My 100 Goals
- run the entire Long Path- not all at once, but in sections (status: have run the first 12 miles)
- run 50 miles
- get to an advanced level of swing dancing
- learn to do aerials in swing dance
- finish all of my tattoos- buffalo, dragon, De la Vega, Ironman
- volunteer at a 100-mile race
- double Century road bike
- out and out own an apartment in NYC w. no mortgage
- have permanent cedar planters surrounding our patio
- paint a cute scene on the bathtub planter
- get birds to live in a birdhouse on my property
- learn about Manhattan flora and fauna, be able to name trees and flowers while walking around the parks
- go on a Central Park Nature Walk
- ride on a double decker bus tour
- take Earl to Babbo
- have my nieces visit us in NYC
- go on a long weekend to visit my parents in New Hampshire
- maintain yoga classes 4x per week
- weigh under 125lbs again!
- patch up a few waybegone friendships
- hike the Appalachian Trail
- heli ski in the Chugach Range
- visit Kellie in AK.
- own a farm in Argentina, perhaps near Bariloche or Mendoza
- become and ophthalmologist or a nurse practicioner
- go on a scaffold in NYC cleaning windows, be up over the 50th story
- Do not kill Herman, my very first potted plant! (Accomplished: he is alive and thriving on our patio after 5 years of living with me in NYC).
- Own a corgi (Accomplished: we now have Linus the rescue dog who lights up our lives!)
- have a professional photoshoot with Earl on a fall day at the beach
- Do something anonymously nice for two of my friends who are having a rough time (status: 1/2 accomplished thus far).
- track down my Japanese exchange student, Akiko Minoche, who I lost contact with when she moved to Tokyo and her parents left Nagano
- build a birdhouse
- run the Badwater 135
- run 100 miles
- Own TWO corgis! (status: 1/2 accomplished)
- have alpacas on the farm in Argentina, teach the corgis how to herd them
- have 500 readers/day for Dances with Corgis
- meet Gala Darling in person!
- be a Big Sister with Big Brothers/Big Sisters (status: applied and denied because they have too many volunteer mentors and not enough students in need of Big Sisters, will revisit in 6 months)
- write a bunch of wishes on pieces of paper, fold them up into paper airplanes and throw them off the roof of a building in NYC all at once
- cook 250 meals from the NYC cookbook by Molly O’Neal (status: have done 2/250, oy)
- learn more about gardening
- grow plants from seeds
- go dogsledding
- shop mostly or entirely with locally grown products
- volunteer for a week or two on an organic farm
- ace all of my post baccalaureate classes
- gogo dance at a NYC club
- take an intermediate level hiphop dance class with Luam
- take a hiphop dance class with Eric J
- stay on top of my reading, read a lot
- Read the NYTimes most Sundays (accomplished!)
- stay on top of writing in my journal
- own a sex swing
- teach kids to play chess/work with a Chess in the Schools program
- start playing competitive chess again
- make sure my parents are taken care of and happy in their golden years
- love Earl! (status: ongoing!)
- grow old with my beloved
- get married and have it be a fantastic party
- road trip on The Blues Highway, New Orleans to Chicago via Memphis and Nashville
- write a book
- ski at Taos
- climb a tree and take photographs in it
- camp on the beach for a week again
- Take my mom to a broadway show (Accomplished, took her to Phantom)
- be an old lady and wear lots of crazy hats all the time
- do a running race in the desert
- go to antartica
- travel in South America from Mexico to Argentina on the PanAm highway either via roadbike or car
- huck a 15 ft cliff while skiing (status: at about 6ft but have yet to really stomp a landing)
- do Nurses or Doctors without Borders
- have Linus train for and pass the Canine Good Citizens Test
- do a race or join the NYC Harriers
- go on a hot air balloon ride! (status: bought a gift certificate for Letchworth State Park balloons but have yet to make it up there for the weekend)
- play chess for $$$ in Washington Square Park
- play masters level Go (status: attended classes at NYC Go Center but am still on the small/training level)
- see otters in the wild!!!!!
- stomp grapes for wine
- throw my parents a fabulous 50th anniversary party
- be in a food-eating contest, could be for anything
- eat a giant burger in Pennsylvania with Steve
- do something really special to remember Nils other than drink PBR and tell stories about him with friends
- do a few more alleycat races with the NYC Bike Messengers (we did Cranksgiving last year and it was so fun!)
- have a Progressive Dinner with friends in NYC
- Design a nice website for Danceswithcorgis.com (accomplished!)
- write thank-you notes consistently. Forever. (status: accomplished, but ongoing)
- never lose my sense of wonder
- do a long ocean swim (status: registered for the 5k sea swim with Wendy, Brent and Jenny)
- take Earl marlin fishing
- hogtie Earl and tickle him mercilessly
- take an across the USA food roadtrip, taking cue from Roadfood by Jane and Michael Stern
- take a ride on Famous Fat Dave’s Wheels of Steel
- continue the annual Apple Orchard Ride tradition!
- check off more restaurants in my NYC-eatery checklist
- go to Blue Hill at Stone Barn
- pace my friend Nick at Leadville 100
- visit 1 new country per year
- skydive NOT tandem
- make a tradition of going Bemelmans after every NYC black tie event (status: ongoing, but accomplished thus far!)
- make my own pickles
- ride the tractor on Earls parents’ farm
- make more wreaths to hang up in the apartment
- make pasta from scratch
- go to Russia
- take Earl on a date in the back of my old Tacoma
- own a videocamera and learn how to edit (status: 1/2 accomplished)
- keep working on these and checking them off as I go!
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