101 Things in 1001 Days

I have been reading a lot of other people's lists, and I just had to jump on this bandwagon.

100 Things in 1001 Days

Basically, you choose 100 goals you want to reach in 2.75 years.  Below is my list.  I will update this post as I complete things and blog about them along the way.  I am pretty excited about this.  I feel like I have lost the whole goal setting and accomplishment part of my life ever since I stopped being a student.  I want to learn to live my regular non-student life with my student mind that is totally still in there somewhere!  I tried to make these goals all things that I wouldn't normally do in my life how it is now without extra motivation and effort.  I also wanted to separate these from my Knitting Resolutions.  Some of these are kind of ambitious, but I want to be ambitious!  So, here is my list:

Start Date: March 14, 2008
End Date: December 10, 2010

Italics = In Progress
Strike-through = Completed

1. Move out of MA.

• I'm moving to West Chester, PA
• How I broke my lease
• Complete!

2. Take time off - about 2-3 months (yikes!).

• I'M FREE!
• Complete!

3. Read Time Off! The Upside to Downtime and Choice Theory.
4. Join a new knitting group and go regularly.

• Completed! - Philly 'Burbs Stitch 'n Bitch

5. Start grief counseling re: my dad.
6. Remove the phrase "I have to" from my vocabulary and replace it with "I will" or "I want to" - make a conscious effort and journal about it for 3 months. (0/3)
7. Keep an artist journal for 6 months & create 1 piece a week. (0/24)
8. Visit another country (not Canada or Mexico).
9. Get a snail mail penpal.
10. Hike 20 mountains (4/20).

• North & South Pack Monadnock, Southern NH
• Spencer Butte, Eugene OR
• Poke-O-Moonshine, Willsboro NY

11. Visit the West Coast 5 times. (2/5)

• Oregon, June 2008
• Thanksgiving in Manzanita, Oregon

12. Design a cross stitch pattern & complete it.
13. Read 50 novels. (33/50)

• Atlas Shrugged
• Bridge of Sighs
• The Forest House
• The Fountainhead
• An Acceptable Time
• Interworld and Plainsong
• Dry
• House of Sand and Fog & Anthem
• The People of Sparks
• The Shop on Blossom Street
• The Firebrand
• Twilight
• Then We Came to the End
• Paint It Black
• The Color of Magic
• The Light Fantastic
• We the Living
• New Moon
• Equal Rites
• Small Gods & The Friday Night Knitting Club
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• A Spot of Bother
• Watchmen
• Brisingr
• The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Eclipse
• Breaking Dawn
• Revolutionary Road
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

14. Complete a week-long detox/fast.
15. Take a class that is several weeks long (on anything).

• My first successful print!
• Complete!

16. Start a campfire by myself while camping.
17. Install shelving in my apartment.
18. Learn how to frame things.
19. Wear skirts or dresses everyday for three weeks. (0/21)
20. Go to the dentist.
21. No alcohol for 3 months. (3/3)

• No alcohol for 3 months - starts today!
• 1 month on the wagon!
• 2 months on the wagon!
• Complete!

22. Complete a photo essay.
23. Bike ride 3 times a week for 2 months. (0/24)
24. Donate blood 9 times. (2/9)

• Donation #1 complete!
• Donation #2 complete!

25. Research the genealogy of my mom's side of the family.
26. Get up at 5am everyday for 3 weeks. (0/3)
27. Watch 20 documentaries. (5/20)

• Religulous
• Flow
• Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
• Super Size Me
• Planet Earth

28. Try 10 new pie recipes and make my own crusts for them all. (0/10)
29. Send holiday cards in 2008 & 2009. (0/2)
30. Complete 10 still life drawings. (0/10)
31. Organize my loose leaf knitting patterns into a binder or something.
32. Make a career or job change.
33. Write a letter to 10 people I admire, but I do not know. (0/10)
34. Visit 10 museums or historical sites. (0/10)
35. Put $1 in a piggy bank everyday (that's $1001!!). (101/1001)
36. Get a professional portrait of me & Timmy taken.
37. Send thank you packages to my knitting swap people.
38. Decoupage the cigar boxes I have.

• First Box Done!

39. Try 50 beers I have never tried and keep a journal. (0/50)
40. Make biodegradable bird feeders and hang them on some trees.
41. Find a place to try archery again and do it.
42. Take a photography class (that maybe will provide equipment).
43. Gather old family photos (circa me & Timmy's childhood) from my mom and dad and make them into albums.
44. Bake homemade bread from scratch.
45. See the 7 wonders of PA. (5/7)

• 5 down in one shot!

46. Get a (natural) tan.
47. Complete an artist trading card series.
48. Take a weaving class.
49. Bake 10 vegan recipes. (0/10)
50. Read all articles in my knitting magazines within a week of their arrival/purchase.
51. Develop a filing system for my bills and paperwork.
52. Make a knitting/relaxation area in my apartment with no TV in the space.
53. Make a zine.
54. Try Letterboxing.

• How to make your own rubber stamp.
• My first letterboxing quest.

55. Incorporate a GTD device in my everyday life to try it out.
56. Finish Riley and Emily's wedding presents and give them!
57. Go to two plays. (1/2)

• Pippin - Perry Hall High School, Balitmore, MD

58. Make 10 recipes with booze. (0/10)
59. Take a self portrait every month for a year. (2/12)

• 1st Portrait - May 2008
• 1st Portrait - January 2009
• 2nd Portrait - February 2009
• 3rd Portrait - March 2009

60. Make something special for Eric (mom's boyfriend).
61. Go to 20 yoga classes. (20/20)

• Go to 20 yoga classes - Complete!

62. Go on a knitting retreat.

• Mindful Knitting Retreat - Greensboro, VT - March 2009

63. Write a letter to Pauline.
64. Collect all of the state quarters.
65. No TV for one month.
66. Complete an entire book of logic puzzles.
67. Send 10 postcards as part of postcrossing.com. (0/10)
68. Complete an embroidery project.
69. Make a working craft table/space that does not double as a dining room table.
70. Get to level 30 in Dr. Mario.
71. Find a new way to organize my craft/knitting stuff.
72. Declutter all of my apartment to get ready for my move.
73. Perfect the Art of Doing Nothing. (0/7)
74. Do a swap on Gimme Your Stuff.
75. Get curtains or something to make my windows look nice.
76. Cover the blank canvases I have with paint.
77. Go on a weekend trip with just Santina.
78. Complete 1 Craftster Challenge.
79. Play board games 25 times. (3/25)

• Weekend at Beth's 2008

80. Go bowling 10 times. (0/10)
81. Learn to make and can jam.
82. Learn how to cook eggs over easy.
83. Keep track of my moods with Moodstats for 3 months, then analyze. (0/3)
84. Get rid of the bleachy blonde in my hair.
85. Compile all of my favorite recipes into one place.
86. Visit the desert.
87. Take a career interests test.
88. Visit Canada.
89. Dress up for Halloween at least once.
90. Focus on taking care of my face for two months. (0/2)
91. Keep a one sentence journal everyday for 1 year. (98/365)
92. Make a block print.

• Complete - Rogue River Note Cards

93. Learn how to hand bind a book.
94. Grow my FeedBurner subscriber numbers to at least 50.

• Complete!

95. Make 10 pieces of digital art. (0/10)
96. Make an organized space to dock my laptop.
97. Make a pottery something with my mom.
98. Take an IQ test.
99. Get my mom's Christmas cookie recipes and make Christmas cookies in 2008 and 2009. (1/2)

• 2008 Complete!

100. Join a book club.
101. Write 1 haiku a week for 3 months. (0/12)

I am very excited and eager to get started!

Comments

[santina]

LOL@CHOICE_THEORY - I have been considering this also because of angela.

Also, of course I would take a trip with just you!!!! YAY!!!

[Cassandra]

This is so cool! I shall make a list as well. And this letterboxing thing...I have never before in my life heard of this. I shall read more as I am very curious!
Cassandra