101 Things To Do In 1,001 Days

So I completely randomly ran across this idea of making a list of 101 things that you would like to accomplish in 1,001 days. Since I have never been good at New Year's resolutions, but I am in a bit of a rut and wanted some motivation to get organized and make some changes, I decided to take this one on.

Why am I creating a blog for my list? Good question. I am not a blogger. Not into MySpace or anything like that. However, I need something to hold me accountable, and hopefully this will do the trick. So please, keep me motivated. Add your comments, encouragement, ask me if I'm crazy, whatever. It will be much appreciated.

This little experiment will end for me on August 12, 2011, when hopefully I will be inspired to start a new list.

By the way, to give credit where credit is due, this idea originated at Day Zero, so please go there and read more about it. (And start your own list!)

And now, my list:
(items that are red are completed - items that are bold are in the process)

101 in 1,001
December 1, 2008 through August 29, 2011

Health & Fitness
1. Complete Couch to 5K program - on Day 3 as of 05/15/09
2. Run in a 5K
3. Run in a 10K
4. Run in a half-marathon
5. Run in a marathon
6. Get entire family on regular doctor/dentist visit schedule
7. Participate in Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
8. Get back into the habit of taking a daily multi-vitamin
9. Find a good doctor for fibromyalgia
10. Try the fibromyalgia protocol from Fibromyalgia Treatment Center
10. Join the YMCA
11. Walk the dogs regularly
12. Give up soda for 30 days (0/30)
13. Try yoga for one month (0/30)
14. Get prescription sunglasses

Household & Finance
15. Get into a solid housekeeping schedule and stick to it for three months (0/90)
16. Frame and hang photos and prints that are waiting to go up
17. Apply feng shui in at least three areas in the house
18. Organize my recipes and purge the cookbooks I don’t use
19. Try one new recipe each month (3/33)
20. Create and maintain a family budget
21. Start an IRA
22. Make sure we have enough life insurance
23. Begin regular deposits into kids’ college accounts
24. Start chores and allowances for the kids
25. Bake a cheesecake
26. Shop regularly at the local resale shop
27. Establish an emergency savings fund
28. Come up with a regular meal planning system
29. Organize and maintain our paperwork
30. Buy a stock
31. Make our bed every day
32. Go one week without spending any money (0/7)

Family
33. Go sledding with the kids
34. Go to the beach with the kids
35. Go to the Adler Planetarium
36. Go to the Museum of Science and Industry
37. Go to the zoo at least once a year (0/3)
38. Have my will drawn up
39. Go to a Trojans football game
40. Go to to a Railcats baseball game
41. Have a family portrait taken
42. Teach Logan and Quinn to ride bikes without training wheels
43. Start reading bedtime stories to the kids again
44. Take a family trip to the Indiana Dunes
45. Create a real, lasting family tradition that does not involve a holiday
46. Visit the library with the kids at least once a month (5/33)
47. Take a trip to Indianapolis and visit the zoo and the children’s museum
48. Take the kids fishing
49. Take the kids bowling
50. Take the kids horseback riding

Personal Fulfillment
51. Try the fondue restaurant
52. Read at least one new book each month (3/33)
53. Complete a corn maze
54. Treat myself to a spa day
55. Take a photography class
56. Frame and display some of my photos (not of the kids)
57. Take a quilting class
58. Make a quilt
59. Go back to church
60. Keep a journal
61. Start recording our family tree
62. Plant a garden
63. Learn some real origami
64. Become a member of Indiana Ghost Trackers
65. Participate in an overnight ghost hunt
66. Re-institute monthly date night (1/33)
67. Become Advanced Unit Leader in AVON
68. Go on an architectural tour of Chicago
69. Go antiquing
70. Take golf lessons
71. Get rid of 100 unused items (100/100)
72. Re-learn how to use my sewing machine
73. Take a cake decorating class
74. Bake and decorate each family member a birthday cake - one down, four to go
75. Find a great hairstyle
76. Learn to play chess
77. Watch the sun set and rise (not necessarily in one sitting!)
78. Rent a beach house for a weekend
79. Identify 100 things that make me happy.
80. Stay away from the computer for an entire weekend once a month (3/33)
81. Find a great bra that fits and buy 10 of them
82. Get an aquarium for the house
83. See a production by Cirque de Soleil
84. Get scrapbooking caught up

Paying it Forward
85. Plant a tree on Arbor Day
86. Chair a PTO activity
87. Pay for the person behind me in the drive thru
88. Give an anonymous gift
89. Find an organization to volunteer at regularly and do so
90. Send birthday cards
91. Start recycling

Just for Fun
92. Get tipsy in good company (I'm lookin' at you, Katie!)
93. Host a poker night
94. Learn a magic trick and perform it
95. Host a pumpkin carving party
96. High five a stranger in a non-athletic setting
97. Dress up for Halloween
98. Ride a rollercoaster


And …
99. Save $10 for each task completed
100. Donate $10 to a charity for each task not completed at the end of 1,001 days
101. Convince others to make their own 101 lists, and start my next list

Life Goals:
Go on a cruise
See the Northern Lights
Visit the pyramids
Take a hot air balloon ride
Go whale watching
Go white water rafting
See Niagara Falls
Swim with dolphins