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Started: July 7, 2023
Ended: April 3, 2026
Final Total: 56/101
Personal Development [4/8]
☐ 1. Beat my past 101 in 1001 record of 68. [56/68]
✔ 2. Get my Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Specialist certification. [September 2023]
✔ 3. Get a Duolingo French score of 30. [December 2025]
☐ 4. Learn how to drive a stick shift.
☐ 5. Learn how to change a tire.
☐ 6. Make a will.
✔ 7. Hit my goal for our emergency fund balance. [March 2025]
✔ 8. Journal every day for a month. [February 2024]
Health & Fitness [2/6]
✔ 9. Hike 5 times. [5/5: Bow in the Clouds Preserve in September 2023 | Tom’s Thumb in March 2024 | Asylum Lake Preserve in July 2024 | Dune Ridge Trail at Indiana Dunes National Park in August 2024 | The Ledges Trail at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in September 2024]
☐ 10. Finish World 23 of Ring Fit.
☐ 11. Learn how to roller skate backward.
☐ 12. Be able to do the splits in any one direction.
☐ 13. Finish my allergy shot treatment.
✔ 14. Take an aerial silks class (again). [March 2026]
House [10/17]
☐ 15. Set up a craft room in the basement.
☐ 16. Add built-in bookshelves to my office.
✔ 17. Paint the main bedroom. [September 2023]
✔ 18. Paint my office. [December 2023]
✔ 19. Paint Sean’s office. [November 2023]
☐ 20. Replace the front closet doors.
✔ 21. Get our record player fixed. [July 2023]
☐ 22. Refinish my hexagon end table.
☐ 23. Refinish my knitting table.
✔ 24. Put up a Little Free Library. [October 2023]
✔ 25. Get my antique sewing machine working. [September 2025]
☐ 26. Repair and repaint my lawn goose, Ryan.
✔ 27. Upgrade our towels. [January 2024]
✔ 28. Build a pergola in the backyard. [May 2025]
☐ 29. Get an estimate for an in-ground pool.
✔ 30. Transplant the redbud tree in the backyard. [March 2025]
✔ 31. Landscape the front yard. [September 2024]
Organization & Decluttering [4/7]
✔ 32. Edit down my iCloud photos. [January 2024]
✔ 33. Clean out both external hard drives. [October 2023]
☐ 34. Update our Home Book each year. [3/4: 2023 | 2024 | 2025]
☐ 35. Come up with a reason to regularly print photos.
☐ 36. Upgrade the closet storage in the main bedroom.
✔ 37. Organize my baseball hats. [September 2025]
✔ 38. Finish decanting the jars in my spice drawer. [January 2024]
Travel [8/12]
☐ 39. Travel to the Pacific Northwest.
☐ 40. Travel to San Francisco.
☐ 41. Visit 5 Michigan State Parks. [1/5: Belle Isle State Park in February 2025]
☐ 42. Visit 3 zoos. [1/3: Binder Park Zoo in September 2025]
✔ 43. Visit Dollywood. [October 2023]
✔ 44. Go to a Red Wings home game. [Red Wings vs Golden Knights in January 2024]
✔ 45. Go to a Red Wings away game. [Red Wings at Coyotes in March 2024]
✔ 46. See a Cirque du Soleil performance. [February 2024]
✔ 47. Travel to 5 Holiday Inn Club Vacations resorts (not including Orange Lake Resort). [4/5: New Orleans Resort in September 2023 | Smoky Mountain Resort in October 2023 | Orlando Breeze Resort in February 2024 | Scottsdale Resort in March 2024 | Mount Ascutney Resort in October 2024]
✔ 48. Visit a state I’ve never been to. [Louisiana in September 2023]
✔ 49. Visit a country I’ve never been to. [Colombia in April 2025]
✔ 50. Buy a medium-sized suitcase. [February 2024]
Local [4/7]
✔ 51. Go to a Kalamazoo Growlers game. [July 2023]
✔ 52. Go to a Kalamazoo Wings game. [March 2024]
☐ 53. Go to a Kalamazoo FC game.
✔ 54. Visit 10 new-to-me places in Kalamazoo. [10/10: High Dive Kitchen + Bar in July 2023 | Motea House & Ramen in August 2023 | ChocolaTea in August 2023 | brick + brine in September 2023 | Bow in the Clouds Preserve in September 2023 | JungleBird in September 2023 | Henderson Castle in September 2023 | Tempo Vino Winery in September 2023 | Dabney & Co in September 2023 | Toba Sushi & Grill in December 2023]
☐ 55. Have a picnic at Frays Park.
✔ 56. Complete the Give a Craft Beer Trail. [26/26: Bell’s Eccentric Cafe in July 2023 | Brewery Outré in July 2023 | Paw Paw Brewing Co in August 2023 | Warner Brew Haus in August 2023 | Murray Street Brewing Company in August 2023 | Texas Corners Brewing Company in August 2023 | Saugatuck Brewing Co. Kalamazoo in August 2023 | One Well Brewing in August 2023 | Final Gravity Brewing Company in September 2023 | Bell’s Brewery Tour (Extra Credit) in September 2023 | Apoptosis Brewing Company in September 2023 | The Distant Whistle Brewhouse in September 2023 | Presidential Brewing Company in September 2023 | Brite Eyes Brewing Company in October 2023 | Grand River Brewery in October 2023 | Territorial Brewing Company in October 2023 | Tantrick Brewing Co in November 2023 | Guardian Brewing Company in November 2023 | Waypost Brewing Co in November 2023 | Harbor Light Brewery in November 2023 | Three Blondes Brewing in November 2023 | River Trade Brewing Company in November 2023 | Handmap Brewing Company in November 2023 | Useless Creatures Brewing Company in November 2023 | Final Gravity Brewing Company in Decatur in November 2023 | Sister Lakes Brewing Company in November 2023]
☐ 57. Visit all of the wineries on the Lake Michigan Shore Wine Trail. [3/15: St. Julian Winery & Distillery in August 2023 | Lawton Ridge Winery in June 2024 | Cody Kresta Vineyard & Winery in June 2024]
Food [4/7]
✔ 58. Take a sushi rolling class. [July 2023]
✔ 59. Make paczkis. [February 2024]
☐ 60. Learn to make 10 new cocktails from memory. [4/10: Gin Basil Smash in July 2023 | Aviation in August 2023 | Hugo Spritz in August 2023 | Lavender Haze in December 2023]
☐ 61. Create a custom cocktail.
✔ 62. Bake 5 different cake recipes from scratch. [5/5: Ombre Cake in September 2023 | Lemon Curd Cake in January 2024 | Lemon Lavender Cake in March 2025 | Berry Chantilly Cake in August 2025 | Salted Caramel Apple Cake in September 2025]
☐ 63. Learn how to make latte art with our espresso machine.
✔ 64. Add an herb garden to the kitchen windowsill. [July 2023]
Creative [7/14]
☐ 65. Create a cool signature.
☐ 66. Learn calligraphy.
☐ 67. Learn to rebind books.
✔ 68. Learn to punch-needle. [August 2023]
✔ 69. Learn to felt. [July 2024]
✔ 70. Learn to crochet (again). [November 2023]
☐ 71. Crochet a sweater or cardigan.
✔ 72. Make something with macrame. [Hat Organizer in October 2024]
✔ 73. Finish my #NoNewFriends cross-stitch project. [October 2023]
✔ 74. Frame and hang my “Magic Castle” cross-stitch project. [August 2023]
☐ 75. Finish a sewing project.
✔ 76. Take a ceramics class (again). [July 2024]
☐ 77. Fix my manatee bowl.
☐ 78. Publish 15 blog posts (excluding 101 in 1001 posts). [4/15: Aix-en-Provence for Athina’s Wedding | A Few Days in Paris | Work in Progress: My Incredibly Unruly Herb Garden | Florida in February, Or: That Time I Met Joey Fatone]
Reading [1/8]
☐ 79. Read all of my Book of the Month picks. [48/119: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson | The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton | Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes | The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling | Recursion by Blake Crouch | Dark Matter by Blake Crouch | Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly | The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray | The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Beanne Randall | The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young | Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan | A Winter in New York by Josie Silver | Starling House by Alix E. Harrow | What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez | Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin | The Gentleman’s Gambit by Evie Dunmore | Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez | Happily Never After by Lynn Painter | Ready or Not by Cara Bastone | Shark Heart by Emily Habeck | Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood | Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn | The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer | The Pairing by Casey McQuiston | The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center | The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren | This Spells Love by Kate Robb | You, Again by Kate Goldbeck | The Power by Naomi Alderman | Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi | Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez | The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner | The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche | Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young | The Love Haters by Katherine Center | Passion Project by London Sperry | Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry | The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong | Discontent by Beatriz Serrano | The Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O’Clover | The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso | Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood | Play Nice by Rachel Harrison | The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman | Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman | The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman | The Odds of You by Kate Dramis | The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham]
☐ 80. Read and / or get rid of 25 books I already own. [11/25: Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes | Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins | Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly | The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray | Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan | When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger | A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown | Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn | Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon | The Power by Naomi Alderman | Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland]
☐ 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 the Animal Ark series. [35/50]
☐ 83. Read the Stormlight Archive.
☐ 84. Read the Princess Diaries Book Series.
☐ 85. Read 10 self-help books. [4/10: How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis | Goblin Mode by McKayla Coyle | Nobody Wants Your Sh*t by Messie Condo | Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman]
✔ 86. Go on a reading retreat. [August 2023]
Entertainment [8/8]
✔ 87. Build our record collection to 25 albums. [25/25 in August 2023: A Night at the Opera by Queen | Stick Season by Noah Kahan | Same Trailer Different Park (10th Anniversary Edition) by Kacey Musgraves | It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown | Abbey Road by The Beatles | Lover by Taylor Swift | folklore by Taylor Swift | Midnights by Taylor Swift | Celebrity by NSYNC | Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons | Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player by Elton John | Outlandos d’Amour by The Police | The Original Musiquarium I by Stevie Wonder | Greatest Hits by Simon & Garfunkel | Jolene by Dolly Parton | Greatest Hits by America | Band on the Run by Paul McCartney & Wings | Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police | evermore by Taylor Swift | Stardust by Willie Nelson | Synchronicity by The Police | The Sound of Music Soundtrack | The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole | Merry Christmas by Bing Crosby | Merry Christmas by Johnny Mathis]
✔ 88. Listen to all (previously unplayed) episodes of 99% Invisible. [March 2024]
✔ 89. Watch all of Sex and the City. [August 2023]
✔ 90. Watch all of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. [September 2025]
✔ 91. Watch all of RuPaul’s Drag Race. [July 2025]
✔ 92. Watch all of Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World. [December 2025]
✔ 93. Watch all of Hannah Montana. [October 2023]
✔ 94. Get all of the trophies in Hogwarts Legacy. [July 2023]
Just for Fun [4/7]
✔ 95. Send out Christmas cards. [December 2024]
✔ 96. Go on a ghost tour or haunted history tour. [New Orleans History & Haunts Carriage Tour in September 2023]
✔ 97. Learn to drive the pontoon boat. [August 2023]
☐ 98. Learn to juggle.
☐ 99. Get my conch and flat piercings.
☐ 100. Get my daith and helix piercings.
✔ 101. Buy a leather jacket. [February 2026]
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