#31 hooray!!! This was definitely one of the list items I never thought I'd actually accomplish. So to recap: Back in '04 or '05, I was driving home from my parents' Fourth of July cookout just after 9:00 trying to make the fireworks right by Dousman House. As I was driving over the high rise bridge I noticed various fireworks displays all around me. All the 'burbs 'works go off at the same time, so in just a few select spots downtown, the high rise bridge being one of them, you can see them all! When I came up with the 101 List in '07, something reminded me of that moment and I really wanted to find a different, less-hassle spot to repeat the experience. Well, over the last 2.5 years, I never gained access to any downtown rooftops or what have you. So I basically decided to repeat what inspired this list item in the first place. At 9:10pm, I hopped on the freeway and started the adventure of simultaneously focusing on traffic around me and the dozenish fireworks displays dotting the horizon. It was just too awesome! I looped on and off the freeway like nine times or so, playing "All Over the World" by Pet Shop Boys on repeat! Excellent times.
So it's early yet and I don't have any other list items to report. I did just get into Dirty Projectors though...very different but very good!!
Meanwhile, since I'm always so candid in this blog, I will admit that I've come up on yet another crossroads and my July is shaping up to be a little too similar to last year's...doing some kinda loop, starting from scratch, all that fun stuff. What's with me and my paths that I am so hell-bent on taking, knowing full well that they probably aren't supposed to be on my little Map O' Life? I ask myself: HOW many lessons do I really need to learn in order to go the right way?? I give life a lot of chances...maybe too many chances. I also like shoving round pegs into square holes until they fit, but they never do.
Ok that's enough of that crap. I just wish life wasn't so exhaustively frustrating. I guess if it weren't though, it'd be no fun. But always remember kids: feeling like shit to find happiness isn't necessarily the way it works!
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A journey through my "mostly-completed" 101 Things in 1001 Days List!
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101 Things in 1001 Days
START: Feb 1, 2007
END: Oct 29, 2009
These items are in progress
These items are complete!
Bust Out Your Pinking Shears (artistic projects)
1. Teach myself to build a website using Flash/Go Live or Dreamweaver
2. Use this brand new info to create a portfolio/etc website
3. Write/design a cookbook (chipboard??!--maya road)
4. Finally create my box purses; at least three (0/3) *new idea: make the box purses double as greeting card holders?
5. Keep up a my focusnappop photoblog!
6. Secret TBA Creative Project! (Monica and Tim's wedding gift: "Memory Lane" drawing was a huge success!!)
7. Zeetles!® A quote photocard project!
8. Study more about photography: aperture and all that good stuff
9. Reward self by buying new camera (Canon S5 IS it is!!)
10. Photograph neighborhood in all four seasons and create a book (4/4)
11. Make ahighway book via Blurb
12. Participate in 26 things Photograph Project at least a couple times
13. Decoupage at least one piece of furniture using a film/art poster, etc.
14. Build up a collection of goods to sell at an art/craft show (and be willing to part with them!) - Sept??
15. Create INKYTNMO* Scrapbook!
*-INKYTNMO = Indiana Kentucky Tennesse Missouri road trip Memorial week!
The New Socialite (me stuff and fun social business)
16. Go to the lakefront (Night of the Living Dead 3D outdoor movie!) with whomever (Chris) and bring a picnic (chicken curry and Asian salad)!
17. Treat myself once a month; as in BE SELFISH (start Mar)
18. Have *fun in a public place
19. ...Same goes for an open field
20. Go to Jazz in the Park
21. Go back to Blu and chat with John the Bassist
22. Go to the State Fair again
23. GO SAILING! via Sea Dog Sailing in McKinley Marina!
24. Fly kites with John and Grace in Veteran's Park (actually went to the beach instead)
25. Carve a pumpkin
26. Have a sleepover at a friend’s house (Nov 2nd!) complete with jams, crazy snacks, and a Halloween Roseanne!
27. Go to the Milwaukee Art Museum (May 17th!)
28. Go to the Milwaukee Co Zoo with John and Grace (Shark and Sting Ray exhibit!! Sept 8!)
29. Put on another fancy wine pairing/dinner party (Nov 22nd!)
30. Try 10 new restaurants in the Milwaukee area (10/10)
31. Watch the barrage of greater metro Milwaukee fireworks from somewhere I can see barrage of greater metro Milwaukee fireworks
32. Go to Monica’s bar (no board game tho)
33. Go ice skating at either downtown Red Arrow rink or the Pettit
34. See the Nutcracker (Dec 13th!)
35. Go to the Symphony (MSO does Hitchcock - 10/31 & Zeppelin - 11/9)
36. Go to the Opera (Sept 23-Barber of Seville!)
37. Go back to Six Flags FINALLY (Sept 28th!)
38. Go to a Hot Air Balloon festival!-->projected Skyfest on 07.21.07
Put A Few Years Back on the Ol’ Lifetime (health whatnot)
39. Play at least nine holes of golf
40. Pilates: repeat the 30 Day Challenge (30/30)
41. Twist step (or pilates) at least three times a week.
42. Try Nasonex to fix taste problem. UPDATE! It worked so well, I got a prescription on 4.09.07!
43. Get a subscription to Women’s Health
44. Talk to the doc about chicken pox vaccine 2/12/07
Stuff My Face (FOOD!)
46. Make a total of 50 recipes from cookbooks (22/50)
47. Learn how to make sushi
48. Learn how to make a roux and béchamel successfully; in other words, perfect home made mac & cheese
49. Go to the East Town Farmer’s Market at least four times (4/4
50. Add an atypical fruit or veggie to a recipe every month:
(32/33) - Oct: spaghetti squash and blackberries
(i.e.papaya, kale, eggplant, kiwi, arugula, broccoli rabe, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, polenta, squash, spaghetti squash, endive, zucchini, apricots, figs, pumpkin, plantains, rutabagas, artichoke hearts, tomatillo, cranberries, watermelon, blackberries, leeks, dragonfruit, radicchio, rhubarb, sugar snap peas, jicama, parsnips, turnips, watercress, bean sprouts)
51. Cut out one “guilty pleasure thing” per month: (33/33) - Oct: wake up at 6am all weekdays
(i.e. fried food, any chocolate except dark, pasta unless whole grain, sweet baked goods, chips of any kind, alcohol unless its red wine, “bad” restaurant food…has to be a salad or “healthy” entrée...also not spending money on self, negative thoughts, brunches, eating after 7pm, etc)
You Look Guhgeous Dahling (vanity!)
52. Splurge on an expensive pair RUNNING SHOES!
53. Buy a nice pair of black shoes
54. Get hair cut once a season (10/12)
55. Aspirin mask at least three days a week, every week
Let’s Get Organizized! (what started it all...)
56. Make a bi-weekly grocery list complete with meals
57. Clean and organize apartment (room, linen closets, under bed)
58. Organize finances/bills/etc in a divided folder bin guy
59. Organize extraneous-ness into plastic bins instead of boxes
60. Collect addresses/emails/birthdays from everyone
61. Organize “Projects” list
62. Decorate bedroom so it looks like I sleep there!
63. Clean/Re-Org the entire apartment
Hit the Road (travel & vacay)
64. Go to Vegas OR the Grand Canyon
65. Take the train to Chicago (Dec 12th!)
66. Go to Iowa with Z! (July 25-27)
67. Take a “surprise” road trip/jaunt somewhere (INKYTNMO)
Random addition
68. [Formerly "week vacay from list"] Starting with August 07. Once a month, eat whatever I want with no guilt
This is Katie, Can I Help You? (good will)
69. Donate blood (or platelets) (5/12)
70. Register bone marrow
71. Volunteer to be a Salvation Army bell ringer
72. Somehow find a good home for my mini Beanie Babies from McDonald’s
73. Be the Anti Parking Nazi: Walk around downtown Milwaukee one afternoon and put coins in expired meters (may be illegal?? so don’t get caught!)
74. One day take a parking ticket from someone’s car and pay it for them
75. Bring treats into work (home made or otherwise) at least 8 times (8/8)
76. Send out Original Katie birthday cards instead of emails
77. Send out Original Katie Christmas cards in ’07 and ‘08
78. Volunteer at St. John's Open Door Cafe four times (4/4)
79. Leave 20 different soundtracks in public places (0/20)
Stuffing Money Under the Mattress (finances)
80. Attempt to stick to budget (Use worksheet at the end of the month.)
81. Put $250 in savings every month until checks cease (15/15)
82. Increase savings $25/mo in '09
83. Put $1 away every day and after the 1001 days are complete, spend $1001 on something related to one of the 101 things I accomplished
I'm Workin' 9 to 5 (professional jazz)
84. Organize the spec info even if it means taking it home
85. Work on every single concepts project opportunity
86. Organize cube and keep it that way!
All That Other Junk (miscellaneous)
87. Discover a "new-to-me" band every month (33/33)
88. Run around in a down pour
89. "The Ninja Report"
90. Watch moonrise over Lake Michigan.
91. Take "Learn-to-Climb" lesson at Turner Hall
92. Put a section in hPDA devoted to one gratitude per day
93. Attend all services and participate fully in fast days - Lent ‘07
94. Finish Atlas Shrugged
95. Read 10 books (10/10 + 1): at least...
(1/1) bio
(1/1) philosophy
(1/1) sci-fi
(3/3) classics
(2/2) non-fiction
96. See all possible ‘Best Film’ Oscar nominated films 2007
97. Train for and Do Al's Run - Oct 10th
98. Hipster Geocache: draw a map to a “treasure” and leave it in a public place – do at least 10x (can be coupled with soundtrack task) (1/5)
99. Work toward a “getting up at 6:00am for work” goal...whatever that entails
(do Pilates, watch Today Show, take a walk, get a coffee at Mykono’s, go to Metro Market, ANYTHING!)
Lifetime Opportunities (the big stuff)
100. Buy a mac with all the trimmings: i.e. Graphics Suite, monitor, memory
101. Participate in a wedding (DONE! 11.17.07)
Now! Only ten of these are nix-able and then must be replaced with a new task of similar weight...yet to be determined (10/10)
Whew!
END: Oct 29, 2009
These items are in progress
These items are complete!
Bust Out Your Pinking Shears (artistic projects)
3. Write/design a cookbook (chipboard??!--maya road)
4. Finally create my box purses; at least three (0/3) *new idea: make the box purses double as greeting card holders?
7. Zeetles!® A quote photocard project!
11. Make a
12. Participate in 26 things Photograph Project at least a couple times
14. Build up a collection of goods to sell at an art/craft show (and be willing to part with them!) - Sept??
15. Create INKYTNMO* Scrapbook!
*-INKYTNMO = Indiana Kentucky Tennesse Missouri road trip Memorial week!
The New Socialite (me stuff and fun social business)
19. ...Same goes for an open field
23. GO SAILING! via Sea Dog Sailing in McKinley Marina!
Put A Few Years Back on the Ol’ Lifetime (health whatnot)
Stuff My Face (FOOD!)
50. Add an atypical fruit or veggie to a recipe every month:
(32/33) - Oct: spaghetti squash
(i.e.
(i.e. fried food, any chocolate except dark, pasta unless whole grain, sweet baked goods, chips of any kind, alcohol unless its red wine, “bad” restaurant food…has to be a salad or “healthy” entrée...also not spending money on self, negative thoughts, brunches, eating after 7pm, etc)
You Look Guhgeous Dahling (vanity!)
54. Get hair cut once a season (10/12)
Let’s Get Organizized! (what started it all...)
60. Collect addresses/emails/birthdays from everyone
63. Clean/Re-Org the entire apartment
Hit the Road (travel & vacay)
This is Katie, Can I Help You? (good will)
69. Donate blood (or platelets) (5/12)
79. Leave 20 different soundtracks in public places (0/20)
Stuffing Money Under the Mattress (finances)
81. Put $250 in savings every month until checks cease (15/15)
82. Increase savings $25/mo in '09
83. Put $1 away every day and after the 1001 days are complete, spend $1001 on something related to one of the 101 things I accomplished
I'm Workin' 9 to 5 (professional jazz)
85. Work on every single concepts project opportunity
All That Other Junk (miscellaneous)
88. Run around in a down pour
91. Take "Learn-to-Climb" lesson at Turner Hall
93. Attend all services and participate fully in fast days - Lent ‘07
(1/1) bio
(1/1) philosophy
(1/1) sci-fi
(3/3) classics
(2/2) non-fiction
98. Hipster Geocache: draw a map to a “treasure” and leave it in a public place – do at least 10x (can be coupled with soundtrack task) (1/5)
(do Pilates, watch Today Show, take a walk, get a coffee at Mykono’s, go to Metro Market, ANYTHING!)
Lifetime Opportunities (the big stuff)
Now! Only ten of these are nix-able and then must be replaced with a new task of similar weight...yet to be determined (10/10)
Whew!
3 comments:
The second-half of this entry sounded like a Carrie Bradshaw column!!! Or, maybe i've just been watching too much S&TC on boop-boop lately!? At least you can say your life is never boring?
Haha! No, my life is, in fact, NEVER boring. I think once it settles down, I'll remember back to these days and just soak up the quiet status quo like soaking up rays of sunshine on a beach vacay. (How's that for Carrie Bradshaw?? haha!) Honestly though, it's always so grass-is-greener, but I cannot wait to take refuge in my elder years. Although knowing my luck I'll get some complicated disease that literally sucks the life outta me.
BWAH! No, that comment took a nasty spin! No likey!!!!
Honestly, even when life sucks - I'm always more *content* when life isn't boring. Like take me a year ago, nothing was going on and I was a depressed cynical MESS! And NOW look at how much harder and technically suckier my life is - where I could be totally depressed and I'm fine as can be!
I'm a weird cat that way!
Just remember, every experience is a step in towards something in your journey! No matter how long it takes you to get there..
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