Saturday, October 1, 2011

101 in 1001 Days - Round 2

In October of 2008, I created my first 101 Goals in 1001 Days list.  It was such a daunting task at the time.  Creating 101 things that you hope to accomplish in 3 years.  One thing I learned during that process, though, is that it's hard to think about where you will be in 3 years and what will still be important to you at that time.  One thing I LOVED about the process was being challenged to accomplish things that I normally wouldn't have thought to do.

As a result, I decided to go through it again.  After listing the goals that I didn't accomplish the first time around that I still want to do and stealing ideas from random 101 Lists over the internet (and from my beautiful friend Tyah), I have created Round 2 of the 101 List.


101 in 1001 Days
Start Date: October 1, 2011
End Date: June 28, 2014


Marriage Goals
1.     Complete “Re|Engage” with Greg -- Completed 12/19/11
2.     Go on a date to the Phoenix Art Museum (on the monthly free night, of course!)
3.     Go on a picnic with Greg and fly a kite
4.     Get Greg a new wedding ring
5.     Go back to the Pointe hotel and stay for a more than the 4 hours we stayed there on our wedding night
6.     Commit to a weekly date night with Greg for 2 months straight
7.     Surprise Greg with a random gift for a random reason
8.     Get a matching tattoo of our family verse
9.     Have a dinner date by candlelight
10. Maybe get pregnant by day 1001
11. Make a will

Family Goals
12. Take Mady on a girls’ date!
13. Hold my new nephew…granted this will happen anyway, but it’s nice to have goals that are easy to check off.
14. Get Ryan, my cousin, to come visit me in Arizona
15. Have Greg’s parents over for dinner and games
16. Have our nephews stay overnight
17. Host a Suiter family game night
18. Take Ann on a fun girls’ day

Travel/Culture/Entertainment
19. Meet Colton Soules (either visit IL or convince Matt & Lauren to visit us)
20. Visit Lana and John in CA
21. Go to Disneyland (preferably with Tiff, Chris, Mady, and future baby)
22. Take a girls’ trip with my mom (probably to their cabin)
24. Take a girls’ vacation with Lindsay
25. Go to an ASU football game
26. Visit Courtney in VA again
27. Go to Magic Mountain
28. Go on a fun trip with Morgan!! (accomplished this already but the first 101 List was already over…guess we’ll have to do it again)
30. Visit San Francisco and Alcatraz Island (and my brother and sister-in-law)
31. Attend a Cardinals’ football game in the new stadium
32. Go to the Grand Canyon again
33. Watch 15 movies of AFI’s top 100 movies list (No more crap movies like “Taxi Driver”)
34. Go skiing in Northern Arizona
35. Go to a Switchfoot concert again
36. Have a movie theater marathon day (3 movies in a row)
37. Go to Canada (never been before)
38. Go to a drive-in movie
39. Go snorkeling

Reading/Writing/Learning
40. Join a women’s bible study
41. Finish reading the Harry Potter series
42. Read a Phillip Yancey book
43. Spend an entire day in bed reading and watching movies
44. Memorize one of the letters of the Bible
45. Take a history class at a local community college
46. Read a classic novel I haven’t read before
47. Read the books of the Bible I haven’t read before
48. Visit Arizona Science Center
49. Visit the Heard Museum
50. Join a book club
51. Write a short story
52. Send a hand written card once a month for 6 months straight

Fitness/Nutrition/Health
53. Take a zumba class…just to see what that is like.
54. Take a yoga class at the gym
55. Go to dinner at a new restaurant
56. Donate blood – if they’ll let me after being in malaria land
57. Become CPR and First-Aid certified
58. Cook 10 new dishes (#1 - Spaghetti Squash Marinara...#2 - Three-Bean Turkey Chili...#3 - Chunky Chili...)
59. Hike Picacho Peak and take pictures for teaching
60. Cook Hilah a vegetarian meal
61. Hike South Mountain
62. Cook a meal using only vegetables and herbs from our own garden
63. Work out 3 days a week for 2 months straight
64. Bake a Diet Coke cake
65. Get allergy tested
66. Make a crock-pot dinner -- Completed 12/24/11
67. Get a facial

Career
68. Attend an Arizona Centennial Event
69. Take my students on a history related field trip
70. Start my masters degree
71. Go through all my school materials and “clean house”
72. Create a team instruction notebook

Home/Finances
73. Buy a house
74. Get new pots and pans for our kitchen -- Completed 12/21/11
75. Get a bed frame for our giant king mattress
76. Sell our DVDs to help pay off debt
77. Organize a dinner party in our new house with appetizers, drinks, main dish, dessert, and fun conversation
79. Pay off student loan debt (Greg’s…not mine)
80. Pay off our credit card debt
81. Blow up prints of some of my favorite shots to hang around our house
82. Make a red bathroom -- Completed 11/2011
83. Help Greg start a garden

Random Personal Goals
84. Go to the shooting range
85. Complete another cross-stitch
86. Finally beat Guitar Hero on “Hard” – The stupid “Raining Blood” song is still dominating me.
87. Buy a keyboard and try out for the worship team at church
88. Send out Christmas cards
89. Babysit the Watson kiddos so Robert and Lindsay can go on a date
90. Donate not-oft worn clothes, purses, etc. to Goodwill
91. Go to a Dobson High School homecoming football game (and make Christy go with me)
92. Spend an evening looking at Christmas lights
93. Go on a day retreat alone
94. Make a birthday cake for someone
96. Don’t log onto Facebook for an entire week
97. Pay for the person’s meal behind me at a fast-food restaurant
98. Learn how to play Call of Duty so I can play with Greg
99. Watch a sunrise

100.       Finish my 101 List -- Completed 10/1/11 (Didn't even need any help.  I'm growing.)
101.       Blog about each of my 101 goals with pictures

2 comments:

Renee said...

I don't have a headboard/footboard, but I do have a great king frame with wheels to put mattresses on. If you would want that, just let me know.

Shannon said...

Thanks so much for the offer! We have the bottom frame with the wheels. We just need a headboard of some kind. :)