EK does 101 in 1001

Late last year I was introduced to the day zero project by the Peach & Pearl blog.  I loved the idea, and it seemed like the right timing for such a project.  I like lists, and I like having tools to motivate and challenge me.  I also like that this project is longer then a year, so it gives you time to breath.  I was going to start on January 1, 2011, but we know I was not ready for 2011 then.  So, I set out to begin on February 1, 2011.  AND I did- with the launching of my new photo website (#32).

I hope you will enjoy following along with this project.  I hope to post most of them completed, if not a summary each month.  I'm hoping to pick out a few to accomplish each month.

This month, February 2011,  I hope to accomplish:

1.    Buy a Car (DONE! 2-4-11)
5.    Read One Book Every Month (0/ 34)
32.  Launch a website (DONE! 2-1-11)
34.  Go to WPPI
58.  Learn how to drive a manual transmission
74.  Make a necklace I like and wear it
79.  Write and mail a letter every month (0/34)
100.  Make a Budget.

That seems like a crazy ambitious first month for me, but most of it is because I know most of those things will happen (two already did!) because they are already planned, in the works, or just something that has to get done for practical reasons.

Here's the FULL LIST:

Start Date:             February 1, 2011

End Date:            October 28, 2013

Overall Goal: To be a happier, more productive person.  To stop talking, and start doing.

LIFE

1. Buy a Car
2. Don’t Eat out/ Order in For 1 Month (Including Coffee Shops)
3. Write a Letter to myself to open in 10 years
4. Write a Letter to myself to open at age 50
5. Read One Book Every Month (0/ 34)
6. Read the Bible all the way through
7. Become a Citizen of a country in the EU (England or Ireland)
8. Go tent camping
9. Go to the top of the Empire State Building
10.  Go on a Road Trip up the West Coast from LA to Vancouver with stops in Portland and Seattle
11.  Go to a taping of a Late Night Show (Prefer Conan or Jimmy Fallon)
12.  Go to a professional hockey game
13.  Go to a Philadelphia Union Home Game
14.  Go to Chicago
15.  Go on a cross country road trip.
16.  Go to 5 California Missions (0/5)
17.  Go to beach more!  A CA beach 10 times per year (1/0/0)
18.  Get a second hand Chronicles of Narnia Box Set in PUBLISHED ORDER
19.  Get professional photos of Benjamin and I taken
20.  Get wedding rings dipped and cleaned
21.  Join an adult recreation soccer team
22.  Fly for free using frequent flyer program
23.  See Jimmy Eat World live in concert
24.  CENSORED
25.  Organize External hardrives/ home computers folder system
26.   Be silent for an entire day
27.   Get something pierced.
28.  Go to the dentist
29.  Write a Second 101 in 1001 List.
30.  Complete my first 101 in 1001 List.

WORK

31.  Buy a new DSLR
32.  Launch a website (DONE! 2-1-11)
33.  Start a relationship with an album company
34.  Go to WPPI
35.  Get featured on Style Me Pretty
36.  Get featured in Southern Weddings Magazine
37.  Enter a WPPI print competition
38.  Meet Jose Villa
39.  Attend a Jose Villa Workshop
40.  Meet Susan Stripling
41.  Shoot 15 weddings in a single calendar year (as lead photographer)
42.  Show my photographs in a gallery
43.  Sell Something on Etsy
44.  Sell work at an arts/ craft fair
45.  Shoot film every day (1 roll/ week) for a full 12 month period
46.  Shoot a Wedding in Philadelphia
47.  Take a Photograph of Benjamin, and me once a day for a 12 month period (0/365)
48.  Post to photo blog once a day for an entire month
49.  Transcribe 100 pages in a day
50.  Complete Poolesville Project (even if just for us)
51.  Take portraits of PP and M
52.  Take a family portrait of M side
53.  Take a family portrait of K side
54.  Get a Fedex Account
55.  Grow to have either 500 twitter followers or facebook followers
56.   Become a “certified photographer” by PPA.

SKILLS

57. Complete First Level of Rosetta Stone French
58.  Learn how to drive a manual transmission
59.  Change the Oil in a Car
60.  Learn how to convert a car to run on grease- share how.
61.  Take a print making class
62.  Write a Poem
63.   Plant an Herb Garden
64.   Try 25 New Recipes (0/25)
65.   Eat Vegan for a week
66.   Take a dance class
67.   Take a Cooking class
68.    Take a Flower arranging class
69.   Go snowboarding- go down intermediate slope at least once
70.   Go surfing- at least once!
71.   Learn to do the upward bow pose
72.   Learn the alphabet in sign language.
73.   Floss Every day for 30 days
74.   Make a necklace I like and wear it

LOVE

75.  Give an unexpected gift at an unexpected time
76.  Make Sauerkraut from scratch with Benjamin
77.  Visit Uncle Joe
78.  Host a Dinner Party
79.  Write and mail a letter every month (0/34)
80.  Carve initials inside a heart in a tree/ wet cement
81.  Have a Spa Day (Mani, Pedi, Facial)
82.  CENSORED
83.  CENSORED
84.  Buy the person behind me in line at a coffee shop their drink
85.  Volunteer with the Homeless five times (0/5)
86.  Pay for Rebeckah’s travel to visit me during the summer
87.  Go on a cool vacation for five-year wedding anniversary
88.  Treat a friend to dinner out
89.   Go on a weekend vacation with friends
90.   Have a spontaneous DANCE PARTY
91.   Write my brother a letter once a month while he is deployed (1/12)
92.   Tie a secret to a balloon and let it go.
93.    Send a message in a bottle.

FINANCIAL

94.  Pay all Bills on time for a complete 12 month period (0/12)
95.  Start an IRA / or other retirement savings account– Invest Every Year (0/3)
96.  Pay off EK Student Loans
97.  Pay my parents money towards my “debts” once a year (0/3)
98.  Invest in a Stock
99.  Donate to a charity yearly (0/3)

100.  Make a Budget.

101.  Don’t use credit cards for six months (excluding gas)

If you would like to know more about a task, join the project, or whatever just comment and let me know.  If you're also completing a 101 list I'd love to hear about it and keep up with one another while we both complete the tasks.

Until Then.

I love you.