Begin Date: April 4, 2013
End Date: December 31, 2015
Items Completed: 34
Items that won’t be Completed: 3
I finished 2 items in October 2014.
#25 Increase my deferral to Christmas Club and actually use that money for Christmas gifts (I ended up putting aside way more money than I needed, too, so that was a nice bonus.)
#94 Get to 15 reputation on Stack Overflow so I can upvote (You don’t know what a proud nerdy achievement this was for me!)
Items added in October :
95) Finish our ever-expanding “Things to Do Before Saying FU to Minnesota” List
The list is currently 15 items, but we add them regularly.
- Go to the U of M Band Concert
- Go to the Pizza Farm
- Revisit the North Shore
- Go in the witch’s hat
- Get party deck tickets at a Twins game again
- Go to All Pints North again
- Visit Fort Snelling
- Take Bally to get some tourist photos, like we do in other places
- Go to the NWA History Museum
- Go to the Cherry Pit
- Go to Jesse James Days in Northfield
- Visit Our Lady of Lourdes by Nye’s
- Take Bally to the fair
- Go to the Wabasha Street Caves
- Stay at ‘our’ cabin up in Cross Lake again
- Go to a townball game
- Go to D4th of July again
- Visit the MN Landscape Arboretum
Items currently in progress:
#19 Put $12,000 more in savings (~6 months of nondiscretionary expenses) [5/12]
#21 Finish my web application in C# and ASP.NET MVC4 (I’ve gotten a lot done this month, shooting for a beta by the end of the year.)
#27 Double my net worth
#32 *Finish Moroccan Days, Arabian Nights (I figured out exactly how much I need to work on this in order to finish it by the end of next year. It’s 12 rows a week. I can do it!)
#39 Read 5 classic books I haven’t read before [4/5] (The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles)
#55 *Visit 30 new local restaurants/bars [25/30] (Libertine, Rail Station)
#89 Do one of those daily knitting projects for an entire year (I need to get a picture!)
#90) Watch all of the Coen Brothers movies again, because we talk about them all the time [6/16] (Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men – yes, it made me cry again, on the treadmill.)
#99 Put $20 into savings for each completed task on this list, and $50 for each non-completed task ($790)