Originally, I had a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. I happened to come across toshspice and her blog where she made a list of 101 things she wanted to accomplish in 1001 days. My list that I made was great…however I’ve changed as a person, and in turn that means that some of my list has changed.

Here is my new list (it may change as I grow as a person in the next few years):

Travel

  1. Visit Lois in Chicago
  2. Visit Stacey in Detroit
  3. Travel to Las Vegas
  4. Take a roadtrip to Savannah
  5. Travel to Turks and Caicos
  6. Travel to Spain
  7. Go to the Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC
  8. Travel to Dar Liqama in Morocco
  9. Travel to Houston
  10. Visit Lo’Nique and Malachi in Clearwater
  11. Travel to Puerto Rico
  12. Travel to St. Lucia
  13. Zip-line through the rainforest in St. Lucia
  14. Travel to Costa Rica
  15. Travel to Phoenix
  16. Visit my aunt and uncle in Aventura
  17. Plan a “girlfriend’s getaway
  18. Go to NYC to see Debbie Allen’s production of ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’

Financial

  1. Stop buying “stuff”
  2. Find a part-time job
  3. Pay off my credit cards
  4. Pledge money to the Black Women’s Society at my high school and my college

Domestic

  1. Thoroughly clean my condo
  2. Donate clothes I don’t wear to Goodwill
  3. Purchase a condo or townhome
  4. Alphabetize and organize my CDs and DVDs
  5. Organize my closet
  6. Purchase a new set of cookware

Self

  1. Lose 60lbs
  2. Blog at least 3 times a week
  3. Host 4 dinner parties
  4. Get a new tattoo when I lose 30lbs
  5. Tell people how I really feel about things
  6. Plan my 30th birthday celebration
  7. Stop drinking soda for a month
  8. Stop looking to others for acceptance
  9. Drink 8 glasses of water a day
  10. Take better care of myself physically
  11. Find a volunteer opportunity working with kids
  12. Do some form of exercise 3 times a week
  13. Walk around my office complex at lunch
  14. Meditate once a week
  15. Go a month without fast food

Knowledge

  1. Learn how to drive a stick-shift
  2. Learn Spanish
  3. Re-learn French
  4. Write a business plan for a catering company
  5. Get into a Food and Beverage Management Program

People

  1. Attend my 10-year high school reunion
  2. Stop arguing with my mother
  3. Email or write a letter to my favorite people letting them know why they are important to me
  4. Write a letter to my father
  5. Write a letter to my mother
  6. Plan my family reunion
  7. Take pictures of/with my favorite people

Creative

  1. Make a soundtrack of my life
  2. Take more pictures
  3. Take an art class for drawing portraits
  4. Fill up photo albums with photos
  5. Make a scrapbook
  6. Design a tattoo for either my foot or shoulder
  7. Go to see an Alvin Ailey Dance Theater performance
  8. Develop all of the pictures that I have on Snapfish
  9. Fill up a sketchbook

Food

  1. Take a cooking class at the Viking Store
  2. Make a recipe binder
  3. Make my grandma’s rolls
  4. Try 1 new restaurant each month
  5. Learn how to make Jolloff Rice
  6. Bake a Molten Chocolate Cake
  7. Eat at Medieval Times
  8. Eat at MF Sushibar in Buckhead
  9. Bake a multi-layer cake
  10. Cook Thanksgiving dinner
  11. Eat at Fogo de Chao
  12. Eat at the Melting Pot

Other

  1. Go to a shooting range
  2. Replace the missing CDs in my collection
  3. Go to a drag show
  4. Purchase every CD in DJ Jamad’s Afromentals mixtape series
  5. Suscribe to my favorite magazines: Marie Claire, Lucky, Essence, Vibe, Everyday Food, Bon Appetite, and Everyday with Rachel Ray
  6. Go skydiving
  7. Go parasailing