An Update

 

{mine.}

[For those who don't know, the link is at the top toward the left. The point of the list is to set 101 goals you'll complete in 1001 days.]

I could make the "I've been busy!" excuses (I have been), or insist that "I'm trying, really!" (I haven't been). But really, recently, I've just kind of forgotten about my 101 in 1001 list.

I know, I know. SHAME.

But, hey, here's how I'm doing so far:

Start date: 09/09/09

Finish date: 06/07/12

Not Yet Started
In Progress
Completed

Total (46/101) <--Not too shabby. I have a year and some change left.

Travel (6/14)
1 Go to China

2 See Boston again

3 Take a road trip

4 See Niagara Falls

5 Go to Austin twice

6 Go to D.C.

7 Go to Canada

8 Keep a travel journal

9 Visit Travis in Lubbock

11 Take a spontaneous day trip

12 Rent a cabin in the mountains and go snowboarding

13 Go fishing

14 Send five people postcards from a trip

Job/Education (4/10)
15 Study abroad
16 Work my butt off to kind of understand Mandarin Chinese
17 Take the LSAT

18 Take a fun class, just for kicks

19 French 101
20 Apply to work at Sky Ranch/another Christian camp

21 Graduate from Texas A&M

22 Lead a Bible study

23 Apply for graduate school

24 Finish the list of 50 banned books (29/50)

Health/Wellness (6/19)
25 Lose 10 pounds
26 Go one week without cheese
27 Spend one week as a vegan

28 Drink only water for one week

29 Start and finish out a yoga class

30 Workout five times a week for six weeks

31 Go for a walk 20 times (9/20)

32 Give up coffee for 2 weeks (separate from #29)

33 Do 100 sit-ups, 3 times a week, for six weeks

34 Donate blood at least twice. (2/2)

35 Do 15 pushups a night for two months

36 Do 20 pushups a day for two months

37 Do 25 pushups a day for two months
38 Master a basic jump in snowboarding

39 Play tennis once

40 5K

41 Bike everywhere for a week

42 Go kayaking

43 Try skiing

44 Eat ice cream and don’t feel guilty afterward

Blog (3/3)
45 Get a blog makeover
46 Blog every day for one month

47 Meet a blog/internet friend in real life

Writing/Photography/Hobbies (3/7)
48 Find a new hobby
49 Write every day for a month

50 Finish a story!

51 Send said story to publishers
52 Enter a photography contest

53 Buy a Canon EOS Rebel XSi (or better).

54 Complete a Wreck This Journal

Personal/Random. (22/39)

55 Fill a stack of post-its with inspirational messages and leave them somewhere

56 Donate to Pantene Pro-V Beautiful Lengths

57 For everything I don’t do, donate $1.

58 Go to a concert.

59 Call Mom every day for a month

60 Cook a fancy meal

61 Clean out my closet and give away clothes

62 Attend a music festival

63 Attend an art festival

64 Go horseback riding

65 Go on a picnic

66 Fall in love.

67 Suck it up and get my eyebrows waxed

68 Get at least one tattoo

69 Spend at least six months single

70 Donate $150 to a non-profit

71 Send off one friend (of many) joining the military

72 Send someone flowers totally randomly
73 Volunteer at an elementary school

74 Plant a mini-garden.
75 Plant a tree

76 Get a bike

77 Go one week without making a list

78 Watch the sunrise with someone important
79 Live alone.

80 Sing karaoke.

81 Buy something at a flea market

82 Send 5 secrets to Post Secret (1/5)

83 Watch 100 new movies (73/100)

84 Listen to 30 songs produced before 1990 (Beatles don’t count) (30/30)

85 Write my future self a letter (via futureme.org)

86 Watch the sunset

87 Project 365

88 Sit by a window in a café on a busy street and people-watch for a whole day

89 Buy another pair of TOMS

90 Start and finish an Ayn Rand book

91 Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice on freerice.com (11,000/1,000,000)

92 Take pictures in a photobooth

93 On the last day, read my letter from #85

94 Do some kind of sky-diving/bungee-jumping type thing

Grown-up things (2/7)

95 Pay rent early every month for a year

96 Write my will

97 Buy more professional clothes

98 Buy nothing but food for two weeks

99 Pay off loan

100 Learn how to cook Thanksgiving dinner from start to finish

101 Try 20 new recipes (10/20)

 

I'll be posting pictures of the most recent recipe (#101) I've tried soon (it's amazingly delicious), as well as the garden I'll plant as soon as I have some dirt (#74). 

I changed "become fluent in Mandarin Chinese" to "work my butt off to kind of understand Mandarin Chinese" because, let's face it, this language is almost impossibly hard and I'd just like to get to a point where I can function in China without DYING (#16). 

Project 365 (#87) is going well.

I leave to study abroad in China on May 20 (#1 and #15) (alkdjfa;lsdkjf ;dlkj). I'll be buying a bike (#76) and riding it every where while I'm there (#41).

I'm giving up coffee (#32) starting tomorrow (isn't that what I always say)? 

And once I have le boy's birthday present figured out, I'll do #98. 

I'm planning on entering National Geographic's photo contest this coming August (#52). 

I'm officially graduating from Texas A&M (#21) next December (barring all catastrophes)! (!!!) And that means applying for graduate school pretty soon (#23). (!!!!!)

 

Being honest, I've changed and adapted some things over time. At one point, something about learning to play guitar was on there. I've decided to be honest with myself and just give the heck up on that. My hands are too small, and as much as I like listening to music I'm really not good at playing it. I also keep changing the places I want to visit (Seattle...D.C....Knoxville...Paris...). We'll see if D.C. is where I want to go now. I also changed 1/2 marathon to a 5K because, frankly, my wimpy knee will never allow me to run that far. Which I'm okay with. 

I don't think I learn to cook all of Thanksgiving dinner, reading Ayn Rand feels a little like low-grade torture to me, and I'm not sure how sending a story to publishers is going to go since I haven't touched a piece of writing in several months. But, this was an experiment. I'm not looking at the ones I don't complete as failures, I'm looking at them as opportunities, choices I had but didn't feel the need to make. 

Are any of you doing a 101 in 1001 challenge?