My goals range from whimsical (tell only the truth for a week) to serious (save up six months worth of expenses) to fun (go on a picnic) to life changing (have a baby). I hope these 101 goals give me a reason to blog regularly and keep a journal of some of the most important moments of my life.
I also hope that I will spend the next 1001 days making myself a better and more well rounded person. After the next 1001 days I hope to be happier, healthier, and smarter than I am today. Thus, without further delay, I present the list:
Family
- Visit Grandpa.
- Visit Cleveland family
- Learn about eating right during pregnancy
- Chart one full cycle
- Get pregnant
- Have a baby
- Finalize adoption
- Visit brother and his wife and see their new house
- Classified
- Build a blanket fort with son and husband
- Write a law review article
- Publish a law review article
- Get to work at 8AM every day for a month
- Finish taking physics classes
- Classified
- Volunteer for a position in a bar association
- Decorate office
- Do Wills or other simple legal matters for a friend
- Finish a project at least a week before it is due
- Make a list of 15 things I love about my job
- Paint the front room
- Remove the wood paneling from the back room
- Remodel kitchen
- Decorate front room
- Paint master bathroom
- Replace bad part of roof
- Turn guest room into a nursery
- Organize closet
- Find a purpose for the random room in our bathroom
- Go through son's old toys and clothes and donate old stuff
- Get to goal weight of 150 (25 pounds to go)
- Exercise at least once per week for a year
- Exercise at least 3 times per week for at least a month
- Quit caffeine
- Eat only raw foods for one week
- Go vegetarian for a month
- Run a ten minute mile
- Learn enough Russian to have a simple conversation
- Learn enough Spanish to have a simple conversation
- Volunteer for a cause I believe in
- Fast for a day
- Eat no more than three donuts
- Pay off all credit card debt
- Pay off Honda
- Pay off Kia
- Save up 6 months worth of expenses
- Contribute the maximum Roth IRA amount each year
- Write my Will
- Write husband's Will
- Sell leftover wedding stuff on Craiglist or Ebay
- Make a list of financial accounts and information for husband just in case.
- Buy a good camera and learn how to use it
- Take at least one photo of other people or things a week for 3 months
- Stay active in a book club
- Read a book outside my comfort zone
- Take "rock the dress" pictures
- Finish my "married bio"
- Plan something fun but economical for our first anniversary
- Take a photo every day in the same position for at least 6 months and make a video of it.
- Take a weekday off of work for no reason
- Go to the shooting range
- Go to a roller rink
- Take a dance class with husband
- Go camping
- Go on a picnic
- Go fishing
- Go horseback riding
- Reenact my first date with husband
- Spend a day geocaching
- Go to Ann Arbor
- Go to Burning Man
- Go to NYC in the winter
- Plan Russia trip
- Travel to Connecticut
- Go on a cruise
- Ice skate in Rockefeller Center
- Go to Phoneix
- Go on a solo trip
Friends
- Be a bridesmaid
- Host a bridal shower for M and A
- Host a party for no reason at all
- Travel to visit a friend
- Have a drink with an old friend
101 in 1001
- Blog about each completed item
- Donate $7 to the Liz Logelin foundation for each item I fail to complete
- Share this blog with a friend
- Inspire someone else to make a list like this
Internet
- Delete my myspace
- Start a blog
- Update blog weekly for at least a month
- Go an entire weekend without the internet.
- Send a secret to Post Secret
- Buy a gun
- Leave a note inside one of my favorite books at a bookstore
- Pay for a strangers meal at a restaurant
- Tip 100% for really great service
- Donate blood
- Tell only the truth for a week
- Get law license framed
- Read Fox News online every business day for 2 weeks
- Get iPod music organized
