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Here are the rules: http://www.dayzeroproject.com/?view=gettingstarted
101 Things in 1001 Days – Round 1
Official start date: April 1, 2009
Official end date: December 28, 2011
Key:
Not completed
In progress
Completed
1. Complete my collection of state quarters
2. Wear a dress/skirt at least 3 times a month in the summer months
3. Lose baby weight (35/35)
4. Do the “two hundred squat” challenge
5. Do “one hundred pushups” challenge
6. Do the “two hundred situps” challenge
7. Learn to cook at least 3 new meals (0/3)
8. Bake a cake for Beau’s birthdays
9. Bake a pumpkin pie from scratch
10. Finish my Christmas shopping and have presents wrapped at least a week before Dec 25th each year (0/3)
11. Make a list of 101 simple pleasures in life
12. Collect 100 wine bottle corks
13. Learn some sign language with our new baby
14. Catch up on Brothers and Sisters using Netflix
15. Make a snowman (despite my hatred for winter)
16. Read at least 5 books (0/4)
17. Attend a local choir concert (at one of the colleges preferably)
18. Make a soundtrack of songs that remind of me of certain years growing up
19. Learn more about the Libertarian Party
20. Watch at least 3 Star Trek movies I have not seen before (3/3)
21. Send a postcard on www.postcrossing.com
22. Buy a blu-ray player
23. Learn a card trick
24. Buy a car with cruise control
Photography/Design Projects
25. Take a self portrait every week for a year
26. Buy a remote cord for the D90 and take more self portraits with it
27. Buy a wide angle lens for my Nikon D90
28. Take pictures of as many completed tasks on this list as I can and blog them
29. Scan in all of mom’s family pictures to disk
30. Organize the folders that store my digital photos on my computer
31. Organize photos in Lightroom and weed out bad pictures
32. Back up my photos on the external hard drive.
33. Do a photo scavenger hunt.
34. Buy a canvas print to hang in the house somewhere
35. Attend a photography workshop
36. Go on a photo shoot location scouting adventure.
37. Update/create the Photography website
38. Be hired as a photographer for a photo shoot
39. Get business cards (or moo cards)
40. Shoot a picture a day for 50 days
41. Photograph the northern lights
42. Log all storm chases on our storm chasing webpage
43. Sell something on Etsy
44. Sell an order of 25 invitations from my donya+design website
45. Make a Christmas/December journal book like Ali Edwards/Molly Irwin
Fitness/Health
46. Go for a walk around the neighborhood 2 times a week for a month
47. Get a gym membership or buy a treadmill for the winter months
48. Run at least 4 times a week for 2 months
49. Take my vitamins every day.
50. Lotion my legs everyday for 2 weeks
51. Drink only water for 2 weeks (no lemonade!)
52. Floss teeth everyday for a month
53. Regain the ability to do the splits
Money
54. Build up a 6 month emergency fund in savings
55. Invest in a stock.
56. Overpay my monthly school loan bill by at least $25 for 12 month (4/12)
57. Create a will
58. Create a food budget (groceries, eating out)
House
59. Make a household notebook with pictures and serial numbers (including pictures compared before and after)
60. Create a playroom in the basement
61. Decorate Ephram’s room
62. Decorate Beau’s office
63. Organize my office
64. Paint the dresser and night stands in the bedroom
65. Purchase a new silverware set
66. Purchase a few toys for my nieces and nephews to play with when they visit
67. Buy a mirror for the entry way
68. Paint the trim on outside of the house
69. Plant trees in the yard
70. Expand the vegetable garden
71. Grow pumpkins for Halloween
72. Carve pumpkins for Halloween
73.Set up the above ground fire pit in the backyard
Friends and Family
74. Host a holiday family get together at our home
75. Host a game night with family or friends
76. Have a get bonfire with friends and coworkers
77. Write a thank you notes for gifts I receive
78. Write a letter to my Grandpa Chuck as often as possible
79. Send a birthday cards to immediate family
81. Send Christmas cards out
82. Take snapshot/portraits of each family member and make a collage or family tree
Travel and Adventure
83. Learn to identify ten constellations. (0/10)
84. Go to the planetarium
85. Go to a professional football game (Vikings!)
86. Go Geocaching.
87. Chase a storm (hopefully a tornado) in Oklahoma or Texas again
88. Visit the North Shore again
89. Go camping in Wisconsin
90. Move to Florida
91. Visit Banff
92. Visit Glacier National Park
93. Visit my grandparents in St. Pete, Florida again
94. Swim in the pouring rain
95. Kayak to Lake 27 if the drought ever ends up at the cabin
96. Go to a wine-tasting event
97. Try sushi
98. Go to a restaurant in downtown Minneapolis with Beau
99. Complete at corn maze
100. Go to an apple orchard and take fall pictures of Beau and I
101. Create another 101 in 1001 list to start at the beginning of 2012.