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Lindsay's 101 Things in 1001 Days

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   Zumba said,

   January 19, 2010 at 9:50 am

   Zumba is great. It has became part of our new resolutions. Thanks.

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   Katjusa said,

   November 19, 2009 at 9:21 am

   Hooray for zumba! I love how no one in the above photo is in any way coordinated in the same dance step. Ha! So true.

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  1. Watch at least 20 of the top 100 AFI Movies (0/20).
  2. Read a selection of Pulitzer Prize-winning novels (0/20).
  3. Read ten Booker Prize nominees or winners (0/10).
  4. Read all of the Tony Award-winning plays from the past 20 years (0/20).
  5. See a Broadway show.
  6. Go with Patrick to a foreign country.
  7. Visit Seattle and Vancouver Island.
  8. Take a vacation with Mom and Dad.
  9. Camp in Minnesota.
  10. Explore a form of music I don’t know well.
  11. Go to a summer musical festival.
  12. See a performance at the Metropolitan Opera.
  13. Make cassoulet.
  14. Learn to braid challah.
  15. Become comfortable with Japanese ingredients/cuisine.
  16. Have a cocktail party.
  17. Switch completely to environmentally safe cleaning products.
  18. Make a berry-flavored vodka.
  19. Eat dinner at the French Laundry.
  20. Make a recipe out of every single cookbook I own, including the weird ones.
  21. Eat vegetarian for a week — twice (0/2).
  22. Make sorbet.
  23. Learn an opera and a symphony, front to back, using the score.
  24. Learn to have a basic conversation in French.
  25. Reduce our debt by 75% (not including college loan).
  26. Write a short story.
  27. Canoe on Lake Monona.
  28. Go for a hike in five state parks (0/5).
  29. Learn to drive a stick shift.
  30. Go swimming in a Madison lake (preferably from a boat).
  31. Go thrift shopping, limiting myself to $10 or less.
  32. Go to a concert I’m really excited about.
  33. Indulge in a scoop of gelato.
  34. Go on a self-guided neighborhood walking tour.
  35. Go to a poetry reading.
  36. Learn to meditate.
  37. Attend five art gallery openings (0/5).
  38. Go through college/grad school stuff and toss what we don’t need.
  39. Organize a picnic-feast with friends.
  40. Read the entire body of an author’s work (possibility: Gabriel Garcia Marquez).
  41. Make a home video.
  42. Join a running club and learn to run.
  43. Do a puzzle of 500 pieces or more.
  44. Pick raspberries.
  45. Learn to play a song on an instrument I've never played before.
  46. Boil a lobster.
  47. Buy a really good, aged cut of beef and get a great bottle of wine with it.
  48. Visit five museums (0/5).
  49. Visit every park on the near east side.
  50. See three local bands we’ve never heard of (0/3).
  51. Plant a vegetable garden.
  52. Go to a movie by myself.
  53. Go to a professional sporting event.
  54. Eat dinner by myself, in a decent restaurant, with a book.
  55. Go to a drive-in movie.
  56. Have a spa day — manicure, pedicure, facial.
  57. Eat Ethiopian food.
  58. Get comfortable cooking with tofu.
  59. Drink wine on a boat.
  60. Eliminate all clothing that does not fit and/or I haven’t worn in two years.
  61. “Unplug” for an entire weekend: no internet, phone or television.
  62. Send a postcard to PostSecret.
  63. Get down to 125 and maintain.
  64. Go two months without using a credit card.
  65. Go mini-golfing.
  66. Establish a savings account.
  67. Pay off our biggest credit card.
  68. Adopt another rescue kitten.
  69. Walk at least 4 days every week.
  70. Back up the computer.
  71. Find “my” eye doctor and dentist.
  72. Volunteer at church.
  73. Run a 5K (Couchto5K. com).
  74. Update photos (fill empty albums).
  75. Take a dance class.
  76. Take a cooking class (more than one session).
  77. Get a massage.
  78. Make gnocchi.
  79. Make a pie with a top crust.
  80. Make and frost a cake for a celebration.
  81. Make a perfect Bloody Mary.
  82. Learn to identify five new constellations.
  83. Fly a kite.
  84. Learn Japanese tea ceremony and practice it on somebody.
  85. Complete a Self Challenge.
  86. **Secret challenge**
  87. Read the books on (my side of) the shelf that I’ve never read.
  88. Read one of the fantasy books Patrick insists that I’d like.
  89. Buy a piece of art from a friend.
  90. Call or write to college friends — Anna, Angela, Wendy and Katie.
  91. Go to a spinning class every week for a month.
  92. Learn to tie a man’s necktie.
  93. Put CDs I love into iTunes.
  94. Go Christmas caroling.
  95. Vacation somewhere warm during winter.
  96. Buy a bikini. Actually wear it.
  97. Practice better posture (until someone notices).
  98. Give up something legitimately difficult for Lent (like alcohol, or meat).
  99. Attempt Zumba.
  100. Learn basic car maintenance: how to check the oil, change a tire, put stuff in the engine.
  101. Go skinny-dipping.

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