A Short Intermission... Or a Long One Who Knows...

um, if you haven't noticed i'm postponing this for a wee bit.

#72 Send a card I made to someone for no reason

This card was made for a reason and wasn't actually sent but I liked it anyhow. I'm working on fulfilling this one for real soon...

#58 Eat at one two new resturants a month

I went to PF Chang's at the Waterfront last week. [Listen folks I know it isn't really all that exotic but it is a start right?] I had never been and heard from a little birdie that the lettuce wraps were amazing. I was not let down they were amazing but I'm not sure if that was because I was close to eating my own flesh after waiting for 2 hours for a table or because they were actually delicious. I'm not complaining though because the company I had more than made up for their lack of speediness.

I'm striking out all over the place because I don't really have proof I was there unless my fortune does that...



I also went to the Square Cafe in Regent Square for breakfast. I had a delicious 3-egg omelet filled with tomatoes, goat cheese, and something green. Maybe spinach I don't really know though. While it was enjoyable I've found a cheese I actually don't like. Goat cheese tastes like sour ass. I again don't have proof 1. because I didn't have my camera and 2. even if I would have had my camera I looked like a crazy person.

One month down 32 to go...

#49 -- Watch all the Oscar winning Best Picture films (1938-Present) [0/80]

Yeah... I'm going to cheat. I'm off to a great start aren't I?

Listen folks... 80 movies is a lot of movies to watch. Especially because I originally thought I only had to watch 72 movies.

I've already seen a lot of the good ones on the list so it might be a struggle to get through all of these if I don't cross off the ones I've already seen.

I mean it took me long enough to just type all of these out let alone watch them so get off my case. Just get off it ok!

1931 - Cimarron
1932 - Grand Hotel
1933 - Cavalcade
1934 - It Happened One Night
1935 - Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 - The Great Ziegfeld
1937 - The Life of Emile Zola
1938 - You Can't Take It With You
1939 - Gone With the Wind
1940 - Rebecca
1941 - How Green Was My Valley?
1942 - Mrs. Miniver
1943 - Casablanca
1944 - Going My Way
1945 - The Lost Weekend
1946 - The Best Year of Our Lives
1947 - Gentleman's Agreement
1948 - Hamlet
1949 - All the King's Men
1950 - All About Eve
1951 - An American In Paris
1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 - From Here to Eternity
1954 - On the Waterfront
1955 - Marty
1956 - Around the World in 80 Days
1957 - The Bridge Over River Kwai
1958 - Gigi
1959 - Ben-Hur
1960 - The Apartment
1961 - West Side Story
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1963 - Tom Jones
1964 - My Fair Lady
1965 - The Sound of Music
1966 - A Man for All Seasons
1967 - In the Heat of the Night
1968 - Oliver!
1969 - Midnight Cowboy
1970 - Patton
1971 - The French Connection
1972 - The Godfather
1973 - The Sting
1974 - The Godfather Part II
1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 - Rocky
1977 - Annie Hall
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 - Ordinary People
1981 - Chariots of Fire
1982 - Gandhi
1983 - Terms of Endearment
1984 - Amadeus
1985 - Out of Africa
1986 - Platoon
1987 - The Last Emperor
1988 - Rain Man
1989 - Driving Miss Daisy
1990 - Dances With Wolves
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Unforgiven
1993 - Schindler's List
1994 - Forrest Gump
1995 - Braveheart
1996 - The English Patient
1997 - Titanic
1998 - Shakespeare in Love
1999 - American Beauty
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - A Beautiful Mind
2002 - Chicago
2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 - Million Dollar Baby
2005 - Crash
2006 - The Departed
2007 - No Country For Old Men

101 Things In 1001 Days: The Offical List

CAREER & EDUCATION:
1. Finish graduate school at Point Park University
2. Maintain a 3.5-3.7 GPA throughout graduate school
3. Develop portfolio of professional work
4. Get a new job in my field

FINANCIAL:
5. Put $5.00 in saving account for everything I cross off. $10.00 for everything I don’t
6. Increase the percentage that goes into 401K
7. Deposit $0.00 into savings account every pay check

HEATLH & WELLNESS:
8. Run and complete a half marathon
9. Walk or run in a race to benefit a cause
10. Learn how to eat and cook healthy
11. Lower and maintain my BMI
12. Work out 5 times a week
13. Get a full body massage
14. Get a facial
15. Don’t drink any alcohol for a month [0/31]

TRAVEL:
16. Visit 5 states I’ve never been too [0/5]
17. Have my picture taken in front of the LOVE sculpture in NYC & Philadelphia
18. Travel to another state to see a concert – not a festival
19. Wake up early at the beach, walk to coast and collect seashells
20. Make a decision to drive, fly, or ride a train somewhere you haven’t been before – 45minutes before you go
21. Go on an unplanned road trip and only make left turns
22. Go to a nude beach and participate
23. Go to a PostSecret exhibit in another state
24. Have my picture taken next to a moon tree
25. Visit Boston with my Aunt Gail
26. Visit Chicago and have a drink with the Liar’s Club

ADVENTURE:
27. Take a dance class
28. Go rock climbing
29. Learn to snowboard
30. Correct my golf swing
31. Go down a zip line
32. Hike to a spot and then camp out
33. Spend a day climbing trees
34. Go kayaking
35. Have someone plan an entire day for me and have no control over what happens
36. Jump off a cliff into a body of water

LEISURE:
37. Play hooky from work and go to an afternoon baseball game
38. Catch a fly ball or homerun ball at a baseball game
39. Go to a book reading and have the author sign their book
40. Daydream under an oak tree in the middle of a field
41. Go on a picnic complete with basket and checkered blanket
42. Go ice skating at PPG Place during Christmas
43. Watch a thunderstorm from Mt. Washington
44. Visit every museum in Pittsburgh
45. Lay in bed with someone all day
46. Watch the sunrise
47. Watch a classic Hollywood movie in a park
48. Watch a scary movie in the dark
49. Watch all the Oscar winning Best Picture films (1938-Present) [0/72]
50. Learn all the words to Young MC’s – Bust A Move
51. Karaoke Young MC’s – Bust a Move
52. Find and master my signature dish
53. Serve that dish at a dinner party I host
54. Learn more about gardening from my Dad
55. Grow a tomato plant and eat a tomato from it
56. Learn to identify 10 new trees or plants
57. Try Kobe Beef
58. Eat at one new restaurant a month [0/33]
59. Have a band make a shout out to me
60. Find a good signature joke
61. Learn how to change a tire
62. Learn how to drive a stick shift
63. Learn to juggle
64. Go fishing

CREATIVE:
65. Frame all the artwork and photography I have
66. Design a blueprint of a piece of furniture I want and build it with my Dad
67. Finish all the books I’ve started before buying or starting any new ones
68. Have an article I wrote printed
69. Edit a video together of my trip to Ireland & England
70. Start a sketch book and draw something in it every day for a month
71. Spend a day drawing in Central Park, NYC
72. Send out a card I made to someone for no reason every month [0/33]
73. Create and sell 10 original hand-made greeting cards sets [0/10]
74. Actually paint the ideas I started in my book
75. Take a picture every day for at least a month straight [0/31]
76. Prove that I completed everything on the list somehow
77. Start printing out digital pictures I’ve taken
78. Make something from Ready Made Magazine
79. Take a picture that represents each letter of the alphabet and frame them as one piece

PERSONAL:
80. Get a tattoo of something I designed
81. Donate my old running shoes
82. De-clutter my material possessions
83. Move to Pittsburgh
84. Become a better decision maker
85. Donate blood
86. Help a stranger
87. Complete a random act of kindness every month [0/33]
88. Be open to new relationships (friends or romantically)
89. Change the life of one person
90. Volunteer with or for a charity
91. Purchase toys for Toys for Tots each Christmas [0/3]
92. Don’t use any technology for an entire day [phone, ipod, computer, etc]
93. Find my favorite beer in all the land, Lev
94. Find a four leaf clover
95. Rollerskate at South Park VIP Pavilion
96. [**Personal**]
97. [**Personal**]
98. [**Personal**]
99. [**Personal**]
100. [**Personal**]
101. Create a new 1001 once this one is completed [add unfinished items to new list]

the deal

I'm sure most of the interweb knows about this by now but I'm jumping on the band wagon and joining.

Starting September 2, 2008 I will have 1001 days (June 1, 2011) to complete my list of 101 things.

I'm doing this for multiple reasons:

1. I like lists.
2. I like crossing things off lists.
3. I have a habit of just saying things and not actually doing them.
4. Why not?
5. I think graduate school is going to be terribly easy and I will need something to make my life difficult.

You'll hear and see my progress because item #75 is making me prove it.