Expanding my horizons one day at a time.
The
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).
Start Date: June 17, 2009
Finish Date: March 14, 2012
In progress
Complete
1) Start a blog about the list 6/17/09
2) Blog about each item from list (16/101)
3) Celebrate finishing the list on the 1001st day.
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5) Put $5 in savings for every completed item. (10/101)
6) Pay off all credit cards
7) Check credit report
8) Put one entire tax refund into savings account
9) Start a savings account for future baby.
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11) Look into renter’s insurance and insuring my dolls.
12) Organize all recipes 9/22/09
13) Print digital pictures
14) Get a passport
15) Frame wedding pics.
16) Make a wedding scrapbook.
17) Make a will.
18) Go through all email accounts and organize/delete old emails.
19) Have wedding dress cleaned and stored.
20) Buy comforter set for bed.
21) Clean and organize the spare bedroom
22) Blow up picture from
23) Get rid of or fix small freezer
24) Begin recycling paper, plastic and glass
25) Buy a vacuum
26) Wash shower curtain and buy a new liner
27) Get a manicure and pedicure 6/15/10
28) Buy a matching bra & panty set
29) Get a massage
30) Try a new hair color
31) Buy a purse w/wallet that cost more than $75
32) Take a self defense class
33) Play a computer game of H’s choosing.
34) Read a book of H’s choosing.
35) Spend a day doing whatever H wants. 1/13/10
36) Watch a movie of H’s choosing at theaters
37) Write down 10 reasons I love my husband & give it to him 6/22/10
38) Kiss in the pouring rain 8/25/09
39) Do a beer of the month for 12 months (a new type of 6 pack each month) (0/12)
40) Take an “Us” picture every month (5/33)
41) Start and complete a cross-stitch project
42) Learn how to shoot a gun
43) Learn sign language, beyond just the alphabet
44) Learn to can tomatoes with Grandma
45) Look into pilot lessons 6/20/09
46) Learn to tie necktie for H
47) Learn to either knit or crochet
48) Learn to identify 10 constellations (0/10)
49) Go to 5 new restaurants. (0/5)
50) Walk everyday for a month (weather permitting). (0/30)
51) Lose 15 pounds
52) Make bread from scratch
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54) Do Hip Hop Abs everyday for 2 weeks (0/14)
55) Buy an Aerogarden, and grow my own herbs
56) Make 5 vegetarian meals (4/5)
57) Go to a farmer’s market
58) Bake a pie from scratch, including crust
59) Send Christmas cards with a letter giving a family update.
60) Send Grandma flowers for no special reason
61) Send Mom flowers for no special reason
62) Send Mother-in-Law flowers for no special reason.
63) Get sister tattoos with Jamie and Mandy
64) Send birthday cards to everyone in immediate family (parents, siblings, nieces/nephew, grandparents) for entire 1001 days.
65) Organize spreadsheet for attendance
66) Update contact info sheet
67) Send out letters and info sheets for family book
68) Start compiling information from info sheets
69) Update family tree with birth/death dates
70) Leave a 50% tip.
71) Volunteer somewhere at least 5 times (0/5)
72) Take an angel off the Angel tree
73) Donate clothes/shoes I don’t wear 8/25/09
74) Give blood twice (0/2)
75) Write a letter of thanks to a soldier
76) Send a care package via treatanysoldier.com
77) Add myself to bone marrow donation list
78) Donate 100,000 grains of rice on Freerice.com
79) Buy nice luggage
80) Take a week vacation with H.
81) Go to a professional sports game.
82) Attend a football game at MSU.
83) Go to the Wilcox
84) Visit a vineyard
85) Complete 5 tourist activities in my own city (0/5)
86)Try Geochaching
87) Start an online journal/diary 8/22/09
88) Read 5 nonfiction books (4/5)
89) Read 3 classic novels (0/3)
90) Continue my food/ttc blog
91) Read more books than I read in 2009
92) Don’t read a book for a whole week (7 days) 11/27/09
93) Buy a Wreck the Journal and use it.
94) Get pregnant 10/20/09
95) Buy and drink a bottle of wine that costs more than $20
96) Send a postcard to Post Secret
97) No computer or TV for a whole weekend.
98) Attend a GNO
99) Have a dinner party
100) Have a game night
101) Inspire someone else to do the 101 in 1001 6/18/09
