Day 483: New things accomplished and some new things in the works....

A little after my projected time line for posting, but I do have some new things to report on.

#9 write a cook book....I have finally got my final idea down for this. It will be part health book and part cook book. It will basically be about choosing foods that can help your body in certain aspects and also a few recipes for these foods. Title is a working progress but I'm sure i know what it

#58 Showtime...The last of the 5 movies I saw in theatres for this tougher to do then thought feat was what IMDB among other sites actualy call a documentary or reality....Jack Ass 3d....the movie was funny and gross....really gross at times but in a funny no way in hell would i do that for anything less then a million dollars tax free funny. the 3d aspect didn't really have a place in this movie except for the opening.

#74 Music...Happened to see Naughty by Nature do a 30 minute set at a sporting event....that is all that is worth mentioning of them.

#85 Inspire someone again.....there have been a few people who have said they were going to make a list, 1 that did but hasn't done anything beyond that but now I have inspired 2 people to make a list, publish it and compete......here is Laura's who in hand challenged her husband Micah to do one as well.

Day 454: Where the hell have I been and why have I not posted?!?

It's been far to long since I've posted and am truly sorry. I'm committing myself to posting on the 1st and 15th from now on no matter what. I'm just hoping I remember everything I did here now. I'm sure there is something I will forget but we shall see. I'm nearly halfway through and have a way to go. Not all of these will have pictures for one reason or another (mostly busy or lazy). But here's whats new:

#16 Trip to Vegas Jr......As sort of a pre warmup to Las Vegas in a couple years I wanted to get a taste for a real casino area. Didn't do squat on the slots but I didn't lose everything. I played for a while in the poker room in Caesars (on a WSOP Table as well :-) yay) and won!....ok it was only $7 but hey I still won. The food was good and the shopping area was good as well. Would love to go back.

#19/39/54 Loving the great outdoors.....went camping in Cooperstown, NY. Well actually it was a small town just outside of C-town, it was a Jellystone state park and was kind of fun, and well it was kind of run down some too. While in Cooperstown I treated dad for father's day to the good old Baseball Hall of Fame. Not a whole lot changed but some additions were cool.

#28 The return of Chilly Willy?.....I casually stepped up to a game I have never won in the past 5 years i've played it.....the break 2 beer bottles with rigged baseballs. Casually I by some miracle I broke 2 and won a cute penguin who either is or closely related to Chilly Willy.

#38 SURPRISE!!!!....I lost the pictures for this but I surprised my sister with a care package while at school that included snacks and toys and humorous items.

#46/50 HELP....While I didn't fully organize and run the event, I did help with it since the Macker 3 on 3 tourney was a biggie. But we raised quite a lot of money for the Canteen and will be done again next year.

There are a few things that are partials for now so I won't post on that right now till they are done. Right now I have completed 18 things only but the next update will have a quite bit more done I'm sure. That is all for now Thank you and good night.

Day 282, Is it stealing or long term borrowing?

Day 282, I actually got a whole bunch of things completed in the month since my last update and a couple i started on or continued. I'm hoping after today to update rough every 2 weeks but hey I think i've said that before too. On to the details.....

#10 5 new restaurants....this is one of the restaurants I was really looking forward to going to and boy did it live up to the hype. I was not disappointed. We went to the one in Edison, NJ while on vacation. There was a 20 minute to get seated and I figured that i'd be at least another 40 before getting food. After our order was taken, soup came 5 minutes later and then no joke like 10 minutes later we got our food. Portions were over the top in size and fed us with leftovers to spare (saddly they never saw the outside of the building without a trash bag....there were no fridges at the hotel) however I can surely recommend the red velvet cheesecake....kristen's oreo cheesecake was good too, but hey at $7.95 a slice they better be good.

#21 I recommend you do...something...so based off a recommendation from someone i had to go somewhere, well i was told that down near Binghamton there was a sonic drive in and that i needed to go. I ordered a burger that was new, some sort of double cheese burger with jalapeño poppers on it (honestly i didn't know it would be as big as it was) oh and there tots suck ass!!!!

#35 Who says "how do we make the Bronx better? Hey Let's put a zoo right in the middle!"?....if you have never been to this zoo, you need to. It's that much better, but you should also plan to spend it open to close because it is so big and there is so much to do. I decided to feature this Coke-a-cola loving animal on my blog because he was the best part. If you have seen the movie Madagascar then picture this bear as the lion. He posed quite a bit and was very well aware that people were taking pictures of him.....or her....i didn't really look.

#55...Lights, Camera, roar....err broadway action!!!....Lion King on Broadway was awesome. Anything on broadway is awesome though, it's like anything and everything gets kicked up a notch. Example below is the costume for Rafiki the monkey who was actually played by someone from south africa.

#63 To the future and beyond....Easily a really funny show, not the best season but it's on the list, yay for season 3!!

#64 Lemon Law, The Pineapples and San Francisco???....so after catching a few random episodes over time I decided I needed to catch up on this show. I believe it's season 5 on tv and I've gotten through seasons 1 and 2 and this show has easily made it to my top 5 shows of all time....How I met Your Mother....PS...to all the single people out there....spread lemon law....

#71 Play in a real live casino poker table....so one day randomly while at the casino I decided to sit at the $1,$2 poker table, and not getting many good cards, I made it count when I did coming out $190 ahead in just 45 minutes.

#86 2 guys not helping my diet....still....peanut brittle ice cream sounds promising, but it was more like the ham sandwich of ice cream....it wasn't good but is wasn't bad but it filled you up

#89 Is it stealing or long term borrowing?.....so is taking a casino chip from the casino stealing? I suspect it's the rule of thumb as "is taking a pen from the bank considered bank robbery?" either way while doing #71 I slipped a $1 chip into my pocket before arriving at the table for a keep sake.

**this image is not blurry, the chip is

slightly worn out**

So here's my progress so far..... completed 12 of 101 and started on another 8. That puts me at a 11.88 completion percentage and 19.8 % at least started. Going by averages I should be at 28 done and 27.72 completion percentage. That means i'm 16 things behind....however I'm not worried as I know I'll close that gap this summer. Till next time readers.

Day 254....Food, movies, and randomness

Day 254 could also be called I'm taking way to long to update this thing and sometimes forget i'm doing this thing. 37 days in between my posts is just way to much and i'm going to start making myself post stuff no more then every 15 days or so.....I hope. I've gotten a few things done and am ready to go here:

#6. Make a totally awesome cake...again...This was my cake I donated to the teen center's spaghetti dinner. It's a golden yellow cake, with creme de menthe frosting and Baily's Irish Cream candies on top.

#8. Eat Scallops....do you pronounce it as a word that rhymes with gallops or saying the name Al in the middle? Either way I tried a piece of it from Kristen's chippino one night and no I did not like it. However I may be willing to revisit this # at another time.

#33 Giving flowers to a loved one....given to my aunt while she was sick in the hospital, only wished it could have had super healing powers.

#45 Donate Blood 3 times. ...so I went and gave my blood for the first time ever and liked it. A few weeks later I get a letter telling me I'm A+ blood....nice because I didn't know and wanted to. However due to other unfortunate circumstances I am not able to donate any more blood. So according to my partner I'm doing this with I'm excused from this item.

#59 watching some top 100 per the AFI....so I saw AFI's #50 movie The Lord of The Rings, the fellowship of the rings. This is 2 hours and 59 minutes of my life I will not be able to get back. The idea for the movie isn't so bad but I just did not like this movie at all for some reason. I get it an F. Please AFI produce better next time.

#63....getting back to the Futurama. Man how I loved this show (thank you kevin) I really only owned season 2 but now i'm trying to get all the seasons and the dvds, and today I just found out the new seasons will be picked back up in June. Awesome!!

#68 SU dominating Villanova.....Yes I did attend college basketball's most attended game. While I was worried going into the game, by half time there was nothing to worry about as SU won!!!

#86 The fat maker, ben and jerry's flavors. While this is one of my favorite tasks it does pack on some calories. This update's new flavor was Karamel Sutra. The Caramel core with the ice cream around it was just awesome, I will be back to this flavor.

#94 Eat some fruit for 60 days.....this wasn't hard, my diet consisted mostly of pears and bananas for this with the occasional apple or pineapple....oh yea this one I got to mark with red which means done which is awesome!!!

Day 217....MMmm Ice Cream

So it's been 28 days since my last update and I've had some more ben and jerry's. I've got a bunch more days for my eating fruit goal (mostly sticking with pears and bananas.) Also you may have seen the donating time to charity and such. Well as it's now been formally announced, we at the canteen will be hosting Syracuse's first Macker 3 on 3 Basketball tournament.

For the good 'ol Valentine's Day we went out to Red Robin, a first for both of us and saw the movie Valentine's Day. Though I can not count that movie in my list because the romantic comedy category has been taken, it still was decent. Let's get to the details

#10 Eat at some new places: Red Robin in Fayetteville, NY

The place had a great atmosphere, felt like a good sports bar/chain restaurant. They also host the Jim Boeheim show there so I tried to see where they may have setup the stage area. It's a shame though that our waitress liked to pay most of her attention to the table next to us then any other table. So I did what I hate doing which is tipping a smaller percent but hey you get tipped what you deserve sometimes.

The burger I chose to go with was the Banzai Burger. It wasn't that bad but had to much teriyaki sauce on it. It's also got pineapple on it which worked well with the burger. Also had the steak fries with the seasoning salt on it which was good. Be forewarned they come out smoking hot but cool down pretty quick too. Also I was given quite a smile while looking out the window to see some jerk that parked in the handicap spot with no tags for it get a ticket. Enjoy your $50-200 fine buddy.

Number #46 and 50 were talked about above.

#86...MMmmm Ice Cream

So the 3 flavors I tried (as seen at the top because Blogspot was not cooperating tonight, sorry)

was, Banana Split, Peanut Butter Cup, and Chocolate Fudge Brownie.

I really loved the Banana Split and if I wasn't paying attention could have easily killed the pint in 1 sitting. It's supposed to be banana and strawberry ice creams with walnuts and fudge swirl but tasted more like heaven in a processed paper container...mmmm watch out phish food there's competition for my favorite flavor. The other day while at the market I bought the sample size of the fudge brownie, it was good but nothing really special. I would consider buying the bigger size if it caught my eye. The Peanut Butter cup was not good. The pieces of peanut butter cups tasted like cheap pieces of candy and the ice cream was way way to sweet. I probably will not buy this flavor again.

I'm still lagging behind in what i need to be getting done statisticly but looking ahead to the summer I know I'll be getting a lot done.

Day 189....Things are going slow right now but you wait till spring...

Day 189....This 1000 days thing is going fast, to fast and it feels like I'm running out of time already. Though my excuse as I'm looking at the list is that much of it will be accomplished this spring/summer so then I don't feel so bad. So a big thumbs up for some good future traveling and a big thumbs down to Jeanne Marie for saying celebrity chef demos don't count as concert.

#25 (where people pretend to like me) make three new friends.....while I should have posted this awhile ago but realizing just now recently I have made 3 new friends since Julyish when this started. Ron, Rob, and Katy....yes it is only because of Kristen but hey they are still friends. Thank you.

#46/50(charit

y work) I am working on/with a major fundraiser for the Canteen and while it hasn't been announced to the public, it will soon and will let everyone else know more info.

#58(the movies one)

I went last weekend to see Avatar!!!! It was great. A visual orgasm for the eyes. The plot wasn't all the week and well worth the $11 I paid to see the 3D version. I can not wait till the DVD and will make a lot of people watch this masterpiece from James Cameron. I'd call him one of hollywood's greatest if it wasn't for Titanic.

#86 (the anti-diet food) For trying some of the new flavors I try to get the sample 1 dollar size ice creams. I tried Mint chocolate Chunk which was better then expected. The mint ice cream was phenomenal and just the right amount of chocolate....mmmm....right to the thighs....

#94 (the fruity thing) I'm on day 7 of eating a fruit a day for 2 months.....mostly it's consisted of pears and apples though.

---at this point i should have 18-21 things done.....i have 6 done and 5 in progress......yikes time to get moving.....