My challenges list

101 Things for 1001 Days

1. Make a will and get it notarized
2. Make a living will and get it notarized
3. Lose xx pounds (you don't need to know the actual number)
4. Practice my harp at least once a week for a year
5. Finish the online Latin course that I started
6. Solo trip to England
7. Solo trip in the US
8. Visit Canada (more than just past the border)
9. Visit Mexico (more than just past the border)
10. Visit a European country I haven't seen before
11. Solo kayak - no one following, at least around one island from Nina & Peter's, no help getting in or out of the kayak - to help get over my fear of water (onshore cheering is allowed) - completed 8/19/10
12. Visit all my grandparents' graves
13. Redecorate the bathroom
14. Put tile in under the woodstove
15. Do something nice - without being asked - for someone each day for a month
16. Revisit 23 things on a stick and finish the second round
17. Make and mail care packages to each of my nephews and nieces
18. Try out for a community theater part (on stage, not behind the scenes)
19. Finish reading the "essential" section of Proulx's "Books for a Well Educated Adult" list
20. Spend an afternoon writing "why you're fabulous" notes for 10 people that I'm close to and then give them out
21. Actually celebrate my 40th birthday rather than pretending it doesn't exist
22. Make a new recipe (not baked goods) each month for a year
23. Finish my Christmas stocking that was supposed to be done several years ago
24. Visit each of my siblings and invite them to visit me
25. Learn to make fortune cookies and have a party where they are part of the menu
26. Host a wine tasting party
27. Listen to ALL of the songs I own at least once
28. Beat all the levels on Zoo Tycoon
29. Finish my Dewey classification reading goal
30. Read 10 popular authors (new to me) that I normally wouldn't to keep up with trends
31. Make myself three new costumes for fun 
32. Cook an ethnic meal from each continent (excluding Antartica)
33. Use each herb in my garden in a different dish over the course of a summer
34. Learn to make 15 different cocktails from memory
35. Go to a vineyard and taste - buy a bottle of my favorite
36. Start writing poetry again - at least 20 new poems
37. Memorize 10 more poems to add to my "library in my head"
38. Read a daily newspaper every day for 3 months (can be online subscription)
39. Make 1000 paper cranes and a wish
40. Attempt to become better at drawing by completely filling the pages of a sketchbook with my own efforts
41. Take a community education or college continuing education course
42. Learn how to do video editing
43. Write to 3 people who've changed my life to thank them
44. Break out the jingles and belly dance at least once a week for 4 months
45. Host a "make music" night for all my talented friends
46. Donate to a different charity each month for a year
47. Start a blueberry patch in the backyard
48. Take Mom and Dad on a vacation
49. Spend an entire weekend in my pajamas
50. Try growing lettuce inside in the winter
51. Take a First Aid/CPR refresher course
52. Actually write down a life bucket list of at least 10 items
53. Try geocaching
54. Include a vegetable side dish at supper every night for 2 months - to get back in the habit of eating more veggies
55. Donate blood
56. Take one of the Duluth train trips
57. Repaint the porch trim and garage
58. Send at least 15 Operation Baking Gals boxes
59. Go berry picking at least 5 times
60. Read at least 15 of my "reserve" books to get the stack size down
61. Invite friends over for 10 game nights
62. Try canning a new type of preserves
63. See Wicked
64. Meet savings goal #1
65. Meet savings goal #2
66. Meet savings goal #3
67. Complete perennial bed along east fence in back yard
68. Read at least 200 books per calendar year (should be at or past #80 by ending date for 2013)
69. Restart blogging as a way to document doing this list (this goal can be considered complete after 20 posts)
70. Take 10 frame-worthy photos to display in my home
71. Pack a work lunch every day for a month
72. Visit 5 new places in Minnesota
73. See 10 live theater productions
74. Reduce my morning walk time to 35 minutes without losing distance
75. Plant a boulevard tree in front of my house
76. Find out my blood type
77. Don't complain about anything for a week
78. Send a secret to PostSecret
79. Watch 10 movies from my "someday" list
80. Ride in a taxi
81. Learn how to make bagels
82. Finally do the Australia photo party
83. Find a spot in a different room to put some of the kitchen stuff I rarely use (canning equipment, roaster, etc), so I have more room to work
84. Throw a murder mystery dinner party
85. Throw a menu mystery dinner pary
86. Try absinthe
87. Get a slide to digital photo machine and use it on Mom & Dad's slides
88. See an opera
89. Rewire my reading lamp that Dad made - completed 8/17/10
90. Learn to identify 5 new constellations
91. Say no to 5 requests that I really don't want to do
92. Make a list of 25 things that I do well
93. Go to 10 different museums
94. Memorize what all the icons on my digital camera stand for
95. Make 5 new jewelry pieces
96. Play my keyboard at least 30 times
97. Participate in PostCrossing.com
98. Send 3 people who aren't related to me a surprise ... just because
99. Take a lunch break at work every day for two weeks straight
100. Attend 5 local performing arts events that I'm tempted to skip because I'm tired - dessert theater in the light booth is allowed
101. Donate $20 to charity for each item that I don't accomplish by the last day - May 13th, 2013