101 things in 1001 Days
101 Things
I am giving myself 1001 days in which to do them. Beginning on my 35th birthday and ending on November 25, 2009.
1. Submit 10 6 3 1 more poem to literary magazines. (I just submitted 4. We shall see.)(OK, submitted 3 more) )2 more).
2. Finish a first draft of a novel.
3. Find out what it would take to go back to school and get a masters. I don’t think I need one. New number 3: Do Needs Assessment for the BIG IDEA.
4. Get to and stay at MY goal weight.
5. Learn to say no when I am asked to do things I know I don’t have time for. I am finding a new church where I can just be there, and not be in charge of everything.
6. Decorate our bedroom so that it is a sanctuary for us.
7. Paint Squirrel’s room.
8. Paint the play room.
9. Paint downstairs.
10. Do whatever it takes to support Dean as he finishes the patio. He’s doing it! I’m being supportive! Yay!
11. Replace the downstairs horrible furniture.
12. Acquire new pots and pans.
13. Acquire new knives.
14. Submit abstracts for every conference I come across.
15. Make some girl friends and make time for them. Yep, coupla girls’ nights here and there, phone calls, emails…amazing what happens when you reach out!
16. De-toxify my relationship with my mother.
17. Take a digital photography class.
18. Get a new dog.
19. Reorganize the kitchen.
20. Get in the habit of making a menu and grocery list each week.
21. Keep up with current music - no need to get old now!
22. Visit the dermatologist annually.
23. Visit the dentist every 6 months.
24. Visit the PCP as ordered.
25. Use lotion every day.
26. Keep my toenails and fingernails looking nice all the time.
27. Take the kids to the park every week - weather permitting.
28. Clean out the motherfucking garage - and keep it organized.
29. Take stuff to Goodwill every month…rather than letting it pile up for years.
30. Develop and implement a system for dealing with mail and receipts every evening….rather than letting it pile up.
31. Put the enormous sunflower mural I want over the breakfast table.
32. Paint something. On canvas.
33. Make sure I have read every book I own (not hubby’s, just mine.) If a book is too awful to read, chuck it.
34. Take pictures every day. OK, most days.
35. Tidy up every night before bed.
36. Teach the kids to pick out their clothes and get all their stuff together for the next morning.
37. NOT have a nervous breakdown when Molly starts school.
38. Get a second car.
39. Get and keep the house clean. Make EVERYONE help with this.
40. Organize the pictures.
41. Buy or paint or take pictures/artwork to hang on the walls. THE WHITE WHITE WALLS.
42. Do a mosaic.
43. Either have another baby, or decide not to.
44. Submit 5 articles to magazines.
45. Return all the books I have borrowed from other people.
46. Take the girls to Boston.
47. Take the girls to Disney.
48. Save for Christmas all year.
49. Go to London. Again!
50. Look into becoming a certified trainer.
51. Research Tantric sex.
52. Try yoga.
53. Try Pilates.
54. Try Indian food.
55. Rearrange my office at work.
56. Clean off my desk.
57. Make my home office functional.
58. Find a space at home that can just be mine, and make it that way.
59. Find a group and do The Artist’s Way.
60. Get rid of stuff in my home that I don’t like or doesn’t speak to me.
61. Get another tattoo.
62. Go to a firing range and learn to shoot.
63. Maintain my very healthy fear of birds and clowns. I am such a cheater because those fears are not going ANYWHERE!
64. Learn how to use the PDA I have at work.
65. Go to a topless beach.
66. Go to a strip club.
67. Get Squirrel potty trained (ALMOST THERE!).
68. Take a class in bead-jewelry making.
69. Take a class in culinary knife skills.
70. Learn to take the time to really enjoy and connect with my partner before and after sex,
71. Have an MFM threesome.
72. Have sex in a Hummer.
73. Get back in touch with TW and LS - friends from high school and college. Sent them cards. Hopefully they will call or email! Heard from TW and it’s like we never missed a day!
74. Send out Christmas cards. On time. I even MADE them!!
75. Learn how to use an eyelash curler. The eyelash curler is awesome and also, liquid eyeliner!
76. Go to three two concerts. Went to one! 
77. Make my blog more visually interesting - learn how to get pics of stuff I am mentioning or referring to in posts, find/take pics to go with poems.
78. Keep the motherfucking laundry caught up.
79. Figure out a really cool way to display the HRHs’ artwork.
80. Get my glasses. Get eyes checked every year.
81. Either conquer my anxiety myself or get some help for it.
82. Eat as organic as possible for a whole month.
83. Go (ovo-lacto) vegetarian for a month.
84. Tell my mom I am diabetic.
85. Get or build enough storage space for my books.
86. Make, buy, or entice my mom to make curtains for all of the naked windows in our house (OK, we have blinds, but no curtains on almost all of our windows).
87. Swimming lessons for the kids.
88. Alphabetize the CDs.
89. Watch all the movies we own.
90. Buy the movies we don’t own that are important to me.
91. Get that one ring appraised.
92. Grow my hair longer.
93. Finish this motherfucking list.
94. Keep up with hotel points when I travel.
95. Make a chocolate souffle.
96. Make a decent batch of roll out cookies.
97. Keep car maintenance current.
98. Dye Easter Eggs.
99. Plant herbs. Plant veggies. Take care of them.
100. Plant flowers. Do the same!
101. Review this list weekly and cross off shit I have done.
You have some aggressive goals in there, especially #16. Good luck! If there’s any I can help with (I have a few in mind), let me know.
Oh Junior. Tease.
#16 is all about me getting over it. That is the only way!
Oh in regards to #16.. Took me 23(give or take a few) years but I finally de-toxified mine with my Dad.. Well worth the Wait..
Mostly I think I have to accept that she did the best she could, and she loved/loves me the best she knows how, and then get on with it.
Funny thing is, she thinks it’s all fine! And I think that is where my resentment lies - she doesn’t even realize how and where and why we (my brother and I) were damaged, if she even realizes we were at all.
Yeah that’ sorta how it with my dad. I thought that everythin was ok. I told him that last christmas my room mate spent more on my gift than the did, that I couldn’t name 5 things total that he did for me all year. He was just speechless.. It had been building over the years. He said, I stop trying, because I acted like I bothered him. I told him he did, from his lack of effort.. Ironic huh..
Parents are so hard!
Luckily I am a perfect parent, so my children will have NONE of these issues!
for 72, please don’t keep the car running
LOL
That would seriously affect the fuel economy….