I could say I’ve been a little distracted by the season but that would just be a lie.  The truth is, I’ve been a little distracted by pure laziness.  Despite the laziness, I did have a good practice run on the crafts!  And, one could argue that I’ve had several good practice runs on making a fool of myself.  Here’s a pic of the hats Lu and I made.  Enjoy!

1.     Complete one sewing project.

2.    Read Swan’s Way

3.     Use my passport to travel

4.    Spend one week of greeting everyone in the “European” way with air kisses.

5.    Take a road trip to a state I haven’t visited yet.

6.    Knit a pair of socks.

7.    Censored

8.    Get a new car.

9.    Either sky dive or get a tattoo of what my face will look like sky diving.

10.  Be a vegetarian for one month with at least one week as a vegan.

11.   Go on a pub crawl.

12.  Pet a cow

13.   Go camping.

14.  Hike Enchanted Rock.

15.  Learn how to drive a boat.

16.  Audit a class at UT.

17.  Apply to one Ph.D. program just to see…

18.  Paint a self portrait

19.  Censored.

20.  Read the poetry of Rumi

21.  Publish an article

22.  Go to the dentist

23.  Drink beer at the Shiner Brewery

24.  Dance a polka with a man wearing lederhosen

25.  Complete 20 crossword puzzles (0/20)

26.  Have a Halloween party after the forthcoming big birthday.

27.  Write a letter a week for a year

28.  Do a craft with Emily and Lucy

29.  Stay up all night playing board games

30.  Make and send postcards to friends

31.   Visit/see Lani and Alan once a month for a year (0/12)

32.  Ride a train

33.  Visit Shannon and meet Mira

34.  Write a travel narrative

35.  Get a pet

36.  Make/mail Christmas cards

37.  Run a mile

38.  Read 30 novels including 3 works of Mark Twain

39.  Write in a journal everyday for two months

40.  Host a bad movie night with the old gang.

41.  Learn to play a musical instrument

42.  Host a grown-up dinner party

43.  Master roller skating backwards

44.  Attend an NFL football game

45.  Make a 20 minute documentary on my iphone

46.  Visit another city just to go to an exhibit.

47.  Go on a garden tour of New Orleans

48.  Go ice skating

49.  Go on a picnic at Mount Bonell

50.  See a classical music performance

51.  Go canoeing on Lady Bird Lake

52.  Make Will an action figure

53.  Build a haunted house (see Lexie)

54.  Bike around the Lake District

55.  Censored

56.  Make a living spice rack

57.  Finish a Tuesday NYT crossword puzzle

58.  Make my savings account real

59.  Perfect a bread recipe

60.  Swim Barton Springs in winter

61.  Karaoke Extravaganza

62.  Spend an afternoon flying kites

63.  See NYC with snow on it.

64.  Create a book of 1-page biographies of family members and friends

65.  Send Birthday cards that arrive on time.

66.  Clean and organize closets

67.  Refinish a piece of Goodwill Furniture

68.  Make a tshirt about a weekend

69.  Ask a boy out on an old-fashioned date

70.  Let my bangs grow out

71.  Go to the beach in fall or winter

72.  File and organize grad school papers

73.  Collect leaves and press them in a book

74.  Attend three different types of religious ceremonies

75.  Spend a day acting like a tourist in Austin.

76.  Find a picture to submit to Daguerreotype Boyfriends

77.  Practice throwing free throws until I can make three in a row

78.  Make a walking map for things within walking distance of my apartment.

79.  Build a cardboard fort from an appliance box.

80.  Go see a play/live theater

81.  Make a snow angel

82.  Do a cleanse.

83.  Write a poem with Lucy.

84.  Make one of the old cameras work/figure out how to use it.

85.  Blow out Birthday party the weekend of August 30-Sept. 2, 2013.

86.  Censored

87.  Fall in and out of love (not necessarily in that order)

88.  Visit my grandparents.

89.  Censored

90.  Stay out all night dancing on a work night

91.  Make a fool of myself (see above)

92.  Take road trip to Dollywood

93.  Go Country dancing

94.  Go on a trip alone

95.  Play Bingo

96.  Relearn French, again.

97.  Attend a SxSW show no matter how painful the crowds

98.  Censored

99.  Send thank you notes (again, on time)

100.                Adopt a grandparent/volunteer to work with an elderly person

101.                Make a new list.

I’ve been floundering in free time since graduation a few months ago and the boredom has almost gotten me into trouble on a couple of occasions.  I know I used to have hobbies (can impromptu wine nights be considered a hobby?) but for the life of me, I can’t remember what they are.  Then, a week or so ago, Mandy posted a list of 101 things she wanted to accomplish in the next 1001 days.  She posted the list on her website and facebook page, and I found it inspiring.  It was a good mixture of quick projects to scratch off after an afternoon, long-term goals, things she always meant to do and places both far and near that haven’t been visited.  So, about a week ago, I started jotting ideas down for my own list.  Coming up with 101 things was harder than I thought it would be.  Some are silly and ridiculous.  Some are a little un-quantifiable.  Most are things I’ve always talked about doing but never gotten around to.  So I’m posting the list here.  Not as a way of saying, “Look what I can do” but as a way of keeping myself honest and motivated.  I’m not making any promises of daily or even weekly list updates.  I may or may not document each item on the list.  A few of the items (the censored ones) will def. not appear here.  And I can’t promise that the list won’t look totally different by the time I’m done.  But starting today, Friday, November 18, 2011, I have 101 things that need to be finished by Friday, August 15, 2014.  I guess that’s not as much time as I though.  Better get moving.