Here’s my giant list of goals to finish in the next 1001 days inspired by the “101 Things to Do in 1001 Days” project (and Gertrude’s recent list) ….. so, can a girl do all of this in just under three years? Fingers crossed. I’ll link to posts and other sites as appropriate here and keep you updated. (I’ll even post photos once I complete lucky #13). The deadline is Wednesday, May 4, 2011. For anyone who wants to find out when their own 1001 days would end, there is a calculator here. I started 8/5/08.
Travel
1. Fly first class. 2/22/09 on my way home from CA!
2. Visit Louise in NYC.
3. Go to Greece.
4. Go to Mexico. (holding off due to swine flu) 
5. Get my US passport. completed 06/2009
6. Get my UK passport.
7. Go back to New Orleans. headed down 1/5/09! Four trips scheduled this year so far!
8. Visit Danielle in Australia.
9. Go on a vacation with my sisters.
10. Take a train somewhere.
11. Go to the Waffle House (well, it’s an hour away…) completed 08/08/08 (yum)
12. Go to Coney Island Mermaid Festival.
Shopping
13. Buy a digital camera. received 12/25/08 for Xmas
14. Join a CSA.
15. Buy a sewing machine.
16. Own a classic piece of Tiffany’s jewelry. received 12/27/08 for Xmas
17. Buy and use Crane engraved stationery.
18. Buy or build a bicycle at Co-Op.
19. Buy a house.
20. Subscribe to the Sunday New York Times. my first issue arrived 2/22/09
21. Buy a car or a Vespa.
22. Get a Blackberry. completed 12/12/08.
23. Buy a lockable trunk big enough for my journals.
Around the House
24. Have an inspirations bulletin board.
25. Host a dinner party.
26. Convince my boss to let me telework part time. one day for bad weather on 1/28/09
27. Cook one new recipe a week (23/143): rice noodles with peanut sauce (way overcooked), Cream Perfect Love, dijon pork chops, french potato salad, black eyed peas with andouille sausage over rice, black bean and mango salsa, farmer’s market chili, pumpkin yogurt, ham and rice casserole, eggplant and tomato stew, egg noodles with cheese and peas, Paula Deen’s cornbread stuffing, Betty Crocker double-chocolate chip cookies, standing rib roast, Yorkshire pudding, spinach & artichoke casserole, corn pudding, pork roast, pork ribs in a crock pot, rice noodles with firecracker sauce, simple roast chicken, Paula Deen’s biscuits (ugh)
28. Create a personal altar space.
29. Plant flowers that actually grow.
Body & Soul
30. Go to eye doctor and get new contacts. done 09/06/08
31. Get a professional massage.
32. Have my chest tattoo removed.
33. Be able to do 50 pushups.
34. Fit into size 6 clothing.
35. Have a baby (alone or not).
36. Take a spirituality course.
37. Take a regular yoga class.
38. Go to midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
39. Go to the dentist.
40. Watch a sunrise. Cocoa Beach, FL 05/01/09
41. Watch a sunset. In New Orleans on the hotel roof- January 2009
Writing, Crafting, & Learning
42. Read at an open mic poetry night.
43. Make an altered book.
44. Win NaNoWriMo. 10,151/ 50,000 words in 2008 (not a winner…..)
45. Submit 3 poems or short stories to journals per week for 3 months. (3/12)
46. Give only handmade gifts one Christmas.
47. Finish all twelve weeks of the Artist’s Way.
48. Make a quilt from my old clothes.
49. Pass the bar exam.
50. Take a tap dancing class.
51. Update my “100 things about me.” completed 08/06/08
52. Send out one piece of mail art per month (0/33)
53. Finish a graduate writing degree. enrolled- first day of school 09/02/08
54. Learn to ride a bicycle (yep, never learned).
55. Take another belly dancing class.
56. Take a creative writing workshop. completed 10/04/08
57. Make a crocheted blanket.
58. Cross stitch an ABC sampler. started on 08/24/08
59. Take a sewing class. enrolled for 9/14/08!
60. Publish another chapbook.
61. Write and publish a magazine or newspaper article.
62. Finish a “Learning to Love You More” assignment.
63. Show one piece of art.
64. Start a personal scrapbook. Purchased and started on a trip to Ithaca 2/25/09
65. Sew a skirt I actually wear.
66. Make an apron.
Practical Musts
67. Save $10,000.
68. Pay off all credit card debt.
69. Make a list/ take pictures for renters insurance policy.
70. Get my driver’s license.
71. Pay off my laptop.
72. Return my library books. completed 8/7/08 (after a YEAR)
73. Complete “31 Days to Fix Your Finances.”
74. Update my will and beneficiaries.
Random Fun and Late Additions
75. Volunteer at least 4 hours per month.
76. Try being vegetarian for one week.
77. Read one book a week and keep a list (35/143): Strange Pilgrims (Gabriel Garcia Marquez); Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties (Julia Reed); 1984 (George Orwell); Crocodile Soup (Julia Darling); The House on First Street (Julia Reed); Little Children (Tom Perrotta); One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (Kenneth Rexroth); On Writing (Stephen King- 5 STARS!); The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri); Voodoo in New Orleans (Robert Tallant); Map of Ireland (Stephanie Grant); As I Lay Dying (Faulkner); The Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena (Julia Reed); Professional Writing and Rhetoric (Tim Peeples); New World Order (Derek Green); If Disney Ran Your Hospital (Lee); The Goal (Goldratt); The Reader (Schlink); The Year of Living Biblically (Jacobs); Matrimony (Henkin); The One Hundred (Garcia); Time and Materials (Hass); The Secret Life and Bees (Kidd); The Awakening (Chopin); I Capture the Castle (Smith); Frankenstein (Shelley); My Antonia (Cather); Revolutionary Road; Love in the Time of Cholera; Reborn: The Journals of Susan Sontag; 84, Charing Cross Road; Uncommon Arrangements (Roiphe); Parallel Lives (Rose); He’s Just Not That Into You; Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man (Harvey); The Tipping Point (Gladwell); Outliers (Gladwell).
78. Write one letter or postcard and mail it per week (47/143).
79. Go to a Steelers game.
80. Go to bookclub more than once (2/2). done 09/09/09 (and I read the books both times)
81. Plant a tree.
82. Start and keep a one sentence daily journal. purchased & started on 09/09/09
83. Ride on a float in a parade.
84. Write 100 thank you notes (13/100).
85. Meet an internet friend in person. done 05/2009- Green in San Francisco
86. Go to a drive-in movie theatre.
87. Fund a scholarship at my alma mater.
88. Go on a picnic.
89. Ride in a limo.
90. Send a message in a bottle.
91. Have a birthday party for myself.
92. Go ice skating.
93. Teach a class. done 07/2009- at a large conference for work on social media.
94. Have a booth at a craft show.
95. Learn how and wear false eyelashes.
96. Go skinny dipping.
97. Get back in touch and stay in touch with my penpal of 8 years. done 07/09
98. Read the complete works of William Faulkner. one down
99. Send and receive a postcrossing postcard. sent 2 on 08/06/08, received one 08/16/08 from Romania (Dracula’s Castle!)
100. Read the entire “Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.”
101. Go to Trivia Night.
26 Comments
August 6, 2008 at 8:11 am
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August 6, 2008 at 8:42 am
very ambitious and very cool! i may have to steal this idea.
i also can’t ride a bike (or drive a car). urban!
August 6, 2008 at 9:08 am
What fun this is! I recently compiled a list of “things to do before I go” but for that I have my whole life and I am sure there were less than 101.
Can’t wait to see what gets accomplished!
August 6, 2008 at 11:05 am
You are awsome and ambitious! You make me want to get up off my lazy butt and do something! Thank you.
August 6, 2008 at 1:11 pm
What a fun list! I hope you accomplish everything.
P.S.: I may need to steal some of those!
PPS: Crane is having a sale right now, on some pretty great stuff.
August 6, 2008 at 5:26 pm
The list is a lot of fun to do. I’ve hardly even looked at mine lately, but I’ll get to it again soon. My 1001 days are up soon. Yikes!
Ill enjoy seeing what you’ve crossed off the list.
Have fun!
August 6, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Your list is awesome…but I had to chuckle because you said you would have to pay $50 for each thing you don’t complete (from having a baby to getting a massage!).
August 7, 2008 at 4:28 am
Great list! Very inspiring too!
August 8, 2008 at 11:04 am
Very cool.
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August 10, 2008 at 10:28 am
all right, that’s it – i’m gonna copy your idea of making a list of things i want to do! terrific, and good luck!
August 10, 2008 at 10:29 am
p.s. you could even try being vegan for a week, and if you do, read dean ornish. he makes it all sound so logical and like you’re missin’ out if you stick to the meat and cheese and all of that jazz.
August 15, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I was a vegan for a month, and it changed my experience of eating, so that’s a goal I can get behind.
August 17, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I love it. I’m composing a post to tell folks about it. Inspired.
September 6, 2008 at 7:47 pm
This is a very cool idea. BTW, that massage will be worth every penny you’ll have to spend on it. My sister bought me my first one as a birthday present. I’ve bought several since then. You’ll be a new woman.
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October 27, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Great list! We have much in common, including red hair!
November 10, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Feeling up, but a little down – I searched for some new-agey blogs. Found your article “New Age Hooey… Eerily effective” which led to this one.
I’m very excited about this. I’m starting my list now.
The “Universe” guides us in mysterious ways.
Thanks,
Judy
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November 12, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I’m going to start working on my list tonight. This is a great idea.
November 17, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I think that I will also do this! Thank you for sharing this idea with we readers!
November 23, 2008 at 10:26 pm
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March 4, 2009 at 12:50 am
Although I agree that if you set an arts-related goal you should stick with it, I’d say that The Artist’s Way is overrated. You have your own path and who knows how her relationship with Martin Scorcese affected her ability to put together such a volume?
I also thought your number of poems per week to be submitted to be rather a hard task. I’ve just started to get more serious about this. Maybe I’ll get there this year and I’m underselling my OWN abilities. However, I say: no self-flagellation with out cries of ecstasy. Ok, I never say that. I just said it for a cheap laugh. But, go easy on yourself, OK?
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