101 Tasks 1001 Days

101 Tasks 1001 Days…
Begin:
September 14th, 2004

Travel to
1. Mexico, if only for the day
2. Vegas, preferably with SLIS gang
3. Go camping
4. Austin (completed 11/13/05)
5. A fair or festival in nearby town (completed 10/28/05, attended the International Quilt Festival in Houston)
6. Outside the country again (completed 8/27/05-9/10/05 to Ireland and Scotland)

Cook
7. Bake a pie from scratch (completed 11/25/05>
8. Cook a whole fish (might have to come up with a replacement for this one….)
9. Bake a loaf of bread (completed 10/9/05)
10. Make chicken soup from scratch (completed 12/23 – 12/24/05)
11. Make pasta with homemade sauce
12. One recipe from each cookbook I own (started 10/01/04, see Cookbook blog post for details)
13. A cake (completed 10/31/06, made a Kitty Litter Cake)

Exercise
14. Ride Bike 1x week for at least 6 mo. (started 3/25/05, completed 9/30/05 more or less)
15. Exercise 3x week for at least 6 mo. (started 3/14/05, completed 9/30/05 more or less)
16. Ride with SA Wheelmen
17. Play 9 holes of golf
18. Do a charity walk

San Antonio
19. Visit and learn at the San Antonio Botanic Gardens (completed Oct 06)
20. Visit all the San Antonio Missions (completed 12/27/2004 and 12/28/2004 with my family)
21. Go to a Missions Baseball game (completed 4/9/05)
22. Place a bet at Retama
23. Go to SeaWorld (completed 10/17/04)
24. Go to San Antonio Zoo (completed 2/13/05)
25. Check out a Fiesta event other than Oyster Bake (completed 4/17/05, attended Fiesta Arts Fair)
26. Spend afternoon at San Antonio Museum of Art

Around the House
27. Paint office (completed 11/26/04)
28. Replace hinges (completed by Tim 4/15/06)
29. Create collage from Paris souvenirs
30. Paint garage walls
31. Clean and buff garage floor
32. Paint eaves of house (completed 1/2/06, painted entire outside of house!)
33. Reorganize bedroom closet (completed 4/19/05, painted and reorganized. May need some plastic tubs for seldom used wool sweaters still.)
34. Sharpen knives (completed 4/1/05)
35. Organize breakfast area desk drawers
36. Attack, simplify and purge filing cabinet (completed 6/4/05)
37. Check out how to change your name on the house
38. Frame picture of grandpa
39. Change name on cable bill (completed 7/3/06)
40. Play Bocce in our back yard
41. Repot plants (completed 9/18/04)
42. Frame Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park prints
43. Hang towel holder in bathroom (completed 12/22/2004)
44. Replace faucet in guest bathroom (completed 12/15/2004)
45. Hang b/w wedding photos

Purchase
46. New car (completed 8/9/05)
47. Spend Pottery Barn gift certificate (completed 9/18/04)
48. New sewing machine (completed 9/14/04)
49. Sheet pans (completed)
50. Something impulsively (completed 10/23/05, bought a Peeps Halloween purple cat plush pillow, that I can’t find a pic of online)
51. TV (completed 11/21/04)
52. Peridot ring (completed 8/4/06, in Birmingham, MI)
53. Earrings for yourself (completed 7/2/05)
54. An original piece of art
55. Multi-purpose black purse (completed 10/23/05)
56. Something at a flea market
57. Something at a garage sale (completed 3/19/05. Purchased two books, Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, and an old school Arts and Crafts guide for school teachers, for a buck)
58. an Atlas (completed 6/26/05)
59. Cycling shoes (completed 6/8/06 as a gift from my parents. Thanks!)

Read, Listen and Watch
60. Go see live music (completed 5/3/05, saw Razorlight and Muse)
61. Read To the Lighthouse by Woolf (completed 10/20/04)
62. Join a book group, even for one month (completed 3/15/06, attending at my local branch library)
63. Attend a book reading (completed 4/14/05, for Around the Bloc)
64. Read one sci-fi book (completed 6/30/06, Read Ender’s Game, recommended by Tim
65. Read something by Rushdie
66. Watch Casablanca (completed 10/01/04)
67. Read a book about Irish history

Learn, See and Do
68. Have a craft day at our house (completed 5/26/06, and it was so much fun!)
69. Volunteer at the Bexar County Humane Society
70. Meet at least 1 more neighbor
71. Take a knitting class (completed 6/15/05)
72. Start a retirement fund (completed 11/17/05 with a 457)
73. Touch up paint on Honda (completed 10/03/04)
74. Find 2 drinks to order out
75. Figure out what to do with pink pants
76. Go to a driving range across the street
77. Play tennis with Tim (completed 10/23/05, in the wind!)
78. Smack ‘em at the batting cages (completed 12/11/04)
79. Do some financial research
80. Send a care package to someone in need (completed 10/3/05, sent several smaller packages instead of one big one)
81. Attend an event at the library (completed 9/17/05 attending a knitting and crochet event)
82. Play putt-putt (completed 12/11/04) And I won! Beating out three other people.
83. Make something for Robert (completed 10/26/04)
84. Put book list on web (completed 9/20/04)
85. Put this list on the web (completed 9/16/04)
86. Update blog once a week for one month (completed late October 04)
87. No TV for one week
88. Learn 10 Russian phrases and how to count to 10 in Russian (complete 7/6/05)
89. Clean out clothes, donate old ones (completed 3/19/05)
90. Organize wedding materials, notebook and leftover stuff (completed 9/28/04)
91. Have wedding dress cleaned (completed 5/6/05)

Appointments
92. Visit the dentist
93. Go to dermatologist re: one red cheek (completed 5/11/05)
94. Oil change for Honda(completed 11/30/04)

Quilting
95. Sell a quilt (completed 12/18/05)
96. Finish 4 holiday gift quilts (Technically completed 12/07/04 with the washing, but the sewing has been completed for some time.)
97. Finish 3 quilts (tops are done)(completed 4/2/05)
98. Make a “horizons” quilt
99. Finish BOM quilt (completed 3/6/05)
100. Make a quilt for bedroom (completed 5/19/05)
101. 2 mini-quilts (completed 10/22/04)

@ the List

101 Tasks in 1001 days was an idea blatently stolen from other blogs that I have run across lately. As a total dork list maker, I loved the idea. The idea is to come up with 101 unambiguous tasks that could be reasonably completed in the allowed 1001 day time frame. Some are silly, some are serious, some are easy, while others are challenging. It was hard to come up with just the right mix, but after some consulting and discussions with family, Tim, Ashley and Regina the list is finished AND posted (see previous post for the actual list)! Its been fun so far, and I hope will continue to be fun. Or else I will have to add that to the list. 102. Have fun with list.

And I am so excited to have just chatted briefly with Amy who has begun her travels and is currently in Peru! I love instant messenger. I hope she continues to have a great time…we are thinking about her and wish her the best.