Touriste D'une Vie: February 2009

The List: 101 Things to Do in 1,001 Days

Items that have yet to be started
Items in progress
Completed items

1) Pass my French Praxis
2) Pass the PLT
3) Learn how to salsa dance
4) Finish my giant quilt
5) Design and sew 3 complete outfits (0/3)
6) Own a pair of day shoes in every color (minus orange since it's really a funny color for shoes) (4/10 colors - red, pink, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, brown, bone/ivory)
7) Travel internationally at least twice (0/2)
8) Be admitted into grad school for linguistics
9) Submit my fiction or poetry at least 250 times (8/250)
10) Watch every single episode of Hogan’s Heroes (15/27 DVDs)
11) Review and study my Japanese to a third-semester level
12) Finish at least one self-study book in Arabic (perhaps Arabic for Dummies?)
13) Learn the Hindi alphabet
14) Take all French classes required to graduate
15) Take a class in Amharic and finish the textbook
16) Cook/eat 101 things I’ve never had before (6/101)
17) Convert my garden to 100% heirloom and 100% organic
18) Learn how to save seeds from the garden and start seed swaps
19) Learn how to ice skate well enough that I can circle the rink without holding onto anything or falling over
20) Visit Chicago
21) Visit NYC
22) Camp in the backcountry at 11 Mile Reservoir
23) Save $3,000 for my future house (0.25/3,000)
24) Read every Hugo winning novel (6/55)
25) Read every Nebula winning novel (5/54)
26) Practice until I can run 8 miles without stopping (0/8 miles)
27) Participate in at least two charity runs (0/2)
28) Write 1,725,000 words of original fiction (3,146/1,725,000)
29) Practice my archery at least once a week for a year (0/52)
30) Go fishing at least 5 times (0/5)
31) Design and make a RenFest costume
32) Make a bow
33) Finish 3 knitting projects (0/3)
34) Finish 5 cross-stitch projects (0/5)
35) Beat Tale of Genji and FFX
36) Learn some basic German, including at least three verbs (0/3 verbs)
37) Learn 101 kanji and their Japanese/Chinese readings (0/101)
38) Get my language website up and running with at least 5 language specific lesson pages (0/5)
39) Organize, maintain, and expand my library
40) Hit at least one 50k day
41) Get my hair done at least once every four months (1/9)
42) Start a container herb garden
43) Grow an apple tree from seed
44) Participate in Post Crossing
45) Take my medicine every day for a month(0/31)
46) Make something from my Jam, Jellies, and Preserves cookbook
47) Visit a cave
48) Take 101 pictures of me and my boyfriend (0/101)
49) Read Tale of Genji
50) Find the local U-Picks and visit them at least once
51) Learn how to make hard candy
52) Learn to identify and use at least three medicinal herbs (0/3)
53) Learn how to can veggies from the garden
54) Make tomato sauce from garden tomatoes
55) Make bread from scratch at least five times (0/5)
56) Make pizza instead of getting delivery
57) Adopt at least one bird from the World Bird Sanctuary
58) Go to RenFest every year (0/3)
59) Make at least one scarf for Knit Your Bit
60) Learn how to read a knitting pattern
61) Learn how to purl
62) Learn how to make something cool from origami
63) Finish two Punto in Aria projects (0/2)
64) Purge my wardrobe of everything that doesn't fit my body or my life.
65) Buy flowers just for me
66) Visit granddad’s grave at least once a year (1/3)
67) Journal daily for at least a year (0/365)
68) Visit the zoo
69) Give three just-because gifts (0/3)
70) Give $20 or more to a random person
71) Practice chess once a week for at least a year (0/52)
72) Buy something at a garage sale
73) Take my boyfriend to see the ocean
74) Visit the farmer’s market
75) Make a homemade dinner every night for two weeks (0/14)
76) Go antiquing
77) See the redwoods
78) Learn to identify three species of trees (0/3)
79) Own a cast-iron skillet
80) Buy something pretty for the sake of it
81) Watch all the LotR movies back to back to back
82) Finish at least one embroidery project
83) Get my new filing cabinet set up (and maintain it)
84) Grow snapdragons from seed
85) Submit to onesentence.org
86) Sell something I made online (etsy, perhaps?)
87) Paint my nails once every month or so (2/33)
88) Take my boyfriend on an actual date – not sitting at home watching TV – at least once a month (3/33)
89) Visit the Nelson-Atkins museum
90) Visit the Louvre
91) Go to the Shakespeare Festival
92) Go on a Plaza carriage ride during the holidays (at night, while the lights are on)
93) Climb a tree
94) Read Les Misérables and/or watch it again
95) Buy at least two new hats, just because I love them. (2/2)
96) Do the laundry on a halfway regular basis (once a week, every week by the end of the 1,001 days)
97) Go on a hike
98) Make fresh salsa from tomatoes I grew
99) Bake a killer spice cake from scratch
100) Learn how to make spaetzle
101) Eat breakfast at home instead of in the car for a whole month (0/30-31 days)

Sunday, February 1, 2009

16) Try 101 new foods

Mark one for number 16! One of my dad's co-workers gave us this recipe for a chicken and rice dish from Peru. It turned out dry and a little bland, but we're pretty sure we didn't use enough spices - the recipe didn't have any measurements. For example, we had to add "a ton of yellow chili powder". Live and learn, right?

Today is February 1st! Which, of course, marks the passing of the first month of my adventure. Two goals down and a 1.98% completion rate, with many, many more in progress? Fantastic! I'm looking forward to see what Month 2 will bring to the table :)

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

16) Try 101 new foods