So I was expecting to be a failure...

2009-04-18T11:38:00.000-07:00

I checked in on this list for the first time in a while, expecting to have very little to change... To my surprise, I've actually accomplished some stuff. Yay for me! Added a couple new things to the list, as well... Still have quite a way to go until there are the requisite 101 items, but progress is progress. :)

Woohoo!

2009-03-19T01:04:00.001-07:00

I added ten new things!!

And adjusted the legend a bit... I get the feeling that will be happening a lot.

I had a veggie meal yesterday with the loverly Leilani and have biked to work twice this week - yippie!!!

I can't believe Val already finished her damn list. Crazy wench. She probably had one ready and just typed it up for this. (Kidding - love ya Val!) ;)

Okay, now I should be asleep.

My fellow 101ers...

2009-03-16T12:07:00.000-07:00

Thus far...

Sandie
Val
Urban Rat

Item Number 1...

2009-03-13T20:46:00.000-07:00

So, a friend on FaceBook joined the Day Zero Project.

As a compulsive lister, of course I love the idea. As an antsy psychopath, I think it's gonna be a pretty hard task to not finish everything at once... perhaps the exercise of writing the list and having several years to complete all the tasks within it will be a learning experience in itself. Pacing myself has never been my strong suit...

So, item #1, of course, will be WRITING THIS LIST.

Ellie Maybe's 101 in 1001:
Start Date: 03.14.09

1. Complete this list of 101 items. (71/101)
2. Finally get my driver's license.
3. Learn Spanish.
4. Create and maintain design portfolio.
5. Open a savings account. Deposit $10/week. Deposit $10 for every item fully completed on this list. (0/143) (0/101)
6. Lose 3 dress sizes, 14->8. (0/3)
7. Record and press an EP with The Maybenauts.
8. Record and press new EP/album with The Sonnets.
9. Visit three countries besides the U.S. (0/3)
10. Play SXSW.
11. Play music in 50 cities. (4/50)

Chicago, IL

Naperville, IL

Hammond, IN

Madison, WI

12. Once weather stabilizes at 50 degrees or higher, bike to work at least 3 days a week.
13. Learn to cook 25 new meals, especially llapengachos. (0/25)
14. Once Maybenauts EP is recorded, attack radio and press.
15. Find a way to mass-produce Chubby Puppies with plastic, resin, or metal, and market them to botiques.
16. Save up enough money to start working with PMC.
17. Learn to play clarinet... better.
18. Start playing sax again.
19. Practice piano regularly.
20. Get the Humboldt Gong set list up to 300 songs. (123/300)
21. Build up freelancing business and live band karaoke until I can dissolve the dogwalking company without sacrificing my income.
22. Buy a pedal for my sewing machine and start using it.
23. Write at least 50,000 words of fiction. (0/50,000)
24. Write and shoot at least a few episodes of It Doesn't Take A... with Julie.
25. Do at least one music video for The Maybenauts.
26. Eat vegetarian at least one night a week.
27. Quit drinking premade soda (homemade soda water + juice does not count).
28. See Tom Waits live.
29. Produce at least 5 large music events. (0/5)
30. Call ASCAP to get account # and password and upload Meet Ellie songs. (This apparently is not as easy as it first seemed... Fuck you, ASCAP help line.)
31. Submit writing and get published somewhere.
32. Quit biting nails!!!
33. Shower at least every other day. (Yes, I'm gross.)
34. Make an official scrapbook of old show flyers and posters so I can finally throw all the rest out.
35. Cut down on the smokinz, if not quit...
36. Read 50 new books. (1/50)
37. Practice an instrument once every day (voice counts).
38. Take my mom out to dinner.
39. Meet at least two new bookers/club owners in Chicago. (0/2)
40. Attend and play Steel Bridge Song Fest again.
41. Play at least one show with pat mAcfuckingdonald.
42. Make more jewelry for Boxnog.
43. Finish - okay, start this. (0/6)
44. Buy a vehicle the band(s) can tour in.
45. Keep abreast of new web happenings; I don't always have to be the last to know.
46. Finish the artwork for Leslie Hunt's album and use it to help start building my low-income-musician's-design portfolio thing.
47. Design/purchase/create awesome, unique merch opportunities for The Maybenauts.
48. Go on at least 3 week-long tours. (0/3)
49. Record a concept album of theme songs for cartoons that don't exist yet.
50. Update the Blog That Shall Not Be Named (it's a secret!) at least once a month for the duration of this project. (0/84)
51. Bike the Lake Shore Drive path from Evanston to Hyde Park (with Val?).
52. Take at least one long-distance bike ride/camping trip.
53. Do WNBR with Bailey at least once!!
54. Convert Damien to a single speed (ideally myself, so I can learn how to do it).
55. Overhaul The Sonnets website.
56. Bigteeth Wordpress design (see, Gregg? I do care.)
57. Give Chia his operation. :(
58. Start using www.fitday.com again to manage calorie consumption/burn and do weight loss the non-creepy-depressed-questionably-anorexic way.
59. Speaking of questionably anorexic, do at least one fast (3-day minimum).
60. Get another colonic during said fast.
61. Go camping with a bunch of friends and a lot of mushrooms... and cheap beer.
62. Get the jack on Thor fixed.
63. Repair and/or sell my GK and find an amp I likey like.
64. LEARN TO PLAY WITH A MOTHERFUCKING PICK EVEN THOUGH I DON'T WANT TO.
65. Finally play that last $52 of the Lotto Club's money... I swear, I will do it like next week guys. Sorry!!!
66. Stabilize living situation.
67. Buy a pig.
68. Do more session work. (I mean music, perverts.)
69. Start new dog website and funnel money from advertising and SEO genius.
70. Somehow whiten yellow-ass teeth.
71. Get 2,500 followers on The Maybenauts' Twitter. (542/2500)
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Legend:
i'm workin' on it...
begun and ongoing, yet somehow immeasurable
~~completed~~

Miss Maybe's 101

So I was expecting to be a failure...

Woohoo!

My fellow 101ers...

Item Number 1...