A 101 things progress report

Here is how I'm doing so far

The List:

1 Lose 30lbs (0/30)
2 Maintain new weight for 6 months (0/6)
3 Get that tattoo on my calf that I want
4 Have a Spa day just for me
5 Make a dress 6 Be in bed before midnight every week-day for a year (20/260)
7 Get up at 7.30am every day for a 6 months (0/6)
8 Practice my German once a day for 6 months (0/6)
9 Edit my NaNoWrimo Novel from 2008
10 Become a mom
11 Send a secret to postsecret.com
12 Make my own wine
13 Do one random act of kindness every day for a year (35/365)

• Held a door for someone


• Gave a woman some change for the bus


• left my loonie in the cart at Superstore so someone else could use it


• helped apartment building dweller carry stuff to the garbage room


• Picked up some litter


• Gave someone change


• Someone looked rather lost downtown this morning so I offered them some help.


• Held seats for a stranger so they could run and get coffee before the lecture started


• Ran into starbucks and told the barista to take my gift card and use it on the next person who came into the place.


• Paid for the person behind me at Tim Hortons.


• Held a door for someone.


• Helped someone in the office next door carry some really awkward looking packages.


• Picked up some litter


• Bought hot chocolate for the girls in the office


• Gave someone in line at two loonies for their toonie when the cashier said she couldn't open her till.


• Gave John my other starbucks gift card


• donated a box of clothing to the Salvation Army thrift store.


• Put my change into the teen challenge donation box at 7-11


• Put money on the guitar case of a busker in Winnipeg Square


• Held the door of a woman carrying a lot of laundry in our building


• Gave some change to someone asking for it


• Left a generous tip


• Offered to go on a Tim Hortons run for everyone in the office


• Left my quarter in my cart for someone else to use.


• Paid for the order behind me at Tim Hortons


• Brought cookies for the girls in my pole dancing class


• Helped a co-worker carry stuff to her car


• Listened to a friend when they needed it.


• Drove two hours with celebrate a friends birthday


• Gave someone directions


• Gave a busker some of my change


• Bought coffee for a guy begging for change


• Let a friend vent


• Called a friend I had not spoken to in a while


• Picked up some litter

• WWE Raw Live at the MTS Centre


• Went to a Mixed Martial arts event

16 List one thing I am grateful for, every day for a year (35/365)

• I'll never have to do 2008 again.


• Good friends like Lindsey and Freeman (aka her Johnathan)


• Spending time with John on a Saturday


• A warm apartment


• The job I have and what it allows me to do.


• For the kids that make it to see their dream come true and make it afterwards as well.


• Dark Chocolate hot chocolate


• My side job as a birthday party fairy


• That we got our couch without to much headache


• John is getting over his cold


• Homemade soup


• Chats with my parents


• Date night with John


• My beautiful collection of weird and wonderful books


• Warm Weather


• John going to get the car for me so I don't have lug all my fairy stuff two city blocks.


• Seeing friends I haven't seen a long time.


• John


• Jamie


• My pole dancing class


• Cheap books


• The Winnipeg Public Library


• Seeing friends at an ultimate frisbee tournament.


• Little girls who think I'm a real birthday fairy


• Moments of quiet and easy silence


• Husband hugs


• Anne-Marie


• People who understand like Jolene


• Visiting old friends


• long drives with John


• My record collection


• My new co-worker


• Old pictures


• That Katja is still around


• Nice thoughts of Kiescha

• Pan Seared Scallops with Bacon and Sage with Braised Green lentils (Jamie Oliver)


• Veselka's Cabbage Soup


• Steak Bites

22 Run 5K
23 Do laundry at least once a week for a year (5/52)
24 Put laundry away immediately for a year (5/52)
25 Use my Wii Fit every other day for a year (10/183)
26 Write the LSATS
27 Plant and maintain a herb garden – use the herbs in cooking
28 Have $2000 in my savings account by the end of the 1001 Days
29 Renew my vows with John
30 Buy nothing other than what we need to survive for one month.
31 Win National Novel writing month again
32 Do writing exercises 2-3 times a week (7/286)
33 Write a love letter (to someone else or myself)
34 Do something "cultural" once a month (1/33)

• Lecture about Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the "Ideas Exchange" at Aquabooks

35 Find 101 geocaches (0/101)
36 Write a letter to Haylee my Goddaughter every year on the anniversary of her Christening (0/3)
37 Make John go camping
38 Go paintballing
39 Buy a colouring book and fill every page
40 Learn a magic trick and do it flawlessly
41 Travel to Paraguay and do some work with Melita
42 Go to the farmer's market instead of the grocery store
43 Create and stick to a budget for 6 months (0/6)
44 Renew both passports on time
45 Create a living will and have it notarized
46 Send a note to the nurses at the Grey Nuns Palliative ward and thank them
47 Try 50 wines I would never have tried (3/50)
48 Take another class with John through the leisure guide
49 Catalog book collection
50 Go on a picnic
51 Attend Open Doors Winnipeg
52 Hide 10 Geocaches (0/10)
53 Have a computer free weekend at home
54 Watch 50 Documentaries (7/50)

• Suicide Girls: The First Tour


• Seven Photographs that changed fashion


• The Secret Diary of the Holocaust - this is not a documentary about Anne Frank. It's about a little polish girl who wrote a diary in the early days of the war.


• The Education of Shelby Knox - Young woman in a conservative Christian town champions comprehensive sex ed being added to the schools in her county.


• Double Dare - Documentary about Stuntwomen and focuses more specifically on Jeanie Epper (Wonder Woman Stunt woman and from a long line of stunt people) and Zoe Bell (Kill Bill and Death Proof and the new generation of Stunt women.)


• My Shocking Story: Half Man Half Tree


• Section 60 Arlington National Cemetery - absolutely beautiful!! You much see it!!


• Hell House - instead of a haunted house at halloween for the last 10 years a small evangelical church has been doing something called a Hell house which depicts various sins and ends with a room that depicts hell and the standard issue alter call.

55 Refab 5 tshirts (0/5)
56 Finish my wedding album
57 Take a picture of myself twice a month for the time period (2/66)
58 Make a Quilt
59 Do a cleanse
60 Get rollerskates and use them
61 Read my dads book
62 Make something in the slow cooker once a month (2/33)

• Lazy Cabbage rolls


• Pulled Pork

63 Submit assignment to "Learning to Love you More"
64 Buy no new books for 3 months (o/3)
65 Re-read 10 books I already own (0/10)
66 Read 10 books John recommends (0/10)
67 Make my own cheese
68 Buy 5 "just because gifts" (5/5)

• Gift 1 - Placemats for my brother. (sent)


• Gift 2 - A book for our friends CJ and Mitch (sent)


• Gift 3 - A special magazine for my dad (sent)


• Gift 4 - A special book for my mom (need to get ready to mail)


• Gift 5 - A special something for Jamie (sent)

• Taking a pole dancing class


• Hosting a Partylite party January 29, 2009


• Asked a question at the ideas exchange


• Tell people I'm actually taking the LSATs in June


• Attend a mixed martial arts event


• Attend the kick off for the Challenge for life