101 in 1001 take 2 1/2

 So I have been attempting to update my 101 in 1001 list for about a week now because I wanted to complete it before New Years and unfortunately the website seems to have chosen to crash just as I was deciding to take part in this adventure once again.  Therefore, I am going to attempt to get my list of things together here (since I had already written an extensive list on the other website) in time to get started on them by the beginning of 2011.  So here you are.  My list of 101 things to do in 1001 days.  

Please note: these do include some things I was working on from my previous list so they may have older dates included.  

Note on colors: The fuchsia is the original list.  Purple is complete and blue is in progress.   

Jessica's 101 in 1001
Start: January 1st, 2011

End: September 28th, 2013

Personal

1. Keep a written journal (regularly)

2. Blog at least once a week for a month (hopefully forever)
Completed my Wordcount Blog-a-thon challenge!  

3. Write personal (and professional) goals for each month and work to achieve them (5/33)

4. Change my bathroom inspiration quotes once a week (for at least a month) 

5. Write something positive about my day every night for at least two weeks

6. Make a meal out of all local ingredients

7. Spend an hour of "me-time" a week that does not involve TV

8. Take a self defense class

9. Go to a Bible study (must try for at least a month)

10. Watch a sunrise

11. Watch a sunset

12. Sell a piece of art I've created

13. Buy something for myself worth more than $100 without feeling guilty about it

14. Perform in public with my guitar

Share with Others

15.Throw a surprise party for someone

16.Take Jo and Adam to IKEA to pick out their wedding gift

17. Take Josh to Newport Aquariums

18. Have a REAL date with Josh once per month (6/33)
19. Save up for Payton's Dance Classes

20. Learn enough about wine to help someone else pick out a bottle

21. Send 10 Christmas Cards by December 12th every year of this challenge

22. Get Mom an external hard-drive to store all of her photographs safely

23. Donate blood at least 3 times

24. Send one snail mail card or letter per month (6/33)
25. Give someone something that I've made (aka the scarf I'm going to learn to knit or crochet)

26. Have girl time with my coworkers at the El Dorado

Nerd Out

27. Reach 500 followers on Twitter
April, 2011-312 Followers

28. Reach 5,000 tweets
April, 2011-2,015 tweets

29. Create my own HTML template for my blog

30. Create a photography portfolio (online) for myself and keep it updated

31. Create a Youtube video where I filmed and edited the material before posting

32. Have written 1,000 posts on this blog
May 10, 2011-110 posts!
13 June 2011-137 posts

33. Do some research on SEO and really understand how to use it

Big Girl Things

34. Get a frame for my diploma and hang it in the office at my big girl job

35. Train myself to wake up ON-TIME to go to work

36. Leave work on-time one night each week for at least a month (4/4)
Now the trick is getting myself to KEEP leaving work on time!

37. Get over $2000 in my savings account and LEAVE IT THERE!

38.  Apply for 25 big girl jobs (11/25) 

39. Get a big girl job (hopefully choose one of the ones I applied for)

40. Upgrade to a big girl bed AKA NOT a twin bed

41. Have a classy cocktail party Ala Jeanine and Olivia

42. Join the OSU Alumni Association

43. Go to a networking or job search event and feel as if I have made good connections upon my return

44. Paint my kitchen

45. Paint my living room

46. Get a real desk to work at in my apartment

Learn to...
47. Play my guitar
48. Use a dark room 

49. Speak another language
50. Horseback Ride

51. Waltz

52. Drive a stick shift

53. Knit or crochet

54. Shoot a gun (I've done this before but I don't really KNOW how)

55. Get certified in CPR

56. Cook 10 new things
       1. Brussel Sprouts
       2. Vegan vegetable soup broth
       3. Chicken Tortilla Soup (I think this needs a take 2, it didn't go very well)
       4. Chicken Broccoli Casserole
       5. Artichoke

57. Meditate

Movies
58. All of AFI's Top 100

27 December 2010-19/100
13 June 2011-21/100

59. Every James Bond Movie
Now I want to see all of the "unofficial" ones.

60. The Godfather Series

Read
61. Read at least one book per month (see book list in another post) (5/33)

62. Read the Bible front to back

63. Read the newspaper everyday for a week

64. All of the self-help books I've purchased (4/?)

65. All of the books I bought in France

Health and Beauty

66. Begin (and keep) a workout habit

67. Get a professional manicure

68. Get a professional pedicure

69. Throw out all of my underwear and start over

70. Buy "FM" shoes
The next step is learning how to walk in them!

71. Wash my face morning and night everyday for at least one week straight

72. Moisturize everyday for a week

73. Drink my entire VISTA bottle full of water everyday for one week straight

74. Take my vitamins everyday for one month

75. Find a personal style and rock it

Travel/Visit

76. Visit the Columbus Conservatory

77. Visit all Ohio zoos

Columbus Zoo-Zoo Lights, December 2007

Akron Zoo-June 2008

Cincinnati Zoo's Festival of Lights-December 2010

78. Put my feet in the ocean
79. Plan/take my next trip abroad
80. Go to Country concert

81. Take a Road trip
82. Go to all 48 contiguous states (and the other 2 if I can get there)

83. Plan a trip to Chicago

84. Visit two Ohio Wineries

For the Love of the Game

85. Go to an NBA game (preferably the Cavs of course)

86. Go to a Columbus Blue Jackets game

87. Go to a Brown's Game

88. Host a party for "The Big Game"

89. Go to a Columbus Crew Match (with Josh)

90. Go to a Fighting Quakers game

Clean Out and Organize

91. Create a filing system and keep things filed

92. Donate, re-gift, throw out and/or remove 101 things from my life (30/101)

93. Find and/or create a functional island for the kitchen

94. Create my Europe scrapbook

95. Clean out fire safe box and find out what really needs to be in there

96. Get the correct medication cocktail worked out with my doctor

97. Meet with my counselor twice a month for at least 6 months (5/6)

98. Clean out my work files and keep work and personal files separate

99. Use my fabulous pink swiffer sweeper at least once per week

100. Get another bookshelf for my apartment
101. Find a new personal calendar that works for me

AFI's Top 100 movies

Below is the ORIGINAL list of AFI's Top 100 movies.  I will begin highlighting the movies I have seen all the way through in one sitting (seeing bits and pieces at different times doesn't count) because my goal is to complete this list as one of my 101 in 1001 goals.  

1998 List

#	Movie	Year
1.	Citizen Kane	1941
2.	Casablanca	1942
3.	The Godfather	1972
4.	Gone with the Wind	1939
5.	Lawrence of Arabia	1962
6.	The Wizard of Oz	1939
7.	The Graduate	1967
8.	On the Waterfront	1954
9.	Schindler's List	1993
10.	Singin' in the Rain	1952
11.	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
12.	Sunset Blvd.	1950
13.	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957
14.	Some Like It Hot	1959
15.	Star Wars	1977
16.	All About Eve	1950
17.	The African Queen	1951
18.	Psycho	1960
19.	Chinatown	1974
20.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975
21.	The Grapes of Wrath	1940
22.	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968
23.	The Maltese Falcon	1941
24.	Raging Bull	1980
25.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982
26.	Dr. Strangelove	1964
27.	Bonnie and Clyde	1967
28.	Apocalypse Now	1979
29.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939
30.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948
31.	Annie Hall	1977
32.	The Godfather Part II	1974
33.	High Noon	1952
34.	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962
35.	It Happened One Night	1934
36.	Midnight Cowboy	1969
37.	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946
38.	Double Indemnity	1944
39.	Doctor Zhivago	1965
40.	North by Northwest	1959
41.	West Side Story	1961
42.	Rear Window	1954
43.	King Kong	1933
44.	The Birth of a Nation	1915
45.	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951
46.	A Clockwork Orange	1971
47.	Taxi Driver	1976
48.	Jaws	1975
49.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937
50.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969
51.	The Philadelphia Story	1940
52.	From Here to Eternity	1953
53.	Amadeus	1984
54.	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930
55.	The Sound of Music	1965
56.	MASH	1970
57.	The Third Man	1949
58.	Fantasia	1940
59.	Rebel Without a Cause	1955
60.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981
61.	Vertigo	1958
62.	Tootsie	1982
63.	Stagecoach	1939
64.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977
65.	The Silence of the Lambs	1991
66.	Network	1976
67.	The Manchurian Candidate	1962
68.	An American in Paris	1951
69.	Shane	1953
70.	The French Connection	1971
71.	Forrest Gump	1994
72.	Ben-Hur	1959
73.	Wuthering Heights	1939
74.	The Gold Rush	1925
75.	Dances with Wolves	1990
76.	City Lights	1931
77.	American Graffiti	1973
78.	Rocky	1976
79.	The Deer Hunter	1978
80.	The Wild Bunch	1969
81.	Modern Times	1936
82.	Giant	1956
83.	Platoon	1986
84.	Fargo	1996
85.	Duck Soup	1933
86.	Mutiny on the Bounty	1935
87.	Frankenstein	1931
88.	Easy Rider	1969
89.	Patton	1970
90.	The Jazz Singer	1927
91.	My Fair Lady	1964
92.	A Place in the Sun	1951
93.	The Apartment	1960
94.	Goodfellas	1990
95.	Pulp Fiction	1994
96.	The Searchers	1956
97.	Bringing Up Baby	1938
98.	Unforgiven	1992
99.	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967
100.	Yankee Doodle Dandy	1942

Booklist

 You will notice in my 101 in 1001 that instead of listing the books that I want to read as separate goals I simply put that I want to read at least one book a month for the year.  So here are some of the ones that have been on my list for awhile. 


1. One Ian Fleming Book
2. Silmarillion
3. A Walk to Remember
4. The Notebook
5. The Chronicles of Narnia
6. Mere Christianity
7. Dante's Inferno
8. Paradise Lost
9. The Philip Pullman Trilogy
10. One Libba Bray Book
11. A Tale of Two Cities
12. Reread Pride and Prejudice
13. Reread The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
14. Reread the Harry Potter Series
15. All the French books I bought in France
16. Eat. Pray. Love.

101 in 1001

This will be my second set of 101 in 1001 goals (and this time I'll actually use their site so check it out here).  If you want to read my first set you can check them out here.  The new set includes things that I didn't get to the first time: such as learning to use a darkroom and planning my next trip abroad but we've also left a few things behind. 

I think its interesting to think about goals and ways to better ourselves and as I'm really becoming an adult and am starting my second term as an AmeriCorps*VISTA in Wilmington, OH I'm starting to wonder about the person I want to be...permanently.  Its occurred to me that while we all continue to grow and change as life goes on that there is a certain point where you become pretty much an adult and you are...for the most part...you.  And I'm interested to figure out who that person is...so stay tuned for a few more posts about goals, New Year's Resolutions and what's to come.