101 in 1001
The idea is 101 goals to meet/things to do in 1001 days...
1001 days will take me from today, January 10, 2009 to October 9, 2011
(from 23 and single to 26 and married for two years!)
1001 days will take me from today, January 10, 2009 to October 9, 2011
(from 23 and single to 26 and married for two years!)
The Key:
Not started
In progress
- Get married
- Get my third tattoo after I turn 25
- Read the Bible all the way through
- Grow a vegetable garden
- Send out Christmas cards in 2009 or 2010
- Learn to live in the secret place
- Make a habit of reading before bed
- Buy seasons 2 through 5 of ER
- Buy some sheet music and practice my reading skills to the point where I feel semi-comfortable sight reading
- Spend one month eating locally
- Secret Goal
- Super Secret Goal
- One candlelit and music-filled evening with Joshua
- Take dance lessons
- Take a Tai-chi class
- Get a professional massage
- Stay at the Grove Park Inn during winter and lounge in front of their cavernous fireplace
- Visit my cousins
- Take a trip with Josh to the Outer Banks
- Walk across the
- Spend time listening to my grandparents’ stories and write some of them down
- Be 100% okay with disappointing people
- Dig for the answers to my spiritual questions, and discover why I’m asking them
- Secret Goal
- Plan a progressive dinner party
- Initiate a conversation with a stranger when I don’t feel like it
- Wear a size four and stay that way
- Make a habit of thinking differently
- Quit soda for a year (again)…
- Get contacts
- Give away the clothes in my closet that I haven’t worn in over a year
- Build a bonafide snowman
- See what’s at the end of the yellow rope in the caves of Rumbling Bald
- Have an emergency fund built up completely
- Pay off debt
- Learn to make biscuits from scratch from Grammy
- Learn to sew
- Make a quilt
- Create a filing system that is actually useful
- Own the game Settlers of Catan
- Make a homemade pie
- Visit the Biltmore Estate when it’s decorated for Christmas, preferably with snow on the ground outside
- Carry on a Christmas tradition with Joshua
- Hike up
- Run in a race of some sort
- Ride my bicycle at Bent Creek
- Hike to
- Pick blueberries at Black Balsam
- Secret Goal
- Memorize the book of 1 John
- Visit the Library of Congress
- Secret Goal
- Spend at least three weeks in
- Become fluent in Spanish
- Introduce my sister-in-love to a particular someone who shall not be mentioned here
- Complete the wedding day chela photo sequence
- Secret Goal (0/7)
- Read a book of poetry
- Make spanakopita ten times (0/10)
- Work out for at least one hour a day for 120 days before my wedding (0/120)
- Read all of my National Geographic magazines from 2008 (0/28)
- Super Secret Goal
- Spend a day reading by a waterfall
- Run 10 miles on the Mountains to the Sea trail
- Make the most comfortable bed possible for Joshua and I (down feather pillows, down feather mattress pad, high thread count sheets, duvet)
- Secret Goal (0/143)
- Have a dog
- Have a cat
- Travel somewhere by train
- Have $3,000 saved toward a trip to
- Secret Goal
- Secret Goal
- Hike to the top of
- Use teeth-whitening strips
- Exfoliate regularly
- Secret Goal
- Change my diet to the point where at least 50% of what I put in my mouth is raw
- Start a collection of board games that could rival Heather Heather’s
- Practice my guitar at least once a week (0/143)
- Grow out my hair until these 1001 days are up (excluding trims of up to two inches)
- Buy a bookshelf
- Slide down Sliding Rock ten times (0/10)
- Hike up to the top of Looking Glass Rock
- Hike to the top of the Mount Pisgah Summit when the autumn foliage is at its height
- Go camping
- Take a trip with Matt and Breanna
- Write Deborah an email every week in 2009 (1/52)
- Try to find
- Visit all 14 state parks in
- Take a trip with Joshua to Highlands/Cashiers, NC and hike as much as possible
- Read 50 books (0/50)
- Learn to make banana bread
- Go stargazing with Joshua ten times (0/10)
- Go to
- Wear a different necklace every day for two weeks (0/14)
- Secret Goal
- Make a work of art and send it to K-Smeltz
- Secret Goal
- Take my sister-in-love on a trip
- Enjoy every moment of my wedding day
8 comments:
Very impressive list! Best of luck with each and every goal! Hope 2009 rocks!
i can't believe you came up with 101 things to do!!! i was shocked with the tattoo thing!!! you have some!? i attempted to do the daily blog thing, but my life is so boring right now, there wouldn't be much to write about :/
Wow! Great list! This is random, but for the teeth whitening strips - I used Target's box for like $15 before my wedding. I thought it worked better than the Crest or whatever the big brand is, and they were cheaper too.
And do you really want to blog everyday for 1001 days? I could be wrong, but you may want to excuse yourself from the blog world on your wedding day and honeymoon. ;)
I really wish I could think of 101 things.......
Thats a great list, but I agree with Mrs. LC on the blogging for 1001 days thing! How about say 5 out of 7 days a week or something? Or just every day excluding the week before and the week after the big day?
I love you :) And yes... don't blog during your wedding day or honeymoon. You should keep yourself pre-occupied with bigger and better things ;)
Great list, it inspires me to think that you could have 101 goals. Lately mine tend to be more immediate, such as: Stay employed for 2009. Silly economy.
Learn to make bah-nah-nah bread?
Sarah - I'm excited that you started your own blog! I hope your 2009 is great, too. :)
Scar - You didn't know I had tattoos? Haha... what about you? If you have some I'm going to be appalled that we never bonded over the showing of the tats while we whittled away the hours in the cubicles of COHPA.
Mrs. LC :) - I have two kinds... the brand name (I think Crest) and then the store brand. I'll pay attention to see which one works better. Did you wait to use them right before your wedding?
Jules - I totally know you can think of 101 things... you are so creative! When I sat down to make the list I only got to 43 before my mind went blank. It took me a few weeks to get it done (hence why I wasn't able to start on January 1st as hoped). I'd be really interested to see your list so I think I shall commission you to start one, at least! ;)
JD - Why worry about tomorrow? Today has enough troubles of its own. Dream big! There has to be some stuff you've been wanting to do but put off. Personally, I'm a list maker so this kind of thing motivates me. Probably wouldn't work the same for everyone, though.
Everyone - Yeah, I totally changed #93 (blog everyday) 'cause it's not gonna happen. Wishful thinking.
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