Today was a big day. My husband quit his job, which is long-overdue but still not the best timing. So I haven’t had a ton of time to work on my binder. But I did a little bit, which is starting on the 100 101 Things To Do list. I did 36, and it’s surprisingly difficult to come up with things I want to do this year!
Maybe posting this list will help me to actually do these things. Maybe it will inspire someone else in making their own lists. Here they are, with my afterthoughts in blue. (Tomorrow’s post will probably be a link to this so I will have my entire list in one place.)
- Turn 27 — That’s number 1 and it was wrong! I quickly fixed it to be 28, as I am already 27, and my brain apparently fell out before starting this list. Haha.
- Pay off my credit cards
- Celebrate my first anniversary
- Help Mark find a new job
- Finish selecting photos for the wedding album
- Spend less time on the computer — Definitely need to start Leonie’s Switch-Off Sundays tradition
- Bake cookies once a month
- Submit a novel for (maybe) publishing
- Dance in the rain
- Play on the swings
- Cry my heart out — because I want to live a full life, not a robotically happy life
- Jump for joy
- Do something to feed my soul at least once a week
- Read more Newbery winners — this is an American award for children’s novels
- Submit 5 short stories to try to get published
- Laugh every day
- Live my truth
- Eat more veggies — this reminds me, I need a carrot for dessert
- Trust in God’s plan for my life
- Read the Bible more often
- Put my laundry away each time — I usually leave everything in a basket until I take it out to wear
- Declutter… a LOT!
- Do cartwheels in the grass
- Spend less money on things I don’t really need
- Visit the graves of all of my grandparents
- Floss my teeth more
- Say NO when it matters
- Say no when it doesn’t matter so much
- Watch Flash Forward and Glee
- Trust my intution
- Make love to my husband — this might seem like an obvious one but with his back problems, which have had him hospitalized and on disability, it’s actually something I feel NEEDS to be on this list 😦
- Hug my family every chance I get
- Call my Mom at least every other day
- Learn to read Tarot without books — I’m working on this in an online Tarot class that is just starting
- Rewatch 10 seasons of Friends DVDs
- Take more photos of me and Mark
- Be present in my life
- Step out of my comfort zone. Rinse and repeat.
- Find more guided meditations for my ipod
- Sell something I’ve created on etsy
- Write in a gratitude journal at least 4 days a week… 7 is better!
- Win NaNoWriMo again
- Try at least one new recipe every month
- Use Self-Coaching 101 to reframe my negative thoughts — more on this coming in a future blog post
- Blog posts at least 5 times a week
- End the year with at least $5,000 in a personal savings account
- Buy Where the Wild Things Are on DVD
- Read one nonfiction book for adults
- Read one fiction books for adults
- Reread The Secret Garden — one of my favorites from childhood
- Read The Westing Game
- Visit Howard and Ava in Boston — this is the couple on my photo page we met on our honeymoon
- Take Mark to Elmira — the town my college is in
- Take walks on the OHS track with Mark
- Organize all of our DVDs
- Open the blinds in the bedroom every day
- Take more photos (sell on etsy?)
- Save more than I spend (paying off debt counts!)
- Create a logo. Include a butterfly of my own design
- Eat alone at a sit-down restaurant
- Get to know Marsha better — my mother-in-law
- Frame our ketubah
- Hang the artwork bought on the honeymoon cruise
- Sing karaoke at least once
- Ace (99% or better) 4 songs on Band Hero, including American Pie — my husband’s contribution to my list 🙂
- See at least 2 movies in the theater
- Connect with my sister as adults
- Discover the goddess in me
- Buy a new sundress.. or two
- Go to a rock concert
- See Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
- Design a tattoo… and maybe get it
- Look for rainbows every time in rains
- Invent another holiday
- Make every Christmas gift I give this year
- Find more ways to bring my wisdom to others
- Cultivate friendships via blogging
- Try to write a song, even if it’s terrible
- Draw. Draw people. And not stick people.
- Stop being afraid of imperfection! Embrace it!
- Keep having a sunny disposition.
- Smile at strangers.
- Be more patient with people. *including myself*
- Buy a bathing suit that looks good on me. Wear it to go swimming. — the second sentence might be the most important!!!
- Continue seeking good valid self-help techniques on blogs. Post about them w/links.
- Meet friends at the top of the Empire State Building – the day and time is almost here!
Remind my friends and family why I love them. — yes. there is a bonus on the list, two #86’s!!! - Be a rockstar every time I’m in the car alone. (Private concerts, baby!)
- Tell myself in the mirror, “I’m beautiful” and truly mean it.
- Don’t be afraid to DREAM BIG.
- Believe in fairy tales.
- Don’t ask why – ask why NOT!
- Write poems more often than “almost never”
- Bake cupcakes for no apparent reason
- Practice random acts of kindness
- Listen to upbeat music. Dance to it.
- Dance to background music in stores, offices, etc.
- Do at least one new thing that will look good on my resume.
- Walk every aisle like it’s a catwalk. (Pretend I’m tall enough and young enough to be DISCOVERED!)
- Party like it’s 2000 at my 10 year high school reunion!
- Complete projects… like I completed this list! 🙂
#37-61 added January 6, 2010
#62-75 added January 8, 2010
#76-100 added January 9, 2010
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I need to do #6, #14 Love those myself, #21 that is one of my absolute worst habits, I put hubbys away but not mine, #22 I keep trying but I have so much stuff it never seems to look like I have gotten rid of anything. Blessing for the New Year
hee hee hee! i love love love that there are two 86's… how funny is that… 101 it IS! :Di adore your list so much darlingheart!xoxo
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