Outlandish Notions

101 Things in 1001 Days

Start: January 6, 2007       End: October 3, 2009

Family
1) Start a new infertility journal
2) Ask to add the IF journal to Julie’s and Manuela’s lists
3) Have a 5 year anniversary portrait sitting with Manly
4) Have a date night with Manly once a month (or more)
5) Take a week-long vacation somewhere outside of AL, just the two of us
6) Purchase all of the wedding photos my mother asked for as a gift to her
7) Get pregnant Schedule a professional massage for Manly
9) Have a professional family portrait done
10) Take a trip to Detroit to see family
11) Write out a legal will
12) Write out a living will
13) Clean out my bedroom at my parents’ house of everything I want to keep
14) Get updated addresses, phone numbers, and emails for all family members

Crafty
15) Learn to knit scarves
16) Knit one complete sweater
17) Complete “Mother & Child” cross-stitch
1 Make one handbag
19) Learn calligraphy
20) Make a set of decoupage Easter eggs
21) Organize craft supplies into categories
22) Start a “craft inspiration” notebook/binder
23) Sew a Christmas tree skirt
24) Find some use for all of the birthday, Christmas, and wedding cards I have saved
25) Make a baby blanket for each of my friends who gets pregnant
26) Make a set of homemade Christmas ornaments for MIL
27) Take a pottery class
2 Complete a blackwork project
29) Sew a skirt from a pattern

Professional/Career
30) Become licensed PE
31) Finish MSE
32) Finish classes for PhD
33) Have diploma re-matted so that the gold mat fits the paper
34) Read 5 “professional” books not required for classes
o Fifth Discipline
o Blink
o Freakonomics
o The World Is Flat
o The Tipping Point
0 Good to Great
35) Sort through school notes from undergrad - purge those not needed any more
36) Buy a good suit that fits
37) Write a letter of support for a political issue to my senator or representative

Health
3 Run a mile in 10 minutes
39) Run a 5k race
40) Exercise for 30 minutes, 3x per week
41) Wear size 8 jeans comfortably
42) Find a personal trainer
43) Go to the dentist
44) Spend a day at the spa

Friends
45) Send birthday cards to all of my friends on time
46) Call each of the girls once a month
47) Invite someone to dinner at my house once a month
4 Host a game night
49) Re-connect with 5 friends from my past
50) Send each angel a card explaining why I’m glad she’s my friend

Personal Development
51) Make a “treasure map” in 2007
52) Make a “treasure map” in 2008
53) Make a “treasure map” in 2009
54) Use all of my vacation days in 2007
55) Start an “inspiration quotes/saying/music” journal or notebook
56) Read 10 of the Top 100 Banned Books of the 20th Century
o Catcher in the Rye
o A Clockwork Orange
o Beloved
o The Grapes of Wrath
o The Color Purple
o 1984
o Lolita
o Catch-22
o Brave New World
o Slaughterhouse Five
o For Whom the Bell Tolls
o Rabbit, Run
o Tropic of Cancer
o Women In Love
o One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
o All the King’s Men
o Song of Solomon
57) Donate blood 3 times
5 Find a local organization to begin volunteering with
59) Watch 10 of the AFI Top 100 Movies that I haven’t already seen
o A Clockwork Orange
o Citizen Kane
o Casablanca
o Apocalypse Now
o American Graffiti
o 2001: A Space Odyssey
o Doctor Zhivago
o A Streetcar Named Desire
o The Manchurian Candidate
o Wuthering Heights

60) Buy a nice piece of jewelry for myself
61) Compile all of the poems that I’ve loved over the years into a single place so I can find them.
62) Open a 403(b) account
63) Build $1000 emergency fund
64) Get a copy of my credit report and close anything that’s still open that I don’t use
65) Participate in NaNoBloMo

Home
66) Scan all of my photographs into digital format
67) Learn what all of the settings on the new SLR will do
6 Make a display of family photos with the names and dates of pictures written in calligraphy on the mats
69) Frame posters in dining room
70) Add shelves to office closet
71) Kilz and paint the laundry room
72) Create a better filing system for bills and receipts
73) Put cut and decorative glass on display
74) Build a piece of furniture
75) Plant flowers from seeds
76) Buy or build enough bookshelves to hold all my books neatly
77) Donate unworn clothes and shoes
7 Purge file cabinet and shred all old personal information
79) Order a print of a digital photograph from an online developer
80) Buy an original piece of art

Kitchen
81) Test a new recipe once a week
82) Type up all of the handwritten recipes in my binder
83) Bake a loaf of bread from scratch
84) Create one recipe of my very own
85) Find a red wine that I enjoy
86) Cook one entrée from each cookbook that I already own

Get Out of the House
87) Go to the Chattanooga aquarium and take the ocean tour
8 Take one picture each week of something I think is beautiful
89) Visit the botanical garden
90) Visit the planetarium
91) Attend a wine tasting
92) Take a walking tour of the historic downtown district
93) Spend an afternoon at the park people-watching
94) Take a nap in the hammock in the back yard
95) See a ballet
96) Go ice skating
97) Go roller skating
9 Go to the movies alone
99) Drink coffee and watch the sunrise
100) Visit a zoo
101) Visit an art museum