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Color-Coded Guide:
Gardening & Going Green
Crafty & Creative
Food & Wine
Travel & Outdoors
Personal
Blogging & Social Media
Dogs
Entertainment
Purchases
- Buy something thrifted or used for our home
- Tour a beekeeping farm
- Speak with a farmer about their life & how they feel about the food industry
- Learn better gardening techniques
- Use a rain barrel
- Donate/recycle the books we have laying around
- Plant peonies
- Plant hydrangeas
- Start composting
- Buy a hybrid vehicle
- Go to a flea market
- Tour an organic farm
- Plan a green vacation
- Renovate a piece of furniture
- Sell something I write
- Write a book
- Sew something I can actually wear or use
- Create a piece of art we display
- Stop using the “auto” setting on my camera
- Write and produce a short film
- Actually frame & hang the posters/prints I’ve bought
- Create a living space that makes me happy every time I enter it
- Come up with 5 solid fiction storylines
- Complete a DIY project I’m inspired by on Pinterest
- Learn another hairstyle that isn’t just up or down
- Contribute to a travel, food or wine publication/site
Cook & filet a whole fishEat in a Michelin Star restaurant- Take a cooking class from a restaurant chef I respect
- Don’t drink pop for a month
Host new friends for dinner- Eat something that grosses me out (tripe, sweetbreads, eyeball, etc)
- Create Mike’s craziest dinner requests to the letter 5 times (0/5)
- Don’t throw out any food for a month (0/30)
- Make my own cheese
- Eat lunch/dinner with Michael McCaulley of Tria
- Work/Volunteer in the wine industry
Kill something, prepare it & eat it(see that here)Drink wine worth over $150- Make macarons
- Submit a recipe to foodgawker and get accepted
Eat uni (sea urchin) directly from the sea(see that here)Eat at a 3-star Michelin restaurant- Make my own sandwich bread
- Make pasta
Live in another country- Learn another language (or two)
- See another National Park
- Let Mike take me fishing
- Visit Africa
Truly appreciate a Roman landmark- Take Mike to shoot a gun for the first time
Visit 7 different countries (9/7)Spain, Andorra, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Gibraltar- Go on an olive oil tour/tasting
Fly first class- Meet up with the local wine exporter from the Philly region while in Spain
- Visit Denver/Boulder, determine if we want to live there
- Stay at a Bed & Breakfast
- Go snorkeling
- Go canoeing with Mike
- Be a healthy, happy weight that I’m proud of
- Donate $1000 to charity(ies) of choice
- Fix something broken in the house by myself
- Bike 50 miles (in one trip)
- Establish a workout routine
- Learn to drive a manual transmission vehicle
- Create a unique/creative version of my resume in photoshop
- Teach a skill I possess to someone
- Get more involved in/learn more about our investments
- Roll over my 401Ks to a private IRA
- Get surgery for my hands
- Write wills
- Learn how to paint my nails like a pro
- Establish/Decide on my last name
- Get eyeglasses
- Get 10,000 visitors one month on my blog
- Pay for an awesome blog redesign
- Have a celebrity to respond to a tweet of mine
- Blog every day for a month
- Have a sponsored giveaway on the blog
- Tweet all of the members of *Nsync (0/5)
- Devote a whole day to the dogs’ entertainment
- Groom the dogs myself when they get too fluffy
- Teach dogs Spanish commands
Play tug-of-war with Wrigley until he gives up- See Declan O’Rourke in concert again
- Watch History of the World part I
- Watch The Godfather part I and II
- See a musician I like in an intimate setting (less than 200 people)
- Read Michael Pollan’s books available for Nook (0/6)
- Start collecting pretty hardcover classic novels to display
- Have another professional photography session with Mike
- Buy an epically fantastic dress that will last for years
- Buy myself a piece of nice jewelry (or pick a piece for Mike to buy me)
- Buy and learn a new board game
- Buy a new house
- Buy 3 pieces of art I love (0/3)
- Buy 3 pieces of art Mike loves (0/3)
Buy and use a french press coffee maker- Obtain a sewing machine
- 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?




