Here’s my list – 101 things to accomplish in the next 1001 days! As of December 31, 2012, I hope to have everything crossed off of the list!
be “in remission”(completed 4.15.10)take a short weekend trip with Toby that doesn’t involve photographing a client(completed 2.18.11)- see Coldplay in concert again
- make bedtime stories a nightly ritual
back up personal photos(completed 4.7.11)update our Varland Photography branding(completed 4.16.10)- put together a book based on photos together and get it printed
- take a family vacation
- fix up our “gardens”
be published in print(completed 12.2.10)spend time taking pictures with my sister-in-law, Kelly(completed 7.26.10)invest in a treadmill(completed 6.3.10)shoot a wedding at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington(completed 9.18.10)make a difference in the life of someone affected by cancer(completed 1.18.11)- have a date night
start posts for “Wordless Wednesdays”(completed 4.7.10)- draft a will with Toby
see a broadway show(2.26.11)- organize, label, and pack up the kids’ old clothes
- join Canon Professional Services
- take a family picture at least once every two months
take the kids to a movie(completed 7.7.10 – Toy Story 3)- get a real haircut
paint Emma’s room(completed 5.6.10)paint Noah’s room(completed 5.7.10)attend a photography workshop or the WPPI convention with Toby(completed 9.14.10)- learn to sew (even if it’s just the basics on a sewing machine)
- take the kids to the children’s museum
upgrade to a more functional camera bag(completed 12.22.10 – Thanks to my mom and dad!)- organize the papers/poems/stories I’ve written
- get in better shape
- hear Emma read a book aloud
- update my address book
- paint a picture on a large canvas
get ShootQ set up(11.12.10 – Thanks, Toby!)- catch up on my Virtus “training”
- round out our lens collection with a 24mm, 85mm, and another 70-200mm (1/3 – as of 7.13.10)
- set up Quicken or something similar
- spend a day biking with Toby
- read Les Miserables
- update the “about us” section of our website
- potty train Emma
- potty train Noah
participate in I ♥ Faces(completed 4.27.10)- finish our bedroom
- finish our brochure for wedding clients
- record a CD (I’d like to do this for real someday, but for the next 1001 days, I’d settle for another homemade venture…)
move Noah out of his crib and into a bed(completed 8.18.10)- set up a “death folder” (like in How I Met Your Mother)
get back to volunteering(completed 10.28.10)upgrade the wedding albums we offer(completed 4.20.10)- send out Christmas cards
- have professional family photos taken
- start recycling
- finish our walls (frames, prints, art, etc.)
- update sample wedding albums
- fence in our backyard
launch my baby photography brand(completed 03.10.11)- go through my clothes and give a bunch to charity
wear a dress(completed 8.30.10)- finish organizing our office space
take the kids to the zoo(completed 7.23.10)get my port taken out(completed 1.27.10)- put together a book based on writing together and get it printed
- become a member of a photography organization
- edit our wedding photos
- visit California again
- lose at least 20 lbs
finish the playroom(completed 12.21.10 – Thanks, Patti and Ross!)- try 30 new recipes (5/30)
- catch up on putting our family photo albums together (2005 and before, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010… etc.)
take Emma to her first day of preschool(completed 9.7.10)- take Noah to his first day of preschool
- organize the basement
- upgrade at least one of our camera bodies to one with a better focus system
- see a performance of Handel’s Messiah
- have new headshots taken
- organize important papers
- find out if we can have more kids
re-read the last Harry Potter book before the movies come out(I didn’t make it by the first movie, but I did finish it soon after… completed 11.30.10)use a ponytail holder in my own hair(not exactly what I meant, but technically completed 9.27.10)visit a national park(completed 2.23.11)- design an album/book about my cancer experience
- get our family’s first swing set
buy a blender that works – even with ice(completed 8.12.10)- purchase and implement new album templates
- complete my ABC photography project
- use my spa gift certificate
go through/organize my Varland Photography email account(completed 4.13.10)- convert our wedding video to a DVD
- go a month without drinking soft drinks
- organize my family genealogy
- plant a garden with the kids
visit a state I’ve never been to(completed 2.18.11)take the kids to the aquarium(completed 8.28.11)go through/organize my personal email account(completed 4.16.10)- clean out the garage
- have a place to meet with clients
- go through our book collection
eat at a restaurant owned/started by a chef I’ve heard of on Food Network or Top Chef(completed 2.20.11)- go to the opera
