Thursday, May 8, 2008

101 in 1001

101 Things in 101 Days

Start Date: March 12, 2008
Finish Date: December 8, 2010

Health/Food
1. Steam and eat 1 vegetable every day for a week.
2. try sushi at least 3 times in 1 year (3/13/08 JL1 Lunch: California roll and assorted sushi pieces)
3. Eat salmon at least 3 times in 6 months
4. Take at least 2 Pilates instructions
5. Run 1 mile easily
6. Gain noticeable muscle tone in arms and legs
7. Go entire month without eating out
8. do 30 crunches per day for 2 weeks
9. drink nothing but water for 1 week
10. learn 3 new slow cooker recipes and make them

Giving Back
11. Visit at least 25 doors for AHA
12. visit at least 5 businesses for the AHA

Baby
13. Zoo
14. teach sign language
15. arrange a play date with a daycare mom
16. hand make a costume
17. memorize 5 poems and recite to Baby

Things to Do Near Home
18. American Museum of Natural History
19. Metropolitan Museum of Art
20. Museum of Modern Art
21. National Museum of the American Indian
22. Guggenheim Museum
23. Broadway
24. Yankees
25. first Thursday or other night
26. get a new library card

Things to Do at Home
27. watch all the Godfathers
28. Watch Grey Gardens
29. Watch Casablanca
30. Watch the Exorcist
31. Sell off everything in my “Ebay pile”
32. Learn to make 10 nutritious family dinners
33. read all of Sherman Alexie
34. Read all of Sears baby Book(5/4/08)
35. Read entire Neruda book
36. Do 1 load of laundry a week where I finish every step in same day for a month
37. need new goal

Travel
38. Road trip by myself or with only grownups!
39. Visit one of the following: New Mexico/Arizona/Texas or California/Oregon/Washington

Taking Care of Myself
40. Wear a skirt/dress every day for a week
41. Wear fingernail polish for a week (5/5, 5/6, 5/7, 5/8 )
42. Wear makeup every day for a week (3/17/08-3/21/08)
43. NEW GOAL
44. personal
45. shower every day for 2 weeks
46. brush hair every other day for 2 weeks
47. go to the dermatologist in 2008
48. go to the dentist in 2008 (scheduled 5/16/08)
49. take a multivitamin every day for a month
50. pluck my eyebrows once a week for a month
51. floss every day for a month

Be Adventurous and/or Travel Outside my Comfort Zone
52. skydive
53. ski
54. Ask a new acquaintance to be friends
55. ride a motorcycle
56. Be an extra in a film
57. Go dancing
58. Go on a date in 2008
59. embarrassing
60. gamble! Be willing to lose a couple hundred dollars

Learn New Things
61. Touch typing
62. guitar lessons 12 weeks
63. go back to school for 1 class if unsubsidized in 2008, every semester if subsidized for year
64. get CPR certified
65. Learn all the countries in a continent per month
66. Learn at least 50 ASL signs
67. learn to drive stick shift
68. learn something involving basic plumbing

Finance and Home
69. Get into aff housing
70. Pay off 10% of mortgage
71. write a will
72. get life insurance
73. get a passport
74. NEW GOAL
75. Increase 401k contribution

Work
76. Get a raise
77. finish “catch-up” work 100%
78. go 3 days without goofing off at work (- quick convo with Jamie for coffee!)

Arts and Crafts
79. Make a yearly photo book of A-Team
80. Finish Baby book
81. make myself that thing
82. make someone that thing

Friendships
83. See 1 “long distance” friend once a month (3/22 C/M)(4/22 N) (5/17 C)
84. personal

Weekly and Monthly Goals
85. NEW GOAL
86. Work out 3 times a week for 1 month
87. 1 week without TV (every week in Mom’s house!)
88. Watch the evening news through every day for a week
89. Look up and use a new word every day for 1 month
90. go to 3 concerts in 1 year
91. read one of my books each month for a year
92. listen to 1 new album a month I think I might like
93. complete house clean once a week for 2 months

Misc
94. Be without anger towards Husband
95. Read the Bible
96. get a postcard published on Postsecret
97. Don’t buy a new book until I have read 5 of my own
98. get a tattoo?
99. register to vote under new name in my county
100. create an up-to-date password/bill list

Last but not least
101. Make a new list of 101 Things by the time my 1001 days are done
remind me to tell people about my blog. or delete it.