The List

Here is my 101 Things in 1001 list.  I start October 2nd, my 25th birthday. 

Competent adult activities (8)
-Recycle all recyclables for 1001 days
-Finish and organize my disaster/pandemic kit
-Finish my Afghan
-Knit another blanket
-Organize my recipe box
-Organize my important documents
-Find my social security card (see above); procur another should it prove to be AWOL.
Turns out it was back in Maryland all along!
-For 30 days in a row, wash all dishes at night so as to wake up to a clean sink.
Food activities (14)
-Make baklava
-Make cheese
-Make sourdough from a starter
-Harvest black walnuts
-Make nocino (green walnut liquor)
-Try Calliope ice cream
-Try a Humble Pie pie
-Try oxtail
-Make two new kinds of preserves
1) Apple butter: the secret appears to be apple cider vinegar and apple cider liquor
-Cook 8 kinds of vegetables I've never cooked before
1) Turnips: In chicken braised with Fall vetables, 10/11/12.  Not offensive at all, but not tremendously flavorful.
-Bake a really, really fancy cake
-Go vegan for two weeks (for my own sanity, they do not have to be back-to-back weeks).
-Eat a cheeseburger. Sustain-a-burger (grass-fed patty) at the Great Dane, 10/3/12
-Have a brunch party
Health (16)
-Run a half-marathon
11/3/12: Tyranena 1/2 Barrel run
-Run a full marathon
-Go to an actual GP; discuss concerns with said actual GP openly without fear of looking like a hypochondriac
-Floss teeth 1001 times
-Write out my living will and POA
-Limit sweet consumption to one (epic, memorable) dessert per week.  Take picture of said dessert.
-Do at least one pull-up.  (This may be next to impossible--should this prove futile, I would like at least to do more than hang there and kick.)
-See a dermatologist, get them to identify and treat problematic moles (as opposed to the current plan, which is to freak out about any mole looking unusually moley.)
11/7/12: Diagnosed with a dysplastic nevus, scheduled to be removed 11/28/12.
-Record what I eat for a month
-Take a picture of everything I eat for a week
-Get glasses with my new prescription (if only so I can walk through the HSLC atrium without squinting warily and hoping I'm not unintentially ignoring anyone).
-Take 1001 vitamins and 1001 caltrate pills.
-Get a fasting lipid panel done.
-Try meditation
-Try yoga
1/23/13: PowerFlow
-Get my weight to below 135 lbs; never let it get above 135.
Fun stuff at home (11)
-Play a game of pub trivia (10/8/12, postdoc's farewell dinner at Capitol Tap House)
-Try to cross-country ski or snowshoe
-Do karaoke (and keep a list of acceptible songs somewhere, so I don't blank out and forget what I'm capable of singing.)
-Try paddleboarding
-Go berry-picking twice
-Visit a comedy club
-Go on a day-long biking adventure with Intaglio
-Tour a brewery
-Go downhill skiing.  Try not to break anything.
-Go to a concert
-Go swimming in a lake.  Or a cold, fast-moving river (damn you, Naegleria fowleri)
Travel (8)
-Go to Chicago
-Go to Milwaukee
-Go to New York City
-Go to the West Coast
-Go on at least 3 full-day hikes
-See the ocean.  Ideally, tide pools.
-Visit a state I've never been to before
-Climb a mountain.  (Are there any WI mountains?)
Money (6)
-Keep track of all my income and expenditures (do not give up halfway through the month because it's depressing).
-Save $3000 per year
-Figure out exactly what my savings accounts are and where I should be putting my money.
-Spend one month figuring out exactly how much I spend on food at work, and, following that:
-Go one month without buying any snacks or meals at work
-Fill up each of our 3 piggy banks: cash the coins and go do something AWESOME.
Career/School (12)
-Find a good preceptor for 903; meet with them faithfully 10 times per semester.
-Keep grad school GPA as close to a 4.0 as possible (yes, it doesn't matter, yes, research is more important, yes, anything less than an A has and always will irk me.)
Fall 2012: 4.0!
-Write one review paper
-Write (and publish) two scientific papers
-Write (and do everything in my power to get) an F30 grant
-Pass my prelim with flying colors
-Give a talk.
-Devote two hours a week to reviewing First Aid/BRS/notes
-Organize my current lab notebook
-When the time comes to start a new notebook, keep it spic and span
-Learn how to use a citation manager
Mendeley...it's a work in progress...
-No facebook for 2 weeks (my productivity will skyrocket, right?  Right?).
Silly personal goals/Satisfying my 13-year-old self (9)
-Write that novel.  Even if it's a half a page a day and it sucks.  It probably will suck.  Write it regardless
-Get inked
-Read at least 30 books of fiction
1) The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood, finished 10/31/12 
2) Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel, finished 11/20/12 
3) The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, finished 12/28/12
4) John Dies at the End, David Wong, finished 12/29/12
5) Someone Will Be With You Shortly, Lisa Kogan, finished 1/17/13, technically not fiction but this is my goddurned blog!
6) God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut, finished 1/17/13
7) Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout, by Lauren Redniss.  Finished 2/5/13.  Also non-fiction.
-Dye my hair
-Get that "Now Panic and Freak Out" t-shirt I have privately coveted for months.
-Ditto an "Innsmouth Swim Team" t-shirt.  Even if I have to get it printed myself, dammit!
-Watch the Spongebob Squarepants movie
-Read 5 books that I have, for one reason or another, been terminally reluctant to read.
-Go to an amusement park or water park
Interpersonal (10)
-Send Christmas cards
-Send Christmas cookies
We did Christmas caramels with attached Christmas cards 2012 (flavors: vanilla, espresso-orange, sesame-ginger, maple-walnut)
-Help out/volunteer at 10 university/MSTP events
1) 10/12/12: Morning escort for MD/PhD candidates
2) 10/12/12: Chaperone for bowling and pizza night for MD/PhD candidates 
3) 10/13/12: State street tour and lunch for MD/PhD candidates
4) 11/8/12: Volunteered at the Salvation Army Dental clinic
5) 11/30/12: Morning escort for MD/PhD candidates
6) 11/30/12: Bowling/pizza chaperone for candidates
7) 12/1/12: Lunch at Sunroom cafe, cheese tour (eg, Fromagination), impromptu capitol tour to touch the lucky badger's nose (yes, I pretty much did the same thing with the second set of candidates that I did with the first!)
8) 1/18/13: Afternoon escort for MD/PhD candidate
9) 1/19/13: State street tour for MD/PhD candidates: Lunch at Mia Za's, cheese/ice cream tour
-Donate blood
1/23/13
-Send Valentines
-Send 10 care packages/gifts unaffiliated with a major life event
-Write a thank-you card for Every.  Single.  Favor/Present/Gift.  No exceptions.
-Go on a trip with my family
-Cut out discretionary spending for a month or two, and then buy someone a really, really nice gift.
-Bake 6 birthday cakes
1) Intaglio's birthday, 11/28/12: Lemon poppy-seed cake, lemon curd mousse filling, lemon cream-cheese frosting...the cake layers were soaked in lemon syrup, too.   Intaglio really likes lemon. Covered with almond flavored fondant to look like a popcorn box.
2) Zen's birthday cake, 12/14/12: English toffee cheesecake, consisting of a graham cracker crust with plain toffee bits, a layer of brown sugar cheesecake flavored with almond, a layer of chocolate toffee pieces, another layer of cheesecake, and a sour cream top.  Decorated with red and green sugar.
Miscellaneous (7)
-Get a new bathrobe Completed 10/2/12 thanks to Intaglio!
-Get the carpets steam-cleaned
Completed 11/3/12, also thanks to Intaglio
-Organize the top of the closet
-Throw out all socks that no longer have their mates.
Done.  I'm pretty sure I never, ever need to buy socks again.
-Procur 7 new pairs of earrings
1) Red glass engagement earrings from Intaglio, 12/25/12
3 pairs of earrings from my family (also Christmas 2012)
2)  Yellow single gemstone
3) Pearl with spangly metal bits
4) Steampunk flower (made of copper wire and gears)
-Organize the cabinets
-Get a new TV
HAH!  Finally.  11/29/12, Intaglio's 29th birthday present.