101 things in 1001 days

[mousme]

I've decided that I don't have enough stuff to do with all the oodles of spare time I have. So, starting June 1st, 2008, I am going to attempt to do 101 things in 1001 days. That's 101 goals to reach within about 2.75 years.

Here's the description from the website that started it all:

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).

My end date will be Sunday, February 27th, 2011.

Things accomplished will be struck through. Things in progress will be in italics. So, for posterity, here's my list:

Fibre Crafts
1- knit a sweater or similar garment
2- finish the hand-sewing project that's currently in a drawer
3- knit a pair of socks
4- knit a pair of mittens
5- learn how to knit cables
6- knit a blanket
7- knit a hat
8- knit a dish cloth
9- learn to crochet
10- learn to spin wool (suggested by elanya)
11- make homemade gifts for friends/family for one Christmas (suggested by elanya)
12- acquire a sewing machine

Cooking
13- make all my food from scratch for a month
14- cook 1 new (preferably exotic) dish every week for 1 month (suggested by joane15- cook lobster for guests
16- learn to cook 3 entirely new dishes

Gardening
17- make long-term calendar for vegetable garden
18- re-do landscaping in garden
19- plant lilacs in the garden
20- grow three fruit trees in a pot (suggested by merccom)
21- grow an indoor herb garden
22- extend the garden into fall and maybe winter if possible
23- get an indoor grow-light set from Lee Valley for seed starting
24- save all the seeds from the garden to re-start the following year


Culture
25- read 5 books outside my "comfort zone"
26- attend a sci fi convention
27- read 20 "classic" books
28- read a book in Italian
29- read a book in German
30- get 50 books signed by my favourite authors (6/50 so far)
31- take an ASL course
32- attend the Stratford Festival
33- go to the theatre three times (not including the Stratford Festival)
34- attend the ballet at least once
35- attend at least one alternative/fringe play

Friends & Social Activities
36- learn a new kind of dance
37- send a birthday card to all of my friends for a year
38- have people over to dinner once a month for a year (5/12 so far!)
39- meet 10 LJ-only friends IRL
40- host three barbecues over the summer
41- visit friends from out of town once a year
42- if not actively seeing someone, ask at least two girls out on a date

Spiritual Stuff
43- learn basics about Tarot
44- go back to Quaker Meeting
45- acquire a good working library of spiritual writings
46- set up a space in which to work on spiritual/religious things

Home

General
47- furnish & decorate new apartment
48- establish library
49- convert the cats from Indoor Cats to Semi-Outdoors Cats
50- put up photos of my friends & family

Organization
51- keep my apartment clean for a year (establish routines and stick to them no matter what)
52- put together a proper workshop for projects
53- organize CD collection & repair all broken CD cases
54- put up proper shelving/storage in the garden shed
55- put up proper shelving/storage in the basement

Pantry
56- organize a working pantry that can see me through 1 year in case of emergency
57- develop a tea collection
58- dry my own herbs
59- learn to dehydrate food
60- make mint or some other kind of extract
61 can or pickle the majority of the garden harvest
62- acquire a pressure canner
62- can one winter's worth of food
63- learn to make jam & preserves (suggested by elanya)
64- learn to make my own beer

Finances
65- establish a proper accounting system & keep track of all household expenditures
66- put aside $5,000
67- pay off current RRSP loan
68- put aside enough money for a car
69- go for one month without buying anything except groceries and a bus pass (not including monthly bills: the idea is not to spend money on Stuff)

Homesteading
70- acquire a reference library for homesteading & green living
71- make my own dossiers on homesteading & green living
72- get certified in first aid & CPR by St. John's Ambulance (or equivalent)
73- obtain PAL & learn to shoot
74- learn to identify 10 medicinal/edible plants in the wild
75- learn to make soap
76- learn to milk a goat
77- put together an emergency preparedness kit
78- put together a proper first aid kit
79- take one of Sharon Astyk's preparedness/food storage classes

Sports & Fitness
80- lose 35 lbs & maintain it
81- bike to work every day for a month
82- go to the gym 3 times a week for a year
83- run for 30 minutes without stopping
84- go snowshoeing at least three times in one winter
85- go ice-fishing at least once
86- go hiking at least once
87- climb a mountain

Work
88- write new operational procedures manual for work
89- complete all extra-curricular training at work
90- fill in gaps in my knowledge of the systems at work (PIP, PIRS, etc.)
91- correct English/French of all current procedures at work

Writing & related stuff
92- post my serials for one year running
93- make up a website (or have one made) for my writing
94- write a new novel
95- come up with three completely new writing projects
96- maintain a paper-letter correspondence with someone for six months
97- make 1 LJ post per day for a year (except when unable to access a computer due to travel or computer death)

Miscellaneous

98- reduce my ecological footprint by 50%
99- reduce my household waste & energy usage by 90%
100- set up bird feeders & learn to identify the birds that come
101- teach someone to do something they don't know (suggested by karine)


I will eventually get around to putting them in some kind of order, probably by category. Also, since I only have half a list right now, I am open to nifty suggestions. I won't take them all, but I promise to consider anything people suggest. :)

:::ETA:::

August 26th 2009: I have made some drastic revisions and reorganized the list to better reflect what I want to do these days. The list remains fundamentally the same, but has changed in structure a bit and has had a few items replaced with others.

Comments

I'm curious (like that's news)

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

What's the web site, if you don't mind my asking?

Re: I'm curious (like that's news)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

The website already has a domain name, and will be part of my writing project: http://www.midnightcrossroads.net

I'm going to try and learn SQL while I'm playing with it, and use it to post my writing, when I get back to it.