101 things to do in 1001 days

This was a list I began back in my Livejournal days, inspired by a community of the same name. The list was officially posted and started on January 3, 2009. Anything that I complete as of being posted here on blogger will be linked to and shared with photos!


This list must be completed by Friday, September 30, 2011
Italicised items are currently in the works! Stay tuned for their updates!

1. Go to Montreal botanical gardens + insectarium
2. Get my butt to the museum of natural history
3. Find a hort/gardening/insect community to join around town
4. Get my driver’s license - (Beginner's acquired, driver's ed only affordable post christmas..)
5. Learn all the crochet techniques required to make something.
6. Actually crochet an amigurumi
7. Learn how to knit well (Current Skill level: Beginner/Advanced beginner)
8. Knit myself a scarf
9. Knit myself some mittens
10. Knit myself a hat
11. Redo/Redesign my business card
12. Get married
13. Lower my blood pressure without medication
14. Do a few seminars on plant care
15. Set up a vivarium (for insects - Either a Giant Leaf, or an Indian Stick)
16. Plant a lavender garden
17. (help)Complete the kitchen (with cupboards/floors/walls) and moved out.
18. (help)Complete the bedroom  ..and moved out.
19. become decent at meditation
20. Go on a spirit journey
21. Finish at least one story concept on the go
22. Get down to 150 lbs
23. Get a truck/minitruck
24. Get my diplomas/hort certificates framed & hung
25. Get my Certified Horticultural Technician stamp
26. Get into a job at a nursery again
27. Go on a survival/roughing it trip
28. Go Kayaking
29. Go snowshoeing
30. Fall in love with winter in general
31. Paint on a massive canvas
32. Make some of these passion flowers bloom View here!!
    
33. Take an art class/workshop
34. Go swimming
35. Re-format my cookbook
36. Create a new recipe
37. Raise monarch butterflies
38. Raise more black swallowtail butterflies
39. Get a Ginkgo tree (have 3 seedlings)
40. Start at least 2 bonsai trees
41. Draw a comic strip (4 panel)
42. Draw a comic page (a full color page)
43. Get my budget plan together
44. Get a full time job doing something I enjoy
45. Negotiate to adopt a dog.
46. (if 44, then jog or walk with dog habitually)
47. Create a tradition for the summer
48. Go (regular/easy) camping in New Hampshire mountains
49. Re-learn French, be capable of full conversations - working on this
50. Learn how to sew w/machine
51. Make a lavender wreath
52. Go to a spa
53. Get my ears pierced again
54. Get my ginkgo leaf tattoo
55. Give up pop
56. Collect seeds from one growing season
57. Read a French Novel
    
58. create a rough tropical plant shop biz plan  Done.. just need the startup $
59. Adopt an optimistic philosophy
60. Go to a Mooseheads game
61. See another musical
62. Print some photos for the walls
63. Go to a big amusement park; ride all the coasters there
64. Help design a forever house
65. Get down to 135 pounds
66. Plan a conservatory
    
67. Plant a temporary tropical garden for summers
68. Create a vision journal with at least 10 pages
69. give up hot dogs, sausages, and “mystery meats” - Still struggling with this beast.
70. Give up jerky
71. Knit myself a REALLY warm blanket
72. Give up non-green cleaning products
73. Go to a convention
74. Get the rest of my things that I own from my parents’ place
75. Any of 74’s items I no longer want, I will donate or sell, or just get rid of.
76. Grow a giant pumpkin
    
77. Get a respectable wardrobe (no more paint/gardening clothes)
78. Become a better Geranium collector  – Collect 10 varieties (2/10)
    
79. Try and re-initiate my old vegetarian lifestyle
80. Beat an RPG video game from my collection
81. Read all my unread books, sell/donate the ones I don’t like, and buy no books till then!
    
82. Overcome my crippling fear of swimming in the ocean
83. Get a wii and marioparty. And throw parties.
84. Knit a Blanket
    
85. Recycle more obsessively. I live in Kings County, where you have to do this!
    
86. Pay off/eliminate half my educational loan debts
87. Go to the west coast to the petrified forest
88. Climb a tree
89. Have a picnic
90. Sculpt a figurine
91. Have a slumber party 
92. Catch a frog
93. Set up a fish tank
94. Find a home for all these damn passion flowers
95. Watch a sunrise in mushaboom (cottage place/ocean)
96. Catch fireflies
97. Read a(nother) book about core shamanism
98. Read a self-improvement/positivity book
99. Donate to a charity (Donated to: Foodbank, SPCA, Will be donating my hair soon)
100. Complete at least 50 items on this list
101. do ONE act of guerrilla gardening in my neighborhood

About the Image: Red maple photographed at Settler's Green, New Hampshire, September 2008.