{"id":3814,"date":"2013-03-29T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:20:17","slug":"final-report-on-101-things-in-1001-days-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Final Report on 101 Things in 1001 Days: Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Begin Date:\u00a0July 4, 2010<\/em><br \/>\n<em>End Date:\u00a0April 1, 2013<br \/>\nItems Completed:\u00a073<br \/>\nNot Completed: 28<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My first 101 Things in 1001 Days project ends Monday! While my success rate wasn&#8217;t the highest, I&#8217;m still really happy with almost 75% completion. Enough that I&#8217;ll be starting a new one in a few days&#8230; I&#8217;m choosing to begin on April 4, so that it will end on New Year&#8217;s Eve 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I didn&#8217;t finish 28 total items.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Going through and marking them off, it&#8217;s interesting to see which of them I no longer care about at the end of almost three years, such as learning the rules of cricket, skippering a sailboat (I still want to go on one, I just don&#8217;t want to be in charge), and designing another knitting pattern.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the unfinished items are travel-related, or dependent on being in a certain place at a certain time of year, so that made it difficult. I wanted to snowshoe, but we had no snow last winter, and then when we were at the cabin with snowshoes available, it was a billion degrees below zero. (I do still want to try it sometime!)<\/p>\n<p>I knew that going to Cuba wasn&#8217;t going to happen in that amount of time, but I&#8217;m still including it again on my upcoming list. I feel like we&#8217;re getting closer and closer to that occurring; we even talked about how to make it happen from Jamaica. \u00a0And while I learned that the travel items aren&#8217;t always doable, that didn&#8217;t stop me from having a bunch of them on the next list, too. It&#8217;s what I do.<\/p>\n<p>One that surprised me was &#8220;memorize how to make 25 classic cocktails&#8221;. I worked on 20 over that time, and I probably actually memorized 15. My memory is shitty, dudes. However, I can tell you the ingredients of pretty much any classic drink&#8230; I just can&#8217;t always tell you the exact proportions. On my next list, I have a goal to invent some of my own!<\/p>\n<p>I got really, annoyingly close to being totally debt-free, but not quite. (There was one planned chunk of cash that didn&#8217;t come in at the end of last year due to unforeseen circumstances, which might have been the final push.) At any rate, I&#8217;m on track for that this year and am not going to put it on the next list because it&#8217;s definitely happening. It&#8217;s time for Phase 2 of the Big Important Financial Lifetime Planning Project* to begin.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be moving several items from this list to the next one, some unfinished, and some I want to continue to add to.<\/p>\n<p><em>*The one that results in us moving to an island and owning our own business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Items I completed as the project ended:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#12 Finish my travel journal within 60 days of getting home from a trip: I posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/category\/jamaica-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">our Jamaica trip<\/a> in the knick of time.<\/p>\n<p>#35 Knit something complex with beads: I didn&#8217;t say I had to finish it, did I?? I&#8217;ll keep working on it.<\/p>\n<p>#50 Get over my fear of riding my bike in traffic and being run over: that time in Key West helped a ton. I&#8217;m not really worried about it anymore, unless I&#8217;m in downtown traffic.<\/p>\n<p>#51 Have date night with Matt once a month.<\/p>\n<p>#100 Put $20 towards debt payoff for each completed task on this list, and $50 for each non-completed task: I paid myself $2840 total ($1200 is pending, but I&#8217;m not setting a time limit for that. It&#8217;s guaranteed). Attaching money to this stuff was totally worth it.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>#101 Have a new list of 101 things in 1001 days ready to go on day 1001: It&#8217;ll be up in a few days!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2138\">Here&#8217;s the full list, for nostalgia&#8217;s sake.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begin Date:\u00a0July 4, 2010 End Date:\u00a0April 1, 2013 Items Completed:\u00a073 Not Completed: 28 My first 101 Things in 1001 Days project ends Monday! While my success rate wasn&#8217;t the highest, I&#8217;m still really happy with almost 75% completion. Enough that I&#8217;ll be starting a new one in a few days&#8230; I&#8217;m choosing to begin on &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=3814\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-101-things-in-1001-days"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/8512915361_8e1fd78e1c_c.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-Zw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}