I was inspired by my friend Sarah to try out the 101 Things in 1001 Days Project. I thought it sounded like a great idea! I didn't realize it would be so difficult to come up with 101 things. The goals had to be realistic and measurable. Some of the things on my list may sound pretty simple and not so challenging to other people (like "Go on a picnic"). But they are things that I always want to do, before "Life" gets in the way. When I finished my list, I kept thinking of other things to add! I guess I can add those to the next challenge!
I will begin my journey on October 1, 2009. That would put the finish line at June 28, 2012. I hope by then to be happier, a little thinner, and full of wonderful memories with my family.
Come join me on this journey!
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This blog will chronicle my journey on the Day Zero Project, where I will attempt to complete 101 tasks in 1001 days. Hopefully, I will challenge myself, learn some new things, and most of all, have fun!
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The List
101 in 1001 Days
Tasks in Italics are in progress
Items in red are completed
Make Something
- Make a new recipe each month (0/33 )
- Do one craft project a month with the kids (0/33)
- Make homemade playdough
- Make an advent calendar
- Bake a cake from scratch
- Sew 5 dresses for Paige (0/5)
- Sew an article of clothing for myself
- Make each of the children their own Christmas stocking to use every year
- Make banana bread from scratch
- Make myself a pair of earrings and matching necklace
- Help Evan make an Under the Sea mural in his bedroom
- Buy a piece of furniture from Goodwill and give it a makeover
Self-Improvement
- Lose 65 pounds (0/65)
- Run 3 miles without stopping
- Enter and complete a 5K
- Read 200 books (1/200)
- Get a manicure
- Get a pedicure
- Have my hair professionally colored/highlighted
- Go Internet/TV free for 24 hours one day a month (0/33 )
- Complete Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred
- Purchase 5 new dresses for myself (0/5)
- Go to the dentist
- Join a church
- Drink no soda for one month (0/31)
- Walk the bridge one day a month (1/33)
- Avoid eating chocolate for one month (0/31)
- No fast food for one month (0/31)
- Be able to do 20 REAL push-ups without stopping
Organize all the random photos I have laying around
- Finish the patio into a “tropical getaway” theme
- Redo the bathroom
- Paint and redecorate our bedroom
- Finish painting Evan’s room
- Declutter the house by taking one trash bag a week to Goodwill or the trash for 8 weeks (0/8)
- Paint the kitchen cabinets and walls
- Paint the living room and hall
- Finish the floors in the kitchen
- Decorate Paige’s “big girl” room
- Fix the faucet in the bathroom
Family Fun
- Go to Disney World
- Go on a hayride
- Go Christmas caroling with the children
- Eat at 5 local restaurants we haven’t tried before (1/5)
- Go to see the Christmas lights in City Park in New Orleans
- Go bowling
- Play mini-golf
- Go to the Global Wildlife Center
- Go to Lulu’s in Gulf Shores
- Go on a road trip without a destination in mind
- Decorate/carve pumpkins
- Get a family portrait made
- Dress the kids alike for pictures on the beach
- Go to a Baybears game in Mobile
- Go to a hockey game
- Take the children to the Mud Shack to paint their own pottery
- Go to the circus
- Go to 5 local festivals (0/5)
- Go canoeing or kayaking
- Take the children to the Natural Science Museum in Jackson
- Go on a picnic
- Create an up-to-date scrapbook/photo album for Evan
- Create an up-to-date scrapbook/photo album for Paige
- Get Evan sleeping in his own bed for the whole night
- Get Paige sleeping in her own bed for the whole night
- Have a date night with Harold
- Take the tour boat to Ship Island
- Go to Walter Anderson museum, then take the children to the beach with watercolors to paint
- Create a Family Summer To-Do list each summer and stick to it (0/3)
- Go to a beach in Florida we haven’t been to before
- Sign Paige up for dance class
- Enter the children in Biloxi’s Children’s Mardi Gras Parade
- Go to a different park every week for 8 weeks (0/8)
Do Something for Others
- Pay for the person behind me in line at a fast food restaurant 5 times (0/5)
- Send a greeting card to a far away friend
- Donate 100,000 grains of rice at freerice.com (310/100,000)
- Get an angel of the Salvation Army Christmas tree
- Participate in a Coastal Clean-Up day
- Do 20 hours of volunteer work (0/20)
- Bake something for my coworkers
- Send flowers to 2 different people “just because” (0/2)
- Crochet 10 hats for NICU
List Related
- Donate $5 for every task not completed
- Create a blog for the list
- Blog about every completed item (0/101)
- Save $5 for every completed task (0/101)
- Make a bucket list
Misc
- Get my wedding rings fixed so I can wear them again
- Buy something from a local artist at a craft fair
- Buy a decent camera
- Meet a Pink Sheep
- Plant a vegetable garden
- Get up early to go yard-sale hopping
- Buy something from Etsy
- Sell 3 items on Craiglist (0/3)
- Pay off the van
Professional Development
- Join the MCA and ASCA
- Attend a MCA conference
- Take a class towards my psychometry certification
- Attend 10 school events at my school (0/10)
- Renew my educator’s license
