Addendum

Deadline for my 101:
Monday, January 19, 2009

My 101 in 1001

As seen on triplux.com:

The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Inspiration: Seen on many blogs, it seems like the perfect way to set some real goals, hopes, and dreams for my life all with a running clock. It also was a way to look at the things that I want to do and accomplish, and let me link to them (or at least write about them).

Here goes, by general category:

Personal
1 Pay for someone's toll behind me (completed)
2 Find a career
3 Do the washing up directly after a meal every day for a week (this includes cleaning the mess on the stove, counter, and microwave)
4 Give a child standing at the gumball machines a quarter
5 Buy a perfect black dress that I can wear to dinner or out or whatever
6 Kiss in the rain, under the stars, on the beach, under a full moon, and on the midnight street
7 Make a wish on a shooting star (completed)
8 Make a wish in a wishing well (completed)
9 Go one week without spending any money at all (no coffee, no buying lunch, no happy hour - and no fair cheating by making others pay or "borrowing" money)
10 Learn how to change a flat tire
11 Clean the bathroom once a week for two months
12 Set up the wireless in my apartment (or have someone else successfully set it up, or move and have it set up in new location) (completed)
13 Go at least a week (when I'm home all week) without having ANY dirty dishes in the sink when I go to bed
14 Find a system to organize friends and family birthdays and keep it updated (completed)
15 Light a match the real way (not the chicken way by folding it under the paper so I don't burn my thumb)
16 Spend the entire day in bed (no shower, no getting dressed, no leaving the house, getting up for coffee in the house and food in the house is allowed) - and not feel guilty about it
17 Slow dance with someone and not worry if I'm all sweaty or if my breath still smells like dinner or if I'm stepping on their feet - just enjoy the moment (completed)
18 Get my picture taken with a friend in one of those booths at the mall where you get that strip of four pictures
19 Watch the sun set in the arms of someone I love (completed)
20 Talk to Mom about her past and write about it (privately)
21 Own a pair of really nice, high thread count sheets
22 Organize all my VHS tapes
23 Buy a new watch (completed)
24 Redeem my credit card points for something I'll actually use (completed)
25 Clean through closet and get rid of clothes, socks, and underwear that hasn't been worn since I've moved here (completed)
26 Visit my grandfather's grave with my dad (completed)
27 Buy new black boots (completed)
28 Go 24 hours - on a work day - without complaining about anything or anyone

Travel
29 Get a passport, even if I have nowhere to go (completed)
30 Go to the movie theater by myself (completed)
31 Go to a water park and go down the water slide
32 Go on a cruise
33 Go to the top of the Empire State building
34 Visit a real cave/cavern (completed)
35 See the Pacific Ocean, then feel the Pacific Ocean (completed)
36 Go on a roller coaster and throw my hands in the air when we're going down the big hill (completed)
37 Buy a picture taken at an amusement park when I'm on a roller coaster or some other scary ride - no matter how funny looking my face looks
38 Actually go somewhere interesting for New Year's Eve (have plans in advance!) - like one of those hotel parties where a group of people go and have unlimited buffet food and drinks and can stay there for the night for a set price
39 Go tubing down a river (completed)
40 Visit at least five new states. (States I've currently been to: CT, MA, RI, NH, VT, ME, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, OH, IN, IL, WI, MN, MI, MO, KS, TX = 26) (completed)
41 Go on a real vacation (not for work, not related to work, and lasting at least a week) (I'm going to say completed)
42 Stay in a five star hotel
43 Watch a fireworks show on the 4th of July in the arms of someone I love
44 See the Grand Canyon (completed)
45 Spend the entire night on the beach - watch the sun set and then rise again

Intellectual/Cultural
46 Read "Atlas Shrugged"
47 Read/Re-read at least 25 of the Random House Best Novels (board's list) and at least an additional 10 off the reader's list
48 Take a night class - any night class (completed)
49 Re-learn the tarot
50 Vote at the polls in the presidential election (completed)
51 Go to at least one concert with Dad a year (completed)
52 Buy some real art, have it framed, and hang it in my apartment (completed)
53 Compile a "must-read" list of at least 15 books - and read them (cannot duplicate with Random House list)
54 See "Pulp Fiction"
55 Go to a karaoke night and sing a song (I can be drunk and I don't have to do it solo) (completed)
56 Go to that bar in Springfield that Robin talks about and ride the mechanical bull
57 Go to either Nantucket Wine Festival, Tanglewood Wine and Food Classic or a similar event

Culinary
58 Host a real dinner party
59 Re-evaluate ten foods/drinks I claim not to like
60 Learn to make an amazing risotto
61 Get a bottle of vitamins and finish it without missing a single day *Revised
62 Use my fondue set - with company
63 Order room service in a hotel (completed)
64 Buy/receive panini maker and use it
65 Make homemade guacamole (completed)
66 Learn how to make at least ten of the dishes that mom makes that I love
67 Carve a pumpkin and roast the seeds myself
68 Always have a bottle of champagne (Asti, yum!) around - and enjoy celebrating the small things
69 Be able to cook one really good dinner (with all of the food groups)
70 Be able to make one really good dessert (with chocolate, of course) (completed)
71 Be able to make one really good drink (either smoothie or alcoholic)
72 Eat a peanut butter cup Blizzard from Dairy Queen and not feel guilty about it (completed)
73 Make sweet potato fries from scratch
74 Pick my own apples, peaches, strawberries and blueberries (almost complete)
75 Have an outdoor picnic with someone - complete with a bottle of wine, cheese, fruit, sandwiches, a blanket and ants

Body
76 Run a 5k (completed)
77 Run a 10k
78 Run a marathon. (Okay, maybe a half-marathon)
79 Run at least 10 miles a week for 4 weeks straight
80 Floss everyday for a month
81 Buy new glasses (completed)
82 Try dek hockey
83 Drink no alcohol for one month
84 Do 100 sit-ups a day for two weeks
85 Get my teeth whitened (Crest WhiteStrips count) (completed)

Creative
86 Keep a plant alive for more than six months (at my apartment) (completed)
87 Grow an herb garden
88 Crochet a blanket for my apartment
89 Get something published (this is vague, but any kind of writing published in print, not online) 90 Print out some of the pictures on my digital camera/computer (completed)
91 Grow a bonsai tree from the kit that I bought in December
92 Successfully complete NaNoWriMo again (and actually do something with it)
93 Talk to my grandparents and record/write their history so I can pass it to future generations
94 Send 12 random "thinking of you" or "thank you just because" cards to people (can duplicate but only once) (Progress)
95 Attend a writing conference
96 Finish writing in "Soul Catcher"
97 Write a letter to Mom and to Dad and thank them for everything - detailed and honest
98 Give it to them
99 Learn what all the settings on my digital camera refer to
100 Spend at least three consecutive hours in a bookstore/cafe/coffeehouse just writing and people watching - no internet surfing
101 Have a new list of 101 things ready to go on January 2009