101 in 1001 list

This list has been making the rounds in blog-land for awhile, and I’m a late-comer to it, but finally decided to jump on the bandwagon.  It’s a list of 101 things you would like to accomplish in the next 1001 days. The older I get, the more I realize that it’s hard to hold onto the dreams you had when you were younger, even the small ones that seem so inconsequential.  So, a list of goals, wishes, dreams seems like the perfect thing to keep me on track. A reminder of sorts of the things I’d like to accomplish in life and also a reminder to do a little more “me” sometimes.  Some of these are small and easily accomplished (just to give me the satisfaction of being able to cross them off the list!), some are silly and I almost hesitate to make them public, and some of them are more like life goals – not necessarily going to be scratched off anytime soon, but still need to be remembered.  I’ll try and keep it updated with the ones I do manage to succeed in.  Here ya go…

01.  Buy a DSLR 02/09 – bought a Canon EOS 50D and LOVE IT!!
02.  Get blog set up and updated regularly
03.  Spend the night at the Westin in Savannah
04.  Lose that pesky 10 lbs and keep it off!
05.  Learn how to bake a ham 04/09 – turned out GREAT!
06.  Buy a new dining room table
07.  Go back to Georgia Southern for a creative writing class
08.  Take a three generation portrait of Nanny, Mama and I – unfortunately, my mother passed away before I was able to cross this one off and I’ll miss her with my whole heart the rest of my life.
09.  Go snowboarding
10.  Clean out spare bedroom closets
11.  Win an Addy Award 02/23/09 – won three, thank you very much!!
12.  Go for a long walk on the beach, just because I can
13.  Make one new, REAL friend
14.  Collect my mother’s life story – working on it!! :)  She’s a wonderful storyteller and I’m enjoying our conversations!
15.  Start and actually finish one knitted blanket
16.  Get my first actual massage at a spa
17.  Visit Charleston, SC 05/22/o9 – spent the weekend at Edisto Beach and visited Charleston – LOVED IT!! Went back in Feb. 2010 with Anna – AWESOME! :)
18.  Journal at least three days a week
19.  Fly somewhere first class
20.  Have a book printed with 2008 photos (ummmm… and now, 2009 photos, too!! )
21.  Have photos printed for empty frames in hallway and living room!
22.  Buy a shootsac – Love it!!!!!!  :)
23.  Organize home office
24.  Buy the office desk of my dreams
25.  Learn more about off camera lighting – work in progress….  bought a Canon Speedlight and I’m getting comfortable with that, but there’s still more to learn!!!
26.  Follow my heart more in life
27.  Travel out of the country
28.  Workout six days a week for just one month
29.  Take a photo safari road trip!!!  (this one I REALLY want to do!)
30.  Take a workshop with a photographer I admire
31.  Get an I-Pod (why haven’t I done that yet??) - hubby bought me an I-Pod Touch for Christmas!! :)
32.  Plant a lemon tree
33.  Clear out woods in front of the house (they look kinda scary at the moment!)
34.  Plant Confederate Jasmine outside my bedroom window (It smells so lovely!!)
35.  Recover chair and ottoman upstairs
36.  Buy a painting for the mantle in the living room 03/09 (it’s pretty!  All browns and oranges and golds!)
37.  Photograph the town where I grew up
38.  Buy a Mac for home!
39.  Take mom on vacation at the beach – don’t think we’ll make this one a reality. :(  She’s not in good health.  – Another one that I’ll never get the chance to finish.  My mother passed in April of this year and we never got to take that last vacation.
40.  Go camping on the sandbar again
41.  Take a glassblowing class at SCAD
42.  Perfect my potato salad (almost there!)
43.  Hear Duane Michaels speak again
44.  Go on a cruise to anywhere!
45.  Learn how to fire a handgun
46. Do something that terrifies me 04/09 – Rode in a race car at 170mph around Daytona International Speedway – FREAKIN LUVED IT!
47.  See a Broadway play
48.  Go to an NFL game
49.  Whitewater raft a Class V rapid again
50.  Visit Grandpa Keith in Reno, NV to see his home (something I desperately want to do!) – Unfortunately – Grandpa Keith passed away before I could cross this one off my list. I’ll miss him. :(
51.  Experience Ireland firsthand (that’s my one place in the world I have to see)
52.  Ride a gondola in Venice
53.  Take a sunset helicopter ride
54.  Learn CPR
55.  Take piano lessons
56.  Go back to Vanessi’s in Santa Fe and hear Doug Montgomery play
57.  Learn to water ski
58.  Quilt a baby blanket with my Nanny
59.  Go on a road trip with absolutely NO destination in mind!
60.  Learn ballroom dancing
61.  Take etiquette classes
62.   Learn sign language
63.  See Dave Matthews and Tim Renyolds in concert
64.  Visit all 50 states (definitely going to take longer than 1001 days, but still…)
65.  Leave my city once a month; my country once a year
66.  Start attending church again
67.  Dance in the rain
68.  Learn to appreciate every day of my life
69.  Take a cross country trip with someone I love
70.  Read Jane Eyre again
71.  Watch every movie on AFI’s Top 100 Movies of All Time list
72.  Get Dean Koontz’s autograph in a copy of his book, Watchers
73.   Rediscover butterflies
74.  Swim in the Mediterranean at midnight
75. Cultivate a green thumb – working out quite nicely!! :)  We planted several plants in the backyard and so far, so good!
76.  Put $2000 into savings (have to start somewhere!)
77.  Have all wooden hangers in my closet
78.  Check out a book from the New York Public Library
79.  Write a love letter to myself (silly, I know!)
80.  Tell the people in my life what they mean to me – even if they are only in it briefly
81.  Pick a cause and fight for it
82.  Sing karaoke – ONCE
83.  Live without regrets
84.  Get a fearless new haircut
85.  Be more positive (an everyday challenge!)
86.  Run through the sprinklers 05/09 – felt like a kid again!
87.  Try something completely new and unusual
88.  Tone my arms – channel my inner Jessica Alba!
89.  Ride a dog sled
90.  Continue decorating home – focus on living room and bedroom – finally finished those two rooms!  Looks great! ;)
91.  Host Thanksgiving dinner at my house with my mom
92.  Wake up Christmas morning in my own home
93.  Send more letters, less e-mails
94.  Laugh more
95.  Send flowers anonymously to one random person a month
96.  Ride in a horse and buggy
97.  Drink hot chocolate in Central Park – again!
98.  Read all of Jane Austen’s books
99.  Love without boundaries
100. Have photos published
101.  Start my family!  (still holding off on this one – but…  one day soon)