101 in 1001 . . . and counting!

** Update – today is 9.16.08.  I didn’t even finish half of my list.  I’m going to keep hammering away until I “git r done.”  Whenever.

101 in 1001

As seen on triplux.

Love, love, love this idea.  I am such a procrastinator.  Maybe this will help me out.  Maybe it won’t.  But, it definitely can’t hurt to try.  There are some things I need to cross off my to-dolist.  Of course being a procrastinator, I’ve never created a to-do list.  Until now.  Here goes!

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

The Criteria:  Tasks must be specific (i.e., no ambiguiity 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 work on my part).

Start Date:  Monday 9.26.05

End Date:  Monday 6.23.08

Completed items in color!

The Tasks

1. Start my blog – 9.2.05
2. Begin saving for trip to Belize in 2007 – turned in bank draft to HR on 10.27.05
3. Go to Belize in 2007 – went to Cozumel instead – June 7-11, 2007
4. Buy an iPod – ordered 10.3.05, received 10.15305 – love it!
5. Cut of all my relaxed hair and rock my natural texture – June 2006
6. Apply to a PhD program
7. Complete my 101/1001 list and post it – 10.19.05
8. Read 5 classic works of ficition – Moby Dick, Pride and Prejudice, The Good Earth, Sport of the Gods, The Jungle
9. Read the Bible in its entirety – started 1.1.06, finished 12.31.06
10. Walk in five 5k walks – UMC 4.21.07, New Hope 8.18.07
11. Learn to crochet
12. Paint my living room – April 2006 – thanks Dad!
13. Find a new job – 12.20.06
14. Go to Chicago
15. Brush and floss my teeth 2x day, every day, for a month
16. Get a massage – 12.27.05
17. Learn and tell one very funny clean joke
18. Read 5 autobigoraphies/biographies – Ella Fitzgerald, JFK, Nelson Mandela, Howling Wolf, Hillary Clinton
19. Join a church – 8.22.08
20. Make 1 day a week TV free for a month – January 1-31 2007, different day each week
21. Rip my entire CD collection
22. Learn how to make good cornbread dressing – took lesson from JR on 11.24.05
23. Eat 5 new foods – beaver 2.28.08, scorpion 11.08, starfish 11.08
24. Buy a bikini.  And wear it.  In public – Cozumel cruise June 7-11, 2007
25. Read a Sunday paper in its entirety – excluding classifieds
26. Go roller skating
27. Lose post-baby pooch – it is gone!
28. Test drive a BMW
29. Pray every day for a week – grace doesn’t count – week of 1.1.06
30. Frame the photgraph that GS sent me – 1.15.06
31. Get a library card – June 2006
32. Write a letter to the local newpaper
33. Get a passport – 6.2.07
34. Call my grandmother every Sunday for 4 straight weeks
35. Put an emergency kit in my car
36. Learn how to use a barbecue grill
37. Replace the light fixture in the study – April 2006 – thanks Dad!
38. Remove the wallpaper in Lovegirl’s bathroom – April 2007 – paid “Rambo” one of Smoochy’s friends to finish the mess I’d started
39. Paint Lovegirl’s bathroom – June 2007 -thanks Dad!
40. Have a family picture taken
41. Put Lovegirl’s baby stuff in the attic, just in case – July 2006
42. Send each of my brothers $10 just because
43. Clean out my side of the closet – can’t remember date, but it is done!
44. Put all of my loose pictures in a photo album – see #43
45. Perform 5 random acts of kindness – killed fire ant bed in neighbor’s yard 8.28.06, bought student a cup of coffee 7.27.09,
46. Take Amtrak somewhere
47. Clean out my work email – 11.23.05
48. Wear a watch for a week – November 1-14; wore a watch the whole time I was in China.
49. Paint something at the paint-it-yourself ceramics place – 2.26.06
50. Find a babysitter for Lovegirl so that I can . . .  12.10.05
51. Go on a date with Smoochy – 12.10.05
52. Finish paying pledge to my alma mater
53. Go to the local Farmer’s Market – 6.2.07
54. Throw away old, burned out shredder – 10.11.05
55. Buy a new shredder – 10.10.05
56. Shred mountain of paper growing under the study desk – 10.11.05
57. Find my Bob Marley “Legend” CD – gave up, bought a new one November 2007
58. Switch to high spped internet – February 2005
59. Make a list of singles I want on my iPod – this never ends, considering done 10.23.07
60. Buy a pair of corduroy pants
61. Go the Texas State Fair
62. Call 3 people from my address book that I normally don’t – TH 10.16.05, JP 1.6.06, JW 1.22.08
63. Take a dance class – Latin Dance 1.7.08
64. Update my resume – June 2006
65. Change light fixture at front door – April 2006, thanks Dad!
66. Install solar lights on front walkway
67. Make breakfast for dinner
68. Take a mental health day – ditch work, take Lovegirl to the sitter, do no housework or errand running
69. Put all my loose picture in an album
70. Try to re-establish contact with CH – she actually found me, we’ve been in regular touch ever since.
71. Get a tattoo
72. Switch to contacts – I will not be doing this.  I changed my mind.  Love my glasses!
73. Pay off Discover
74. Whiten teeth
75. Put a rinse in my hair
76. Finish my charm bracelet – uh not.  It was stolen.
77. Get my car professionally detailed
78. Get the backyard fenced
79. Take a Spanish class
80. Learn how to start my fireplace
81. Go see a movie I normally wouldn’t – can’t remember date, saw “Don’t Mess with the Zohan”
82. Have a complete physical
83. Go to a basketball game – 11.28.06
84. Get to a million points in Word Whomp – 12.19.06
85. Get our family emergency kit together – 4.1.06
86. Buy something from a garage sale
87. Roll all the pennies in Lovegirl’s bank and deposit them in her savings acct
88. Take an unscheduled detour on a roadtrip – Stopped at an overlook on the way to NW Arkansas on 12.23.07, stopped at P Michael’s in Lake Village, AR on 12.30.07
89. Go to the zoo – 9.4.06
90. Draw up a will to ensure Lovegirl inherits all our riches
91. Put fresh mulch around the azaleas – one warm weekend in March 2007
92. Create a “house” notebook – repair work done, pain colors used, etc.
93. Watch Napolean Dynamite – umm yeah, I didn’t get what all the hype was.
94. Replace current queen size bed with a king – upgrade baby!
95. Skip my Sunday outing to Target – but just once, let’s not get crazy! – 11.6.05
96. Throw an old-school skate party
97. Win something – 4.10.07 – I won a lipgloss from Afrobella
98. Use my bread machine
99. Buy a hammer – 3.25.06
100. Try a new ice cream flavor – tried “Rose Parade”, “Pumpkin” and “Eggnog” at the L.A. Farmer’s Market on 12.29.05.  The Rose Parade was good, the others bleech
101. Start a new 101 list on 6.23.08