The List--2008 Is'a Gonna Be Great!

1. Mythic Creature exhibit at Museum of Natural History. (Closes Jan. 6)
2. Implement the “Touch It Once” mail rule. (No stacks of junk mail! Seriously!)
3. Make a heftier IRA contribution.
4. Get rid of old desk. (This should be done in January, silly. Please do not think have 365 days to do this. Half point deduction if done after February. NO...ten points! Take that!)
5. Do taxes with receipts and deductions as opposed to the EZ form.
6. Strike up an actual conversation with a stranger. (Extra points if it is on a park bench.)
7. Take Old Lady Friend to a play. (Irish Rep)
8. 100x to the gym for gym reimbursement. (One point deducted per visit under 100)
9. Actually send gym reimbursement to insurance company instead of losing it then forgetting about it.
10. Attend a minimum of three Mets games. (Extra points awarded if one is a Subway Series game.)
11. Sunday in the Park with George. (You may either attend the production or actually spend a Sunday in the park with someone named George. Please remember that you call your second nephew George. Extra points awarded for both. Bonus extra point if George is not nephew. One zillion bonus points if you see the production then go to the park on a Sunday with a George who is not your nephew.)
12. Hit goal weight. (One point per pound lost. 130 point bonus for hitting goal.)
13. See all five films nominated for Best Picture Oscars.
14. Make a soufflé. (Extra point awarded if it does not fall. Photo documentation required.)
15. Hang additional shoe bag thing. (Point deducted for each month of year shoe bag things stays in packaging.)
16. Do a big agent mailing for Earnest.
17. Finish a ding-dang song. Perhaps Muscle Car Ranch.
18. Invent a new cuss word. (Extra point awarded if someone else starts saying it.)
19. Read five novels on that 100 novels to read for college list thing. (Extra point for each one over five read. Previously read items receive one "Aren't you a Miss Smarty-Pants!")
20. Learn to knit. (Extra point awarded for achieving anything other than a straight line.)
21. Tiki Bar. (You'll see.)
22. Tiki Barber. (You'll see.)
23. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
24. Mail some Christmas cards. (One point awarded per card mailed…two points awarded per card mailed in July.)
25. Sew a skirt.
26. Astroturf flamingo bag. (Don’t worry…I know what this means.)
27. Buy some bleeping ice trays.
28. Host a brunch in my home.
29. Host a spaghetti dinner.
30. Host a game night.
31. Host Pie Party.
32. Bake some cookie press cookies. (Extra point awarded if it is an unusual holiday theme cookie.)
33. Find yourself a patron saint. (Extra point awarded if t-shirt, card, or amulet displaying new patron saint is made.)
34. Visit the Guggenheim.
35. Visit the Met. (Extra point awarded if you talk to a cute boy.)
36. Go on a woodsy hike. (Extra point awarded for Gorp. Five points awarded if you make it yourself.)
37. I decided that #19 is actually five separate items. This is 19.b
38. #19.c
39. #19.d
40. #19.e
41. Order a box of root beer flavored dum-dums.
42. Try Vietnamese food.
43. Take a boxing class at the gym. (Extra point awarded for not bleeding.)
44. Go to a movie at Bryant Park.
45. Schedule meeting with M.A. to discuss Food Network/Scripps online series.
46. Watch Citizen Kane.
47. Watch the original version of The Manchurian Candidate.
48. Return 2 library books borrowed in summer ’07.
49. Pay the fines.
50. Take an autumn foliage-viewing drive through New England.
51. Crochet a scarf with yarn you already have. (Extra point awarded for each additional scarf. Two extra points awarded for each scarf given to charity.
52. Bake a cake for the most awesome landlords ever. (Extra point awarded if it is a new recipe from the cookbook they gave you for Christmas.)
53. Hang some curtains.
54. Learn a new guitar chord. Really learn it.
55. Pay off student loan. (Extra point awarded for each month of year you don’t have to make a payment because you paid off the loan!)
56. Get a bicycle.
57. Spend a day in the park with Skeeter.
58. Have a picnic in the park.
59. Host an Oklahoma State Meal dinner.
60. Put together bathroom storage cabinet purchased lo those many moons ago. (Point deducted for each month of year cabinet stays in box.)
61. Read RV’s graphic novels.
62. Read EE’s novels. (You have two friends who are published authors and you haven’t read their stuff? That’s gross. No points for you!)
63. Hang stars in bedroom.
64. Put up a Christmas tree.
65. See a band at River to River. (Extra point awarded for each additional R2R event attended.)
66. Go to Fire Island.
67. Do something about broken autoharp string.
68. Buy a ukulele.
69. Learn to play it.
70. Host a luau. (Extra point awarded for performing ukulele song at luau.)
71. Take a dance lesson.
72. Teach someone else the dance you learned at the lesson.
73. Make a necklace. (Extra point awarded for making one and giving it away.)
74. Learn how to add songs to ipod.
75. Go visit E.D. all the way out in L.I.
76. Use melon baller. I was going to say, “Ball a melon,” but that just sounds dirty. (Extra point awarded for balling a melon.)
77. Buy Mac an actual birthday present that he gets to unwrap.
78. Send birthday cards to family. (Point awarded for each card that arrives before birthday.)
79. Frame new pictures of the kiddos.
80. End year with over $200 in ING account. (Extra point for every $ over 300.)
81. Go on a freaking date.
82. Invite some people to see Earnest.
83. Eat a peach. (Do I dare?)
84. Actually give away the give-away clothes. This should be done by Feb. 8. (Deduct one point for every day after the 8th those bags are still in the apartment. I’m not kidding.)
85. Read something about Joan of Arc. (Extra point awarded if it is not online.)
86. Send a hello card to MamaLamb.
87. Call KD. Don’t be stubborn.
88. Go to the beach. (Extra point awarded if it is on a workday.)
89. See a romantic comedy in the movie theater.
90. Find locksmith receipt.
91. Send locksmith receipt to insurance company.
92. Get a passport.
93. Go on a vacation. (Extra point awarded if it is to a state you’ve never been.)
94. Must find some quirky building/attraction on vacation. i.e. Foamhenge in VA or the World’s Largest Peanut in OK. (One point awarded per attraction. Photo documentation is required.)
95. Increase plastic steer herd, read: drink more margaritas at Cowgirl Hall of Fame. (One point per steer.)
96. Ride a mechanical bull. (This item is worth 100 points.)
97. Get no parking tickets! Or driving tickets! (Point deducted for each ticket.)
98. Devise a reward chart for points.
99. Contact J&J. (Extra point awarded for a visit.)
100. Write.
101. Wear a tiara in public.
102. Be proud of yourself. Recognize worth.
103. Take a daily vitamin.
104. Drink a lot of water.
105. Eat your vegetables.
106. Laugh…a lot.
107. Don’t be so catastrophic.
108. Post this list and refer to it when you are bored.