101 Things to do in 1001 Days
Official Start Date: January 16, 2009
Official End Date: October 14, 2011
Official Progress Report: 19 items completed, 15 items started, 82 items to go
(Anything that has been completed is marked in bold, items in progress are pink)
Things have been moving along these last few months. I learned to use my sewing machine to make some Christmas presents, got my body checked by a dermatologist, and made a gingerbread house with the little one. My favorite Christmas gift was an amazing hard-bound book from Jason that documents the first 2 years of our blog. Any day now, I should be able to mark off "Have a Second Baby" and am contemplating getting a pedicure tomorrow to help with that whole process!
Learning Things
1. learn to Knit
2. Learn to sew on my new sewing machine 10/09
3. take a pottery class
4. take a yoga class
5. learn to make a scrabble tile pendants
6. knit Amelia a hat
7. make a painting for Amelia's room
Travel Things
8. Bet $20 on red in Vegas
9. Dress up and go somewhere fabulous for New Year's Eve (preferably out of town)
10. Take Amelia to Disneyworld (2/09)
11. Go to the Grand Canyon
12. Visit family in TX
13. Visit family in KC
14. Visit family in Spokane (7/09)
15. Take Amelia to the beach (7/09)
16. Take a family vacation to Chicago
17. Take Jason to Spa Shiki for a couple's spa day
Sport Things
18. Bike the entire Katy Trail
19. Attend a family member's school sporting event
20. Attend a local high school softball game 9/09
21. Run 5, 5K races (2/5) (St. Patrick's Day 7K 3/2009), (Hazelwood PTA Scholarship Run/Walk 5/2009)
For Other People Things
22. Send a 'just because' care package to someone
23. Pay for the car behind me in the drive thru lane
24. Give my parents an outstanding anniversary gift
25. Donate $5 to charity for every item not completed by day 1001
26. Get over my fear and donate blood again (anyone want to come hold my hand?)
27. Continue to support platoons by sending monthly care packages until the end of the war (I changed this to in-progress since it is ongoing).
28. Make a blanket to donate to the Linus Project
29. Write a love letter to Jason
30. Write a love letter to Amelia
31. Inspire someone else to do a 101 things list (Hooray for Erin! 7/09)
32. Send someone flowers for no reason
33. Make Jason an amazing breakfast in bed
34. Plan and execute a fancy picnic for Jason and Amelia
Finance Things
35. Build up a 9 month emergency fund (in progress, but still have a ways to go)
36. Change our retirement contributions to be more aggressive (3/09)
37. Become debt free except for our mortgage (car and student loans)
38. Max out my Roth IRA one year (Hoping this will be the year).
39. Get a living will made
40. Rollover retirement money from state job
Organization Things
41. Organize laundry room closet (9/09)
42. Combine favorite recipes and compile into printed book
43. Print out and organize 2006 photos
44. Print out and organize 2007 photos
45. Print out and organize 2008 photos
46. Print out and organize 2009 photos
47. Add captions to 2006 photos
48. Add captions to 2007 photos
49. Add captions to 2008 photos
50. Add captions to 2009 photos
51. Bring Amelia's baby book up to date
52. Organize basement so that everything fits on two shelving units
53. Replace bathroom carpet with ceramic tile
54. Repaint Amelia's bathroom
55. Have a garage sale (CF Yard Sale-5/09)
Food and Drink Things
56. Host a fondue party
57. Host a dinner party (minimum 6 people)
58. Visit 5 new restaurants (3/5) (The Vine 3/09), (El Scorcho 4/09). (McGurks 11/09)
59. Try out the Melting Pot (9/09)
For Me Things
60. Contact my favorite teacher to thank her for her influence on my life
61. Identify 100 things that make me happy
62. Have a second baby (Should be marking this off 12/09).
63. Send a secret to postsecret.com
64. Read 100 books (27/100)
65. Attend Easter vigil
66. Attend Stations of the Cross during Lent
67. Apply to graduate school (1/09)
68. Take the GRE (2/09)
69. Go one week without logging in to Facebook
70. Give up TV for one week
71. Eat only at home for an entire month
72. Have my body checked by a dermatologist (12/09)
73. Get a manicure
74. Get a pedicure
75. Get a massage
76. Get a facial
77. Have 2006 blog entries made into a book (12/09)
78. Have 2007 blog entries made into a book (12/09)
79. Have 2008 blog entries made into a book
80. Have 2009 blog entries made into a book
81. Bring tree skirt project up to date
82. Finish an entire Sudoku book cover to cover
83. See all 5 Best Picture nominees either in theater or DVD (3/5)
84. See a local high school play
85. See Mason Jennings live again
86. See a Second City show in Chicago
87. Go to see a movie solo
88. Hand the camera over and get more pictures of Amelia and I together
89. Pick up trash around a local park we frequent
90. Finish a certain "craft project" I started in college (it was meant to be a Christmas present for someone who reads this blog)
Amelia Things
91. Start a garden with Amelia and grow flowers and/or vegetables (4/09)
92. Build Amelia a dollhouse (first step is done, hoping to have it completed by her birthday?).
93. Take Amelia camping
94. Introduce Amelia to the fun of a photo booth (6/09)
95. Play in the rain with Amelia
96. Fly a kite with Amelia
97. Get Amelia a passport (6/09)
98. Decorate a gingerbread house with Amelia (11/09)
99. Catch lightning bugs with Amelia.
100. Make a doll for Amelia
101. Work on the next 101 things to do! (3 ideas so far!)
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