101 Things in 1001 - The Complete List

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.

Comments

[Arukiyomi]

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

[V.]

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.)

[dharma]

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.