101 in 1001
The intent of the 101 in 1001 project is to compile a list of 101 things to be accomplished in 1001 days. Here is my list, and I will write an entry about each task as I accomplish it on the main page.
Beginning date: January 17, 2008
Ending date: October 14, 2010
- Personal Things
- Get back down to my fighting weight. (6.5/28.5 as of 4/29/08 )
- Take guitar lessons.
- Take a photography class.
- Get passports for me and Calvin.
- Participate in a marathon (note I didn’t specify “walk” or “run”!).
- Learn how to play poker.
- Vote.
- Make a will.
See the grandbabies. (DONE)- Read “Love in the Time of Cholera”.
- Do something charitable.
- Get a mammogram.
- Donate blood.
- Walk or bike to work for a week.
Discover a new favorite band. (DONE)- Fast for a day.
- Miss zero work-outs in a month.
- Go a whole week without cursing (hah!).
- Pack my breakfast and lunch for work every day for a month.
- Write my sister a letter.
- Go for one month without reading any books, every six months. (1/5 as of 4/29/08 )
- Learn quilting, then make a quilt.
- Make a cookbook out of Grandma’s recipes.
- Make or build something with my own two hands (that isn’t food).
- Plant something in the yard.
- Write a short story.
- Learn how to bake bread.
- Finish mapping family tree.
- Take a photo for the specific purpose of enlarging it and framing it.
- Create a new recipe from scratch.
- Buy a new bicycle.
- Buy a car.
- Buy the boxed set of all of the seasons of Buffy.
- Purchase a freezer for the garage.
- Get a new mattress for the bed, darnit.
- Have another drawing made by Ethrian.
- Buy a new TV for the bedroom.
- Buy three of my favorite children’s books.
- Travel outside of the country.
- Go hiking in Sedona.
- Visit Heather in Chicago.
- Go to a concert.
- Go camping.
- Go dancing.
- Have pizza on the roof.
- Go horseback riding.
- Have friends over for dinner.
- Go on a “touristy” excursion in my own state.
- Play beer pong.
- Go to the art museum.
- Sip champagne in the hot tub, for no particular reason.
Plan an extravagant date with my husband. (DONE)- Go skiing.
- Lay in the grass and find shapes in the clouds.
- Go stargazing.
- Go to a Broadway musical, play, or other such type of live performance.
- Visit Kartchner Caverns.
- Go to Luke’s for lunch.
- Take a ride or a trip on a train.
- Take a road trip.
- Go to a sports game (basketball, football, baseball).
- Stay up all night.
- Watch a black-and-white movie (that I’ve never seen before).
- Make dinner for the Grandparents and take it to them.
- Go to the shooting range.
- Host a happy hour at our house.
- Have a neighbor over for dinner.
- Do a “weekend in pictures” entry.
Gather all of my on-line recipes into a single comprehensive recipe site.DONE!- Finish what I started with The Lessons of Horse.
- Have another mix-CD giveaway.
- Do one of the Blogging bandwagony things (Holidailies, etc.).
- Write every day in the blog for a month.
- Put up an “Of the Week” sidebar feature.
Join a collab or other such on-line organization.DONE!- Sort through my book collection and give the unwanted ones to Jen.
- Get the filing cabinet in order.
- Shred unwanted papers.
- Organize the photos in the photo box.
Organize the bedroom closet.DONE!- Get everything out from under the bed.
- Organize the “storage room”.
- Pay off credit cards.
- Paint the bedroom some color other than white.
- Paint the bathroom some color other than white.
- Frame the pics of the grandbabies, Marie’s Senior pics, painting of my mother.
- Change the photo collage over the fireplace to something different.
- Change the stuff on the plant shelves to something different.
- Put three months’ salary into a savings account.
- Paint the front door.
- Max my 401k and stock contributions.
Sell my motorcycle, use funds to pay down debt.(DONE)- Buy an indoor plant. Keep it alive.
- Get some sort of display shelf thingy for our shot glass collection.
Fix the leak in the garage.DONE! (it wasn’t interesting enough to do an entry about)- Paint the inside of the house.
- Paint the outside of the house.
- Get the upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms in “saleable” condition.
- Replace the carpets.
- Sell the house.
- Move to Maine.
Creative Things
Material Things
Fun Things
Bloggy Things
Organizational Things
Goal Things
Big Things







January 17, 2008 at 5:24 pm
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January 18, 2008 at 11:34 am
Go for one month without reading any books, every six months
That’s is a dumb goal. Honey, it should be the other way around. read six books every month! Books are GOOD. Spend a month away from TV, thats good.
January 20, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Hah, Jen. Actually, with as much as I like to read, taking a month off once in a while will serve two purposes. One, it will make me slow down and appreciate the books I do read instead of inhaling them like a Hoover. Two, it will re-motivate me to do the things I should be doing other than reading (housework, paying attention to my husband, exercising, etc.). So while a lot of people would put “read more books” as a goal, I already read so much that I actually should cut back.
February 11, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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