Stolen from Julie...

"the mission is to complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days. tasks must be specific, realistic, and stretching with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. cross them off as you do them and include the date you started the list and the finishing date." this is my mission 101 list.

start october 26, 2009 (one check every 10 days) Personal fulfillment

• ✔ Successfully bake bread
• Find a morel cache in the area
• Master the vegetable garden
• Finish crocheted blanket
• ✔ Host a dinner party
• Figure out the loom
• ✔ Go geocaching
• ✔ Take the pile of stuff to goodwill
• ✔ Finish knitting cardigan
• Call grandma once a month
• ✔ Get good at making crepes
• ✔ Visit the local art museum (MMOCA) more frequently. Hit up an opening already
• ✔ Do a 1 week carbon cleanse
• Contribute $100 to kiva (4 microloans)
• Join a knitting group (or start incorporating knitting in book club if I can put down the wine glass)
• Go to Taliesen. I live right by it! Why haven't I gone there yet?
• Learn how to do a REAL push-up. I'm 30and can't do them. I've never been able to do them. It's a little embarrassing.
• ✔ Hone my Middle School teaching skills. Some days I still feel like a fish out of water.
• Make cheese
• Learn to play a string instrument. Violin or harp
• ✔ See new wing of Chicago Art Institute
• ✔ Visit Milwaukee Art Museum
• Camp in the Apostle Islands
• ✔ Setup baby shower for Erica
• Visit Jessi in Iowa
• Trade Artist Trading Cards in all 50 states
• Perfect the saltwater aquarium
• Visit Greece
• Work stuff Write a successful grant
• Figure out grad school
• ✔ Make an amazing yearbook, then figure out how to get paid for it next year
• ✔ Participate in empty bowls type fundraiser
• ✔ Set up GT Art club or class
• ✔ Figure out kiln
• ✔ Plan large installation Art piece at Wright
• Become a more organized art teacher
• House stuff Finish painting indoors
• ✔ Fix the driveway
• ✔ shelves for linen closet
• basement stairs
• upstairs book shelves
• vacuum refridgerator coils
• ✔ Figure out how to dismantle dishwasher
• Create a beautiful back yard
• Plant flowers in the front lawn
• Create a budget and stick to it
• _Becoming a better me_Learn to manage retail crabbiness.
• Work on becoming less busy
• Learn how to say no. Value my time!
• Exercise consistently
• Learn to take criticism
• ✔ Learn basic car maintenance (ongoing, but I'm getting there)
• Learn how to invest
• Create a living will
• Take a self-defense class
• Be informed (read more newspapers, etc)
• Learn how to take a compliment
• Resist the urge to gossip
• Continue to improve my Spanish.. fluency is the goal
• Have a reasonable knowledge of history. To get a good overview of how thought has evolved and how different inventions have affected humanity,read “The Discoverers” by Daniel J. Boorstin, as well as “A History of Knowledge” by Charles Van Doren.
• Floss regularly
• ✔ Sign up for another exercise class. Go.
• ✔ Sign up for another class when finished
• Pay off credit card.
• ✔ Summer Fun Canning bonanza http://www.foodinjars.com/recipe-index/
• shoe arthttp://alovelything.com/2009/10/inspiration-and-winners/
• Slide curtains
• ✔ Chicken coop