2005-02-15 - 3:46 p.m.
Okay, okay. I have decided to participate in this movement. And I made my list on Valentine's Day because the best love is self love and we should all strive to better ourselves, no?
Here's the 101 (if it's in BOLD, then it's DONE!):
1. Buy new dressy jeans.
2. Participate in a staged reading.
3. Achieve "butt dents".
4. Go to Magic Mountain in NJ.
5. Buy new La Duca shoes.
6. Get a raise at my jobby-job.
7. Stop myself the next time I want to complain about lack of theatre work.
8. Find a general practitioner.
9. Leave jobby-job to audition full time.
10. See the New York City Ballet perform.
11. Read the entire how-to manual for my cell phone.
12. Buy a new Little Black Dress.
13. Go an entire day without eating sugar.
14. Make a list of all the places I would like to travel to with Freddie.
15. Buy a political Tee-shirt from Nat.
16. Watch a episode of "Desperate Housewives"
17. Grow my hair out really long and then cut it really short again.
18. Get new headshots
19. Find 6 new monologues.
20. Re-organize my song book.
21. Fix Fred's trenchcoat and peacoat.
22. Find one fun song I can totally sell at Karaoke.
23. Go to a Texas Tech football game with Freddie.
24. Learn how to burn a CD.
25. Get new, fresh, fluffy towels.
26. Go to Performing Arts Library and copy all that music like I have been meaning to.
27. Throw out the ratty fishnet stockings and buy a few new pairs in various colors.
28. Buy some rollerblades.
29. Stay up all night.
30. Buy a real nice flatiron.
31. Get the new scanner working.
32. Buy a tee shirt from Glarkware.
33. Buy a bike and then...
34. ...Figure out how I can store it in my apartment.
35. Take Freddie to see Avenue Q.
36. Go on a picnic in the park (and use our new picnic basket!)
37. Go back to the Natural History Museum. See an imax movie while I am there.
38. See 4 recently released movies per year, for a total of 12 for this project.
39. Create an original, funky clothing item for myself.
40. Hang the twinkly lights in the kitchen and bedroom.
41. Learn everybody's name at work
42. Go back to Lahaina, Maui.
43. Watch all three LOTR movies back to back.
44. Finish reading all the books I have piled up.
45. Read/see all Shakespeare plays.
46. Officially join the praise team at church.
47. Avoid checking my email for an entire week.
48. Replace all my shoes that hurt.
49. Record with my singing group.
50. Get an cool lookin' heavy-duty armoire for the bedroom.
51. Go to a wine tasting class/event with Freddie.
52. Make sangria for a summer party.
53. Get a fah-ncy french manicure.
54. Listen to every CD in my collection.
55. Buy some plants for the apartment.
56. See at least 6 shows per year -- that's a total of 18 shows.
57. Buy the Smallville DVDs for Freddie.
58. Host a game night for/with my friends.
59. Pay off credit cards.
60. Spend all day at the Bronx Zoo again.
61. Play frisbee with Freddie in the park.
62. Run off on a long weekend vacation with Freddie and DO NOTHING.
63. Buy a couch for the living room.
64. Finish my lastest scrapbook.
65. Make Freddie's tee shirt quilt.
66. Get a call-back for a lead role.
67. Perform a lead role in a show.
68. Buy new black boots.
69. Take Freddie to my parent's home in The Netherlands.
70. Knit something.
71. Go to a formal party.
72. Resume private vocal lessons.
73. Buy something extravagant for Freddie.
74. Organize a progessive dinner.
75. Book a commercial.
76. Meet a journal buddy in person.
77. Have a spa day with my girlfriends.
78. Spend my tax return on myself.
79. Hike Macchu Picchu.
80. Dance with my dad.
81. Go to Shakespeare in the Park.
82. Sing a solo a church.
83. Book a Broadway show.
84. Re-read all the Newberry Award winners.
85. Explore Hayden Planetarium.
86. Go Horseback riding in NYC.
87. Go snow skiing.
88. Cook a whole turkey.
89. Avoid watching TV for a whole week.
90. Buy a new coat.
91. Go to Disneyland with Freddie.
92. Frame pictures and hang them in the hallway.
93. Paint bedroom.
94. Get a pet
95. Weigh 125 again.
96. Finish writing an entire (paper) journal. And KEEP it.
97. Take a Shakespeare class.
98. Get a legit agent.
99. Make our wedding quilt.
100. Go to a beach on Long Island
101. Get my tattoo
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Incidentally, this project will conclude on November 12, 2007 -- which is EXACTLY three years from when I became engaged to Freddie. Neat!
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Erin G's lofty pursuits include sampling candy, taking naps, memorizing showtunes and shopping at Daffy's. She's a joyously dorky theatre girl. Also? a big fan of cats, well-written books, and her good lookin' an' schweet lovin' husband, Freddie.
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