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Things change, you know? People change ... our priorities change, our expectations change. So in the spirit of augmentation, I am revising my original 101 in 1001 list.
The main reason for this revision is that when I looked at the list objectively, I realized that I had WAY too much travel predicted. In the space of 1,001 days I would have had to travel to Ireland, New Zealand, Wales, New York, Iowa, North Carolina, the Everglades, the Southwest, someplace on the West Coast, and someplace on the East Coast. And that was just the places I was supposed to go; it doesn't even include random trips that I might want to make (to see friends and enemies, or whatnot).
That just isn't very realistic, so changes are needed. I'm only going to keep the travel items that have real personal significance to me. To that end, I'm dropping New Zealand (#8), North Carolina (#47), the Everglades (#76), and both coasts (#38 and #39). My mom and I are already talking about taking a long weekend and going to Iowa (#101), and I'll be visiting my relatives in New York this summer (#43). I've already crossed off the Southwest (#64), so now I just need to schedule a trip to Ireland and Wales. Hopefully I can get to both on the same trip.
I'm also dropping #12 (Smoke a clove cigarette to remind myself what a very nasty habit that was when I was 16) because it's just dumb, and #18 (Paint my bathroom), because I'll be moving soon.
I have crossed off task #82 (clean out my utility closet) and have scheduled to take care of numbers 3, 27, 36, and 52 in the next two weeks.
So here's the revised list, with new tasks substituted for the ones that I've dropped:
I've stolen this idea from Jessica, but I think that's okay because she stole it from someone else as well.
Here's the idea – make a list of 101 things you want to accomplish in 1001 days. That's almost three years, so, hey - no pressure to get things done immediately.
As Jessica's friend put it:
The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity 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).
I must say, it was much harder to come up with a list of 101 things I want to do than I expected it to be. Which really says something. I'm just not sure what.
But here goes!
(Once a task is accomplished, it will be made bold.)
1) Go to Ireland
2) Bake a two-layer yellow cake with chocolate frosting
3) Archive all of KR's papers/photos
4) Teach Nibbles to talk [On 1/10/05 I heard her say "Nee-Nee," which is my nickname for her.]
5) Track down R. and see what he's doing [He's still in Edmonton; found photos of him but can't find a phone number]
6) Dance with a cute boy who doesn't speak English
7) Run down a street barefoot, in the rain, with at least one witness
8) Finish a mini triathlon.
9) Burn something in effigy
10) Buy a Coach bag
11) Have Alex for a sleepover [May, 2005]
12) Run a 10-minute mile.
13) Go down two more sizes
14) Try cremé brulee (might not be compatible with #13)
15) Go snorkling
16) Send a letter to Dr. Drapkin about the Patient Navigator program, and to let him know how I'm doing
17) Visit with Trina [Trina came to town on 1/28/05 for a sleepover/Gin Blossoms concert]
18) Master the art of infrared photography
19) Create the website I've been thinking of creating but can't really talk about for fear that some lurker will abscond with my idea (which is really good)
20) Buy a new pair of eyeglasses
21) Visit my ancestral castle in Wales
22) Get a facial
23) Refrain from swearing under my breath at fellow motorists for one week [Accomplished from 2/1-2/8/05, on account of being too sick to get angry.]
24) Find a volunteer opportunity in the community [in the works]
25) Try guacamole [1/15/05 with Ian at Casa Tia and ... no.]
26) Get a job working with cancer patients in some way
27) Send a letter to Grandpa in January
28) Make pillows out of that suede skirt I have but don't like and refuse to wear
29) Finish writing my book
30) Climb a tree
31) Pedal for 60 continuous minutes at level 7 on the recumbent bicycle
32) Use my blender, which has been sitting in the box, unopened, for two years
33) Make salsa and/or gazpacho from scratch
34) Reorganize my filing system at home
35) Buy just feminine hygiene products (if I need them) without feeling compelled to also buy gum, magazines, or bottled water in an effort to distract the clerk from the fact that I'm really there to buy tampons [I'm not putting the date, because that would just be TMI]
36) Teach myself how to knit
37) Read through the entire Tivo owner's manual and perform all of the functions
38) Sit in on a Sunday service at some random church
39) Buy a piece of furniture from IKEA and assemble it myself
40) Go snowmobiling
41) Buy a piano and relearn everything I used to know
42) Mark my 10th year in remission from Hodgkin's disease
43) Visit relatives in New York
44) See the Kingston Trio in concert [March 31, 2005 at Ruth Eckerd Hall]
45) Go to a cat show
46) Try Yorkshire pudding
47) Go bowling
48) Stay awake for 48 consecutive hours
49) Start a savings account [March, 2006 to take advantage of Bank of America's Keep the Change promotion]
50) Watch the Colin Firth edition of Pride and Prejudice
51) Learn how to play pool. Really well. Well enough to brag about it.
52) Go to the Museum of Science and Industry over in Tampa [April, 2006 with Alex to see the BODIES exhibit]
53) Take my mom and my grandmother to lunch for Mother's Day [Took both to The Cheesecake Factory in May, 2005, along with my Aunt Lisa, her daughter Meagan, and my sister-in-law, Terri]
54) Travel by train
55) Learn to drive stick
56) Take a digital photography class of some sort
57) Go wireless on my home computer system so I can hook it up to my Tivo
58) Make a headboard for my bed [Purchased a headboard in July, 2005]
59) Read magazines as I receive them, or within 3 days, for one month
60) Avoid buying makeup or anything makeup-related for a month (hahahahaha) [accomplished between February 8-March 8, 2005, due to broken left elbow]
61) Same with clothes
62) Convert my site over to MySQL [June, 2005]
63) Convert the pages over to PHP
64) Drive on Route 66, in a convertible, with at least one friend [Accomplished several times during my roadtrip through Arizona with Trina in October, 2005]
65) And then stop for dinner at a roadside diner [On October 6th we had dinner at the Route 66 diner in Albuquerque, just like I said I would]
66) Visit a desert [Visited several during my roadtrip, including the Painted Desert national park near Holbrook, AZ]
67) Buy something from Tiffany's
68) Go the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary [With Alex in May, 2005]
69) Drink espresso [With Marcel at Macaroni Grill on April 24, 2006]
70) Read Catch-22
71) Learn to drink Diet Coke without making the squinched-up face [first accomplished at 11:32 a.m. on 12/10/04 while at work]
72) Go roller skating
73) Meet three more people that I talk to online
74) Figure out what color wine goes with what foods [12/01/04, with assistance from mheh; the basic answer is "Red wine with red meats, white wine with white meats," but in the end, drink what you like. Can do.]
75) Go through my Photoshop CS2 book and learn cool tricks
76) Go to the movies once a month for six months.
77) Throw a penny into a wishing well or fountain
78) Write my congressperson
79) First, find out who my congressperson is ["You are in Florida's 9th district and are represented by The Honorable Michael Bilirakis." – courtesy of the Write Your Representatives page]
80) Make a loaf of whole wheat bread from scratch without using a bread machine
81) Drive a speedboat
82) Clean out the utility closet and throw out all of the stuff that's been sitting in there for almost three years, which I clearly don't need [Accomplished on January 1, 2006]
83) Pay off the First USA credit card
84) Replace the ugly buttons on my brown jacket with prettier ones
85) Purchase combat boots
86) Swim 250 laps in my mom's pool without stopping
87) Come up with a kick-ass idea for a home-based business that I can start with friends, so none of us have to work for other people ever again
88) Spend an entire day in bed, just because
89) Meet someone's parents
90) Pick wildflowers [In Sedona on 10/02/05]
91) Discard every piece of clothing in my closet that I haven't worn in the last 12 months
92) Go through a fast-food drive through and pay for the order of the person in the car behind me
93) View Jonathan Rhys Meyers' entire body of work [Seen so far – Bend It Like Beckham, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, The Governess, Ride With the Devil, Velvet Goldmine, Titus, Alexander, The Magnificent Ambersons, Pulse, The Tesseract, Gormenghast, Tangled, The Lion In Winter, B. Monkey, Vanity Fair, Alexander]
94) See U2 in concert
95) Try edamame
96) Do 50 situps every day for one week
97) Wear something pink [I wore a pink shirt under a denim jacket on 1/31/05]
98) Sleep outside
99) Cook every meal at home for one month (this might be impossible)
100) Go blonde (or very dark brown) [Chose dark brown - August 1, 2005]
101) Visit my grandfather's gravesite in Spencer, Iowa
I live at 82756 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?
Posted by: Mike Flacklestein at August 4, 2006 05:34 AM