New List

Start: June 2, 2009
End: February 28, 2012

1. Go to one cultural event per month for three months (0/3)
2. Try 12 new-to-me restaurants
3. Find out about three interesting foods, seek them out and try them
4. Attend a pow wow
5. Take nieces to NYC at Christmas time for a play and to see the store windows
6. Visit Elfreth's Alley in the winter
7. Visit the Rosenbach Museum
8. Visit the Morris Arboretum
9. Visit the Atwater Kent
10. Visit the Cloisters (NYC)
11. Visit Fallingwater
12. Go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
13. Visit Iceland
14. Visit three of the following states overnight: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota or Wisconsin (0/3)
15. Visit the Biltmore Estate
16. Go to Paris for 10th anniversary (07-14-11)
17. Study French so I'll be more fluent when we go to Paris
18. Read the Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction that I've never read (0/53)
19. Learn all the capitals of the 192 UN recognized countries, that includes you, Honduras
20. Watch Roger Ebert's 102 Films to See Before You Die that I have never seen (0/64)
21. Earn Five Merit Badges from "You Can Do It!" (0/5)
22. Take a cookbook out of the library every other month and make two dishes from each (0/16)
23. Trace my ancestry back to the old country (not Canada)
24. Paint downstairs bathroom, including trim
25. Install blinds in bedroom
26. Fix couch in guest room
27. Hem curtains in guest room
28. Create a household inventory
29. Cut down the black cherry tree in the back yard, grind stump
30. Landscape backyard
31. Create raised vegetable gardens in the backyard
32. Take antenna off roof
33. Organize the basement
34. Convert all videos we own to DVD; get rid of VCR
35. Fix or replace DVD player
36. Build a Habitat for Humanity House
37. Volunteer walking shelter dogs
38. Go on a volunteering vacation
39. Volunteer with Philadelphia Cares four times annually (0/12)
40. Sort scrapbook supplies and donate the things I don't use preferably to an organization that does therapeutic scrapbooking with MR kids
41. Finish current WIP--Elizabethan Rose
42. Finish current WIP--Spots II
    
43. Finish current WIP--Treasured Tulips
    
44. Finish current WIP--Scared Silly
    
45. Finish current WIP--Watercolor Geraniums
    
46. Finish current WIP--Majestic Rooster
    
47. Finish current WIP--Knot Garden
    
48. Finish current WIP--Apple Sampler
    
49. Finish current WIP--Folk Art Thread Keep
    
50. Finish current WIP--Tree of Life Window
51. Finish 5 FUFOs as wall hangings
52. Send four needlework items to be professionally finished
53. Go to EGA meeting at least once
54. Finish scrapbooks currently in progress: 1999
55. Finish scrapbooks currently in progress:niece 1
    
56. Finish scrapbooks currently in progress:niece 2
    
57. Finish scrapbooks currently in progress:1998 Poland trip
58. Make album of nephews 1 and 2
59. Make album of nephews 3 and 4
60. Make a happiness album, an 8x8 album of things that make me happy
61. Make short digital videos of the girls
62. Finish my pinwheel charm quilt top
63. Make a piece of jewelry with the beads I bought two years ago in OK
64. Make all my Christmas presents for Christmas '09 (0/24)
65. Finish my purple felted bad
66. Make the Amy Butler Overnight Case
67. Finish felted wool blanket
68. Use every stamp Sissy and I have
69. (Re)learn punchneedle and complete three projects
70. Complete catalog of books
71. Purge five things from every room in the house on (each) November 22, National Declutter Day (0/3)
72. Organize craft room
73. Host an open house
74. Host three cocktail parties (0/3)
75. Host three dinner parties (0/3)
76. Go to pub quiz five tiems (0/5)
77. Write a note to my grandmothers monthly (0/33)
78. Host five game nights (0/5)
79. Go out on a date once a month with the dude (0/33)
80. Meet three blogging friends--ones I haven't met before--IRL
81. Exercise three days a week for three months (0/36)
82. Stretch every day for one month (0/31)
83. Lose 50 pounds
84. Pick fruit at a UPick farm
85. Eat five fruits and veggies every day for three months (0/90)
86. Try to be more positive--at the end of each day, take five minutes to write down in a journal every good thing I did or experienced that day
87. Take a Pilates class
88. Learn to row a Dragon Boat
89. Get a message, annually (0/3)
90. Become flexible enough to do splits again
91. Write a will, including all the attendant documents
92. Write and send off a book proposal
93. Create and practice my 3 minute elevator pitch for myself
94. Write and send a fan letter
95. watch an Eagles game at Lincoln Field
96. Pay off second mortgage
97. Put things from NH attic on ebay
98. Help parents clear out NH house; take my things out of their house and find places for them in my house (or give them away)
99. Finish the family cookbook
100. Talk to my mother--on the phone or in person--weekly (0/143)
101. Post updates about this list at least once per month
     

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!