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101 in 1001

08 jan 2006 - 05 oct 2008
36/101 completed
14/101 in progress

08 January 2006

jen's list

  1. Pay off all my credit cards.
  2. Pay off my student loans.
  3. Buy a house/condo.
  4. Run 2 miles in 20 minutes.
  5. Run a 5k.
  6. Run a 5k in less than 30 minutes.
  7. Watch Liverpool play at Anfield.
  8. Watch United play at Old Trafford.
  9. Get a puppy.
  10. Train the puppy to a reasonable obedience standard.
  11. Rip entire CD collection to mp3, and find storage for CDs.
  12. Identify holes to fill in music collection (stolen CDs, incomplete discographies, etc).
  13. Identify/label recovered mp3s from hd crash and sort/delete accordingly.
  14. Be a foster home for the humane society.
  15. Go to a US national team football match.
  16. Buy a case of Portuguese wine.
  17. Replace car stock head unit with good one, upgrade speakers.
  18. Find a church that we like, and attend at least semi-regularly.
  19. Volunteer somewhere regularly.
  20. Vacation in England.
  21. Eat at every restaurant in downtown Decatur at least once.
  22. Learn how to make pasta from scratch.
  23. Go away for a weekend and don't leave the hotel once.
  24. Collect and read all of John Barth's work.
  25. Reread the works of three philosophers in my collection.
  26. Buy season tickets for a local sports team.
  27. [personal]
  28. Give away clothes I don't wear anymore.
  29. Make it through entire Netflix queue (buffer of 20 okay).
  30. Make a list of my 50 (?) favorite movies.
  31. Catalogue our movie collection and post it online for reference.
  32. Vote in a local election, with an informed opinion.
  33. Pay both of our library fines and stay fine free for a year of library use.
  34. Renew library card.
  35. Buy an original piece of art.
  36. Buy a PS3.
  37. Relearn French well enough to watch movies without subtitles.
  38. Learn Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese through beginner level.
  39. Find the perfect everyday necklace.
  40. Finish five video games (1/5).
  41. Make wedding album.
  42. Go camping three times.
  43. Visit five national parks.
  44. Visit Jen and Denny on base.
  45. Read 30 biographies.
  46. Read 30 non-fiction books (not biographies).
  47. Read 5 books about English and/or European history.
  48. Read the entire works of C.S. Lewis.
  49. Read the entire works of G.K. Chesterton.
  50. Buy four World Cup posters (official competition posters, not venue-specific).
  51. Improve my pool skills so that I can: beat D at 9-ball twice in a row, break like I mean it, run the table in 8-ball.
  52. Buy a grown-up winter coat.
  53. Buy an interview suit, even if I don't anticipate needing it anytime soon.
  54. Take a road trip with the top down.
  55. Get something football-opiniony published on F365, FSWR, Soccernet, etc.
  56. Track what I eat every day for a month.
  57. Make our bedroom into a sanctuary.
  58. Research translations and get a new Bible.
  59. Have a LotR marathon, complete with movie food.
  60. Plant an herb garden.
  61. Plant a vegetable garden.
  62. Buy D a new laptop.
  63. Eat at the Crab Shack in Savannah again.
  64. Get a tan and keep it all summer.
  65. Make orange blossoms without matriarchal assistance.
  66. Get Jorj to visit.
  67. Visit Ben (in London).
  68. Go to the Smithsonian.
  69. Do yoga every day for a month.
  70. Learn how to take a penalty kick.
  71. Get my car professionally detailed.
  72. Go to the gym 4+ times a week for three months straight.
  73. Get D a new wedding ring.
  74. Put aside $50 a month for duration of the 1001 days.
  75. On the last day, take that money and use it for travel together.
  76. Get passport changed to married name.
  77. Get drivers license with accurate address.
  78. Take three days off in a row with NO CONTACT with work.
  79. Go to the theater five times (0/5).
  80. Go to three exhibitions at the High Museum.
  81. Picnic in a park, complete with blanket, basket, wine, cheese, etc.
  82. Transfer contents of recipe folder to prawnsandwich.blogspot.com and make index.
  83. Cook a recipe from each cookbook that I own.
  84. Go to San Francicso and the Monterey Aquarium.
  85. [personal]
  86. Cook a whole meal using only organic/free-range ingredients.
  87. Become flexible enough to bend over and lay my hand flat on the ground.
  88. Buy three bottles of wine with the express purpose of cellaring them for at least 5 years
  89. Make a list of 50 authors I really like and 50 authors I want to explore.
  90. Build an emergency fund totalling at least 3 months of expenses.
  91. After consumer debt is paid, get credit report and check for inaccuracies.
  92. Have our wills made.
  93. Make a new list of 101 things, to be started no sooner than a month after this one is finished

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