Note to Self

Self: Please, please, please, please, please, please (please?) learn that whenever a guy tells you that he really likes you but he doesn't want to date anyone right now what he really means is that he doesn't want to date YOU and the likelyhood of him turning around and dating someone else in about 2.5 nanoseconds and then bitching to you about it when it doesn't work out because you're friends right? is about, oh, roughly .. 100%.

I'm so done.

GREECE!!

The Parthenon at the top of Athens Acropolis
For all intents & purposes, we stayed on the Mediterranean side

of Rhodes, so this is the Mediterranean Sea.

An olive grove - olives are very important to Greece
My mom's Octopus Salad. You probably had to be there but

hearing her go on about the "squiggly bits" was pretty

hysterical. Also, Mythos, the local Greek beer.

An ancient stadium at Delphi to give you a taste of some ruins

A donkey ride up to the Acropolis at Lindos.

Learning how to Greek dance.

49 in 540

February 5, 2005 to November 2, 2007

1.Finish my Europe Scrapbook

2.Make a CD for Kristy

3.Have coffee with Terry

4.Rewrite my resume - completed April 16, 2005

5.Go to the strippers with B & Neil - completed April 16, 2005

6.Continue working out minimum of 2x per week (preferably 4x) for all 1001 days

7.Read a minimum of 50 new books by January 23, 2006:
50 down; 0 to go - completed January 23, 2006

8.Buy a condo

9.Save for & go to Greece – completed April 26 to May 6, 2006

10.Make the skirt that Chantal and I bought fabric for in October 2003

11.Pay off my edited to line of credit

12.Take a class – cooking, dance, pottery, photography, whatever: completed October 2005 - I've been taking step classes at the local gym

13.Visit Dave (I’ve only been promising for 2 years)- completed October 19-23,2005

14.Take a road trip - completed July 30 - August 3, 2005

15.Replace the battery in my watch/buy a new watch - completed March 19, 2004

16.Date someone for more than 2 seconds

17.Get a (at least one) professional massage - accomplished April 20, 2005

18.Learn a little HTML – I would be happy if I could add links in/to my entries - completed October 21, 2005

19.Do a perfect squat: completed July 21, 2005

20.Read something by Jane Austen

21.Drink an entire beer without once making my patented “This is terrible!” face - completed June 24, 2005

22.Renew my passport - completed July 27, 2005

23.Watch Season 7 of Buffy with B - completed March 25, 2005

24.Make cabbage rolls

25.Make perogies

26.Donate to 4 charities: 5 down 0 to go - completed September 16, 2005

27.Read 10 non-fiction books
5 down; 5 to go

28.Return the 4 books that have been sitting on my shelf waiting to go home for ages - completed May 11, 2005

29.Go to Vegas with the Trio of Trouble

30.Find a new job

31.Make a pie

32.Go to the zoo - completed July 30, 2005

33.Go to a museum – completed April 28, 2006

34.Go houseboating (even if I have to be in charge of organizing it)

35.Buy more pillows for my bed - completed February 12,2005

36.Buy a book of blender drinks - completed February 9, 2005

37.Buy (and use) shoe racks - completed February 19, 2005

38.Go skinny dipping

39.Buy fun new sheets

40.Learn how to drive stick

41.Try snowboarding

42.Eat at 6 new restaurants
a)Bulgogi House: February 10,2005
b)Dynasty (Dim Sum): February 20, 2005
c)Culina: May 28, 2005
d)Mongolie Grill: June 1, 2005
e)Langano Skies: November 2, 2005
f) I'm counting this done cause I went to a trillion new restaurants in Greece

43.Visit Donna & Foreman (not Wisconsin)

44.Visit Warmer than Here

45.Buy a plant - completed February 19, 2005

46.And keep it alive for at least 6 months: completed August 19, 2005 (yes it is still alive today)

47.Have brunch with Stan: completed November 2, 2005 (technically it was supper but I'm counting it cause the goal was to spend time with Stan)

48.Clean out/organize drawers & closet - completed August 7, 2005

49.Play in the park: completed August 20, 2005

50.Fly a kite

51.Have a picnic lunch

52.Get drunk with Emily and swing on the swings in Gyro Park

53.See 5 plays - completed November 9, 2005
a)The Salon of the Talking Turk - March 4, 2005
b)Romeo & Juliet - July 5, 2005
c)Songs for a New World - August 24, 2005
d)Mamma Mia! - September 7, 2005
e)Chicago - November 9, 2005
f)At the Xenith of the Empire - November 10, 2005

54.Go on ebay

55.And actually buy something

56.Watch a porno

57.Make garlic toast that doesn’t make B gag - completed March 18, 2004

58.Go on an overnight hike

59.Take my used books to a used book store

60.Get a pedicure: completed May 18, 2005

61.Take a strippercise class with B - completed June 30, 2005

62.Go horseback riding – completed May 3, 2006 (technically it was a donkey but I’m counting it)

63.Go bowling

64.Watch the second half of Sex in the City Season 6 with Kristy - completed April 26, 2005

65.Go to the beach 3 times
a)Lake Invermere - July 31, 2005
b)Wasa Lake - August 2, 2005
c)Michelon Lake - August 21, 2005

66.Go camping: completed July 1-3, 2005

67.Get a library card - completed February 21, 2002

68.Buy something from a sex toy party/store

69.Make seafood crepes

70.Have a chocolate fondue night: completed January 6, 2006

71.Spend a full day at the spa

72.Get a new makeup bag - completed February 19, 2005

73.Buy a new TV

74.Drink a Hurricane

75.Go for a dress up supper

76.Do an entire crossword without getting help once: completed August 22, 2005

77.Watch Gone With the Wind

78.Clean out my car - completed August 4, 2005

79.Buy Season 1 of CSI - completed June 10, 2005

80.Replace the mats in my car with plastic ones

81.Throw a dinner party: completed December 18, 2005 (I am deciding that Pseudo Christmas counts)

82.Buy flowers for someone, just because - completed April 7, 2005

83.Buy myself flowers - completed April 2, 2005

84.Fix my frog prince (Greg did this for me)- completed November 11, 2005

85.Send 10 pieces of fun mail: 10 down;0 to go - I am considering this done cause I mailed out way more than 10 Christmas cards with personal notes and all. completed December 9, 2005

86.Go skiing

87.Buy a dress coat - completed November 11, 2005

88.Spend an afternoon shopping on Whyte Ave - completed April 2, 2005

89.Have a date with Beth & Melly & Terry

90.Eat Gelato – completed May 3, 2006

91.Go to a wine tasting – completed May 1, 2006

92.Go see a psychic/palm reader

93.Volunteer somewhere

94.Take a roll of black & white photos

95.Watch the sun rise

96.Take pictures of the city skyline from my current balcony: completed May 29, 2005

97.Go stargazing

98.Go skating

99.Go canoeing

100.Have a waterfight

101. Have hair long enough to put in braids again – completed May 4, 2006

* italics denote works in progress