200 days are done and I must admit that following the goals is not in my focus very much these days. I am mostly busy with getting through the days with my stupid broken wrist. Nevertheless I am happy that I managed a few more things from my list during the last three months – like ordering business cards for my blog for the first time ever.
Begins: 15 August 2020
Ends: 12 May 2023
Done: 10/101
- Go vegetarian for a month
- Have one vegan day per week (0/100)
- Make ten different ice creams (0/10)
- Learn how to make my granny’s apple strudel
- Go without alcohol for three times one month (1/3): August/September 2020
Learn how to use our instant pot √Learn how to use the air fryer lid for our instant pot √- Make 20 different cakes/pastries (13/20): Arabian sponge cake, Caramelized Walnut Pear Tart, covered apple cake, browned butter blondies, plum olive oil cake, chocolate chip biscuits, chocolate coffee mayo cake, butter cake, spritz cookies, peppermint sheet cake with white chocolate frosting, cinnamon buns, Chocolate Caramel Sourdough Muffins, sourdough berry cake
- Make 5 African dishes (0/5)
- Make pasta myself
- Make 20 different zucchini dishes (2/20): zucchini soup with fried apricots, beetroot zucchini quiche
- Find a recipe and make kürt böreǧi
- Make lemon curd
- Make kaymak
- Make tavuk göğsü
- Host a murder mystery dinner
- Host a German “Kaffee und Kuchen” (coffee and cake in the afternoon) for Rich’s family
- Host a German dinner
- Host a Turkish brunch
- Host a Turkish dinner
- Try 3 recipes from Rich’s family (0/3)
- Learn to make saag paneer from Rich
- Continue to read at least 52 books per year: ca. 114 books in 2020
Reread the Harry Potter series √: August/September 2020- Reread the Lord of the Rings books: started in September 2020
- Send and receive 50 post cards via Postcrossing (7/50)
- Send 50 handwritten notes and letters (23/50)
- Do some embroidery
- Knit a blanket
- Organize my closet at least once a year (0/3)
- Replace my battered leather jacket
Either go to the gym at least once per week or cancel my membership√: cancelled on 8 Sep. 2020- Lose 5 kg or give away my too tight clothes
- Use my AMC movie subscription when cinemas open again
- Test out all my old film cameras
- Review at least 20 books on NetGallery and Booksprout (4/20): How to Declutter Your Mind: Secrets to Stop Overthinking, Relieve Anxiety, and Achieve Calmness and Inner Peace; Concentration: Maintain Laser Sharp Focus and Attention for Stretches of 5 Hours or More; Mediterranean Every Day: Simple, Inspired Recipes for Feel-Good Food; Dropping Like Pies
Create my own business cards for my blog √: ordered on 17 Feb. 2021
- Publish 300 blog posts (70/300)
- Publish 80 new recipes (8/80)
- Get 10 new collaborations (2/10): Oxyfresh (Sep./Oct. 2020), Kollectin (Oct. 2020)
- Update my “About me” page
- Create a media kit
- Collaborate with another blogger
- Attend 10 blogger meetings (0/10)
- Host a blog or Instagram giveaway
Learn how to do Instagram Reels √- Grow my Instagram to at least 2000 followers
- Update my Linkedin profile at least once a year (0/3)
- Update my CV once a year (0/3)
- Organize all the teaching material on my computer by subject, grade and topic (instead of by school year)
- Attend 3 professional developments that do not take place in my school (2/3): Leisen series of online workshops, Digitaler DaF-Unterricht – Beispiele, Konsequenzen, Perspektiven on 12 Sep. 2020
- File my taxes on time (0/2)
- File all loose and important papers lying around in folders
- Either apply for a Green Card or leave the U.S.: our lawyer is about to submit the application
- Take at least one walk through the City every week that I am here
- Go to Coney Island
- Take Rich to Balthazar (French Restaurant in NYC)
- Go to a Yankees game
- Go to Governor’s Island
- Have a picnic with friends in Central Park
- Try 10 new restaurants in New York City (3/10): Loulou’s, Franchia Vegan Café, Murray Hill Diner *since there aren’t any new restaurants opening right now, I have changed this point to restaurants new to me
Eat at German restaurant Heidelberg on the Upper East Side√ – in December 2020- Take Rich to the Hamptons
- Go on our honeymoon (albeit a little later)
- Travel to three new U.S. states (0/3)
- Travel on the train from the East to the West Coast (or the other way round)
- Visit my friend in North Carolina
- Go to the Outer Banks
- Visit Harry Potter World
- Travel to a new country
- Visit my family in Germany at least twice (0/2)
- Travel to Turkey
- Go camping
- Go on a road trip
- Take 3 weekend getaways (1/3): Labor Day weekend 2020 in Peekskill
- Meet Rich’s brother’s dog Christoph
- Spend at least one week in the family homestead in Maine every year (1/3): October 2020
- Stay overnight in the lake house in Maine
- Swim to the island in the lake and back
- Plant a quince tree in Maine
- Renovate our room in the homestead
- Redecorate our room there
Start a German bookshelf in the homestead √: in October 2020- Organize all my earrings
- Empty at least one eyeshadow palette
- Use up at least one lipstick
- Empty at least one blush
- Use up all my beauty samples
- Use at least one facial mask per month (7/33)
- Use up a bottle of nail polish
- Stop biting the skin around my nails: still a long work in progress, a cast really helps …
- Upgrade our coffee maker
- Upgrade our towels
- Find a nice apartment when we have to move in summer 2021
- Hire movers
- Upgrade our dining furniture
- Upgrade our living room furniture
- Have a proper work space with a bigger desk at home
Hire a cleaning person for deep cleaning every now and then: this was my Christmas gift 2020 – we have cleaning person once a month √
- Have at least one photo of Canavar printed and hang it up
Adopt kittens: October 2020 √
Interim stages:
100: 22 November 2020 / 200: 2 March 2021 / 300: 10 June 2021 / 400: 18 September 2021 / 500: 27 December 2021 / 600: 6 April 2022 / 700: 15 July 2022 / 800: 23 October 2022 / 900: 31 January 2023 / 1000: 11 May 2023
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