I did it!

[smeddley]

Okay, some of these are cheesy, some are suggested by others (as noted), and some are too big while others are too small, BUT I HAVE A LIST! Which, come to think of it, should have been #1 and I could have crossed it off already (my 101 is close, but requires a lot more work).

Now, for the math... 1001 days from now (do I count today? I guess I have to) is... 366 days from now is 4 Jan 09, and 365 days from that is 3 Jan 10, leaving me 270 (right?). Minus 28 for the rest of Jan, minus 28 for Feb, 31 for March, 30 for April, 31 for May, 30 for June, 31 for July, 31 for Aug... leaving me with 30, the exact number of days in Sept. So Sept 30th, 2010. Right?

101 things in 1001 days

01. Redo drywall in the garage (ceiling bit and wall)
02. Remove the rest of the crappy shelving/cabinetry from the garage
03. Organize the garage (buy new shelving units, get rid of all the junk I don’t need)
04. Paint inside of garage
05. Remove the rest of the chicken wire fencing and posts in the backyard
06. Remove excess decking, level and seed
07. Do something with the grape vine/garden area in backyard (rip out or actually plant a garden)
08. Break up concrete pads in backyard
09. Paint everything that needs to be painted in the basement (trim, touch-ups, doors)
10. Finish bathroom in basement (mirror, cabinet)
11. Buy new furniture (shelves) for basement, unpack the books and clean up the pool table room!
12. Frame the windows in the basement
13. Get deeper shelves in my linen closet
14. Turn office closet into gift-wrapping station (shelving, tabletop, storage)
15. Get at least 90% of my recipes organized (cards typed, laminated)
16. Save and format journal entries
17. Decide what I want to do with my hair and get it done
18. Clear out and organize my files (shred/scan)
19. Reupholster the small couch
20. Paint ½ bath on main floor
21. Close in hole in upstairs bath
22. Trim out upstairs bath
23. Reduce my yarn stash by ½ (1 rubbermaid tub)
24. Clean the attic above the bedroom, get rid of the stuff I don’t need, organize the rest
25. Clean the attic above the garage, get rid of the stuff I don’t need, organize the rest
26. Renovate master bath
27. Build (or have built) a pond/fountain in the backyard
28. Install outdoor landscape lights in the backyard
29. Buy new (larger) shed for the backyard
30. Paint the laundry room
31. Redo flooring in the laundry room (tile?)
32. Shelve in the gerbil’s niche
33. Get new carpeting (or flooring) for the second floor
34. Paint hallway
35. Hang up all the pictures we have framed (somewhere)
36. Paint kitchen, touch up trim
37. Reupholster rocker
38. Get all my computer files organized/backed up (pictures, instructions, etc)
39. Refinish nightstands and small dresser
40. Arrange/decorate guest room
41. Buy sectional sofa for basement (impacts #40, as the round chair has to go somewhere!)
42. Get a new driveway/front walk poured
43. Get a front porch put on the house
44. Be debt free except for mortgage (credit cards and HELOC) – this is big considering #11, #26, #27, #29, #33, #41, #42, #43, #45 (so far) and probably comes before these
45. Get the outside of the house painted (it’ll need it in three years)
46. Put in the doggy door we bought
47. Redo the cushions on the patio furniture
48. Install the roman shades (line/shorten) in the bedroom and bathroom
49. Reduce my ‘to be read’ fiction stash by 90%
50. Reduce my ‘to be tried’ craft stash by 90%
51. Arrange/Organize office
52. Organize craft room (not just stuffing things into random boxes on shelves!)
53. Put trellis cover over back porch
54. Complete another CYOA novel
55. Complete NaNo 2008
56. Complete NaNo 2009
57. Redo web site
58. Lose 2 stone [it just sounds better that way]
59. Lose another stone
60. Lose a final stone
61. Ride my bike to work once (but probably only once!)
62. Spend a day taking pictures at the arboretum
63. Spend a day taking pictures at the zoo
64. Finish the dining room (mirror, curtains, frame out window)
65. Finish 90% of the craft projects I have that I’ve already started
66. Successfully bake another pie – completely from scratch - with a lattice top (I did this once, beautifully, when I was 12 and have not attempted it since)
67. Truly clean out my Outlook mailbox (and keep it clean and organized)
68. Reduce my ‘to be read’ non-fiction stash by 50%
69. Reduce my fabric stash by ½ (1 shelving unit)
70. Clean out guest room closet
71. Run another Snerfflebarglast
72. Start a second aquarium (or get a frog, I’ve always wanted one)
73. Go to trivia at least once with icecat
74. Redecorate my office (and take home foam core)
75. Calculate airflow/install enough venting in basement
76. Don’t let Venusians conquer our antelopes (from penchaft)
77. Consistently pester Pen about her writing (er, be supportive of friend’s goals, if you want to be more generic) (from penchaft)
78. Learn about cricket (adapted from penchaft’s suggestion of actually watching a whole game)
79. Something about a raccoon tail (details to come later) (from crimsonlotus84)
80. Go out to a movie with tjstein (mockage allowed for excessive eye leakage) (from tjstein)
81. Spend an evening with icecat crafting, make her a Cephalopod in Blues colors (Royal Blue/Gold/White) (from icecat)
82. Photo challenge – document one month with a photo a day (from anam_cara)
83. Photo challenge – document the growth/change of something over a span of a year (same pic, same angle, etc, several times) (from anam_cara)
84. Try ten completely new foods (not just new recipes, but ingredients I’ve never tried before) (from revoked_soul)
85. Make up a new word and try to get people to start using it (from aeamek)
86. Go see the world’s largest ball of twine
87. Give blood as often as possible (okay, let’s say at least 12 times in 1001 days)
88. [censored] (from a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t)
89. Inventory the house for insurance purposes (from anam_cara - of course, if something horrific happens I’ll totally blame it on you for suggesting this, you know… ~.^)
90. Mail a postcard to Post Secret (from anam_cara)
91. Try at least one new recipe a month (from revoked_soul)
92. Do something about the overhang in back and the mouse access
93. Pet a cat and pet an ant! (from alankria)
94. Spin a skein of yarn that doesn’t look like dryer lint
95. Find the checkbook I lost 2 ½ years ago
96. Finish playing all the computer games I have stockpiled
97. Mat and frame the rest of the loose pictures I have
98. Go through the giant stack of magazines and keep only the interesting bits (but must be scanned/filed properly)
99. Write one letter (or card) to someone every month
100. Watch all of the DVDs I own that I haven’t gotten around to watching (but only the ones that are mine, I am NOT sitting through the however-many copies of Dune we own)
101. Get a binder, print this list out, and also print out empirical evidence for some of them (pictures of my current stashes, to-read lists, half-finished craft project lists, etc)

EDIT: And I already thought of another. I knew this would happen as soon as I posted the list...

102. Post all of the reviews I've written to Amazon

Comments

[alankria.livejournal.com]

95. Find the checkbook I lost 2 ½ years ago

Ahaha, yes. I imagine when I move out of home, and finally go through all my stuff, I find several of these. And paying-in-slips books.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

So far as I've seen no one has tried to use it, so it's GOT to be around here somewhere... but, honestly, we have SO MUCH CRAP it could be anywhere. Only a whole-house cleaning/organization might find it.

The irony is, when I do find it, I'll probably think "Oh, right, I put it there because it would be easy to find." :/

[mmmontserrat.livejournal.com]

I love it!

Yes I remember trying to get my exhusband to do marathons with me and we put him on a 1000 day program. (he was a surfer and he never really took to the training) though he would egg me on for mine~

seems like a long time but I bet the time will spin by

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

It does seem like a long time, but it's also a whole heck of a lot of stuff, so I'll need every minute of it, I'm sure!

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Wow, big list.

I won't attempt something like this until I find a job and know where my life is going.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, that makes a lot of sense. You can see how much of this revolves around my house! If I wasn't pretty sure I was still going to be here, and still have the same job, it'd be hard to make much of a list. Too many 'it depends'. And crafting/reading/writing goals only go so far...

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

hmm hmm hmm (http://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/)

GOOD LUCK

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

And he even explains it to baseball fans! (http://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/baseball.html)

:P

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Who knew that your knowledge of that terrible sport would ever come in handy someday? =D

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Baseball >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cricket

:P