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101 Things

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8 Tasks Completed, 93 To Go!

Writing
1. Participate in 6 writing contests
2. Have something (anything) published
3. Create a writers' strategy group
4. Update blog 300 times
5. Write a book response on my blog for every book I read
6. Write the first of the E&I series
7. Write the story for the children's book project with Leah and Chris

Expanding horizons/gaining knowledge
8. Read 12 books recommended by friends
9. Listen to 12 albums recommended by friends
10. Find and begin to regularly read/watch/listen to a week-in-review world news website/TV show/radio program
11. Seek out and identify mentors and inspirations
12. Read an introductory text about nutrition
13. Read an introductory text about rheumatoid arthritis

Photography
14. Set aside a morning or afternoon once a month to go out on a photo shoot
15. Participate in 6 photography contests
16. Go to at least one meeting of the Kingston Photo Club
17. Have cards made with my photo prints
18. Post my photos on a stock photo site

Creative Projects
19. Complete a scrapbook or photo book of Isla's first two years
20. Complete a scrapbook or photo book of Evy's first two years
21. Finish Evy's name drawings
22. Sew a piece of wearable clothing
23. Take an art class
24. Learn one song to play/sing around the campfire, and do so

Skills Development
25. Take a CPR course
26. Learn 101 Finnish words
27. Become an expert on a specialist subject
28. Take care of three house projects which I would usually defer to my husband
29. Grow edible vegetables

Health/Fitness
30. Take a dance class
31. Go horseback riding
32. Play a team sport
33. Learn enough yoga to be able to develop a regular routine at home
34. Establish a regular exercise routine
35. See a physiotherapist (Completed!)
36. Get glasses (Completed!)

Nutrition
37. See a dietitian or nutritionist (Completed!)
38. Take vitamins every day for a month (form a habit) (Completed!)
39. Spend a three month period genuinely, completely, dairy-, egg-, gluten- and sugar-free
40. Perfect a delicious egg/dairy/gluten-free pizza
41. Perfect delicious egg/dairy/gluten-free bread
42. Perfect delicious egg/dairy/gluten/sugar-free cookies
43. Try 101 new recipes

Home
44. Print photos of grandparents and other loved ones and display
45. Buy a piece of art that I love
46. Completely rearrange a room, leave it that way for at least a week, try not to freak out
47. Finish organizing and decorating my office
48. Finish decorating the bedrooms
49. Gleefully take down the wallpaper in the kitchen
50. Get rid of 101 things (Completed!)

Relationships
51. Arrange at least one date night per month
52. Write at least one handwritten letter per month
53. Get together with a friend at least once per month (play dates don't count)
54. Reconnect with three long-lost friends in person (Facebook doesn't count)
55. Reconnect with three long-lost family members in person (ditto) (Completed!)
56. Write 10 long overdue and unexpected thank you notes
57. Write letters to the people I love most, telling them why
58. Take a no-children-allowed trip with my girlfriends
59. Go on an outing as a family of four at least once per month
60. Talk to my sister on phone or Skype at least twice a month

Kids
61. Take Isla to see her first movie (Completed!)
62. Take Isla to see her first play
63. Take Isla on a mommy/daughter weekend away
64. Take Evy on a mommy/daughter weekend away
65. Try out every playground in the city
66. At least once, allow Isla to do my hair, makeup, and choose my clothes, and take her out for lunch (provided the outfit will not break any public indecency laws)
67. At least once, let Isla make all the decisions for a do-anything, go-anywhere day
68. Learn something new with my children
69. Create two annual family charity projects

Preserving the Past/Planning for the Future
70.  (a) Catch up on labeling digital photos, 2007 on (b) Research digital photo storage solutions
71. Write a will
72. Make emergency kits for the house and car
73. Have professional portraits taken of the kids once a year
74. Go through my memory chest item by item – select what's most important and find a way to make it accessible; lovingly say goodbye to the rest
75. Compile family history information and send copies to my family
76. Write a list of 101 things I've already achieved
77. Plan the next 101 Things
78. Save $15 for each thing completed

Community
79. Donate blood
80. Find regular volunteer work
81. Explore 20 of my city's 43 neighbourhoods on foot
82. Send anonymous flowers (Completed!)
83. Participate in two community events per season
84. Invite over the neighbours

Travel/Nature
85. Go somewhere warm with my husband
86. Climb 3 of the 46 high peaks in the Adirondacks
87. Watch a full sunrise
88. Watch a full sunset
89. Touch both sides of the Atlantic Ocean
90. See dolphins in the wild
91. Go camping at least three times per year

Joy/Well-being
92. Arrange at least one morning or afternoon (or full day!) to myself every month
93. Go to six concerts
94. See six plays
95. Give the most stylish person I know (TBD) money to buy me an outfit of their choosing and wear it at least three times in public
96. Buy a stupidly sexy dress and wear it out on a date with my lucky husband
97. Find pyjamas I adore
98. Buy fresh flowers once a month
99. Try a meditation class
100. Launch a happiness project
101. Do something outrageous

Start date: June 25th, 2011

End date: March 23rd, 2014