The List!

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).

Why 1001 Days? Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.
Official Start: October 9, 2009
Finish:July 6, 2012 (If I started yesterday the end date would have been my birthday 2012!)

I don't feel like splitting my list into catergories, so here are my 101 things in the order that they came to me.

Coding Key:
To be done
In progress
Completed

1) Sell some of my artwork
2) Take a cooking class with Jordan
3) Take a dance class with Jordan
4) Finish my BA
5) Wear red lipstick on a night on the town
6) Go to the symphony
7) Plan a girls getaway
8) Go to a Nuriebong
9) Volunteer at a charity
10) Take up Photography
11) Buy and wear a bikini
12) Host a meal for my family
13) Go Apple Picking
14) Go for a hike in the gatineaus
15) Go tobogganing
16) Go to a waterpark
17) Buy myself a coach bag
18) Have a weekend away with Jordan
19) Run a 5k
20) Plant a tree
21) Sell stuff I don’t use on Kijiji or craigslist
22) Save at least 500.00 a month (for house or wedding) Also use this money to pay off existing debts.
23) Get a car
24) Learn to drive
25) Go to a movie with Jordan that I don’t want to see
26) Make a Christmas gift for ?
27) Buy a week’s worth of produce at the Byward Market
28) Go to a movie at the Mayfair
29) Take Stuart and Lesley out for their birthdays
30) Go out for an evening with Alex
31) Don’t buy any makeup for a month (including lipgloss)
32) Watch 10 movies from the 500 must see movies book
33) Read 10 books from the 500 must read books book
34) Take a picture of foliage each month of a year and make a photo collage to hang
35) Start a joint account with Jordan to plan for our future
36) Start and complete a cross stitch project
37) Attain my goal weight
38) Try eggplant
39) Go to New York around Christmas
40) Move downtown
41) Go out for Halloween
42) Start pen-palling with Auntie Paula again
43) Have a spa treatment done
44) Visit Heather in Toronto
45) Decorate the walls in my apartment
46) Have a meal and communicate with the staff in French
47) Go camping
48) Buy a piece of local art
49) Go on a weeklong vacation (Honeymoon doesn’t count)
51) Host a New Years party
52) Send out Christmas cards
53) Get contacts again
54) Donate a toy to Toy Mountain
55) Do a huge jigsaw puzzle
56) Have a physical each year (I’m really bad at going to the dr.)
57) Try go-karting
58) Learn to crochet
59) Try Geocaching
60) Go for a walk in the rain
61) Complete a video game
62) Try teeth whitening strips
63) Learn French for work (I have a teach yourself French set…I just never did it)
64) Download music, update and sort my Itunes
65) Skate on the Canal
66) Go to Winterlude
67) Go to all the Major Museums in Ottawa
Went to Museum of Civilization today
68) Beat Mom at Scrabble
69) Watch all the Audrey Hepburn movies I haven’t seen yet
70) See an IMAX
71) See a movie in 3D
72) Have an Updated portrait of Jordan and I done
73) Try Salsa dancing
74) Try a new hair colour (after the wedding!)
75) Visit Carla in Toronto by myself
76) Surprise ! (just in case the person reads this!)
77) Do the Ottawa boat cruise
78) Have dinner in a fancy restaurant….by fancy I mean expensive. 
79) Start writing more either poetry or prose. Not for anyone else, just to get it out
80) Eat a big mac and fries!
81)Donate 10 dollars for any goal I don’t achieve. Donate 50 to a charity even if I complete them all.
82) Try and learn how to make Jordan’s favourite food
83) Try and do one really nice thing for Jordan a month
October 09: bought tickets to Star Wars symphony
84) Give change to people that ask once in a while rather than ignoring them.
85) Help someone in line at a store or on the bus that doesn’t have enough change.
86) Donate to the food drives in my office and my building
87) Get a pedicure twice a year
88) Go to 3 hockey games a season
Ottawa Vs Nashville
89) Start a quilting project with Nana
90) Send Nana Pat the painting that I made for her
91) Try Escargot (what’s the carb count?)
92) Go to the movies on Cheap Tuesday 5 times
93) Spend a whole Sunday watching movies and tv in bed
94) Take a marriage course before the wedding
95) Try and do something with a friend once a week
96) Plan a relay for life team for June
97) Giving myself blanks to come up with awesome ideas!
98) Giving myself blanks to come up with awesome ideas!
99) Giving myself blanks to come up with awesome ideas!
100)Giving myself blanks to come up with awesome ideas!
101)Giving myself blanks to come up with awesome ideas!



And there we have it! I think it's really do-able. I look forward to crossing things off of the list and writing about my adventures!

<3 Steph