December 26, 2009
I posted my Things to Do for 2009 in the beginning of January and did follow ups throughout the year. We’re still a few days from the end of the year but I figured I could go ahead and post my final report:
#12 Get a piece of art into an exhibition – Completed!
#14 Ride the World’s Biggest Rollercoasters – Rode the Top Thrill Dragster but Son of Beast was closed.
#22 Go Up in a Hot Air Balloon – FAIL!
#28 Sky Dive – FAIL! (Although when I went to New Hampshire in April, I went Indoor Skydiving. I’m working my way up…)
#37 Make fire without matches – FAIL!
#52 Read the All-Time Greatest Books – Completed my goal of reading 8 (Asterix and the Golden Sickle, The Day of the Triffids, Atomised, The Buddha of Suburbia, The Lost Estate, An Artist of the Floating World, The New York Trilogy, and Stupid White Men) Even went above an beyond and succeeded on my third try of The Grapes of Wrath. Also read Winter’s Tale, Earthly Powers, and The End of the Affair. Of course, these are the books that are on THE OFFICIAL LIST, but I also read: Ava: My Story, Grabtown Girl, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, The Little Prince, Revolutionary Road and the first four of the Sookie Stackhouse books (almost all brain candy 
#88 Get Married Unusually – Completed June 6, 2009. Vegas, Baby!
#99 Confess – FAIL!
So this is where I am on the original goals for 2009. However, I also manged to be a part of a flash mob during the No-Pants Subway Ride, went snow sledding for the first time in my life, saw a Bald Eagle, milked a cow, and started toward trying to get my name in the ring of honor at Flying Saucer. As of right now, I have drank 54 of my 200 beers .
How did you do on your New Year’s Resolutions/goals for 2009?
hehe, that is an unusual list! need to get one for 2010 but i’m sure it won’t be so brave as yours!
Woo hoo! Congrats on another accomplished year! I’ll have to do my roundup soon (if I ever get through doing my best of the aughts!)
I would say you’re obsessed with your movie list, but I often get obsessed, so I can appreciate that trait in others!
I think we started working on #37 in Girl Scouts:-) That was back when I wanted to be a scientist…and a bus driver.
Happy New Year!
Jennifer
Did we try to make fire? I remember making eggs and bacon in a paper bag and aluminum covered cardboard box into a stove, but that’s about it. Looking back, I don’t think many of those camping skills were survival skills because you needed a LOT of supplies to make half of that stuff.