101 in 1001

I’m the kind of person who likes to keep busy.  I don’t do too well with sitting still, save for the odd weekend day when nothing is on the schedule and I binge on Gossip Girl.  Even then, I’m probably also on Pinterest.  Or Instagram.  But most of the time, I enjoy having something worth focusing on, even if it is a nagging task like cleaning up the files on my computer.

Introducing 101 in 1001.

I think Mackenzie was on to something when she started her list.  She’s in the midst of round two of a list of 101 tasks she wants to complete in 1001 days, which is the better part of three years.  Mine is a healthy mix of fun items, challenging items, and items that have to get done one way or another, so you might as well put them on a list so you can cross them off when you’re finished.  I plan to tackle it lackadaisically, which is just to say, I may get through everything, and I may not care to get through some things at all.  I like that this list will always be there, but I also may come up with something(s) better to do over the next three years.  We’ll see.

COOKING

• Learn to make my own iced coffee
• Host weekly dinners
• Find 10 slow cooker recipes I love
• Drink juice for a day
• Pay it forward at Starbucks
• Bake unbirthday cupcakes
• Make 10 dinners from Pinterest
• Make 10 breakfasts from Pinterest
• Make 10 sweets from Pinterest
• Send cookies to people just because
• Cook through a cookbook
• Make 10 recipes from my Grandma’s cookbook
• Make 10 cocktails
• Bake a 3-layer cake
• Eat dinner at 10 new places
• Eat organically for a month
• Attend an Outstanding in the Field dinner
• Host a punch bunch at church
• Try 10 new brunch places
• Make pasta from scratch
• Host Thanksgiving
• Make 5 ice cream recipes
• Memorize my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe

READING

• Read all of Jane Austen’s books
• Read the Little House series
• Write a story just for fun
• Read or donate every book I own
• Reread the 6th and 7th Harry Potters
• Donate to the DC Library
• Read a book a day again one summer
• Read all the Newbery winners
• Read Gone With the Wind
• Read the Bible.  The whole Bible.
• Finish a Saturday crossword
• Read a new Shakespeare play
• Spend the day reading at the library

LIVING

• Create an editorial calendar
• Get a prettier blog design
• Start a new blog series
• Hit 500 barre classes
• Send flowers for no reason
• Get a blowout
• Go car-less for a week
• Do another Write 60
• Have a phone-free weekend
• Host an Oscar party
• Scan all my old photos
• Organize my computer photos
• Send birthday cards to everyone on my planner list
• Volunteer 10 times in a year
• Blog every weekday for a year
• Start a new tradition with my husband
• Tip someone 100%
• Get both of my gmail inboxes down to 0
• Host a game night
• See a ballet
• See an opera
• Leave work at work for 10 weeks (one quarter)
• Make and give 5 mix CDs
• Keep Sundays free of all obligations
• Do something I’ve never done
• Find eye makeup I don’t hate
• Celebrate as much as possible

NESTING

• Finish decorating the first floor of our house
• Plant hydrangeas and peonies
• Marie Kondo my clothes
• DIY something in our house
• Put all of my scrapbook pages in sleeves and in order
• Make a wedding album
• Install built-ins in our house
• Finish our basement
• Develop a cleaning routine
• Sign up for the Craft Weekend wait list
• Buy a piano
• Decorate with fresh flowers every week for a year
• Create a patio
• Do another 100 Things Challenge
• Decorate for Christmas with more than 1 tree
• Make photo albums for the years I haven’t scrapbooked

TRAVELING

• Visit all the monuments in DC
• Visit 4 new states
• Fly somewhere first class
• Visit Nantucket again
• Visit Harry Potter World
• Take another road trip
• Live in New York City for a week (or longer!)
• Take a trip alone
• Go to the US Open
• Visit 3 Virginia wineries
• Go to an SEC football game
• Go skiing
• Visit 3 new baseball stadiums
• Go back to spring training
• Add another stamp to my passport

WATCHING

• Finish Gossip Girl
• Watch AFI’s 100 greatest films
• Watch all of Audrey Hepburn’s movies
• Watch all of Meryl Streep’s movies
• Watch all the best picture nominees for the Oscars one year

EVERYTHING

• Meet Oprah

(That fabulous print pictured above comes from Lara Casey.)