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Jenn Vargas
San Francisco, CA
START
12/31/2009
END
12/31/2010
  1. Start my own company
  2. Go to Napa
  3. Go to Lake Tahoe
  4. Go to SxSW
  5. Read the news in Spanish every day
  6. Shoot and develop at least 12 rolls of film
  7. Find and perfect my "signature dish"
  8. Have at least 2 big dinner parties
  9. Learn to ski or snowboard
  10. Watch the sun set over the Pacific
  11. Lose 15 lbs.
  12. Have no credit card debt by the end of the year
  13. Learn more about investing and retirement
  14. Learn the ropes of jQuery
  15. Blog at least twice per month.
  16. Learn the fundamentals of cooking
  17. Improve my penmanship
  18. Join some sort of sports activity - a kickball team, a gym, etc.
  19. Finish at least 25% of the goodreads "Books that everyone should read at least once" list
  20. Start digitizing family photos
  21. Get ahead on paying back my college loans
  22. Learn to play at least 5 songs on the piano
  23. Learn to like seafood
  24. Read Wine for Dummies
  25. Watch another 25 movies on the AFI Top 100 list
  26. Get photos printed to fill the frames I have for my apartment
  27. Take a road trip down the California coast
  28. Meet and have a conversation with one of my heroes
  29. Finish Serentwipity
  30. Develop a solution to my biggest problem on the internet
  31. Learn to make my own (delicious) spaghetti sauce
  32. Don't become a corporate drone
  33. Visit the SFMOMA at least twice
  34. Go completely off the grid (connectivity-wise) for at least two 3-day periods
  35. Spend more time keeping in touch with friends on the east coast
  36. Reach at least 1,000 active users on 101in365
  37. Get a motorcycle permit so I can ride my Vespa in SF.
  38. Spend more time exploring San Francisco.
  39. Do something that scares me
  40. Watch 3 movies in Spanish with no subtitles
  41. Get my California driver's license
  42. Improve my typing accuracy
  43. Use weekends to prep food so that I'll cook more frequently during the week
  44. Do at least 10 hours/week in freelance work
  45. Learn how to cook an amazing risotto
  46. Host brunch at home with a group of friends
  47. Add some more personal touches to my apartment so it doesn't look like an IKEA catalog
  48. Send holiday cards by Dec 15th.
  49. Post a non-mobile photo to Flickr at least once every week
  50. Sew something with the sewing machine. Anything.
  51. Teach Penny to walk without a leash
  52. Visit friends - life is too short.
  53. Be more eco-friendly at home.
  54. Learn more about and implement more sustainable eating habits.
  55. Visit Yosemite
  56. Teach Penny not to be afraid of new people
  57. Get an emergency (/earthquake) kit together
  58. Watch all of the Disney classics that I haven't already seen
  59. Update my personal website at least every 3 months
  60. Make sure my friends know how important they are to me.
  61. Get all of my important sites into an SVN repository
  62. Organize the cables behind my TV and desk
  63. Get one of my projects featured on TechCrunch or Lifehacker
  64. Create a second backup of all of photos and important docs
  65. Go to a concert
  66. Watch all of the Star Wars movies
  67. Find and buy the perfect pair of non-snow boots
  68. Throw a holiday party
  69. Improve my interface design skills. Get with the times.
  70. Ride a Segway
  71. Learn to make macarons
  72. Keep my car cleaner - that garage is so dusty!
  73. Travel to a country I've never visited
  74. Do something about the other half of my bedroom (which is basically uninhabited at the moment)
  75. Have a positive net worth
  76. Go on a date. Seriously this time.
  77. Visit Muir Woods
  78. Find a way to do more volunteer work
  79. Become One with the Terminal
  80. Unpack the last of my boxes
  81. Dance
  82. Use my dining room table for eating instead of a surface to catch mail.
  83. Redesign jennthegeek.com and blog at least once/week.
  84. Try to DIY instead of buying everything.
  85. Get my wardrobe out of the college phase
  86. Start watching I Love Lucy from the very beginning
  87. Go on a vacation of some sort (NJ and Ithaca don't count)
  88. Be confident enough in my own opinions to write about them and share them
  89. Speak at a conference (solo or on a panel)
  90. Do the things that make me happy. Life > Career > Project.
  91. Become a part of the SF tech scene.
  92. Either become a PHP ninja or learn Rails, Python, or something else useful.
  93. Learn to draw more realistically
  94. Read the (non-yahoo.com) news every day
  95. Write an ebook
  96. Make some non-Cornell/non-work friends in SF.
  97. Learn more about developing for a Mobile-centric culture.
  98. Do something fun for my 24th (-shudder-) birthday.
  99. Create a really cool interwebs thing.
  100. Enunciate when speaking. Stop mumbling so much.
  101. Do one thing that is a step toward my #1 goal every day.