101 Things in 1001 days.
I wanted a copy of this on my site so I can regularly check it without searching for mine.
Hi everyone! My name is Sheila. I'm 58 years old and have been a lifelong procrastinator. I have learned over the last year to find ways to procrastinate the procrastination and get things done. I still have a lot I want to do and I saw this community and decided to join. I've refined my list and I think I'm ready to begin. My goals aren't lofty, but they are all things I've procrastinated or have a desire to get done. I tried to make my goals attainable, so while some things are things I would like to do daily, I am making the goal less than daily so that I don't fail before I even get started.
So, without further ado, here is my list.
Immediate goals:
1. Mail Gage's quilt.
2. Organize my bills and begin a real budget.
3. Figure out how much it will cost the boys to live here if I move out.
4. Make my kitchen curtains.
5. Make my living room pillows.
6. Clean out the mending basket by mending or discarding items in it.
7. Clean the car.
8. Organize the kitchen cupboards. (Again, until I get them right.)
9. Finish Logan's quilt.
Other goals:
.Personal:
10. Ride my excercise bicycle at least three times a week for at least 15 minutes a time.
11. Go back to using my weights at least four times a week.
12. Return to stretching daily.
13. Learn yoga.
14. Learn more about feng shui.
15. Get at least one pedicure a month. (1/33)
16. Take care of my toenails at least three times a week for the next two months, working toward increasing
it to daily by six months from now. (July 1st.)
17. Make a doctor's appointment sometime before March and keep it.
18. Use my prescription toothpaste regularly with the end goal of using it daily.
19. Include seaweed in my diet at least four times a week.
20. Continue to refine my diet as follows:
More fish, less red meat.
More veggies.
As salt-free as possible.
Less starch.
Less coffee, more tea.
Reading:
I want to read:
21. The four biographies I picked up at a bag book sale. (2.00 a bag)
a. Frank Sinatra, "His Way"
b. Mary Tyler Moore.
c. Johnny Carlson
d. William Faulkner
22. Katherine Hepburn's biography.
23. Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand
24. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
25. Breakfast at Tiffany's
I want to re-read:
26. All of John Steinbeck
27. John Steinbeck, "A Life In Letters" by Elaine Steinbeck
Yard:
28. Redefine the dog's yard with new fencing.
29. Grade, rock and gravel the dog's yard.
30. Grade the area around the firepit and gravel it.
31. Define my gardens and flower beds with new borders.
32. Widen and smooth the driveway and parking area.
33. Build a shed.
34. Landscape around the house.
35. Build the modified gazebo for around the firepit.
36. Lay pathways and walkways of stone and rock.
37. Fence the back. (side)
38. Repaint the house and trim.
39. Rebuild the front porch into a deck.
40. Enclose the back porch.
House:
41. Order and install new blinds in the living room and my room.
42. Put down the floor in the hall and small room.
43. Build the walls to the pet room.
44. Replace the windows.
45. Replace all the doors.
46. Find someone to replace the rotten beam.
47. Put on a new roof.
48. Install the oven and hook up the cooktop.
49. Decide which flooring to use in the living room and install it.
50. Get a pellet stove.
Computer:
51. Scan all my photos and get them on CDs.
52. Make photo CDs for each of the kids.
53. Make photo CDs with slide shows for the kids and friends.
54. Organize all my photos and make slide shows for myself.
55. Finish the first list in the photo-challenge I started two years ago.
56. Start the second list of the photo-challenge.
57. Get my Flickr site set up and working right.
58. Post at least one blog a week.
59 Answer the 'Writer's Block" question at least once a week on LiveJournal.
60. Organize my financial data.
61. Read one new blog each week and leave a comment. (picked at random.)
62. Purge my emails on each of my email addresses.
63. Learn to use all the features of my photo programs, posting the results in my blogs.
64. Learn to use all the features of Word and Excel.
65. Complete an I.T. college course and get my I.T. certificate.
Social:
66. Get out of the house at least one of my days off. (Quit being such a homebody.)
67. Go to my friends's houses instead of always expecting them to come here.
68. Go shopping at least once a month.
69. Remember my friends's birthdays and actually get them something.
70. See more of my grandchildren by going to their houses more often. (they don't live close.)
71. Travel to Oregon to meet my online friend.
Car:
72. Keep up on oil changes and service.
73. Get a key finder.
74. Vacuum it out at least once a month.
Travel:
75. Go to see the Grand Canyon.
76. Take a trip from Laurie's to New York.
77. Actually do the tourist thing when I'm at Laurie's and go see the
museums in Washington, D.C.
78. Visit Jen and Jay.
79. Drive Highway 101 down the coast again.
80. Take (or work on) a cruise.
Miscellaneous:
81. Teach my cockatiel some new phrases.
82. Re-tame my cockatiels and parakeets.
83. Put all my home movies and VHS tapes on DVD.
84. Copy my favorites of my Dad's slides and scan them to the computer.
85. Clean out the garage and make myself an art studio.
86. Clean out the garage and make a family room, play area.
87. Repair the damage from the leaking roof in the garage.
88. Design some t-shirt surgeries to make with Mikaila when I'm in Maryland.
89. Teach Mikaila to follow a sewing pattern.
90. Teach the girls (whoever's interested) to use the knitting looms.
91. Teach myself to play the flute. (buy a flute)
92. Go to the Nutcracker Ballet in Seattle in December with a couple
of the grandkids.
93. Attend an opera.
94. Attend a play at Tacoma's Little Theater.
95. Take Jewel to the ocean and take snapshots.
96. Go on a drive to Mount Rainier with Jewel to take snapshots.
97. Have a party for my 60th birthday.
98. Make Cheryl a quilt.
99. Do a painting for each of my children.
100. Do a large stained glass piece.
101. Be more tolerant of the terrorists. (Kitties).
Hi everyone! My name is Sheila. I'm 58 years old and have been a lifelong procrastinator. I have learned over the last year to find ways to procrastinate the procrastination and get things done. I still have a lot I want to do and I saw this community and decided to join. I've refined my list and I think I'm ready to begin. My goals aren't lofty, but they are all things I've procrastinated or have a desire to get done. I tried to make my goals attainable, so while some things are things I would like to do daily, I am making the goal less than daily so that I don't fail before I even get started.
So, without further ado, here is my list.
Immediate goals:
1. Mail Gage's quilt.
2. Organize my bills and begin a real budget.
3. Figure out how much it will cost the boys to live here if I move out.
4. Make my kitchen curtains.
5. Make my living room pillows.
6. Clean out the mending basket by mending or discarding items in it.
7. Clean the car.
8. Organize the kitchen cupboards. (Again, until I get them right.)
9. Finish Logan's quilt.
Other goals:
.Personal:
10. Ride my excercise bicycle at least three times a week for at least 15 minutes a time.
11. Go back to using my weights at least four times a week.
12. Return to stretching daily.
13. Learn yoga.
14. Learn more about feng shui.
15. Get at least one pedicure a month. (1/33)
16. Take care of my toenails at least three times a week for the next two months, working toward increasing
it to daily by six months from now. (July 1st.)
17. Make a doctor's appointment sometime before March and keep it.
18. Use my prescription toothpaste regularly with the end goal of using it daily.
19. Include seaweed in my diet at least four times a week.
20. Continue to refine my diet as follows:
More fish, less red meat.
More veggies.
As salt-free as possible.
Less starch.
Less coffee, more tea.
Reading:
I want to read:
21. The four biographies I picked up at a bag book sale. (2.00 a bag)
a. Frank Sinatra, "His Way"
b. Mary Tyler Moore.
c. Johnny Carlson
d. William Faulkner
22. Katherine Hepburn's biography.
23. Atlas Shrugged by Ann Rand
24. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
25. Breakfast at Tiffany's
I want to re-read:
26. All of John Steinbeck
27. John Steinbeck, "A Life In Letters" by Elaine Steinbeck
Yard:
28. Redefine the dog's yard with new fencing.
29. Grade, rock and gravel the dog's yard.
30. Grade the area around the firepit and gravel it.
31. Define my gardens and flower beds with new borders.
32. Widen and smooth the driveway and parking area.
33. Build a shed.
34. Landscape around the house.
35. Build the modified gazebo for around the firepit.
36. Lay pathways and walkways of stone and rock.
37. Fence the back. (side)
38. Repaint the house and trim.
39. Rebuild the front porch into a deck.
40. Enclose the back porch.
House:
41. Order and install new blinds in the living room and my room.
42. Put down the floor in the hall and small room.
43. Build the walls to the pet room.
44. Replace the windows.
45. Replace all the doors.
46. Find someone to replace the rotten beam.
47. Put on a new roof.
48. Install the oven and hook up the cooktop.
49. Decide which flooring to use in the living room and install it.
50. Get a pellet stove.
Computer:
51. Scan all my photos and get them on CDs.
52. Make photo CDs for each of the kids.
53. Make photo CDs with slide shows for the kids and friends.
54. Organize all my photos and make slide shows for myself.
55. Finish the first list in the photo-challenge I started two years ago.
56. Start the second list of the photo-challenge.
57. Get my Flickr site set up and working right.
58. Post at least one blog a week.
59 Answer the 'Writer's Block" question at least once a week on LiveJournal.
60. Organize my financial data.
61. Read one new blog each week and leave a comment. (picked at random.)
62. Purge my emails on each of my email addresses.
63. Learn to use all the features of my photo programs, posting the results in my blogs.
64. Learn to use all the features of Word and Excel.
65. Complete an I.T. college course and get my I.T. certificate.
Social:
66. Get out of the house at least one of my days off. (Quit being such a homebody.)
67. Go to my friends's houses instead of always expecting them to come here.
68. Go shopping at least once a month.
69. Remember my friends's birthdays and actually get them something.
70. See more of my grandchildren by going to their houses more often. (they don't live close.)
71. Travel to Oregon to meet my online friend.
Car:
72. Keep up on oil changes and service.
73. Get a key finder.
74. Vacuum it out at least once a month.
Travel:
75. Go to see the Grand Canyon.
76. Take a trip from Laurie's to New York.
77. Actually do the tourist thing when I'm at Laurie's and go see the
museums in Washington, D.C.
78. Visit Jen and Jay.
79. Drive Highway 101 down the coast again.
80. Take (or work on) a cruise.
Miscellaneous:
81. Teach my cockatiel some new phrases.
82. Re-tame my cockatiels and parakeets.
83. Put all my home movies and VHS tapes on DVD.
84. Copy my favorites of my Dad's slides and scan them to the computer.
85. Clean out the garage and make myself an art studio.
86. Clean out the garage and make a family room, play area.
87. Repair the damage from the leaking roof in the garage.
88. Design some t-shirt surgeries to make with Mikaila when I'm in Maryland.
89. Teach Mikaila to follow a sewing pattern.
90. Teach the girls (whoever's interested) to use the knitting looms.
91. Teach myself to play the flute. (buy a flute)
92. Go to the Nutcracker Ballet in Seattle in December with a couple
of the grandkids.
93. Attend an opera.
94. Attend a play at Tacoma's Little Theater.
95. Take Jewel to the ocean and take snapshots.
96. Go on a drive to Mount Rainier with Jewel to take snapshots.
97. Have a party for my 60th birthday.
98. Make Cheryl a quilt.
99. Do a painting for each of my children.
100. Do a large stained glass piece.
101. Be more tolerant of the terrorists. (Kitties).