2013

2013 Manifesto

Participate in a grape stomp at a winery Completed September 2013

Help get one of my best friends Danielle married! Completed June 2013

Go on an epic roadtrip – Completed in the Pacific Northwest in May 2013

Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9, Day 10

Take a pottery class

Climb a fourteener (mountain)

Drive through a tree in the Redwood National Park Completed May 2013

Take a cooking class

Visit the Grand Canyon- and walk on the SkyWalk

Drive the scenic Highway 101 in California Completed May 2013

California, Oregon, Washington

Create my family tree

Watch a movie at a drive in movie theater

Attend a book signing event

Start my own business

Work on the set for a play Completed March 2013

Continue another year of 2 recipe tests a month with Anna and Lindsey

January (1) January (2) February (1)  February (2) March (1) March (2) April (1) April (2) May (1) May (2) June (1) June (2) July (1) July (2) August (1) August (2) September (1) September (2) October (1) October (2) November (1) November (2) December (1&2)

Get a puppy!

Make a stained glass window Completed August 2013

Take up photography again See Monthly Photo shoot goal

Go on a spontaneous road trip

Drive at least part of Route 66

Send a message in a bottle out to sea Completed May 2013

Make a terrarium Completed July 2013

Take pictures with someone in a photobooth Completed July 2013

Go stargazing Completed December 2013, no blog

Go to a concert I would normally not consider Completed August 2013

Actively sketch/journal this year Completed

Picnic in a park, Completed July 2013, no blog

Keep up a ‘grateful/memory/etc’ jar for the year Completed December 2013, no blog

Complete a ‘photoshoot’ once a month Completed

January February March April May June July August September October November December

Watch or Re-watch the AFI’s 100 years… 100 movies – 10th Anniversary Edition (last updated in 2007)

#100 Ben-Hur #99 Toy Story #98 Yankee Doodle Dandy #97 Blade Runner #96 Do The Right Thing #95 The Last Picture Show #94 Pulp Fiction #93 The French Connection #92 Goodfellas #91 Sophie’s Choice #90 Swing Time #89 The Sixth Sense #88 Bringing Up Baby #87 12 Angry Men #86 Platoon #85 A Night at the Opera #84 Easy Rider #83 Titanic  #82 Sunrise #81 Spartacus #80 The Apartment #79 The Wild Bunch  #78 Modern Times #77 All the President’s Men #76 Forrest Gump #75 In the Heat of the Night #74 The Silence of the Lambs #73 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid #72 The Shawshank Redemption #71 Saving Private Ryan #70 A Clockwork Orange #69 Tootsie #68 Unforgiven #67 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? #66 Raiders of the Lost Ark #65 The African Queen #64 Network #63 Cabaret #62 American Graffiti #61 Sullivan’s Travels #60 Duck Soup #59 Nashville #58 The Gold Rush #57 Rocky #56 Jaws #55 North by Northwest #54 M*A*S*H #53 The Deer Hunter #52 Taxi Driver #51 West Side Story #50 The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring #49 Intolerance #48 Rear Window #47 A Streetcar Named Desire #46 It Happened One Night #45 Shane #44 The Philadelphia Story #43 Midnight Cowboy #42 Bonnie and Clyde #41 King Kong #40 The Sound of Music #39 Dr. Strangelove #38 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre #37 The Best Years of Our Lives #36 The Bridge on the River Kwai #35 Annie Hall #34 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs #33 One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest #32 The Godfather Part II #31 The Maltese Falcon #30 Apocalypse Now #29 Double Indemnity  #28 All About Eve #27 High Noon #26 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington #25 To Kill a Mockingbird #24 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial #23 The Grapes of Wrath #22 Some Like it Hot  #21 Chinatown #20 It’s a Wonderful Life #19 On the Waterfront #18 The General #17 The Graduate #16 Sunset Blvd. #15 2001: A Space Odyssey #14 Psycho #13 Star Wars #12 The Searchers #11 City Lights #10 The Wizard of Oz #9 Vertigo #8 Schindler’s List #7 Lawrence of Arabia #6 Gone with the Wind #5 Singin’ in the Rain #4 Raging Bull #3 Casablanca #2 The Godfather #1 Citizen Kane

Read all of the Timothy Keller books I’ve purchased and not yet read- a total of 5

The Reason for God Every Good Endeavor King’s Cross Counterfeit Gods The Meaning of Marriage

Commit 5 special acts of kindness

Explore small towns in the area St. Joseph, MO 

Go to a favorite restaurant and order something different Completed

Take the ‘Just 10’ challenge from Dr. Oz

Decorate a cake:

Cake 1 and 2 Mom’s Birthday  Cake 3 Grandma Jan’s Birthday Cake 4 International Edible Book Festival Cake 5 Uncle Mark’s Half Birthday Cake 6 Dad’s Birthday Cake 7 & 8 Best friends birthdays in June Danielle and Lindsey Cake 9 Brother Kevin Cake 10 Grandma Lee Cake 11 Pa’s Birthday Cake 12 Anna’s Birthday Cake 13: Uncle Scott’s Birthday

Take up a new hobby Watching European football, no blog

Spend the day in an art museum (again!)

Eat something off a food truck  Completed May 2013