101 Things
I saw this idea at ahhh sew. Then I read more about it at Triplux. It haunted me alot of the day, so I made my own list. The basics: 101 things you want to do in the next 1001 days. They must be measurable.
Like most others, the first couple of dozen came pretty quickly, but the later ones were harder to think of. I’ll be making a page over there on the right for those of you who like to keep me accountable 
- Use up 143 balls of yarn
- play 143 games with my children
- teach my oldest 3 daughters to sew
- SWAP for me
- SWAP for DD#1
- SWAP for DD#2
- SWAP for DD#3
- read 33 books, not counting the Bible, 10 of them from here
- read the Bible twice
- memorize Corinthians 13
- add a room onto the house
- get a 12-15 passenger van
- visit Grandmother weekly
- do something with my mom 33 times, not counting visiting Grandmother
- have a family portrait made
- learn to use the upload thing on this blog
- practice my photography
- get my Crawford genealogy stuff together
- work on Chauncey genealogy
- work on Pittman genealogy
- work on Jones genealogy
- do something with my dad 15 times
- go out with my husband 15 times, like no kids, and out, o-u-t
- finish the started cross-stitch pieces in my closet or get rid of them
- clean out my closet
- get the kids to the dentist
- get the school-agers to the eye doctor
- watch a sunrise
- watch a sunset
- take a walk in the rain
- make those silly wallabys for the family
- make 33 pairs of socks
- make 33 hats for charity
- get film developed
- put pictures in scrapbooks/albums
- spend 48 hours alone-no tv, no telephone, no computer and NO PEOPLE
- spend 48 hours alone with each of my children
- meet Ann
- meet Carla
- learn to draw
- put new flooring in the kitchen and living room
- replace living room sofa
- replace love seat
- repeat 35
- use that giant bathtub for a bubble bath-33 times
- wear perfume
- highlight my hair
- get comfortable with this wysiwyg editor
- write a ….something
- have a pattern published by an on-line knitting mag
- become regular about church attendance, (if Sunday mornings are not going to work for me, fine, but get back in to the habit of church once a week)
- do 6 Bible studies
- get my bills current
- keep them that way
- develop and implement a savings plan
- get a dangity-dang debit card already
- get a new phone (yeah, I want that caller ID to work)
- be a consistent early-riser, we’ll start at 9 and work up to 7
- plant a small garden
- plant flowers in the front yard, and tend them
- plant trees in the front yard
- build a deck in the back
- build a real porch in the front, covered, with chairs even
- bake something 33 times, and birthday cakes don’t count
- use my breadmaker 33 times
- research calcium rich foods, and serve one 3 times a week
- learn how to back up this blog, and do it
- repeat 35
- be consistent about bre*st exams
- get a mammogram
- get a checkup
- quit smoking (there, I’ve said it)
- paint my fingernails 33 times
- toenails, too
- use that card box! use it, not just look at it
- go to a wool festival
- go to the beach
- have an article or pattern published by a paper magazine
- memorize Philippians 4 whatsoever is lovely
- re-catalog my stash
- clean out my sewing cabinet
- repeat 35
- memorize pertinent verses from Proverbs 31
- memorize pertinent verses from Titus
- live out 83, 84, 79 and 10
- try 5 new vegetables
- try 5 new fruits
- make a list of our favorite foods
- use that to plan menus
- add 3 new grains to our repertoire of rice and cous-cous
- find a spell checker that will work with this wysiwig editor or cancel 48
- write in each kids journal once a month
- start a knitting group in Leland
- publish my unpattern sweater pattern
- write my sidetoside pattern
- buy Sally Melville’s Color
- and Texture (when it comes out)
- go to the bookstore and buy a copy of every knitting mag except IK, which I get
- renew IK sub and get at least one more sub
- make several baby sweaters to give as gifts, and give them while the baby is still new, replenishing as needed
- spellcheck and post this list, and make it a page
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