Luscious Depravity

Inspired by the lovely Justine Johnson.  See also this post for leaving comments or learning more about my take on the project.

The Challenge:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).

Items bolded and crossed-out have been completed; items italicized are in progress!

Items that are blue are knitting/fiber related.

Items that are green are writing related.

Items that are purple are cooking/food related.

Start Date: February 14th, 2010
End Date: November 11th, 2012

1. Write every day.  Every.  Day. Post it as a blog, even if it is password protected. (73/1001)
2. Establish a time for me to write and Brad to do art.  Five days a week.  Follow this schedule for 26 consecutive weeks. (0/26)
3. Finish Brad’s and my second trigentennial socks. (0/2)
4. Clean/reorganize the Monster Club.  There can be no “miscellaneous” boxes  or piles or bags of stuff.  There must be a place for everything, and everything in its place, with stations for writing or knitting, etc.
5. Buy a house.
6. Make $500 in profit (not sales) from doing an art (writing, spinning, knitting, etc.) (0/$500)
7. Use only my divacup for three consecutive periods. (0/3)
8. Knit an adult-sized long-sleeved sweater.
9. Go on an adventure with Husband every month. (3/33) Feb10:Sacopee Valley area. Mar10:Rollins in Boston. Apr10:Fishing in NH, May10: , Jun10: , Jul10: Adventures in NH, Aug10:Road trip to many states, Sep10: , Oct10:, Nov10:, Dec10:
   
10. Fix my sewing machine, or buy a new one. Tina M. gave me one for Xmas ‘10
    
11. Set up Quicken and Really Use it.  For a whole year.
12. Get another tattoo.
13. Make vanilla extract. Fall 2010
    
14. Do wrist tendinitis exercises three times a week for three months (0/36)
15. Figure out a sustainable way to braid my hair around my head, and wear it that way.
16. Make an entire knitting project knitting continential.  Must be at least a hat or larger.
17. Do not have take-out food of any kind for a week (includes vending machines, bars, and convenience stores).(0/7)
18. Get CPM or other professional certification.
19. Make four different kinds of yeast bread. (0/4)
20. Help Brad scrapbook all his old photos and memorabilia.
21. Acquire a spinning wheel.
22. Read 20 books. (0/20)
23. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday nights for three months, have laptop in Monster club from 6:30 p.m. on. (0/36)
24. Make wine.
25. Acquire ukulele. Christmas ‘10 from Husband
    
26. Write a song for ukulele.
27. Knit anklet socks for myself that I will actually wear.
28. Write 12 actual letters on paper to friends or family members. (0/12)
29. Start Christmas gifts in July.
30. Make a circular needle organizer.
31. Spend an afternoon doing nice things with Mum.
32. Design, format, and distribute five patterns on Ravelry. (0/5)
33. Do the HP House Cup three times. (1/3)
34. Crochet a small accessory (mitts, hat, or slippers, etc.).
35. Learn three different methods of dying yarn. (0/3)
36. Open an etsy shop.
37. Go to Gettysburg & camp there. August 2010
    
38. Visit Washington, D.C. with Husband. August 2010
39. Knit a project from an antique pattern.
40. Organize and inventory all yarn, with photos, including weighing partial skeins.
41. Pay off all credit card debt.
42. Get to half-way mark in NaNoWriMo. (0/25,000)
43. Win NaNoWriMo. (0/50,000)
44. Do 200 sit-ups. (0/200)
45. Make a Christmas ornament for each Christmas we have been married (0/2+2)
46. Learn to weave.
47. Play in four seasons of dodgeball. (2/4)
48. Go to an aquarium.
49. Learn the January night sky - all the constellations and planetary activity.
50. View a lunar eclipse from Two Lights.
51. View two meteor showers (0/2).
52. Go strawberry picking.
53. Go to Open Farm Day. 2010 with Tina M.
54. Go to Maine Maple Sunday. (With Krista & Matt,  March 2010)
55. Go to Maine Apple Sunday. 2010 with Tina M.
56. Buy and consume only local groceries (including our own garden) for two weeks. (0/14)
57. Visit six other states. Must stop in the state for at least one meal or overnight to count. (6/6) MA, RI, CT, VA, NC, DE, NJ
58. Get a kitten!
59. Make three International Cat Hats. (0/3)
60. Create a blog of an imaginary person, and post twice a week for six months. (0/48)
61. Clean out the closet in Brad’s room.
62. Make 10 different kinds of dried food/jerky. (0/10)
63. Can 26 different foods. (3/26) sour pickles, jellied cranberry sauce, mixed fruit jelly
64. Have a four dinner parties with friends. (0/4)
65. Finish/redo my dad’s gold toed socks. (0/2)
66. Keep an indoor plant alive for an entire year.
67. Upgrade my laptop.
68. Acquire a second or third gen iPad for the primary purpose of writing.
69. Do four things that scare me.  Really scare me. (1/4) quit my job for self-employment
70. Go to Canada.
71. Create a group, and then give ownership to someone else Port City Writers
72. Submit three different pieces for publication. (0/3)
73. Submit a piece until it gets published.
74. Enter two writing contests. (0/2)
75. Write a computer program and use it.
76. Make mead.
77. Take two college classes. (0/2)
78. Go apple picking.
79. Go camping three times. (1/3) August 2010 - Gettysburg,
80. Make bread from Christina Dugre’s recipe.
81. Put things in Mum’s etsy shop for her. November 2010
82. Go to a baseball game with my dad.
83. Take Mum to a hockey game.
84. Go on an adventure with Heather that involves spending the night not at home.
85. Go on an adventure with Audrey in another state.
86. Knit something with beads.
87. Acquire a truck.
88. NerdWarsCon
89. Do a visual art, like painting or drawing, for two solid hours once a week for 8 weeks. (0/8)
90. Save $1,000. (100/1,000)
91. Go to the Fiber Frolic. June 2011
    
92. Make the best mac and cheese the world has ever seen. Document each attempt.  Create and fill out a survey for each attempt.  Make Brad do it, too.  Blog it all.
93. Get another piercing.
94. Do not drink any alcohol for six weeks. (0/6)
95. Make a windchime out of old forks and spoons.
96. Throw a surprise party for someone epic in both awesomeness and surprise factor.
97. Watch all six complete seasons of Lost (with commentary where available) as a Weekly Event, Firefly Night - style.  Blog it up.   Stay spoiler-free for noobs. Began November 2010
    
98. Study and research the perfect bra. Find it.  Engineer it if necessary. Try to keep it from spontaneously combusting.
99. Participate in four yarn/knitting related swaps. (4/4) Lost, Harry Potter, DDLM, Princess Bride, + in 2010
    
100. Participate in some sort of seminar/conference-type deal that is knitting or writing related.  (suitable examples: Bread Loaf, Sock Summit, Writing the Unthinkable, etc.)
101. Make a very specific plan for the future including but not limited to: conversion to off-the-grid, heating, finances, landscaping, the apartment building, logistics.  The plan will be in a binder, and have adequate references and research included in various appendices.