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Courage My Love
by PeaceFulWarrior

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A 101 things progress report

02/11/2009

Thr 101 blog has been updated http://www.whereevilandgoodnessplay.blogspot.com/


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 14 No Starbucks for a month (February 1, 2009) 15 Have a date night with John once once a month for 6 months (2/6)

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 17 Donate my hair
18 Wear a swimsuit and feel good in it
19 Complete the 100 push ups challenge
20 Complete couch to 5k program
21 Cook/Bake 100 things I've never tried making before (3/100)

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) 69 Send flowers to 3 different people for no reason (0/3)
70 Spend under $10 on a meal and give a $10 tip (January 20, 2009)
71 Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice (1420/1,000,000)
72 Skydive
73 Make my own pasta (January 4, 2009)
74 Regularly donate time/money to a charity of my choice
75 Go in season berry picking
76 Take vitamins every day for 30 days (0/30)
77 Recycle! Recycle! Recycle!
78 Buy new chairs for my table (0/6)
79 Take a cake decorating class
80 Keep a prayer journal
81 Actually cook a lobster
82 Do 5 "tourist-y" things in my city (0/5)
83 Learn to french braid
84 Bake bread
85 Make a list of 100 things that make me happy (0/100)
86 Go jive dancing in public with John
87 Attend a Winnipeg Weddingbells get together where other people actually show up
88 Go see a professional and get myself officially diagnosed
89 Learn "Two beers please" in 5 different languages (0/5)
90 Join a rugby team
91 Visit Germany with John
92 Visit the UK with John
93 Go see the Banjo Bowl (For non Winnipeggers that's a football game)
94 Make a new friend (January 20, 2009)
95 Put myself "out there" more

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 96 Get back in touch with someone I've lost contact with (January 17, 2009)
97 Become confident enough in the pole dancing 1 class that I take the pole 2 class (February 9, 2009)
98 Surprise John
99 Sent a myth to the mythbusters
100 Make our own fizzy water
101 Feed the ducks

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wow, I think you're doing well. you have some great things on your list.

and that's the wonderful thing about the beginning of a new year. you never have to do the previous one again. thank goodness!

[stars may collideStar|0 likes] [|reply]

The grains of rice thing has had me entertained for the last 10 minutes or so. Thanks!

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Wow.

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