Revisiting the 101 in 1001… again

by Jennifer

So I made this list a couple of years ago. I like to revisit it every so often to a) remind myself of the goals I set and b) to update it with the things that have been completed, and see those which are no longer relevant.

Right now there is much that is irrelevant. And not enough of the others done! Eek!

Anyway, here is my list – as also seen in the bottom left sidebar.

My 1001 day is Wednesday, January 12, 2011

house and yard maintenance
1. get stairs on the deck - hopefully next Summer – won’t make it by the deadline though. Bummer.
2. clean and plant flower bed in backyard – actually, we have two of them done. Yay!
3. build a sunflower house for the girls – I think this one has been given up on. I tried so many times, but the slugs kept eating all the plants. Grrrrr.
4. clean and maintain the flowerbed outside the office – this is an ongoing one that I haven’t done nearly as much as I need to this Summer. It’s planted though.
5. finish planting the pathway to garden – this too has changed. We pulled most of it out as the grass was growing over everything. It has become something for the NEXT 101 in 1001 list.
6. finish making stepping stones for path – well, if I thought there would actually be a stepping stone path I would do this. Looks like we are using flagstones instead though… if it ever gets reborn.
7. terrace back hillside for garden - terraced? yes! for a garden? not so much. It looks great though!
8. find a new home for the evergreen trees before they get too large to move – most of them are gone due to disease or just plain growing too large and taking over the driveway. The one in the middle of the front yard has me worried though. It could become a very large tree in not too many more years. I hate to cut it down though – it’s such a pretty tree. We shall see. Maybe I can replace it with a tree of a different kind.
9. paint the outside of the house – once again, the colors have been chosen, we are just waiting for the finances to do it (you know, after we fix the cars and the furnace and the… you get the idea)
10. finish M’s mural – this requires me to have access to the wall to paint. And now she thinks she wants her room to be blue instead of pink. It may never be completed before it’s painted over. :’(
11. finish A’s mural - again, need to be able to get to the wall. I really want to get this one done though.
12. get laundry room remodeled – we put in a new washer/dryer last winter and added some shelving, tiled the floor and painted a wall. I think that’s about all we can do to it.
13. finish bathroom remodel – uh, yeah. there is so much here.
14. put down hardwood floors - again, it keeps getting put off due to finances. We did get the tile in downstairs though.
15. re-carpet the downstairs – Not gonna happen. We put tile down instead and i love it!
16. tile the stairs – going with hardwood instead, although we have everything but the wood to re-tile the entryway. almost there.
17. clean out the garage – progress is being made. Goodwill has seen much of me lately. I have to get it cleaned out now – need the space to fix my car. ugh.
18. fix the garage door opener – someday this will happen, I’m sure.
19. fix the side fence & gate – again, this will be moved to the next list. Hopefully next Summer?

office – most of these can just be junked. I just need to clean the office out and convert it into usable space.
20. get all the fabric organized and PUT AWAY - or donated.
21. get filing done
22. KEEP filing done – do all filing 1x per month
23. get all buttons, clasps & hooks organized -(95% there!)
24. make and hang a ribbon organizer
25. hang pictures/whiteboards up - DONE.
26. get rid of the extra boxes
27. post unwanted fabrics to sell every 6 weeks - or just donate them
28. unpack & put away office supplies from move - or just donate them
29. donate/pass on patterns that are too small for the girls - or just donate them

- it is hard to read through this list and see all the plans I had for Mimsi Bags… plans which are now no more. A chapter of my life has been closed in this area and I have moved on, but it’s still hard to see dreams that have been forgotten.
work – work, too, has changed. I need to just get rid of fabrics and notions that I don’t intend to use in the very near future so that the office is (again) usable for other pursuits. Having a music room would rock. haha.

30. get rid of excess flowers
31. remove flowers from website
32. find a new home for Carole’s table runners - I need to return these to her daughter.
33. finish moving TC products over
34. Clean up website – delete old product pages- does deleting the whole thing count?
35. sell/donate purchased bags – sooooo done!
36. build wholesale site
37. send out newsletter to wholesale companies every 6 weeks
38. make swatch books
39. hire a bookeeper
40. get all patterns copywritten - I would still like to do this in the event I ever choose to sell them.
41. review 2 products each month
42. update/catalog orders & donations 1x per month
43. send out newsletter 2x per month
44. post new blog 1x per week for Mimsi
45. post 6 blogs per month for gift guides family (recipes, reviews, etc)
46. find wholesale supplier for fabric
47. make 1 RTS/art bag each week
48. do inventory- this needs to happen, just as a course of action for donating things. taxes people.
49. meet with mastermind group each week

Health/cooking
50. cook 3 vegeterian/vegan meals per week – well, I’m not sure how many we eat each week, but we eat lots of veggies around here.
51. learn to use 1 new ingredient per month – yeah, this has so not been happening.
52. post 2 new recipes per month – um… we just won’t go there k?
53. exercise 3x per week – I was doing sooooooo good here, and I am getting back into it now. hopefully it will stick a bit longer this time!
54. drop 4 dress sizes – talk to me again at Christmas. I hope to be well on my way here by then. I had dropped one, but then I threw my back out & well, you know how that goes. ugh.
55. learn to use the dutch oven well – didn’t even use it this Summer. We only went camping once.
56. bake bread once per week (0/52) – I was doing really, really well at this. Then life got a bit more busy. And I stopped eating much bread.
57. clean out the fridge 2x per month – this really is a humorous notion.
58. use/freeze leftovers – we are doing much better at this, but I still occasionally toss leftovers. So wasteful.
59. grow corn – again, we tried. Slugs. Nuff said.
60. go on a walk with the girls & Eric at least 1x per week (0/7) um… with others? can’t I go by myself?
61. climb the stairs at the end of the road 2x per week (0/7) ok. I really should do this. it would help with so much. it just hurts!
62. make healthy snacks for the girls – healthy & what they will eat seems to be a difference of opinion.
63. use up the CSA produce each week – this is sort of working. life has gotten busy & we just haven’t been home. so annoying to toss veggies that were so yummy looking… before they became liquid in the fridge drawer. ick.
64. learn to bake with flours other than wheat - doing better at this. Not that hard really. Always more learning to do though.
65. make 1 entire meal from a different country 2x per month – yeah right
66. get a bike – I still really want to do this. And a bike rack for the car… once it is working again.
67. get up by 7 every day – talk to me in a month – once school starts I will be doing this again. I was doing really well at this before Summer… and before staying up until midnight with Eric (watching him work while I read)
68. go to bed on time – talk to the man on this one. I really want him to get to bed by 11 at the latest. Work has been… crazy.
69. eat 1 raw meal per week – Hooray! Something I can check off!

personal
70. read psalms each morning – … oops.
71. make Eric’s pants – I’ve only had the fabric for 7 years, what’s the hold up? FEAR. yep. that and time, yeah, time.
72. make Mom H’s piano bench cushion – oh yeah. Gotta find that fabric again. It’s in the office. o_O
73. keep the granite cleaned off – this has been going in spurts. On again/off again. Need to do better.
74. have a clean, empty sink each night before going to bed – um, the girls have taken over the dishes. Needs work still.
75. make at least 1 trip to goodwill each month - does 3 trips last month make up for a few months? Got more to make though. Lots more junk to purge.
76. save up for a new car ~new car purchased May 2008
77. build up an emergency fund – every time we get some saved, an emergency comes up. So was it successful? dunno – there is no fund right now.
78. post cd’s to swap or take to sell/trade in ~ freecycled a BIG box of cd’s, but there are still more to get rid of.
79. get last summer’s camping trips scrapbooked – and the summer before that, and before that, and bef… well, you get the idea.
80. teach the girls to sew – hmmm.
81. teach the girls to garden – hmmm
82. memorize 1 scripture per week – somebody want to give me the kick in the butt to do this? nicely, of course.
83. memorize with the girls! – oh yeah, forgot about this one.
84. find the cord for the keyboard – did this a looooooooong time ago!
85. practice the piano again – been forced to play it more regularly due to work, but I could still use actual PRACTICE time. yep.
86. teach the girls the basics of playing the piano – o_O
87. get M into violin lessons ~ she took lessons for 4 months, then quit. hmm. need to find another instrument.
88. go on a date with Eric 1x per month – we have mostly been doing MUCH better at this. In fact, we were getting 1 date per WEEK there for a while. wow!
89. find a good babysitter – good friends with kids and Sam have helped with this one. a lot.
90. have QUALITY 1-on-1 with M each week – hoping that while A is at dance this will happen
91. have QUALITY 1-on-1 with A each week – hoping for this while M is at soccer. I’m not sure how quality it will be sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field it will be though. time to talk at least?
92. have QUALITY 1-on-1 with Eric each week so sitting in the same room while he works doesn’t cut it? oh.
93. finish A’s curtains – riiiiiiiiiiight. E still has to hang the curtain rod… well once we find it again he does.
94. have “girlfriend time” 1x per month – per MONTH? Oh no, per WEEK.
95. send a handwritten letter 1x per month – I’m beginning to think the handwrtten letter is a thing of the past.
96. send a letter to Norma 1x per month – we soooo meed to do this. Been convicted of it more lately.
97. pray more – ALWAYS
98. read the bible through – start to finish? really? I got to Isaiah…
99. read 1 book every 6 weeks (but don’t ignore everything else!) – you mean 6 books every week? Got this one in the bag. Oh wait… I guess I need to work on the ignoring part a bit more. I’m getting much better at putting the book down though!
100. be a better mom – this is a neverending goal.
101. be a better wife – definitely working on this one!

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So – the orange ones still need work. The green ones are done (yay!) and the purple ones are, well, no longer relevant or just aren’t going to happen. Bummer.

I still have a lot of work to do by January.