Back in January, I started a 101 in 1001 list. It’s a list of 101 things I want to accomplish in 1001 days. Since my life plan drastically changed due to my health, I went through and changed some items that were specific to Nashville/living in Tennessee. Today I have that changed list, as well as an update on what I’ve accomplished!
Start Date: January 2, 2014
End Date: October 4, 2016
1. Finish book #2
2. Publish book #2
3. Get a literary agent
4. Read 101 books
I’ll be keeping track of this with Goodreads. Check out my 101 in 1001 bookshelf!
(6/101)
(6/101)
5. Throw a dinner party
6. Make Thanksgiving dinner from scratch
7. Invest in a classic handbag
8. Go to yoga class at least once a week for 3 months
10. Go to a brand new city in the US
11. Meet 5 blogging friends in person
(1/5)
13. Go one month without any frivolous spending
14. Go to church every week for 6 months
15. Go to 5 concerts (symphony doesn’t count)
(1/5)
16. Go to the symphony 3 times
17. Get a dentist and go twice a year
(dentist – check.)
18. Get an optometrist and go once a year
(optometrist – check. one visit – check.)
19. Take all of my medications when I’m supposed to take them every day for a month
20. Get a DSLR camera
22. Organize my photos and back them up
23. Get an editor
25. Get a pet
26. Buy a car
27. Save up enough money to buy said car without taking out a loan
28. See a Broadway musical (on tour or not)
29. Find out my blood type
32. Try 3 new foods
33. Get to the point where remission is able to be discussed as a possibility
34. Inspire other young people living with arthritis to stand up for themselves
36. See 5 more Audrey Hepburn films
37. Go to 5 art museums
38. Go to 5 other museums
39. Order a print of the cover of Aureole and have it framed
40. Meet someone famous
41. Get into graduate school
42. Create anti-inflammatory versions of my great-grandmother’s famous cookies
44. Have a picnic by a lake
45. Travel to 5 more states
46. Publish one outfit post a month for a year
(8/12)
47. Take a painting class
48. Go to 3 Red Sox games at Fenway Park
(1/3)
49. Go to 3 hockey games
50. Go to a Pats game
51. Buy a pair of riding boots
53. Take my sister out for a day of fun, paid for entirely by me
54. Have 100 people buy book #2
55. Throw out or donate everything I own but don’t use
56. Buy 3 pairs of heels comfortable enough for me to wear them to work
58. Get 1,000 views a day on posts
59. Volunteer 5 times
60. Stick entirely to the proper anti-inflammatory diet for 1 week
61. Reach 2,000 followers on Bloglovin
62. Write an honest and open post about relationships
63. Drive the motorboat around the lake
64. Go kayaking
65. Participate in an Arthritis Walk or Jingle Bell Walk
66. Improve my health enough so that I can go back to work
67. Get a proper pair of Bean boots (not just the duck boots I already have)
68. Buy a brand new Lilly Pulitzer dress
69. Go to a wedding
70. Make apple crisp
73. Go to the ballet
74. Participate in a book club
75. Participate in the Delta Gamma alumnae group
76. Give $5 to charity for every task on this list I don’t complete by 10/4/2016
77. Go to confession once a year
78. Choose a signature meal
79. Perfect my signature meal
80. Get a cable box for my TV
81. Make a photobook of my Maymester in London
82. Take out my viola again
83. Play my viola for someone
84. Send thank you notes within 1 week of receiving the gift/cause for the note
86. Go to a state fair
89. Send someone flowers
90. Vote in a Massachusetts election
91. Get my Massachusetts driver’s license
92. Pay for someone else’s Starbucks order
93. Spend quality time with each of my younger cousins
(1/7)
94. Go to a psychic
95. Put my personal mission statement somewhere I see it regularly
96. Go 1 week only talking about my pain when someone asks about it/brings it up
97. Zero balance on my credit card each month for 6 months
98. Host a link-up
99. Go out for brunch with friends once a month for 6 months
100. Journal every day for a month
101. Finish all of these items!
Kate Mitchell is a blogger, chronic illness patient, and advocate who helps people understand chronic illness and helps chronic illness patients live their best lives.
I can never get a grip on taking my medications at the right time. I take them twice a day but I still forget for hours and then all my joints start locking up and the rest of the day is shot. Also I will help you on meeting blogging friends..and you can knock another one off the this is you go to the Arthritis walk in Brighton on September 14th!
what red wine? i love red wine. always looking for new brands to try!
I want to do so many of these too omg. Thanksgiving from scratch, invest in a classing handbag, meet blog friends in real life, get a DSLR, organize/back up my photos…that's just off the top of my head haha. This is a really great list! I hope you accomplish everything :]