My 101 Goals

Because People Matter, and so does my Faith

1. Complete the "Captivating" journal
   
2. Tithe off of each of my paychecks, no matter the circumstances (1/70)
   
3. Find an online puppetry course and take it
   
4. Donate hair to locks of love (actually has to be mailed in to count!!)
   
5. Buy items for the angel tree at the mall every Christmas (0/3)
   
6. Send a box for "operation Christmas child" every year (0/3)
   
7. Raise money/collect shoes to equal 100 pairs for Shoes for Orphan Souls (0/100)
   
8. Contribute via care package or bible mailing for Voice of the Martyrs
   
9. Faithfully pray for my Sunday School Prayer Partner each week (5/141)
   
10. Pay the tab of the person in line behind me at the drive-through
    
11. Fast for 24 hours
    

To See the World (or at least more of my own backyard)

1. Go to France
   
2. Go to Disneyworld
   
3. Go to Williamsburg
   
4. Spend a night at Falcon's Rest B&B
   

Of Food and Finances

1. Try one new recipe each week (0/141)
   
2. Eat out no more than once a week, except for special occasions (2/141)
   
3. Pay off all credit card debt
   
4. Compile at least 101 recipes in my personal collection (14/101)
   
5. Have a copy of my recipe collection professionally bound
   
6. Put into savings out of each of my paychecks (0/70)
   
7. Keep the checkbook balanced (0/141)
   
8. Develop a taste for 6 new healthy foods (1/6)
   
9. Make an apple pie entirely from scratch
   
10. Automate all recurring bills
    
11. Host a "gourmet" potluck
    
12. Go one week without spending any money at all (not including actual bills)
    
13. Earn $1001 outside of my "day job" (0/1001)
    
14. Stick to our budget for a full month (not a cent over!)
    

Because my Family Deserves the Best

1. "FLY" with Flylady for more than half of the 1001 days (7/501)
   
2. Finish painting the Kitchen
   
3. Paint the study
   
4. Finish unpacking everything in the house
   
5. Grow a square foot garden
   
6. Take a ballroom dancing class with my husband
   
7. Email C at least once a week every week (1/141)
   
8. Send birthday cards to every member of my close extended family on their birthdays
   
9. Find out the birthdays and anniversaries of every member of my close extended family 9/19/08
   
10. Fill out every relevant page of our "Family Records" book.
    
11. Start a journal written specifically to our future children
    
12. Go on a picnic by a waterfall with my husband
    
13. Send a thank you card for every gift received, even if given in person by a relative
    
14. Get the complete Willow Tree nativity set
    
15. Go apple picking together
    
16. Go to a drive-in movie
    
17. Organize our important documents (taxes, birth and marriage certificates, etc)
    
18. find a safe place to store them
    
19. Open and clean all windows in the house (even the ones sealed shut)
    

Because I'm Worth It

1. Get motorcycle license
   
2. Get a scooter and learn to ride
   
3. Reach my healthy target weight
   
4. Bring my GPA up to at least a 3.5 before leaving Motlow
   
5. Exercise at least 3 days a week for 3 months (0/36)
   
6. Land a leading role in a play
   
7. Take the MENSA test
   
8. Talk to/IM/email J at least once a week (3/141)
   
9. Finish Pre-Cal with at least a B average (12/08 - A average!)
   
10. Return all library books by their due date (not retroactive, lol!)
    
11. Receive an Academic scholarship
    
12. Move piano into house
    
13. Have it tuned
    
14. Learn to play Cannon in D
    
15. Buy a new power cord for my laptop 9/7/08
    
16. Deep clean my laptop and replace the missing key
    
17. Purge wardrobe of anything that is outdated or torn
    
18. Drink nothing but water for two weeks (1/14)
    

For Entertainment's Sake

1. Watch 5 French films without subtitles (0/5)
   
2. See a Cirque de Soleil performance live
   
3. Watch AFI's top ten movies of all time (1/10)
   
4. Read at least one book every week (1/141)
   
5. Read 5 "banned" books (0/5)
   
6. Read 5 fiction Pulitzer prize winners (0/5)
   
7. Subscribe to a literary magazine
   
8. See every local Theater League broadway show in a given year (0/4)
   

To Satisfy the Crafter in Me

1. Make a quilt
   
2. Finish (including framing and matting) 3 big cross-stitch projects (0/3)
   
3. Learn how to crochet and read a pattern
   
4. Make an Edward Cullen amigurumi
   
5. Learn to knit
   
6. Make an article of knitted lingerie
   
7. Finish every piece of a "wardrobe" sewing pattern
   
8. Sell something on etsy
   
9. Enter something in the women's building at the fair
   
10. Find a way to get the camera to work or get a new one
    
11. Take 365 pictures and post them online (0/365)
    
12. Paint the hope chest
    
13. "steampunk" my laptop
    

Because I will Pursue my Dream Career

1. Write every single day for a month – no exceptions (0/30)
   
2. Finish a complete manuscript
   
3. Query a literary agent
   
4. Reach 600 posts on Crafty Little Things (11/600)
   
5. Take Holly Lisle's "Thinking Sideways" course
   
6. Have an article or short story published in print
   
7. Write a bible study
   
8. Finish NaNoWriMo
   
9. Write a short story in French
   
10. Obtain an external hard drive and back up all of my writing
    
11. Have a poem published in print
    
12. Get paid for a piece of my writing
    
13. Write and mail letters to the 5 living authors who have had the greatest impact on me (0/5)
    

And because it will all be worth it…

1. After 1001 days, celebrate the journey with a nice dinner out, no matter how many things got accomplished (or didn't).