Friday, February 20, 2009

My list needed tweaking. I've tweaked it. Here's the final product.

Start: February 23, 2009
End: November 21, 2011

Mission Logging
1) Create blog to track progress and update once weekly (0/143 updates)
2) Document as many items from this list as possible with photos and post to blog. (0/?)

Family and Friends
3) Make 3 new friends. (0 friends)
4) Send anonymous flowers to friend on a random day. (0 bouquets)
5) Tell Mom, Dad, Haley, and Matt that I love them every day (0/1001 days)
6) Go on a weekend trip with Haley. (0 trips)
7) Call Christina, Rachel, Laura, and Lindsey each once a month (0/33 months)
8) Do something to make Matthew feel special everyday. (0/1001 days)
9) Write a letter to everyone who made a difference in my life (apart from family/friends). (0 letters)
10) Tell everyone who is important to me “Happy Birthday” via card or phone call. (0 cards/phone calls)
11) Do something super-touristy/romantic in one city visited with Matthew. For example, taking a carriage ride in Central Park. (not completed)
12) Visit two friends out of state. (0 friends)
13) Plan one elaborate candlelight dinner for two. (0 dinners)
14) Give 10 "Just because" gifts. (0 gifts)
15) Send 101 cards or letters for reasons other than Christmas/birthdays. (0 cards/letters)
16) Bring baked goods to Grandpa once a month (0/33 months)
17) Do something anonymously nice for a friend or family member once a month. (0/33 months).
18) Have a girls’ weekend with my Mom and sister. (0 weekends)
19) Write a letter to Grandpa Lamping without being unkind. (0 letters)
20) Make time to spend time with Sarah, Ashley, Katie, Haley once every month (0/33 months).

Culture and Travel
21) Learn something interesting about every country in the world. (0/195 countries)
22) Visit Detroit as if I’m a tourist.(0 trips)
23) Get a wall map of the world and put pins in every city I want to go to. (0 maps, 0 pins)
24) Take pictures in a photo booth in every out-of-state city visited. (0 photostrips)
25) Visit 5 new places (0 places)
26) Add a stamp (or two) to my passport (0 stamps)
27) Participate in Gimme Your Stuff 3 times (http://gimmeyourstuff.blogspot.com) (0 exchanges)
28) Participate in PostCrossing 10 times (www.postcrossing.com) (0 exchanges)
29) Take a trip completely unplanned. Fill up the car, pick a direction and go. (0 trips)
30) Take a weekend trip to Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Saugatuck, and Mackinac Island. (0 weekend trips)
31) Try food from 10 different cuisines. (0 cuisines)

Health and Hygiene
32) Go one month without pop or coffee. (0/30 days)
33) Brush teeth and wash face absolutely every morning and night. (0/1001 days)
34) Lose 20 pounds (0/20 pounds)
35) Learn to like red wine and drink 3 glasses each week. (0/143 weeks)
36) Participate in 3 benefit walks/runs every year.
Year 1: (0 walks)
Year 2: (0 walks)
Year 3: (0 walks)
37) Start taking a multivitamin everyday. (0/1001 days)
38) Drink at least 64 oz. water every single day (0/1001 days)
39) Make exercise part of my daily routine (0/1001 days)
40) Complete the hundred push-up challenge. (www.hundredpushups.com) (day 0 of 42)
41) Complete a detoxification program. (0 programs)

Charity and Random Acts of Kindness
42) Pay for someone’s meal at a drive through. (not completed)
43) Leave a 100% tip for a meal at a restaurant. (not completed)
44) Donate 5 dollars for any item not completed. (not completed)
45) Donate 500,000 grains through www.freerice.com, and 200,000 trees through www.answer4earth.com)
46) Grow hair long enough; donate hair (find a place to donate to that does not charge clients). (not completed)
47) Clean out closet with the “keep one toss two” rule. Donate to charity. (0 items donated)
48) Participate in an Adopt-a-Child Christmas gift program every year.
Year 1: (not completed)
Year 2: (not completed)
Year 3: (not completed)
49) Send a care package to a soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iraq: (not completed)
Afghanistan: (not completed).
50) Send 20 anonymous letters to friends to make them feel special (0/20 letters)

Education and Mental Growth
51) Read (or re-read) all 100 books on
http://www.best100novels.com/. (0/100 books)
52) Take out 2 books every month from the library. (0/33 months)
53) Study for and retake the GRE, and the Psychology GRE.
General GRE: (not completed)
Psychology GRE: (not completed)
54) Get into a Ph.D. program for Clinical Neuropsychology (not completed)
55) Take two enrichment courses alone (0 courses)
56) Join or start a book club. (not completed)
57) Learn a new language. (not completed)

Finances and Budgeting
58) Put at least 50 dollars per paycheck into savings. (0/72 paychecks)
59) Record every penny spent for 100 days. (0/100 days)
60) Pay off my first loan. ($2,000/$4,000)
61) Get a new eco-friendly laptop. (not completed)
62) Create and stick to budget (not completed)
63) Go 20 non-consecutive weeks without spending any money on food (0/20 weeks)
64) Move CD funds to a higher yield account. (not completed)

Materialism (I’m allowed a little!)
65) Buy 3 new dresses every year (1 of which should be winter-appropriate)
Year 1: (0 dresses)
Year 2: (0 dresses)
Year 3: (0 dresses)
66) Buy a really nice pair of sunglasses that don’t hurt my nose and actually block the sun (not completed)

Personal Growth
67) Go camping. (not completed)
68) Look and feel great in a bikini. (not completed)
69) Master everything on the list of 75 Skills Every Woman Should Master (http://abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com/2008/05/15/75-skills-every-woman-should-master-the-first-25) (0/75 items mastered)
70) Clean up room once every week. This includes vacuuming every month. (0/143 weeks)
71) Watch 50 movies I haven't seen before. (0/50 movies)
72) Compile recipes, and create a cookbook. (not completed)
73) Cook a new dinner once a month (0/33 months)
74) Wake up before 8 AM every day for 2 weeks (0/14 days)
75) Get up without pressing the snooze button every day for 2 weeks (0/14 days)
76) Take the dogs on a walk once a month (between April and November) (0/24 months)
77) Sort all photos into albums. (0 albums)
78) Bake something from scratch once a month (and only eat one serving of it) (0/33 months
79) Do laundry from start to finish every week for 2 months (0/8 weeks)
80) Clean out my car once every other week. This includes washing car every six weeks. (0/72 weeks)
81) Limit myself to 1 hour of internet time outside of work every day. (0/1001 days).
82) Do holiday-related activities for every holiday (i.e. dye Easter eggs, carve pumpkins, make Valentines, make gingerbread houses, etc.) (0 holiday-related activities)
83) Learn to play one sport semi-well. (0 sports)
84) Buy a bookshelf and stock it. (not completed)
85) Identify 101 things that make me happy (0/101 things)
86) Update LJ at least once a week. Include in that update a highlight of the week, something funny that happened, and a person I am grateful for (and why). (0/143 updates)
87) Make a list of 101 things I love about myself. (0/101 things)
88) Say nothing negative about anything or anyone (including myself) for one week straight. (0/7 days)
89) Volunteer for 20 hours every year.
Year 1: (0 hours)
Year 2: (0 hours)
Year 3: (0 hours)
90) Take the stairs whenever possible for 1 month. (0/30 days)
91) Go two months without missing a single day of work or school. (0/60 days)
92) Actually participate in giving up something for Lent every year.
Year 1: (not completed)
Year 2: (not completed)
Year 3: (not completed)
93) Move out of my parents’ house (not completed)
94) Learn and master a new artsy craft (0 crafts learned)
95) Buy a piece of art from the Ann Arbor Art Fair. (0 purchases)
96) Reform wardrobe into all clothes that I like to wear, nothing I don’t like. (not completed)

Room for Inspiration
97) LEAVE OPEN FOR LATER INSPIRATION.
98) LEAVE OPEN FOR LATER INSPIRATION.
99) LEAVE OPEN FOR LATER INSPIRATION.
100) LEAVE OPEN FOR LATER INSPIRATION.

The End
101) Make a new list on day 1000. (not completed)

1 comment:

  1. I have three comments to make on list item 51, reading all the books on http://www.best100novels.com/.

    1. It lists the entire Harry Potter series as a single book. That means that there are really 106 books on that list.

    2. I fundamentally disagree with some of the items on that list being the best. For example, "The Trial" by Franz Kafka was one of the most irritating books I've ever read. I'm sorry you have to read it.

    3. I own at least 25 books on that list. It may be as high as 30, but I can't remember all the books I have (haha). If you need to borrow any of them, I will be happy to lend them out. But I haven't read most of them, so I need them back. Haha.

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