Friday, June 16, 2006

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!

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