101 in 1,001

This is my 101 in 1,001 list inspired by Jenny Balow! My sister-in-law Gigi and I posting our lists at the same time and are going to check on each other throughout this process. The start date is today and the end date it 12.3.2010.

I have put everything in to categories that make sense to me and make it easier to find them when I need to mark them off! Some of the things I want to do can't be measured so I will figure out if I did them or not when the deadline approaches.

Happy Reading!

Be a Better Person
1. Use my cloth bags for shopping more
2. Volunteer twice a week for 2 months
3. Make someone proud (My mom called and informed me that I have always made her and my father proud! Finished a long time ago I guess!)
4. Become a better listener
5. Learn to have more grace
6. Be a better card sender (in the mail)
7. Diligently recycle for a month (Finished June 2009)
8. Reduce my amount of waste

Learning
9. Start classes at UWS for my teaching degree (August 2010)
10. Learn Exel and Microsoft Word more proficiently (Finished November 2008)
11. Learn how government systems work (Finished November 2008)
12. Learn to Sew
13. Take pictures daily for a month
14. Research more of my genealogy (September 2010)
15. Become a Doula
16. Be there for a woman giving birth (Not necessarily as a Doula)
17. Play the bagpipes

Health/Wellness
18. Drink the recommended amount of water everyday for a month
19. Buy a bike and ride it
20. Learn Yoga
21. Go a whole month exercising every other day. (No excuses!)
22. Take a family walk three times a week for a month
23. Take horseback riding lessons
24. Get more Vitamin D
25. Lose 45 lbs
26. Run a 5K with my sister
27. Own a swimsuit that I'll actually wear (Finished 5/15/08)
28. Start eating at least 1 fruit and 1 veggie daily
29. New hairstyle~different color and longer? (Finished 5/27/2008)
30. Buy a treadmill

Our Family
31. Get a bigger car (May 2009)
32. Get a dog and/or a cat (November 2010)
33. Get Pregnant again (Started August 2008-Finished May 2009)
34. Take Ballroom Dancing lessons with Jake
35. Celebrate Jake's 28th Golden Birthday (Finished 6/28/2008)
36. Get Jake motivated about finishing school (December 2010)
37. Get involved with Engaged couples at church
38. Plan a getaway for our 5th wedding anniversary (April 2009)
39. Record a CD for my husband
40. Go to a married couples weekend with Matt & Gigi and Andee & Bryan
41. Be better at updating family with boys pictures
42. Take Kaleb and Ian skating
43. Make sure all my children's baby books are updated (December 2010)
44. Get matching 8x10 and 11x14's for the boys pictures (Finished 6/15/2008)
45. Frame pics of Kaleb & Cadence and Ian & Liam in a hinged frame
46. Order another copy of Kaleb & Ian's Shutterfly birth books
47. Order copy of pregnancy proof book of Kaleb's (Finished 5/23/2008)
48. Get all of Alan J's preg photos ordered, scrapped or framed
49. Order my Wedding Shutterfly book

Scrapbooking/Crafting
50. Finish my Princess Diana scrapbook
51. Make a permanent scrapbook corner (Finished April 2009)
52. Compile all of my family and friends birth stories into a book
53. Make another diaper cake for a baby shower (February 2010)
54. Start a Heritage Scrapbook for both sides of our family (May 2009)
55. Start a wedding scrapbook of family and friends
56. Rewrite all my recipes and put in photo album
57. Scrapbook 4 pages a day for a month
58. Catch up with my boys' scrapbooks
59. Start a baby scrapbook of fam and friends

Home Improvement and Decorating
60. Buy a new dining room table and chairs (Finished 03/22/2008)
61. Clean out garage (July 2010)
62. Color coordinate all my Christmas Bins
63. Landscape the front of our house
64. Organize Basement (Finished 8/8/2008)
65. Paint the fireplace (Finished 03/20/2008)
66. Paint Dining room wall (Finished 08/20/2008)
67. Finish upstairs bath
68. Remodel kitchen
69. Strip all the hallway door jams and stain original color
70. Strip and re stain curio cabinet
71. Strip and re stain all original doors
72. Replace dining swinging door
73. Strip and repaint front door
74. Paint whole exterior of house
75. Make bigger closet in office
76. Install a new tub and surround in downstairs bathroom
77. Make garage more efficient for storage until we build a new one
78. Make a patio in back yard for grill and smoker
79. Buy a meat smoker (Finished 06/28/2008)
80. Reduce our household clutter (Didn't finish but made a HUGE dent 08/2008)

Catch Up
81. Collect and watch all X-files series in order (December on Netflix)
82. Finish Gilmore Girls Series (Finished July 2008)
83. Own all the Monk seasons (July 2010)
84. Get all hard copy pictures and negs put on CD
85. Get a bigger safe to hold all picture CDs and important documents (November 2010)
86. Start a 401K (September 2009)

Travel
87. Go to NYC and see Christmas
88. Go on a weekend (without kids and husbands) with my best friend Anne
89. Travel to Europe and see Princess Diana's grave and Buckingham Palace
90. Take my kids on a family vacation every year
91. Start saving for an Alaskan cruise
92. See the Devils play (anywhere!!) (Finished 03/13/2008~shared experience with some awesome people and my boys WON!)

Parties
93. Have a formal dinner party at our house (Finished 08/23/2008)
94. Have a kick-butt backyard BBQ for all of our friend and family
95. Have an AWESOME Christmas Party
96. Celebrate Kaleb's 3rd, 4th & 5th (golden b-day) & Ian's 2nd, 3rd & 4th Birthdays
(All done!!)

Written Words
97. Write a letter Jake
98. Write letters to my boys
99. Write my obituary
100. Write our Will
101. Type my 101 in 1001 list (Finished 03/07/2008)


In addition to my 1st 101 list.....!

Go to work by 9am every day for a month
Read Chronicles of Narnia
Read the bible in 1 year (Started April 1st)
Finish Scrapping all pictures before weekend and printing new ones
Buy more scrapbooks for the boys(Just bought them ones 1 green and 1 blue 04/2008)
Stain and hang my plate rails (Finished 08/21/2008)
Continue my Spanish Education
Plant Herbs for centerpiece (as seen on Martha Stewart) (Finished 04/28/2008) And already dead!!