101 Things

I ran across the 101 Things meme online. The idea is to make a list of 101 things that you mean to accomplish in the next 1001 days. Here’s my list:

1. Finish reading that stack of Journals in the living room.
2. Finish reading Prose Works.
3. Review all of my notes and reread all the citations from Primary class.
4. Reread Science and Health.
5. In Spanish.
6. Read all of the books I bought off the used shelf at the Reading Room but never bothered to look at.
7. Update our section of the Route 66 Dining and Lodging Guide.
8. Get through an entire Oklahoma Route 66 Association Trip Guide layout process without dropping any f-bombs.
9. Finish Jamie’s audiobooks.
10. Finish Jamie’s ABC book.
11. Make a functional vase for my car.
12. Reduce my annual mileage on the car by 10 percent.
13. Air up my bike tires and train until I can ride all the way to work and back.
14. Get in the habit of riding a bike for work or errands twice a week.
15. Learn to ride my unicycle.
16. Finish my Wild Things mural.
17. Finish my Lorax mural.
18. Find a permanent solution to the algae problem in the pond.
19. Take one photograph per mile on Route 66 from the Kansas-Oklahoma border to the Oklahoma-Texas border.
20. Bicycle the length of Route 66 in Oklahoma.
21. Read Michael’s Lincoln Highway book cover to cover.
22. Explore part of the Lincoln Highway.
23. Clean the garage.
24. One way or another, finish the Luna project.
25. Declutter the house.
26. Make the living room presentable.
27. And keep it that way.
28. Build a hoop house in the garden.
29. Get a hummingbird feeder.
30. Build a solar oven.
31. Set up a better daily routine to be more productive at work.
32. Do at least two articles, graphics, or photo packages per month for work. UPDATE: I’m averaging several a week and aiming for one a day through the new RedFork Main Street blog.
33. Add 101 entries to Indie Tulsa.
34. Add 101 entries to Spring Break 66.
35. Add 101 entries to Route 66 Food.
36. Add 101 entries to House of the Lifted Lorax.
37. Pack and ship all the goodies I’ve got sitting around here that I bought for other people but never sent to them.
38. Reorganize the kitchen for maximum efficiency.
39. Either refill my Wave bag and start using it, or give it to someone who needs it.
40. Learn to hula hoop again. (I could do it when I was a kid, but I can’t do it any more.)
41. Make paper cranes to give away as Christmas gifts this year.
42. Have the air conditioner replaced. UPDATE: We looked into this, but everybody who gave us an estimate basically said the unit is too new and too efficient to make this step useful or cost-effective, so I am changing this to “keep the a/c no cooler than 78 all summer without whining.”
43. Make an experimental airlock on the front porch to improve energy efficiency.
44. Build a solar air heater.
45. Stop eating things I don’t really want.
46. Visit the Mother Church in Boston.
47. And tour the Mapparium while I’m at it.
48. Learn to cook something besides soup on the woodstove.
49. Spend an entire 24-hour period taking a photograph of my yard from the same angle, every hour, on the hour, to see how it changes.
50. Use a hula hoop to take a biodiversity inventory in the front yard.
51. Use a hula hoop to take a biodiversity inventory in the back yard.
52. Adapt at least three of the activities on this list to fit Red Fork and do them in the yard.
53. Spend an entire 24-hour period taking a photograph of Tucumcari Mountain from the same angle, every hour, on the hour, to see how it changes.
54. Visit Prada Marfa.
55. Memorize Samuel L. Jackson’s “Ezekiel 25:17″ riff from Pulp Fiction.
56. Learn to love all the people on my mental $#!+ list. UPDATE: I took a big step in this direction this week, so I think I will get there soon.
57. Throw away my mental $#!+ list.
58. Run with Songdog at least twice a week.
59. Add five two more beehives. (UPDATE: We added three beehives last week — one in our garden and two at organic farms near Bristow. We’ll set up two more next spring.)
60. Try one vegan recipe per week.
61. Try one vegetarian recipe per week.
62. Blog the recipes that turn out well.
63. Find Songdog’s slicker brush or buy him a new one.
64. Visit every attraction listed for Oklahoma on Roadsideamerica.com.
65. Eat at every mom-and-pop doughnut shop in Tulsa.
66. Eat at every taqueria in Tulsa.
67. Beef up my conversational Spanish enough to eavesdrop on other people’s conversations at the taquerias.
68. Have a concrete at Ted Drewes’ with Kate.
69. Transplant all the babies on my spider plant and give them away to friends.
70. Catch up all those spirituality.com Podcasts I downloaded but never got around to listening to.
71. Get the MP3 version of Science and Health for my iPod. UPDATE: Mom and Dad ordered me a set of CDs from the Reading Room yesterday. I’ll pull them into iTunes and put them on my iPod as soon as they come in.
72. Experiment with Podcasting.
73. Research Webcams and see if it’s feasible to get one for the garden. UPDATE: A camera suitable for this project would cost more than I am willing to spend. I’m exploring other (cheaper) options.
74. Try every kind of root beer at POPS.
75. Learn to use all the features on my new iPod.
76. Dump Sprint for a better cell phone company (probably Verizon, unless I decide I can’t live without an iPhone).
77. Update Route 66 for Kids.
78. Get a Diana camera.
79. Enter a Craftster challenge.
80. Make something for Streetcats to auction off as a fundraiser.
81. Organize all my photos.
82. Scan all my non-digital photos.
83. Try Halim and Mimi’s since it changed hands.
84. Clean out the cabinet under the bathroom sink.
85. Go jogging in the rain.
86. Watch all the movies mentioned in the song “Science Fiction Double Feature.” (WARNING: Sound in link starts automatically.)
87. Update Route66motels.com and fix any messed-up links.
88. Eat at a Thai restaurant.
89. Order a custom license plate frame.
90. See if the vanity plate I want is available (and get it if it is).
91. Check out all the links on Ron’s blog.
92. Watch Schindler’s List.
93. Sort all my bookmarks and get rid of the ones I don’t use.
94. Sort all the messages in my “receipts” folder and delete the outdated ones.
95. Customize a pair of jeans.
96. Make a new house number to replace the mosaic one I made, which the mailman had trouble reading.
97. Throw a tie-dye party.
98. Read the rest of the Hitchhiker’s Trilogy.
99. Celebrate Towel Day.
100. Read Ulysses … preferably on Bloomsday.
101. Look into having a Solatube installed in the bathroom.