Monday, August 18, 2008

The List

Family & Friends
1. Do a great-grandchild portrait for Nana
2. Get a family portrait taken
3. Have a girl's Day in NYC
4. Potty Train Fiona
5. Send Pictures of Fiona to relatives Once a month (1/33)
6. Take Mommy & Me Swimming with Fiona
7. Take antique furniture to be repaired & restored
8. Throw a wine tasting party
9. Take Fiona Apple Picking
10. Spend a vacation without checking work e-mail once
11. Spend a weekend without checking work e-mail once
12. Memorize 3 lullabies
13. Take Fiona to Sunshine Cottage
14. Do the 26 Thing Project and make a photo book out of it.
15. Visit Gramma's grave and plant flowers
16. Pick 5 ideas from "1001 Ways to be Romantic" and do them
17. Buy rain gear for Fiona & self so we can walk in rainy weather
18. Plan Girl get togethers every other month
19. Take Warren & Fiona to Kellerhaus
20. Take Fiona to the Aquarium
21. Visit my older brother in North Carolina
22. Take Fiona to TX
23. Get our wills written
24. Find High School friend and write her a letter

Fitness
25. Complete the Couch to 5k running plan
26. Drink only water for 2 weeks
27. Eat Vegetarian for an entire week
28. Get over my fear of the dentist and start going regularly
29. Lose 10% of my body weight
30. Run in 5K
31. Take a multi-vitamin everyday for a month
32. Take a Spinning Class
33. Walk to the Train Station once a week for an entire year (0/52)
34. No Diet Coke for 1 week - 10 times (0/10)
35. Lose 50 pounds
36. Lose 75 pounds
37. Climb Blue Hill
38. Walk outside with Fiona twice a week (except in winter)
39. Climb a Rock Wall
40. Try Yoga

Organization
41.
Have a Yard Sale
42. Clean out Attic
43. Clean out Home Desk
44. Clean out Work Desk

45. Keep to do NOTEBOOKS for work and home for 1 month - start 9/1/08
46. Pick out clothes the night before - for a week
47. Get all my stuff out of Mom & Dad's House
48. Don't leave toys out at night for 1 month
49. Organize Man cave
50. Organize Exercise Room
51. Keep bureau top clear for 1 month - start 8/30/08
52. Put Shoes away as soon as you take them off every day for one month
53. Recycle all old cell phones and electronic equipment
54. Make the bed every day for a week

Personal
55. Keep a non-List related blog for 1 month
56. Read 10 "Classics" (1/10)
The Handmaiden's Tale
57. Write/Email out of Town friends Once a month (1/33)
58. Find and meet with a therapist specialising in food issues
59. Send a message in a bottle
60. No gossip for a whole week
61. Wear Makeup everyday for 1 week
62. Don't stress about what Fiona eats for a whole week - 4 times
63. Get Charm bracelet up to date
64. Learn how to french braid
65. Get a pair of sunglasses I actually like

Giving
66. Donate 101 items (32/101)
67. Raise $1,000 for March of Dimes
68. Walk in March of Dimes Walk
69. Make 100 hats for NICU
70. Do 20 Ramdom Acts of Kindness (0/20)
71. Contribute 100,000 grains of rice on freerice.com (3,500)
72. Give someone a wrapped present for no good reason

Savings
73. Pack my lunches for work for 1 month (0/30)
74. Save a dollar each day of the challenge (15/1001)
75. Try to make two varieties of baby food
Avocado, Asparagus
76. Get 20 books/things I would normally buy out of the library (4/20)

General
77. Eat 5 things I swear I hate but haven't tried since I was a kid (0/5)
78. Go to church once a month for three months
79. No TV for 72 hours
80. Refinish small nightstand
81. Try 10 new restaurants (3/10)
82. Visit a Nashoba Valley Winery
83. Try one recipe from each of the cookbooks we own (0/15)
84. Go to 10 National Historic Landmarks (3/10)
Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island
Central Park (who knew!
http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/listsofNHLs.htm)
85. See Jeff Dunham live
86. See a Frank Lloyd Wright House
87. Attend a High Tea
88. See a movie at an Imax Theater
89. See a movie at a luxury Theater

Dreams
90. Finish Children's Book
91. Research getting book published
92. Submit Book to 3 publishers/literary agents

Crafty
93. Finish the 100 layout challenge (0/100)
94. Make a Sock Monkey for Fiona
95. Make Matching Christmas Stockings for the Family
96. Take a cake decorating class
97. Make a quilt
98. Buy a sewing Machine
99. Learn how to use the sewing machine
100. Make a dress for Fiona

101. Spend $5 on me for every completed item - give $10 to charity for every item not completed

1 comment:

Mary E. Hart said...

Fantastic list! Can't wait to see the progress. :)