Monday, December 13, 2010

The Beginning of a Project ... or, Why I Need A 12-Step Program For Blogging

Okay.

So.  

I know a lot of people have made a 101 in 1001 list.  And in the beginning, I just wanted to make one, too.  

I started devising my plan in October.  I got to sixty-something, and I ran out of ideas and decided to come back to it.

Yeah.  I didn't.

Nothing had gotten done.

I've figured out that sometimes I need a project to hold myself accountable.  Plus, what better way to document my 101 in 1001 than to dedicate a post to each one?  

Some may be harder than others, but by golly, I'm willing to give it a shot.

So ... without further ado ...

101 in 1001

Start: 12/13/2010
End: 9/9/2013

1.   Run a full marathon.

2.   Take a vitamin every day for a month (hopefully longer).

3.   Learn to knit.

4.   Graduate law school.

5.   Buy a pair of Christian Louboutins for graduation.

6.   Go to a hockey game.

7.   Donate bone marrow (hopefully I get called for it!)

8.   Not eat fast food for a month.

9.   Get at least three more stamps on my passport.

10. Go on a Facebook strike for two whole weeks.

11. Get my very first for-real massage.  

12. Host a dinner party.

13. Send a secret to Post Secret.

14. Read five books off the Banned Books list.

15. Take a cake decorating class.

16. Make at least one appointment with a therapist.

17. Take at least one picture every single day.

18. Schedule a regular, plain ol’ physical every year.

19. Go to an Elton John concert.

20. Read the Bible cover to cover.

21. Learn to apply eye makeup.

22. Put $10 in savings for every completed task.

23. Donate $10 to charity for every incomplete task.

24. Schedule the 4th and final nose surgery.

25. Play piano.

26. SKYDIVE!!

27. Surprise a random friend with anonymous flowers.

28. Visit a corn maze.

29. Go back to Disney World.

30. Watch every single James Bond movie.

31. Take myself back to my gymnastics roots every once in a while.

32. Spend the night in a blanket fort in the living room.

33. Don’t swear for an entire day (this could take multiple tries)

34. Tie a nice note to a balloon and let it go.

35. Watch back-to-back-to-back movies in the theater.

36. Make a little more of my mediocre art.

37. Buy a bicycle.

38. Run a race every three months.

39. Compliment a total stranger.

40. See the Rays play.

41. Give a really good waiter a ridiculously large tip.

42. Visit an aquarium.

43. Rock climb.

44. Figure out how to paint my fingernails.

45. Run 1000 miles a year.

46. Plan a girls trip getaway.

47. Re-certify myself in CPR and First Aid.

48. Start volunteering with the Special Olympics again

49. Find a church I love.

50. Host a holiday for my friends.

51. Go to Austin City Limits.

52. Read a book by someone I completely disagree with.

53. Write a letter to myself to open in ten years.

54. Create an original recipe.

55. Ride the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad.

56. Learn to change my own oil.

57. Buy pretty stationary and USE it.

58. Actually post on my disastrous cooking blog.

59. Make Christmas cookies.

60. Bungee jump.

61. Go to an NFL game.

62. See an opera.

63. Watch another concert in the Hollywood Bowl.

64. Rejoice always.

65. Pray continually.

66. Give thanks in all circumstances.

67. Drive an old muscle car.

68.  Make the ultimate Ty playlist.

69.  Buy a bedroom set that MATCHES.

70.  And a new mattress.

71.  Bake brownies from scratch.

72.  Run for 21 consecutive days.

73. See an orchestra performance.

74. Do something that gives me the butterflies.

75. Delete my Myspace account.

76. Help someone do something they couldn't.


78. Find an inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art.

79. Buy a car.

80. At 11:11 on 11/11/11, do something magical.

81. Put change in someone else's parking meter.

82. Take my Dad to the Grand Canyon.

83. Watch a meteor shower.

84. Identify 100 things that make me happy.

85. See an IMAX movie in 3D.

86. Organize my recipes.

87. Work doing something I love.

88. Complete a 1000-piece puzzle.

89. Do a detox.

90. Take a self-defense class.

91. Write a list of 101 things I've already achieved.

92. Travel first class.

93. Make a difference to someone.

94. Drink absinthe :)

95. Finish my art journal.

96.  Ride a merry-go-round, and be as happy doing it as the kids are.

97. Get professional pictures made.

98. Swim in the ocean after dark.

99. Go vegetarian for a month.  Then eat a steak.

100. Adopt a dog.

101. Be sublimely happy with the life I've chosen.


I mean, really.


That's not too much to ask, right?


:)

2 comments:

  1. Saw #94 drink absinthe... Tried it and it's gross and gives you really weird dreams... As in Care Bears are taking over the world weird dreams:)

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  2. fly first class! i should have made that one of mine!

    i think i'll make a "TY" section on the blogs i follow. it makes me happy, though. :)

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