Erica’s 101 in 1001 List
Start date: July 3, 2008
End date: March 31, 2011
Family Goals
1. Buy a house (Yay!! 12/5/08)
2. Take photos of all of our immediate family members (Finished: Jacob, Justin and Leslie, Dad and Suzanne, Alison and Chris. To Take: Mom and Greg, Jim and Jeri)
3. Schedule a play-date for Petey, our miniature schnauzer (12/18/09 – play date with Hutton!)
4. Convert family home videos to DVD (2/8/09)
5. Spend a weekend with Jacob (12/27/09 – 12/30/09 – my little brother is awesome)
6. Visit my dad in Portland (8/21, 8/22, 8/23)
7. Make my mom and Greg take a vacation or weekend getaway (August 2010)
8. Visit Jeff’s grandma in Mansfield, Missouri (8/31/08)
9. Build up our savings account
10. See Justin and Leslie more often
Wifely Duties
11. Have professional portraits taken of Jeff and I (8/2009 – La Brisa Photography and 12/2009 – Beaty Photography)
12. Go to a St. Louis Cardinals game with Jeff (9/6/08)
13. Plan a surprise for Jeff
14. Get an album made with our wedding photos (11/6/08)
15. Have a picnic together (8/20/09 – in Central Park)
16. Take a weekend trip away from city life
17. Write a love letter
18. Watch a scary movie with Jeff — he loves them…I don’t (10/18/08 — The Ring)
19. Play golf together
20. Take more walks with Petey and Jeff (May 2010 — Petey gets a walk almost every day now)
Business To-Dos
21. Become a completely full-time photographer (April 2010… FINALLY!)
22. Print photos on canvas (12/08 …and more to come!)
23. Read 3 books that will benefit my business (1/3 – The Last Lecture)
24. Send out anniversary cards to past photography clients
25. Create an organized home office
26. Develop a welcome packet for wedding clients
27. Network with Kansas City area photographers (9/2009 Pictage User Group (PUG) is now in Kansas City!)
28. Become a member of a photography group, club or organization (12/11/08 WPPI, Wedding and Portrait Photographers International)
29. Attend a photography workshop or conference (8/18/08, Free to Succeed, November 2009, PartnerCon, August 2010, Don’t Give Up Project)
30. Get ericamay photography on the preferred vendor list at a local venue (8/2009 – Circle S Ranch… amazing venue!)
31. Mentor an aspiring photographer (1/20/09)
32. Improve my calendar/schedule-making methods (9/9/08)
33. Implement a new budgeting/payment tracking system (7/24/08: QuickBooks Online)
34. Take photos in at least 15 states (15 – Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New York, Louisiana, California, North Carolina, Nevada)
35. Buy the Nikkor 24-70 2.8 lens (8/26/08)
36. Buy the Nikkor 70-200 2.8 lens (7/16/08)
37. Buy the Tokina 11-16 2.8 lens (8/5/08)
38. Buy another flash (9/15/08 — Nikon Speedlight, August 2010 — two more Nikon SB-900s)
39. Order custom M&M’s for my business to use as gifts
40. Send photos to vendors after we work together (2010 – added to my workflow!)
41. Take more photos of babies (2009 – a big year for portrait sessions!)
42. Create a new digital filing system (2010, finally got the system perfected!)
43. Get rid of our old desktop computers (11/26/08)
44. Choose my all-time favorite photographic hero (8/13/08, Dorothea Lange)
45. Incorporate more story-telling elements into my blog
46. Create an official workflow checklist for post-processing (4/9/09 – Thanks to Shootq!)
47. Outsource more of my post-processing work
48. Try a new source of paid advertising (1/2010 – www.theknot.com – we were voted Best of Weddings 2010!)
49. Find good music for my website
Cooking Projects
50. Learn how to make homemade noodles (7/12/09 – recipe in the blog post!)
51. Try 10 new recipes (10/10 – completed October 2010)
52. Bake homemade puppy treats for Petey and friends
53. Grow my own tomatoes (Summer 2010)
54. Learn how to make sushi (June 2010 – Sushi-Making Party!)
55. Bake something for my coworkers (strawberry and lemon cupcakes, 7/25/08)
56. Make a dessert dish from scratch (9/24/09 – my now-famous pumpkin cookies!)
57. Cook breakfast for Jeff at least once a month
58. Skip fast food for one week (10/5/08 – 10/11/08)
59. Bake a cake using the multi-layer Betty Crocker system that I bought on impulse
Friendly Tasks
60. Mail a personal letter every week for 10 weeks
61. Have a girls’ weekend retreat (November 2010 – took a girl’s trip with my BFF!)
62. Host a fancy dinner party for friends
63. Host a “favorite kid food” dinner party for friends
64. Dog-sit Nigel more often (Nigel moved to Springfield… 
Petey misses you!)
65. Have a night out with Kasie (2/20/09)
66. Organize a board game tournament for friends
67. Call or visit a friend I haven’t seen in at least a year (11/12/08)
Travel Dreams
68. Visit the Carolinas (November 2010)
69. Travel internationally (January 2010 – Puerto Vallarta and Yelapa, Mexico)
70. Send 5 postcards through www.postcrossing.com
71. Get my feet wet in the Pacific Ocean (8/22/08 – Oregon Coast)
72. Go camping (Labor Day weekend 2008)
73. Give Branson, Missouri, another try (12/5/09 with Beaty Photography)
74. Take a weekend road trip and photo-document every detail (March 2011 – Colorado)
75. Stay at a Bed & Breakfast or hotel in the Kansas City area – observe the city like a tourist (2/5/10 – 2/7/10)
Service Projects
76. Work on a missions project/go on a mission trip
77. Send an Any Soldier, Inc. package
78. Donate 10,000 grains of rice on www.freerice.com (12/24/08)
79. Make improvements to the Kansas HOBY program (6/11-6/14/09 )
80. Partner on a project with City Union Mission
81. Do at least 3 Operation: Love Reunited sessions (7/7/08, 1/18/09, 2/21/09)
82. Buy an Angel Tree gift at Christmas time (December 2010 – even better, I participated in Affordable Christmas and got to have a bigger role than just buying something for ONE child!)
Personal Growth/Make Me Happy Items
83. Read the Bible all the way through
84. Take a break from the Internet for an entire weekend (1/6/10 – 1/9/10 in Yelapa, Mexico)
85. Turn off the TV for 48 hours (1/6/10 – 1/9/10 in Yelapa, Mexico)
86. Go to a concert (Cool Hand Luke, 7/7/08, Copeland 4/7/09, House of Heroes 9/14/09, Mae, Copeland again, Death Cab for Cutie, The Swell Season, Bowinero)
87. Read the news every day for one month
88. Visit an orchard and pick fresh fruit (10/1/10 – visited during a family portrait session! Picked apples and pears!)
89. Write a letter to a former teacher
90. Watch the sunrise (8/23/08 – on the Oregon coast)
91. Watch the sunset (1/5/10 – in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)
92. Keep fresh flowers in my home for an entire month (7/6/09-8/6/09)
93. Try that banana milk and a new cupcake variety at BabyCakes (7/18/09 – banana cupcake!)
94. Learn how to change a tire
95. Purchase an original piece of art (8/1/08 – ceramics from Archival Designs, 8/2009 – painting from River Market Antiques)
96. Get a massage (10/26/08 – Denver, Colorado)
97. Write a letter to someone I’ve never met who inspires me
98. Get rid of old and irrelevant e-mail messages in all inboxes
99. Take daily vitamins once a day for an entire month (and beyond!)
100. Get new glasses
101. Order a Big Mac (8/26/08)
