
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.
Start Date: 25 October 2009
Completion Date: 22 July 2012 (calculated at Time and Date)
1. Complete the couch to 5k challenge
2. Take a photography course. Went to Love Your Camera on 01.03.10
3. See NYE in a city overseas.
4. See a performance at the Sydney Opera House. Seeing Kevin Smith at the Opera House on Monday 9 August 2010
5. Landscape the back courtyard of our townhouse.
- 16.06.07 – ordered pavers
- 17.08.07 – lay-by outdoor setting
- 19.08.07 – finished paving
- 23.08.07 – pots and plants arrived
- 23.08.07 – river stones arrived
- 23.08.07 – potted and stoned two quarters of courtyard
- 29.12.07 – pay off outdoor setting
- 30.12.07 – order umbrella for backyard
- 30.12.07 – replace destroyed (thanks george!) bbq fittings
- 31.12.07 – outdoor setting and umbrella delivered
6. Sand and refinish our bedroom furniture.
7. Go dragon boating at least once.
8. Read 60 books in 2009. Attempted in 2009.
9. Get a Treasury that I collated featured on the front page of Etsy.
10. Go fishing with my Dad at least once. We went fishing off the bridge in Normanton and then again on the beach in Karumba.
11. Roll all of my superannuation over into one account.
12. See the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan.
13. Drink 2L of water a day for a month.
14. Get my Mum’s recipe for tuna mornay. Done and made 9 May 2010.
15. Participate in SPT (Self Portrait Thursday) at least once in 2009.
16. Save a thousand dollars specifically for Christmas each year in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Completed December 2009.
17. Buy a micro lens for my digital SLR.
18. Go in a shark cage.
19. See killer whales in the wild.
20. Volunteer my time, at least once in 2007 (Barnardos), 2008 (Salvation Army) and 2009. Didn’t volunteer in 2009. I usually volunteer at Christmas, but this time I was recovering from surgery.
21. Make a memory quilt out of our favourite t-shirts.
22. Get the mole on the bridge of my nose removed.
23. Have my jewelery cleaned.
24. Post something that I made to youtube.com
25. Become debt free (excluding the mortgages)
26. Bury a time capsule in the back yard of our first home.
27. Buy our second house (preferably a holiday home).
28. See penguins in the wild.
29. Take a cooking class.
30. Break in my cherry doc martens.
31. Lose 10% of my body weight. December 21 2009 – Refer to SkinnyGirlTrapped.
32. Post a secret to PostSecret.
33. Finish the cross stitches that I have currently on hand.
34. Find 25 new recipes and make them. (Eating optional)
- Impossible Pie – February 2010
- Tuna Mornay – May 2010
- Rich Beef Casserole – June 2010 (Recipe from ‘Slow Cooker’ by Sally Wise)
35. Sew a toy as a gift for a friend’s baby. Completed 28 November 2009 – Bonzer & Beaut
36. Swim with the dolphins.
37. Take out life insurance.
38. Have a ‘green’ party for St Patricks day.
39. Dye my hair purple or blue or both.
40. Go on an international cruise.
41. Take a writing course.
42. Enter something in the Queanbeyan show.
43. Read 60 books in 2010.
44. Read 60 books in 2011.
45. Read 60 books in 2012.
46. Complete the Fresh Meat course with Canberra Roller Derby. Completed and graduated 18 May 2010
47. Get down to 100kg. Reached goal on 16 May 2010.
48. Get down to 95kg.
49. Get down to 90kg.
50. Get down to 85kg.
51. Reach weight goal of 80kg.
52. Get my Yellow Star in Roller Derby.
53. Get my Green Star in Roller Derby.
54. Make a baby quilt.
55. Complete a web design course.
56. Open my own web design business.
57. Complete three rounds of IVF. (Unless of course one of them is successful and they we’ll stop.)
58. Have a baby.
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86. Tackle a handmade project each month for a year.
- November 2009 – How to make a heat bag.
- December 2009 – Made: Laptop Sleeve
- January 2010 - Made: Melly & Me Toffee Apples
- February 2010 - Learned to Crochet
- March 2010 – Made Bluebird Zipped Case
- April 2010 – Learn to Make Yo-Yo’s
- May 2010 – Finished the Patchwork for my first quilt.
- June 2010 – Crocheted a Baby Beanie
- July 2010 – Made an envelope for the Meet Me At Mikes Envelope Project.
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87. Make a beetroot relish.
88. Compete in the City 2 Surf.
89. Host a Christmas lunch at our house.
90. Participate and complete NaNoWriMo.
91. Create a herb garden.
92. Sell 20 items through my etsy store.
93. Pay for advertising on a favourite blog (to further my blog). Completed on 09.11.2009 @ Kind Over Matter
94. Get 1,000 unique hits in one day on my blog.
95. Get my first sponsor/advertiser for my blog.
96. Finish my first quilt. Finished the patchwork and had the quilting done by Altogether Quilting.
97. Complete the Cake Decorating course at Annie’s Cakes.
98. Participate in Meat Free Monday for six months.
99. Visit Meet Me at Mikes. Visited Saturday 31 July 2010.
100. List 101 things to complete in 1001 days.
101. Complete 101 things, as listed above, in 1001 days.
The following items have been removed from the list either due to timeframe expiring, no longer a goal or I just couldn’t be bothered:
- Complete the Pattern Making course at The Fashion School.
- Complete Beginners Sewing Class at The Fashion School. – Started but unable to complete due to illness.






