The goal: Complete the following 101 items in 1001 days, beginning January 1, 2012 and concluding on September 27, 2014.
Progress will be updated on the list below and blogged about occasionally. Items in bold have been completed. Items in italics are in progress.
The original post featuring this list can be seen here.
My 101 in 1001
Personal
1. Pay off at least 1 student loan
2. Participate in NaNoWriMo
3. Keep the kitchen table clean for a month
4. Unplug from the phone, internet and television for a weekend
5. Go without makeup for a week (6/28/14-7/5/14)
6. Leave a 100% tip (2/14/13)
7. Leave 25 Operation Beautiful notes
8. Update my passport (October 2012)
9. Participate in Black Friday shopping at some ridiculous hour of the morning (November 2013)
10. Consign or give away 20 items (January 2013)
11. Take a personal day to do something fun (5/18/2012)
12. Own real diamond earrings
13. Create a photo book of my summer 2011 vacation (7/2013)
14. Learn how to apply eyeliner (2014)
15. Join/start a bible study group (2/6/2012)
16. Write a letter to myself to be opened in 10 years
17. Memorize a Psalm or other bible passage
18. Get together with at least 3 college friends (3/2-3/4/12, 7/5-7/7, 8/19/14)
19. Spend 2012 going through this decluttering/organization calendar
Friends and Family
20. Make and send a photo Christmas card (2012)
21. Give everyone locally made Christmas gifts (2012)
22. Write 15 snail mail letters to friends
23. Go on a trip with my sister (Montreal, 4/25/14)
24. Visit each of my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents on both sides at least once (missing: JB, KJ, EJ, AJ,)
25. Make a recipe book for my sister (9/29/12)
Fitness
26. Take a Zumba class
27. Hike Mount Greylock (9/8/12)
28. Run a race in Maine
29. Read The New Rules of Lifting for Women
30. Be able to touch my toes
31. Go indoor rock climbing (Central Mass Rock Gym – August 2012)
32. Begin practicing yoga again (July 2012)
33. Run an entire 5k (no walking breaks)
Travel
34. Go to Canada (Montreal, 4/25/14)
35. Visit 2 more (new) states (Minnesota 9/13)
36. Travel by train (8/15/12, to HLS 2012 in Boston)
37. Explore Albany, NY
38. Visit the Susan B. Anthony museum in Rochester, NY
39. Go to Katz’s Delicatessen (5/18/12)
40. Eat at a David Chang restaurant (5/18/12)
41. Get postcards for states I’ve visited but don’t have cards for (CT, PA, NH, etc.)
42. Go to the Troy Farmer’s market (1/18/14)
Food
43. Go to a wine tasting (8/16/2012)
44. Make a perfect loaf of bread from scratch (challah-3/3/2012)
45. Bake a birthday cake (6/24/2012)
46. Host Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner
47. Surprise my coworkers with baked goods (December 2013)
48. Eat only locally grown/made food for a day
49. Successfully can applesauce
50. Make pierogies from scratch (Christmas 2013)
51. Grow my own tomatoes (2013)
52. Host a cookie swap (2/10/2012)
53. Can jelly or jam (7/26/2012)
54. Make and perfect my own tea blend
55. Make sangria (8/4/12 non-alcoholic)
56. Try 5 new restaurants in Berkshire County (‘6 House Pub 2/20/12, Red Carpet Restaurant 4/19/12, The Old Forge Restaurant 5/26/12, Coyote Flaco 11/16/12, Water Street Grill 1/13/13)
57. Buy, try and cook with Sriracha
58. Mail someone baked goods (Ryn-3/12)
59. Cook using tea as an ingredient
60. Create and share 15 original recipes (13/15)
Home
61. Decorate the outside of our home for the holidays (December 2013)
62. Save enough money for a house down payment (April 2013)
63. Buy a house (April 2013)
64. Get a chest freezer or second refrigerator
65. Refinish a piece of furniture
66. Complete 3 projects posted to Pinterest (2/7/13, 2/18/13)
67. Find a way to display my elephant collection
68. Have a complete set of Fiesta for 12, including lunch plates and mugs
Entertainment
69. Beat Portal 1
70. Watch the first 50 movies on IMBD’s top movies (47/50-click for details)
71. Watch Gone with the Wind (5/2014)
72. Go a week without watching TV, Netflix or Hulu
73. Attend a Steeple Cats game (7/12/12)
74. Go to a performance at Tanglewood (7/3/12)
75. Return to the Big E (9/28/13)
76. Attend Gordon College homecoming (10/6/12)
77. Attend a free local college concert (Williams College Gospel Choir – 11/10/12)
78. Host a party (5/11/13)
79. Go caroling
80. Go to 3 local productions (James and the Giant Peach)
81. Attend a poetry reading (August 2014 – Word X Word Festival)
82. Read 7 Pulitzer Prize winning books
Work
83. Attend a game for each high school sport (softball, track, football, basketball-girls)
84. Complete an entire MIT Open Courseware course for a subject I teach
85. Earn my special education certification (1/23/14)
86. Take a grad level science class–and pass
87. Create full year curriculum for all classes I teach
88. Write all of my lesson plans a week ahead of schedule (September 2012)
Blog
89. Write 5 guest posts (2/5)
90. Conduct and post an interview
91. Do 5 vlogs
92. Write a “day in the life” blog post
93. Add 5 new quality food blogs to my reader (My New Roots, How Sweet It Is, Food 52, What’s Gaby Cooking, Oh My Veggies)
94. Do a “what I ate Wednesday” post
95. Learn to use my new camera
96. Read 5 food related nonfiction books
97. Post to the Food in Jars Flikr pool (1/13/2014)
98. Participate in Pimp My Preserve (2012)
99. Move all recipes to Recipage
100. Back up my blog
101. Participate in a blogger penpal exchange (HLB Tea Exchange 10/2012)
