Goodbye, old year!

1000 Things that Make Me Happy: Part 2!

One of the things on my 101 things in 1001 days list is to list 100 things that make me happy. Sounds easy, right? And it is, once you get started. So I decided to extend it from 100 things to 1000 things, so I can keep it going. Here is the second installment, numbers 101-200! Click here to read part 1!

101. Getting an awesome shirt on sale for just a few dollars
102. Eating the whipped cream from atop a Frappuccino using the straw as a spoon.
103. Body pillows
104. The Drawing Room at the Beach Club Villas
105. ERs! (Disney cast term for "Early release", aka getting off early!)

106. Sugar cubes for tea
107. Driving through the automatic car wash
108. Paid vacation days
109. Hearing your back pop like crazy at the chiropractor.
110. A chai freeze from Anandapur Tea

111. Learning a new song on the guitar
112. Eating fresh baked chocolate chip cookies with milk while they are still warm
113. Chips & Salsa
114. Sitting on a ledge by one of the tanks at The Seas at Epcot and watching fish swim right past me
115. A full notebook of morning pages

116. Sleeping in a hotel on the beach with the window or balcony door open so you can fall asleep to the sound of the waves
117. A really lush, comfy hotel bed
118. Shopping at Sephora. So many pretty colors!
119. Shopping at Lush. Wonderful everything!
120. Researching for and planning vacations

121. Super smooth legs after shaving
122. Flirting
123. Potluck dinners
124. Free pizza delivered to work
125. The "Beauty and the Bees" song that plays inside the Tree of Life

126. A cheese plate with French bread
127. Falling asleep cuddled up with my cat Tallulah
128. Redbox
129. Super-competitive mini golf
130. When my cat Cricket makes clicking noises at bugs. She speaks insect.

131. Knee-high boots
132. Unpacking Christmas decorations and the memories that go with them.
133. When Tallulah lays with her paws curled under, so ladylike and dainty for a ginormous cat.
134. Failblog
135. Sea of Shoes

136. Snow cones
137. Well worn in riding boots
138. Cleaning tack
139. The movie equivalents of comfort food, the ones you know in your sleep.
140. Cherry lemonade

141. Tea and scones at the Grand Floridian with Katie
142. Amusing bathroom wall grafiti
143. Reading in the pool, or just with my feet in the water
144. Taking the boat across Bay Lake
145. Reading Disney trip reports

146. Honeydew
147. Walking in the woods
148. Bringing home lots of extra salsa from Moe's
149. Uploading pics to FB and Flickr from my phone
150. Watching my cats dream

151. Finding seashells on the beach
152. Actually completing NaNoWriMo (Yay, me!)
153. Discovering something you picked up from the clearance rack is even cheaper than you thought when you go to pay!
154. Glittery polish on my toes.
155. Restaurants that let you dance on the tables!

156. Restaurants and bars that sell work by local artists on the walls.
157. When the band dedicates a song to you.
158. Beautiful, brightly-painted Oaxacan wooden animal carvings
159. Experimenting with makeup
160. When inspiration strikes suddenly and you’re so excited to scribble it down!

161. Finding a new blog I love and reading way back in the archives
162. Strong women.
163. The discussion boards at 20sb.
164. Being interviewed.
165. Winning a game of Sudoku on my phone in less than 3 minutes

166. Playing on Polyvore.
167. Really fantastic typos. (I recently called Bono “Bobo” in an IM to Katie. This is his new name.)
168. The little star design when you open a new jar of Nutella
169. A grande Starbucks cafe vanilla frappuccino with lots of whipped cream on top
170. A great night's sleep

171. Winning contests or giveaways
172. My Melodia pants

(Mine are black with a sash, but this was the best pic I could find!)

173. Crazy flavors of vodka (cotton candy flavor, whipped cream flavor, etc.)

174. The fun of trying something new.

175. Totally numb fingertips after practicing guitar.

176. The faces my friend Simon makes when playing guitar.

177. Back massages!

178. Slow dancing

179. Finding more great books than I can carry at the library.

180. Reading over old wishlists in my journal and noticing how many of the items I can check off.

181. Wine tastings.

182. Playing board games.

183. Using all 7 letters in Scrabble!

184. Vogue magazine.

185. The cute face Jasper makes when you tell him he's a good boy.

186. Shoulder rubs at the chiropractor before they snap me back into place.

187. Puck on Glee!

188. Getting handmade cards in the mail.

189. Waking up to find one of more of the cats asleep in bed with me.

190. Thunder

191. Watching lightning streak across the sky

192. Making wishlists

193. Listing things I'm thankful for

194. Finding someone that shares one of my quirks

195. Fellow cat ladies

196. Wearing flowers in my hair

197. Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" song.

198. The Singin In The Rain/Umbrella combo song they did on Glee. This is huge praise coming from someone whose favorite classic movie is Singin' in the Rain!

199. Vintage beach photos

200. Shoes that look like something other than shoes.

Today I heart

Today I am loving all things girly! I want to add some more ultrafeminine pieces to my wardrobe.

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Did you notice my snazzy new Facebook button over there in the sidebar? With just one click, you can declare that you think I am awesome!

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Decisions, decisions...

I posted about some candles from the adult store Eden Fantasys a couple of weeks ago, but since then I've spent way too much time checking out lingerie on their site and amassing a giant wish list. The kind of cool thing is that if you register at their site, they have a points program that give you points for things like searching and adding stuff to your wish list, so by the time you are ready to buy something, you're sure to have enough points for at least a dollar or two off. Due to my aforementioned way too much time browsing, I have like $12. For real.

Anyway, I am trying to decide between two super cute lingerie options to treat myself for the new year. This is #1:

Red Satin and Lace Bustier

It is $57.99, which is more than I would normally spend on something like this, but I am kind of in love. You guys, I think I would seriously wear this out, like as a shirt. Not to the grocery store or anything, but definitely to a concert. Especially if I could find a cute jacket-type thing to wear over it. It holds in my stomach AND makes my boobs look awesome? Don't mind if I do!

See, the model is wearing it with jeans. She is totally on her way to Target.

This is option #2:

Sexy Pinstripe Chemise Set

One thing I love about the Eden Fantasys site is that they show a lot of the lingerie in more than one size. Even though the girl on the right (If Blogger actually formats this right for a change, otherwise the 2nd girl) is far from being "plus-size", I still appreciate the variety in body types!

This one has less potential for double duty as a regular shirt, but it looks so cute and comfy! Plus it comes with a matching ruffled pinstripe panty, and the two piece set is only $38.99.

You see why this is a hard decision? Which would you pick? And would anyone be interested in a giveaway for a gift card to Eden Fantasys soon?

Day 39

I've been doing a "30 days" album on Facebook, where you post a picture that matches a list of tasks for 30 days. Day 29 was "In this past month, what have you learned?" and this is what I posted:

Not so much the past month as the past few years, but I have learned to take NOTHING for granted. In the past few years, I've watched so many things be stripped away- my apartment was broken into twice, which took away not only posessions but my sense of safety. My health has sucked, which means I will never again take for granted a day when I actually feel great. I have been broke to the point that my last 2 weeks living in Orlando were spent with no electricity, which taught me that a) it is hard to live off of food that needs neither refrigeration or microwaving, b) if you put candles along the ridge of the bathtub, they reflect enough light off the shower tiles that you can read at night if you lay in the tub, and c) there is a big difference between what we think are our wants vs our needs and what we can truly live with and without.

Yesterday, I lost one of my best friends. I saw it coming for a long time, but that doesn't make it much easier. He was the person I called when I had good news, had bad news, or needed someone to give me an honest opinion. He saw my very best and my very worst, and always loved me anyway.

I remember when I was about to move to Orlando and called him late one night, full of excitement and fears, and he said "You know, I worry about my friends, but I'm not worried about you. And that's not because I don't care, but because I know you are going to be okay."

So I have learned that anything that we think is ours can be lost at any time, and it might hurt, it might be hard. But as long as there is someone who loves us and believes us, even if they now only exist in our heart and memory, we will be okay, we will get through it, and eventually, will be happy again.

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I literally lost my best friend, you guys. I've known Todd since I was a teenager, and over the years he became one of the most important and influential people in my life. We became somewhere between siblings and an old married couple. Actually, if just loving someone was enough to make a relationship work, I probably would have married him years ago. Instead he has been the person I called first when I was excited about something, sad about something, or needed advice. I *hate* the phone, but I happily talked to Todd all night countless times. I remember one time when he called around 7pm, and we were still on the phone when I had to leave for work at 9am the next morning. We finally got cut off when he tried to take his cordless phone in the shower to get ready for work.

He saw me at my best and my very worst, and always loved me anyway, and I can't begin to tell you how much strength that gave me.

At a convention for the computer game company we worked for in 2004

Todd's 43rd birthday would have been next week. I always knew my time with him in my life wasn't infinite, but I really wish we could have had at least a few more years.

Guest post by E!

20-Something Bloggers set up a blog swap, and my partner is E from The Art of Making A Baby, where she is chronicling her quest to become a mom from the very beginning. Here's her post, and be sure to check mine out here!

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As the year comes to a close, one is forced to think about their future goals and past achievements. We all have to review how our year has gone and what changes we need to make in the upcoming new year. If you're like almost everyone I know, you like to procrastinate. To put off the inevitable and to ignore the unpleasant. Believe it or not, I'm the kind of person who jumps into battles that most people ignore, goes forward when others step back, gets it done before it's needed to be done. I don't put off things.

So it might come as a surprise to everyone, and especially me, that there's absolutely nothing I've been putting off for as long as I have been postponing having kids.

I absolutely adore children- always have. When I was 10, I would take my 4 year old nephew to his kindergarten in the morning and beg the teacher to let me stay and help her take care of the kids. Which she would ( who doesn't need help?) and I'd spend my summers playing with little kids instead doing what other normal kids normally do ( whatever it is they do. I was never normal)

So the decision to wait to have kids didn't come out of lack of love for little bastards. I was 18 when I got married and I never felt the need to procreate simply because I was in a stable relationship. I felt that kids need a solid family, one that has gone through years together and that was absolutely 100% ready emotionally and financially to bring that baby to life. So the first 2-3 years were spent just enjoying life with my husband and trying to figure out how to be together. You see, a lot of couples get divorced after the first few years and I see why. The work that goes into being with another person who is completely different from what you are, has different ideas, upbringing, thoughts and is his own person, I mean, that work really takes a toll on some people who might not be willing work on the relationship hard enough.

After the first 3 years, we still didn't feel like time was right. We just didn't feel the need to have a baby. To be honest, at the time I felt shock and fear at an utter thought of being pregnant. Two years later,we moved from Ohio to Florida, opened another business.....and then the economy crashed. We were in no position to have a kid when we were trying to establish a business in a down economy.

So fast forward 8 years from the day we got married, and here we are. Still scared, still trying to figure out how to battle this sucky economic situation, but one thing has changed. We have changed.

In 8 years, we've managed to travel a lot, open 3 business and close 1, move 4 times ( once across the United States), adopt 4 kitties. I got a chance to model in NYC, France and Miami for 2 years. That time apart when I could only come home every other weekend, while living in NYC and working, was very tough on us, but I feel it brought us closer together and was a catalyst to our decision to FINALLY have kids.

We're now in a better place emotionally, we finally feel like we need an extension of ourselves. We can picture that little girl of ours running around our carefully landscaped backyard, with me quickly snapping gorgeous shots of her, and my husband rocking in the hammock laughing at how goofy we both are. I can see us reading little princess stories to her every night as she falls asleep. I can see my husband as a father of our child.

So here we are, at the end of this year, cusp of a new one, ready to plunge into something unknown... Scary and unbelievable rewarding. We have prepared ourselves for our little baby. We have done everything necessary that she/he comes into this word given the best opportunity at having amazing health, sharp brain and good looks. We spent this last year going through tests, and vaccines, and physicals, eating perfectly, reading pre-conception books, and discussing parenting technics- all so that our daughter or son would land in the hands of the best parents she/he could possible have.

WE ARE READY!

Year of 2011- Say hello to a new life!

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101 in 1001 Warp-Up: What's a nice way to say "Epic Fail"?

The first of my two current 101 in 1001 lists has come to an end, as of yesterday! So, so much crazyness happened in my life over the course of these 1001 days that I didn't get anywhere near as many accomplished as I would have expected. Between missing months of work being sick and having zero money for most of those two and a half-ish years, the deck was definitely stacked against me.

I don't want to discredit the ones I DID accomplish though, so let's say a big WOO! for those, and see what I can learn from the ones that didn't work out.

Start Date: March 17, 2008

End Date: December 13, 2010

Total Completed List Items: 40

1. Take photos every day for a year

Not even close on this one. As much as I love these "every day for a year" type of goals, I don't think they are a good fit for me. What happens, for instance, if you miss a day? Do you start over, or just keep going? I think that on my next list, I'll replace this kind of goal with something more concrete and reachable, like "Take 100 great photos of my cats." It still reaches the heart of the goal, which is to take more photos, but with less structure.

2. Go horseback riding

I am so sad I never got to do this! I was just thinking last night that my beloved horse Emmett that I bought when he was 3 years old is 15 now. I miss him! Katie and I talked about a few different places to ride in Orlando, but I never had the $50+ dollars to spare. Maybe I can find someone who will let me ride for free?

3. Do another Blogathon

Sadly, the Blogathon did not take place this year!

4. Enjoy Afternoon Tea at the Grand Floridian (again)- Complete Oct 1, 2009! I should blog about it, it was much fun!

Oops, I never did blog about this. The Garden View Tea Room has become a bit of a tradition for Katie & Me. We go at least a couple of times a year to stuff ourselves on Eros tea and scones and such, and talk for hours. The last time we went, we ended up getting into a conversation with the manager, and when he learned we were semi-regulars, he asked if we would mind testing some new teas they were considering adding to a seasonal menu. Um, of course we wouldn't mind!

The manager kept bringing out more and more cups of tea until the table was literally covered in cups, and we had a crazy and hilarious sugar high. Our waitress even took pity on my poor Disney cast memberness and snuck me some extra scones and cream to take home with me. LOVE HER.

Katie with some of our many, many teacups!

If you have never done an afternoon tea, I highly recommend it. Although we sometimes do jeans and t-shirts, it is an awesome excuse to pull out girly dresses and cute shoes when we're in the mood. Plus, scones are awesome.

5. Ride a Segway

No luck here, and as I am not currently employed by Disney, chances are mighty slim until I move back to FL and get a job there again! Unless I just go on vacation and do the free ride at Epcot!

6. Take a yoga class

See also: Lack of money. Sad.

7. Kiss someone new *complete*

I am not going to go into details here, but I will say that I kissed both the man I was thinking of when I added this item, and another guy that I totally did not expect. Hooray for kisses!

8. Buy a teapot

No teapot yet. I have my eye on a really cute one from the Japan pavilion at Epcot. Someday!

9. Behind the Seeds tour at Epcot’s Land pavilion

Not yet, again!

10. Eat crème brulee *complete* Thanks, Epcot!

11. Try 30 new things in 30 days

I may or may not have completed this one, byt I didn't keep track well enough to feel right about crossing it off. I would like to try again, though. Going out of your way to try new things is so much fun! You start seeking out experiences, noticing options you have always overlooked. What happens if I take a different route to work, try a different coffee order, wear my hair like this instead of that? I had so much fun grocery shopping because I actually stopped and looked at things on the shelves that I normally walked straight past, in a search for new things to try. I hugely recommend this one, it will seriously enrich your everyday life!

12. Visit Coronado Springs and Caribbean Beach, so that I will have officially been to every WDW Resort (And Fort Wilderness! I forgot it!) *complete* (It wasn't on my original list since it didn't exist yet when I wrote it, but I also visited the new Bay Lake Towers at the Contemporary with Megan, and Kidani Village at DAK-Lodge.)

13. Try the school bread from Norway at Epcot that everyone raves about.

Fail! I always seem to either be eating something else at Epcot or have zero money to spend!

14.Clean up my Favorites folder in IE. I have SO much stuff in there! Sort through, organize, clean out the sites that no longer exist or I no longer need, rediscover stuff I forgot about.

Given that the computer I originally wrote this list on was stolen and I had to start all over on a new laptop, and then ANOTHER new laptop when THAT one was stolen too, you could technically say that I REALLY cleaned out my bookmarks! They are still a giant mess now, though. (And I have switched to Chrome.) I don't think I put enough effort into this to warrant crossing it off.

15. Blog every day for a month

Never happened.

16. Take an American Tribal Style bellydance class

See lack of money again!

17. Find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year- I saw this on someone’s list at 43things.com, and thought it sounded very good.

I didn't do this, but I am working on a list of 1000 things that make me happy!

18. Attend the Orlando Fringe Festival *Complete*

We went in 2009, and had a great time! I think we only saw 2 shows (Or was it 3?) but I would certainly go again!

19. Visit London- I’ve been drawn to this city for as long as I can remember. Bill Bryson has a theory that everyone has numerous "homes" in the world, and we travel because we are in search of them. (Oh man, I think it was Bryson... it may have been Steinbeck!)

I obviously did not do this, or you would have heard about it!

20. Do another "26 Things" photo project

Nope.

21. Get a tattoo-I’ve been trying to decide what I want to get for ages now, so if I don’t make up my damn mind within the next few years, I am going to kick myself. I might let you kick me, too.

Still haven't done this! I have finally decided on designs, though! I am determined to get the heart suitcase on my ankle before our Canada trip next summer!

22. Dentist! I have several things that I need to have done, and will finally have insurance soon! *Complete*

I still need a ton of things taken care of, but my lack of insurance for the past 6 months has made that really hard! Even when I had dental insurance I never had $50 to get a filling done. I have been missing a filling that fell out since Feb 2008! How insane is that?

23. Try the Rooibos "Miracle tea" at Animal Kingdom *complete*

I drug myself to DAK when I had bronchitis because hot tea sounded AMAZING. I can't say it helped, but I'm glad I tried it!

24. Go to Jellyrolls

I still haven't been!

25. Catch a show at Comedy Warehouse (Um, crap. It closed!)

Closing the clubs at PI = Disney's WORST MISTAKE EVER. I will never, ever forgive the closing of the Adventurers Club. Ever.

26. Go to the FL Keys

Still not yet!

27. Eat pancakes at that place Katie told me about, the name of which I am too lazy to look up.

I don't even remember what the place was! I just remember that they bring you the batter and you make the pancakes at your own table!

28. Take photos in a photo booth. Must be one that prints out a strip of photos, no lame 5x7s or anything.

Nope! Technically, Katie and I *DID* take photos in a photobooth when we were at The Social to see Jonathan Coulton! We totally cheated though, because we used my camera instead of actually paying, so I am not counting it. I want the cute little strip of photos, damnit!

29. Slow dance-*complete*

30. Finish up my trip report on the DIS boards. Preferably in *less* than 1000 days. (COMPLETE! 9/2010)

31. Eat at the Sci-Fi Dine In at Hollywood Studios. *complete*

Their oreo cookie milkshakes are to die for!

32. Try something new at Starbucks *complete*

33. Star Wars Weekends! (Crap, I totally missed 09! And 2010. EPIC FAIL.)

34. See a space shuttle launch.

Still hasn't happened! The one time I was actually awake for and aware of a launch at the same time, it was way too overcast to see the shuttle from Orlando.

35. Take a non-bellydance dance class

Not yet

36. Do a 40s/50s Pin-up girl style photoshoot (not nude, just cute!)

Nope :(

37. See "Across the Universe" *complete*

One of my favorite movies!

38. Read something by Jane Austen

39. Get a massage

Never got a professional one, so not counting it.

40. Go to I-Bar *complete* Hehehe, magical!

41. Read a Shakespeare play that I haven’t read yet, or see one of his plays that I haven’t seen (Both! Read Hamlet, watched Two Gentlemen of Verona, 3/2010)

42. Go on a cruise

I find it so sad that I had the opportunity to go on cruises for SO VERY CHEAP while I was working for Disney, but never got to because I could barely even buy food, let alone a vacation.

43. Try a new fruit or vegetable *complete* Jackfruit is... interesting.

44. Stay up all night having a great conversation

Nope, sadly.

45. Buy a reusable grocery bag *complete* I think I have 3!

46. Visit a new state *Complete!* Drove through Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama on my way from FL to MO. I made sure to stop at least once in each state I hadn't been to.

47. Pay off at least one credit card

48. Back up my laptop

49. Watch Season 1 of Heroes *complete* Thanks for lending it, Katie!

50. Catch up on Season 1 of Pushing Daisies *complete* Thanks to Netflix!

51. Read 10 books recommended by friends (Start leaving suggestions in the comments!)

I don't think I read any books recommended by friends over this tiem period.

52. Find out what my credit score is (Most likely it is something like 2.)

If it was 2 when this list started, it is probably now like .027.

53. Do volunteer work through VoluntEars (or in general)

Nope, I suck.

54. Eat/Drink at Raglan Road Irish Pub (preferably on a night with live entertainment)

Still haven't been!

55. See Todd
There’s something wrong about not seeing one of your very best friends for over 4 years!

I haven't posted about it here, because it's sort of private, but I really, really wish I could have found a way to do this years ago, because his health has gone so far down hill that it is not longer really an option. It breaks my heart.

56. See 20 live bands (Seeing Black Ship Sky 20 times does not count, sadly.)

1. Black Ship Sky 2. Built to be Broken 3. Ambertone 4. Johnny Plastic and the Rubber Band 5. Soulswitch 6.Weszt 7. KC and the Band 8. Andy Matchett 9. AM Conspiracy 10. Sugar Free Music 11. Afterglow Radio 12. The Broken Inn 13. Godpawn 14. Traverser 15. Orange Avenue 16. Mr. Bella 17. Lost in Chaos 18. Shut up and Dance 19. Needham and Weep 20. Falling for Sarah

And probably a ton of others I didn't take note of the names of.

57. See Cirque! (La Nouba) *complete* Thanks to free tickets from work! Twice! WOOT!

58. Read 100 books

Easy-peasy.

59. Actually use the pool at my apartment complex *complete*

60. Actually use the gym at my apartment complex (HAH!) *complete*-more than once, even!

61. Finally read Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux (this appears on every one of my lists as a sort of running joke- for some reason, I NEVER get around to reading this book!)

I actually got a few chapters in before getting distracted by something else. GRR, will I never finish this??

62. Go to Universal Studios

Nope, and I even had free tickets once.

63. Visit Islands of Adventure

No, but I actually want to go now that they have the Harry Potter area! It looks awesome!

64. Stand in the ocean (Hopefully both Atlantic & Pacific!) *complete* Cocoa Beach with Ashlee~

65. Nap in a hammock

No naps, but I do spend a lot of time laying around in hammocks!

66. Play board games-*complete*

67. Dance like nobody’s watching *complete*

68. Try ice wine *complete* Yay for food & wine fest 08!

69. Walk the trail between Wilderness Lodge and Ft Wilderness

I walked part of it one day, but it started to rain and I had to turn back. Fail!

70. Read "Walking in this World" (the sequel to Artist’s Way) *complete*

71. Do the Sharon Kihara tribal dance dvd that has been on my bookshelf for months now *complete*- Picked up some fun new bits and pieces!

72. Have at least 5 friends teach me to do something they’re good at (Volunteers?)

Faaaaaail.

73. Meet someone I admire

Didn't happen.

74. Get a great fortune cookie fortune

I kept meaning to buy some fortune cookies and never did!

75. Attend a nerd convention of some sort

Negative.

76. Actually write morning pages every day for a month.

I came close, but never hit a solid month.

77. Either play Star Wars Galaxies or Matrix Online again, or try WoW or LOTRO

No $ and way too crappy of an internet connection for about 20 of the months.

78. Attend some form of religious service- preferably one I’m unfamiliar with.

Nope. Oops.

79. "Go to one of those target practice gun shooting things" (Katie and I agreed that this should go on the list with the exact wording in which it came about.)

No, but I still think Katie and I attempting to shoot things would be HI-larious.

80. Actually wear heels somewhere. (Bonus points for not falling over!) *complete*

81. Take a class at Ilham’s bellydance studio

82. Take a burlesque dance class

Neither of these. :( And now burlesque classes will probably get super-busy because of the movie.

83. Visit home- *Complete!* 1/15/10

84. Have photos I’ve taken published

Someone buy some photos from me already!

85. Do some kind of acting, even if it’s just a job as an extra. It’s been fo-ever!

You know, it probably shouldn't count, but since I haven't counted any of the other borderline ones, I am going to give myself a break on this one. I was in a training video for our supervisors at work where I had to pretend I didn't know how to accept a gift card. I never saw the video, which is probably a very, very good thing, but I like to believe I was splendid.

86. Flower & Garden festival @ Epcot *complete*

87. Food & Wine fest @ Epcot (again!) *complete* Try at least 10 things (not ALL wine…) Started 09/09- So far the Irish cheese plate with kerrygold butter, brown bread, and apple chutney, and cheese soup from Canada, which I cant count since I've had it so many times!, Goats Do Roam Red and Rose from South Africa, Airship Red from New York, Sangria from Morocco, Bailey's chocolate ganache from Ireland, Escargot from France, Praligne bread pudding from New Orleans

88. Go to another ren faire

89. Attend a film festival

90. Gatorland!

91. The Wine Room in Winter Park- they have machines that sell wine by the ounce!

92. Work our way through the martini menu at Blue Martini
92b. Apologize to liver for damage done by various numbers on this list

93. See white alligators, bears (1 threat to America!), and ride glass bottom boats at Silver Springs in Ocala

94. See the ducks at the Peabody Orlando

95. Eat fondue at the Melting Pot

96. See wild manatees (Or, as I call them in my conversation with Katie, "REAL manatees!")

Umm, yeah, I didn't do any of those things.

97. Dine and dance on the tables at Taverna Opa *complete*

98. Enjoy the food and art at Café Tu Tu Tango *complete*

99. Buy a piece of original art

I actually e-mailed Lucy Knisley about doing a watercolor comic-type sketch of Tallulah, but I haven't had the spare cash to pay for one yet. I still like the idea, though!

100. Buy/acquire a small digital camera that I can toss in my purse for easy everyday access. (My good camera is a little bulky to carry *all* the time)

Oh, how I wish!

101. Post blog updates about all of the above items!

I posted about a lot of them as they happened, and am counting this wrap-up post to make this complete!

The Bonus Items:

102. Celebrate the end of 1001 days on Monday, Dec 13, 2010

103. Write a new list to start over!

104. Donate $1 to charity for every item not completed

I can't do the donation right now, because I literally have 86 cents in my bank account, but I will be donating a TON of stuff left over from our yard sale to charity soon, so I am hoping that balances things out.

I'm not going to write a new list quite yet, because I still have my OTHER 101 list going on, and I need to decide if I want to stick with that, or write a whole new one and scrap that one, or have 2 going on at once again. Decisions, decisions!

If you would like to know more about 101 in 1001, check out the Day Zero Project!