All About (the) Eve

Tomorrow is the day I start back up with this project. From tomorrow's date (10 June) this should run until 07 March 2016. I have gone through and re-read all of my goals, organized them into categories and feel really good about them. I will admit, I only wrote the last 15 today. I remember it seeming easier last time; perhaps one year of happy marriage and a better career path will do that.

For a lark, I decided to see what I accomplished from the last time I tried this. Some of the uncompleted tasks I have added to Round 2. Any notes for are in brown:

1. Buy flowers for the house every week for a month
2. Get my hands on a card catalog or old medicine cabinet
3. Organize pay stubs and maintain it
4. Buy or build a sideboard/bar for the dining room The Jon Hamm bar was found for free!
5. Grow/maintain a kitchen herb garden
6. Redecorate well enough to submit a photo
7. Set up an efficient laundry system in the basement
8. Decorate the foyer
9. Get Lola on healthier food from Howl
10. Make the bed every day for one week¹-² I still struggle with this one!
11. Implement a cleaning routine for two weeks I keep our house clean in furies, which is silly
12. Set up a Gift Wrapping Station/Card Centre in my office
13. Construct a Mail Centre in the Living Room
14. Organize clothes; get rid of/donate everything I don’t wear ³ This has proven to be quite the endeavour! Who knew we kept so much?!
15. Create a pantry in the backroom
16. Invent a better way to read while showering!
17. Lower my WiiFit age
18. Start running thrice weekly Ah, charming naïveté
19. Stick to a meal plan for two weeks solid
20. Get my broken tooth fixed :/
21. Blow dry my hair every time I wash it for a month
22. Wear makeup every day for a week ² I seem to max out at three days
23. Grow my hair back past my shoulder blades
24. Buy five COMPLETE pairs of earrings (0/5)
25. Take a multivitamin every day for a month ²
26. Have my hair dyed professionally
27. Get my nose pierced
28. Learn how to do Victory Rolls (well)
29. Make James lunch three times a week at least for one month (1/4)
30. Make sushi at home (no poisson poisining)
31. Make and print my own stationary
32. Start my earworm/repetune project
33. Host a wine and cheese party
34. Design my tattoo Now I just have to get it
35. Host a kabob party in the backyard
36. Start a photo project
37. Make myself Bento lunches every school day for a month
38. Make a cake with fondant
39. Make infused vodka
40. Make ten recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking(0/10)
41. Learn to make Indian food
42. Cook a three course meal
43. Have dinner at Andy's restaurant
44. Eat at Petit Louis (without fainting at the bill)
45. Knit Christmas stockings for James, Lola and I
46. Get Adobe CS4 - somehow I have CS2 for free and I'm happy
47. Get Flock Tee shirts designed and sold
48. Start sketching three times a week, minimum
49. See the Orioles at an away game twice (0/2)
50. Got to a Caps game
51. Go apple picking in the autumn
52. Plan a trip to Europe
53. Learn to play Poker
54. Join a duckpin bowling league (with cheesy name and shirts)
55. Sing at Open Mic with Andrew
56. Confirm the venue for James' 30th birthday party Life happens
57. Go to Salem with Alison and David
58. Wear a ball gown and pearls somewhere
59. Play some DnD
60. Get a photo with the Oriole Bird - with a smile
61. Watch the entirety of BSG ¹
62. Lord of the Rings movie Marathon
63. Put my library into Dewey  I opted for Library of Congress
64. Get the hell out of CCBC! 
65. Get my driver's license
66. Read the Bible and Qaran in entirety (including banned texts)
67. Take a real Yoga class
68. Take a dance class and go out dancing
69. Start writing a Tolkien criticism - just for fun
70. Collect Tolkien in 5 different languages (0/5)
71. Take a course at CCBC with Ami and/or Louis
72. Take a French class (credit or audit) I dropped it when Dad got sick
73. Get CPR certified
74. Join a Book Club (online?)
75. Buy the OED
76. Read a french book en française
77. Get a reader card form the Library Of Congress
78. Read the Top 6 Books from the National Book Awards Fiction 2009 (1/6)
79. Learn to use a sewing machine (safely)
80. First Aid Certification
81. Subscribe to the New York Times
82. Subscribe to the New Yorker
83. Donate blood ten times (1/10) I did it more than once but goodness knows how many it really was
84. Be an Apheresis donor thrice (0/3)
85. Raise $200 for the Polar Bear Plunge
86. Do a Cancer walk/run
87. Get someone else to do Polar Bear Plunge
88. Sign 5 petitions (2/5) I re-joined Amnesty and I sign more than 5 on a regular basis
89. Go to the BMA/Walters three times a year (0/8)
90. Go to the opera with James ¹
91. Leave 5 books in different coffee shops with a note (0/5) ³ I did give away a book in the bar once because I loved it so much and felt a stranger should have it.
92. Send/Receive stranger's postcards ³
93. Go to the Hindu temple with Mom
94. Get a new passport
95. Celebrate five years with James
96. Sell three things on eBay (0/3)
97. Go on a Romantic weekend holiday
98. Follow John Wilkes Booth's escape tour
99. Buy a new computer + external hard drive for backup
100. Go camping
101. Blog 75 of these things! (1/75) ¹²³