Thursday, July 25, 2013

Partial completions

I have so many items on my list that are lists themselves. Here is my progress:

#12. Bake/Cook 11 Things I have never baked/cooked before
1. Talapia

Monday, July 8, 2013

THE LIST to be completed before 4.4.2016

bold = complete
italics = in progress

International
  1. Visit Austria
  2. Visit Germany
  3. Visit a country I have never before visited
  4. Attend a German (language) Opera/Play
  5. Be able to write 11 words in Chinese
  6. Read a novel in German
  7. Watch 3 international cinemas
  8. Eat food from Vosens in SLC
  9. Memorize 3 songs in German

Food
  1. Try all BYU Creamery ice cream flavours (13/44)
  2. Eat at the Blueline Deli & Market (BYU Tanner Bldg)
  3. Bake/Cook 11 Things I have never baked/cooked before (2/11)
  4. Make Cheesecake
  5. Make spätzle
  6. Make Knödel
  7. Make Cha siu bao (叉燒包)
  8. Make Lin Yong Bao
  9. Make sushi
  10. Make 5 dishes from 5 countries
  11. Make bread from self-ground wheat

Professional
  1. Attend an international astronomy conference
  2. Attend 3 professional conferences
  3. Observe on a large telescope (2+ meters)
  4. Take spectroscopic data
  5. Make a pretty 3+-colour image of a galaxy
  6. Coauthor one paper
  7. Submit one paper for publication
  8. Pass the PhD Qualifying Exam

Educational
  1. Expand my vocabulary by 101 words (32/101)
  2. Learn the southern sky constellations
  3. Learn all northern sky constellations
  4. Defend my Prospectus
  5. Get a 4.0 one semester
  6. Identify all countries on a map
  7. Read 11 books (3/11)

Music
  1. Learn Claire de Lune by Debussy (piano)
  2. Learn 5 songs on piano (not hymns)
  3. Learn 5 songs on the Cello (1/5)
  4. Attend an Organ Recital Salt Lake City Tabernacle
  5. Attend a Concert at the Conference Center
  6. Attend 11 Recitals (2/11)
  7. Perform cello at a recital
  8. Perform piano at a recital
  9. Take voice lessons
  10. Own 101 Classical songs in my Music Library

Fitness
  1. exercise 6 days/week for 11 weeks (4/11)
  2. Complete a 5K
  3. Complete a 10K
  4. Complete a half-marathon
  5. Lose 3 kg and keep it off for 101 days
  6. Get between 7-9 hours of sleep every night for 1 month
  7. Hike 5 hikes (4/5)
  8. Complete the 30 day shred
  9. Go to a dentist

Financial
  1. Stay out of debt for 1001 days!
  2. Save $1000 emergency fund
  3. Have 6 months expenses in savings
  4. One month of no eating out
  5. Create a budget and stick to it for 3 months
  6. Have 72-hour kit
  7. Invest $1000
  8. Make a retirement financial plan
  9. Start saving for down payment on house ....

Spiritual
  1. Perform proxy ordinances in 11 Temples I have not previously attended (3/11)
  2. Do all the ordinances for one ancestor in one day
  3. Enjoy a sunset or sunrise on a beach
  4. Write in my journal every day for 1 month
  5. Attend 3 Live Sealings
  6. Read the Luther translation of Bible (Maleachi)
  7. Start and finish triple combination in German
  8. Help a friend join the church/reactivate in the Church
  9. Read through my Mission journal
  10. Spend one day without technology
  11. Hold a newborn baby

Family/Friends
  1. Read Grandpa Dalley’s “My Life Story”
  2. Read Grandma Dalley’s Biography
  3. Visit 3 Siblings (3/3)
  4. Visit 3 Relatives (5/3)
  5. Get married in the Temple
  6. Call for every Parent/Sibling/Sibling-in-law/Niece/Nephew’s birthday in one year (2/50)
  7. Write a letter to 3 people who have made a difference in my life
  8. Write 11 letters to friends from my mission
  9. Picture of each of my siblings’ families
  10. Host 11 Game Nights (1/11)

Random Fun
  1. Grow something from a seed
  2. Go fishing
  3. Go camping
  4. Finish reading The Chronicles of Narnia
  5. Build a snowman
  6. Burn something of mine in a bonfire
  7. Go ice skating
  8. Go on a picnic
  9. Attend a BYU sports game
  10. Max Zipline (Provo Canyon)
  11. Go sledding
  12. Fly a kite
  13. Visit Arches National Park
  14. Get a Pass of all Passes and use it
  15. Make sidewalk chalk art
  16. Swim in the ocean

  1. Document all the above on a blog