So here it is. The challenge - to complete these 101 things in the next 1001 days. My original blog post can be read at Day Zero if you are interested. As I go through I will change it to italics once it is done and add links to any relevant blog posts or look for the tag 1001 days. Any questions about any of them please feel free to ask ... but other then that ... here goes! Wish me luck :)
1. Go to Melbourne
2. Take the girls to Hong Kong Disneyland
3. Go to five places in WA I haven't been before (0/5)
4. Plan a trip to South Australia and the Northern Territory
5. Go camping
6. Spend a weekend in a hotel - just because
7. Go on a child-free trip to Bali
8. Go on a family holiday to York with some friends (and their kids).
9. Go to the observatory/somewhere to look at the stars
10. Go on 15 designated TMD adventures (1/15)
11. Go on a girls' night out to karaoke
12. Host a murder mystery dinner party
13. Have a formal dinner party
14. Get business cards
15. Have a professional CV I am happy with
16. Complete the C25K program
17. Participate in a family friendly marathon walk type thing
18. Lose 20 kg and/or 2 clothes sizes (5/20)
19. Get glamour portraits done
20. Buy a pair of bathers I love
21. Buy a good quality suit I love
22. Read and blog about 'Angus & Robertson's' top 100 books (2/100)
23. Start a list for when people say "I can't believe you haven't watched that/read that"
24. Refine my blog
25. Learn how to take decent and edit decent (basic) pictures
26. Organise my photos - digital and paper ones
27. Learn/practice/teach myself an instrument
28. Write a book
29. Write an autobiography of my life until I turned 30
30. Keep a 'writing ideas' journal
31. Do my 30 for 30 shadow boxes (0/30)
32. Finish the four cross stitches I have started (0/4)
33. Start embroidering a chess board based on Mum's pattern
34. (Re)qualify as a Girl Guide leader in some capacity
35. Find a way I can contribute to the girls' school community
36. Find a volunteer project the girls and I can do as a family
37. Knit 100 trauma teddies for Girl Guides to donate (4/100)
38. Do a good deed every day
39. Host a girls' night in as a fundraiser
40. Participate in Clean Up Australia Day
41. Do something (anything!) with my front yard
42. Get rid of all the cardboard boxes that are lurking in my house
43. Finish painting the entire house
44. Organise all our books properly
45. Take each of the girls on 5 designated one-on-one mummy/daughter dates (R: 0/5) (E: 0/5) (A: 0/5)
46. Learn how to buy and sell shares
47. Learn to menu plan
48. Write a will
49. Have a proper first aid kit for home and car and a mini one for my bag
50. Find a church that suits us close by
51. Buy a good quality handbag
52. Have ten days of different work outfits (mixed and matched) I look good in and love
53. Buy an item of clothing I love from a second hand shop
54. Buy something for the house I love from a second hand shop
55. Have an address/phone-number book (or similar) that is not on my phone
56. Write a to-do list for stuff around the house
57. Follow the Fly lady program (or similar)and adapt it so it suits us
58. Develop a proper financial plan
59. Go to my high school reunion (even if I have to organise it!)
60. Go to a ball
61. Visit smaller/local museums in Perth that I come across
62. Go bushwalking
63. Send 20 random cards to people (0/20)
64. Learn how to do the basic stuff on my car
65. Learn how to use a drill and hang my own pictures
66. Be able to make 5 interesting sandwiches (0/5)
67. Be able to make 5 interesting salads (0/5)
68. Be able to make 5 things I can take as a "plate" to a party (0/5)
69. Learn to make 5 vegetarian meals we all like (0/5)
70. Write (and follow) a proper budget
71. Write (and follow) a proper study timetable
72. Take the girls to the sushi train
73. Make a regular donation to an organisation
74. Lend to people via Kiva
75. Sort out all four of our camp blankets (0/4)
76. Visit the girls' great-grandparents at 8 times (0/8)
77. Teach the girls to use the sewing machine (0/3)
78. Teach the girls to hand sew (0/3)
79. Do a family job/pocket money job chart for the girls
80. Get all "my" children to do a series of paintings on canvas for me
81. Get and learn how to use Skype
82. Find a fun learn to type game/program/something for the girls
83. Call my sister and nephew once a month (0/33)
84. Learn to use the coffee machine
85. Complete 100 words 6 times (0/6)
86. Go and do something fun with each of my sisters (0/5)
87. Do a scrap book about my brother for his nieces and nephews and our sisters
88. Have a bedroom warming party
89. Restore a piece of furniture
90. Put the water feature in the garden and 'create' the zone for it
91. Get the girls to help cook something once a fortnight (0/71)
92. Finish the girls' baby books properly (0/3)
93. Get the girls' school memory books up to date (0/3)
94. Finish organising one room properly every four months (0/7)
95. Start a herb garden and cook with the herbs
96. Put labels on all my ornaments etc saying where I got them from
97. Watch the sunrise and sunset on the same day
98. Write my family tree on my dad's side of the family
99. Learn to use a compass
100. Have a party to celebrate the end of 1001 days
101. Write a new list for the next 1001 days
