Books Read in 2007, 2008, 2009

January

February

1. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, Seth Godin
2. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
3. How to Run a Theater: A Witty, Practical and Fun Guide to Arts Management, Jim Volz
4. Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community, Donna Walker-Kuhne
5. The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations, Michael Kaiser
6. Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business, Erik Qualman
7. PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences, Deirdre Breakenridge
8. The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, Frederic B. Vogel and Ben Hodges
9. Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust, Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
10. Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders, Holly Ross, Katrin Verclas, and Alison Levine
11. The Performing Arts in a New Era, Kevin F. McCarthy, Arthur Brooks, Julia Lowell, and Laura Zakaras
12. Marketing for Cultural Organisations: New strategies for attracting audiences to classical music , dance, museums, theatre and opera, Bonita M. Kolb
13. Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices, Tobie S. Stein and Jessica Bathurst

March

14. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert
15. Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, David Sheff

April

May

16. School for Husbands, Wendy Holden
17. 21 Steps To Happiness, F.G. Gerson

June

18. The Break-Up Diet: A Memoir, Annette Fix

19. Everyone Is Beautiful, Katherine Center

July
20. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown

August
21. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
22. The Giver, Lois Lowry
23. Moloka’i, Alan Brennert

September
24. The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant

October
25. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, John Colapinto
26. It’s a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties, Emily Franklin

November

December
27. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

• 12/18/2005 -- 101 in 1001 – 67.33% Complete
• 7/19/2006 -- About
• 9/15/2008 -- 101 in 1001 #2 – 47.52% Complete

Books Read in 2007, 2008

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

1. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
2. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Tenth Gift, Jane Johnson
4. The King Must Die: A Novel, Mary Renault

August

5. The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault
6. Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World’s Most Coveted Handbag, Michael Tonello
7. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

September

October

November

8. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
9. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
10. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
11. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer

December

• 5/11/2010 -- Books Read in 2010
• 9/15/2008 -- 101 in 1001 #2 – 47.52% Complete
• 12/18/2005 -- 101 in 1001 – 67.33% Complete

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

This project was taken from Triplux.

I completed my first 101 in 1001 on September 15, 2008!

The things that I say I want to MAINTAIN will be counted as completed if they are maintained for at least two months. I figure that if I maintain something for at least that long, then it’ll be habit.

Tasks I have completed will be struck through and a completion date will be listed that is linked to a post about the completion of that task. Tasks that I have begun will be italicized and a beginning date will be listed.

Started: September 15, 2008
Due Date: June 13, 2011
Tasks Completed: 48
Tasks Remaining: 53

1. Make this list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. If anything was left incomplete from my previous 101 in 1001, then figure out why I didn’t do it, and see if I can rework the goal. If so, it has to be on this list (these items have a ** in front of them). Completed 9/15/08

Religious
2. Join a small group/women’s Bible study.
3. Start writing again at Reading Red Letters and MAINTAIN it. Completed 12/26/09
4. Find a church home wherever I move to after school. Completed 12/26/09
5. Read at least 10 books by C. S. Lewis.
6. MAINTAIN regular daily prayer time. Begun 12/15/09
7. **Plan a religious fast and complete said fast (probably 3 days, but that’s flexible).
8. **Read the Bible from beginning to end.

Family/Friends

9. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2008. Completed 12/30/08
10. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2009. Completed 12/26/09
11. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2010. Completed 12/15/10
12. **Go to a concert with Daddy. Completed 8/15/09

Health
13. Get serious about meal planning and menus
14. Start and MAINTAIN drinking 8 glasses of water a day.
15. Get professionally fitted for a bra at a store that sells bras in my size. Completed 8/28/09
16. Learn to eat at least 3 new fruits and vegetables (doing this one again).
17. **Start and MAINTAIN regular exercise.
18. **Reach my weightloss goal and MAINTAIN it.
19. **Start and MAINTAIN regular flossing. Completed 10/28/09
20. **Get my stomach into fit enough condition so that a pierced bellybutton won’t look ridiculous (and if I keep my courage, actually pierce the bellybutton – but even if I don’t go through with it, the option is nice to have).
21. **MAINTAIN taking vitamins regularly.
22. **MAINTAIN monthly breast self exams.

School
23. Find an internship. Completed 3/23/09
24. Complete my graduate thesis. Completed 5/5/10
25. Graduate from UNCSA. Completed 5/29/10

Career

26. Find a job upon graduating. Completed 7/19/10
27. File paperwork for LLC for virtual assistant business and become OFFICIAL. Completed 8/28/09
28. Have at least 6 clients for Tizzy Consulting.
29. Find a new format for my resume and rework it. Completed 11/8/08

Financial

30. Become financially independent from my parents.
31. Save $5 a day and deposit into my savings account (doing this one again).
32. Contribute every month to saving for a house down payment.
33. Fully fund Roth IRA in 2008. Completed 12/31/08
34. Fully fund Roth IRA in 2010.
35. Create a budget which allows me to give 10% to church and charity.
36. MAINTAIN using coupons as I grocery shop when able (many organic products do not get coupons).

Travel

37. Get a new car – and I’m the one paying for it. Completed 4/11/09
38. Visit Alaska.
39. Take another cruise.
40. See New York City when it’s decorated for Christmas. Completed 12/8/08
41. Travel to a different country.
42. Go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter once it opens.
43. **Take a vacation to Atlanta with Mama – go shopping and see an exhibit at the High Museum. Completed 1/26/09
44. **Travel to Washington, D.C. At least see major monuments, the White House, and the Smithsonian. Completed 7/10/10
45. **Mount all my hat pins somehow (this replaces the previous “buy nice map and put a push-pin in every place I’ve been”)

Personal Betterment
46. Perform 10 random acts of kindness to complete strangers (0/10).
47. Have more involved communication with my sponsored child.
48. Get up the minute that the alarm goes off every day for a month.
49. Give blood if eligible (attempting to do this one again). Completed 9/10/09
50. Write a personal mission statement.
51. Wear makeup every day for a month. Completed 5/1/09
52. Write “to be read” letters to selected people (letters to be read upon my death by the people who mean the most to me). Completed 10/15/10
53. Pay for the person behind me at a fast food drive thru (doing this one again). Completed 12/1/10
54. Write a book.
55. **Stop biting fingernails.
56. **Update my journal and MAINTAIN it.

Organize/Purge

57. Organize, file, and store all my notes/keepsakes from my graduate classes. Completed 10/1/10
58. Move a large portion of my items stored at my parents’ house to my place. Completed 8/15/09
59. Sell, donate, give, or throw away 101 items (doing this one again). Completed 3/27/09
60. Create a filing system for all paperwork and MAINTAIN it. Completed 1/1/11
61. Sort through all clothing three times. Completed 10/7/10
62. Sort through all of my books and BookCross or give away a LARGE amount (at least 50). Completed 3/27/09
63. Rearrange books so that they truly are according to the Library of Congress system. Completed 6/30/09
64. **Finish entering all my books into a database. Completed 5/25/09
65. FLY. Begun 3/22/09

Technology
66. Write 500 blog posts (more attainable than 1001). (163/500) Begun 9/15/08
67. Participate in Blogathon 2009 Completed 7/26/09
68. Participate in Blogathon 2010 Completed 7/16/10
69. Participate in Blog Action Day 2008 Completed 10/15/08
70. Participate in Blog Action Day 2009 Completed 10/15/09
71. Participate in Blog Action Day 2010 Completed 10/15/10
72. Participate in NaNoWriMo Completed 12/1/10
73. Build up a decent audio/visual system. Completed 6/17/10
74. Start a system for regularly backing up my computer(s) and MAINTAIN it. Completed 5/1/10
75. Complete an email purge of all unnecessary old emails. Completed 5/12/10

Entertainment

76. Read through my A-Z Challenge.
77. Join local library. Completed 8/28/09
78. Decrease my LibraryThing TBR tags by at least 71 books (to less than 262 books, which was 50% of my books when I moved to Atlanta).
79. Re-read all the Harry Potter books.
80. Re-read all the Star Wars books.
81. Read at least 150 books (40/150).
82. Reach a Gamerscore of at least 3,000 on XBox360 (currently at 2,160).
83. Go see a famous jazz musician/group in concert. Completed 2/22/11
84. See a Cirque du Soleil show I haven’t seen (doing this one again). Completed 11/21/10
85. Go see a movie at the movie theater alone. Completed 8/30/09
86. See an opera. Completed 4/16/10
87. **Complete The Sims 2 Legacy Challenge. Completed 9/15/09
88. **Finish clearing my previous Netflix queue. (344/494) Begun 12/19/05
89. **Read 75% of the list of books that my friends have sent me. (24/85) Begun 12/19/05
90. **Watch 90% of the Greatest Films in 101 Things to Do Before You Die. (102/119) Begun 12/19/05
91. **See 100% of AFI top 100 movies. (81/100) Begun 12/19/05
92. **See 75% of Entertainment Weekly’s top 100 movies. (58/75) Begun 12/19/05

In the Kitchen
93. Rework my chocolate chip cookies recipe so that it is healthier.
94. **Learn to use cast iron skillets without messing up the seasoning.
95. **Find and make a good cheese fondue recipe (may require several tries).

Just for Fun
96. Find some attractive skirts that I can wear daily (not just on special occasions) and wear them! Completed 10/28/09
97. Complete a New York Times crossword (any day of the week)
98. Be super silly – take Oprah’s product recommendation. Completed 5/2/09
99. **Learn to drive a stick shift.
100. **Win something (anything) from a lottery ticket.

101. On June 13, 2011, publish a new 101 in 1001.

• 12/18/2005 -- 101 in 1001 – 67.33% Complete
• 7/19/2006 -- About
• 7/27/2008 -- Longest Meme Ever (Day of Blogs ’08 #32)

Khouria Jen @ The Literate Khouria
Myself

It’s been a small crowd this year, but I know that everyone will be out in full force for the official Blogathon in 2009! I really appreciate all the dedication of the people who put together this alternate for us, and I know I still had a lot of fun and met some cool people!  Thanks for a great day, and I’ll see you next year (if not sooner)!

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• 7/27/2008 -- Longest Meme Ever (Day of Blogs ’08 #32)
• 7/26/2008 -- More Meme (Day of Blogs ’08 #18)
• 7/26/2008 -- Another Book Meme (Day of Blogs ’08 #12)

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• 7/27/2008 -- Day of Blogs 2008 Wrap-Up!
• 7/27/2008 -- So close . . . (Day of Blogs ’08 #48)
• 7/27/2008 -- Delirious (Day of Blogs ’08 #47)

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• 7/27/2008 -- Day of Blogs 2008 Wrap-Up!
• 7/27/2008 -- Done! (Day of Blogs ’08 #49)
• 7/27/2008 -- Delirious (Day of Blogs ’08 #47)

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• 7/27/2008 -- Day of Blogs 2008 Wrap-Up!
• 7/27/2008 -- Done! (Day of Blogs ’08 #49)
• 7/27/2008 -- So close . . . (Day of Blogs ’08 #48)

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• 7/27/2008 -- Feed Reader (Day of Blogs ’08 #35)
• 7/26/2008 -- Recycled Reading Meme (Day of Blogs ’08 #17)
• 7/26/2008 -- Brick and Mortar or Online? (Day of Blogs ’08 #16)

I’m personally a resounding yay, but I’m curious to hear your thoughts . . .

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• 7/27/2008 -- Longest Meme Ever (Day of Blogs ’08 #32)
• 7/26/2008 -- Top of Amazon in 2007 (Day of Blogs ’08 #20)
• 7/27/2008 -- Books in the Workplace (Day of Blogs ’08 #44)

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• 7/26/2008 -- Recycled Reading Meme (Day of Blogs ’08 #17)
• 7/22/2008 -- Are you ready to stay awake?
• 7/27/2008 -- NaNoWriMo (Day of Blogs ’08 #36)