101 things to do in 1001 days, starting January 15, 2012

Here is my new list of 101 things to do in 1001 days, starting January 15, 2012, and ending October 13, 2014. I also posted the list on the Day Zero Project site, but this list right here has a few more details:

1. - Finish reading the Bible again (The Message translation)
2. - Learn some Spanish (probably with the CD course I bought)
3. - update travel logs of ToyVoyagers with pictures and stories from D.C. area
4. - put my best pictures of D.C. area on Flickr
5. - Donate at least once a month while I have my own income
   
6. - go through the old notes I did when a student and re-evaluate what to keep
7. - go through the old conference proceedings and similar items and re-evaluate what to keep
8. - consolidate mailing supplies to one small closet or less
9. - keep winter clothes/items in a box out of the way because they’re not needed in Southern California (keeping only important items which should be easier to figure out after the two winters in Virginia)
10. - give away books that I can easily get from the library or online and are not my most important ones to read or keep
11. - make scrapbook for my nephew
12. - organize my art and craft supplies
13. - get a shoe rack
14. - Get furniture for the bedroom (bed, dressers)
15. - volunteer regularly (e.g. at Ten Thousand Villages or the thrift store) at least until I get a job again
16. - make my desk a real workspace
17. - lose weight (preferably 50-60 lb)
18. - exercise more regularly
19. - reach 1000 sent and 1000 received cards in postcrossing
20. - finish my state quarters collection and the one for my dad
21. - update my braces blog with after photos and facts
22. - sort LAC notes (I can probably throw out most of the remaining ones and just keep a few)
23. - Set up the second bedroom for crafts etc.
24. - Store/display my notebooks in a way that makes is easy to pick up and enjoy them
25. - Put fresh items in earthquake kit
26. - Get all my postcards in order
27. - Get rid of many T-shirts, only keeping those we love most
28. - Use a few discarded T-shirts for T-shirt yarn or other projects
29. - Organize the job search advice that I have at hand so that I can easily reference it (sort job search related notes and throw out things that are not important anymore at the same time)
30. - finish the Israel scrapbook
31. - Scan all my received Postcrossing cards
32. - Scan all my Moomin postcards
33. - Make a Washington D.C. scrapbook
34. - sort my old memorabilia from vacations etc. to keep only what I may really need for scrapbooks
35. - Make scrapbooks from old memorabilia (after sorting I’ll know how much there is to do/ how many there are) (Australia, old vacations, other)
36. - Add my other visits to the German scrapbook I already started
37. - Make a Los Angeles and Pasadena scrapbook
38. - Visit the Postcrossing Meeting in Bielefeld
39. - Visit my family again
40. - Play my cello
41. - Play my trumpet
42. - Learn the basics of playing the harmonica
43. - Try out other little instruments
44. - Visit the Grand Canyon
45. - Ride a bike
46. - Send 12 postcards to my nephew
47. - Learn to soak stamps to separate them from the paper
48. - Learn to use the GIMP
49. - Install Linux on my laptop
50. - Keep a journal of food/health tips and info
51. - Be a volunteer for World Book Night USA in 2013
52. - Go Geocaching
53. - Do something useful with all the notes I took in D.C.
54. - Get a job that I like near Pasadena
55. - Join a small group in Pasadena
56. - Make nice backups of all online photos (include a simple index)
57. - Make a mini earthquake kit to take around anywhere
58. - Release at least one book on Bookcrossing every month (controlled releases count)
59. - Figure out a fast that works for me and do it
60. - Learn how to crochet (reading patterns!)
61. - Learn how to knit (reading patterns!)
62. - Run a 5k
63. - Try all the different kinds of pens, pencils, and markers I have
64. - Write down old memories
65. - Select 6 special small images for my desktop frame
66. - Grow something edible (e.g. indoor herb garden)
67. - Learn to prepare and paint metal and paint at least one metal tin
68. - Find a process that works for recycling
69. - Organize my favorites/bookmarks online (including blog subscriptions etc.)
70. - Figure out the old sewing machine
71. - Bring choir CDs and music in order
72. - Find if there's a nice guided tour for Pasadena and do it (if there isn't one, find out about self-guided tours)
73. - Walk Arroyo Seco trail (especially the restored section...)
74. - Visit Pasadena City Hall
75. - Learn to knot (hemp/floss) bracelets e.g. How to make a Friendship Bracelet
76. - Make some jewelery
77. - Sell something on Etsy
78. - Bring my collection of stamps in order
79. - Put my small souvenir sheet collection in a nice album
80. - Knit or crochet for a project that helps children (hat?)
81. - Find what a good black artist marker/pen is that is not water-soluble and get one
82. - Collect info for Los Angeles Citybook
83. - Get all my small items that don’t seem to belong anywhere in order
84. - Try keeping a mini moss terrarium
85. - Write Christmas cards to family and friends each year
86. - Read at least three of my books that are written in German
87. - Read at least three of my Christian books
88. - Release on Bookcrossing (maybe as ray or bookring or in a book box) at least three of my Christian books
89. - Visit Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (April 2013?)
90. - Make a list of what other scrapbooks I should do
91. - Make at least one of these scrapbooks
92. - Re-evaluate my blogs
93. - Blog regularly (once a month or more) on my Joyful Song blog
94. - Freecycle some more items in Pasadena
95. - Get more educated about fair trade and then buy accordingly
96. - Go swimming in the pool
97. - Listen to 10 audio books
98. - Reorganize the kitchen cabinets, throwing out dingy and unused items
99. - Do a deep cleaning of every room in the apartment
100. - Fold 50 envelopes (5/50)
101. - Read 50 of the books I already own

101: buy a new laptop

My old laptop stopped working - it just kept shutting down shortly after it had been turned on - so I had to buy a new one. It took me quite a while to decide what to get. But since I'm using it exclusively here to go online and I'm not planning to carry it around much, I decided on a regular laptop instead of a netbook. It's not huge and heavy, but large enough to have a good size keyboard and screen. It also includes the practical features of a good size hard drive and a DVD drive.

101: Some updates

There are a lot of items on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days that I can't do because of my temporary move. But there a few items that I worked on before leaving California and a few I can do here.

Here are some things I've done (some are partially finished):

- visit my family again (visited them in late spring)
- get a job that I like (I have an interesting job working at a German store in the area, I'm learning a lot of new things there and obviously enjoying the products as well).
- get all the junk out of the second bedroom (got all the fish tanks and supplies out before we left, there are only some items left in the closet)
- Read at least one of my books that are written in German (Goliaths Falle: Israelis und Palaestinenser im Wuergegriff)
- sell large fishtank (I was actually able to sell it, I'm so glad since it was basically new, just dusty from storage)
- sell and donate other things that I/we don't need (We sold and mostly donated many (many items went to the new thrift store of Lake Avenue Church), but there are still items left to sort through)
- sort LAC notes (throw those out I don't need anymore etc.) (threw out a lot of them, but not finished with the process)
- light a candle and enjoy (we just did that yesterday and today for Christmas)
- find out about old pen pals if they are still interested in corresponding (figured out that most of them wouldn't continue)
- organize my art and craft supplies (partially done)
- blog there regularly (even without doing a plan, I figured that I wanted to blog about the books I read this year, so I'm using this blog mostly for that purpose at the moment.)

101 Go to a Classical Concert

I've been to several classical concert since setting that goal. The most memorable one was the 9th Symphony by Beethoven. It was really awesome to hear it in person, not only on CD or something.

I've also been to a few Gold Line Concerts. They're concerts taking place every first Thursday of the month at noon at Lake Avenue Church right by the Lake Ave Gold Line station. They're short so that people who work nearby can come during their lunch brake just for the concert.

101: Get Rid of the Unused Mac

We did that yesterday. I had kept it in the hopes of getting some data off it, but I wasn't able to connect it to the Internet or the local network with the other computers. And it didn't have any drives compatible with the other, newer computers we have. The data were only some old images, so I gave up on saving them.

We're doing a big spring cleaning. So yesterday, we brought all our old computers, including my old Mac, to electronic waste recycling. At first we thought we'd have to drive all the way to Pomona, but I found a electronic waste recycling fundraiser event right here in Pasadena at the First Baptist Church.

101: reach 600 sent and 600 received cards in postcrossing

I reached this goal on July 20 when I received my 600th card. I just love postcrossing! It's so much fun to send postcards to people around the world and receive postcards from random places and people around the world. To find out how postcrossing works, read more about postcrossing.

For my whole list of goals, view 101 things to do in 1001 days.

101: Crochet a Potholder

A few days ago, I saw the documentary "The Boys of Baraka". One of the boys there crochets in his free time at the school in Africa. That motivated me to try crocheting, too. The last time I did this, I was in school like him, I think. So I was going to see what I could remember. A week later, the potholder on the picture was finished. I used cotton yarn. The yarn has sections of three different colors, so I didn't have to change yarns to come up with the stripes.

So I still remember enough to crochet a simple potholder. But I still want to learn how all the stitches work and what their names are, so that I can read patterns and do more difficult projects. So I feel that I reached part of my goal for my 101 goals list, but haven't accomplished the full goal.

101: Sell magic videos on ebay

My husband has a lot of videos and DVDs with instructions for magic tricks. He has some duplicates that he asked me to sell on ebay. Well, I've tried and I guess about half of them sold. The other ones nobody seems interested in. Some sold right away, some when relisted. I listed them over several weeks. I'm not sure what to do with the ones left over.

101 things to do in 1001 days

I got the idea for this list from a postcrosser I sent an official card to. Her name is Marta and her list is at fotograffarte. It took me almost three weeks to come up with my list. I'm starting the 1001 days tomorrow since today is already more than half over. So, the 1001 days will be Monday, December 15, 2008 to Sunday, September 11, 2011.
I did a search and found Day Zero, the home of the 101 things to do in 1001 days project.

- Learn some Spanish (probably with the CD course I bought)
- visit my family again
- organize the job search advice that I have at hand so that I can easily reference it
- get a job that I like
- get all the junk out of the second bedroom
- set up the second bedroom for crafts etc.
- play my cello
- play my trumpet
- learn the basics of playing the harmonica
- try out other little instruments
- finish the Israel scrapbook
- plan a Los Angeles scrapbook
- make Los Angeles scrapbook
- put good info into the Los Angeles Citybook
- add my other visits to the German scrapbook
- plan an Australia scrapbook
- make an Australia scrapbook
- make a Pasadena notebook/scrapbook
- make a list of what other scrapbooks I should do
- make at least one of them
- Read the Bible again (The Message translation)
- make some jewelery
- lose weight
- exercise more regularly
- get rid of the unused Mac
- buy a new laptop (probably a small one...)
- release one book on bookcrossing on average every month (controlled releases count; overlaps with the next two items)
- read and release some (at least 3) of my general bookcrossing books
- read and release (maybe as ray or bookring) some (at least 3) of my Christian books
- get all my postcards in order
- scan all my received postcrossing cards
- scan all my Moomin postcards
- get all my small items in order
- Read at least one of my books that are written in German
- visit the Grand Canyon
- ride a bike
- ride the bike to something nice such as Huntington Library and Gardens
- sell magic videos on ebay
- sell large fishtank
- sell and donate other things that I/we don't need
- figure out a fast that works for me and do it
- Get furniture for the bedroom (bed, dressers)
- join a small group
- make nice backups of all online photos (include a simple index)
- reach 600 sent and 600 received cards in postcrossing
- make up a process that works for recycling
- go to a classical concert
- finish my state quarters collection and the one for my dad
- sell something on Etsy
- send 12 postcards to my nephew
- learn to soak stamps to separate them from the paper
- bring my collection of stamps in order
- put my small souvenir sheet collection in a nice album
- learn to use the GIMP
- have guests at the apartment
- freecycle something
- relearn and crochet something
- relearn and knit something
- knit or crochet for a project that helps children (hat?)
- take care of the shoes, maybe with a shoe rack or something
- learn to paint metal and paint at least one metal tin
- figure out the best way for me to keep a prayer journal and then do it
- also figure out theme journals I may want to keep or send around (e.g. gratitude journal, attributes of God)
- sort LAC notes (throw those out I don't need anymore etc.)
- sort job search related notes
- write down old memories
- select 6 special small images for my desktop frame
- make envelopes by hand
- grow something edible (e.g. indoor herb garden)
- light a candle and enjoy
- try keeping a mini moss terrarium
- get more educated about fair trade and then buy accordingly
- make/swap a whimsy jar
- make a Christian whimsy jar with the items I got at different events
- learn to knot (hemp/floss) bracelets e.g. How to make a Friendship Bracelet
- enjoy some nearby fireworks
- figure out whether to become US citizens or not and start the process
- visit Pasadena City Hall
- store/display my notebooks in a way that makes is easy to pick up and enjoy them
- make a mini earthquake kit to take around anywhere
- put fresh items in earthquake kit
- organize my favorites/bookmarks online (including blog subscriptions etc.)
- make my desk a real workspace
- find if there's a nice guided tour for Pasadena and do it (if there isn't one, find out about self-guided tours)
- walk Arroyo Seco trail (especially the restored section...)
- find out about old pen pals if they are still interested in corresponding
- figure out the old sewing machine
- bring choir CDs and music in order
- organize my art and craft supplies
- try all the different kinds of pens, pencils, and markers I have
- find what a good black artist marker/pen is that is not water-soluble and get one
- make my own professional website
- add more useful pages to the wiki
- visit Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (April)
- go through the old notes I did when a student and re-evalutate what to keep etc.
- go through the old conference proceedings and similar items and re-evaluate what to keep
- make a blogging plan (Which of my blogs do I want to keep? What do I want to write there? How often? etc.)
- blog there regularly
- update my braces blog with after photos and facts
- For what has God made me? (main purpose(s) at this time in my life)
- in everything, remember that God is in control of everything

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