Thanks to stalking visiting Julie over at Dutch Being Me, I learned of her challenge to herself to do 101 different things within the confines of 1,001 days. I was immediately hooked and thought, “I CAN do that!”
And thus began my quest to make my own list (although there were a few things on Julie's list that stayed on mine too). I wanted real and substantial items on my list, but as I began typing, I realized that there are some things now on the list that are so simple, but I never did them. Well, in this season of making resolutions, am seriously resolving to live this list to the fullest. Will I accomplish it all? Only time will tell, but I aim to do my very best!
So, here it goes…. My list of 101 Things To Do in 1,001 Days*. What's your list look like?
Start date: Saturday, January 1, 2011
End date: Friday, September 27, 2013
Strike thru = Item changed
End date: Friday, September 27, 2013
*guide to completion…
Blue = Item completed
Red = Item in progress
Things involving money… (13)
- Learn about and make a donation to a new charity (Jan. 2011, St. Baldrick's Fdn.)
- Get my first children’s book published
- Purchase my own domain name (http://www.justaphillygirl.com)
- Sell a piece of unwanted jewelry
- Pay off all of my credit card debt (February 2014)
- Buy a digital SLR camera and accompanying lenses
- Buy a new laptop (February 2013)
- Purchase
new office furniture from Ikea and assemble it myselfnew bedroom furniture for the boys (October 2013) - Set up an emergency fund with (at least) $1,000 in it.
Save upShop for Christmas gifts before December (November 2013)- Buy/lease a new vehicle
- Start savings funds for both boys
Start a home-based businessGo back to work part time (April 2013 - March 2014)
Things involving food/drink…(13)
- Avoid fast food for a month (the boys will NOT be happy about this one!)
- Try a new recipe once
per monthevery three months - Take a cooking/dessert making lesson
- Have dinner by candlelight
- Learn to decorate cakes/take Wilton classes
- Go one or more months without soda (especially Coca Cola!) July 2011
- Achieve my personal weight goal
- Cooking/Eating only at home for a month
- Tour a local winery
- Go to a food festival
- Give up chocolate for a month (Will probably NEVER happen!)
- Track everything I eat/drink for 30 days straight.
- Prepare/publish a cookbook of family recipes
Things involving others…(15)
- Write a thank you letter to
each ofmy parents. - Play in the rain with my boys
- Finish all the novels/books I’ve started
- Randomly pay for the meal of someone behind me @ drive thru
- Go on a picnic out by Lake Huron
- Go fishing as a family
- Host a dinner party
- Host a
Super BowlParty (Super Bowl, St. Patty's Day, Kentucky Derby) - Send anonymous flowers to someone
- Write a love letter to my husband
- Write letters to my sons about my hopes for their futures
- Put together a “girls night out” for my friends
- Put together a “girls night out” for my sisters-in-law
- Have a board game/Wii night with my family once per month
- Join
the Goodfellows organizationa charitable organization (JDRF - December 2013)
Things involving adventure…(10)
- Go camping in the wild
- Go camping in the backyard with the boys
- Sail in a boat
- Plant and cultivate a vegetable and/or wild flower garden
- Purchase a star in our galaxy for Tinklemeister & Samantha
- Star gaze/count the stars while reclining in my glider sipping on a glass of wine
- Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day (August 2011 - Mackinaw City, MI)
- Fly a kite with the boys out at Lake St. Clair
- Walk the bike trail from my house to the beach, and back again
- Change my hair color/style - (hairstyle August 2013; color TBD)
Things involving travel…(15)
- See the historical sites in Philadelphia
- Put my feet in the Atlantic Ocean
- See the Canadian Falls in Niagara Falls, Canada
- Take a vacation to the
Outer BanksMyrtle Beach - Spend a weekend sightseeing in Chicago
- Visit New England in the Fall
- Attend my high school reunion in Philadelphia, PA (November 2-6, 2011)
- Visit the Camden, NJ and Chicago, IL aquariums
- Spend a day at the Smithsonian Museum searching for the original Kermit the Frog
- Take a
week-longvacation to Disney in Orlando, FL - Return to Holland, MI and see the sites and Lake Michigan
- Go to Ellis Island
- Visit family in Long Island, NY
- Visit every house/building in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI
- Visit the Toledo Zoo
Things involving learning…(15)
- Return to college
- Become/relearn bilingual (Spanish)
- Read the entire Bible
- Read the complete works of John Steinbeck
- Identify 101 things that make me happy
- Write a letter to myself to be opened when the 1001 days is over
- Write down every dream I have for a week
- Take a photography class
- Research my family heritage as far back as possible
- Enter an online contest
- Start/finish a new book in a week (accomplished multiple times)
- Learn sign language
- Learn to frame a wall
- Learn to
hang drywallbuild a fire pit - Learn to build a privacy fence
Things that are random…(20)
- Get over my crippling dental phobia and visit the dentist regularly
- Surprise a neighbor with a tray of cookies for no particular holiday/reason
- Complete a coloring book
- Get my picture taken with Santa and my boys
Donate blood at least onceBoo, they won't let me because of all of the vitamin supplements I MUST take. Gotta find something to replace this ASAP.- Workout everyday for 30 days straight (Summer of 2012)
- Complete a Zumba class
- Run a mile with a friend
- Complete one scrapbook for each of my boys
- Make my own greeting cards
- Send/receive 10 postcards via postcrossing.com
- Watch “The Song of Bernadette” on DVD without crying like a baby
- Add to my collection of turtle items
- Adopt a Detroit Zoo animal
- Fill up frames I own with photos of people I care about
- Print and hang my nature photography
- Wear makeup for a week and don’t go out in public w/o it
- Watch all of “I, Claudius” from start to finish on Netflix
- Send a “thinking of you” card to a friend who would least expect it (Jan. 2011 - I actually sent two!)
- Watch 4th of July fireworks along Lake St. Clair
*guide to completion…
Blue = Item completed
Red = Item in progress
