The Big List
Let's Get This Party Started
1. Write a letter on day one to myself to read on last day (start date: September 1, 2008) done on Sept 1, 2008
Lean Mean Fighting Machine
2. Exercise 2x a week for two weeks
3. Exercise 3x a week for three weeks
4. Exercise 4x a week for four weeks
5. Exercise 5x a week for five weeks
6. Complete couch to 5k running plan
7. Complete a 5k
8. Eat a vegetarian diet for one week (week of May 2, 2009)
9. Journal eating for one month
10. Don't drink soda for one month
11. Complete phase 1 of The Best Life Diet
12. Complete phase 2 of The Best Life Diet
13. Live phase 3 of The Best Life Diet
Book Worm
14. Get a libary card
15. Read the New York Times best selling fiction book for the week (or year) I was born
16. Read five novels from the classsics list (0/5)
17. Read five autobiogrophies (0/5)
18. Read The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene (started Sept 1, 2008)
19. Read a magazine from cover to cover
20. Read three self help books (0/3)
21. Read all the books I already own but have not read yet, then donate or give to someone else
Lights Camera Action
22. Watch ten movie of the year winners I've never seen before (0/10)
23. Go to a movie on a week day afternoon
24. Turn off the TV from 4-6pm Monday-Friday for one month
25. Turn off the TV at 8pm for the rest of the night, one night a week for a month
Because I Want a Home to be Proud of
26. Do dishes and clean up kitchen right after dinner every night for two weeks
27. Make my bed every morning for one month
28. Set up a house cleaning schedule and follow it for one month
29. Iron cloths one day a week for one month
30. Keep coffee table clean of all junk for one week
31. Organize recipes and cookbooks, get down to ten cookbooks (started Sept 1, 2008)
32. Declutter my bedroom
33. Using The Grocery Game, buy only blue and green list items for four weeks in a row
34. Create a recipe from scratch
35. Shampoo the carpet
Darn Tourists
36. Get a passport
37. Mine for emeralds in Hiddenite, NC - find a BIG one!
38. Go on a dolphin watching cruise
39. Go to the Fort Fisher aquarium
40. Go to an event at the Palace Theature
41. Got to Washington DC and visit as many monuments as we can
42. Take a virtual vacation to Norway (learn all I can about the history, life and attractions)
43. Go to Moorseville, NC
(The following are for when in Iowa for Courtney's wedding)
44. Get cheese curds at Kalona Cheese Factory
45. Take Chris to at least one Iowa Tourist attraction
46. Go to an Iowa Tourist attraction I've never been to
47. Talk to at least one person from high school
Because I Care About Others
48. Put flowers on someone's grave, who I didn't know
49. Mail Christmas cards to Vet's in the hospital (Christmas 2008, through the PVA)
50. Send 5 cards to each of my nieces and nephews for no reason (Alanna 0/5; Ryan 0/5; Grace 0/5; Ryder 0/5; Timaura 0/5)
51. Send 5 cards to each of my sisters for no reason (Lesley 0/5; Laura 0/5; Leigh 0/5; Courtney 0/5)
52. Call Mom and Dad 20 times (1/20)
53. Send 5 letters of appreciation to companines for good service or a good product (0/5)
54. Volunteer 101 hours of time to charity (0/101)
55. Brush Sam and Sheba at least 1x a week (6/143)
Because I Care About Me
56. Get a mammogram (May 21, 2009)
57. Get cholesterol checked (May 2009)
58. Wash and mosturize my face 2x/day for one month
59. Put body lotion on everynight for one month
60. File and mosturize feet everynight for one month
61. Go to dentist for cleaning and checkup
62. Get teeth cleaned every six months thereafter
63. Take a multivitamin 75% of the time (11/750)
Shop Til You Drop
64. Buy a bouquet of fresh flowers 12x for no reason (0/12)
65. Get a sewing machine
66. Find the perfect little black dress
67. Get a new cloths hamper
(now stop shopping)
68. Buy nothing from QVC for one month
It's New To Me
69. Try 5 foods I've never had before (1/5) plantain
70. Try 5 new restaurants (2/5) At The House, The Boundry House
71. Take a knitting or crochet class
72. Go to a NASCAR race
Do I Have To?
73. Wash the car and van 1x a month (weather permitting) (1/33)
74. Do full fall yard clean up 2008 (started Oct 14)
75. Do full spring yard clean up 2009
76. Do full fall yard clean up 2009
77. Do full spring yard clean up 2010
78. Do full fall yard clean up 2010
79. Do full spring yard clean up 2011
80. Make a household inventory - including pictures and serial numbers for insurance
Just For Fun
81. Revisit play-dough, make from scratch and create something fun, or just play
82. Put together a 3D puzzle ... Cinderella's Castle, have need to do
83. Put together a puzzle with more then 1000 pieces
84. Go to the beach 8 times during the off season months (0/8)
85. Make a time capsule
86. Find a geocache
87. Hide a geocashe
88. Try to locate a family decendant in Norway
89. On a hot summer day, go have an ice cream cone
90. Learn to say "I love you" in 5 different languages (0/5)
Moving on up
91. Finish designing, decorating and build new house
92. Meet neighbors at new house (May 2009 met Bob, right across the street)
93. Buy an antique piece and refinish it for the new house
94. Plant wisteria
95. Use only Shaklee or other enviro friendly cleaners in new house
96. Create a space to do crafts
Shaklee Business
97. Complete the Shaklee U program
98. Research and learn about all the Shaklee products
99. Donate 3 Get Clean kits (0/3)
Nobody is Perfect
100. Donate $5 to the PVA for each task I don't complete
It's A Wrap
101. Read letter I wrote to myself on day one (end date May 30, 2011)