The List.

The Mission:
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 my part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as new year's resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

BOLD items are completed (yay!)
ITALICIZED Items are in progress (fingers crossed)

DANICA'S LIST!
1. Go to a shooting range.
2. hitch hike
3. Sky-dive
4. See a Green Bay Packers Game
5. Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
6. Save $1 a day for 1001 days
7. Watch a sunrise
8. Make a new list as soon as this one ends!
9. Put coins in expired parking meters
10. Pay for the car behind me in a fast food drive-through
11. Buy a piano (edit: I may be changing this to piano/keyboard.. cause one makes much more sense for me.. and they are similar in price)
12. Learn to play the cello
13 run a 1/2 marathon.
14. Read the Bible... all of it.
15. Drink only water for a month
16. Participate in a Sader Dinner
17. Make a scrapbook from our grand canyon trip
18. Get rid of AIM for a month.
19. Pay off my smaller student loan (or the equivalent on my larger loan).
20. Get a “real” job that I actually enjoy (or brings me anywhere close to actual "enjoyment")
21. Be certified in CPR
22. Learn to change a tire.
23. Learn to drive a standard.
24. Go 1 entire month without eating out
25. Cook dinner every night for a week
26. Go camping for a weekend
27. Take my "pretty voice" to audition for Disney.
28. Go skiing & snowboarding.
29. Have a letter to the editor published.
30. Submit articles for magazines.
31. Have a secret on Postsecret or in thier book.
32. Launch the band website & Myspace Pages.
33. Finish the EP.
34. Plug songs to Publishing Co.
35. Visit Bob and Linda in New Hampshire
36. Work in Africa
37. Do a mother daughter trip to Boston.
38. Go to a Spa for the weekend with girlfriends.
39. Do christmas for $300 (and not leave anyone out!)
40. Audition for a Broadway musical.
41. Send random ”I Love You” notes to family and friends.
42. Experience Nashville through a tourists eyes.
43. Backpack Europe for a month.
44. Return to New York.
45. Improve and expand my conversational German
46. Take my car through on of those nice, detail carwash places.
47. Fly a kite at Cenetnnial Park
48. Ice Skate at Rockefellar Center.
49. Be the Local Lightning spotlight. I figure being played on the station is close enough seeing as how I never applied and then I moved... plus I'm in syndication...for better or worse...
50. Begin and grow a vinyl collection
51. Sell something on Ebay
52. Have my saxaphone fixed.
53. Get a dog. (I'm counting Chester... deal with it)
54. See the Nashville Ballet
55. Go to a Sounds game
56. Go to a Predators game.
57. Meet Danica Patrick and tell her she pronounces her name wrong.
58. Perform at The Ryman
59. Go Skinny-dipping
60. Organize clothes/closet & donate the ones I haven’t worn in 1 year.
61. Play hookey from work.
62. Sleep in the backyard.
63. Attempt surfing again...and succeed!
64. Go horseback riding
65. Become insured.
66. Undergo LASIK
67. Knit a scarf.
68. Go for a week without hitting the snooze button on my alarm.
69. Participate in a Kareoke night.
70. Buy a lottery ticket.
71. Go for a picnic at midnight. Wine and all.
72. Host a family holiday dinner.
73. Go to the drive-in.
74. Get a library Card.
75. Save $5,000
76. Write a musical.
77. Learn my family stories and begin a CD project on them.
78. Grow a vegetable garden. I tried... twice.
79. Plant flowers.
80. Help a friend accomplish a task on their 101 list.
81. Make a t-shirt quilt. (edit: I started this and have had it 3/4 done since the week I made up this list... sad. I WILL finish it!)
82. Add something to a Wikipedia listing
83. Learn to juggle
84. Watch the Sight and Sound Critics Top 10 Films & Directors Top 10 Films.
85. Read the top 10 books in the Modern Library’s “Board’s List” of 100 Best Novels.
86. Buy a complete suit.
87. Go TPing.
88. Write a letter of thanks and encouragement to a politician.
89. write a letter of thanks and encouragement to a company based on an employees job well done.
90. Participate in a “26 Things” project
91. Visit/Camp at Yellowstone (see old faithful)
92. Visit/Camp at Yosemite
93. Get really cute rain boots and go puddle jumping.
94. Tell people what they mean to me, and be honest when the things they do or don’t do, hurt me.
95. Be in the BC Clark’s TV commercial.
96. Go rock Climbing
97. Do 1 full pull up.
98. Write a song a day for a week.
99. Go a day without worrying.
100. Watch "Project Runway"
101. Make Fried chicken.

You can keep tabs on my status over in the right-hand column... plus I'll be posting on items as I complete them.

Here goes nothing...