101 things in 1001 days

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (represent some amount of work on my part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past, frequently of simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year because it allows several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

START: March 6th, 2009
END: December 1st, 2011

1. Create my list of things, add it to the master list and post it to my blog. [1/1]
2. Blog each 101 Things item as completed. [0/101]
3. Complete one Project 365. [0/365]
4. Complete one 100 Strangers series. [0/100]
5. Participate in a group meme every month. [0/33]
6. Have monthly Date Night with P. [0/33]
7. Have monthly Mom-Daughter Day with K. [0/33]
8. Have monthly Girly Foo Day with C. [3/33]
9. Help K open savings account. [0/1]
10. Teach K how to drive (holycrapholycrapholy…). [0/1]
11. Pay off P’s car. [$14,658.27]
12. Have $10,000.00 in our savings account. [$421.06]
13. Repaint my office. [0/1]
14. New furniture for my office. [0/1]
15. Get my childhood fotos out of bad albums and scrapbooked. [0/2]
16. Help Mom finish 1940’s – 1960’s scrapbook. [0/1]
17. Make recipe cards (scrapbook?) of Mom’s and Nana’s signature recipes. [0/1]
18. Try a new recipe twice a month. [6/66]
19. Read 100 books. [9/100] (See Progress)
20. Read 10 of the most frequently banned books. [0/10]
21. Watch 100 movies. [67/100] (See Progress)
22. Get my passport. [0/1]
23. Participate in NaBloPoMo. [0/1]
24. Watch TV shows I’ve fallen more than one season behind on: [0/5]
    * Dexter
    * BSG
    * Lost
    * Desperate Housewives
    * Heroes
25. Read news (Perez Hilton and The Soup don’t count!) 5 days per week. [100/715]
26. Send birthday and Christmas cards.
27. Refresh/Relearn Spanish. [0/1]
28. Become passably conversational in French. [0/1]
29. Learn large, basic set of utility phrases in Japanese. [0/1]
30. Learn large, basic set of utility phrases in Mandarin. [0/1]
31. Plan something special for P’s and my 15th anniversary. [0/1]
32. ... And actually do it! [0/1]
33. Organize the two kitchen pantries. [0/2]
34. Amass 3 month supply of food. [0/1]
35. Go all 1001 days without nat’l chain fast food. [282/1001]
36. Finish painting and decorating kitchen and dining room. [0/1]
37. Sort, shred, and toss old papers and bills. [0/1]
38. Donate 1M grains through Free Rice. [100,000/1,000,000]
39. Get a facial at the day spa. [0/1]
40. Learn to make 5 cocktails. [2/5]
41. Tile: kitchen/dining room, foyer, great room, bathrooms. [6/6]
42. Built-ins for my closet. [0/1]
43. Landscape the backyard. [1/1]
44. Hide three Geocaches. [0/3]
45. Host six dinner parties. [1/6]
46. Go on a cruise. [0/1]
47. Watch the John Hughes 80’s movies with K. [0/10]
48. Install document safe and move papers to it. [0/1]
49. Clean out, sort, organize fire safe and move media to it. [0/1]
50. Plant veg during both halves of our split growing season. [0/6]
51. Learn to can food. [0/1]
52. Go seven consecutive days without complaining. [0/7]
53. Go 30 consecutive days without cussing. [0/30]
54. Send 12 postcards through Postcrossing. [0/12]
55. Drink six glasses of water per day for a month. [0/30]
56. Cut sweets and soda for 30 consecutive days. [0/30]
57. Buy nice linens, skirt, duvet, pillows for P’s and my bed. [1/1]
58. Buy matched sets of bath linens. [0/1]
59. Organize guest linen closet and master linen closet. [2/2]
60. Get new glasses. [0/2]
61. Go out to the movies six times. [3/6]
62. Donate to Toys for Tots each Christmas. [0/3]
63. RAK a total stranger. [0/6]
64. Get new dinnerware. [1/1]
65. Take K to play in the snow. [0/1]
66. Tie $20 to a helium balloon and let it go. [0/1]
67. Attend a cooking class at Sur La Table. [0/1]
68. Take Max to obedience class. [0/1]
69. Participate in 26 Things. [0/26]
70. Buy proper dining room chairs to go with Nana’s cherrywood table. [0/1]
71. Cancel subscriptions we are no longer using or enjoying. [0/1]
72. Comment on 25 other blogs. [4/25]
73. Go on a roadtrip, and stop at at least one roadside attraction. [0/1]
74. Prepare our go bags. [0/3]
75. Totally scrub down and clean out each refrigerator bi-annually. [2/12]
76. Replace garage fridge. [0/1]
77. Have sunscreens installed on the rest of the S and E facing windows. [0/11]
78. Use the good china and the silver silverware one time just because. [0/1]
79. Polish the silverware. [0/1]
80. Get velvet- or felt-lined box to store the silver properly. [0/1]
81. Replace broken glass in china cabinet door. [0/1]
82. Buy new dishwasher. [0/1]
83. Buy new upstairs vacuum. [0/1]
84. Paint laundry room. [1/1]
85. Install cabinets, drying rack, and hanging rod in laundry. [0/1]
86. Find/Make/Shoehorn room in budget for me to go back to Coco EDP by Chanel. [1/1]
87. Send a secret to Post Secret. [0/1]
88. Directly support six of K’s squad activities. [1/6]
89. Document and file K’s extracurriculars for her college apps. [0/1]
90. Fire a gun. [0/1]
91. Specifically document 09/09/09, 10/10/10, and 11/11/11. [1/3]
92. Allow my picture to be taken… And not whinge about it. [2/6]
93. Enter 10 contests. [2/10]
94. S1H project. [0/1]
95. Take P and K to Washington, D.C. [0/1]
96. Go to a football game. [1/1]
97. Watch 25 TEDTalks/documentaries. [2/25] (See Progress)
98. Eat at 10 restaurants featured on Diners, Drive-ins & Dives. [0/10]
99. See The Northern Lights. [0/1]
100. Attend or host at least one proper New Year’s Eve party. [0/1]
101. Say something kind to P and K every day. [540/2002]

my 101 things in 1001 days list
101 things in 1001 days
started Thursday, December 11, 2008 –
will end Thursday, September 8, 2011

Personal
1 Decide about Quakers
2 Send monthly email updates to family and friends
3 Create fundraising event for CLPSCHEDULED FOR JUNE 19, 2010
4 Throw the Growth Events for children/adults
5 Write that really long letter to Jaime DONE
6 Get passports
7 Fix the hammock and use it
8 Commission a piece of art again
9 Do more with my Little for the Big Brother Big Sister program
Health
1 Figure out my mental health
2 Get a massage
3 Learn to meditate using a new form
4 Start doing yoga for 30 days straight
5 Eat three square meals a day
6 Train for a 5K run
7 Learn to stand on my head at will
8 Develop a stretching routine
9 Learn Tai Chi
Financial
1 Create an emergency fund (6 month salary) ($17,928) HAVE 1/3RD SAVED
2 Create a budget
3 Save money to create my own scholarship fund
4 Help my son open a savings account
5 Create a management course on money for college students
6 Save for a new car
7 Eat at home for 30 days straight
8 Use cash so I’m completely out of the credit loop/grid
9 Track my expenditures for one month straight
Friends & Family
1 Visit Bakersfield
2 Use birthday book
3 Write letters to Aunt A each week for a year
4 Have coffee with K for 2 hours straight
5 Visit my Aunt A GOING TO NJ IN JULY/AUGUST OF 2009 SO THIS WILL BE DONE SOON
6 Create a friend tree
7 Make my mom’s Christmas quilt
8 Visit KJ in Louisiana
9 Use letter writing address book
Education
1 Take courses at the Community College on interesting subjects
2 Take Psychology 12 (research methods course)
3 Get a Master’s degree in ?
4 Take a woodworking course
5 Learn more math
6 Study astronomy, visit the planetarium
7 Get a certificate in a new age subject
8 Finish the Evolve course
9 Learn more about the county I live in
Creative
1 Learn to knit
2 Make a skirt out of the samples Jaime knitted
3 Contribute to stewed tomatoes each month SO FAR I’VE SUBMITTED FOR EACH MONTH LEFT OFF ON FREEDOM
4 Sew five outfits for work use
5 Write a 120 page story
6 Make K something for graduation
7 Learn to tat
8 Work on UFO list
9 Finish tree skirt for KJ
10 Write in my journal once a day
11 Create a pattern for a pair of pants that looks good on me
Leisure
1 Go on backpack trip with my husband
2 Go to Cambria with my husband again
3 Go to San Francisco to visit A
4 Rent a beach house
5 Go kayaking
6 Go sailing on the Pacific Ocean
7 Go on hikes in Southern California
8 Spend one whole day reading
9 Use my Lady Bug furniture more
Housekeeping
1 Do weekly chores the Fly Lady way
2 Make and use homemade rags
3 Make homemade cleaning products
4 Keep sheets changed
5 Get rid of old appliances DONE WE GOT THIS DONE WHEN WE MOVED INTO OUR NEW HOUSE
6 Give some chores to my son
7 File all papers into filing cabinet
8 Go to the laundry mat 3 times
9 Toss all lotions and soaps not in use
Miscellaneous
1 Keep Fly Lady routines with my binder
2 Have the F-word party REVISED THIS PARTY COULD ALSO BE THE TRAVELING PICTIONARY PARTY AS WELL
3 Create an awesome website for my artist friend
4 Learn to bake bread
5 Plant a garden
6 Join the quilt guild with my mom and go with her to meetingsJOINED BUT HAVE MISSED A FEW MEETINGS.
7 Finish the slides/pictures project with my father
8 Spend more time with my grandmother, once a month
9 Go on a marriage retreat with my husband
Frivolous
1 Use my Glen Ivy Spa certificate
2 Write letters to three famous people and send them
3 See the Untouchables live
4 See a baseball game at Angel’s stadium
5 Go to a physic
6 See a live show in an LA night club
7 Do a scrap booking weekend with B
8 Go on a camping trip just W and I
9 Join the pool at work and swim once a week at the pool
Purchases
1 Buy my husband a digital video camera
2 Buy a new bed
3 Buy a house DONE – WE ARE MOVED IN AND HAVE PAID OUR MORTGAGE
4 Get a portable pump for my bike
5 Buy eye glasses for reading and computer work
6 Buy nothing for 30 days straight (taken from this idea)
7 Buy a lap top BOUGHT A MACBOOK – LOVE IT
8 Get my husband a collection of OPUS cartoons
9 Get more dishes so I can have a dinner party for 8 DONE BECAUSE MY GRANDMOTHER AND HER COUSIN GOT ME A NEW SET AT OUR OPEN HOUSE SO NOW I JUST NEED TO CREATE A MENU AND INVITE EVERYONE

I have obtained a lap top – so. I’ve achieved another mile stone in my 101 in 1001 days!

A macbook – my new little baby!

stewed tomatoes – gone
6’x6’ collage – now mine

learn to bake bread – gone
create a random surprise date for three or more hours – now mine

Key:

Not yet done

In progress/Ongoing

Finished (date finished)

Beginning: Sunday 1st February 2009
End Date: Sunday 30th October 2011

Personal/Self-Growth

1. Use EFT at least once a week (0/143 weeks)
 2. Learn to be content with ME
 3. Identify 25 things I like about myself (0/25)
 4. Write a letter to somebody who has hurt me in the past, then rip it to shreds
 5. Don't panic
 6. Work out what I am good at/where my talents lie and hone them
 7. Make a list of 100 things that make me happy
 8. Achieve something monumental
 9. Don't compare myself to others/work out techniques to believe in myself
10. Set aside 2 hours of non-tv, non-internet time per day to do something artistic/study/spend time with partner/read
11. Clean up my Facebook/MSN list and get rid of people I never speak to/who don't speak to me and who are no good for me finished
12. Stay off Facebook for 1 week at a time (1 week on, 1 week off)
13. Try not to let the weight of the world sit on my shoulders
14. Turn negative thoughts into positive ones

Creative

1. Paint a self portrait
 2. Join a writing class/group online/locally
 3. Learn to make jam
 4. Learn how to silk-screen
 5. Learn how to make resin jewellery
 6. Make some pillows for the couch
 7. Create my own writing paper and envelopes
 8. Draw/paint once a month (0/32)
 9. Start and complete a craft project once a week, no matter how small (0/143)
10. Start an inspiring quote list and add to it once a week (5/143)
11. Make myself an item of clothing that I can actually wear
12. Learn to use my overlocker
13. Do NaNoWriMo
14. Take a sewing class

Photography

1. Turn some of my photography into art pieces for my apartment
 2. Explore and take photos of an abandoned building
 3. Take photographic evidence (where possible) of completed tasks
 4. Learn more about lomography and take more photos using my Diana
 5. Set up and start photo challenge where I create a list of 100 seemingly impossible things and go about doing it (0/100)
 6. Create an image board for my photography/makeup/art
 7. Work out a better system for storing my photos on my computer
 8. Learn to use Photoshop to its full potential
 9. Do 26 Things project (http://www.sh1ft.org/26things/)
10. Do at least 1 photo shoot each month (whether it be makeup or photography)
11. Enter a photography competition
12. Take 15 photo booth photos

Family/Partner/Friends

1. Have a girls day with my mum and sister finished
2. Spend a day alone with my dad
3. Get bikes fixed and go on bike rides most weekends
4. Read Thomas a book
5. Phone/send an email to my family once a fortnight
6. Make a new friend/s who I can trust and who actually finds me intriguing/wants to spend time with me
7. Do something nice for my partner once a day finished

Health, Wellness & Food

1. Get my teeth whitened
 2. See a nutritionist
 3. See a life coach
 4. Become 100% vegetarian
 5. Try indoor rock climbing
 6. Learn how to make 10 vegan dishes (0/10)
 7. Make a small recipe book of self-tried and tested vegetarian recipes
 8. Eat a piece of fruit a day for 3 months
 9. Quit drinking alcohol for 2 months and note the changes to my health
10. Cook a delicious and healthy meal for myself finished
11. Try a new food I've never had before/never liked
12. Prepare lunches for work for a period of 3 months (so that means buying NO food from work)
13. Go to the gym at least 3 times a week
14. Take up boxing
15. Lose 2 dress sizes (1/2)
16. Get blood test
17. Start hula hooping for fitness
18. Lose 15kgs (5/15)

Wealth

1. Save at least $100 a fortnight and don't touch it (amount so far: $2,000)
2. Pay off debt

Education/Business

1. Pass all of my assignments/projects at TAFE finished
2. Start big assignments from TAFE at least two weeks or more before they are due finished
3. Try to improve my maths as much as possible
4. Write a business plan/get business advice from a professional
5. Learn the basics of Japanese (Reading/Writing/Speaking/Listening)
6. Start an Etsy store for selling my hand-made accessories
7. Create a website for my business
8. Work out price-list for my business (must do this straight away)

House-Related

1. Tidy my sewing/study room once a fortnight finished
2. Get a plant and look after it

For Fun/Miscellanious

1. Take burlesque dancing classes
 2. Have a pin-up style photo shoot with me as the model for once
 3. Start a list of inspirational women who I admire and why I admire them
 4. Read American Psycho
 5. Send a secret to Post Secret
 6. Be featured in something positively (magazine, blog, etc)
 7. Wear my boots more often
 8. Buy stockings and suspenders and look good in them
 9. Hone my personal style and feel comfortable wearing what I love
10. Have a picnic with someone who means something to me
11. Pay 25 people I know serious, heartfelt compliments and not expect anything in return (0/25)
12. Grow hair/fringe out to chin (this will take about a year)
13. Get two tattoos (1/2)
14. Blog at least once a week (0/143 weeks)
15. Buy an original piece of artwork
16. Get passport
17. See one of these bands live (highly improbable) - B52's, Depeche Mode, The Cardigans, Rammstein, Radiohead, Morrisey
18. Buy thrift, handmade, or independent before resorting to large chain stores
19. Donate $5 to charity for every failed item at the end of the 1,001 days
20. Pay off library fees so I can borrow again
21. Mend all clothing in repair pile
22. Get my drivers licence
23. Go on a holiday overseas
24. Stick with this list and don't give up no matter how hard it all seems

Education (3):

www.itp.edu

http://www.rcccommunityed.com/versions/v60/index.cfm?fuseaction=1025

My local community college has a planetarium – I should start going to learn more!

http://www.uwm.edu/~kahl/Images/Weather/Other/analemma.html

Deadline date: Friday, September 16, 2011

Long term:

1. Finish first draft of my book.
2. Revise my book.
3. Edit my book.
4. Compile possible list of agents.
5. Send my book out to agents until one will represent me.
6. Begin my next book.
7. Get baby two’s room ready and free of mama’s stuff.
8. Plan child care options for baby two.
9. Plan reduced work schedule/work from home options for baby two.
10. Look into possible loans and/or fundraising options to help afford adoption fees for baby two.
11. Adopt baby two.
12. Get proof of citizenship, passport, social security card, and NY proof of birth papers for baby two.
13. Decide on career path after baby two turns three years old.
14. Decide: Ph.D or not Ph.D? And in what field?
15. Lose 30 pounds.
16. Try to be off all medications.

Within a year and a half:
17. Secure alternate full-time employment when my position is cut.
18. File in CA court for Frogette’s CA proof of birth document.
19. Renew any family passports that need renewal.
20. Sleep under the stars.
21. Kayak.
22. Go white water rafting.
23. Get Frogette’s birth papers
24. Road trip to Boston to see cousins.
25. Lose 20 pounds.
26. Be able to run two miles.
27. Visit A in IA.

Within three months:
28. Check Frog, Frogette, and my passport expiration dates.
29. Make my decision on my extended family’s intended cruise.
30. Sew eye and hook on black pants.
31. Alter, mend, dry clean, or release clothing in the black drawer.
32. Wrap and bring E her birthay present.
33. Call F’s parents on what would have been her birthday.
34. Get extra house key
35. Give extra house key to P.
36. Take another winter family hike.
37. Take Frogette for a winter beach walk.
38. Contact Bs
39. Contact C-Ms.
40. Mom’s night out.
41. Es over for dinner/kids play.
42. Meet JM in Manhattan again.
43. Art museum visit.
44. Second art museum visit with Frogette.
45. See play with Frogette.
46. Double date with I and J.
47. Night sledding!
48. Ice skating.
49. Use itunes card to buy some new songs/videos.
50. Download free itunes podcasts and videos.
51. Come up with alternate child care plans for Frogette during Israel dance class when M and D are in FL.
52. Hire babysitter for 2 or more dates with Frog.
53. Lose 10 pounds.
54. Be able to run one mile.
55. See LB socially.
56. Finish throwing away 50 things.
57. Tend to clothes in black drawer.
58. Call cousin A.
59. Call cousin C.
61. Call A.
62. Email T.
63. Begin stewed tomatoes contribution.
64. Prepare for Frog’s party.
65. Get babysitter for Frogette for 1/4.
66. Check out present in closet: good for Dad’s retirement?
67. Present for N!
68. Finish OLAS applications.
69. Backup all work computer documents on new flash drive.
70. Make schedule for Israeli dance: when M and D can take Frogette.
71. Return cleaners to Target, replace with proper cleaners.
72. Wash windows.
73. Call non-RSVPers.
74. Make list: what do I need to do before party?
75. Call KC’s mom: so sorry, we have present to drop off.
76. Bring E, J, P’s presents to work.
77. Birthday lists.
78. Look up the Nutcracker story.
79. Set up for Frog’s party.
80. Look up the timing of the next meteor shower.
81. Get overnight babysitting for Frogette for the next meteor shower.
82. Romantic but cold midnight picnic on the beach to watch the meteor shower.
83. Thank you note to T in IT.
84. Check laptop: do I need to bring it back to IT?
85. Get cat hair off black dress, dewrinkle and hang up.
86. Get S to babysit on the dates I need him.
87. Have Frogette sign/draw more TY notes.
88. Write Frogette’s TY notes.
89. Write my TY notes.
90. Plan get together with S and T.
91. Decide about Thursday night workouts with H.
92. Check bank statements.
93. Thank D and M for quotes on book.
94. Gather documents for refi.
95. Y hot tub.
96. Look at OLAS periodically.
97. Call I- everything ok?
98. Baby present for I.
99. Baby present for D.
100. Plan for 1/12 class.
101. Plan for 1/26 class.

I’ve now posted my update for week 1

I am excited that one of the hardest items will be done relatively quickly.

YEAH