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101 Things to Do in 1001 Days
I came across this idea from here and would like to partake, since I'm obsessed with lists.
Blue is in progress.
Pink is complete.
Purple is no longer completing.
Start date is today: January 30, 2009.
End date is October 28, 2011.
House
1. Clean out the basement
2. Clear off all hard drives on computers and donate computers
3. Buy a house
4. Clean and sell my wedding dress
5. Go 90 days straight without buying anything new (not including food and toiletries for hygiene)
6. Buy a queen size bed
7. Have a garage sale
8. Donate or sell 500 things from the house (54/500)
9. Make doggie biscuits for Steve
Family
10. Visit relatives in New Jersey at least 2 times (0/2)
11. Visit relatives in Chicago
12. Finish wedding album for mom
13. Get pregnant
14. Date night twice a month (4/66)
15. Make dinner with Noah once every two weeks (3/66)
16. Visit my mother once every two months (5/17)
Body
17. Go to the dentist once a year (1/3)
18. Weigh 110 pounds (4/10)
19. Donate my hair to Locks of Love
20. Donate blood at least 3 times (1/3)
21. Get another tattoo
22. Got to the gym 3 times a week for 6 months (10/72)
23. Do yoga once a week for 3 months (0/12)
24. Run in a race (maybe the Charlottesville 10-miler)
25. Pamper yourself at least once a month (2/33)
26. Drink nothing but water Monday through Friday for one month (0/30)
27. Wash my face every night before bed, no matter what
28. Walk Steve 4 times a week every week
29. Get a professional massages once every 6 months (1/5)
30. Get my cholesterol checked
31. Take a vitamin daily
32. Private**
33. Stop taking antibiotics by the end of 1001
34. Get another piercing
Finances
35. Pay off all three of my credit cards
36. Save $12,500 (minus anything towards a downpayment for a house)
37. Create a monthly budget and expense plan
38. Sign up for life insurance
39. Put $20 in special savings account for each item on this list achieved
Craft
40. Make cards at the letterpress
41. Letterpress a poem of sister's
42. Send in a postsecret postcard
43. Knit a blanket
44. Knit Broad Street Mittens
45. Establish a successful vintage housewares store on Etsy (sell at least 20 items) (0/20)
46. Get a booth at the Charlottesville City Farmer's Market (can join in with friends)
47. Take an art or craft class (at least 2 classes) (1/2)
48. Make a wedding album
49. Knit a sweater
50. Make a pair of socks for Mom
51. Learn 10 origami pieces (0/10)
52. Learn how to crochet
53. Make a book and bind it
54. Give all handmade gifts for at least one Chanukah
55. Make 15 sets of napkins to sell on Etsy or at the Market (0/15)
56. Make an oven mitt for Noah
57. Spend at least 5 hours each week working on art or crafts.
58. Design a logo for Vintage Virginia
59. Design a logo for handmade crafts
60. Learn embroidery
61. Make my own paper for paper crafts
62. Make a new craft for each new baby of a friend (2/4) (HMR)
63. Finish all knitting projects I have started or unravel them
Travel
64. Go to Israel for at least one month
65. Go on a Kentucky Bourbon tour (and visit Kentucky Lake)
66. Meet Noah's paternal uncle
67. Go camping (at least 3 times) (2/3) (Allgood; Sherando Lake)
68. Go hiking (at least 6 times) (2/6) (Sugar Hollow; Sherando Lake)
69. Go to 2 different outdoor music festivals (1/2) (Allgood)
70. Go on vacation to the Caribbean
71. Go west of the Mississippi
Misc.
72. Volunteer at a hospital in the baby ward and rock babies
73. Frame diplomas and certificates for office
74. Resize my father's bracelet
75. Give at least 5 "just because" gifts. (2/5)
76. Get ring insured.
77. Finish thank you cards from wedding
78. Write 10 "just because" cards and send to friends. (0/10)
79. Make a concerted effort to learn Spanish.
80. Post 10 books on PaperBackSwap or Bookcrossing (3/10)
81. Do not buy a new book for 12 months (start date 1/30/09)
82. Make a list of 101 things that make me happy.
83. Read 50 books. (5/50)
84. Leave a $20 tip on a meal under $20 2 times (0/2)
85. Sell my car and buy a manual car.
86. Host a clothing swap twice a year (3/6)
87. Watch a black and white movie
88. See four plays (1/4)
89. Have a girls night 10 times (5/10)
90. Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice (3440/1,000,000)
91. Go 1 week without watching any television (0/7)
92. Go to a drive-in movie
93. Go to a Washington Redskins game
44. Go to a Washington Capitals game
95. Monitor and update my list as needed
96. Reread To Kill a Mockingbird
97. Upload my Ipod with music I like
98. Officially change my name
99. Read the Torah
100. See a therapist for 6 months
101. Blog regularly (at least 3 times a week) for 3 months
And of course Write new 101/1001 list
Blue is in progress.
Pink is complete.
Purple is no longer completing.
Start date is today: January 30, 2009.
End date is October 28, 2011.
House
1. Clean out the basement
2. Clear off all hard drives on computers and donate computers
3. Buy a house
4. Clean and sell my wedding dress
5. Go 90 days straight without buying anything new (not including food and toiletries for hygiene)
6. Buy a queen size bed
7. Have a garage sale
8. Donate or sell 500 things from the house (54/500)
9. Make doggie biscuits for Steve
Family
10. Visit relatives in New Jersey at least 2 times (0/2)
11. Visit relatives in Chicago
12. Finish wedding album for mom
13. Get pregnant
14. Date night twice a month (4/66)
15. Make dinner with Noah once every two weeks (3/66)
16. Visit my mother once every two months (5/17)
Body
17. Go to the dentist once a year (1/3)
18. Weigh 110 pounds (4/10)
19. Donate my hair to Locks of Love
20. Donate blood at least 3 times (1/3)
21. Get another tattoo
22. Got to the gym 3 times a week for 6 months (10/72)
23. Do yoga once a week for 3 months (0/12)
24. Run in a race (maybe the Charlottesville 10-miler)
25. Pamper yourself at least once a month (2/33)
26. Drink nothing but water Monday through Friday for one month (0/30)
27. Wash my face every night before bed, no matter what
28. Walk Steve 4 times a week every week
29. Get a professional massages once every 6 months (1/5)
30. Get my cholesterol checked
31. Take a vitamin daily
32. Private**
33. Stop taking antibiotics by the end of 1001
34. Get another piercing
Finances
35. Pay off all three of my credit cards
36. Save $12,500 (minus anything towards a downpayment for a house)
37. Create a monthly budget and expense plan
38. Sign up for life insurance
39. Put $20 in special savings account for each item on this list achieved
Craft
40. Make cards at the letterpress
41. Letterpress a poem of sister's
42. Send in a postsecret postcard
43. Knit a blanket
44. Knit Broad Street Mittens
45. Establish a successful vintage housewares store on Etsy (sell at least 20 items) (0/20)
46. Get a booth at the Charlottesville City Farmer's Market (can join in with friends)
47. Take an art or craft class (at least 2 classes) (1/2)
48. Make a wedding album
49. Knit a sweater
50. Make a pair of socks for Mom
51. Learn 10 origami pieces (0/10)
52. Learn how to crochet
53. Make a book and bind it
54. Give all handmade gifts for at least one Chanukah
55. Make 15 sets of napkins to sell on Etsy or at the Market (0/15)
56. Make an oven mitt for Noah
57. Spend at least 5 hours each week working on art or crafts.
58. Design a logo for Vintage Virginia
59. Design a logo for handmade crafts
60. Learn embroidery
61. Make my own paper for paper crafts
62. Make a new craft for each new baby of a friend (2/4) (HMR)
63. Finish all knitting projects I have started or unravel them
Travel
64. Go to Israel for at least one month
65. Go on a Kentucky Bourbon tour (and visit Kentucky Lake)
66. Meet Noah's paternal uncle
67. Go camping (at least 3 times) (2/3) (Allgood; Sherando Lake)
68. Go hiking (at least 6 times) (2/6) (Sugar Hollow; Sherando Lake)
69. Go to 2 different outdoor music festivals (1/2) (Allgood)
70. Go on vacation to the Caribbean
71. Go west of the Mississippi
Misc.
72. Volunteer at a hospital in the baby ward and rock babies
73. Frame diplomas and certificates for office
74. Resize my father's bracelet
75. Give at least 5 "just because" gifts. (2/5)
76. Get ring insured.
77. Finish thank you cards from wedding
78. Write 10 "just because" cards and send to friends. (0/10)
79. Make a concerted effort to learn Spanish.
80. Post 10 books on PaperBackSwap or Bookcrossing (3/10)
81. Do not buy a new book for 12 months (start date 1/30/09)
82. Make a list of 101 things that make me happy.
83. Read 50 books. (5/50)
84. Leave a $20 tip on a meal under $20 2 times (0/2)
85. Sell my car and buy a manual car.
86. Host a clothing swap twice a year (3/6)
87. Watch a black and white movie
88. See four plays (1/4)
89. Have a girls night 10 times (5/10)
90. Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice (3440/1,000,000)
91. Go 1 week without watching any television (0/7)
92. Go to a drive-in movie
93. Go to a Washington Redskins game
44. Go to a Washington Capitals game
95. Monitor and update my list as needed
96. Reread To Kill a Mockingbird
97. Upload my Ipod with music I like
98. Officially change my name
99. Read the Torah
100. See a therapist for 6 months
101. Blog regularly (at least 3 times a week) for 3 months
And of course Write new 101/1001 list
500 Things I've Passed On
- 50 articles of clothing at Swap
- Body and Soul (3 magazines) (JBB)
- Book: A Year Without 'Made in China' (Amazon)
- Book: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PBS)
- Book: Love Walked In (PBS)
- Full size mattress and box spring (Freecycle)
- Incense (JBB)
- Teak Wall Unit (Freecycle)
Books I've Read Since List 101 Began
- Hope's Boy: A Memoir by Andrew Bridge
- It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather Armstrong
- Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- The Wedding By Nicholas Sparks
- Eclipse My Stephanie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
- The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
- My Lobotomy
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
- How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
- New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- Actual Innocence (book from sister)
- The Innocent Man by John Grisham
- Man and Boy
2nd 101 Things To Do in 1001 Days
Work:
1. Arrive at work at 8:30 every day for 2 weeks.
1. Arrive at work at 8:30 every day for 2 weeks.
Sites I Frequent
- Apartment Therapy - Green
- Bust
- Casa Sugar
- Craft
- Craft Stylish
- Craftster
- Crazy Aunt Purl
- Cut Out and Keep
- Desire to Inspire
- Dooce
- Get Crafty
- Girls Gone Child
- How About Orange
- Jane
- My Other Knitting Blog
- Natasha's Blog
- New and Improved Libs
- Not Martha
- One Hour Craft
- One Pretty Thing
- Overheard In New York
- Pop Sugar
- Poppytalk
- Post Secret
- Ready Made
- Supernaturale
- Sustainable Scottsville
- TreeHugger
- Venuszine
- Whip Up
List of Things To Do Before I Go
- Volunteer with Big Brother/Big Sister
- Establish a successful vintage store
- Pay off my student loans
- Volunteer in the maternity ward of a hospital and rock babies
- Go mountain biking
- Take a road trip across the US
- Take a pottery class
- Go to Romania with my mom
- Go to a spa for an entire day
- Learn the basics of a foreign language
- Go sailing
- Go on an air balloon ride
- Have a baby
- Live in a foreign country for a year
About Me
- Always Freed
- I am a little woman with a loud voice who loves to knit ferociously, garden, craft, frequent yard sales and thrift stores, attempting to buy only used items, and talk incessantly about my dog named Shenandoah Steve.
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