I have completed some items on my 10 things in 101 days as well as my 1040 things by my 40th birthday.

I’ve gone camping, gotten the mirror fixed on my car, gone to the dentist and I’ve gotten a puppy!!!

Charlie is tired!

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.
131 - Reserved for April 26, 2010
132 - Reserved for April 26, 2010
133 - Reserved for April 26, 2010
134 - Reserved for April 26, 2010
135 - Reserved for April 26, 2010
136 - Reserved for April 26, 2011
137 - Reserved for April 26, 2011
138 - Reserved for April 26, 2011
139 - Reserved for April 26, 2011
140 - Reserved for April 26, 2011

Two of the projects I have on my 10 things in 101 days.

The shag rug type latch hook picture I am working on. The colors, at least on my computer, aren't true to life. The left top flower is supposed to be a pretty lilac.

The is the beginning of an Apple Core quilt. I'm hand sewing it.

More photos to come…of our house, and people, etc!

…1049 days away! But who’s counting? To celebrate I am working on a list of things I want to have accomplished by that time. And I will be posting it later this month. But here is a sneak preview!

–See every movie that is playing at a theater in a given week even if it’s a movie I don’t want to see.
–Go to a county fair that I’ve never been to before. (I’ve been to the one in my town dozens of times, but never to another town.)
–Visit the graves of 20 of my ancestors that I’ve never been to before.
–Make a family cookbook.
–Learn to cook Indian food.
–Write a letter to Frodo for him to open when he is 40.
–Get all my friends in Sweden to come here for my 40th birthday bash! (You hear that Bev, Monica, Heather, Erika, Irma and Riika. Be here in 1049 days or be square!)

It’s been so much fun making the list! And it will be even more fun doing the list!

Yup I am doing it again. In case you forgot what IT was…

So you have heard of 101 in 1001 days? It’s a list of 101 things you want to accomplish in 1001 days. Well instead of doing 101 in 1001 days. I’m gonna try 10 in 101 days!

Here is my list of 10 things I want to accomplish in 101 days which would be Sept 17, 2009 :

1. Get into a regular routine at the gym.
2. Find a church home.
3. Get my car fixed (hail damage, brakes, mirror ) and detailed.
4. Get a puppy! A real one this time!
5. Go camping!
6. Complete 100 things That Make Me Happy Photo Collage. (more explanation on that later!)
7. Read 15 books
8. Complete the Latch Hook I am working on and have at least 3 rows of my quilt finished.
9. Weed out my flower bed!
10. Make at least 2 new friends.

Stay tuned because not only am I gonna be working on this small goal, I am also gonna be coming up with a major list of things to do by April of 2012 (my 40th birthday! Ack!)

Man it has been over a year since I blogged. Now that I remembered all of my passwords, I need to remember how to blog! Now to see if I can remember how to put in a picture…but since Wordpress has changed a lot in the past year, it might take me awhile.

YAY! I did it!