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Saying Good-bye to the 101 things
As a way of cleaning the slate and starting the New Year off on good ground, I’m saying goodbye to my 101 Thing in 1001 Days list.
To say that I’m not in the same place as I was when I wrote it is an understatement. Since starting the list, which is supposed to end in Sept 2009, I’ve lived in three cities. None of that was planned. I don’t have the same job (not planned at that time). My life is very, very different than it was. Many of the items on the list just don’t work with this life that I now live.
I thought that when I started the list that I would find it motivating. It was, and it wasn’t. I really didn’t make a big effort to do anything on the list, it was more that when things happened that were on the list I’d think, “Hey! That was on the list! Score!”
I did cross off things on the list that I never though I would. I put “Go to Paris” on it for a lark, never dreaming that I’d actually do it. I had very vague plans of spending my 30th birthday in Paris – a dream really. Well, I made it there at 28 and I’m not complaining. Too bad I hadn’t also put “Go to Italy” on the list because I did that too.
There are things on the list that I’d still like to do. Maybe I’ll start another list someday but for now I’m putting it to rest.
Bye-bye 101 things.
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101 things update
Still slowly picking away at my 101 things. In September I did the following:
1. Read another “missed” classic – only 7 more to go!
40. Organize my email x3 1 – I’m working on a way to response to items faster. I’m a bad, bad emailer these days.
91. Learn how to sew – I haven’t learned how to sew but I have found someone who can teach me how to sew. Wave hello to Halyma whom I met an an Ottawa Social Media Breakfast. (Uh, yeah, she’s one of the many people I keep meaning to email…)
97. Go back through old blog entries and fix the formatting x4 2 – this is a work in progress and I think 2 or 3 more sessions should have it done. I hope.
What am I working on this month?
1. Read a “missed” classic. x10 7 (Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park, The Woman in White) - hope to get two more done this month (that tie into both the RIP III Challenge and the A-Z challenge)
2. Complete the a-z reading challenge – 26 books (update June 3/07 – 10 of 26 read, update Jan 1/08 – 11 reads) – I hope to get two or three more of these knocked off
16. Go to BlogHer – slightly cheating on this one but I am attending BlogHer Boston on October 11. I’m counting it.
33. Purge old magazines x2 (1) – I have to get rid of some. They are cluttering the place up.
41. Backup my laptop once per month x6 – I really need to do a backup
42. Purge and shred old files x3 1 – See above re clutter
43. Update my portfolio – I need to pick out some blog posts to add to my writing portfolio – any from here or BlogHer that you particularly liked?
81. Take a candelit bubble bath x10 8 – because it’s cold here and baths are warm
84. Go to a trivia night at a pub – I’m on the prowl, anyone know a good one in Ottawa?
85. Knit myself something – I’m almost finished a pair of socks. They don’t fit but that’s beside the point.
86. Send someone a homemade gift – anyone have size 6 feet? I can send you a nice pair of orange handknit socks. I’m a size 6.5 and they are a wee bit too small for me.
95. Create a blog book – I’d like to start one at least. Similar to my porfolio but of posts that I like, not just ones I’ve written.
96. Update the blogroll on my book blog x3 (1) – Since I moved my book blog Cat is the only one on the blogroll. Ha!
98. Fix the labels on this blog – easiest to do when fixing formatting
99. Try a new recipe and blog about it x10 (9) – I’ve got a backlog of these to blog about
100. Post on my food blog on this blog about foodie stuff once a week for a month x6 – I have lots to say about food that I never say
101. Blog every day (on a single blog) for a month x3 – I thought I was going to do this last month. Got to the end of Sept and missed a day. DOH!
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101 Things Update
Not much to check off my 101 things update. Zandria is doing much better at hers than I am. I think part of my problem is that I don’t really like my list anymore but I’m going to try to keep plugging away at it. I’ve definitely done some things on it that I never thought I would (like go to Paris).
- Try a new recipe and blog about it x10 (9)
I blogged about the Salsa Verde recipe I tried (and loved). This one item could have been crossed off months ago. I try a lot of new recipes, most often from blogs. If I can’t figure out what I want to eat I usually stick an ingredient into Food Blog Search and see what comes up. The only reason that this item isn’t completely finished is because I’m lazy. I hate it when that’s the reason I don’t do things. Sigh.
Speaking of which…I said I was going to make cookies today so maybe I should go do that…
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101 Things Update
I’m home from vacation and bloody tired. But it’s time for another 101 things update.
Completed items:
18. Go to PEI to visit my family
19. Visit Calleen (When I started this she was not living in PEI but now she is which made it way easier…even if she hadn’t been we would have stopped to visit her anyway).
25. Take things to Goodwill x6 (Note: or other similar donation place) – I had two remaining on this one and we made at least 2 trips in June…if not more.
30. Plant a garden (seriously) x1 (Note – slight change on this since I can’t do a garden – get a plant and keep it alive for at least a month) – Planted tomatoes and a jalapeno pepper plant. My “patio tomatoes” – yeah, I think the wrong label was put into those as they have grown to be HUGE plants. Two of the plants had to be moved outside due to an extreme aphid invasion. The remaining tomato plant has lots of buds on it so I’m hopeful. Ditto the pepper plant. They have been kept alive for a month. Woohoo! Had to move the herbs outside too though due to the aphids…I think we might be able to salvage the rosemary though. And will restart some basil and cilantro soon.
I was going to try not to buy any books in July (#4 on my list – don’t buy any books for a month x4) but I sank that one on the very first day of the month. It’s only kinda my fault. You see, my hometown has a museum and it turns 50 this year. So it put out a book with lots of pictures and stories about the local community. One of my relative’s picture is in it. And well, it’s just darned interesting. So I bought it. And I bought another book about the area that was written by one of my high school English teachers back in the ’80s. Totally justifiable but oh well, there’s always August (although that means I couldn’t buy Meyer’s new book until September…unless I preorder…).
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101 Things Update
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a 101 things update. Nothing very exciting this time, ie no Paris trips or anything.
(But I’m reading two or three bloggers who are currrently on vacation in or going to Paris and the newspaper had a thing about Paris yesterday and I WANT TO GO BACK. sigh.)5. Read all the books I have checked out of the library x4 2 – I took a bunch of books out of the Montreal library in April and I read them all. I did not fair so well in May. Will be hitting up the Ottawa library soon.
25. Take things to Goodwill x6 2 (Note: or other similar donation place) – Dropped a bunch of stuff off at the Sally Ann in May and will likely be doing another trip this month. Moving has a way of doing that…
29. Organize the kitchen cupboards x3 1 – moving does cause one to do that and I’ve moved twice now (note that moving was not on the original 101 things list…sigh). And the kitchen cupboards will likely be reorganized within another week when we pick up our new dining room set, including a hutch!
32. Clean out the bathroom cabinet x4 1 – Again moving does tend to make one do that.
46. Clean my desk x6 1 – again with the moving
55. Buy renter’s insurance – done!
63. Eat breakfast every day for a week x5 - I’ve probably had this one complete for a few months now. I now eat breakfast everyday…except maybe on moving days.
I really need to start focusing on getting some of this stuff done. I really thought that I’d be done with at least one of the reading challenges by now…
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101 things update – the picture edition!
I haven’t done this in a few months so here we go.
The big thing – the BIG BIG thing that I put on this list never thinking I’d actually do it.
17. Go to Paris
DONE!!!!
See here I am top of the Arc de Triomphe.
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28. Put laundry away the same day that I do it x
4163. Eat breakfast every day for a week x
5(3)77. Get up when my alarm goes off every day for a week
x10780. Geek out for a day and watch all of the LOTR movies in one day – Completed Jan 2008
92. Go to a museum x
3(Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for Emily Carr exhibit, July 2007, The Louvre January 2008, Musee D’Orsay January 2008 and a bunch more in Europe Jan 2008 including the Vatican Museum)
Me at the Louvre
Me at Musee D’Orsay
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101 things update – long overdue….
So apparently I have no updated my 101 things since June. Zan and Denise put me to shame with their monthly updates. And mine is still not on the first of the month, but whatever. So the updates since June….
- Don’t buy a single book for a month x
43 (didn’t buy a book in May/07 or September/07) Go to Ottawa and have lunch with the people I work with(I’ve actually done that a time or two now…)- Clean closet x
4(3) (Some of these were seriously unexciting things weren’t they???) - Clean my desk x
6(2) - Update the blogroll on my book blog x
3(2)
I’m getting some of the boring stuff done. But less of the fun stuff. I need to work on that.
- Don’t buy a single book for a month x
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101 things
Updated for the first time since March. lol
1. Read a “missed” classic. x
108 (Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park)
2. Complete the a-z reading challenge – 26 books (update June 3, 10 of 26 read)
4. Don’t buy a single book for a month x43 (didn’t buy a book in May!)
9. Call Deby x4(3)
20. Go to Montreal x2(Good thing I got in my visits early because I’m moving back July 07!)
45. Apply for other jobs before my contract is up(crossing this one off the list b/c I’m not on contract anymore, yay!)
59. Stop whining about headaches and see doctor about them(there’s not a thing wrong with me)
72. Go to the ballet(two in June 07)
82. Get a(nother) tattoo
93. Go for a bra fitting(April 07) -
101 things update
Yeah, not doing so great at the 101 things. I’ve been busy. When I started the 101 things I hadn’t planned on getting a new position. Does that mean that I’m not going to do the things? No. I just need to make more of an actual effort to get them done now that I’m low on free time (and really, I should be working right now but I’m tired and if I’m going to work all weekend I want Friday off dammit!).
This will be an update for two months because I forgot to update in Feb.
Under books I read all the books I had out from the library. yay! Of course now I have a pile a mile high but that’s a minor detail right???
In travel – I went to Montreal in January. Yay!
Under work I updated my resume. Yay! And although it wasn’t on the list I got a new position at work. Yay!
Health and fitness – I got my eyes checked. Yay!
I had to change something under blogs because I moved all my food blog posts into this blog. I just made a minor edit to change from posting on my food blog to posting about food on this blog. Minor detail.
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101 things in 1001 days
Right, so I kinda made a New Year’s Resolution this year. It’s quite simple. It’s STOP FREAKING HIDING ALREADY. Don’t you love how I yell at myself. I had a lot of time to think over my vacation and I could not hide from the fact that well, I’ve been hiding. The last few years have been weird and yes, I’m content with my many, many things in my life. But I’m getting more than a little sick of being in my apartment all the time. And just thinking about doing things instead of, you know, actually DOING them. That was part of the reason why I joined the gym.
And since the whole 101 things in 1001 days list thingy scares the crap out of me I figure that maybe I should do it and find out WHY it scares me. Figured it’s as good a reason as any. How’d I hear about this list? As usual though Denise. She’s been working on hers for a year. You can go here to see the instructions.
I am starting this list January 3, 2007. I will finish Wednesday, September 30, 2009. I will finish 6 months after my 30th birthday. It’s very scary for me to think that far ahead. Seriously scary. I don’t do forward planning.
So without further ado, here’s my list.
Sassymonkey’s 101 things in 1001 days
Books:
1. Read a “missed” classic. x10 7 (Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park, The Woman in White)
2. Complete the a-z reading challenge – 26 books (update June 3/07 – 10 of 26 read, update Jan 1/08 – 11 reads)
3. Finish everything on my Summer 2006 Reading Challenge list (better later than never)
4. Don’t buy a single book for a month x4 2 (didn’t buy a book in May/07 or September/07)
5. Read all the books I have checked out of the library x4 2Friends and Family:
6. Call Kit-Cat x6 (I’ve probably called her more than thrice that since I moved back to Montreal)
7. Call Young Anthony x5
8. Call my father x10 8
9. Call Deby x4 (2)
10. Send out Christmas cards x1
11. Send my mother her Mother’s Day present on time x1
12. Treat the mommies to a night out and babysit the kidlet x2 (Note: this is going to be much harder to do now that I don’t live there anymore)
13. Knit Kit-cat’s guitar strap
14. Send someone a card (not an e-card) just ’cause I’m thinking of them x6Travel:
15. Get a passport
16. Go to BlogHer
17. Go to Paris Completed Jan 2008
18. Go to PEI to visit my family Completed June/July 2008
19. Visit Calleen Completed June/July 2008
20. Go to Montreal x2 (Good thing I got in my visits early because I’m moving back July 07!)
21. Go to Ottawa and have lunch with the people I work with x1
22. Have a *me* weekend and stay at a B&B
23. Go to Niagara FallsHome:
24. Clean closet x4 (3)
25. Take things to Goodwill x6 (Note: or other similar donation place) Completed June 2008
26. Do the dishes every day for a week x10 (this one is kinda moot now that I have a dishwasher and don’t have to handwash everything and in fact I aim NOT do to the dishes everyday because it’s a drain on electricity and hello, there’s only 1 of me).
27. Create a chore schedule and stick with it for 1 month x3
28. Put laundry away the same day that I do it x4 1
29. Organize the kitchen cupboards x3 (1 – moving does cause one to do that….)
30. Plant a garden (seriously) x1 (Note – slight change on this since I can’t do a garden – get a plant and keep it alive for at least a month) - patio container garden planted end of may/early june 2008 – still alive July 2008.
31. Paint my bedroom furniture (bought new furniture and I’m so NOT painting it)
32. Clean out the bathroom cabinet x4 1
33. Purge old magazines x2 (1)
34. Get/make a headboard for my bed (bought a new bed that came with a headboard)
35. Clean off my dresser x4 (Don’t have a dresser anymore!)
36. Sweep every day for a week x10Work:
37. Join the STC
38. Send in my expenses once per month x6
39. Take a course x2
40. Organize my email x3 1
41. Backup my laptop once per month x6
42. Purge and shred old files x3 1
43. Update my portfolio
44. Update my resume
45. Apply for other jobs before my contract is up (crossing this one off the list b/c I’m not on contract anymore, yay!)
46. Clean my desk x6 1Money:
47. Get at least 2 months worth of living expenses (or more) in my emergency fund
48. Pay off total balance on my credits cards x2 1 (one for each card)
49. Make an extra payment on my student loans x3
50. Make a $250 donation to the library
51. Make a $100 donation to MSF
52. Invest in an RRSP
53. Create and stick to a budget for 1 month x4
54. For every task completed at the end of 1001 days make a $1 donation to a charity (I’m being realistic, I don’t have $1000 to donate to charity)
55. Buy renter’s insurance
56. Take all my change to a coinstar machine and then donate the money to a charity x2Health and fitness:
57. Get eyes checked x2 1
58. Go to dentist x2 (1)
59. Stop whining about headaches and see doctor about them (there’s not a thing wrong with me)
60. Go to gym 3 times a week for 1 month x6
61. Start a weight routine
62. Run a 10k
63. Eat breakfast every day for a week x5
64. Learn how to meditate
65. Do crunches 5x per week x20 (supposedly will help my back pain)
66. Walk the boardwalk every day for a week x4 (Note: since I moved this is switching to just plain walking )
67. Don’t eat any junk food (including fast food) for a monthLife:
68. Take a dance class
69. Take a class through a local post-secondary institution
70. Perform a random act of kindness x10
71. Volunteer for something in my community x2
72. Go to the ballet (two in June 07)
73. Go to an opera
74. Create a menu plan and stick to it for a week x10
75. Try a new restaurant x6 Completed January 2008
76. Treat myself to a spa day x1
77. Get up when my alarm goes off every day for a week x10 7
78. Go to a regular church service with the mommies x4 (Again, much harder to do since I moved…)
79. Write a thank you note (not email) x6
80. Geek out for a day and watch all of the LOTR movies in one day Completed January 2008
81. Take a candelit bubble bath x10 8
82. Get a(nother) tattoo (May 07)
83. Go to a Stitch and Bitch
84. Go to a trivia night at a pub
85. Knit myself something
86. Send someone a homemade gift
87. Finish a cross stitch
88. Create a book of recipes that I actually *use*
89. Go skating on an outdoor rink
90. Take Dav to the zoo (Again, harder now that I moved)
91. Learn how to sew
92. Go to a museum x3 (2 – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for Emily Carr exhibit, July 2007, The Louvre January 2008, Musee D’Orsay January 2008 and a bunch more in Europe Jan 2008 including the Vatican Museum)
93. Go for a bra fitting
94. Go skydivingComputer and bloggy stuff:
95. Create a blog book
96. Update the blogroll on my book blog x3 (1)
97. Go back through old blog entries and fix the formatting x4 2
98. Fix the labels on this blog
99. Try a new recipe and blog about it x10 (9)
100. Post on my food blog on this blog about foodie stuff once a week for a month
101. Blog every day (on a single blog) for a month
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