Started: September 1, 2013
Ended: May 29, 2016
Completed: 75/101
Kind: to myself and others (13/15)
1. Send 25 handwritten notes (25/25)
2. Send holiday cards every year (3/3)
3. Pay the bill for someone behind me {8.3.15}
4. Bring soup to a sick friend {10.16.13}
5. Help 3 friends decorate their apartments-already helping L (also C+J and S and N) {Fall 2013}
6. Do a 30 day workout challenge
7. Buy someone a “just because” gift {3.13.15}
8. Start volunteering with or get involved with CJP/BBYO/similar
9. Leave a 100% tip {10.14.13}
10. Cheer up a friend by treating them to a cocktail or ice cream {10.22.13}
11. Maintain 2x weekly gym visits for 3 months {Spring/Summer 2014}
12. Download a new workout song once a month (33/33)
13. Attend 5 yoga or pilates classes at the gym instead of working out on my own (5/5)
14. Visit my grandpa in Florida {April 2014}
15. Switch green tea for coffee more often
Food, wine and entertaining (6/10)
16. Have a dinner party of 3 courses {Passover 4.4.15}
17. Host a board game and cocktails night {11.11.13}
18. Try 3 new “fancy” restaurants (Mistral, Ten Tables, Toro)
19. Try 3 “too complicated” dessert recipes {Rugelach 2.4.14}
20. Make bread from scratch
21. Try 10 new recipes and blog them (10/10)
22. Host/organize 5 friend nights of 4+ friends (5/5)
23. Read a book about wine
24. Give a toast
25. Try 5 new foods (5/5 cronuts, marrow, papaya, pig's ear, sweet breads)
Joyful: fashion and beauty (5/8)
26. Add 10 coffee table books to my collection (10/10)
27. Get a facial {6.2.14}
28. Master curling my hair
29. Whiten teeth
30. Buy a splurge dress {9.15.14 DVF Bentley dress}
31. Get all glammed up for my 25th birthday party: sparkly dress, manicure, blowout, etc {12.7.13}
32. Wear bright or bold lipstick every day for a week
33. Wear perfume every day for 21 days
Joyful: just for fun (13/15)
34. Fall in love {10.2013}
35. Take a barre class {3.21.15}
36. Take a staycation and spend the night in a hotel
37. Watch a movie from the year I was born (1988) {12.15.13 Coming to America}
38. See 5 of the Best Picture Oscar nominees before the ceremony
39. See 3 of ^these alone Revised to: See 3 movies alone
40. Buy a lottery ticket {11.14.15}
41. Order/make monogrammed stationery {11.10.14}
42. Buy myself flowers every week for a month {9.15}
43. Write myself a letter on my 25th birthday to open on my 30th {12.21.13}
44. Re-read Harry Potter
45. Buy a splurge candle {Diptyque Foie de Bois 12.21.14}
46. Pull a prank!
47. Instagram something that makes me happy every day for 30 days
48. Own Winning London on DVD {8.20.14}
Settled (9/11)
49. Have apartment published in a magazine or on a blog
50. Sew my own pillows for my living room couches
51. Hire professional cleaners for a deep clean Revised to: Deep clean the apartment {May 2016}
52. Add a plant to my apartment and keep it alive
53. Set up a bar cart/tray {December 2014}
54. Finish decorating apartment
bar areacomforter {10.18.13}living room pillows {2014}add plants {9.7.13}new oven mitts {9.7.13}new sheets {8.24.14}art in dining area {10.13.13}matching couches {9.3.13}
55. Make bed 30 days straight {January 2014}
56. Start a cleaning routine
57. Come up with better organization for sheets/towels {April 2014}
58. Expand my gallery wall
59. Get rid of unused make up, toiletries, and medicine {January 2014}
Smart (8/12)
60. Build a real emergency savings account
61. Learn how to change a tire
62. Learn to wake up without snoozing more than once
63. Go a month without buying anything (bills, groceries, etc are of course exceptions) {February 2014}
64. Read 30 new books (30/30)
- Brick Lane
- Little Lady Agency and the Prince
- Revenge Wears Prada
- No Reservations
- Divergent
- Insurgent
- Allegiant
- Seating Arrangements
- 100 Foot Journey
- Beautiful Ruins
- Bright Young Things
- Beautiful Days: A Bright Young Things Novel
- The Lucky Ones: A Bright Young Things Novel
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
- Heart of the Matter
- The Constant Princess
- Mrs. Kennedy and Me
- The Vacationers
- One I can't remember!
- Honeymoon Hotel
- Crazy Rich Asians
- The Queen's Lover
- Sleeping Arrangements
- The Island
- The Boston Girl
- The New Jewish Wedding (non-fiction)
- China Rich Girlfriend
- Sammy's Hill
- The Heir
- The Unfortunates
65. Unsubscribe to junk email and fix email filters {unroll.me is the BEST!}
66. Invest in a good sunscreen to wear daily on face, neck, chest {April 2014}
67. Write a sealed “G-d Forbid” letter and entrust it to a friend
68. Try the envelope system of budgeting for a month
69. Open a credit card that earns rewards
70. Watch 10 TED Talks (5/10)
71. Re-learn the ASL alphabet and 5 key phrases
72. Earn more than $X annually (real number is a secret) {February 2014}
73. Organize professional contacts
74. Attend at least 3 GPhiB alumnae events (1/3)
Adventure (9/13)
88. Redesign blog (5.1.14)
89. Plan a wedding {mine!!!!!!!}
90. Get a new laptop {8.22.14}
91. Get my iPad, iPhone, iPod, etc all synced to new computer
92. Re-organize and back up computer {January 2014}
93. Finish grandma’s cookbook and publish
94. Make photo books/albums
95. Start 2 new blog series (2/2--Local and Three Little Spaces)
96. Photograph the same landscape in all four seasons (4/4)
97. Learn Illustrator or Photoshop basics (Skillshare class) {May 2016}
98. Do 10 OOTD blog posts
99. Maintain an editorial calendar for at least 2 weeks out
100. Take a creative class {flower arranging at Orly Kohn 3.22.16}
101. Tackle a Pinterest DIY {framed scout badges for gallery wall...more to come after we move!}
Goals I am…
Anticipating will be the hardest: #75, #1, and #62!
Most nervous about: #80 (I’m not sure why!)
Unsure if I can achieve: #49 (I can submit the apartment, but who knows if it will get published)
Most excited about: #18, #31, and #54
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