Today, 7/7/09, I am beginning the "101 Things in 1,001 Days" project. That gives me a finish date of 3 April 2012. See the count downer thingy on the right! I'm excited about this feature, although I'd like to find a flashier way to count down. But that's OK.
So this idea comes from Day Zero. Check out the website if you are interested. And I'm going to be honest: my 101 Things To Do list is NOT complete. And I reserve the right to edit and delete items from the current list. It's important to me that this list NOT just be my daily list of things to do (e.g. go to the grocery store, pay bills, grade tests) but that this list represent all those things, some of them admittedly minor, that I keep meaning to do but feel that I never quite get to actually doing, you know? And I'm planning to keep my master list on my hard drive but occasionally post updates here.
As of right now, 66-100 are "to be determined," and I'm taking suggestions, if you have any. But here goes:
101 Things in 1,001 Days—A Tentative List
Bold indicates that these are in progress
1. Go 1 week without watching any TV or DVDs
2. Reach my goal weight of 130 pounds
3. Stick within my Weight Watchers points range for 6 weeks straight
4. Sew 6 differentt purses with 6 patterns I already own—4 by Amy Butler, one by Heather Bailey, and one “freebee”
5. Sew 1 skirt and overskirt set
6. Read Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop
7. Reread the entire Harry Potter Series
8. Commit to and follow The Artist’s Way plan for 12 weeks
9. Get materials together and apply for promotion at work
10. Go for 2 months without buying cosmetics (exception: replacing any used up products)
11. Go for 6 months without buying cosmetics (see exception above)
12. Keep budget accurately for 3 months straight
13. Go for six months without buying any new clothing (except underwear, if needed); instead, sew, refashion, rediscover
14. Practice yoga for 20 minutes a day, three days a week, for a month
15. Practice yoga for 20 minutes a day, three days a week, for two months
16. Post something, however trivial, on either of my blogs each day for a month
17. Try one new recipe a week for three months straight
18. Make an appointment and see the doctor about the “neuropathy” in my toes
19. Find a new medical doctor, one with whom I am comfortable
20. Make (and wear) at least one dress from a retro pattern
21. Make (and wear) at least one dress from a vintage pattern
22. Reread The Lord of the Rings
23. Eat strictly vegetarian (but not necessarily vegan) for three months
24. Practice meditation for 20 minutes a day, each day, for eight weeks
25. Read through the Bible, Old and New Testaments
26. Mail in mortgage check, rather than phoning in payment, each month for a year—put the extra money towards something fun or towards the principle on my mortgage
27. Read Anna Karenina
28. Read War and Peace
29. Read The Gulag Archipeligo
30. Read The Oak and the Calf
31. Read Moby Dick (and actually finish it!)
32. Read The Golden Notebook (and actually finish it!)
33. Each week for two months, do one good deed and not get caught
34. Spend a year working the 12 steps, one each month, possibly via Emotions Anonymous online
35. Organize my craft / sewing space to make it more usable
36. Spend one hour a day, each day, for two months just writing, sitting in front of the computer, drafting.
37. Read Trollope’s Barsetshire Towers
38. Read Trollope’s Dr. Thorne
39. Read Trollope’s Framley Parsonage
40. Read trollope’s The Small House at Allington
41. Read Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset
42. Read the Forsyte Saga
43. Read Middlemarch
44. Read Our Mutual Friend
45. Make something out of the yards and yards of natural colored linen fabric I have
46. Make a new black wool-blend skirt
47. Make a new grey wool-blend skirt
48. Embroider 4 pillow cases for my bed
49. Embroider 2 pillow cases for my guest bedroom
50. Make 4 decorative / throw pillows for my living room
51. Find a better way to store my winter scarves
52. Find a better way to store my silk scarves
53. Make window treatment for my bathroom
54. Hang shelving in my bathroom
55. Hang photos in my bathroom
56. Make window treatment for my kitchen area
57. Do work (anything, even a day) as “outreach” in local schools
58. Read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy (I’ve read the first two, including The Golden Compass—want to reread these, then finish)
59. Start a Gratitude scrapbook
60. Complete 10 pages in my Gratitidue scrapbook
61. Finish reading Vanity Fair by Thackeray
62. Visit NYC
63. Organize stuff in bathroom
64. Paint my bedroom
65. Rearrange furninture in my bedroom
66. Get new bedding for my bed
66-100. TBD (Hey, I want some latitude to see how things develop over the next 999 days. Which, come to think of it, is like 666 only not)
101. Post when I complete each of the above
