Oh Jesus, you guys. This really sucks. I was about 1/3 of my way through my list on the 101 in 1001 Project when Diary-X crashed and typical of me, I didn’t have a backup. So now I have to start again, from scratch. You better believe that I am going to have a back up list of this one, baby.
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Start Date: March 6, 2006
End Date: December 1, 2008
Entries will be bolded when completed
1) Go to Ireland, damnit. (BOO-YA! Completed November 17, 2008)
2) Start taking Irish Step Dancing lessons again (Completed summer 2007, although it wasn't with a teacher I particularly like)
3) Get into grad school (Completed 4/13/06)
4) Figure out a budget for myself and start living within it so I don’t go from paycheck to paycheck
5) Make my own zine, and distribute it
6) Buy a digital camera (Completed 9/4/06)
7) Buy a new 35mm (Completed 6/4/06 -- Thanks, Uncle Mike for the gift!)
8) Take a photography class (Completed 12/2/06 -- Photography Workshop with JJ Tiziou)
9) Redesign the Inis Nua website (again), this time in a fashion that both my brother and I like
10) Learn Dreamweaver or FrontPage so that I don’t have to code everything by hand or use Photoshop or Quark, which are not really web design programs
11) Make cool-looking artwork for the apartment (Completed 8/1/2008 -- I am counting the art I did for the show. Hey, it's hanging in my apartment now)
12) Host a semi fancy dinner party (Completed 4/16/06 -- I'm counting Easter Dinner because it was a holiday and semi fancy and did I mention that I made LAMB?)
13) Spend a night on my fire escape with wine, cheese, and a companion
14) Attend another Preston & Steve singles mixer, just to prove that my spirit wasn’t broken by Prince Fucking Charming.
15) Plant a garden (Completed 4/21/07, I finally planted my window box)
16) Attend another Irish festival
17) See Seamus Kennedy Live
18) See Flogging Molly live (again)
19) Spend a day in New York City with the Triplets
20) Become pen pals with someone overseas
21) Buy sexy lingerie and wear it. Look good while doing so. (Completed 8/26/08 -- Nothing too fancy, but it got the job done)
22) Join and begin regular attendance at a gym (Gym was joined 7/21/06, but regular attendance can't begin just yet because gym doesn't open until 8/17/06)
23) Publish something – be it writing or photography (Completed July 2, article in Ticket)
24) Submit something to Brevity.
25) Get an iPod (Completed 5/24/06 -- Mr. Nano, I love you)
26) Do the "Faces that I Love" photography project
27) Take Tammika to Bob and Barbara’s for Drag Night
28) Win a game of RISK while playing against Gary
29) Complete 2 crochet/knitting projects
30) Attend 2 more First Fridays (In process -- one down, one to go!)
31) Go to the Smithsonian
32) Visit my cousin Michael in Pittsburgh (Taken off the list because I was all ready to go, bags packed and everything, and he canceled on me. It's his turn to come to me.)
33) Go to California (Completed October 2007 -- San Fran with Stephanie!)
34) Visit Lisa Nicole
35) Visit Brian Fry (Completed 7/27/06)
36) Finish the 50 Books Project (Completed November 2007)
37) Host an MST3K night
38) Get contacts and get over my issues with touching my own eyeball
39) Get a CD player for my car No longer applicable/needed now that I have my iPod.
40) Make and sent a postcard to PostSecret (Completed 7/19/04 Shhhh...secret)
41) Go to at least 5 yard sales this summer (easiest item on this list, by far) (Completed 8/19/06, and then some)
42) Get a piercing in addition to my positively chaste one-hole-in-each-ear (Completed, 4/14/07)
43) Watch the Lord of the Rings Trilogy with my cousin Alex – this would be his first viewing
44) Introduce my cousin Nicky to Monty Python – He’s only six, but I can already tell he’s developing the perfect sense of humor for it.
45) Send something into Found
46) Take the portraits of the Peace Mission members
47) Upload all my photos to Flickr (Calling this done because it may not be all but it's totally at, like, 95% of my photos)
48) Learn how to ride a bike (I KNOW, I KNOW. I AM SO CLOSE IT’S RIDICULOUS) (Completed July 4, 2008)
49) Go on retreat with Kate
50) Cook the perfect fondue
51) And the perfect chilli
52) Make the first move on a boy I like.
53) Have a fling (Completed 8/24/08–present Go me!)
54) Visit the Sweet Candy Distro & Alternative Arts Center
55) Spend a weekend with Erin in Philly
56) Organize the 141 Reunion. Have people actually attend
57) Throw one more party of MLK caliber
58) Go to 4 movies in the Philadelphia Film Festival
59) Help Dave on one of his films
60) Take an art class of some sort (Completed Fall 2007, Visual Literacy Class)
61) Go camping (Completed 9/9/06)
62) Figure out my spirituality/religion/whatever
63) Protest for something I believe in
64) Volunteer to help a local liberal candidate running for office
65) Attend a Drinking Liberally meeting with Carol
66) Party with Amanda and Christina
67) Send care packages to Nick, Brian, and my John
68) Develop a writing schedule – writing that is outside this blog, that is.
69) See The Daily Show live (Completed 4/16/08)
70) Host another Lost viewing party
71) Figure out a way to get out of this rut that I’ve been living in for the past 6 months --- i.e. start taking risks and not over thinking shit so much
72) Learn Tarot better (I'm counting this as done. I've bought two books on the subject and now give myself semi-regular readings. I'm not quite ready to read other people yet, but I'm getting there)
73) Get a pedicure (Completed 8/2008)
74) Learn how to make an awesome round of the following drinks: mojito, mint julep, sangria (Mojito completed, even if Kelly didn't like them, I did)
75) Play blackjack at a casino
76) Get my own credit card and start using it responsibly (Completed October 2008)
77) Learn how to drive stick
78) Learn ASL
79) Host a brunch
80) Do Habitat for Humanity again
81) Go to Gay Bingo
82) Have another Office Bowling Night
83) Buy a new bed, one suitable for a grown up girl who may, or may not as my life is pointing out lately, have male visitors
84) Attend another one of Maria-Rita's gigs
85) Learn how to tango
86) Visit Longwood Gardens
87) Sing "Shoop" at Kareoke
88) Learn how to French braid my own hair
89) Go to the Ballet
90) Learn how to sew proficiently, well enough to make my own clothes
91) Spend a night clubbing in Philadelphia
92) Attend a costume/Halloween party in a costume that I really like (Counting this as completed on 10/21/06 -- I've always wanted to be Dorothy!)
93) Redecorate the living room
94) Figure out a way to keep Dill from peeing in that one corner (Solution: Move his litter box there. Although, technically, it was Kelly that did it. But we talked about it before hand. Whatever.)
95) Spend a week with my hair dyed a funky color – pink, blue, green whatever – corporate dress codes be damned
96) Attend shows other than my brother’s at the next Fringe/Live Arts show (Completed 2007 Fringe Fest)
97) Figure out a plan for my laundry and stick with it, so it doesn’t pile up again
98) Clean my car (Completed in October, at some point. Of course, it's dirty again now, but what can you do?)
99) Fix the bumper on my car
100) Get new fish for the aquarium at work (Completed, 1/3/08)
101) See Stella, or whatever project those boys think of next when it comes to town. (Completed 5/13/06, sort of. I saw 1/3 of the Stella Trio when Michael Showalter came to town with Eugene Merman. I am totally counting this, although if Stella should tour again I will see that again, no doubt)
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Start Date: March 6, 2006
End Date: December 1, 2008
Entries will be bolded when completed
1) Go to Ireland, damnit. (BOO-YA! Completed November 17, 2008)
2) Start taking Irish Step Dancing lessons again (Completed summer 2007, although it wasn't with a teacher I particularly like)
3) Get into grad school (Completed 4/13/06)
4) Figure out a budget for myself and start living within it so I don’t go from paycheck to paycheck
5) Make my own zine, and distribute it
6) Buy a digital camera (Completed 9/4/06)
7) Buy a new 35mm (Completed 6/4/06 -- Thanks, Uncle Mike for the gift!)
8) Take a photography class (Completed 12/2/06 -- Photography Workshop with JJ Tiziou)
9) Redesign the Inis Nua website (again), this time in a fashion that both my brother and I like
10) Learn Dreamweaver or FrontPage so that I don’t have to code everything by hand or use Photoshop or Quark, which are not really web design programs
11) Make cool-looking artwork for the apartment (Completed 8/1/2008 -- I am counting the art I did for the show. Hey, it's hanging in my apartment now)
12) Host a semi fancy dinner party (Completed 4/16/06 -- I'm counting Easter Dinner because it was a holiday and semi fancy and did I mention that I made LAMB?)
13) Spend a night on my fire escape with wine, cheese, and a companion
14) Attend another Preston & Steve singles mixer, just to prove that my spirit wasn’t broken by Prince Fucking Charming.
15) Plant a garden (Completed 4/21/07, I finally planted my window box)
16) Attend another Irish festival
17) See Seamus Kennedy Live
18) See Flogging Molly live (again)
19) Spend a day in New York City with the Triplets
20) Become pen pals with someone overseas
21) Buy sexy lingerie and wear it. Look good while doing so. (Completed 8/26/08 -- Nothing too fancy, but it got the job done)
22) Join and begin regular attendance at a gym (Gym was joined 7/21/06, but regular attendance can't begin just yet because gym doesn't open until 8/17/06)
23) Publish something – be it writing or photography (Completed July 2, article in Ticket)
24) Submit something to Brevity.
25) Get an iPod (Completed 5/24/06 -- Mr. Nano, I love you)
26) Do the "Faces that I Love" photography project
27) Take Tammika to Bob and Barbara’s for Drag Night
28) Win a game of RISK while playing against Gary
29) Complete 2 crochet/knitting projects
30) Attend 2 more First Fridays (In process -- one down, one to go!)
31) Go to the Smithsonian
33) Go to California (Completed October 2007 -- San Fran with Stephanie!)
34) Visit Lisa Nicole
35) Visit Brian Fry (Completed 7/27/06)
36) Finish the 50 Books Project (Completed November 2007)
37) Host an MST3K night
38) Get contacts and get over my issues with touching my own eyeball
40) Make and sent a postcard to PostSecret (Completed 7/19/04 Shhhh...secret)
41) Go to at least 5 yard sales this summer (easiest item on this list, by far) (Completed 8/19/06, and then some)
42) Get a piercing in addition to my positively chaste one-hole-in-each-ear (Completed, 4/14/07)
43) Watch the Lord of the Rings Trilogy with my cousin Alex – this would be his first viewing
44) Introduce my cousin Nicky to Monty Python – He’s only six, but I can already tell he’s developing the perfect sense of humor for it.
45) Send something into Found
46) Take the portraits of the Peace Mission members
47) Upload all my photos to Flickr (Calling this done because it may not be all but it's totally at, like, 95% of my photos)
48) Learn how to ride a bike (I KNOW, I KNOW. I AM SO CLOSE IT’S RIDICULOUS) (Completed July 4, 2008)
49) Go on retreat with Kate
50) Cook the perfect fondue
51) And the perfect chilli
52) Make the first move on a boy I like.
53) Have a fling (Completed 8/24/08–present Go me!)
54) Visit the Sweet Candy Distro & Alternative Arts Center
55) Spend a weekend with Erin in Philly
56) Organize the 141 Reunion. Have people actually attend
57) Throw one more party of MLK caliber
58) Go to 4 movies in the Philadelphia Film Festival
59) Help Dave on one of his films
60) Take an art class of some sort (Completed Fall 2007, Visual Literacy Class)
61) Go camping (Completed 9/9/06)
62) Figure out my spirituality/religion/whatever
63) Protest for something I believe in
64) Volunteer to help a local liberal candidate running for office
65) Attend a Drinking Liberally meeting with Carol
66) Party with Amanda and Christina
67) Send care packages to Nick, Brian, and my John
68) Develop a writing schedule – writing that is outside this blog, that is.
69) See The Daily Show live (Completed 4/16/08)
70) Host another Lost viewing party
71) Figure out a way to get out of this rut that I’ve been living in for the past 6 months --- i.e. start taking risks and not over thinking shit so much
72) Learn Tarot better (I'm counting this as done. I've bought two books on the subject and now give myself semi-regular readings. I'm not quite ready to read other people yet, but I'm getting there)
73) Get a pedicure (Completed 8/2008)
74) Learn how to make an awesome round of the following drinks: mojito, mint julep, sangria (Mojito completed, even if Kelly didn't like them, I did)
75) Play blackjack at a casino
76) Get my own credit card and start using it responsibly (Completed October 2008)
77) Learn how to drive stick
78) Learn ASL
79) Host a brunch
80) Do Habitat for Humanity again
81) Go to Gay Bingo
82) Have another Office Bowling Night
83) Buy a new bed, one suitable for a grown up girl who may, or may not as my life is pointing out lately, have male visitors
84) Attend another one of Maria-Rita's gigs
85) Learn how to tango
86) Visit Longwood Gardens
87) Sing "Shoop" at Kareoke
88) Learn how to French braid my own hair
89) Go to the Ballet
90) Learn how to sew proficiently, well enough to make my own clothes
91) Spend a night clubbing in Philadelphia
92) Attend a costume/Halloween party in a costume that I really like (Counting this as completed on 10/21/06 -- I've always wanted to be Dorothy!)
93) Redecorate the living room
94) Figure out a way to keep Dill from peeing in that one corner (Solution: Move his litter box there. Although, technically, it was Kelly that did it. But we talked about it before hand. Whatever.)
95) Spend a week with my hair dyed a funky color – pink, blue, green whatever – corporate dress codes be damned
96) Attend shows other than my brother’s at the next Fringe/Live Arts show (Completed 2007 Fringe Fest)
97) Figure out a plan for my laundry and stick with it, so it doesn’t pile up again
98) Clean my car (Completed in October, at some point. Of course, it's dirty again now, but what can you do?)
99) Fix the bumper on my car
100) Get new fish for the aquarium at work (Completed, 1/3/08)
101) See Stella, or whatever project those boys think of next when it comes to town. (Completed 5/13/06, sort of. I saw 1/3 of the Stella Trio when Michael Showalter came to town with Eugene Merman. I am totally counting this, although if Stella should tour again I will see that again, no doubt)
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