My 1001 Day Project Ends In: DAYS : HOURS : MINS : SECS

Start: July 1, 2025 | End: March 27, 2028

I keep trying to do a Project 365...many, many times. My last attempt started on July 1 of last year. I set a notification on my phone for 9pm every night to make sure I had a picture for the day. I did really well for about 5.5 months, was excited that I was almost half way, and then...nothing.

To be fair, I did get super sick twice, both of which lingered forever. I'm more confident than ever that they're trying to create a super virus to kill us all off. The biggest problem is this business of ours. I don't really do anything outside of here anymore. I can only take so many pictures of my dog or what I'm eating at the moment. I don't really want to remember that all I do is sit in front of this damned computer making stuff that "isn't as cool" as the AI slop that's being churned out. I went through my camera roll on my phone trying to see if I had taken anything, but no. Declared that one dead at the end of January. Tried again starting March 1 and lasted a whole 4 days before I decided it wasn't to be this time again.

Seasonal depression and our financial situation made the biggest hit in December. Not that we really celebrate holidays any more, but we usually do exchange a gift on Christmas. This year, nothing. We didn't even have the money to make a nice dinner like I always do. I'm going to have to do a post on the main blog about what's going on there, probably when the whole mess is over. There's been more than one occasion that I wished I wasn't on this planet anymore...not dead, I don't want to die...I just don't want to be trapped here.

Anyway, I'm going to give this thing one final shot starting June 1. If I can't do it this time, I give up.

Also, need to start doing stuff on my list or give up on this, as well. I'm going to be 60 in September. If I keep putting this off, there won't be any 1001 days left.

Posted by LaDonna on 05/26/26 at 12:31 PM
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At the beginning of July, I got a pair of Hike barefoot shoes. For the most part, I really like them. The 2 drawbacks to them are the sole is thin, so you feel every rock you step on and if the pavement is hot, you feel that, too. The second is they are porous, so if it is raining, your feet get soaked. I'm going to have to find a differernt footwear solution for winter, but these work for summer

Posted by LaDonna on 08/17/25 at 11:28 AM
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Man, I do not know what happened between the last post and this one. Time has been so weird lately. It seems like I wrote that just yesterday, yet months have passed. So today, with the Summer solstice, I'm setting intentions to get my life moving again. I'm forming the list over the next week and will kick off the new 1001 days on July 1.

Posted by LaDonna on 06/20/25 at 04:51 AM
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You know, I can't count how many times I've restarted this thing. All I know if, my life majorly stalled. Looking at past lists I've had via Wayback machine, I really haven't accomplished much and sadly, a lot of things I thought were important to me are now totally irrelevant. So as of today, I'm crafting a new list. I'm making my official start date of April 1, 2025, approximately 3 weeks from today. HERE WE GO!

Posted by LaDonna on 03/12/25 at 03:17 PM
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So, I've been really stagnant on my goals. I did move to South Dakota on August 1, 2016 and we bought a printing business that started on August 1, 2017, so I knocked a couple of major ones off the last list. I need to find a balance between my personal life and my work life, though. I really haven't done much creatively in the last year and I'm still not unpacked at the house. I feel like an outsider even though I have been here well over a year full time and five years part time.

2018 is going to be the year I get back to being me. I'm going to craft and create and garden and read and I'm going to take time to knock off these things I keep putting on these 101 lists for a dozen years now and never do. I'm also going to put extra effort into finding additional income streams so that I can finally have Marcus living up here with me.

After watching my parents both live unfulfilled lives, I don't want to find myself old and wishing I had lived differently.

So, over the next few days I'll revamp the list and will save it in a post. I wish I had done that for previous incarnations to see how my goals have changed over the decade. Oh, well...FRESH START!

ETA: OK, so Wayback Machine may be the way to go to find past lists. I'll have to do that!

Posted by LaDonna on 01/01/18 at 11:16 PM
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When I restarted in 2013 and wrote that my life was about to change, oh boy, did it, but not in a good way. Dad's had at least a couple of strokes and the last couple of years I've been having to deal with him being in and out of the hospital and rehab and finding him assisted living on an extremely limited budget. We moved to a condo that's been in a state of remodel for over 2 years, our house up North has been in a state of building/remodel for almost 4 years. I'm tired of putting my dreams and plans on hold. This year, on September 11, I turn 50. I swore to myself that I will leave my current job either before I turn 50 or, by the latest, before I reach my 10 year anniversary there (that is the first week in November). I'm 2 years away from the age Mom was when she died. I'm not going to let myself get to the point that I either die early or die before doing things I wanted to accomplish.

I can't remember how many times I've restarted this. My best guess, as I've deleted posts from the first couple of tries, is that I've been trying to get this thing going for over 10 years. I've only ever finished a tiny handful of things on any list (this last one had ONE item I accomplished). It's time to start living and start doing.

Posted by LaDonna on 06/20/16 at 09:08 AM
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I'm attempting to complete Project 365 for the umpteenth time. I'm posting pics in their own Project 365 category on on the main DomesticGeek blog.

Posted by LaDonna on 11/01/14 at 11:38 AM
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Some stuff happened recently that made it extremely clear my life is about to change. Once I get to South Dakota, I may go into details about that, but as of yesterday, I'm going with plan B to get up there. This will involve some scary stuff for me as I plan to do freelance design work and sell some crafts through Etsy. Since my life is basically starting anew very shortly, I decided to revamp the list and start fresh from today, September 1, 2013. I'll be revising the list over the next few days - hopefully I'll get more checked off this time!

Posted by LaDonna on 09/01/13 at 11:31 AM
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OMG, just realized my end date is one year from today. Looking through my list, I've got a lot to tackle. Most importantly, though, is #2. After some serious messed-up crap at work lately (that I will not put into words on the Internet), I have got to get out of there. I must get off my duff and get out of my comfort zone and make the things I want to happen become reality. This "temporary" job I took at the printers has turned into longest stint of employment I've ever had (the 15 years of pizza was actually broken up into small segments with different owners, brief periods where I quit, etc.). When I found myself outside for the 2nd time in less than a month forcing myself to go back inside instead of getting in the car to drive away for good, it hit me that it's time to face my fears of the unknown and move on.

I don't want to be one of the many losers stuck at that company when I'm old because I don't have anything else.

Crap, just realized if I want to complete a Project365, I have to take a picture everyday from today on. Ok, then...

Posted by LaDonna on 06/08/13 at 08:06 AM
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After Marcus and I have changed our diets to remove as much processed foods as possible and after the last time feeling ill after we had beef/broccoli from the place across from work, I knew I needed to cross this one off. I decided I didn't need to actually buy a wok as I technically already owned one (see nice, rounded bottom pan in picture). I did, however, finally Google how to do and came across this video on YouTube:



Marcus and I bought the stuff this past weekend on our weekly Whole Foods trip. They even had precut stir fry meat (wish it was grass-finished, but you can't seem to find any of that in this town). Instead of getting all of the various ingredients for the sauce that was in the video, we went with a bottled organic one. The only thing missing that I really wanted in there was bean sprouts - for some reason, I could not find any. I'll have to get busy on the one goal I have of growing my own sprouts.

Posted by LaDonna on 04/14/13 at 10:04 PM
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