Yes. After much anticipation, it is finally here. My list.
Lindsay’s 101 in 1001 Days
Start date: Monday, January 19, 2009
Finish date: Monday, October 17, 2011
Updated: 8.3.09
Personal / Being healthy
1. Make some really long term goals.
2. Run a 5K. (Emma Creek 4.24.10)
3. Run a 10K . (Easter Sun Run 4.11)
4. Stick to my read the Bible in a year plan.
5. Start & keep a prayer journal – at least once a week.
6. Play on a rec league team.
7. Pray more often.
8. Workout 4 days a week for a month. (4/4) (June 2010)
9. Eat more fruits and veggies.
10. Eat out less.
11. Floss.
12. Get new glasses. (5.6.09)
13. Remember reusable shopping bags when going shopping.
14. Work on praying for specific things and for His will.
15. Listen for God’s instruction to take on a project or to create a project.
16. Share my faith with someone.
17. Have a better attitude about work.
Financial
18. Make weekly dinner plans.
19. Increase our monetary giving.
20. Learn to save.
21. Double our savings/investments.
22. Put away at least $100 a month. (33/33)
23. Buy a digital SLR camera. (Nikon D60 - April 2010)
24. Stick to the budget.
25. Buy a new computer - a mac.
26. Buy an original piece of art. (Puerto Vallarta, February 2010)
27. Make a list before going to the store – every time.
Family & Friends
28. Explore & choose a way for us to invest in the family ranch.
29. Increase the size of our family.
30. Write one letter or personal note to a friend or family member each month. (24/33)
31. Update the blog regularly...not just once a month.
32. Take a Saturday to spend in McPherson with the girls shopping & exploring. (12.09)
33. Take time to call friends that don’t live here.
34. Host a fancy dinner party.
35. Host a marathon game night.
36. Take a class at Wichita Center for the Arts with Mom.
37. Celebrate our 4th anniversary!
38. Pray for our small group once a week.
39. Send cards and presents on time!
40. Bathe Finley once a month. (19/33)
41. Have a movie marathon with friends and popcorn (the good kind). (Jill - Emma, Pride & Prejudice, & Sense and Sensibility - April 2010)
42. Make breakfast/brunch ten times. (7/10)
The House
43. Make a cleaning schedule.
44. Stick to the cleaning schedule.
45. Finish decorating the house.
46. Plant both flowerbeds. 6.09
47. Touch up the paint job in the living room. 4.4.09
48. Plant 2 trees. (2/2) (May 2010)
49. Decorate above the cabinets.
50. Make sense of the basement. 3.28.09
51. Tile the bathrooms and kitchen. (01.16.10)
52. Fold and put laundry away when its clean.
53. Keep fresh flowers in the house for a whole month. (Poinsettia - 12.09)
Just Because
54. Spend six weekends without TV. (4/6)
55. Catch, tag, & weigh a calf alone.
56. Hand make all family & friend birthday cards.
57. Finish college scrapbook.
58. Go on a picnic – with the blanket and the basket from our wedding.
59. Take more pictures.
60. Spend a weekend with all the girls from college. (Tiffany's Bachelorette - 4.4.09)
61. Baby-sit for friends so they can have a night out. (Lakey's 4.24.09 - 4.25.09)
62. Paint a painting to frame.
63. Get a pet fish.
64. Watch a sunset.
65. Watch a sunrise.
66. Fill up with one tank of gas, pick a direction, see where we end up.
67. Start our own holiday traditions.
68. Organize craft supplies. 3.28.09
69. “Create” a crafting room.
70. Go to a Farmer’s Market
71. Buy a pair of red shoes. (2.12.10)
72. Plant a garden. (5.9.09)
Travel
73. Go on the Frasier Farms trail ride with Ryan.
74. Get a new stamp in my passport. (February 2010)
75. Go on a family trip – the whole family.
76. Go skiing.
77. Go on a weekend getaway.
78. Camp – using only what I can carry in my backpack.
79. Spend a day at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
80. Take an out-of-state trip with Ryan. (College Station, TX 02.19.09)
81. Visit our friends that don't live in Newton. (Kansas City, Summer 2010, Denver, Summer 2009)
82. Visit four unique Kansas attractions. (3/4)
Botanica - Wichita (5.9.09)
Boot Hill Museum - Dodge City (6.19.09)
BoBo Drive In - Topeka (9.26.09)
Coronado Heights - Lindsbourgh (04.18.10)
83. Visit our grandparents twice. (2/2) (June 2010)
Learn something
84. Read one book per month (5 of which Ryan can choose). (27/33) Confessions of a Shopaholic, Imperial Woman, One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Angels and Demons, Book of Job, Utopia, New Atlantis, Paper Bodies, The Lost Symbol, The Last Song (Ryan), Jane Austin Ruined My Life (Ryan), Love Walked In, The Age Curve, Little Bee, Belong To Me, Pride and Prejudice, The Help, Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Maggie, The Red Badge of Courage, Conjure Woman, The Hermaphrodite
85. Learn patience.
86. Take a hunter’s safety course.
87. Learn to play Clare de Lune on the piano. (5.16.09 started)
88. Make a school plan – and start. 3.13.09 Class starts 6.09.
89. Try one new ethnic recipe.
90. Learn to compose pictures for framing. 6.09
91. Re-cover the dining room chairs.
92. Learn a new crafting technique. Sewing - 04.02.10 - Baby Blanket
93. Refresh my water coloring skills.
94. Watch a new sport. 01.30.08
95. Watch an opera.
96. Go to the ballet.
97. Practice the piano at least once a week.
98. Make one new recipe a month.
99. Read a book that’s written in French.
100.Read the news (paper or internet) every day for a month.
101. Lean to love openly.