Well, I give up…LOL! I started the 101 in 1001 with every intention of finishing it but alas, life is getting in the way. While I have a good start, with our upcoming move and such, there is NO way I will get done before my 31st birthday. Ah well, such is life sometimes, right?! Can’t win them all :).

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So I am jumping on the bandwagon…it is nice to have goals and admittedly, I LOVE lists! Anyone care to join me?

The mission should you choose to accept…

• Complete 101 preset tasks in 1001 days.

The criteria…

• Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable, or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of effort on your part).

Between February 1, 2008 and October 29, 2010 (my 31st birthday…eek), these are the things I want to accomplish! I will update weekly as I get things completed.

In Progress items will look like this.
Completed items will look like this.
Failed items will look like this.

Personal
1. Get 5 people to register for the National Marrow Donor Program. (5/5)
2. Post on my main blog weekly. (100/143)
3. Complete the Gate-to-Gate run. (SEE POST)
4. Run the Gate-to-Gate run. (SEE POST)
5. Lose 70 pounds. (70/70) (SEE POST)
6. Work out 3 times a week for 3 months. (12/12) (SEE POST)
7. Get my nose pierced. (SEE POST)
8. Go scuba diving.
9. Go sky-diving.
10. Drink only 1 soda a week for 6 months. (24/24) (SEE POST)
11. Read 60 books. (23/60)
12. Try something new at a restaurant. (SEE POST)
13. Go to the theatre and see a show.
14. Give up fast food for a month. (4/4) (SEE POST)
15. Do not cut my hair except trims. (SEE POST)
16. Read the Bible cover to cover.
17. Join a Bible Study/Small Group and stick with it for a semester. (SEE POST)
18. Send in a Postsecret. (SEE POST)
19. Start taking taekwondo.
20. Go para-sailing. (SEE POST)
21. Be in bed before 10:30pm for a month. (30/30) (SEE POST)
22. Get a pedicure once a month for 6 months. (6/6) (SEE POST)
23. See my therapist at least 6 times a year. (6/6) (SEE POST)
24. Floss for 30 days straight. (0/30)
25. Drink 4 glasses of water a day for 2 weeks. (14/14) (SEE POST)
26. Go to a concert. (SEE POST)
27. Shave my legs 3 times a week for 3 months. (12/12) (SEE POST)
28. Get my teeth professionally whitened.
29. Take home half of a restaurant meal to eat later 10 times. (10/10) (SEE POST)
30. Leave a comment on each of my friends blogs that I read at least once a week for 2 months. (0/8)
31. Invest in at least a weeks worth of actual pajamas, not t-shirts.
32. Sing karaoke out in public once (totally sober…LOL:-).
33. Watch the sunrise on the beach.
34. Buy a new wardrobe that actually compliments me and looks chic:-). (SEE POST)

Creativity
35. Make/get a cancer awareness bracelet similar to this in orange for my leukemia. (SEE POST)
36. Learn to knit.
37. Scrapbook 4 pages a month for 6 months. (8/24)
38. Take a college course in something.
39. Learn back-button focusing.
40. Go out once a month and shoot for ME for 6 months. (0/6)
41. Go Mac.
42. Shoot in M only for a month, no A or S. (30/30)
43. Scan in all my old photos (or pay someone to).
44. Participate in a sh1ft.org activity or Project 365. (SEE POST)
45. Organize and purge our MANY keepsake containers.
46. Organize, purge and tag all my digital scrapbooking supplies.
47. Attend a photography workshop.
48. Upgrade cameras.
49. Buy the 85mm f/1.8 lens.

Love
50. Get a matching tattoo with Bryan.
51. Take Bryan to the Melting Pot. (SEE POST)
52. Go on dates with Bryan twelve times (actually hire a babysitter and go). (11/12)
53. Renew our vows at 10 years (July 31, 2009). (SEE POST)
54. Go on a cruise with only Bryan again.
55. Leave a love note for Bryan hidden randomly twelve times. (1/12)

Family
56. Have a family outing day twelve times. (12/12) (SEE POST)
57. Go horseback riding. (SEE POST)
58. Take Jacey to see the Nutcracker. (SEE POST)
59. Turn the TV off completely for a week.
60. Take a road trip along Route 66.
61. Go a week without the internet by choice :-).
62. Go camping…real camping in a tent! (SEE POST)
63. Go to NYC for a vacation.
64. Get family photos done with a photographer I admire.
65. Take Jacey on a cruise.
66. Start a weekly family game night.
67. Leave a note for Jacey hidden randomly twelve times. (3/12)
68. Take Jacey to swim with the dolphins at the Gulfarium, Sea World or elsewhere.

Charity
69. Participate in 2 Relay for Life Events. (2/2) (SEE POST)
70. Do something nice for a stranger anonymously.
71. Do something nice for someone in my family anonymously.
72. Spend Thanksgiving at a soup kitchen.
73. Spend Christmas at a soup kitchen.
74. Pay for someone’s meal in the drive-thru behind me.
75. Participate in a Habitat for Humanity build.
76. Give a 50% tip for service well done. (SEE POST)
77. Purge and donate 101 items to Bargain Box, Goodwill, etc. (101/101) (SEE POST)

Home
78. Cook at home 4 times a week for 2 months. (8/8) (SEE POST)
79. Try one new recipe a week for a year. (44/52)
80. Get a canvas print made and hung on my wall. (SEE POST)
81. Decorate our bedroom…finally!
82. Buy a Wii. (SEE POST)
83. Backup off site weekly for a year. (52/52) (SEE POST)
84. Update my will.
85. Hire a house cleaner for bi-monthly service.
86. Buy jumper cables for both vehicles.
87. Move to a paperless office (home).
88. Clean, organize and purge the garage so both cars can fit, not just one.
89. Organize and purge my Firefox bookmarks.
90. Organize and purge misc files on my computer.
91. Buy Bryan a webcam for his laptop. (SEE POST)

Finances
92. Have $1000 in our main savings.
93. Buy a house.
94. Pay off the truck early.
95. Pay off the car early.
96. Pay off all credit card debt.
97. Start an investment account.

Finishing Up
98. Pick a charity for uncompleted tasks. (SEE POST)
99. Open an ING savings account. (SEE POST)
100. Put $5 into said savings for every item I crossed off and then do something fun with it at the end of 1001 days. (38/101)
101. For every item on the list not completed at the end of the 1001, donate $5 to charity. (2/101)

23. See my therapist at least 6 times a year. (6/6)

Isn’t it great to have someone to vent to that gets paid to not get frustrated…LOL!

See the rest of my list here.

53. Renew our vows at 10 years (July 31, 2009).

So, my second fail…sigh. We had every intention of renewing our vows at 10 years but life got in the way. Such is life sometimes…right?!

See the rest of my list here.

Are you kidding me? Yes, I stole that line from one of my fav photographers, Bobbi+Mike.

• Monday, Bry and I were out running errands and I had a wild hair to run into Kohl’s. I was looking for another pair of Levi’s, the exact same as I had on, only in one size smaller…a 10. Couldn’t find a 10, but I found an 8, held it up and thought no way. Bry convinced me to try them on and THEY FIT! I couldn’t believe it. I even tried on 2 other brands of size 8′s and they fit too. I am SO thrilled. All through this journey, all I wanted was to be out of the plus sized section…I never imagined myself in a size 8!!

• Yesterday, Bry came home after his MXG Commander’s Call and said his squadron was looking for key spouses. I was a key spouse when we were stationed at Dyess and then briefly at Lakenheath before I bowed out due to drama. When we moved here to Eglin, I was told his sq didn’t have key spouses because they don’t deploy…turns out, they do have key spouses after all (and why they didn’t call me once over a 2 month TDY last year is beyond me…anyway, I’ll get off that soapbox before it gets ugly). Bry asked me if I wanted to be one and I (yes, I am a glutton for punishment) agreed to give it a go again. he did tell his First Shirt though that I will not put up with any drama, so we shall see. Not like I don’t have enough going on already, what’s one more thing…LOL!

• I’ve been less than thrilled with our gym here lately (we are members of the Niceville YMCA). It is always dirty, in need of repair and hot. Truly makes me wonder what exactly my membership fees pay for. They just put a huge, brand new gym down in Bluewater Bay so we went and checked it out. It’s nice but it really started us thinking. The new gym would cost $15 more a month, even with a charter membership and I haven’t even been in our current gym but once in the last month. We have 2 gyms (my smaller work gym and the huge base gym) within 7 miles for free and I prefer to run outside anyway. Is a gym membership even truly feasible for us?! After much conversation, we decided no. We are going to cancel our Y membership, continue to run outside like we already do and use the 2 free gyms when we want weights and such. The base gym also offers all sorts of classes, some free and some only $2 a class. I can take 15-20 classes a month, plus my gas and still not equal the cost of our Y membership. Nothing wrong with saving a few bucks, I say.

• Any of you that follow my 101 in 1001 list might remember that there was a task to not eat out for 30 days. I have determinied that will simply never happen in this household, so I changed it to simply no fast food for 30 days. That is still a stretch but I can actually see thaty happening. Not sure what I was thinking with the original task…I don’t like cooking THAT much.

• My ice cream addiction has to go. They say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit, so starting today I am on a 21 day challenge to have no ice cream. Ice cream is not bad in and of itself, but I have absolutely zero control when it comes to it. So, the best thing is to just not have it at all. Hopefully at the end of the 21 days, I can have it occasionally but not have the severe cravings for it all the time that I have now. I will need help though, so keep me accountable! No ice cream till August 5th!

• Normally at work, my summer is pretty quiet. I normally use this time to work from home a little bit instead of in the office the entire time. Not this summer…sigh. We open our new children’s building next month and it is pure craziness trying to get everything set up. I am just very thankful that I am not a part of the children’s ministry and only have to deal with the children’s choir portion of the schedule/building. I went in to ask a simple 5-10 minute question today and finally got back to my office 2 hours later. I know it is SO worth it, but I have to keep reminding myself of that lately because the headaches are definitely there right now.

• I finally go in for my cut and color Friday…YAY!! I really needed it last week, but have just been so busy. I LOVE my stylist, she does an awesome job and is just so sweet. And hey, there is nothing wrong with a little pampering time and after these past few weeks, I need it!

20. Go para-sailing.

And we had a blast!

See the rest of my list here.

34. Buy a new wardrobe that actually compliments me and looks chic:-).

I could always use some more :) but it is getting there! I no longer have to wash more than once a week and EVERYTHING in there fits!!

See the rest of my list here.

3. Complete the Gate-to-Gate run.
4. Run the Gate-to-Gate run.

This was *the* race I have been training for, since starting to run again in September 2008. I didn’t know how well I was going to do, since my training has been…eh…since my gallbladder surgery. But, I came in at 49:36 with an 11:16/mile which is about average for me.

See the rest of my list here…

69. Participate in 2 Relay for Life Events. (2/2)

Last year, I was just a survivor and team member. This year, I was a survivor, team member and steering committee member.

See the rest of my list here…

26. Go to a concert.

We saw Revive, Brandon Heath and Third Day at the Emerald Coast Convention Center on April 18, 2009. All three acts were fabulous and Third Day even came out into the middle of the audience and did an all request acoustic set. It was a fabulous night of praise and worship.

(No hating on the blurry pics now, flashes were useless and my hand is only so steady with a P&S.)

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See the rest of my list here…

5. Lose 70 pounds. (70/70)

Woohoo, finally made it!! 162.0!!

See the rest of my list here…