp and return mom's suitcase - I should be able to do this this two weeks.
Make one good thing a day my facebook status for a month - OK This is A January Project!
Find 10 beers I like and figure out similarities between them so I can guess at new beers - Need to write up the beers I already know I like.
Find 10 wines I like and figure out similarities between them so I can guess at new wines - Same
Make a new 101 list - obviously this goes at the end of the list!
Get rid of 100 things - start by working on the garage!
Clean my spot in the garage - work on this this month
Get a degree from RUM - Go to some SCA events and see when/if classes are even offered :p
Scan SAS photo albums - one country a week gets this done in 10 weeks!

Zulu

OK, I confess, I started watching this movie, and didn't finish. It was just that bad. It's a supposedly true story of the Zulu wars in South Africa. But it just made these people out to be animals. I guess I shouldn't have expected much more from 1964... but where do you find movies that start with Z? lol

Year One...

After my first year, I've completed 51 tasks. I've also found that I have some on here that just aren't feasible financially or educationally and so I'm making some changes. I'm trying to find some more things to do that match my financial and educational achievements. These are the tasks that will be removed:

6. Make recycled paper
14. Complete a class on Judaism
20. Have a 3.8 GPA at the end of this list
22. Read 12 books (2/12)
30. Complete a 1000 piece puzzle
48. Swim 100 yards backstroke without stopping
51. Drink nothing but water for 1 week
52. Stretch every day for a week
53. Shower or bath every day for a week
58. Make a period pie
68. Get a job teaching
81. Leave the country
82. Visit Oregon
83. Visit Hawaii
84. Visit Colorado
86. Ride a hot air balloon
87. Go to Harry Potter World
91. Clean office and keep clean for a semester
93. Complete the 5,000 question survey
95. See Avenue Q live
96. See Spelling Bee live

Things I know I will add right now are

1. Learn the Hebrew printed alphabet
2. Pass my student teaching
3. Purchase learn Hebrew book This one maybe?
4. Read a children's book in Hebrew
5. Learn the Hebrew handwritten alphabet
6. See a modern broadway production off-broadway
7. Try a new recipe every month for a year
8. Take A Taste of Judaism class here
9. Take Derech Torah class here
10. Talk to the Rabbi about conversion - repeat if necessary
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.

Updatey!

Completed this 2 weeks
DITL 10 times


Progress this 2 weeks
Read To Pray as a Jew
Complete a Sudoku book
Authorize for Heavy fighting - all armor now together
Watch a movie for each letter

DITL December 5

This DITL goes sundown to sundown following a Jewish day rather than an American day. Why? Because I could.







I finish my shield - the last thing I need to try to authorize to fight.





Schedule for the day...











Selling books on Amazon.com. This book was so big I had to go to Target and buy a special envelope for it.





It's quiet in the house - turn on a random movie just to create noise.





Forbidden midnight snack :p




















Ended up throwing some grapes in there, too. It was yummy!





Good night.





Good Morning!

















So what happened here is I washed all the dishes, then cleaned out the fridge and ended up with a sink full of more dishes to do... but I swear a lot got done in between these two pics!





This was a lot worse, too.





Fixing armor to make it legal in Meridies, even though it was legal in Outlands and Caid already. This was a HUGE PAIN fixing my legs. The glue did not want to stick to leather, even though I was promised it would.














Jack is not amused.

Emma

E is for Emma. I watched this movie, based on the book by Jane Austen, tonight. It was really slow, actually, and I'm still not entirely sure what's going on. The gossipy girls are driving me nuts. Basically... two stars. I guess.

Updatey!

Completed this 2 weeks
Write 100 things I'm thankful for
Go Snorkeling or Scuba diving
Make a list of 50 places I'd like to see before I die.


Progress this 2 weeks
Have garb appropriate to 13th century Ukraine - bought a book on the topic
Complete a sudoku book

DITL November 23

Happy Midnight DITL. Here's the agenda for the day :p






Dog knows best - it's time to be sleeping.





I sold a book! Yay for getting money, and getting space on my bookshelf!





How exactly did this hour happen while I'm still awake?





Give the dog a treat.





Good Morning!





Find an article about Magna Faire - still debating whether I'm going.





Up and ready to go!





Sekrit Piktur - No cameras allowed inside!





This was SUCH a bad idea!





But look, we have food!











All natural, fantastic yummy juice!





And lunch :p











What our kitchen looked like





What our kitchen looked like when hubby got home.





All the dishes - forgot to take a before pic





Start listing chores that need to be done regulary so we can assign them





Before





After.





Quite possibly the stupidest episode of the Simpsons ever.





Dinner. Actually not so good. Threw out most of the broccoli. Hubby threw away all the veggies and ate a piece of chicken I had also cooked.





Tomorrow is Turkey Day, and for the first time I'm bringing something to the family dinner.





Sweet potatoes don't look too yummy yet!





Give up my usual midnight snack for some vodka and green stuff.





Make sure the calories check out





Souffle done! It doesn't look the way I remember it from childhood, but hubby says it looks right to him.





Relax for a bit





Take bath





Good night DITL!