101 in 1001 - starting today!

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!)

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1. Get married
   
2. Get my third tattoo after I turn 25
3. Read the Bible all the way through
4. Grow a vegetable garden
5. Send out Christmas cards in 2009 or 2010
6. Learn to live in the secret place
7. Make a habit of reading before bed
8. Buy seasons 2 through 5 of ER
9. Buy some sheet music and practice my reading skills to the point where I feel semi-comfortable sight reading
10. Spend one month eating locally
11. Secret Goal
    
12. Super Secret Goal
    
13. One candlelit and music-filled evening with Joshua
14. Take dance lessons
15. Take a Tai-chi class
16. Get a professional massage
17. Stay at the Grove Park Inn during winter and lounge in front of their cavernous fireplace
18. Visit my cousins
19. Take a trip with Josh to the Outer Banks
20. Walk across the Mile High Bridge at Grandfather Mountain
21. Spend time listening to my grandparents’ stories and write some of them down
22. Be 100% okay with disappointing people
23. Dig for the answers to my spiritual questions, and discover why I’m asking them
24. Secret Goal
    
25. Plan a progressive dinner party
26. Initiate a conversation with a stranger when I don’t feel like it
27. Wear a size four and stay that way
28. Make a habit of thinking differently
29. Quit soda for a year (again)…
30. Get contacts
31. Give away the clothes in my closet that I haven’t worn in over a year
32. Build a bonafide snowman
33. See what’s at the end of the yellow rope in the caves of Rumbling Bald
34. Have an emergency fund built up completely
35. Pay off debt
36. Learn to make biscuits from scratch from Grammy
37. Learn to sew
38. Make a quilt
39. Create a filing system that is actually useful
40. Own the game Settlers of Catan
41. Make a homemade pie
42. Visit the Biltmore Estate when it’s decorated for Christmas, preferably with snow on the ground outside
43. Carry on a Christmas tradition with Joshua
44. Hike up Cold Mountain
45. Run in a race of some sort
46. Ride my bicycle at Bent Creek
47. Hike to Graveyard Falls
48. Pick blueberries at Black Balsam
49. Secret Goal
    
50. Memorize the book of 1 John
51. Visit the Library of Congress
52. Secret Goal
    
53. Spend at least three weeks in Nicaragua
54. Become fluent in Spanish
55. Introduce my sister-in-love to a particular someone who shall not be mentioned here
56. Complete the wedding day chela photo sequence
57. Secret Goal (0/7)
    
58. Read a book of poetry
59. Make spanakopita ten times (0/10)
60. Work out for at least one hour a day for 120 days before my wedding (0/120)
61. Read all of my National Geographic magazines from 2008 (0/28)
62. Super Secret Goal
    
63. Spend a day reading by a waterfall
64. Run 10 miles on the Mountains to the Sea trail
65. Make the most comfortable bed possible for Joshua and I (down feather pillows, down feather mattress pad, high thread count sheets, duvet)
66. Secret Goal (0/143)
    
67. Have a dog
68. Have a cat
69. Travel somewhere by train
70. Have $3,000 saved toward a trip to Europe
71. Secret Goal
    
72. Secret Goal
    
73. Hike to the top of Mount Mitchell
74. Use teeth-whitening strips
75. Exfoliate regularly
76. Secret Goal
    
77. Change my diet to the point where at least 50% of what I put in my mouth is raw
78. Start a collection of board games that could rival Heather Heather’s
79. Practice my guitar at least once a week (0/143)
80. Grow out my hair until these 1001 days are up (excluding trims of up to two inches)
81. Buy a bookshelf
82. Slide down Sliding Rock ten times (0/10)
83. Secret Goal
    
84. Hike up to the top of Looking Glass Rock
85. Hike to the top of the Mount Pisgah Summit when the autumn foliage is at its height
86. Go camping
87. Take a trip with Matt and Breanna
88. Write Deborah an email every week in 2009 (1/52)
89. Try to find Skinny Dip Falls
90. Visit all 14 state parks in Western North Carolina (0/14)
91. Take a trip with Joshua to Highlands/Cashiers, NC and hike as much as possible
92. Read 50 books (0/50)
93. Learn to make banana bread
    
94. Go stargazing with Joshua ten times (0/10)
95. Go to India with Joshua
96. Wear a different necklace every day for two weeks (0/14)
97. Secret Goal
    
98. Make a work of art and send it to K-Smeltz
99. Secret Goal
    
100. Take my sister-in-love on a trip
101. Enjoy every moment of my wedding day