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).

Start Date: Friday, February 18th, 2005
Finish Date: Friday, November 16th, 2007

(1) Create an altered art book. (Have started the idea for one with an old encyclopedia.)
(2) Keep a Gratitude Journal every day for a month. (Started March 6th, 2005; Finished: April 6th, 2005)
(3) Complete a writing notebook at least once a month, or 70 pages equivalent. [34/34] (Last notebook completed: January 7th, 2007.)
(4) Write a personal prayer/devotional.
(5) Do prayer/devotional every morning and night, for a month.
(6) Create a "Mix Cd Diary", and try to keep up with it. (Last one created: 02/21/07 - 03/06/07) [61/?] (Note: In June my computer crashed, and I lost a lot of my CD diaries that I hadn't burned. So I'm all sad about that, and haven't done one since. Sucky.)
(7) Beat 10 console/pc games. (Finished: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [PS2].) [1/10]
(8) Publish one short story.
(9) Make business cards for my website.
(10) Distribute said cards willy-nilly for publicity.
(11) Learn an instrument well enough to compose on it.
(12) Try to go without TV for a week.
(13) Go through ALL of my magazines, and either read, cut-up, or recycle. (I'm a magazine pack-rat.)
(14) Create an organized and useful Book of Shadows. (I've started an index-card system, and I'm still moving things over.)
(15) Organize and put all photographs in a photo album.
(16) Finish decorating/renovating the house.
(17) Finish writing a book.
(18) Get above book published.
(19) Write a piece of fanfiction. (Completed July 29th, 2006, here.)
(20) Get a piece published in an online ezine. (One of my essays was published in The Anvil, 09/05. Yes, I know I co-run it... but the other editor had to like it, as well!)
(21) Finish a painting. (Acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel. Can be mixed media.)
(22) Figure out my finances, and become more dependent on cash and checks rather than credit. (This is an ongoing process, but I started this in September 2007.)
(23) Learn how to knit. (Completed February 2007. Yeah, it kinda took me the whole month.)
(24) Go through all the boxes I brought home from Mom's house. (And there's a lot.)
(25) Meet the love of my life. (Completed: December 27th, 2005.)
(26) Do a tarot reading for someone else, without the aid of instruction books.
(27) Write in a restaurant/cafe.
(28) Figure out my academic future. (If there's going to be one, or not.) (Completed September 4th, 2007 - that's when I started school!)
(29) Start a change jar - and try not to dip into it. (Completed February 2nd, 2007.)
(30) Start a favorite lyric/poetry journal; dissect at least 50 pieces. (Last Addition: 04/25/05 - "Two Way Monologue" by Sondre Lerche) [1/50]
(31) Go camping in Boundary Waters National Park. (Just 6 hours away, after all.)
(32) Participate in NaNoWriMo three times during 1001 days. [3/3]
(33) Finish reading The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
(34) Be able to find five constellations in the sky, reliably. (In that, I can't make it up, and must be certain about them when I see'em.) [0/5]
(35) Get a chart drawn by a professional astrologer.
(36) Meditate every night for a week. (Started March 3rd, 2007, Completed March 10th, 2007.)
(37) Take a train trip, and write/observe most of the way.
(38) Learn both Japanese alphabets, and 100 Kanji. [0/2, 0/100]
(39) Read a novel in Spanish, and try to translate it without using an online translator. (I was thinking one of the Harry Potter books.)
(40) Learn three sentences in Gaelic. [0/3]
(41) Learn three sentences in Polish. [0/3]
(42) Watch every episode of The X-Files. (Surprisingly, there *are* episodes I've missed!) [0/9 seasons]
(43) Learn to write the alphabet with my left hand. (Ya know, job security.)
(44) Buy myself a piece of scandalous lingerie. (Fredericks of Hollywood, here I come!)
(45) Grow my hair really long - past my shoulders. (Completed December 30th, 2006.)
(46) Dye my hair some crazy color for one last time, before I'm forced to grow up.
(47) Got to the Art Crawl downtown. (Find out date - there's suppose to be one in the Fall.)
(48) Visit the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
(49) Read the Bible.
(50) Pack a pic-a-nick basket, and invite someone to join you.
(51) Actually act femme and have more than one pair of shoes - try seven, one for every day of the week? And not just sneakers, either![7/7] (Found a whole bunch of shoes at my mom's house - Wee!)
(52) Buy a sewing machine, and learn how to use it. Then make a T-Shirt quilt. (Got a sewing machine for Christmas 2005, and have actually put aside all t-shirts to use. Now I just need to make it.)
(53) Buy a nice, snazzy winter jacket; so I won't constantly steal Sister's.
(54) Complete the Artist's Way, for a second time.
(55) Visit Taos, New Mexico again.
(56) Learn what trees are in my backyard.
(57) Memorize the magickal properties of 100 rocks/crystals/gems. [1/100]
(58) Read all the Harry Potter books. [7/7] (Completed July 23rd, 2007.)
(59) Read the Chronicles of Narnia. (Finished The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on May 2nd, 2007.) [3/7]
(60) Watch all movies that have won Best Picture at the Oscars, in chronological order. (Last viewed: "Wings". ) [1/78]
(61) Buy a piece of art. (Not a print, but the actual piece.)
(62) Participate in a garage sale; ie., get rid of a bunch of my shit. (Donated a bunch of stuff to my sister-in-law's garage sale, 05/14/05)
(63) Go through my closet and donate a garbage bag full of clothes. (Completed May 27th, 2006.)
(64) Teach Denali one cute dog trick.
(65) Re-read the His Dark Materials series. (Re-read The Golden Compass August 5th, 2007.) [1/3]
(66) Read every (in print) fiction book by Kurt Vonnegut. [0/38]
(67) Get my driver's license.
(68) Don't eat fast-food for one whole month.
(69) Go to the local Gay Pride parade. (Completed June 25th, 2006.)
(70) Read Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
(71) Send out holiday cards for Yule 2006, and also e-cards to people online. (Completed December 2006.)
(72) Redesign my website and create two off-shoot websites; update regularly. (I am SOOO close on this! MoM just needs to be fully converted to the new layout! Le sigh.)
(73) Go on a reading binge. (Completed May 27th, 2005.)
(74) Do a writing marathon (similar to above). (Completed July 29th, 2006.)
(75) Complete the license-plate alphabet road trip game at least once.
(76) Go to a convention of some sort - whether it's Sci-Fi, Pagan, whatever.
(77) Use up all or most the tea in my kitchen cabinet. (That would be a considerable amount, and would seriously tidy up things!)
(78) Buy a large fish tank. Buy a fish for every person I know, and try not to kill those fish.
(79) Flirt with a pretty girl.
(80) Go shopping in downtown Stillwater. (Completed January 19th, 2006.)
(81) Visit the house that Mom grew up in.
(82) Buy (or find in this case, if you've seen my journal/notebook stash) a new sketchbook, and fill it completely with sketches. (Got the sketchbook, but only one sketch thus far!)
(83) Stay up all night, with only candlelight to see by. (04/14/05)
(84) Eat cereal for breakfast for a whole week. (Started 02/22/05, Ended 02/28/05)
(85) Try RPG-ing online.
(86) Explore downtown White Bear Lake. Visit at least ten shops/restaurants that are there. [Medicine Chest (awful service), Key's Cafe (they have the best Hot Turkey Sandwiches, ever), Enchanted Tree House (awesome kids stuff), The Floral Trunk and Gifts (bought Girlfriend a flower there!), Goodthings (quirky stuff), The Nest (natural and homemade items), Sommerville Gallery (Girlfriend bought her mom an awesome vase there), Wuollet Bakery (their chocolate chip cupcakes are addicting), Evans Music (really bad service, and was totally ignored while I looked at guitars), and Lake Country Booksellers (really friendly staff, very personable)].
(87) Get a subscription to the Sunday paper - and actually read it. (Completed May 7th, 2006.)
(88) Plan an elaborate party with a theme.
(89) Try sushi. (Completed April 22nd, 2006)
(90) Eat at IHOP. (I feel like the only person on Earth who hasn't.)
(91) Go to the Minnesota Zoo, and spend all day there with my Inner Child. (Completed September 30th, 2007.)
(92) Get up before or at 7am for a whole week.
(93) Participate in the 2006 Blogathon. (Completed July 29th-30th, 2006.)
(94) Have skin tabs around my eyes removed.
(95) Stop biting my nails for at least one month.
(96) Read Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Then read Holy Blood, Holy Grail to compare notes. [0/3]
(97) Compile a recipe book/box with at least 50 tried-and-true recipes. [4/50]
(98) Learn a new word every day, for one month. Blog about it.
(99) Visit Stonhenge on the Summer Solstice in June 2007. (This gives me a year to plan ahead.)
(100) Figure out what the hell fondue is, then make it once.
(101) Watch every episode of Xena on DVD. [1/6 seasons]