Okay kids - here is my complete list of 101 things I want to do in the next 1001 days! I will be referring back to this list as I work on checking things off. DISCLAIMER: These items are listed in no particular order!
Start Date: January 30, 2009
End Date: October 29, 2011
- Update and fully customize my blog.
- Visit my friend Hadden and her husband in NYC.
- Update my website.
- Finish the studio renovation.
- Take Gracie to enroll in and complete an obedience class.
- Make dinner for my husband every night for an entire week.
- Read three books to benefit my business.
- Run a half-marathon.
- Learn to brew my own beer alongside the Back-Door Brewery.
- Be a guest at a wedding.
- Buy a house in Charleston, SC.
- Complete and execute the Alpha Kappa Camera plans.
- Plant flowers in my flowers boxes and keep them alive for an entire season.
- Attend ‘The Image is Found’ workshop with my friend Cristi.
- Fulfill all of my commitments to my volunteer charity organizations.
- Start sending out anniversary cards to past clients.
- Blog every day for an entire month.
- Second-shoot for fun with three local photographers.
- Shoot a wedding on another continent.
- Get my friend Ben to compose a song for my website.
- Learn how to change a flat tire.
- Surprise my husband with a crazy fun adventure trip.
- Take a dance class.
- Do some first-year sessions for Miller Fields.
- Learn to play poker.
- Go to Symphony In The Park.
- See Criss Angel live.
- Take a vacation with my friend Lucy and our mothers.
- Do a crazy high-fashion vintage shoot with some of my friends.
- Attend a OneLight Workshop.
- Go white water rafting.
- Come up with a killer playlist for client meetings.
- Photograph Gracie and all the puppies!
- Get to know my neighbors better.
- Learn to whistle.
- Explore the nooks and crannies of Central Alabama on scout days.
- Take a fun trip with my mom to make up for Memphis.
- Network with other photographers by linking Facebook and Twitter to my blog.
- Join Twitter.
- Shoot a Bridal Couture Trash The Dress session in a body of water.
- Take a defensive driving class…for fun.
- Document the locations of my personal history.
- Master my own texture technique.
- Do a “Top Five” blog post.
- Read the entire Bible in a year.
- Do a portrait session with our friends, The Giffens.
- Make a floral arrangement by myself.
- Beat my husband at an Xbox game.
- Go to Lebowski Fest.
- Get a cake from Duff at Ace of Cakes.
- Learn to cut grass.
- Purchase an Abe Morrell print.
- Go to San Diego.
- Win a WPJA award.
- Create a studio manual.
- Go to Sips-N-Strokes.
- Hit up another Panic Show.
- Host a “Lost” Party at my house.
- Take pictures of my friend Jasika Nicole.
- Go to Dubrovnik on my 5 year anniversary.
- Start sending out business holiday cards.
- Go back to New Orleans…
- Take one of Ruthie’s workout classes.
- Undertake a video project to market the studio.
- See The Boston Pops.
- Go on a missions trip through my church.
- Get a new laptop.
- Complete the Man Cave.
- Cut down my own Christmas Tree at a Christmas Tree Farm.
- Coin my own term and patent it…for fun.
- Take a pottery class.
- Have my brother-in-law design a house for us.
- Find and buy the bow earrings that I have been looking for for three years.
- Take my sister-in-law on a fun trip, just the two of us.
- Visit my brother in Marion.
- Host a dinner party for my bible study.
- Shoot a wedding for free - which would be chosen through a selection process.
- Organize the office production area and client files.
- Have a professional portrait session of me and my husband in Fenway Park.
- Sell “Changing Shoes” to the Citadel bookstore.
- Convince Anna Maner to hang out with me for an entire weekend.
- Second-shoot for my childhood friend Kerie Cleveland.
- Meet Bill Simmons of ESPN.
- Paint my living room and back bedroom.
- Go to a ‘Journey’ concert with Lucy.
- Donate photographic services to Lifeline Childrens’ Services.
- Donate photographic services to Big Oak Ranch.
- Finish my Father’s Christmas present from two years ago.
- Take formal portraits of my Grandmother Josie.
- Do a portrait of Lucy for her facebook profile picture.
- Have my quiet time every single day for six weeks.
- Design new client packets.
- Have a lighting workshop with my photographer friends in town.
- Have an open house party for the studio.
- Watch the Alabama Crimson Tide win the National Championship.
- Take shots of my Father’s and his friends’ planes…to feed the aviation addictions.
- Hire an intern.
- Order all new sample albums.
- Get Heidi to answer the phone when I call her…just once!
- Get new headshots of myself for my website and blog.
- Learn to grill.