R E A D I N G
1. Finish three books I bought but never read/finished (0/3)
2. Read the last five winners of the National Book Award
3. Read two books from the Banned List
4. Get a Montgomery County Public Library card
5. Read 12 books from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list (0/12)
6. Read three autobiographies (0/3)
7. Catalogue books on LibraryThings
8. Read the Lemony Snicket books (0/13)
9. Go six months with no overdue library fines (or at least keep it to one day overdue)
F I N A N C I A L
10. Accumulate, with the hopes of keeping, a savings balance of $500
11. Pay all bills on time for three months in a row (0/3)
12. Take a vacation (longer than a weekend) not financed by my parents
13. Write down all transactions for one week
H E A L T H
14. Quit drinking soda for a week
15. Floss daily for a month
16. Vacuum the whole house on Sundays and Wednesdays (start with one month)
17. Stop biting my nails for 42 days
18. Buy a SIGG or carry my Nalgene, filled, on a regular basis
C R E A T E
19. Refinish the coffee table
20. Make a headboard for the bed
21. Knit a pair of socks for Mom
22. Knit a pair of socks for Dad
23. Knit a pair of socks for Andy
24. Pick a theme and take photographs specifically to make the scrapbook Gina gave me
24. Make/Finish a dollhouse
26. Write with Monet’s Waterlilies at the DAI
27. Finish five UFOs (0/5)
28. Make a quilt – even if it’s a tiny cat quilt
29. Print and frame the Angel Oak photo
30. Make a gingerbread house
31. Finish Granny’s scrapbook (priority)
32. Write in a paper journal twice a month
33. Take a photo walk through Woodlawn Cemetery
G R E E N
34. Switch to energy saving lightbulbs throughout the apartment
35. Use my Green Bags in places other than the grocery
36. Cancel all catalogues – especially those that arrive for past tenants
37. Check out five new (to me) area metro parks (0/5)
F O O D
38. Take a cooking class
39. Finish organizing recipe collection
40. Make pizza dough
41. Try four new restaurants in Dayton (0/4)
42. Try six new crock pot recipes (0/6)
43. Go back to Betty’s for potato pancakes, a veggie burrito and several glasses of PBR
44. Try four new cookie recipes (0/4)
45. Cook dinner for my parents
46. Take The Complete Wine Course
47. Make one thing out of seven of my cookbooks (0/7)
48. Make five recipes from past issues of Cooking Light (0/5)
49. Bake three kinds of bread (0/3)
50. Make macaroni and cheese from scratch
51. Make jelly or jam
52. Make three new salsa recipes (0/3)
53. Cook six REAL meals for just me – main dish and two sides
H O M E
54. Buy one piece of art for the living room
55. Keep champagne in the fridge
56. Keep five bottles of wine on the wine rack
57. Buy two new sets of sheets that I like
58. Buy each cat a basket
59. Gather important documents in one, safe place
H A P P Y
60. Identify 100 things that make me happy
61. See Elvis Costello in concert
62. Buy a good pair of Mary Janes
63. Wake up a half hour early to read, write, knit etc. for one week
64. Fly a kite
65. Make a snowman
66. Buy a quality, flattering pair of black pants
67. Take five photos a day for thirty days (0/30)
68. Weekly coffee shop dates myself
69. Make a mixed CD of songs I like – a soundtrack of me
70. Find a new favorite magazine and subscribe to it
71. Take three three day weekends for no reason whatsoever (0/3)
72. Spend an afternoon hiking by myself
73. Find a straight liquor I love
74. Kiss in the rain
75. Develop two stray rolls of film
76. Go strawberry picking
77. Buy a season of The Muppets
78. Find a tea I like
79. Buy new glasses
80. Buy 10 CDs by unfamiliar musicians recommended by friends
81. Acquire a tent and at least one sleeping bag
82. Buy a piece of lingerie I like
S O C I A L
83. Join the DAI
84. Visit a museum in Cincinnati
85. Attend four wine tastings (0/4)
86. Go for a real English tea
87. Go to a live roller derby
88. Make a new friend
89. Reconnect with an old friend
90. Visit V
91. Call my grandparents weekly
92. Visit my grandparents in Tennessee by myself
93. Finally get back to the Columbus Zoo
94. See three classics at the Victoria Theater (0/3)
95. Keep a birthday calendar of close friends and family and actually remember
96. Call someone to catch up once a month
97. On five random days leave a comment on every blog I read that day (0/5)
98. Say I love you
L I S T
99. Blog about each completed task
100. Donate a dollar to charity for each unfinished task at the end of 1001 days
101. Near the end of the 1001 days, create a new list including those tasks left unfinished
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That was a really hard list to complete (and post - I've tried several times and things keep coming up wonky). Honestly, I think writing the list may be harder than several of my tasks!
And speaking of competing...according to this tooI should have my list completed by August 6, 2010...just shy of my 36th birthday.
The rules and details about how to start your own list can be found on Day Zero.
If you want to track your progress with the 1001 books list, download Arukiyomi's free 1001 books spreadsheet!
Unfortunately, you've disabled HTML comments so I can't link there for you. The link is...
http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?page_id=42
Posted by: Arukiyomi | 11/10/2007 at 01:33 AM
Yours is great! Way better than mine. Mine will require editing. (I didn't realize there were rules - I just kind of made up my own, hah.)
Posted by: V. | 11/10/2007 at 05:32 AM
Very awesome list and frankly there are things on there that would be on mine. Some, I can definitely help you with (like I owe you the mac n cheese recipe). I would be happy to help with Betty's, other restaurants (which would help me learn this area), I have an old old cookie recipe that is awesome I can share with you. Oh, lots.
Posted by: dharma | 11/12/2007 at 03:42 AM