2025-08-20 04:41 pm
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101 in 1001: 8/19/25 to 5/16/28

Recently discovered the 101 in 1001 challenge, & what better time to start a challenge than when you're in a slump & it's full of things you want to do anyway? It's essentially what it says on the tin - 101 goals you'd like to complete in 1001 days, or, about 2.75 years.

Financial:

  1. Save $10,000.
  2. Pay off my credit card.
  3. Sit w/ granddad for house info.

Social:

  1. Have a PowerPoint night.
  2. Get engaged.
  3. Have a tea party.
  4. Take granddad to Sleepy Cat.
  5. Have a dumpling making party.
  6. Write & send 50 letters/postcards [0 / 50].
  7. Have date night w/ Elijah 1x a month.
  8. Have a LotR movie marathon w/ Celina & co.
  9. Finish JJBA w/ Elijah.
  10. Take mom to goat yoga or a goat adjacent activity.
  11. Go to Ren Faire every year [2025] [2026] [2027].

Food:

  1. Try 50 new restaurants/cafés [0 / 50].
  2. Try 100 new recipes [0 / 100].
  3. Learn how to make 10 new cocktails [0 / 10].
  4. Drink my way through tea collection before buying more.
  5. Drink my way through my coffee collection before buying more.

Traveling & Places:

  1. Visit South Korea.
  2. Go to Acadia National Park.
  3. Go to Shenandoah National Park.
  4. Go to Redwood National Forest.
  5. Go to the Eastern State Penitentiary.
  6. Go to the Smithsonian.
  7. Go to Centralia.
  8. Go to a silent disco.
  9. Go to Pittsburgh.
  10. Visit a cat café.
  11. Visit 5 new states.
  12. Go to 3 new-to-me state parks a year [2025] [2026] [2027].
  13. See a live ballet show.
  14. See a live opera show.
  15. See a play.
  16. Go to 3 concerts.
  17. Go to Blobfest at least once.

House/Car Stuff:

  1. Put shelving up.
  2. Clean out drawers.
  3. Get new brakes on car.
  4. Replace the lightbulb in the bathroom.
  5. Replace the towel rack in the bathroom.
  6. Seal side table.
  7. Come up with a cleaning schedule & stick to it!
  8. Learn how to drive stick-shift.
  9. Reorganize closet.
  10. Finish framing all random odds & ends.
  11. Come up with a moon phase-based planning schedule.
  12. Organize photos on phone.

Hobbies:

  1. Finish 30 hobby projects.
  2. Finish 5 video games [0 / 5]. 
  3. Go rock climbing.
  4. Make a mod for the Sims 3.
  5. Try skiing.
  6. Go paddle-boarding 25 times.
  7. Have a consistent tarot practice.
  8. Finish yellow journal.
  9. Be in a showcase.
  10. Get to level 2 in pole.
  11. One-selfie-a-day challenge for 1001 days.
  12. Make a new Spotify playlist once a month of favorite songs.
  13. Look at a painting for three hours.

Donations/Giving:

  1. Donate blood 10 times.
  2. Donate to cat food pantry on Valentine’s Day [0 / 3].
  3. Donate 100,000 bowls of rice [ 34 / 100,000].

Media:

  1. Read 250 books [0 / 250].
  2. At least ¼ of them nonfiction (63)
  3. Watch 100 new-to-me movies.
  4. Write a short story or three.
  5. Write 50 blog posts.
  6. Make a zine.

Health & Aesthetics:

  1. Get an industrial piercing.
  2. Run a half-marathon.
  3. Re-pierce closed piercings.
  4. Get nose pierced.
  5. Reach ideal weight range.
  6. Complete Walk to Mordor challenge.
  7. Spend 1500+ mins doing yoga.
  8. Drink an average of 64oz of water/day.
  9. At least once a month, spend an entire day without any electronic devices on.
  10. Continue to grow hair out.
  11. Get a new dentist.
  12. Get a new tattoo.
  13. Get teeth whitened.
  14. Take vitamins more often than not.
  15. Become somebody who is consistently on time.
  16. Finish 12 30-day-challenges.

Learn How / School:

  1. Learn how to whistle.
  2. Learn how to ride a bike.
  3. Learn how to play chess.
  4. Learn how to crochet.
  5. Learn how to rollerskate.
  6. Get into nursing school.
  7. Maintain at least an A- in all nursing school classes.
  8. Finish A&P2 w/ an A.
  9. Get a 100-day streak in Duolingo for Korean.
Now, you may be thinking, "wait, that isn't 101 items..." and you'd be right. But, well, 101 things are way harder to come up with than expected, considering how many of them are stretch goals anyway. Plus, I've a tendency to be subjected to flights of fancy & whimsy, so I left them blank to be filled up as future me sees fit. A lot can change in 2.75 years, or so I've heard. 
2025-08-18 02:09 pm
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Hello to Nobody & Everybody All At Once + TBR List

Well, hi. Nice to meet you!

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this blog yet, to be honest. Most likely some media reviews, maybe some writing & photography of my own. It's been a while since I've written anything long-form, so we'll see how it goes.

I'm not at home right now, so updates to my bookshelf will be edited in later.

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TBR List

(Audible Backlog)

  • Priory of the Orange Tree
  • The Witcher series, books 1-8
  • Evil in Me
  • Seaborn
  • Slewfoot
  • The Killing Moon
  • Children of Blood & Bone
  • Age of Myth
  • A Darker Shade of Magic
  • Fourth Wing
  • Shadow of What Was Lost
  • Guards! Guards!
  • Eye of the World
  • No Gods for Drowning
  • The Name of the Moon
(My Bookshelf)
  • The Luminaries