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Previous 101 in 1001 Lists: #1 | #2
Starts: October 9, 2020
Ends: July 6, 2023
Last Updated: August 2, 2022
Personal Development [1/6]
☐ 1. Beat my past 101 in 1001 record of 68. [49/68]
✔ 2. Learn how to jumpstart a car. [July 2021]
☐ 3. Learn how to drive a stick shift.
☐ 4. Learn how to change a tire.
☐ 5. Listen to all (previously unplayed) episodes of 99% Invisible.
☐ 6. Get to level 1 in all Spanish lessons on Duolingo. [Checkpoint 6/10]
Financial [3/5]
✔ 7. Pay off our student loans. [November 2020]
✔ 8. Make a big purchase to celebrate paying off our student loans. [December 2020]
☐ 9. Make a will.
✔ 10. Max out 401Ks, IRAs, and HSAs for me and Sean in a single calendar year. [January 2022]
☐ 11. Boost our emergency fund to $15k.
Health & Fitness [2/7]
☐ 12. Do an 8pm-8am phone ban every day for two weeks.
✔ 13. Buy an Apple Watch. [January 2021]
☐ 14. Run 5 kilometers without stopping.
✔ 15. Go on a hike once per week for a month. [September 2021]
☐ 16. Finish Ring Fit.
☐ 17. Take an advanced yoga course in FitOn without having to modify or stop in the middle.
☐ 18. Be able to do the splits in at least one direction.
House [15/18]
✔ 19. Get a new couch. [November 2020]
✔ 20. Replace our microwave. [April 2022]
✔ 21. Set up an emergency preparedness kit. [February 2022]
✔ 22. Improve our inventory of smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and fire extinguishers. [January 2022]
✔ 23. Convert the downstairs fireplace to gas. [July 2021]
✔ 24. Add a bar to the lounge. [July 2022]
✔ 25. Buy coupe glasses. [October 2020]
☐ 26. Decorate my office.
✔ 27. Install curtains throughout the house. [April 2021]
☐ 28. Open a brewery in the basement.
✔ 29. Frame and hang our Venice poster. [April 2021]
✔ 30. Replace the ceiling light in the guest bedroom. [May 2021]
☐ 31. Get my grandma’s chair reupholstered.
✔ 32. Get a pool for the back yard. [July 2022]
✔ 33. Plant a garden. [June 2021]
✔ 34. Improve the entertainment space in the backyard. [August 2021]
✔ 35. Plant my grandma’s irises at the new house. [June 2022]
✔ 36. Add some sort of barrier next to the sunroom and porch. [April 2021]
Organization & Decluttering [6/11]
☐ 37. Use up all of my old And Possibly Dinosaurs notepads.
✔ 38. Get all but 100 items in Stylebook down to $1 per wear. [March 2021]
✔ 39. Go through all of my old mix CDs. [January 2022]
✔ 40. Organize the laundry room. [February 2021]
✔ 41. Organize the workshop. [April 2022]
✔ 42. Organize the main room of the basement. [February 2021]
☐ 43. Organize the garage.
☐ 44. Organize our bedroom closet / clothing storage.
✔ 45. Preserve my wedding dress. [December 2020]
☐ 46. Update our Home Book each year. [3/4: 2020 | 2021 | 2022]
☐ 47. Reorganize and consolidate my photo files.
Travel [2/11]
☐ 48. Travel to the Pacific Northwest.
☐ 49. Travel to Denver.
☐ 50. Travel to San Francisco.
☐ 51. Travel to Nashville.
✔ 52. Visit Randi in Arizona. [October 2021]
☐ 53. Visit Angela in LA.
✔ 54. Do a girls’ trip with Angela and Randi. [October 2021]
☐ 55. Visit 10 Michigan State Parks
☐ 56. Visit at least 3 zoos.
☐ 57. Visit Dollywood.
☐ 58. Go to a Red Wings away game.
Local [2/7]
✔ 59. Visit 10 new-to-me places in Kalamazoo. [September 2021]
☐ 60. Go to a Kalamazoo Growlers game.
✔ 61. Play tennis or pickleball with Sean at Fray’s Park. [July 2022]
☐ 62. Go apple picking.
☐ 63. Visit a pumpkin patch.
☐ 64. Go sledding or tubing.
☐ 65. Go ice skating.
Food [2/8]
☐ 66. Cook my way through an entire cookbook. [30/103]
☐ 67. Make fried plantains and jollof rice.
✔ 68. Learn how to roast a chicken without needing to follow a recipe. [February 2022]
☐ 69. Learn how to make latte art with our espresso machine.
☐ 70. Learn how to poach an egg.
✔ 71. Learn how to make crepes. [February 2022]
☐ 72. Learn how to make 15 classic cocktails from memory. [5/15: Old Fashioned | Tom Collins | Sidecar | Tequila Sunrise | Gin & Tonic]
☐ 73. Take a sushi rolling class.
Creative [5/6]
✔ 74. Buy an iPad. [January 2021]
✔ 75. Learn how to style my natural curls. [May 2021]
✔ 76. Learn to cross-stitch. [January 2022]
☐ 77. Learn calligraphy.
✔ 78. Make an embroidered table cloth of visitors’ signatures. [April 2021]
✔ 79. Block print something. [February 2022]
Reading [3/8]
☐ 80. Read (or attempt to read) and get rid of 25 books that I already own. [11/25: The Winter of Red Snow | A Little Bit Wicked | Outer Order, Inner Calm | The House at Pooh Corner | Hector and the Search for Happiness | Send for Me | For One More Day | Me Before You | Our Way Back to Always | Where the Crawdads Sing | Always and Forever Lara Jean]
☐ 81. Read all previously unread books on Alyse Ruriani’s Anti-Racist Bingo: Reading List Edition. [4/25: White Rage by Carol Anderson | The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown | Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates]
✔ 82. Read all published books by Jenny Han. [May 2022]
☐ 83. Read the Animal Ark series.
☐ 84. Read the Dear America books. [40/43: The Winter of Red Snow | Behind the Masks | Like the Willow Tree | Cannons at Dawn | Standing in the Light | Early Sunday Morning | My Secret War | Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie | The Fences Between Us | Dreams in the Golden Country | A Time for Courage | Seeds of Hope | With the Might of Angels | A City Tossed and Broken | Down the Rabbit Hole | Hear My Sorrow | Christmas After All | A Light in the Storm | I Walk in Dread | I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly | My Face to the Wind | Valley of the Moon | The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow | My Heart is on the Ground | A Journey to the New World | When Will This Cruel War Be Over? | One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping | Survival in the Storm | Color Me Dark | Look to the Hills | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | Land of the Buffalo Bones | A Picture of Freedom | Love Thy Neighbor | A Line in the Sand | All the Stars in the Sky | The Great Railroad Race | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | When Christmas Comes Again | A Coal Miner’s Bride]
✔ 85. Read the Royal Diaries books. [March 2022]
✔ 86. Read the Little House series. [May 2021]
☐ 87. Read the Wheel of Time series.
Animal Crossing [5/5]
✔ 88. Get framed photos of all of my neighbors in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. [September 2021]
✔ 89. Catch all bugs, fish, and sea creatures in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. [September 2021]
✔ 90. Get all 6 golden tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. [September 2021]
✔ 91. Get all of KK Slider’s songs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. [February 2021]
✔ 92. See Animal Crossing: New Horizons switch over to a new day at 5 am. [October 2020]
Just for Fun [3/9]
☐ 93. Learn to juggle.
☐ 94. Learn to identify 5 constellations. [4/5: Cygnus in October 2021 | Draco in October 2021 | Hercules in July 2022 | Aquila in July 2022]
✔ 95. Get a new piercing. [Second Ear Lobe Piercings, February 2022]
✔ 96. Get a keyboard and learn to play the piano again. [January 2022]
☐ 97. Watch all of Sex and the City.
✔ 98. Watch all of The Golden Girls. [January 2022]
☐ 99. Watch all of Downton Abbey (including the movies).
☐ 100. Watch all of Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire. [4/6 Seasons]
☐ 101. Watch all of the Mary Tyler Moore Show.