101 Things
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
*Note: this list has gone way beyond 101 things, everything past 101 will be added to the next 101 list.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
I will donate $5 to charity for every item not completed.
Start Friday, May 30, 2009
End Friday, February 25, 2011- Countdown
Completed 51/101
I’ve started these items
I’ve completed these items
1. Buy a house
4. Visit California
5. Travel outside of the US (not Canada)
6. Plant a garden
7. Learn to made french toast
8. Watch a movie at a drive-in theater
9. Get a bike
10. Run a mile
11. Run a 5K with Kate
12. Visit NYC
13. Get a dog
14. Get on stage and sing
15. Visit the Science Center
16. Picnic at the beach
17. Go to a Tigers game
18. Go to a Pistons game
19. Get my passport
20. Go rock climbing
21. Try 25 new restaurants (21/25)
22. Read at least three books a month (40/100) (The Secret, No One Cares What You Had For Lunch, Blogging With Moxie, Lucky, The Kite Runner, Ya Yas in Bloom, Communion, Choke, Kabul Beauty School, Act Like a Lady -Think Like a Man, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Almost Moon, The Cleft, Foxfire, In Evil Hour, Life’s Little Lessons, While I Was Gone, Fear of Flying, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Say You’re One Of Them, Survivor, The Namesake, The Red Tent, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Half Broke Horses, Run, Slow Man, Literacy and Longing in L.A., 4-Hour Work Week, The Giver, Come Together Fall Apart, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Glass Castle, How to Save Your Own Life, Lady Luck’s Map of Vegas, Eat Pray Love, Plantation, Hateship Friendship…, Little Altars Everywhere, The Color of Water, Lowcountry Summer)
23. Learn Spanish
24. Learn to ride a skateboard
25. Exercise 3 times a week (171/429)
26. Hang out with a friend once a week – (143/143)
27. Go to Disneyland/world
28. Buy a Sigg water bottle
29. Postsecret
30. Make 50 new recipes
31. Sell 5 items on Etsy
32. Speak in front of a group of people in a formal setting without getting nervous
33. Get rid of 101 things I don’t need
34. Go to the dentist
35. Learn Flash
34. Pay off credit card
35. File that pile of bills/statements
36. Crochet a blanket
37. Be able to do 3 pull-ups
38. Get to work on time every day for a month
39. Do three things that really scare the shit out of me (2/3) – Halloweekends, high trapeze
40. Paint on a canvas and hang it up
41. Go rollerskating
42. Go to the DIA
43. Play laser tag
44. Visit Eastern Market (I know I know, what a shitty metro-Detroiter I am that I’ve never been)
45. Do something death defying, like bungee jump, parasail, or sky dive.
46. Get a piece of writing published online, in a magazine, or a newspaper. AKA put the journalism degree to good use.
47. Bake something using yeast
48. Make a new, close friend
49. Sing karaoke by myself, not drunk
50. Spontaneous road trip to no where in particular
51. Refinish a piece of furniture
52. Make fake fried chicken
53. Go one week without hitting snooze (7/13 – 7/17)
54. Teach le boyfriend to mambo
55. Sister date (5/5)
56. Go to one of Dad’s shows
57. Make an article of clothing using a pattern
58. Have a girls night at my house
59. Buy a sewing machine
60. Watch 25 of IMDB top 250 (25/25) [Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E, American History X, The Departed, The Pianist, Requiem for a Dream, Benjamin Button, No Country for Old Men, Hotel Rwanda, There Will be Blood, The Big Lebowski, Ed Wood, Milk, Gran Torino, The Big Sleep, Into the Wild, Million Dollar Baby, In Bruges, Inglorious Basterds, Up, The Wrestler, (500) Days of Summer, The Usual Suspects, Up, Star Trek]
61. Scan and frame old family photos
62. Clean out my wardrobe – keep only quality pieces Stacey and Clinton would approve of, donate the rest.
63. Go to see a musical (White Christmas at the Fox)
64. Get a hammock from The Hammock Shop
65. ____ ________
66. ____ ___ _____ ___ ___ _ _____
67. Organize TG stuff
68. Host a potluck
69. Say yes – no thinking, no worrying – just once (hello chicago!)
70. Have the grandkids photo retaken
71. Set up a budget and stick to it for 12 months (October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, Sept)
72. Use reusable grocery bags
73. Don’t overdraft my checking account for 12 months…FAIL
74. Go to a used book sale, buy for me and books to donate.
75. Buy a new comforter
76. Get my eyebrows waxed
77. Buy myself an expensive piece of jewelry
78. Get a massage
79. Learn to make Grandma’s tarts
80. Learn to knit
81. Make or buy all handmade or vintage gifts each Christmas (1/3) FAIL
82. Be able to do the splits
83. Enjoy the snow – build a snowman, go sledding, etc.
84. Don’t buy clothes, shoes, etc. for 3 months (Dec 20 – March 20)
85. Go to one of Grandma’s violin concerts
86. Volunteer 5 times
87. Get my wisdom teeth out
88. Make pasta sauce from scratch
89. Spend a night in w/out TV or internet
90. Eat breakfast before I leave the house every day for a week (5/5)
91. Buy a handmade tea pot
92. Play mini golf
93. Rent paddle boats at Stoney Creek
94. Softball, kickball or capture the flag
95. Go swimming 10 times each summer (2009: 3/10, 2010: 10/10)
96. Have lunch with grandma and grandpa for no reason at all
97. Go to the circus
98. Go to a Wings game
100. No TV for a week (outside of work of course, can’t avoid it there!) (movies are OK, just no channel surfing) (Tues, June 23 – Mon, June 29)
101. Shoot a gun
102. Earn 200 followers/readers on my blog
103. Paint guest bedroom
104. Paint and organize office
105. Visit a country I cannot locate on a map
106. Eat at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge
107. Make pickles
108. Earn 100 followers/readers on my blog
109. Spending a day leaving notes of positivity on parked cars
110. Teach Slayer to lay down and not bark when people come to the door
111. Learn to make good hummus
112. See the Rocky Mountains in person
113. Re-read my favorite book as a kid, “The Giver”
114. Write down all the bad, then burn it and let go
115. Hang the bells from S.C.
116. Listen to 10 This American Life podcasts
117. Take Slayer on a hike through the woods
118. Take a dance class
119. Makeout in the rain
120. Buy a digital SLR
121. Go to the Thanksgiving Day Parade
122. Make sushi
123. Ride a zip line
124. Take part in a zombie walk
125. Visit the White House
126. Be a guest on Oprah
127. Visit all 50 states [ 14/50 Michigan, South Carolina, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Illinois]
128. Ride in a hot air balloon to see the fall colors in Michigan
129. Ride in a helicopter
130. Ride in one of those little two people planes
131. Swing on a flying trapeze
132. Ride an elephant
133. Buy a new car
134. Have sexy pictures taken while I still have a hot ass
135. Take pole dancing classes
136. Bake bread
137. Be paid to perform circus tricks
Comments (13)
fly and visit b on the road! fly and visit b on the road! (with mcs…and when i’m there….yesssssssss)
yes! we will have to make a plan for next tour!
I’m reading a fluffy book called The Next Thing on My List. That plus your list is making me want to come up with my own, including but not limited to sky diving.
ooo i’ll have to check that out, maybe it will give me more inspiration
Hooray for 101 in 1001! I found you through the great blog swap and also have a list of 101. Good luck on your number one goal, that would be awesome!
That is such a great idea!
VISIT JERSEY DAN (AND JESS) _ HAHAHAHAH that’s how it should read
oooh, I like this! …I like how you cross them off as you go…. hmmm…thanks for inspiring!
I need to do one of these things.
Oh, by the way, regarding the book per month, I’m finding goodreads.com to be awesome at tracking my reading and reminding myself there is always a list of books I want to read – I’m always like, “wait! what was that book I told myself I had to read last week?!” when I’m in a bookstore. Anyway, I’m kind of obsessed right now!
ps obvs:
http://www.goodreads.com/profile/jessicaxmaria
Kudos to you! I’m so impressed and inspired. I will check back on your progress in the near future. I have kept a list of goals and things to do all my life and have completed most items…. I don’t know if I would have ever done a thing without THE list! Good luck to you.
You haven’t visited Iowa yet? Tsk tsk.
128. Ride in a hot air balloon to see the fall colors in Michigan
That is something I have been dying to do! I live in the Northern part of MI and I’ve always wanted to fly (float?) around here.