Jeez Jon

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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.

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19.  Completely clean out the trunk of my car.

Done 8/19/06.  Took me maybe ten minutes.  It took one and a half garbage bags and one huge bag of recycling to clear that puppy out.  Not to mention all of the clothes.  And two Thomas Guides.

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After looking over my list, I realized I had actually completed a couple of these a while ago and one item... well, yesterday.

42. Listen to a new CD all the way through 3 times before taking a favorite track and playing it over and over and over like I usually do.

Done 7/13/06.  Madonna's live album "I'm Going To Tell You A Secret".  You'd think that a live album from Miss Half-Octave Vocal Range would be rather atrocious, but it works pretty damn well.  She may not have the range of a Christina or a Mariah, but she knows how to sell and interpret a song.  So, bully for her.  And frankly, I think she's generally awesome, so I'm rather biased.

96. Get new bookcases for our gaming books.

Done March 1, 2006.  This is a rough estimate as Tom took care of this a while ago.  Thanks, hon!

80. Go back to that Indonesian restaurant by Culver City that was crazy delicious.

Done yesterday, August 6th, 2006.  It wasn't as crazy delicious as I remembered.  More like "wacky delicious."  Tom had an avocado milkshake with chocolate sauce, and Drunk?Yes! has an avocado "smoothie", which was avocado, papaya, and cream underneath a mass of ice covered in coconut milk.  It looked like a dessert out of  Star Trek.  Yeah.  But, glad we went back.

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3.  Book a Supporting role in an independent film.

Finished 6/22ish.  I am doing a Supporting role in my friend/neighbor's indie sci-fi feature in August. It's a drama (I know!), and I'm excited and thrilled to be participating in it. Work is work and work begets work and work is awesome and I'm all whoo-whoo with the work. 

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23.  Take a trip with Tom to a place where we don't know anyone, and therefore it would be like an actual vacation, God forbid.

Finished 6/29.  For this trip, Tom and I did--

54.  Go to Vegas.  We've been here for 6 years, and have never been.  I know.  Stop giving me that look.

We had a very nice trip, one that I will blog about in more detail later.  While there I did--

52. Get a manicure. Why not?  I've had a pedicure.

Tom and I had mani/pedis.  For those of you not up on the metrosexual lingo, that's a manicure and a pedicure.  They were both nice pampery sort of things that are nice to have every now and then. For Tom's birthday party I did--

67. Bake a cake without having a mini nervous breakdown.

A lovely 2 layer chocolate cake.  The fact that it was both dairy-free and gluten-free is just a side benefit. The party itself was a lot of fun.  Tom got some lovely presents, a lot of our friends came over and there was much laughter.  One thing that helped?  We rented a karaoke machine.  Katie talks about it here but fails to mention a couple details.  First of which, she has a very lovely singing voice.  She is loathe to admit this, but she really does.  While I wail and vamp up any song I try to "sing" for karaoke, Katie actually sings and hits the right notes.  Second, her twangy version of "All Out of Love" was a particular highlight.  Who knew that all Air Supply songs are actually country in easy-listening drag? 

I'm back, ladies and gents. Expect more posts over the weekend.

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71.  Find out what my Credit rating is in the first place.

As part of their comprehensive Identity Theft Protection plan, one of the lovely Credit Card companies to whom I happen to owe a good chunk of change sent me a rather recent copy of my credit report.  On the report, in black and white, was my Credit Rating.  It's a lot better than I thought it was.  I'll decline giving you the exact number, but I'm squarely in the "Good" credit category, which apparently puts me in the top 35% of people in the country.  Which, frankly, scares the bejeezus out of me. My credit card debt is pretty substantial in my mind, but apparently not in the eyes of the credit unions around the country. According to the report, I'm apparently a good enough credit risk to get a good rate on car and home loans, but I'm a risk for getting another credit card.  You know what?  I'm fine with that.  Really. The last thing I need is another credit card. 

So, all in all, good news. 

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57. Clean out the bathroom of all the extraneous crap we don't need.

Completed on Sunday, April 30, 2006. It started with me looking for the charging cord for me razor, and it ended with me methodically going through all the extra crap in our bathroom.  I found a rather new, unused Flonase container, three opened and partially used NyQuil bottles, a lot of Crest White Strips, and just... well, crap, for lack of a better word.  The cord?  Gone.  Tom bought me a new razor, and we now have a cleaned out (and clean) bathroom.