Wednesday, November 5, 2008

my 101 in 1001 list

The Start of my list..
Here's what I have so far:

1. Learn a foreign language for conversation-Spanish. -working on this now using Rosetta Stone

2. Take a cake decorating class for fun.

3. Have another baby

4. Buy my house. - bought a house

5. Buy rental Property.

6. Travel to another country. planned for April 18-22 2009-DONE!!

7. Donate Blood.

8. Donate my time/services for a charity. volunteered at the Angel Tree

9. Tour the facility of St Jude's Children's Research Hospital-my favorite cause.

10. Lose 20 pounds.

11. Eat fruit every day for 30 days(0/30)

12. Read The Bible all the way through.

13.DO another 3k.

14. Learn to shoot a handgun. -should be able to do this soon

15. Finish Christmas Shopping by November 15.

16. Do monthly self breast exams (4/33)

17. Stop drinking caffeine..including tea

18. vacuum every week for a year(10/52)

19. Turn off the TV 1 day a week for a month(0/4)

20. Go to Charlotte, park, and tour the city by foot.

21. Read a book that Paul wants me to read.

22. Make a Cheesecake from scratch.

23. Get my ears pierced.

24. Eat a pomegranate or drink juice.25.

25. Eat a mango.

26. cut down eating out to a maximum of 4 times a month.

27. start a geneology logbook and go to the library to research.

28. start jotting down ideas for my next list.

29. Go on a date night with Paul at least once a month for a year

30. Read a book every 3 months for a yearOr read 4 books-atleast-per year.(4/4)

31. Grocery shop every 2 weeks

32. Make grocery lists and stick to them.

33. Try at least one type of seafood.

34. Do paperwork for Healthcare Power of Attorney. -needs to be witnessed and notarized

35. Get a passport-

. 36. write in my blog at least 1 time a week.

37. Dust at least once a week.

38. Donate clothes to Goodwill.

39. Decrease to buying one magazine every 2 weeks.

40. Start using the recycling bin every week and put out with the trash to be picked up.

41. Learn to change a tire...and remember it.

42.Go 6 months without calling in to work.

43. Get a manicure.

44. Get a pedicure.

45. Get a massage.

46. Wash my car once every 2 months for a year(0/6).

47. Read "The Scarlett Letter'.

48. Go to a 'real' Haunted House.

49. Stop Cussing. -not doing too bad with this one

50. Send out Christmas cards this year.

51. Go to 2 events at the college over the next year.

52. Learn to curb my aggressive driving.

53. Listen to ONLY Christiam music in the car with Eli.

54. Do everything in my power to go Green

55. Take pictures as I finish challenges and post them to my blog.

56. Go to a concert.-Sugarland and Keith Urban

57. Have cholesterol checked.

58.Eat breakfast every morning for a month.

59. eat breakfast every day for a month.

60. Weigh myself once a week and only once a week.

61. Plant a flower.

62. Send someone flowers out of the blue twice(2/2).

63. Go to a Panther's game.

64.Eat at Arigato again-we ate at Tokyo-pretty much the same

.65. Enter a photo into a photo contest.

66. Donate cans to fire department.

67. Watch "A Clockwork Orange"

68. Pack lunch the night before work.

69. Pick out uniform the night before work.

70.Hang family photos in the house

71.organize computer room.

72.Learn to do a split again.

73.Go to a Wingate University Baseball game.

74. Go to a Wingate University Softball game.

75. Have (at least) $1000 in my savings account by the end of this challenge

76. Do not use Credit card for an entire month.

77.Clip Coupons.

78. Meet one of my online friends.-got to see Amanda and the Hugos at Eli's party

79.Put together a puzzle or color in a coloring book

80.Choose an elderly person off the Christmas Tree and buy them their wish list items-I dropped off my gift today-12/15

81.GO see a movie with my mom-saw New Moon

.82. Take Eli to Discovery Place and let him play in the kiddie area.-my parents took him

83. Wash bed linens every 2 weeks for 3 months.(0/6)

84.Try food from a ethnicity that I never have tried before-Puerto Rican

85.Stop being a packrat.-seriously working on this

86.Clean the bathroom once a week for 2 months

87.Get oil changed on time

88.Pick Strawberries in SC

89.Make homemade macaroni and cheese

90.get a gas grill and grill out once a month

91. pay off college loan

92.Go to Atlanta with Paul to visit a friend.

93. See the CNN Center.

94. See The World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

95.Start going to church again.-will start doing this after I figure my work schedule out

96. Have wedding dress cleaned.

97.Donate $2 for every challenge note completed to charity.

98. organize pictures on the computer

99. Burn all pictures to disk

100. Bake cookies and send with Paul to work.

101. Take time before bed to talk to my husband about the day.

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