Friday, November 13, 2009

My 101 in 1001 days

As you may well know, my 36th birthday occurred this week on Monday. In honor of my birthday I created my 101 things to do in 1001 days list. This is part of the Day Zero project. The idea is to make a list of 101 tasks to complete in 1001 days. Here are my 101. Items that are crossed off are done. Items that are in color are in progress...

1. Create my 101 list

2. Commit 20 acts of random kindness (0/20)

3. Eat at a 5 star restaurant without worrying about money

4. Have 10 dates with my husband (0/10)

5. Take a trip without the kids for our 10 year anniversary

6. Volunteer with an organization of my choice

7. Walk the Race for the Cure

8. Donate gifts to an organization every year at Hanukkah/Christmas (0/3)

9. Work at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter at least one time

10. Learn to make sushi at home

11. Call Kayo in Japan at least once every 6 months (0/5)

12. Go on a girls getaway weekend with my sister and mom

13. Improve my career situation

14. Make a trifle

15. Take my dad out to lunch

16. Take my mom out to lunch

17. Eat a Juicy Lucy

18. Attend 5 local festivals (0/5)

19. Save 1000k for my 10 year wedding anniversary

20. Go to the symphony

21. Visit six local museums (0/6)

22. Paint the kitchen

23. Tile the fireplace

24. Complete two deepening classes at Seeds of Mindfulness

25. Take a yoga class

26. Go to a meditation session at Clouds on Water Zen Center

27. Do one meditation retreat or class every year (0/3)

28. Call my sister once a month (1/32)

29. Juice every week (1/141)

30. Take a strippersize class

31. Get a massage

32. Get rid of all the clothes in my closet that don’t fit and that I don’t like

33. Spend the entire day doing nothing but playing with Jonah

34. Spend the entire day doing nothing but playing with Mia

35. Paint the upstairs

36. Buy a rug for my dining room

37. Start a savings account for Jonah

38. Make a budget for 2010

39. See 10 classic movies I have never seen before (0/10)

40. Watch every episode of The Office

41. Go ice skating

42. Go to the ballet

43. Have a garage sale

44. Learn a poem by heart

45. Watch 10 documentary films (0/10)

46. Go on a picnic

47. Take a dance class

48. Get CPR certified

49. Buy a really nice purse

50. Move into our new upstairs bedroom

51. Eliminate all processed food for one week

52. Read one great book per month (0/32)

53. Watch movies for an entire day

54. Give up the computer for one full day per month (0/32)

55. Learn self defense

56. Learn how to swim properly

57. Make a Danish pastry like my mom does

58. Go Geocaching with Jeff and Mia

59. Send my Grandma pictures of the kids every three months

60. Visit Madison and eat at Himal Chuli

61. Read a book about Buddhism

62. Post a blog entry once per week (2/141)

63. Add a blog entry for each item completed on this list (0/101)

64. Make a new finance binder

65. Set up a trust for Jonah and Mia

66. Call Cheryl at least once every 6 months (0/5)

67. Walk around Lake of the Isles once every season (0/10)

68. Try five new foods at the state fair (0/5)

69. Try one new recipe per month (1/32)

70. Learn to cook (successfully) with beans

71. Take a bike ride by the river with my family

72. Visit my home in New York

73. Try every local brand of ice cream in the Twin Cities

74. Try one totally new fruit or vegetable every month (0/32)

75. Try 10 of Dara Moskowitz's favorite restaurants (1/10)

76. Write an advanced directive

77. Go on a family retreat

78. Learn 10 shortcuts on the Mac (0/10)

79. Teach Jonah sign language

80. Frame three pieces of artwork (0/3)

81. Volunteer at Mia's school

82. Make a first year movie for Jonah

83. Remake our wedding album

84. Teach Mia to ride a bike with no training wheels

85. Go to a Saints game

86. Read a biography

87. Put shelves up in the basement

88. Buy all of our produce at the farmer's market for one week

89. Change all of our passwords

90. Get my correct address on my driver's license

91. Buy reusable sandwich bags

92. Decorate Jonah's bedroom

93. Find curtains for the dining room

94. Meet 7 new neighbors (0/7)

95. Eat at Ecopolitan

96. Build an entire snowman

97. Learn three constellations (0/3)

98. Sell the kids clothes at a consignment sale

99. Read a book about investing

100. Make challah from scratch

101. Save $10 for every item accomplished on this list (0/101)



4 comments:

Cheryl said...

1) You have two things listed twice: Make a budget for 2010 and get CPR certified. Therefore you have NOT completed item #1. :)

2) Why did you not list CALL CHERYL at least once every 6 months?!?! Seriously, you have not called me AT ALL since we returned to the States. And since you have an iphone now, you obviously aren't doing pay as you go anymore so you should have no excuse. That can take the place of one of the duplicates that you listed. See how helpful I am?! :)

3) Strippersize?!?! Awesome.

4) Do kids poems count in the one poem that you're going to memorize?

3)

Cheryl said...

Not sure why there's a random 3) at the bottom of my last comment. Oops!

dad (grampy) said...

Your mother and I had come up with your #73 while looking through the Minnesota Magazine you gave us. Perhaps we can frequent some of those establishments together. Bonding through ice cream is a long and proud tradition in the Scharlatt lineage. Good list!
dad

Mom said...

Omigosh...you are such an inspiration. I'm going to make my list of 101 in 1000 days.....just as soon as I accomplish the other 647 things I have on my existing "to do" list.