101 Things in 1001 Days

I started compiling this list mid-air  on our way home from San Francisco. Choosing so many things to do proved to be quite challenging to me. I really want to accomplish them all. I don't want to be rash and choose really impossible things. Yet ,I don't want to totally lob myself a softball.

Originally, I wanted to post the list on Valentine's Day as a little gift to myself but I wasn't quite ready. Then it dawned on me, it's leap year. Here we have this extra day that only comes around once in a blue moon, or every four years. Why not use the occasion to take a flying leap of faith into the future.

To make your own list or see what other people are working on; visit Day Zero -The Home of the 101 Things To Do in 1001 Days Project.
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My 101 Things in 1001 Days

Start Date: Friday 2/29/08 - End Date: Friday 11/26/2010

1. Grow plants from seed (completed) seeds planted 3/22/08. more to sow when chance of frost passes. update posted 6/29/08
2. Learn to can/preserve
3. Make proper French macaroons at home
4. Learn  how to use InDesign
5. Have living room floor refinished
6. Volunteer at my local food bank (completed)
7. Have a portrait made of myself with my dogs (completed) update posted 6/29/08
8. Go to The Cloisters
9. Studio lighting skills for product and portrait work
10. Have my writing published
11. Have my photography published
12. Open an Etsy boutique
13. Apply for a new passport with my married name
14. Educate myself on personal investment opportunities beyond mutual funds (completed)
15. Refinance mortgage if/when rates fall below 1% of our current rate
16. Plant a tree
17. Make my own chicken stock (completed)
18. Try my hand at painting again
19. Identify 100 things that make me happy
20. Attend the Toronto Film Festival
21.Conduct a major closet clear out
22. Write a letter to the editor
23. Start a collaborative project with another blogger(s) (in progress) update posted 6/29/08
24. Learn to produce and edit video (completed) update posted 6/29/08
25. Sing with a band
26. Lower my cholesterol (completed)
27. Rent a house in the Catskills for a long weekend with friends
28. Compile my recipes
29. Meet a fellow blogger(s) Completed but hopefully ongoing. Met Kristen and Nicole 3/29/08, M.Heart, Susanna and Bella.
30. Take a recreational culinary class at I.C.E. or other culinary school
31. Make a book of our wedding photos
32. Learn to meditate (completed)
33. Feel confident swimming without adult supervision
34. Join a birdwatchers group
35. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
36. Go out onto the ocean in a boat
37. Go fishing with my Mom
38. Learn to clean/filet a fish (completed)
39. Rearrange guest room furniture to give myself a sunny window spot for a writing desk with views of the garden and birds
40. Make my own soap
41. Visit the Neue Gallerie (completed) 6/14/08
42. Have a Reiki session in person
43. Organize my studio space
44. Frame the photos we received as wedding gifts and the Van Gogh print I received at Christmas. (in progress) Van Gogh print completed 4/6/08.
45. Participate in the Christmas Bird Count
46. Use fabric given to me by Shannon in a yet to be determined sewing project
47. Sew myself a skirt
48. Make a pair of paints for myself
49. Move my blog back to Blogger
50. Make a liqueur
51. Set up a Bloglines reader with all the sites I regularly read (completed) update posted 6/29/08
52. Acquire a new copy of our marriage license (completed) found the one I thought I lost!
53. Lose 30 pounds (in progress) update posted 6/29/08
54. Obtain a wildlife habitat designation
55. Contact my father's birth family
56. Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (incomplete)
57. Mutter Museum in Philadelphia
58. Visit Cape May, NJ
59. Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house
60. Free cooking class at Williams-Sonoma
61. install a rain barrel in the garden
62. upgrade to a compost tumbler (completed)
63. yoga class
64. Buy a pair of cute yet comfortable black shoes
65. Have a picnic in a grove of blossoming cherry trees (completed)
66. Compost with worms
67.  Find a hairstylist that gets me (completed)
68. Eliminate grass in our front yard (completed) update posted 6/29/08
69. Grow vegetables in our garden (completed/in progress) update posted 6/29/08
70. Repaint existing bedroom furniture or replace with new thrifted set (completed)
71. Hang  a work of art over the mantel
72. Create a  photo display wall
73. Resurface the fireplace
74. Rent a private karaoke room with friends
75. Find a local source for at least three food items
76. Back up my photo archive onto discs
77. Polish our copper pots
78. Thrift a mid century couch
79. Create a seasonally inspired music compilation
80. Organize a coat drive for women and children in need
81. Grout tiles in kitchen that have been on the to-do list since 2003
82. Fix living room ceiling (completed)
83. Go camping
84. Go canoeing
85. Scotland
86. Make time to really celebrate our first anniversary (completed) update posted 6/29/08
87. Lucy the Elephant in Margate, NJ
88. New Zealand
89. Travel to a state I've never been to before
90. Write a will
91. Cater a party
92. Take the 2008 Self  Challenge (incomplete)
93. Replace the back yard deck with a patio
94. Have a dinner party
95. Sauna at home
96. Display my blown glass ball collection
97. Get the CD collection under control. In a cabinet, on a hard drive or it's out of the house.
98. Clear out and rearrange front closet making room for guest coats and easy access to stored items (completed)
99. Refinish and hang porch swing
100. Have house painted (completed)
101. Design and print a  birthday book

Comments

[DENISE]

I need to take a nap now....That is a lot of stuff.

[m. heart]

this is a great list, and i think i can help with a couple of these ;)

i have a suggestion for #64 — i bought a pair of merrell "plaza bandeau" mary janes last spring specifically for walking around the city, and they are the most comfortable shoes i've ever had. they are lightweight, well constructed, and they look equally cute with jeans or a skirt.

[Frankie]

I love, love, LOVE, LOVE this list!!! And this idea as a whole. I'll have to start brainstorming one of my own....hmmm, does thinking of an entire 101 things count as one? ;)

xoxo

[The Shopping Sherpa]

Can I come to Falling Water with you? (It would count as #29 as well!)

;-)

[tanaya]

Such a beautiful list. I've seen these around forever, but you encouraged me to do one of my own. Thanks!!

[Carmen]

cheers and more cheers!!!
you have my complete support
p.s. canning and preserving is very fun!!!
hugs, Carmen

[Planet Shannon]

It's so cool to see your list! I wish you all the best on the journey, it's a wild ride that is for sure. I just hit my 2 year mark on my 101 today. Can't wait to see yours!

[caroline]

Wonderful list! I get so inspired every time I read new ones and yours is brilliant. Enjoy! x