My list

I visited the site http://triplux.com/dayzero/ where they encourage people to do 101 goals in 1001 days. I liked the idea but I changed it a bit for myself because I wanted to include many small things in my list. I was wanting to start on Monday which is my 25th birthday but I started two of the items early. Here’s my list-

300 THINGS IN 3 YEARS

JUST FOR ME

1. Keep a short-term to do list and complete items weekly
2. Start a journal and journal at least every other day (0/548)
3. Start a happy journal and identify 500 things that make me happy (0/500)
4. Get a haircut every 3 months (0/12)
5. Start and use a calendar
6. Update my wardrobe with clothes that fit and I like
7. Purchase wants: phone and videocamera
8. Get a pedicure every other week in the summer (0/14)
9. Have five “me” days a year (0/15)
10. Write Avery a letter
11. Make a list of 50 things I like about myself (0/50)
12. Count clothing
13. Find the perfect foundation in the right color
14. Find great fitting jeans and buy them
15. Dress up once a week even if I’m just staying home
16. Get fitted for bras
17. Find a ring I love and we can afford
18. Get a facial
19. Get eyebrows waxed
20. Start tanning a few times a week
21. Buy something for myself once a month
22. Get a massage
23. Spend money on five things I normally wouldn’t ie-peapod (0/5)
24. Find acceptance in two private matters I’m struggling with
25. Be more positive
26. Be less critical of myself and others
27. Be more patient
28. Gossip less
29. Love myself

HEALTH

1. Lose 50 pounds
2. Finish a 5k
3. Go to the gym at least 3 times a week (0/468)
4. Get my teeth fixed
5. Go to 36 exercise classes (0/36)
6. Keep track of my monthly cycle
7. Drink one glass of water a day
8. Take vitamins every day
9. Do 100 push-ups (www.hundredpushups.com)
10. Learn ten yoga poses (0/10)
11. Go without caffeine for one week
12. Develop a nightime routine and stick to it
13. Go to dentist for cleaning twice a year (0/5)
14. Find a primary care physician
15. Go to eye doctor for a checkup
16. Go to dermatologist to check moles
17. Get a pap smear done once a year (0/2)

LOVE

1. Plan wedding and get married
2. Have another baby in 2009/2010
3. Cook dinner ten times for Sinisa (0/10)
4. Write a letter to Sinisa once a month (0/36)
5. Take 20 walks with Sinisa (0/20)
6. Watch the sunrise
7. Watch the sunset
8. Do two romantic things for Sinisa a month (0/72)
9. Have a date day/night once a month (0/36)
10. Take dance lessons with Sinisa
11. Complete ‘1000 Questions to Ask Before you get Married’ book (0/1001)
12. Have a fire in the fireplace twice a winter (0/6)
13. Dance at home with Sinisa
14. Go on a romantic picnic once a summer (0/3)
15. Go stargazing
16. Listen to 50 of Sinisa’s favorite songs (0/50)
17. Go to pre-marital counseling
18. Take a carriage ride
19. Kiss Sinisa: at midnight on New Year’s Eve, in the rain, under water, under mistletoe
20. Buy Sinisa something he’s been wanting once a month
21. Have a candlelight dinner

JACOB

1. Send birth announcements
2. Write a letter to Jacob once a month (0/36)
3. Read 1,000 books to Jacob (0/1000)
4. Get professional pictures taken (0/19)
5. Make all baby food unless traveling
6. Take a photo of Jacob everyday
7. Make and update monthly a growth chart for Jacob
8. Complete baby book
9. Order Jacob’s birth certificate
10. Learn ten new songs to sing to Jacob
11. Take Jacob to story time at the library
12. Write Jacob’s birth story for his baby book
13. Input list of Jacob’s “firsts” online and keep it updated
14. Put snapfish pictures in group room
15. Baby proof home
16. Teach Jacob baby sign language
17. Potty train Jake in 2009/2010
18. Record 100 videos of Jacob and post online (0/100)

FAMILY

1. Spend two days with each person in my immediate family (0/18)
2. Visit with family once a week (0/156)
3. Write a letter to 10 people who are important to me (0/10)
4. Trace my family tree
5. Contact each grandparent twice a year (0/30)
6. Take a picture with ten people I love and write a paragraph about our relationship (0/10)
7. Get a family picture taken twice a year (0/6)
8. Send out Holiday cards and family updates each Christmas (0/3)
9. Write thank-you’s for all gifts received

SOCIAL

1. Visit with college friends two times (0/2)
2. Have a girl’s day/night once every other month (0/18)
3. Organize a “young parents” meetup
4. Host five parties at my house (0/5)
5. Get in touch with three people I’ve lost contact with (0/3)
6. Call someone once a month that isn’t family (0/36)
7. Make five new friends (0/5)
8. Host a Holiday cookie exchange
9. Go out to a bar with a friend
10. Attend a meetup for each group I’m in
11. Become active in Mom’s of Infants group-at least two activities a month
12. Become active in Bolingbrook mom’s group-at least two activities a month
13. Write notes to my friends telling them what they mean to me

HOUSEHOLD

1. Make a cleaning schedule and stick to it
2. Organize bedroom
3. Clean out file cabinets and keep them organized
4. Finish decorating the nursery
5. Clean closet and maintain
6. Clean bathroom and maintain
7. Buy fresh flowers for the house twice a month (0/72)
8. Purchase items for home: desk and entertainment center
9. Back five times a year (0/15)
10. Make my desk area more usable
11. Clean out under bed
12. Sanitize all Jacob’s toys
13. Go through magazines and purge then keep only ten
14. Frame and hang pictures on family
15. Clean and organize laundry room
16. Go through green laundry bag and hem/fix or take to cleaners
17. Hang framed art
18. Reupholster chairs
19. Fix carpeting by bathrooms and kitchen
20. Paint bathroom walls
21. Clean out closet in Jacob’s room
22. Clean out storage closet
23. Repaint blue dresser
24. Have maintenance fix door and blinds
25. Organize family life binder

FINANCIAL

1. Finish bankruptcy
2. Establish a 3 month emergency fund
3. Talk to family member about taking care of Jacob in case of our deaths
4. Draft living will
5. Pay off Saturn loan (0/10 payments)
6. Open a saving’s account
7. Save for a down payment and move into a rent-to-own house
8. Develop and stick to a budget for 3 months
9. Call SM loan and create payment plan
10. Call GL loan and create payment plan
11. Call CB loan and create payment plan
12. Listen to Dave Ramsey’s financial CDs
13. Sell five things on ebay (0/5)
14. Purchase a new car
15. Look into renter’s insurance
16. Get current with all bills
17. Check credit reports once a year (0/3)
18. Pay movie store fines
20. Change car insurance companies
21. Keep track of spending and checking accounts

LEARNING

1. Get an Associate’s Degree
2. Learn 100 words/sayings in Croatian (2/100)
3. Take a photography class
4. Learn how to change a tire
5. Attend three workshops (0/3)
6. Learn the sign language alphabet (0/26)
7. Learn how to use five different exercise machines at the gym
8. Apply to University
9. Read or watch at least two news stories a day
10. Get college transcripts
11. Watch a documentary
12. Research bpd
13. Learn 50 new abortion facts I didn’t know

CAREER

1. Create a professional portfolio
2. Write my resume
3. Organize article file
4. Find a flexible, well paying job

TRAVEL

1. Plan and take a vacation
2. Go to the beach five times (0/5)
3. Go camping twice (0/2)
4. Go to California
5. Visit a state I’ve never been to
6. Visit family in New York
7. Visit family in Pennsylvania
8. Go on a boat
9. Visit a botanical garden
10. Spend a day downtown each summer (0/3)
11. Go to an orchard and pick apples
12. Go to an amusement park
13. Take a road trip
14. Go to the zoo
15. Go to a waterpark
16. Go to a museum
17. Go to Navy Pier
18. Go skiing
19. Stay somewhere overlooking the water

ENTERTAINMENT

1. Erase songs on IPod that I don’t like
2. Add songs to IPod monthly
3. Create playlist on IPod for the gym
4. See 25 movies I’ve never seen before
5. Make a top 10 list of movies and songs
6. Attend one concert a year (0/3)
7. Attend 10 festivals (0/10)
8. Go to a drive-in movie
9. Spend a day watching a tv show marathon
10. Go to a taping of the Oprah show
11. See Blue Man Group

WRITING/READING

1. Read all Nora Roberts books I own
2. Start an online blog
3. Read 50 parenting books
4. Write a children’s book
5. Catalog all books and organize them
6. Write 10 reviews of places or services (www.lilaguide.com or www.yelp.com) (0/10)
7. Participate in NaNoWrimo
8. Write the book that’s been in my mind for years but first talk to HER about it
9. Read 20 relationship books
10. Subscribe to two magazines (0/2)
11. Publish an article online or in print
12. Try to get Morgan’s story published
13. Publish something I’ve created through lulu.com
14. Join a book club and read at least one book with them

CREATIVE ENDEAVORS

1. Setup a scrapbooking area
2. Create scrapbooks for Jacob’s first 3 years
3. Create scrapbook for my relationship with Sinisa
4. Create scrapbook of college years
5. Join and sing in a choir
6. Make Jacob five things including: ABC book, teddy bear, family photo album
7. Be an extra in a movie or tv show
9. Organize pictures
10. Audition for something
12. Do a project from cutoutandkeep.net
13. Take at least five pictures from each event I go to
14. Relearn how to crochet
15. Do Live Journal’s “A Day in My Life” photography project

GIVING BACK

1. Volunteer 20 days of my time (0/20)
2. Give away 100 items (0/100)
3. Give blood once a year (0/3)
4. Do 50 random acts of kindness (0/50)
5. Tell a manager when I get good service
6. Attend a pro-life event
7. Become a CASA (court appointed special advocate)
8. Participate in Holiday gift tree for a needy child
9. Write a letter to a politician about abortion
10. Release five books through bookcrossing.com (0/5)
11. Use reusable shopping bags for small trips to the grocery store
12. Replace light bulbs with energy efficient ones as they go out
13. Look into recycling and start recycling cans
14. Donate 50,000 grains of rice through freerice.com
15. Anonymously pay for five strangers coffees or food (0/5)
16. Re-sign up to be an organ donor
17. Complete two March of Dimes Walks (0/2)
18. Go through clothes and give away what I don’t want

SPIRITUAL

1. Read the whole Bible
2. Tithe weekly (0/156)
3. Find a church home
4. Do devotions every day for a month (0/30)

FUN

1. Watch fireworks live
2. Go to a parade
3. Drive around looking at Christmas lights and drinking hot cocoa
4. Go mini-golfing
5. Walk along the lakefront
6. Decorate Easter eggs
7. Play in the rain
8. Go down a waterslide
9. Shop at a Farmer’s Market
10. Go bowling
11. Make smores
12. Draw with chalk on the sidewalk
13. Go sledding
14. Try 15 foods I’ve never tasted before
15. Build a snowman
16. Finish a 1000 piece puzzle
17. Complete a Suduko book
18. Mail a secret to postsecret
19. Color in a coloring book
20. Go swimming
21. Play a board game
22. Fly a kite
23. Achieve a 30% winning percentage in solitaire
24. Complete a crossword puzzle on my own
25. Go horseback riding
26. Plant flowers
27. Race a go-kart
28. Play laser tag
29. Go pumpkin picking and carve the pumpkin
30. Shop at a thrift store other than Goodwill
31. Buy a lottery ticket
32. Visit five new restaurants (0/5)
33. Send out a message in a bottle
34. Go out for ice cream
35. Go to a sporting event
36. Get a typing speed of 100wpm at typeracer.com
37. Register $5 at wheresGeorge.com

ONLINE/COMPUTER

1. Create and maintain a list of favorite websites
2. Create and maintain a list of my online profiles
3. Clean off computer hard drive
4. Empty email inbox and keep it empty
5. Setup google applications
6. Organize pictures on the computer
7. Add pictures to flickr account
8. Update all online profiles
9. Start a blog and blog at least twice a week

JUST BECAUSE I NEED TO

1. Wash car inside and out twice a year (0/6)
2. Get oil changed four times a year (0/12)
3. Renew license plates (0/2)
4. Update address book
5. Get a new passport
6. Get a new license