The Finished List

Home
1. Move into a two bedroom apartment - Completed 3/31/10

2. Save towards a down payment
3. Go through and clean out my closet - Completed 3/16/10
4. Get a hutch to organize plates, glasses and dinning area - Completed 3/29/10
5. Get a Blu-Ray player - Completed 2/2/10
6. Get a bookshelf - Completed 3/30/10
7. Start using "green" cleaning products - Completed 3/10/10
8. Do a deep clean of the apartment once a month (34/34) - Completed 4/29/12

9. Go through and organize items in Dan and Sue's basement - Completed 10/31/11

10. Frame more pictures around the apartment - Completed 4/6/11

Cooking
11. Make bread from scratch - Completed 11/23/11
12. Make cake from scratch - Completed 9/4/11
13. Make cookies from scratch - Completed 12/26/09
14. Bake a pie for each Thanksgiving (3/3) - Completed 11/24/11
15. Make a dessert for each Christmas dinner (3/3) - Completed 12/25/11
16. Make a dessert for each Boxing Day (3/3) - Completed 12/26/11

17. Make something for each family gathering - Completed 4/8/12
18. Learn to wok
19. Use the crockpot for dinner sixty times (60/60) - Completed 5/1/12
20. Try at least two new recipes a month (50/68)

Family/Friends
21. Visit Grandma for her 100th birthday - Completed 1/14/11
22. Have people over for my birthday
23. Have people over for Geoff's birthday - Completed 10/15/11
24. Have a Christmas/holiday party each year (1/3)
25. Get together with friends once a month (20/34)
26. Organize a regular game night

27. Have brunch with the girls every two months (1/17)
28. Host a dinner party for friends
29. Have both parents over for dinner together
30. Send/give birthday cards to all immediate family - Completed 4/8/12

31. Send pictures to Grandma at least 4 times a year (6/11) - Completed 4/19/11
32. Organize a family Christmas picture each year (3/3) - Completed 12/25/11
33. Send Christmas cards each year (3/3) - Completed 12/5/11

34. Scan old family photos
35. Do more research on Mom's side of the family tree
36. Do more research on Geoff's side of the family tree

Church/Charity
37. Participate in one charity walk per year (0/3)
38. Participate in the midnight run at church once a year (0/3)
39. Find a volunteer opportunity to participate in
40. Attend Easter sunrise service each year (3/3) - Completed 4/8/12
41. Get involved in a church group
42. Attend Sunday services at least twice a month (34/68)

Marriage
43. Save money for a 5 year anniversary trip
44. Take a beach vacation with Geoff
45. Have a monthly date-night with Geoff (11/34)
46. Stay in and cook dinner together once a month (2/34)

47. Go on a picnic with Geoff
48. Spend a weekend with Geoff and no interruptions
49. Take a site seeing trip to Philadelphia with Geoff
50. Take a site seeing trip to Boston with Geoff
51. Take a site seeing trip to Washington DC with Geoff
52. Go to the Bodies Exhibit with Geoff
53. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Geoff
54. Go to the Cathedral of St John the Divine with Geoff
55. Go to the Cloisters with Geoff
56. Go to a musical with Geoff
57. Go to a play with Geoff
58. Go to a Cirque de Soliel show with Geoff
59. Get marriage certificate corrected
60. Finish wedding scrapbook

Personal
61. Renew my British passport with my married name - Completed 5/4/10

62. Renew my American passport with my married name - Completed 7/30/10

63. Learn a new language
64. Go to a concert - Completed 9/23/09
65. Go to a Yankee game - Completed 9/12/09
66. Go to a Rangers' game
67. Go to the Statue of Liberty
68. Go to Ellis Island
69. Go to the top of the Empire State Building
70. Go to the Museum of Natural History
71. Spend a day in Central Park
72. Spend a day downtown
73. Take the Circle Line
74. Go on vacation somewhere I have never been before
75. Revamp and update resume
76. Find a new job - Completed 8/19/09
77. Get a certification in event planning
78. Organize all paperwork
79. Pay off debt
80. Increase emergency savings by three months
81. Do not go out to eat for one month
82. Have breakfast in bed

83. Keep my New Years resolutions (2/2) - Completed 12/31/11

84. Read 2 new books a month (26/68)

85. Go one whole day at home without touching the computer or blackberry driod
86. Get a new laptop - Completed 2/2/10
87. Get a new camera - Completed 12/1/09
88. Print and organize photos
89. Back up digital photos - Completed 6/7/11
90. Caption all the people in our digital photographs

91. Learn to knit
92. Learn to crochet

93. Take ballet classes - Completed 3/26/11

94. Take tap classes
95. Take jazz classes
96. Work out three times a week - Completed 9/30/11
97. Get back to the size I was when I started J. Mendel - Completed 8/29/10

The List
98. Create a blog for this journey - Completed 8/12/09
99. Take pictures of this journey - Completed 5/6/12
100. Put $5 in savings for each completed item - Completed 5/9/12

101. Make a new list of 101 things - Completed 5/9/12