The beginning.
I’m a chronic list maker and obsessive list crosser-offer so this whole 101 things in 1001 days meme that’s been going around is right up my neurotic alley. It took me almost a month to actually amass 101 things that I could conceivably hope to accomplish in a little under 3 years and I still think I’m stretching it with a few of these. So….without further ado, my list:
- Finish reading 75% of the books I own (300ish)
- Go to a music festival
- Learn rudimentary Spanish
- Go back to France and visit my city (Besancon)
- Visit David where ever he may be in the world
- Go to Japan
- Get my website up and running
- Cook a 3 course meal all by myself
- Learn / get more comfortable with shooting night photography
- Fill up a sketchbook with drawings
- Learn how to use my small flash
- Visit Jenny in Seattle
- Finally visit Niki in Chicago
- Write consistently in a paper journal or private blog
- Get my bmi around 21
- Ride my bike to work at least once
- Begin my Ashtanga yoga practice again
- Go vegan again for a month
- Watch the entirety of “Seven Samurai”
- Finish editing photos from all my trips and print them
Commit to an idea and get a tattoo- Buy grown-up matching furniture
- Move outside of Ohio
- Tell someone “no” once a week for a month
- Complete a Sunday NY Times Crossword puzzle
Send a care package to someone- Spend 24 hours relaxing in bed or on a couch with no phones or internet
- Take the ferry to the Camden Aquarium in Philadelphia
- Get drunk before noon
- Write a handwritten letter
- have boudoir photos taken
Have a picnic in Rittenhouse Square- Take a buggy ride around central park
- Raise $1,000 for a good cause
- babysit a child
- hold a baby
- Have a photograph published
- Read “Crime and Punishment”
- Go camping
- Volunteer with a social service (shelter, benefit bank)
Go kareoke-ing and actually sing a song by myself in front of people- Learn how to tie a tie
- Ride a motorcycle
- Learn how to ski
- Build a model car
- Shave a boy’s face
- Learn how to start a fire
- Play rock band at least once
- Go geocaching
- Learn how to give CPR
- Learn how to change a tire
- Learn a basic computer language
- Learn how to drive stick shift
- Buy a pack of reeds and practice my clarinet
- Be able to identify 10 constellations
- Watch all of ‘Brazil’
- Watch 200 Criterion Collection DVDs
Stay at a bed and breakfast- Learn needlefelting
- Watch all of ‘Firefly’
- Take a drawing class
- Grow an herb garden
- Learn how to play pool
- Learn how to use Pandora Radio
- Build a Gingerbread House
- Knit a scarf from start to finish
- Learn how to silkscreen and make a print
- Go to a spa for a day
- Read the whole Harry Potter series so people will get off my back about it
- Foster a cat
- Go cabrewing
- Color my hair for the first time
- Go to a piano bar
- Make sushi
- Buy fresh flowers for no specific reason
- Put more money in my Roth IRA
- Successfully start or join a book club
- Buy a real piece of art
- Make my own infused vodka
- Finish scrapbooking SOMETHING for the love of god
- Learn how to do some basic sewing to make my mom proud
read an entire comic book series on a subject I usually wouldn’t (super hero/zombie)- Visit the Big Sur
- Get lost on purpose with someone I want to spend the day with
- Grow my hair at least halfway down my back
- Take a road trip somewhere
- Go to Eastern State Penitentiary
Give in and finally buy a pair of expensive headphones- Buy a record player
- Start etsy sites for my mom and myself
- Build a snowman complete with carrot nose
- Successfully run a 5k
- Brew my own beer
- Learn how to play some sort of stringed instrument
- Get my motorcycle license
- Watch all of Battle Star Galactica
- Read the entire Foundation Series
- Go to Las Vegas
- Dip my feet in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans in the same year
- Build a terrarium
- Bake and decorate a vegan cake
