Here it is: my second to last report for my 101 goals in 1001 days project, because the 1001th day is October 18.

I finished a couple items during September, which is really surprising, because I was not into “to do” lists. Not even a little bit.

48. Visit an apple orchard with Jason — preferably when we can pick our own honey crisps completed 09/27/2014
49. Revisit the Como Zoo & Conservatory completed 09/01/2014

I even made a little bit of progress on some bigger goals:

17. Use 24 different recipes for canning/preserving food
    

    5. Green Tomato Raspberry Preserves – 09/21/2014

68. Be free of credit card debt.
72. Put $20 into savings for each completed task on this list, and $50 for each non-completed task
    ($740 due for 37 completed items, $2150 due for 43 items that will not be completed)

It’s also time to get real about goals I will not be able to finish before the 1001th day.

3. Craft Room Makeover
   (minimum requirements remaining: work table, new storage shelves, paint)
5. Master Bedroom Makeover
   (minimum requirements remaining: door, paint, new bedding)
6. Main floor guest bedroom makeover
   (minimum requirements remaining: paint, new curtains, decor)
7. Home Office Makeover
   (minimum requirements remaining: task lighting)
11. Make the flowerbeds in front of the house mostly self-sustaining
14. Help Sio and Ampersand to be in the same room without issue for longer than one hour (you’d think we’d be able to let the two girls go all free range in the house after three years together, but nope.)
19. Cook 30 new-to-me recipes
20. Bake 20 new-to-me recipes
22. Make my own cheese
23. Organize all of the loose recipes I have into a binder/cookbook and/or on my iPad (Paprika app)
24. Blog five recipe creations (I guess I’m not a food blogger.)
26. Make pizza from scratch
27. Cook 5 meals from 5 different countries
28. Use my passport again (It expired last October and I don’t think I’ll be traveling anywhere crazy again until January, at the earliest.)
29. Visit two new-to-me states in the US
36. Finish posting photos and memories from my past travels
37. Watch three film series (that consist of three movies or more) back-to-back
38. Watch all of Month Python’s Flying Circus
41. Finish watching all of the Academy Award’s Best Picture winners
44. Visit Chicago
45. Go to California again, really put my feet in the Pacific Ocean (this one is high on the possiblity list for January, but, alas – that would long past the 1001th day)
47. Visit five new-to-me lakes in Minnesota (This should’ve been an easy one — there are 10,000 lakes here, after all. I guess I just visit the same ol’ lakes that I’m used to.)
51. Find Hidden Beach (Read a rumor that it may not only be hidden, but also outlawed in the future.)
55. Ride the bike trails to (and from) my office in Plymouth (This summer I discovered my bike flat tire and I did never get around to buying a tire pump.)
62. Take a dance class
63. Finish the Lego Harry Potter (years 1–4) video game
67. Ride my bike to a beach and spend the day lounging in the sun and reading
71. Live off of $20/week for four weeks (not possible with the bad lunchtime habits I’m forming at work)
75. Goal weight: 140lbs. (That would be unhealthy.)
78. Complete Phase 2 of the South Beach Diet (I did this phase for a while but not the recommended length of time. It wasn’t terrible, but… I like cookies.)
79. Maintain Phase 3 of the South Beach Diet for at least one month
88. Participate in a Quilt-a-long
89. Hand-make 10 Christmas gifts
93. Digitize personal journals
94. Move photos from the old photo gallery to Flickr…
95. then update broken photo links in old blog entries

The good news? I am giving up on less than half of my goals list! There are still a few more goals that I’ve left on the list as possibilities for completing in the next few weeks, though, so the bad news? I guess we’ll see what’s up on October 18. View the whole list, and stay tuned for the final results! Totally thrilling, right?

In other news, who wants to help me complete these goals next weekend?

64. Go to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, MN
65. See the north side of lake Mille Lacs
66. See the Zumbrota Covered Bridge