Start date: September 23, 2009
End date: June 21, 2012
Key: bold = finished
italics = in progress
1. Graduate with my masters
2. Go to Australia
3. Buy a house
4. Get a dog
5. Go to a Bruins game
6. Attempt to live off the grid
7. Finish the Wade Hall 19th century photographic type collection
8. Get pregnant
9. Get a job as a YA librarian
10. Cook a Thanksgiving dinner
11. Go to Europe with Geoff
12. Go one week without soda
13. Brush my teeth twice a day for 2 weeks
14. Finish reading Les Miserables
15. Get out of debt
16. Find and join a beer club at a restaurant
17. Own all Harry Potter books in hardcover (American), paperback (British) and audio (burned discs don’t count)
18. Donate blood 4 times
19. Ride a horse on a beach
20. Swim with dolphins
21. Host a classy cocktail party
22. Go one week without spending money
23. Go to the Harry Potter theme park
24. Get a thimble for every state I’ve lived in (Washington, Alabama, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts)
25. Send Christmas cards every year (2009, 2010, 2011)
26. Lose 50 pounds
27. Have a vegetable garden
28. Buy produce only from a farmer’s market (or my own garden) for one month
29. Watch a meteor shower
30. Read 101 books (8/101)
31. Keep track of the books I read
32. Play the piano again
33. Play the piano in church
34. Switch to all organic lip balm
35. Make everyone’s Christmas presents for one Christmas
36. Cook dinner every night for a week
37. Quit Facebook
38. Finish and frame my dragon cross stitch
39. Finish and frame Geoff's WoW cross stitch
40. Pay off my car completely
41. Use only reusable cups when going to Starbucks for one month.
42. Send at least 5 postcards in Postcrossing. If feeling ambitious, send 10. (10/10)
43. Send all wedding thank you cards out by April 2, 2010
44. Try 5 new recipes (5/5)
45. Get rid of 50 things I don't need (14/50)
46. No eating out for a week (all meals)
47. See Blueman Group
48. Go on a hike
49. Update Livejournal every day for a week
50. Plant 10 trees (doesn't have to be in my backyard, can be donated) (0/10)
51. Make a blog for this list
52. Photograph one spot during all 4 seasons (0/4)
53. Give 5 “just because” gifts. None of them can be to Geoff (0/5)
54. See the Northern Lights
55. Go to Vancouver
56. Donate $2 for every finished item to Pancan.org
57. Sponsor another child
58. "Unplug" for a day once a month for 6 months (doesn't have to be consecutive). No TV, computer or cell phone. Camping doesn't count. (0/6)
59. Install low-flow showerheads
60. Take a pottery class
61. Volunteer with a youth group again
62. Cut down my trash and recycle everything possible
63. Bring flowers to Rob's grave
64. Document with pictures as many of these goals as possible
65. Visit all 50 states (35/50)
66. Camp at Yellowstone National Park
67. Go on a cruise
68. Get a new digital camera
69. Join a YALSA committee
70. Visit a brewery
71. Learn to drive a stick shift
72. Exercise 3 times a week for 4 months (0/4)
73. Inspire 5 people to create their own lists (2/5)
74. Have a t-shirt quilt made for myself
75. Subscribe to 2 magazines for a year
76. Buy 5 more BPAL perfume oils (0/5)
77. Participate in a BPAL swap
78. Get something posted on Postsecret
79. Color every page in my Sesame Street coloring book
80. Make a list of 101 things that make me happy
81. Buy only used books for one year (March 2010-March 2011) (Gifts don't count)
82. Journal twice a week for 1 month (0/8)
83. Go to 2 plays or musicals (0/2)
84. Enter a cross stitch piece in a craft show
85. File all paperwork in a system that works for Geoff and I
86. Donate unwanted stuffed animals in good condition to a local hospital
87. Eat at 5 restaurants with Geoff that neither of us have been to (0/5)
88. Buy flowers for the table once a month for 6 months (0/6)
89. Find and buy a blanket that is the Crook family tartan
90 Go fishing and eat the fish I catch for dinner
91. Find and join a couples small group with Geoff
92. Go to church in Tuscaloosa at least 5 times
93. Learn to whistle with 2 fingers
94. Bake a layered cake
95. Have a (romantic) candle-lit dinner
96. Organize a tea
97. Go on a picnic
98. Hang dry my clothes for a month
99. Create a new list by the time this one is finished
100. Finish making this list
101. Go all 1001 days without giving up
