I Am Basically a Follower...And I Love Lists

I love listmaking. Often to the detriment of doing the items on the list. But I'm going to join up.

I saw Annette's List which led me to Triplux.

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 your part).

Begin Date: June 16, 2006
End Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2009

1. Go to one cultural event per month for three months
2. Find my local library and get a library card (and get a Philadelphia library card)
3. See a Broadway play with the dude
4. Take nieces to New York City
5. Visit Elfreth's Alley once in the summer and once in the winter
6. Visit the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
7. Visit the Rosenbach Museum
8. Visit the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Penn
9. Visit the Morris Arboretum
10. Visit the Athenaeum
11. Visit the Frick and the Cloisters
12. Go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
13. Watch the 49 films on AFI's Top 100 films that I have not already seen
14. Read 16 works of fiction
15. Read 16 works of nonfiction
16. Read Bill Bryson's work that I haven't read before
17. Attend three ethnic celebrations in Philadelphia
18. Subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker. Read them.
19. Go to Camden Yard
20. Watch an Eagles game at Lincoln Field
21. Ride in a hot air balloon
22. Contribute additional $$ to retirement
23. Consult a financial advisor
24. Write a will, including all the attendant documents
25. Find out how much a combine costs
26. Be less bossy—so the dude notices; this item will be complete when he says something about it, without prompting
27. Make two new friends
28. Meet up with blogging stitching friends
29. Host an open house each December
30. Catalog books
31. Write to my grandmothers monthly
32. Host a dinner party
33. Go one week without tv--in season
34. Finish current WIPS, including Elizabethan Rose, Toy Gatherer, Hardanger Napkins, Alpine Garden, Treasured Tulips, St. Basil's Cathedral, Watercolor Geraniums, majestic rooster, Dolly Mama's Freebie, Enchanted Alphabet, Anna's Bird.
35. Finish 6 FUFOs as wall hangings
36. Finish 3 FUFOs as pillows
37. Finish 2 FUFOs as flatfolds
38. Frame 10 FUFOs
39. Send four needlework items to be professionally finished
40. Take a sewing class
41. Take a finishing class
42. Go to the Main Line stitch n' bitch three times
43. Go to EGA Meeting at least once
44. Finish 4 scrapbooks currently in progress: 1999, Alexa, Mackenzie, and the 1998 Poland trip
45. Make albums of nephews
46. make 8 more wreaths so I can change the front door wreath every month. Don't spend more than $75 on this project.
47. Create cards for each relative's birthday, a couple for the lesser holidays, and some sympathy cards.
48. Get tested for celiac
49. Have bunions removed
50. Exercise three days/week for 3 months
51. Stretch every day for one month
52. Lose 50 pounds
53. Learn CPR
54. Pick fruit at a UPick farm
55. Update my cv quarterly
56. Join a professional organization and attend three meetings
57. Have lunch at least once with each co-worker (41); group lunches count
58. Have lunch with three people outside my department
59. Get the Bulletin on schedule
60. Understand my job well enough to set significant goals
61. Visit Slovenia
62. Visit Iceland
63. Visit England just before Christmas
64. Visit four of the following states overnight: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, or Wisconsin
65. Visit the Biltmore Estate
66. Visit Newport, RI
67. Attend the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness
68. Visit Acadia National Park
69. Go to the Rockland Maine Lobster Festival
70. Visit Chesapeake Bay
71. Go whale watching
72. Go on a picnic
73. Install toe molding in bedroom
74. Repaint brown bathroom
75. Paint downstairs bathroom, including trim
76. Remove downstairs carpeting
77. Replace kitchen counter
78. Replace kitchen floor
79. Buy and install blinds and curtains in dining room
80. Install blind upstairs bath
81. Buy and install blinds in bedroom
82. Find curtains for living room
83. Paint living room to match curtains
84. Paint guest room, including trim
85. Fix couch in guest room
86. Buy chairs for dining room
87. Fix and hang curtains in guest room
88. Buy frames for and hang maps in guest room
89. Buy shelving and hang in dining room
90. Rip up carpet in craft room
91. Paint craft room
92. Buy filing cabinet and file patterns in craft room
93. Create a household inventory
94. Plant blueberry bushes
95. Buy a new front door
96. Plant someting in the pot by the front door
97. Paint shutters or buy new ones
98. Take the antenna off the roof
99. Hang the decorative bowl in the bedroom
100. Clear of the top of the dresser and keep it that way
101. Buy grill and patio furniture--and use it!