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.
I’m impressed :). You seem to be doing fine. And you’ve got me thinking now. Wonder if I could even come up with 101 things. And how do you calculate your due date anyway?
Have you heard of Ta-da-list? It’s a great site to organise lists. http://www.tadalist.com/
Wow! Great progress! 🙂
Only ONE Mommy day with me huh! OK, when’s it going to be? Same time you come to Charlotte? When’s that??
Gah! Don’t rush me, this stuff is hard. I don’t like to plan things. It makes me nervous. I’ll let you know when I’m ready to spend time with you. I’ll even give you a few days notice, ok? Maybe. Probably when I come and get my piano, how’s that?