1040 days from today I will turn 40!
So in honor of that I am doing…
140 THINGS in 1040 days, for my 40th birthday!
(The list is going up today, but the explanations will have to wait a few days!)
(Oh, and I reserve the right to change this parts of this list within the next 7 days until I am 100% satisfied this is what I want to do!)
My Reedemer Lives
Things for my Soul and Spiritual Health
001 - Pray morning and night on my knees for a whole month without missing a day, or until it becomes a habit.
002 - Read the complete New Testament. (Started on the old testament once and it made me wanna burn myself at the stake for being so wicked!)
003 - Try Hatha Yoga
004 - Keep a gratitude journal and post in it daily for at least 30 days straight.
005 - Refuse to repeat gossip.
006 - Have a Me day once a month!
007 - Private
008 - Private
009 - Private
010 - Private
011 - Private
Hello Nurse!
Getting to where I am meant to be
012 - Graduate from Nursing School and get a job as a nurse.
013 - Start on my BSN
014 - Obtain a 3.75 GPA
Let’s Get Physical
Things having to do with my physical health
014 - Weigh 149 lbs, even if only for a day.
015 - Drink nothing but water for one month.
016 - Don’t forget to do my bedtime routine for a whole month.
017 - See a dermatologist and have suspicious moles checked once a year.
018 - Go a whole month without any fast food.
019 - Go a whole month without taking ANY medications, not even Aspirin.
020 - See a dentist within the next 30 days and then every 6 months.
021 - Run a 5k
Get at least 30 minutes of exercise a day 5 days a week for a whole month or until it becomes a habit.
022 - Eat fish, not fried, once a week for 12 weeks.
Beauty and the Beast
023 - Get a manicure (I love my pedicures, but I’ve never had a manicure!)
024 - Be able to do 10 regular push ups.
025 - At least once a week wear something other than jeans and tshirts.
026 - Get the botched surgery fixed
027 - Get my PMS under control.
There’s No Place Like Home
Domestic related items
028 - Perfect my spinach cannelloni recipe so that it tastes like the one in Vallingby.
029 - Successfully have a vegetable garden.
030 - Buy a house.
031 - Learn to cook Indian Food.
032 - Make croissants from scratch.
033 - Remove 140 items from my house. (give away or sell)
034 - Have no mystery boxes or bags laying around and no junk drawers.
035 - Learn to prepare at least 3 healthy seafood dishes at home.
036 - Decorate the inside and outside of the house for each holiday/season for a whole year.
037 - Make tamales from scratch
038 - Organize all of my data CDs, organize and merge onto DVDs.
039 - Try at least 10 new “from scratch” recipes that I’ve never made before.
040 - Make truffles homemade
041 - Get my desktop computer set up again and upgrade it.
A Whole New World
Obtaining new skills
042 - Learn to dive off a diving board or pier.
043 - Learn to play Tennis
044 - Learn to swim
045 - Train my dog
046 - Buy and learn how to properly use a gun.
We Are Family
Things related to my family
047 - Make a family cookbook.
048 - Write a letter to Alex for him to open when he is 40.
049 - Visit the graves of at least 20 ancestors that I’ve never been to before.
050 - Spend a whole weekend doing exactly what Alex wants to do, money permitting.
051 - Make copies of the old photographs at MawMaw’s and put them in an album for Alex.
052 - Find 10 more relatives I didn’t have listed in my family tree.
053 - Write a memory book about MawMaw, Daddy and other deceased relatives for Alex.
054 - Take photos of every member of my family to frame and hang on my wall.
055 - Make Alex a baby/memory book.
Creative Lunacy
Feeding my creative monster!
056 - Paint a picture.
057 - Complete a quilt.
058 - Crochet at least two more afghans to give as gifts. (0/2)
059 - Learn to knit and complete at least one project.
060 - Do a 365 day photo journal of myself.
061 - Learn to play the guitar or the piano.
062 - Design a t shirt
063 - Sew my own Halloween costume.
064 - Make a claymation video.
065 - Create a cartoon strip. Just one.
066 - Sell something I made at a local craft fair or online.
067 - Write my autobiography so far..
068 - Enter something in the county fair.
069 - Have something published.
070 - Try a new craft that I’ve never thought about trying before.
071 - Send handmade Christmas cards to friends and relatives at least one Christmas.
072 - Take a photography class.
073 - Make a sock puppet family and do a sock puppet film.
074 - Obtain a loom like Anne’s and learn to make rugs.
075 - Get back to work on my novel.
076 - Be the subject of a professional photo shoot (not a chain studio).
077 - Turn my favorite poem, Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson) into some type of artwork.
On the Road Again
Travel related items
078 - Start Geocaching again, hide 5 of my own and find at least 5 others in 5 different states.
079 - A-Z travel challenge
080 - Watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean and rise over the Atlantic.
081 - Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination.
082 - Go to a county fair in a town I’ve never been to before.
083 - Visit 5 States I’ve never been to before.
084 - Visit 1 Country I’ve never been to before.
085 - Go on a trip by myself.
086 - Stand in a waterfall
087 - Spend New Year’s Even in a city I’ve never been to before.
088 - Ride a train to a place I’ve never been before.
089 - Fly First Class
Money, Money
The financial situation
090 - Buy Stock or invest in CDs.
091 - Start a retirement account.
092 - Have a Will done and get life insurance.
093 - Start a college fund for Alex
Pay It Forward
Giving back some of what I’ve been given
094 - Wean myself off plastic bags and use only canvas bags.
095 - Do a random act of kindness every day for 30 days.
096 - Register to become a blood marrow donor.
097 - Pay it forward
098 - Teach a Sunday School Class.
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!
Misc things, just for fun!
099 - Re-Read all of the LM Montgomery books, and update my collection with the ones I have lost.
100 - Get up to level 80 in WoW.
101 - Rewatch all Leonardo DiCaprio movies in chronological order.
102 - Go see Trans Siberian Orchestra in Concert.
103 - Complete Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box in 72 hours.
104 - Have a caricature done of myself.
105 - Rewatch all of the Buffy, Farscape, Roswell, and Gilmore Girl episodes.
106 - Participate in a group sport.
107 - Buy a vehicle that I want because I want it, not because it’s the only one I could find.
108 - Attend a ballet performance.
109 - Fill a Cd with music from the year I was born.
110 - See every movie (whether I think I will like it or not) that is playing at a movie theater in a given week, once a year.
111 - Ask for suggestions for recommended books, and read them whether I like that genre or not. (up to 10)
112 - Own a pair of lace- up cowboy boots.
113 - See a baseball game, a football game, and a basketball game in person.
114 - Send 100 postcards through Postcrossing.
115 - Make sure I have read every book I own. If it’s one I will never read then I need to get rid of it!
116 - Write email to my friends in Sweden monthly and send birthday cards.
Let’s Go Crazy!
Things I thought I would never do!
117 - Get a Tattoo.
118 - Ride a rollercoaster.
119 - Go 72 hours straight without ANY entertainment related electronics.
120 - Take a class for fun, totally unrelated to nursing!
121 - Go completely Vegan for a week.
122 - Get my nose pierced or get a second set of holes in my ears.
123 - Try at least 3 foods that I haven’t eaten in years because I think I don’t like them, and see if my tastes have changed.
124 - Spend a whole day in the summer with no air conditioning. (Camping doesn’t count)
Epic!
Really big things!
125 - Get all my closest friends together from all over the world for my 40th birthday for a party.
126 - Attend my 20th high school reunion.
List Related
127 - Take a Photo for each thing completed on the list.
128 - Save $10 for every item completed: to be used on something fun at the end of the 1040 days.
129 - Save $10 for each item not completed after the 1040 days split the total between the MS foundation and the CF foundation.
130 - Write an update post on the 1040 things once a week.
To Be Continued…
On each birthday I will name 5 more things I want to accomplish in the time left.
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