Day Zero Project 101/1001

I've decided to my own Day Zero Project. It is a challenge to complete 101 pre-set tasks in 1001 days, which is roughly 2.75 years. My 1001th day is June 2, 2013. Below are my 101 tasks, and I'll be blogging about when I complete each one.

1. Donate $25 worth of non-perishable food items to a food pantry once a month for a year. (12/12)
2. Visit DC for at least four days. September 2011
3. Spend a long weekend at hubby's family cabin in Wyoming.
4. Complete 100 logic puzzles.
5. Teach my neighbor girls how to make friendship bracelets. (9/6/10)
6. Create awesome bookmarks for every family member for either their birthday or Christmas.
7. Open up an account with kiva.org.
8. Donate $200 to donorschoose.org.
9. Donate $150 to Heifer Int'l.
10. Go camping for a weekend.
11. Write a short story. (12/25/10)
12. Donate blood.
13. Leave an inspirational note in a book for someone to find.
14. Send out 50 letters to anonymous people, one in each state.
15. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
16. Help with a Girl Scout troop. 12/11
17. Influence someone to make a 101/1001 list.
18. Read Cien Anos de Solidad in Spanish.
19. Take a cake decorating class.
20. Try Zumba once a week for two months.
21. Use my 5 passes to work out with a trainer at the gym.
22. Run a 7:30 mile on the elliptical at the gym. (2/6/11)
23. Write a short story. (12/25/10)
24. Try 10 different flavors of ice cream at Amy's. (4/10)
25. Get a pedicure. (12/11/10)
26. Drive a jetski.
27. Drink a beer.
28. Write a letter to myself to be opened on my 40th birthday.
29. Take a parenting class.
30. Do a painting. (9/7/10)
31. Go to a wine tasting event. (8/11)
32. Play a board game or cards with a senior at a residence community.
33. Design and make 10 cards instead of buying them.  Christmas 2011
34. Sing karaoke at a bar.
35. Go up in the sky in something other than an airplane.
36. Try 10 different martinis. (1/10)
37. Visit an art, history, and science museum.
38. Spend a day at the River Walk in San Antonio. (9/25/10)
39. Go to a Renaissance Festival (11/13/10)
40. Learn three new recipes that include artichoke hearts.
41. Bake 100 cookies and deliver them to a fire station.
42. Lower my BMI to 26.8.
43. Make a collage of our cats in all their silly poses.
44. Buy a bicycle. (2/11)
45. Bike inside of McKinney State Falls Park.
46. Owe $100,000 on our house by December 2012.
47. Take a picture of Marshall and me every year on our anniversary.
48. Have a card game party at our house.
49. Go horseback riding. 12/10/11
50. Have Thanksgiving at my parents' house. (8/13/11)
51. Learn 30 phrases in Vietnamese. (1/30)
52. Make my own pizza dough. (9/30)
53. Go to the Austin zoo.
54. Go to a zoo in a different city. 9/12/11
55. Go to a local high school play.
56. Go to a local high school band concert.
57. Update my passport with married name.
58. Start a new family tradition.
59. Make a piece of artwork incorporating our family motto.
60. Expand my vocabulary by 100 words. (3/100)
61. Make genealogy charts for each of my siblings.
62. Give money to a street musician.
63. Volunteer at the library.
64. Leave 1001 love notes for my husband to find. (49/1001)
65. Own a clarinet and start playing again.
66. Read the Freakonomics books.
67. Sketch a drawing and have it framed.
68. Write blog entries about 101 moments in time that I wish I could have been present at.
69. Update Thiele family album.
70. Choose 3 guys and 3 gals from Facebook and read their favorite book.
71. Stay in a B&B.
72. Buy a king size bed. (9/25/10)
73. Do all kitchen clean up for two weeks.
74. Buy flowers for someone just because. (9/4/10)
75. Make a birthday cake for someone.
76. Earn another raise at work.
77. Have someone take 50 pictures of me at different times. (4/50)
78. Throw a college graduation party for husband.
79. Take prenatal pills.
80. Sing Christmas carols in a group.
81. Plant native Texas plants in yard.
82. Build a complete first aid kit for the house.
83. Get my car washed by a youth organized fund raising group.
84. Write a letter in Spanish to myself to be opened in 10 years.
85. Update my resume.
86. Own new pajamas.
87. Take a train somewhere out of state.
88. Visit 5 Austinite restaurants.
89. Babysit for free. (9/18/10)
90. Create or go on a scavenger hunt.
91. Do pilates every day for two weeks.
92. Read a book on the couch while under a blanket when it is raining outside.
93. Get a fake tattoo. (11/13/10)
94. Play fetch with the cats for 50 consecutive throws.
95. Surprise my husband by putting gas in his car when he doesn't expect it. November 2011
96. Create a living will.
97. Participate in a 5K. (5/1/11)
98. Write a letter to myself to be read on my 100th birthday.
99. Do 100 push-ups in one day.
100. Visit the Austin capital building.
101. Take a glass blowing class. (8/21/11)