Saturday, March 27, 2010

The LIST

To be completed by Dec 17, 2012 or else.

As I read through other lists posted here, I wondered how someone would go about "getting a boyfriend" as item number 16 and then "get married" as item number 47. Is that how's it done? You make those things list items to accomplish? Check and check. 

Some things on my list are easy to do (mostly because I've started the process... "go to England" for example) others are going to take effort ("drink beer" hahaha). Some items are just a matter of money, others are a matter of self control. 

And some items are just way more fun if someone does it with me ("drink beer") (or "walk for 45 minutes").

And yes, I will be replacing the second item with something more noble. Something list worthy. Something important. Any suggestions? (besides "get a boyfriend. get married.")


So, tahhdahhh. My new list of 101 Things to Do in the Next 1,001 Days:


1
Assemble a first aid kit to keep in the car
2
Drink beer at noon on Tuesday in a bar that faces a giant car wash
3
Donate blood
4
Lose 10 lbs
5
Create a budget
6
Read 5 biographies
7
Go to Greece
8
Go to the Vancouver Art Gallery
9
Go to England
10
Buy a coloring book
11
Pay for the person behind me at a drive-thru
12
Lose 10 pounds
13
Lose ten pounds
14
Read a Jane Austen novel
15
Memorize a Psalm
16
Get passport renewed
17
Replace Durango
18
Implement new filing system (Based on article in Oprah magazine)
19
Get enhanced driver's license
20
Do a photo shoot at sunrise
21
Participate in a Vancouver Sun Fun Run
22
Visit Guernesey
23
Walk the Cotswolds
24
See a musical in London
25
Learn to drive standard (transmission)
26
Lose another 10 lbs
27
Celebrate my 50th Birthday with a memorable party
28
Get rid of 100 things
29
Do a LOTR -athon.
30
Visit the beaches of Cornwall
31
Tour Warwick Castle
32
Spend a weekend in Victoria
33
Do a road trip to Disneyland and 6 Flags with Clint, Max and Drew
34
Go on another missions trip
35
Get rid of another 100 things
36
Visit Tricia
37
Do an Olympic Peninsula road trip
38
Buy a new zoom lens for camera
39
Take a class - to upgrade my word processing skills
40
Start a graphics design inspiration file. Add one image daily.
41
Learn how to recreate (copy) five favorite images from inspiration file.
42
Attend a chapel at TWU
43
Attend a free lecture at TWU
44
Attend a class/lecture at CBC
45
Attend a lecture at Regent
46
Attend a Kindlings event
47
Memorize passage from Isaiah
48
Memorize a passage in Romans
49
Memorize a passage from James
50
Memorize the Beatitudes
51
Memorize a passage from Phillipians
52
Go antiquing
53
See the Northern Lights with Clint, Max and Drew
54
Redo front yard landscaping (Replace ugly trees)
55
Reorganize smugmug (online photosharing account)
56
Plan another house swap. Cousins in Germany?
57
Submit an article for publication
58
Replace bed at cabin with something luxurious
59
Enlarge 8 photos (from Montreal, Mexico, New York, Europe) to hang in entrance.
60
Determine a vitamin/supplement mix and take daily
61
Learn how to cook pork tenderloin
62
Replace BBQ
63
Buy new yard furniture
64
Plant 2 climbing/flowering vines for back trellis
65
Fill window boxes with year-round ivy
66
Reclaim the shed. Clean up western side yard.
67
Plant mini grape hyacinth
68
Buy large iron(?) pots for front walkway. Fill with topiaries and ivy
69
Go 100 consecutive days without chocolate
70
Support another Compassion Kid
71
Write 4 letters per year (or more) to each Compassion child I support
72
Set aside one day a month to fast and pray
73
Paint heart cabinet in family room
74
Read 5 new authors
75
Walk fast for 45 minutes five times a week (doing the hill at least once)
76
Get my Facebook Scrabble win/loss ratio back to 3:1 (meaning find more sucky players to play against)
77
Buy an original work of art from a new artist.
78
Make a batch of strawberry jam
79
Bake cookies that are not chocolate chip or shortbread
80
Find some 2010 grads who want their pics taken
81
Find some 2011 grads who want their pics taken
82
Take pics of Drew and his friends at their 2012 grad
83
Take engagement pics of a young in-love couple
84
Do a new-born baby photo shoot
85
Grow up and use a purse like a normal female.
86
Replace lawn mower.
87
Paint the brass accents on both fireplaces black.
88
Spend a Saturday going to garage/yard sales. Shudder.
89
Explore/Visit/Picnic at 4 parks in the lower mainland not previously visited.
90
Go to the Okanagan during apple season. Take pics and bring back apples.
91
Can peaches again.
92
Talk to a financial planner about my retirement.
93
Volunteer. (Be open to the next opportunity that comes my way.)
94
Buy (and wear) a piece of jewelery
95
Learn how to connect the scanner to my laptop.
96
Go to bed before midnight, 10 days in a row.
97
Write a letter to an author I admire.
98
Write a letter to myself to open on my 65th birthday. (Lord willing I live to see 65)
99
Buy some perfume. Wear it.
100
Go on 8 hikes. (Hike is defined as a 2 hour nature walk involving sweating and gasping for breath at least once.)
101
Keep track of every answered prayer in the next 1001 days.

3 comments:

raych said...

Do the 24-hour read-a-thon. You hardly sleep anyways. Plus, it still counts as having done it if you fall asleep halfway through. True story. PLUS it's in 2 weeks, so you can check something off really soon, PLUS it's fun, PLUS you already have a blog to be all Yadda yadda this is what I'm reading etc.

Sign up here: http://24hourreadathon.com/2010/03/27/sign-up-for-the-april-10-2010-deweys-24-hour-read-a-thon/ because then new friends will drop by your blog and say encouraging things to you. Doooo eet.

Drewo. said...

you? drink a beer? haaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha

My Thots said...

Hey lady if I remember correctly we participated in the Sun Run. Oh and I will take you to the Art Gallery and then our for a beer with lunch...deal? :>)