Poem No. 1
O Christmas Tree
With musical crash
A seven-foot conifer
Swan-dives to the floor.
With musical crash
A seven-foot conifer
Swan-dives to the floor.
Labels: #80 (100 poems)
posted by KJ McLean at
8:20 PM
What Am I Doing?
101 Things in 1001 Days
Start Date: May 2, 2006
Deadline: January 28, 2009
Time Remaining:
25 items finished, and 76 left to go.
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The List:
1. Reach a healthy weight.
2. Spend four days in Salem, MA.
3. Resurrect my short story collection.
4. Finish writing my short story collection.
5. Have my gallbladder removed.
6. Go horseback riding at least once.
7. Get a new kitchen floor.
8. Exercise daily for four straight weeks.
9. Take a class at Hooper Studios.
10. Finish writing The Novel.
11. Get a palm LifeDrive.
12. Get a new digital camera
13. Take ice skating lessons.
14. Make $750 at a miniatures show.
15. Get another car.
16. Reach the point of FLYing in the house.
17. Turn my office into a functional space.
18. Go to Scotland.
19. Start an ATC group in Saint John that has 15+ members.
20. Have a zero balance on the credit card.
21. Restore my childhood dollhouse.
22. Have my CafePress store make a profit six months in a row.
23. Perform on-stage at the Imperial Theatre.
24. Get new glasses.
25. Drive solo to Green Gables.
26. Write an e-book on being a successful walking tour guide.
27. Write an e-book on being a successful substitute teacher.
28. Sell an e-book on being a successful walking tour guide.
29. Sell an e-book on being a successful substitute teacher.
30. Use website to begin an online serial.
31. Adopt another dog and cat as pets.
32. Get a door for between the kitchen and the dining room.
33. Make the front yard look attractive.
34. Get hole in front porch window fixed.
35. Get rid of MR2s (and assorted pieces) in garage.
36. New floor in office.
37. Refinish floors upstairs.
38. Find out if Saint John Writers' Group is dead.
39. If Writers' Group is dead, start a new one.
40. Finish Emily's doll cradle.
41. Sell something on Etsy.
42. Sell one ACEO on eBay.
43. Attend Words in Whitby.
44. Resign directorship where I'm useless.
45. Get "It's the Little Things" up and running.
46. Fill a sketchbook with drawings, paintings, etc.
47. Investigate writing workshops for kids.
48. Visit New York City.
49. Join WFNB.
50. Take ballroom dancing lessons.
51. Create pagan holiday greeting card line at CafePress shop.
52. Buy PatternMaker for Cross Stitch software.
53. Publish miniature cross stitch pattern book.
54. Finish ABC Scrapbook.
55. Print Kristoffersen book as sample.
56. Print Sir Lachlan book as sample.
57. Get Mouse-Potato Productions up and running.
58. Enter twelve writing contests.
59. Publish one travel writing article.
60. Write romance novel - AitG.
61. Read "Rebecca" in honour of Helmer.
62. Be published in a major scrapbooking magazine.
63. Make listening to CBC Radio on the weekends a habit.
64. Sing karaoke in front of total strangers.
65. Sing karaoke in front of friends.
66. Sing karaoke in front of my sisters.
67. Take singing lessons.
68. Get health insurance.
69. Compost on a regular basis.
70. Purchase an MP3 player for an instant zone-out mechanism.
71. Visit Neil and Mary Ellen.
72. Return to Wolfville for picture-taking.
73. Go on a self-planned week-long writing retreat.
74. Move forward on Colberg project.
75. Learn to paint with acrylics.
76. Learn to paint with watercolours.
77. Take a writers' workshop.
78. Read The Da Vinci Code.
79. Implement a time-management schedule.
80. Write 100 poems.
81. Write 15 letters to people who will never read them.
82. Re-read all seven of my favourite author's books.
83. Re-read the "Three Sisters Island" trilogy by Nora Roberts.
84. Write the bus driver story.
85. Create a stable of pseudonyms -- one for each genre.
86. Donate stuffed animals to Hestia House.
87. Get rid of baby stuff in house.
88. Make front closet useable.
89. Clean out the basement.
90. Give Congo paintings back to Dad.
91. Learn to touch-type.
92. Move crocus bulbs.
93. Write TI.
94. Publish a novel.
95. Write first YA book.
96. Publish two short stories.
97. Visit Montreal.
98. Join a camera club.
99. Talk to an accountant about business expenses.
100. Write CitS.
101. Finish reading "Never Let Me Go" and "A Map of Glass".
Previous Posts
- #63 is now part of my life.
- Looking at The List
- And #88 bites the dust.
- Awesome Trip!
- One step closer ...
- Still here!
- Working on #1
- Busy, busy ...
- Three more down ...
- So long, #90!
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