Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable, or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of effort on your part)
Completed tasks have a line through them and have a blue link leading to the post about it. The incomplete tasks are bolded.
Started July 1, 2009. Needs to be Done by March 28, 2012
1. Print out all important digital pictures
2. Start and finish a yoga class
3. Learn either the banjo or the violin – matc
5. Learn to sew and make something for someone
6. Read an entire Jane Austen novel
7. Over the 2011 summer, get flowers once a week
8. Volunteer (at least!) once a month for a year
9. Finish Bachelors degree
10. Earn my Montessori teaching degree
11. Then get a job in a Montessori school
12. Write a letter to extended family members that I don't see very often
13. Finish and print out the Family Cookbook
14. Donate blood five times –
a. First time - July 17, 2010, passed out. Have to wait.
15. Ride my bike everywhere I need to go for a week
16. Plant a tree
17. Stay out all night dancing
18. Camp in Tennessee with Liam
19. Run a marathon
20. Visit the Wisconsin Dells
21. Take a pottery wheel throwing class
22. Take the trapeze class
23. Make a will and power of attorney
24. Learn to cook a new cuisine (like Thai or Scandinavian)
25. Read all of the books that I own that I haven't read yet
26. Go on the big big hike at Devil's Lake State Park
27. Potty train my son
28. Build a spectacular garden
29. Go camping with Liam and John
30. Sponsor a child
31. Stop buying Hallmark cards and make them for people
32. Go wine tasting
33. Bake three loaves of whole wheat bread from scratch
34. Eat dinner at Harvest restaurant
35. Read a Charles Dickens novel
36. Learn how to change a tire
37. Teach Liam how to build a really great snowman
38. Get a mammogram once I am done breastfeeding
39. Go to a flea market
40. Get a massage
41. Learn how to ride a motorcycle
42. Go to climbing gym
43. Make an emergency kit for the car
44. Run and/or walk three times a week for a month
45. Go ice skating at Tenney Park
46. Take one photo a day for a year
47. Donate to NPR
48. Read a book by James Joyce
49. Learn about buying a house
50. Adopt a family for Christmas
51. Volunteer at the hospice
52. Teach Liam how to ice skate
53. Save up and buy two really nice new lenses
54. Submit a short story to a writing contest
55. Visit Door County, Wisconsin
56. Spend a night in a haunted house
57. Participate in a civil war reenactment or renaissance fair
58. Have a girl's day in Chicago
59. Restart and maintain vintage dress collection
60. Spend time with Cosette everytime we're in GR
61. Finally read and finish The World According to Garp or other John Irving book
62. Volunteer at the Montessori school
63. Guide Liam and let him learn from his actions
64. When I need to buy something for the house, look to Etsy first
65. If I can't find it there, check Craigslist or Goodwill before going to a store
66. Take a Photoshop class - one can always learn more, right?
67. Take a baking class at MATC
68. Go to a drive in movie theater
69. Read the newest Sherman Alexie novel (and any other new one he might come out with)
70. Have my fortune told
71. Go to the ballet
72. Take adult gymnastics class
73. Get a dog
74. Learn how to can food
75. Take a bike ride in the rain
76. Spend an entire day at the beach
77. Buy all my friends a drink at the bar
78. Take pole dancing lessons
79. Bet at a horse race
80. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
81. Get a facial or pedicure/manicure
82. Donate wedding dress to charity
83. Paint on a canvas
84. Let go of my painful memories of my Mom and just remember the good ones
85. Kayak on Lake Mendota
86. Get composting worms and learn how to do it
87. Reduce our electricity/energy bill by 20%
88. Volunteer for the Obama campaign in 2012
89. Reread the Fountainhead
90. Fix vintage bike myself
91. Prepare a local only meal
92. Play Frisbee
93. Bake cookies for friends at Christmas
94. Join a book club
96. Go parasailing
97. Throw a theme party
98. Do a photography seminar
99. Invent a baking recipe
100. Make a Martha Stewart craft
101. See Arcade Fire
I'm done! Wow!
Now, time to work on it.
