Jeez Jon

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7.  Book a third national commercial.

I shoot in on Friday.  Hopefully I won't get cut out of this one.  More info on this after the shoot.

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As I'm back to 50 hour weeks on Long Running Establishment Basic Cable Makeover Show, I haven't had a lot of time lately for the blog.  So, sorry about that.  In my blur of work, I've also neglected my 101 in 1001.  But, sometimes, I've ended up taking care of some of the goals through complete inertia.  Observe:

27. Go to a wine tasting.

This happened back in November. Our neighbor and friend Susan had a wine tasting party where everyone brought a bottle of wine, and we all blind tasted to figure out which one was the best.  Naturally, the two favorites were either of the cheap variety (around $6/bottle) or moderate ($12/bottle).  The really expensive one tasted like bad ass.   

59. Utilizing the Entertainment.com book Mitch and Shane got us for Christmas, spend a month using those coupons to get some nice deals on meals... and stuff.   

No longer applicable - haven't had the book since 2006. Whoops.

65. Read a biography.

Mitch lent me Dame Judi Dench's biography, which was missing a lot.  For example, she's a Quaker, but at no point does she talk about how her being a Quaker affects the decisions on the roles she chooses.  Fun but frustrating.

79.  Get that rip in my jeans fixed.  You know.  Those jeans.

I ended up throwing the jeans out anyway.  The jeans I get from Target last a long time.  The expensive jeans I get from Macy's?  Big rip and then I throw them out.  Sigh. 

85. Take 3 people I haven't e-mailed in a while, and try to keep up a regular correspondence with them.

I can thank Facebook for this.  Through that, I've been able to reconnect with a lot of people from high school, college and from Chicago.  That, and play Scrabulous to my heart's content.

I have until late September to knock out the rest of this list.  Yoinks!

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68. Bake a dessert from scratch.  Bake -- this doesn't mean "Ice Cream Sundae", Jon.  Like cupcakes or something.

For Christmas, Tom got me a fruit tart dish.  For New Year's Eve, I made this:

Pretty, no?  I really enjoy making them. 

 

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6.  Book another national commercial.

Shot this Saturday and Sunday.  I can give more details later, but it's a big commercial and due the huge cast, I won't be having a lot of screentime.  But fortunately, they are paying me as if I do.  Who am I to say that they are wrong? As you can imagine, I'm pretty thrilled.  More later.

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48. Run two more arcs of my Dead of Night role playing game with my Sunday gaming group.

The last arc wrapped up this past Sunday, Sept. 9th, and the other arc ended July 11, 2006. After a total of 57 gaming sessions, my long table-top RPG of quippy, sexy do-gooders fighting the forces of darkness has come to an end.  It was a very fun, very emotional, and a truly awesome ride.  A big nerd shout-out to all of the players that came and went through late 80's/early 90's Chicago, killing vampires, demons, and big shoulder pads.

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30. Spend two weeks at work not going out for lunch and actually bringing lunch, 'cause frankly, that shit adds up.

Sometimes I get so busy, I end up knocking this stuff out without even realizing it.  With the exception of one day, I've been managing to bring my own lunches to work with me for almost the past month, including my last week at the Goofy Basic Cable Documentary Show (which will now probably never see the light of day) and all my weeks at Established Adorable Basic Cable Documentary Show. The veggies definitely help.

87. Attend a film festival.  Either as a patron or as a participant.

Well, I think our attendance in the Gen Con Indy Film Contest counts.  Our distribution company seems to think so.

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101. Go out dancing with Tom one night.

Done Saturday, aka my birthday.  Tom and I actually went bar hopping... or as bar hopping as we get.  We danced for a while... even to a Gwen Stefani song that I loathe. (Click on that link at your own peril.) But hey, dancing is fun exercise. Ask Heather Mills...

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I've been so busy with the movie and stuff, I forgot I've actually knocked out a couple more of my 101 in 1001 list.

24. Purge the aparment of any remaining videotapes we don't need or aren't going to watch.  Copies of stuff for my reel, for instance, fall into the "Need" category.

AND

97.  Sell or donate any videogames we will never play again. 

Finished this on March 24th.  I cleared out the videotapes to move the photo albums to make room in our office for Fellowship stuff.  It's amazing how much crap you can accumulate in a small apartment in about 7ish years.  I then took the video games and the stray VHS tapes and donated the lot of them. 

66. Do what I can to bring my credit rating up. 

This kicked in a while ago.  I got an updated credit report in the mail and lo and behold it jumped up by 30 some points.  Funny how making more than just minimum payments on time can help a credit rating. I still have WAY too much debt for my liking, but nice to see my credit rating get even healthier.

Yeah, I really need to jump on this list.

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13. Not play videogames for a week.

Funny how prepping our apartment for the holidays, Christmas shopping, shipping gifts to family and friends, having some auditions, playing Santa for my agencies, seeing a damn good movie, having meals with friends before they go to various places for the holidays, and working out some while battling a cold would prevent me from playing XBox.  Weird.

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5.  Book a national commercial.

The aforementioned infomercial will be airing nationally on cable, and it's basically an half-hour long commercial, so it counts.  Especially since I'll be getting some residuals.

21.  Visit my older brother Matt in Italy.

And I gots the pictures to prove it.