101 Things in 1001 Days

56a. Scan/log pre-Markeroni snarfs

Date Completed: 30 November 2013

I scanned in 32 photos dating from 1990 to 2004. Some of them were double snarfs, meaning I logged some 46 markers. Not bad, not bad at all. I even got to add a few new places to my "snarfed in" list: Missouri, Indiana, and England!

15a. Clean out plastic shelves on desk

Date Completed: 21 November 2013

These have long been my "why is this crap on my desk it needs a home so it'll go on these shelves" shelves. I'd originally purchased them with the idea that they'd be very transitional, with things living there only a short time while I figured out what to do with them. That, well, that didn't happen. Among the items I found, buried among an obscene number of snarf maps, were the worksheets from the Sine Fine Films production Quatrain, which I helped write back in 2007. I am hoping to once again make these shelves into temporary homes, but we'll see how well that works out. Here are the before and after photos:

51a: 2013 project

Date Completed: 10 October 2013

I forgot to post here when I actually finished this, which was actually rather soon after announcing it in the first place. Most of the pages are available for viewing at The Glue Stick Tourist blog.

81a. Visit the Stuart-Mosby Civil War Cavalry Museum



This is pretty much right in my backyard, and while I went to their open house during Centreville Day a few years ago, they didn't have their full collection out yet. So since I'm enjoying some time off courtesy of our incompetent government, I figured I might as well visit it today. And it was nice. The best part about tiny museums like this is that you always get a personal tour. It's not a big place - a single room - but there's quite a bit to see. Not recommended if you're not interested in J.E.B. Stuart or John S. Mosby, because that's pretty much all that's here.

(Thanks to 6of8 for accompanying and chauffeuring me.)

18a. Organize and downsize "tupperware" collection

This happened while I wasn't looking. My husband went through the tupperware collection a few weeks ago, pitched all the stuff we never used or had no lid or whatever, and reorganized the whole thing so you can actually find things - and both drawers still close. So I'm counting this as done even though I didn't technically do anything, because I'm certainly not going to redo his efforts, and it's not exactly "failed" either. I also doubt it'll need to get done again with the next 1001 days because we simply don't get new tupperware that often, especially now that we don't eat lunchmeat regularly.

9a. Clean out inside of car

Date Completed: 30 August 2013

My husband often doubles as my conscience, and he requested that I spend part of my day off today cleaning out my car. So I did: I threw out all the trash, vacuumed the whole thing, wiped down the frankly gross dashboard, and cleaned the windows. Meanwhile, my husband power-washed the front steps, so it's not like he was just watching me work. He also power-washed the fronts of both cars, but no more because the hose wasn't long enough.

I eat a lot in my car, which is why it gets so gross so fast, so it's good to have someone to remind me to deal with it from time to time.

89a. Make three Kiva loans

Date Completed: 17 July 2013

I had some Kiva credit lying around so I relent it to Kelsinbubu in Kyrgyzstan and to Sokheng in Cambodia. Both were agricultural in nature: one for cattle, the other for pig feed.

12a. Clean out file cabinet

Date Completed: 30 June 2013

I'd planned to do this over Memorial Day weekend, but ended up spending that holiday sick in bed. So I randomly decided to start working on it over the last few days of June. I filled up a large box of paper to be shredded, and the drawers no longer have difficulty opening and closing (due to being so weighted down by their contents). I need to do this more often so it'll be a smaller job each time. After all, I really don't need to keep cable bills from 2008. Really.

44a. Put together Ticket Stub Diary

Date Completed: 8 June 2013

This didn't take long; it's one of those things I just probably never would have gotten around to were it not for this list. I'd gotten all my ticket stubs together quite a while ago, and honestly there weren't that many. I'm not much of a movie ticket saver (though I did discover four from Phantom Menace, which is a pretty terrible movie; Ewan McGregor is a powerful force, y'all), and many of my more recent stubs end up as part of gluebook spreads. Still, it was fun to see some of the old stubs I'd kept from high school - the oldest ticket in the book is from seeing Jesus Christ Superstar in 1993. There may be older stubs floating around in the two bins of my stuff in my parents' attic, but they'll just get stuck in at the end. I'm not going to be a stickler for chronology here, as moving everything around would be a bit of a pain, and I already wrote in the margins of each ticket with the event, date, and city. Several of my older tickets have faded quite a bit so I figured I should write down the info before it's completely illegible.

One last note: this ticket stub diary was a birthday gift from my BookCrossing friend grubsneerg, who is awesome. Just wanted to mention it.

85a. Attend a BookCrossing (Un)Convention

Date Completed: 19 April 2013

Though I was only able to attend for a single day, I had an absolute blast at the 2013 BookCrossing Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden. BookCrossers are the very best people.