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Restarting. Yes, again. Due to the massive changes in my life in the last 4-5 months, I've lost way too much time and there are too many goals on my old list that I wouldn't be able to complete because of the changes to my finances (ie. can't afford 'em!). So I'm revamping the list and starting over again.

Italics means the goal is in progress
Strikethrough means the goal is done

Health - 13 goals
1. Lose 50 pounds
2. Follow and complete the Beck Diet Solution program
3. Take my pills every day for 6 months straight and keep a record of it
4. Eat fish once a week for a month
5. Exercise for a minimum of 10 minutes three times per week for three months (1/12 completed)
6. Buy a home blood pressure cuff and get my blood pressure under control without the use of medication
7. stop drinking pop for 3 months (no pop at all, not even diet)
8. Learn tai chi (via video is fine)
9. brush my teeth twice a day and floss once a day for 3 months
10. Get Ian to put me onto his medical plan
11. Walk a total of 250km during the 1001 days (2.66/250 completed)
12. Get a professional massage
13. Complete a Couch-to-5k program

Media & Art - 8 goals
14. read every one of Shakespeare's plays
15. organize my music library so that iTunes will finally not have any duplicate entries
16. add one new album per month to my music library
17. add all of my books to my online book listing on goodreads
18. read 10 of the books in my collection that I've never read before
19. Watch 20 of the movies from the IMdb top 250 movies of all time list that I have never
seen before
20. Read 10 books from the list at http://www.best100novels.com/ that I've never read before
21. Read 5 books on the reading list for the Personal MBA

Financial - 5 goals
22. remain debt free for the entire duration of the project (the exceptions being the responsible use of my credit card, and my car loan)
23. save $1000 in an emergency fund
24. get a credit card and use it responsibly
25. open an RRSP account and deposit $500 in it
26. keep track of every penny spent for 6 months

Spirituality - 12 goals
27. celebrate every full moon for a year
28. celebrate every solstice and equinox for a year
29. meditate for a minimum of 10 minutes at least once a week for a year
30. finish my ADF dedicant program
31. attend a public Oakstone ADF ritual
32. get a "professional" divination of some sort done for me
33. get a past life regression done
34. get my first degree reiki attunement done
35. receive a reiki treatment from someone else
36. set up an altar
37. create a Book of Shadows type book
38. find some sort of storage device for herbs and start working with them more

Organization - 3 goals
39. Get the house completely cleaned and organized by my 35th birthday (April 29, 2011)
40. install Ubuntu/Windows as dual boot, and get all my files completely organized
41. Create a schedule that will keep the house clean all the time with minimal maintenance time

Creativity/Music - 15 goals
42. start working on the AS 50 challenge (http://www.artsandsciences50.org) - complete the first 25 projects within the 1001 days, as AS50 goes til 2015
43. Join one of the New Westminster concert bands
44. enter all of my yarn and completed projects into my Ravelry profile
45. take photos of all of my completed craft projects that I can round up, and take photos of all finished projects from now on.
46. go to a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performance
47. learn to play the harp well enough to feel comfortable playing for friends at an SCA event
48. learn to proficiency and memorize at least 10 piano pieces so that I can play for people at the drop of a hat, and play them regularly so that they stay memorized
49. practice the piano for a minimum of 30 minutes a day for three months straight (days spent entirely away from home excepted)
50. learn to sing a song in a different language
51. learn 3 different calligraphy hands well enough that I can do battle-calligraphy at events without having to refer to an exemplar
52. design and create 2 sets of casual clothing myself (underwear excluded)
53. make 5 new pieces of jewelry for my collection
54. learn how to use my camera properly and take 5 *good* photos a week for 6 months
55. bake once a week for 3 months and share my baking
56. brush up on my leatherworking and start making a leather book cover for my BoS
57. Go through the Artist's Way program

Education - 3 goals
58. increase my fluency in a language to the point where I can hold a simple conversation (spoken or written) with a native speaker
59. learn enough of a programming or coding language to write a simple application
60. learn to sign 20 words in ASL

SCA - 6 goals
61. register my SCA name and device (in progress, working with a herald)
62. attend four consecutive principality or kingdom events
63. enter an SCA bardic competition
64. enter an SCA Arts & Sciences competition
65. create an entire norse outfit, head to toe, including underwear, socks and shoes, and beads, but not brooches, by hand
66. get back to archery practice, score a Royal Round and then improve by at least 20 points
over a season
67. design, calligraph and paint an entire scroll all on my own

Online/Computer - 3 goals
68. redesign personal website/weblog and post twice a week for 6 months
69. get one character of each class in WoW to level 85 (faction unimportant) (4/10 complete, but I have 9/10 at 80)
70. finish a Wii game (probably Super Mario Brothers.Wii)

Miscellaneous - 30 goals
71. call my grandparents once a week for 3 months
72. fly on a plane
73. Eat at five new restaurants
74. try a dish that is completely out of character for me when eating out 6 times
75. meet two friends in person that I know via the internet only at the making of this list
76. try absinthe
77. decorate the apartment, including painting at least one wall
78. Wear jewelry and makeup daily for a month straight
79. draft and execute my Will (in progress, still deciding on things)
80. get a tattoo (I've decided what I want, I just need to get it drawn and done)
81. re-pierce my nose
82. visit a foreign country (USA only counts if there's at least one state between BC and my destination)
83. have a proper IQ test done
84. visit my sister in Calgary
85. attempt to reconcile with a particular former friend
86. Plant and grow a container garden on my balcony containing at least 6 herbs, and successfully harvest at least one large handful of herb from each plant
87. Pack my lunch to work every day for 2 months
88. eat breakfast at home and not purchase anything on the way to work for 2 months
89. learn a basic poi spinning routine
90. take a non-SCA road trip somewhere
91. go 3 weeks without having to throw out ANY spoiled food from the fridge
92. donate blood (and thereby find out my blood type)
93. find a geocache
94. find a hairstyle that suits me and doesn't require much maintenance
95. take a weekend trip to Seattle
96. visit/tour a winery/cidery/meadery and do a tasting
97. try 10 different foods that I've always thought would be gross
98. get a sourdough starter and bake sourdough at home
99. learn to brew mead
100. bake all bread products consumed in my household for 1 month
101. get 10 pictures of friends and family and frame them and put them up around the house (3/10 - added the pic of Rick & Mellissa's brood)
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