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So many problems:

Meaningless:
1) ~~Watch “Brewsters Millions”~~
2) Scare someone really badly and get it on film
3) ~~Throw a really fun party.~~
4) ~~Have a margarita party on a Sunday afternoon.~~
5) Fashion photoshoot at clothing stores around town
6) Dress up in a DisneyLand style costume and hand out popsicles at the beach on a hot day.
7-9) TBD!

The heart smart category:
10) Interview my grandparents, blog about it, and scan photos.
11) Write one letter per month.
12) Make a family tree
13) ~~Have a sleepover party with my brother and drink margaritas at Chili’s, then play Wii.~~
14) Leave a server a really big tip in proportion to the ticket
15) Volunteer somewhere
16-19) TBD!

The Healthy Category:
20) Go to Yoga twice a week.
21) Ride my bike to work 3 days a week for the entire year.
22) ~~Join a women’s baseball team~~
23) Lose 10 pounds
24) ~~Run the Cincinnati Flying Pig Half Marathon~~
25) Do the Danskin Chicagoland Womens Triathalon.
26) ~~Get my wisdom teeth out~~
27-29) TBD!

Get Smart:
30) Learn Spanish.
31) ~~Take a knife skills class with Amy~~
32)~~Attend the Giants of Science lecture with Robert Krulwich and Jane Goodall~~
33-39) TBD

Food:
40) ~~Bike to an Ethiopian restaurant with Riki~~
41) ~~Bike to Veggie Bite on the south side with Amy~~
42) ~~Bike to Hot Doug’s~~
43) Make 1 new vegan recipe per week
44) ~~Plant a mini-herb garden.~~
45) ~~Plant a mini back-deck vegetable garden~~
46) ~~Vegan pizza party and movie night.~~
47) Host a fancy-pants dinner party
48) ~~Make this~~
49) TBD

Financial:
50) Increase what I’m putting into my savings accound by 25% per month.
51) Pay off all of my consumer debt.
52) Invest in a Roth IRA
53) ~~Do a full on written budget~~
54-59) TBD!

You tell me what to do:
60, Submitted by Minx) ~~Sing karaoke in front of a bunch of people. :(~~
61-68) TBD
69, Submitted by Aaron D.) Record a hip-hop record (at least 4 songs) with Riki and make a myspace music page for it.

The Culture Vulture:
71) ~~Visit the Museum of Surgical Science~~
72) ~~Go to the Brooklyn Museum~~
73) ~~Yankees Game~~
74) Ride on one of those Double Decker Red buses EDIT: This is $50. Such a rip-off. I'm going to replace it with something better.
75) ~~Top of the Empire State Building~~
76) ~~Walk the Brooklyn Bridge~~
77) ~~Ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island~~
78) Visit the MoMA
79) Visit the NY Public Library

Travel:
80) Go to ~~Ecuador~~ Louisiana
81) Go camping with Riki
82) Visit Katie in North Carolina
83) Go to ~~Venezuela~~ Costa Rica
84-89) TBD

Random:
90) ~~Surprise Problem~~
91) Get new glasses
92) ~~Go to a Cubs game and sit in the skybox~~
93) ~~Find a place to live in New York~~
94-99) TBD… lots TBD…

Problem 92, we hardly new ye.

May 11th, 2008

You know what’s cool? When you’re going about your Saturday, minding your business, and all of a sudden your friends call to say “Hi, we have two tickets to the Cubs game, do you want to go? Oh, also, they’re skybox tickets, hope thats ok.”

Mmmm, yeah, I guess that’s ok.

Henry and Anne invited Riki and I to the game Saturday, and it was my first, and probably only, skybox experience of my life. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go to a game and sit in the stands like a common folk ever again after being so rich for an afternoon. So. Rich.

Did you know you get free food in a skybox? Free beer (New Castle! wtf!), Free veggie plate that had asparagus on it, Free fruit plate with mother effing star fruit and pineapple, Free nuts and chips and pretzels, and on and on. There is also a TV in the room in case sitting on the seats and watching the real game just isn’t cutting it. Plus, you sit in your own little section that separates you from the jerks in other sections.

Mmm, yes, this is much better. Now bring me some champagne!

Later, after we gorged ourselves on food and beer, after we thought “Things just can’t get better” well, they did. The dessert cart girl showed up in all her glory…

You were allowed to pick anything from this cart. ANE-EE-THING. And, you can’t see, but on the top of the cart there were a bunch of dessert liquors that she poured for us into shot glasses. Oh, they were chocolate shot glasses. You could eat the shot glass is what I’m saying. This was basically every childhood dream I’ve ever had come true. Without the liquor part. And a pony was missing, if there was a pony I would have just laid in the corner and passed out.

Anne got a sundae and a little cubs hat…

Riki got snickers cheesecake.. look! that little thing next to it is the choc shot.

I’m not sure what Henry got, but it has ice cream on it…

Now, you might be wondering, why am i posting about this? Well, you probably forgot that in the Random Category, number 92 is “Go to a cubs game and sit in the skybox”. Yeah, you forgot, right! Problem solved, one off the list for me, suckers.

Wait til you see all the other stuff I did this weekend.. I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow. Spoiler alert: I survived Brewster’s Millions!

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1. j.dot | May 12th, 2008 at 8:04 am

im speechless…especially since for most of my life i have been one of the jerks not lucky enough to enjoy the pleasures of the skybox. im very jealous…now please, leave my city quietly before i go crazy…thanks.
2. BWJ | May 12th, 2008 at 11:00 am

I’ve never been jealous of someone going to a baseball game…until now.
3. Simon | May 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Awww, that looks like fun. Except, of course, for the whole Cubs part. Ugh. Go Sox! Anyway, it looks like you guys had fun. We miss you!
4. Amy L. | May 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm

i had no idea the skybox was so luxurious! oh, and i need to keep up with your blog better

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