101 in 1001

Please See 2012 GOALS for a new updated version of this task. I cheated. and started a new list… It’s my blog and I will change it if I want to!

• This is my 101 in 1001 list.It’s quite jumbled! But it works for me. I am a pretty jumbled person anyway.I am so excited to actually express my goals and try to complete them. I am hoping by the time my 1001 days are up, I will have it completed. Or at least be on my way to completing some of the bigger ones.

Begin: 01/01/2010 End : 09/28/2012.

The colored ones are goals I have achieved. If you can click on it, you will be taken to the blog about the accomplishment!

(I have no idea why wordpress is showing these listed as A. B. C. etc… it says 1. 2. 3. on my edit screen!)

1. Complete my 101 in 1001 list by 1/31/09 (done 1/18/2010)
2. Buy a DSLR (done 3/15/2010) yippee skippee!
3. Learn to use DSLR (took a class in April 2011. I am counting that as “learning”. Its a work in progress!)
4. Buy, or help buy Tori a car
5. Pay off my car (and drive it till it falls apart!) (done 06/2011)
6. Pay off at least half (or all) of my debt (moved into an equity line, so now it’s house debt)
7. Go on a cruise
8. Organize and purge my craft stuff (done 05/2011)
9. Finish current cross stitch projects before starting new ones (excluding the dragon)
10. Wash (done 1/3/2010), Frame, display, and/or sell finished cross stitch and other crafts
11. Read a book every month
12. Get a real flickr or smug mug account (or something similar) to store pics (done 3/22/2010)
13. Get a better picture editing software (done 1/27/2010)
14. Post a “week/day in pictures” blog every week for at least 2 months (done 2/21/2010)
15. Get my passport
16. Complete hard back collection of Anne Rice books
17. Read all unread Stephen king books/stories
18. Read Dark Tower series again
19. Donate excess craft stuff to studio by the tracks (done 2/10/2011)
20. Visit Wayne’s mom in Canada (FAIL) $5
21. Baby (done… 9/22/2011!)
22. Lose ten pounds (can I count baby weight loss?? I think I should be able to! because I have totally lost 45 lbs!)
23. Lose ten more (By fall of 2012 I will be below my prepregnancy weight. by atleast 10 pounds. maybe!)
24. Sell the house (FAIL) $5
25. Buy a house (1/26/2011)
26. Don’t smoke just because I am drinking (1/24/2011)
27. Tahiti
28. Have mom’s sapphire earrings reset in white gold, to match my ring and necklace she gave me
29. Organize and set up a craft room/office
30. Paint bookshelf (done 9/2011)
31. Re finish sewing machine furniture
32. Decorate bedrooms.(Beck’s room done 09/2011)
33. Display more pictures of family in the house (done 2012. photos of mom and dad in becks room. dad in living room and family in bedroom)
34. Use sewing machine more. (12/2011 1/2012 Making sock frogs, plus ideas for a quilt made out of Beck’s clothes as he grows)
35. See Courtney (done 10/24/2010 and again in 09/2011, 10/2011, 11/2011)
36. Finish organizing recipes in binder
37. Visit Vegas
38. Don’t eat fast food more than once a week. And eventually less than that! (12/2011. being broke helps this!)
39. Return borrowed books to correct owners. (BMFK, Kenny, Bonnie, Lee)
40. Start saving money in Tori’s account (see # 4) (done 1/5/2010)
41. Have $500.00 in savings by 06/31/2010. (not including bonus and tax refund) (FAIL) $5
42. Have $1000.00 in savings by 12/31/2010 (done 12/2010)
43. Have $3000.00 in savings by the time 1001 is up
44. Finish transferring cd’s to itunes (done 3/2012)
45. Have date night one night a month (can I count my friday nights with my little man?)
46. stay in a bed and breakfast (done 1/8/2010-1/10/2010)
47. See the Poindexters at least once a year (done 11/13/2010)
48. Finish changing my name back to Gay on all accounts, personal info (done 2011)
49. Spend a weekend in Nashville, being a tourist (planned for may 2012)
50. Spend a weekend in a town I haven’t ever been to, being a tourist (done 8/26-8/29)
51. Take all the kids to the beach for longer than one day! (06/2012)
52. Watch Wayne take his Black Belt test (done 3/5/2010)
53. Have a relationship with my brother. (Sadly, this is never going to happen. His loss)
54. Frame and display a picture of my mother at home (done 9/2011)
55. Have spa day with tori
56. Finish the baby quilt Kristi and I started years ago. (done 7/24/2010)
57. Watch a foreign or independent movie once a month
58. Add 5 states to my list of states I have been to. (MD, PA)
59. Donate money to a charity each year
60. Learn another language (sign language, I think). (I am currently starting to teach Beck a few signs so that we can communicate while waiting on his first words)
61. Get another tattoo
62. Take my dad to dinner. or on a trip (so sad this didn’t happen before he passed away)
63. Put flowers on/visit mom’s grave at least once a year (this involves a 4 hour drive, or I would do it more) (done 2010) (Failed 2011)
64. Go camping. like in a tent. ha! (this may be the least likely of all of em!)
65. Start and finish collection of Disney movies that I want. (Started 09/2011)
66. Scan in and back up pictures of family. (especially mom)
67. Celebrate mom’s life, instead of mourning her death, by planting a yellow rose bushes.
68. Attempt to keep said rose bushes alive! (I do NOT have a green thumb.)
69. Upgrade to an Iphone (Done 8/23/2010)
70. Eat lunch away from my desk at least 2 days a week
71. Quit Pampered Chef (done 6/2010)
72. Quit CVS (done 02/2011)
73. Cook each recipe in my family recipe book/blog recipe (minus the pickles…)
74. renew my library card. and use it to help with #11
75. Have my rocking chair repaired. (and painted possibly)
76. unpack and purge stuff still in boxes from previous moves (done 2011)
77. Spend a day/weekend being a tourist in my town… Vulcan, Museums, etc
78. Complete Scrap book of letters and cards from mom.
79. Book my beautiful, talented cousin for a session (done 7/11/2011) check it out here
80. stop and take pictures at the junk yard on 78 (done 4/7/2010)
81. Take one picture a day for 30 days. and post them (done 1/2012-2/2012 posted on fb)
82. organize post cards from 2009 trips into a photo album
83. have a love/hate relationship with exercising (started 8/15/2010)
84. finish Disney scrap book for Tori
85. go to the zoo (done 8/7/2010) more photos here
86. send pics to wayne’s mom of the kids each summer for her album. (FAIL) $5
87. print pics from 2009 summer and put them in an album. (before 2010 summer) (FAIL) $5
88. Visit mom’s friends Kat.
89. get a kitchen aid mixer (done 1/22/2010)
90. do something to build my confidence. (If having a baby hasn’t done it, I don’t know what will! 09/2011)
91. Learn to drive a 5 speed vehicle
92. Learn to knit something more than scarfs
93. Take a photography class. (or hit my cousin up for lessons!) (done 5/25/2010)
94. have my car professionally cleaned/detailed
95. spend more time with my friends and their children. (This is a work in progress, but I can say I am already accomplishing this one! 01/2012
96. Find a passion. (Have you seen my baby?!)
97. Love my job (done 2012)
98. Paint something and display it in the house. even if it looks like a 4-year-old did it!(done 2012)
99. organize my work office to be more efficient for me and coworker (done. 03/2011)
100. Donate $5 for each unfinished item to charity of my choice
101. make another 101 in 1001 list when this one is complete

*7/23/2010 – due to a break up, I have crossed off a few items that I can not complete. It’s ok though. A charity will benefit from it.

* 1/25/2010- ok, so b/c of this list, my brain keeps finding more and more things I want to accomplish in the near future. Though this is above and beyond the 101, I am going to add them here, just so I can mark them off!

102. grow my own herbs
103. have a tomato plant or two this summer or next
104. get a crock pot and actually cook in it (done 2/2011)
105. post a blog every day for 30 days. (done 4/30/2010)

added 8/6/2010
106. Eat in a restaurant alone/Go to the movies alone.
107. Take a road trip or vacation by myself.
108. Jump out of a plane… (*gasp. I know. this one is complete BS. It’s my “hell no. there is no way in hell” item. But the older I get the more I just wanna see if I can do it.)

A lot of these things will cost moolah. Moolah that I don’t necessarily have… so I will have to get creative. If you know me, you know I am cheap! Lack of money is the one thing I can see standing in my way of completing this list. (big trips especially). But that’s OK. At least I have put it out there. So many of these things equal a change in my day-to-day living. I am working on making new habits, and getting rid of old (bad) ones. Reading a new book each month, posting a blog each week, watching a foreign movie each month, using my sewing machine more… these are things that will become habit. I can forgo vegging in front of the TV to actually do something I enjoy. I have really felt a change in myself since starting this list. Everyday I think “what can I do today that will help me cross something off my list?” Or, “ohhh I need to add that to my list.” I can’t wait to see how far I get. I also can’t wait to see where I am in 2.74 years! -m