Maile's Misadventures

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Visit Day Zero to find out more.

Here we go.  Starting tomorrow, here are the 101 things i'm going to try to accomplish in 1001 Days.  (Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - Tuesday, November 29, 2011)

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1. Do yoga at least once a week for 5 weeks (does not have to be consecutive) (0/5)
2. Road trip out of state. 06/27/2009
3. Hang out with 3 new people (3/3) July 2009
4. Write 5 snail-mail letters to friends (0/5)
5. Get a job that doesn't make me want to kill myself everyday June 8, 2009
6. Lose 50 pounds (0/50)
7. Let my hair grow out past my collarbone
8. Do something artistic for 30 days (0/30)
9. Read 50 books (22/50)
10. Crochet a hat
11. See at least 3 movies in the theater (2/3) [Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation]
12. Bake cookies from scratch
13. Cook 3 recipes that I've never made before (0/3)
14. Be patient with my Dad
15. Write 5 things I'm grateful for, for at least 45 days (4/45)
16. Quit Smoking
17. Get our own place to live (move out of my parents house) 09/25/2009
18. Pay my bankruptcy payments on time (5/60)
19. Contact 1 friend once a week for 6 weeks (6/6) 6/23/2009
20. Eat at home at least 5 nights a week for 5 weeks (5/5) 10/23/2009
21. Pay all bills on time
22. Listen to new music  Lady GaGa 6/2009
23. Take a multivitamin 60 times (2/60)
24. Show up to work on time everyday.
25. Organize all of my paperwork 6/08/2009
26. Be able to afford to get a deep tissue massage
27. When we get our own place don't let what happened to the old place happen again
28. Go to the Chiropractor
29. Go to Toledo Bend and stay in a cabin
30. Stop cutting my nails everyday so i can get acrylics put on again
31. Eat Clean 3 days a week for 6 weeks (0/6)
32. Do a fast/cleanse
33. Write in Vox at least once a week
34. Donate 1 dollar to a worthy cause for each goal not completed in time.
35. Take Blair to Puerto Rico
36. Keep in touch with Blair's Parents
37. Make my tax refund pledge every year till 2010 taxes (1/3)
38. Make a necklace
39. Sunday is Chores Day!
40. Visit Meg 2/2009
41. Visit Trica
42. Visit Jenn
43. Visit Nicole
44. Visit Nikki
45. Subscribe to 3 of my favorite magazines
46. Make a budget and stick to it
47. Get a smartphone
48. Walk 1/2 a mile
49. Walk 1 mile
50. Jog 1/2 a mile
51. Jog 1 mile
52. Hang out with Elaine
53. Hang out with Amber  8/21&28/2009 
54. Return to the gym and stick with it for 1 month
55. Get my air conditioning fixed in the S-10 6/23/2009
56. Complete 7 days of positive thinking (0/7) 
57. Learn how to meditate and do it once a week for 4 weeks (0/4)
58. Get a Masters Degree in English Literature or be on my way to one
59. Watch all of the episodes of A Haunting from the Discovery Channel
60. Be on the bare minimum amount of medication needed to be functional 5/27/2009
61. Make my 30's my best years yet
62. Complete my memoir up till now
63. Get a facial
64. Go to a yoga class
65. Send a postsecret
66. Learn how to knit
67. Knit a wristband
68. Use reusable grocery bags
69. Start writing poetry again (must write 10 poems to complete) (0/10)
70. When I get a job: put $10 a month into savings, the following year $20, and then $30 the next year
71. Put 1 dollar in savings for each item I complete on time
72. Join the local Lions Club or other community organization
73. Start seeing the dentist again
74. Finish The Dark Tower Series 3/20/2009
75. Get a Kindle
76. Read 5 new memoirs/biographies (6/5) 9/14/09
77. Learn how to ride a bicycle.
78. Fail at 1 thing and be okay with it
79. Get to my April 2nd, 930 am Bankruptcy Court Hearing on time in Alexandria 4/02/2009
80. Learn about End Time myths and Creation myths from 10 cultures (0/10)
81. Make 1 protein smoothie at home a week for a month (0/4)
82. Read "Love in the Time of Cholera"
83. Re-Read "House of Leaves"
84. Learn how to play 1 song on a musical instrument
85. Do 3 chin ups
86. Do 3 push ups
87. Take a bubble bath
88. Spend one weekend doing absolutely nothing and be okay with it
89. Create a large abstract painting
90. Buy a purse from Etsy
91. Sew a dress
92. Go to New Orleans
93. Take an art class
94. Go with Blair to the Dr. Pepper Plant in Dublin, TX
95. Up to date with previous completed seasons of: Dexter, Chuck, Sarah Conner, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement etc 6/2009.
96. Get another Crock-Pot and make dinner in it at least 3 nights a week.
97. Fire a Gun
98. Get at least half way up rock climbing wall at gym
99. Make Thanksgiving Dinner once.
100. Make a new 101 list after this list is complete
101. Post this list on Facebook.
     

Present from my dad! A caricature of HIM!

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shit

piss

fuck

cunt

cocksucker

motherfucker

tits

rest in peace.  you will be missed. 

What are three things you want to learn, and three things you can teach others to do? 
Submitted by bookishbiker.

to learn

• violin or guitar
• spanish fluently
• ceramics/pot throwing/sculpting

to teach

• acting/theater crafts
• english literature
• film
  

you ever watch a horror movie and think that these bitches are much too stupid to live and hope that they get hacked to pieces by the killer?  that's the feeling i'm getting from Wolf Creek.  

What do you absolutely refuse to eat?

• coconuts in their many forms
• any type of melon: water, honeydew, cantelope you name it
• papaya
• fresh mango
• (notice a trend, i don't like tropical fruit except for pineapple, i only eat mango if it's pickled or dried)
• i prefer not to eat steak, but i've been known to break this rule on very rare occasion
  
• lamb
• rabbit

What time is your alarm clock set for?  Do you use the snooze button?

my alarm is set for 730 am.  and i hit snooze a million times and get up at a little past 8.  i'm a snooze addict.  i love snooze.  

What set you apart from the rest of the kids at school? 
Submitted by jks.

i was loud, and i talked too much.  i was also weird yet people liked me.  i read a lot, and always had my nose in a book.  

TV, books, movies: Who's your favorite fictional father?

Royal Tenenbaum.  Doctor Venture.  Heathcliff Huxtable.  Dan Connor.  Philip Banks.  Dr. Jones Sr. 

so we're adopting this cat.  mika's coworkers found him at a site they were going to exterminate.  we haven't thought of a name for him, but he's a boy and he's orange and striped. 

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he's the one on top.  he seemed to be the strongest who could most hold his own.  the others got sent to the humane society.  we're gonna pick him up in 3 weeks after he's been weaned off of milk. 

we're trying to think of a name that's geeky.  any suggestions? 

here's a picture of his sister:

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we really liked her, but we really wanted an orange one this time. 

yeah yeah scold us for adopting yet another cat.  but blame mika.  she's the one who showed them to us.