My 101 in 1,001 List

Start Day: January 1, 2013
End Date: September 29, 2015

Items crossed out are completed
Items in italics are in progress
23/101 Completed

Blogging
1. Give my blog a makeover
2. Reach 500 GFC followers
3. Print each year of the blog into a book
4. Complete NaBloPoMo
5. Clean out & organize my google reader feedly
6. Create blog moo cards
7. Write 3 Day-in-the-Life posts (1)
8. Earn $100 from the blog
9. Make a blog facebook page

Media
10. Read 100 books
11. Cut my to-read pile in half (from 72 to 38 books)
12. Read 10 classic books
13. Watch 5 classic movies
14. Reread 3 favorite childhood books series

Exploring Louisiana
15. Visit 10 new restaurants in the Baton Rouge area (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9 10)
16. Watch Bacchus
17. See the Christmas Eve bonfires
18. Visit Louisiana state fair
19. Go tiki tubing
20. Eat at John Besh's La Provence
21. Watch the St. Patrick's Day Parade
22. Go to the Strawberry Festival
23. Visit the doll museum
24. Visit Louisiana Renaissance Festival

Exploring California
25. Visit a winery for a wine tasting
26. Visit California Adventures park (to ride the Ariel ride & visit Cars Land)
27. Pick and eat my mom's grapes
28. Watch the Rose Parade
29. Go sailing
30. Visit Legoland

Traveling
31. Visit 3 Countries (not counting the U.S.)
32. Visit 3 states (not counting Louisiana or California) (1, 2, 3)
33. Go on a camping trip
34. Go on a ski trip
35. Go on a couple's trip
36. Go on a girls' trip
37. Have a staycation

Adventures
38. Go fruit picking
39. Go on a picnic
40. Visit a zoo
41. Visit an aquarium
42. Watch a fireworks display
43. Go to a Backstreet Boys concert
44. Have a toast for our anniversary
45. Have a toast for new year's
46. Be photographed for a family photo session
47. Visit a restaurant of a Top Chef contestant
48. Go on a hot air balloon ride

Cooking
49. Roast an entire chicken
50. Make creme brulee
51. Make ice cream
52. Make pasta
53. Cook dried beans
54. Take a cooking class
55. Visit (and cook) from the farmer's market
56. Grill a steak
57. Make my mom's brisket
58. Make my family's oyster stuffing
59. Make cranberry sauce
60. Bake hamentaschen
60. Make my mom's "potato pie"
62. Make an icebox cake
63. Meal plan for a week and follow through
64. Make a gingerbread crust
65. Bake bread with yeast

Creative
66. Complete a project 365
67. Buy and learn to use a DSLR camera
68. Finish France scrapbook
69. Mail out holiday cards
70. Order our wedding album
71. Create wedding shadow box
72. Learn to Sew

Home
73. Clean out the "big closet"
74. Hang curtains throughout the house
75. Order wedding canvases
76. Plant & use 3 items from our garden
77. Build a deck in our backyard
78. Set the table for 3 different seasons
79. Finish painting the master bathroom
80. Have a fire in our fireplace
81. Decorate the porch for a given season
82. Clean out & organize closets in the library and big closest
83. Clean out & organize bathroom cabinets

Social
84. Host 2 major holidays (i.e. Thanksgiving or Passover) (1, 2)
85. Join a synagogue
86. Meet 5 blog friends for the first time (1)
87. Host a dinner party
88. Go to a blogger conference

Financial
89. Write a will
90. Pay off my student loans
91. Have 3 months of expenses in a savings account
92. Increase my current salary by 50%
93. Buy a new (to me) car
94. Have my name officially changed on driver's licence, credit cards, insurance cards, etc..
95. Pass first 3 actuarial tests

Personal
96. Wear make-up everyday for a week
97. Go through clothes and donate the ones I'm no longer wearing
98. Clean & preserve my wedding dress
99. Have no dessert/sweets for 7 days

101 in 1001
100. Blog each 101 as its accomplished
101. Write a brand new 101 list to complete starting on 9/30/2015

Last Updated November 28, 2014