101 Things

OK so it’s June already.  How did that happen?  May was an odd month, the hours dragged but the days flew by.  Weird.  I’d like it the other way around.

So anyway, about the 101 things list.  I have absolutely no idea what progress I made – or didn’t make.  Hang on, let me look… ummm not good.

Michelle has started her recipe book, started in the loosest sense of the word.  She has a book.  She has some cool scrapbook paper.  That’s about it. 

I cleaned out some of the big freezer – maybe half? I guess that’s a start, isn’t it?

Heh, I managed to download a lot of new music and of course more books were read.  The Moonstone WILL be crossed off my list soon.  The book is on my desk, just waiting to be picked up and FINISHED. 

I sent birthday cards but didn’t send a graduation gift – does the lack of shipping the gift cancel out the sending of the cards?    I’m pretty sure we hit a restaurant or two, I’ll have to double check.

I talked a good bit about blogrolls and stuff but I’ve done nothing, no updates at all – not even the “new discoveries”. Maybe this weekend, someone remind me!

As you can see, not much progress.  It was a weird month.  Next month will be better.  Or it won’t.   That’s life, eh?

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As far as I’m concerned, April is over.  April has been one of those months that I really dislike – lots of really great things happened and lots of really not great things and very few normal, in between days.  I hate extremes, I prefer the middle.  Now, onto the list update.

Looking at it, you’d think April was a month when nothing much happened.  Some stuff has been crossed off the list, RJ’s dresser was purchased but not due to arrive til next week.  I took a photo a day (a heck of a lot more than that, actually) for a full month, (That was sort of fun and not fun at the same time.  It led me to an idea for a meme but I probably won’t do it or if I do, I won’t be telling you about it… so don’t ask.) The cat closet bins were easier than I thought, they were full of linens.  Oh my, the linens we have in this house.  Sheesh.  I thought they contained odds and ends accumulated from various and sundry lives that have been lived by the members of this house.  I’m glad they didn’t, but finding they contained more linens was annoying.

More books were read, more posts responded to, more money donated to charity, blogrolls updated, music downloaded, etc… sounds like a normal month, doesn’t it?  Lists can be deceiving, as can blogs, as can people.

Onward to May…

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April snuck up on me.  I wonder if these monthly updates of my 101 Things to do in 1001 Days list will fall by the wayside sooner rather than later?  Maybe monthly is too often?  But if I stop doing it monthly, will I just stop trying to stick with the list?   I don’t know but it’s something else to think about it.

Not a huge lot of progress this month unless you call donating an awful lot of money to charity, painting RJ’s room and quitting smoking progress.  I’m not sure that I do.  None of those things seem all that unusual or surprising and in the scheme of things, not all that difficult.  (The whining about nicotine is purely cosmetic, I wouldn’t want anyone who has struggled with qutting to feel like I’m in some way superior because I didn’t struggle, hahahaha!)

I am pondering the whole "read classics" thing.  I realized a couple of weeks ago that I don’t really know what that item means to me.  I’m not sure whether I want to read classics I’ve never read before, re-read old favorites, re-read classics that I hated. I’m not even sure how I define the genre "classics".    I’ve got a bunch of "classics" reading lists to look at to try and figure it out.  In other words, I’m dragging my feet on that whole classics thing while I define for myself what it means.  I’m good at dragging my feet on things and even better at justifying the dragging.

This month I suspect we will see the RJ dresser completed, J’s room will be painted, more non-fictions will be read and more money donated.  I’m not sure about any others. 

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Another month has passed so it’s time for my 101 Things in 1001 Days update.  Not a ton of progress but some – and I got close in others, which was interesting (and umm enjoyable, too)…

I need to work on that whole reading classics thing.  Michelle seems to be set on Bleak House, I hate Dickens but I suppose this would be as good a place as any to start. 

The Blogrolls got a facelift yesterday and they’re going to stay this way through the summer – the New Finds will change and I’m sure my Technorati Favorites will change as well.  (50 is not enough – I need 100!)  If you were on my Blogroll, it’s likely that you’re still on my Technorati list.  I think I’ll add my aggregator list as well for the truly curious…

I really need to clean out the spurls.  That’s so time consuming.  I need a full day for that and I have no idea where I’ll find a full day.

I think RJ has finally picked out a color for her walls – in fact I’m so sure of it that I’m going to go and buy the darn paint so she can’t change her mind for the zillionth time.  Then we can get her walls painted, bookshelves decorated and get a nice new dresser in there to replace the antique. 

E learned lanyards more quickly than just about any child I have ever attempted to teach lanyards too.  I expected her to pick it up quickly but not quite that quickly.  I’ll give it a go with RJ in a couple of weeks.

I actually SAVED money this month.  Not a lot but some.  Even with Michelle’s huge birthday shopping spree. 

WLC templates has been an interesting exercise in futility.  I started.  Changed my mind about the process and never got back to it.  Thought about it some more on Sunday and attempted to write a plan of attack and scrapped that too.  Keeping good records for performance appraisals has also been in issue.  Someone else has data I need with which to do this and those folks aren’t being forthcoming with that data.  I need a new plan of attack for that too.  Or maybe I should give up and just keep winging it each quarter, it’s not like anyone notices or anyone I work with has a better process than that.  😉

Not a bad month – all things considered.  Let’s see how we do in March, shall we?

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It’s been a month since I created my 101 Things to do in 1001 Days list and I’ve actually stuck with it.  The list is often in the back of my mind when I’m thinking about my day or creating that little "mental to do" list every morning.  Weird.

If you click the link, you’ll see that not much has been completely crossed off but some items have little numbers next to them that indicate progress.  There are other areas where I almost hit the complete goal but didn’t quite make it. 

Take the #40.  We’ve only eaten out or ordered food 4 times, I think.  Pizza, McAllister’s,  food at the Medieval Faire last weekend and an after church visit to the Picadilly once.  That’s a huge change for us.  I mean HUGE.  I could probably scratch that off the list and call it done, but I won’t because I think we can manage a full month at some point in the next 969 days.  Maybe.

Progress has been made on the clean sweep pile, but it’s slow slow going. 

So there’s the update.  Having this list hasn’t killed me and it hasn’t forced me into the bedroom afraid to face the world either.  I think I’ll keep it.  Let’s see what progress I make in February – Anyone care to place a bet as to how I do?  What I can scratch off?  What I can update?

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So I saw this on My Bountiful Life today and it scared me. As TW says making a list like this indicates I have plans for my future and I simply don’t do plans. Well I do but I don’t put voice to them. I don’t talk them out. I don’t even really think them out. They sit in the back of my head til I’m ready to carry them out and it seems to people around me that I’ve just made some snap decision or something.

So I posted a link to it for some friends and thought I’d leave it alone and carry on as usual. Status quo and all of that. But before I knew it, I was surfing the technorati tags for 101 things and 101 in 1001. Hmm interesting. Next thing I knew, I was making my own list.

I’m not sure I like it. TW asked me why and I said I wasn’t sure. She asked if they were things I wanted to do and I said I wasn’t sure. Typical me. I’m not sure which is why I don’t voice my plans. I like being able to change my mind, change my direction, without having to explain to anyone why.

But here it is. My 101 things to do in 1001 days. Tuesday, September 27, 2008 is my “due date”. That in itself feels like enough for me to wipe this post clean and pretend like I never even heard of the idea…

Books
1) Read 25 classics. 11

2) Read 25 Non-Fiction 25
3) Listen to 20 books on CD/Tape. 16
4) Read The Moonstone.
5) Sit in a bookstore for an afternoon and just sift through books.

Computing
6) Submit a blog entry to 5 blog carnivals. 3
7) Try a “family podcast”.
8) Clean out my RSS feeds 10xs. 10
9) Update my blogroll 10xs. 10
10) Clean my spurls/bookmarks 10 times. 8
11) Blog everyday for a month.

Friends & Family

12) Help Michelle create her Cafe Press store and motivate her to keep it going.Now the motivation part.
13) Take Leona for coffee 10xs. 2
14) Call my brother 5xs for no good reason. 1
15) Teach the little kids how to do lanyards. 1
16) Call everyone on smiel ONCE just because.
17) Spend a day having fun with Bethy!
18) Have a mommy & me day with Chris 5xs.
19) Have a mommy & me day with Jenn 3xs.
20) Have a mommy & me day with my mom once.
21) Have a mommy weekend with TW 5xs. 4
22) Have 5 mommy and me days with Michelle. 1
23) Help Michelle create a good recipe book/box. book purchased…

Health
24) Drink only water 10xs.
25) Quit smoking.
26) Have a mammogram.
27) Run 3 days a week for a month.
28) “Drink the Vos Water” everynight for a week 10xs. 😉

Home
29) Get my piano moved from SC to FL.
30) Clean out the clean sweep pile in the garage.
31) Empty out the coat closet so that only coats are in there!
32) Clean out the cabinets and shelves in the living room.
33) Paint RJ’s room.
34) Buy RJ a dresser.
35) Buy RJ a new bookshelf.
36) Paint J’s room.
37) Clean out the cat closet bins.
38) Get TW’s clock fixed.

39) Put away the laundry as soon as it is folded for a month.
40) Cook/eat at home everyday for a month.
41) Bake bread once a week for a month.

42) Clean out the freezer.
43) Get the cats spayed.
44) Do 30 minutes of housework everyday for a month. Darn! 20 of the 30 days!

45) Get Chris’s car towed away.
46) Refinish the grandma furniture.
47) Refinish TW’s antiques.
48) Hang pictures on the wall.
49) Scan family photos.
50) Organize photo albums.
51) Clean out the gardening supplies. working on it now
52) Organize files.

Life

53) Try 10 new restaurants. 10
54) Download new music once a month 10xs. 10
55) Have a Mrs Peel Marathon.
56) Family Game Day once a month 10xs. 2
57) Sit in the hot tub once a week 10xs.
58) Go to church every Sunday for a month 3xs.
59) Watch all of the Star Wars Movies without falling asleep. 6 of 6
60) Take one photo a day for a month.
61) Complete the poetry memorization series with the children.
62) Go to the ballet.
63) See 2 plays. 2
64) Visit a new museum 5xs
65) Go for a bike ride.
66) Go horseback riding.
67) Make a kids cooking scrapbook for TW’s mom.

68) Have a “family portrait” made.

69) Send birthday cards to all family members at least once.
70) Send Christmas cards.
71) Use my tanning gift certificate.

Money
72) Buy the “perfect house”.
73) Buy a whaleyboy car.
74) Go 2 weeks without Starbucks.
75) Don’t order from Gatorfood for six months in a row. 6 months!
76) Save 10% of my paycheck 12 times. 10
77) Donate another 10% of my paycheck 12 times. 7

Travel
78) Convince Michelle to visit 3 colleges she has not considered attending.
79) Visit Mona!
80) Visit the Hunley.
81) Take TW to Edisto.
82) Take Michelle swimming with dolphins.
83) Go and visit my mom in Charlotte.
84) Visit TW’s mom and sister.
85) Go to NYC with TW.
86) Go to DC with the entire family.
87) Spend a weekend at Isle of Palms.
88) Take the kids back to St Augustine.
89) Go camping, in a tent.
90) Go to Michigan.
91) Go to Panama.
92) Visit 5 unusual roadside attractions. 2
93) Go to longest yard sale event (127 corridor).
94) Attend Blogher.
95) Attend SXSW.
96) Go to Vancouver.
97) Go to Hawaii.

Work

98) Create good WLC templates.

99) Answer 5 posts a day on “core” 10xs
100) Take 10 real days off from work. 9

101) Keep records for performance appraisals.

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