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Color-Coded Guide:
Gardening & Going Green
Crafty & Creative
Food & Wine
Travel & Outdoors
Personal
Blogging & Social Media
Dogs
Entertainment
Purchases
  1. Buy something thrifted or used for our home
  2. Tour a beekeeping farm
  3. Speak with a farmer about their life & how they feel about the food industry
  4. Learn better gardening techniques
  5. Use a rain barrel
  6. Donate/recycle the books we have laying around
  7. Plant peonies
  8. Plant hydrangeas
  9. Start composting
  10. Buy a hybrid vehicle
  11. Go to a flea market
  12. Tour an organic farm
  13. Plan a green vacation
  14. Renovate a piece of furniture
  15. Sell something I write
  16. Write a book
  17. Sew something I can actually wear or use
  18. Create a piece of art we display
  19. Stop using the “auto” setting on my camera
  20. Write and produce a short film
  21. Actually frame & hang the posters/prints I’ve bought
  22. Create a living space that makes me happy every time I enter it
  23. Come up with 5 solid fiction storylines
  24. Complete a DIY project I’m inspired by on Pinterest
  25. Learn another hairstyle that isn’t just up or down
  26. Contribute to a travel, food or wine publication/site
  27. Cook & filet a whole fish
  28. Eat in a Michelin Star restaurant
  29. Take a cooking class from a restaurant chef I respect
  30. Don’t drink pop for a month
  31. Host new friends for dinner
  32. Eat something that grosses me out (tripe, sweetbreads, eyeball, etc)
  33. Create Mike’s craziest dinner requests to the letter 5 times (0/5)
  34. Don’t throw out any food for a month (0/30)
  35. Make my own cheese
  36. Eat lunch/dinner with Michael McCaulley of Tria
  37. Work/Volunteer in the wine industry
  38. Kill something, prepare it & eat it (see that here)
  39. Drink wine worth over $150
  40. Make macarons
  41. Submit a recipe to foodgawker and get accepted
  42. Eat uni (sea urchin) directly from the sea (see that here)
  43. Eat at a 3-star Michelin restaurant
  44. Make my own sandwich bread
  45. Make pasta
  46. Live in another country
  47. Learn another language (or two)
  48. See another National Park
  49. Let Mike take me fishing
  50. Visit Africa
  51. Truly appreciate a Roman landmark
  52. Take Mike to shoot a gun for the first time
  53. Visit 7 different countries (9/7) Spain, Andorra, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Gibraltar
  54. Go on an olive oil tour/tasting
  55. Fly first class
  56. Meet up with the local wine exporter from the Philly region while in Spain
  57. Visit Denver/Boulder, determine if we want to live there
  58. Stay at a Bed & Breakfast
  59. Go snorkeling
  60. Go canoeing with Mike
  61. Be a healthy, happy weight that I’m proud of
  62. Donate $1000 to charity(ies) of choice
  63. Fix something broken in the house by myself
  64. Bike 50 miles (in one trip)
  65. Establish a workout routine
  66. Learn to drive a manual transmission vehicle
  67. Create a unique/creative version of my resume in photoshop
  68. Teach a skill I possess to someone
  69. Get more involved in/learn more about our investments
  70. Roll over my 401Ks to a private IRA
  71. Get surgery for my hands
  72. Write wills
  73. Learn how to paint my nails like a pro
  74. Establish/Decide on my last name
  75. Get eyeglasses
  76. Get 10,000 visitors one month on my blog
  77. Pay for an awesome blog redesign
  78. Have a celebrity to respond to a tweet of mine
  79. Blog every day for a month
  80. Have a sponsored giveaway on the blog
  81. Tweet all of the members of *Nsync (0/5)
  82. Devote a whole day to the dogs’ entertainment
  83. Groom the dogs myself when they get too fluffy
  84. Teach dogs Spanish commands
  85. Play tug-of-war with Wrigley until he gives up
  86. See Declan O’Rourke in concert again
  87. Watch History of the World part I
  88. Watch The Godfather part I and II
  89. See a musician I like in an intimate setting (less than 200 people)
  90. Read Michael Pollan’s books available for Nook (0/6)
  91. Start collecting pretty hardcover classic novels to display
  92. Have another professional photography session with Mike
  93. Buy an epically fantastic dress that will last for years
  94. Buy myself a piece of nice jewelry (or pick a piece for Mike to buy me)
  95. Buy and learn a new board game
  96. Buy a new house
  97. Buy 3 pieces of art I love (0/3)
  98. Buy 3 pieces of art Mike loves (0/3)
  99. Buy and use a french press coffee maker
  100. Obtain a sewing machine
  101. Buy myself another piece of our china
I have until May 22, 2014 to complete all of these tasks! Do you think I can do it?