101 Things in 1001 Days

One of my friends had posted a list of things she wanted to accomplish in various areas of her life over the course of 1001 days, this sounded like a good idea so I started to think about things that I wanted to accomplish in my life over the course of 1001 days...

Green to the right of items are items that I have started and/or have completed! I will post updates monthly of things I am working on!!! Hopefully even lists of the things I have read or made or even tried to cook!!!

Making a list of 101 things that you would like to accomplish or change in your life isn't as easy as it sounds. It took me several hours of reflecting on my life and the various areas that I would like to improve upon and the things I would like to accomplish. Here is what I came up with:

Starting date: Feb 9, 2010 Ending date: Feb. 15, 2013

Life:

1) Move into a bigger place by July 2010

2) Move all my stuff from OK to CO by Aug 2010

3) Train Kodi to stay, heel and COME when commanded

4) Do laundry weekly, fold and put away after finished --started

5) Keep house cleaner- vacuum, dust, clean rooms weekly -- started

6) Attempt to purchase a home

7) Close out storage unit (OK)

8) Have ONE night during the week for a DATE night

9) Have ONE weekend a month as a DATE weekend

Organization:

10) Find a system to organize my personal paperwork

11) File statements and receipts monthly

12) Set up craft area in office/spare room

13) Paint bedroom in OK for Kenz

14) Sort through my stuff at my parents house

15) Decorate room in OK for Kenz

16) Organize Kenz's room in OK

17) Set up family history information filing system with mom

18) Help mom organize MaAlan's storage unit

Technology:

19) Back up photos from my laptop- make CDs for me Summer 2010

20) Reformat laptop - Summer 2010

21) Make Syrina a photo cd of her life by Summer 2012

22) Update blog at least once a month...

23) Read Nikon camera user's guide -- started

24) Purchase own MacBook/Pro by Feb 2013

25) Scan MaAlan's recipes

26) Make CD of MaAlan's recipes

27) Start scanning my baby/childhood pictures

Relationships:

28) Have Girls Night Out once a month to scrap/hangout

29) ????? - To Be Revealed Later

30) ????? - To Be Revealed Later

31) Have girls come visit in Co

32) ????? - To Be Revealed Later

Health

33) Eat a salad at least once a week

34) Drink only one soda/day

35) Drink only juice/water for one week/month

36) Walk-jog for 30 min/day 3 times a week

37) Compete in a 5K run

38) Workout 3 times/week cardio

39) Work out 2 times/week for weight training/toning

40) Try 15 new recipes -- 1/15

41) Eat at home 5 nights/week

Career:

42) Organize Autism info into one file

43) Start reinvesting in 403B again

44) Organize Personal Library Index of books

45) Gather more information on Autism/A.B.A/Behavior Specialist

46) Create 5 units/lesson plans for 5 books PK-K

47) Create 5 units/lesson plans for 5 books 1-2

Education

48) Find a grad program (Spec. Ed/Autism/Behavior Spec/Reading Spec)

49) Start 2nd Master's program

50) Complete Spanish 1

51) Complete Spanish 2

52) Complete 12 hours towards Master's degree

Adventures

53) Learn to ski

54) Get a weekly ski pass

55) Build Winter Wardrobe

56) Sky-dive or paraglide once

57) Purchase snowshoes

58) Snowshoe hikes once/week during Winter

59) Regular hikes at least once/week Spring-Fall

Travel

60) Renew passport

61) Get 3 stamps in new passport

62) Organize information (type up) for travel notebook

63) Print up travel notebook information

64) Travel to Scotland

65) Travel to France or Spain

66) Go on another cruise

67) Go on 5 roadtrips with Ian (Ok does NOT count) --1/5

Hobbies

68) Read 100 books --3/100

69) Learn to knit --started 02/10

70) Knit something functional --"coin purse" 02/10

71) Improve photography skills

72) Finish Syrina's quilt

73) Piece together Kenzie's top of quilt

74) Quilt Kenzie's quilt

75) Finish Kenzie's quilt

Photography/Scrap Projects

76) Update girls photo albums (07-09)

77) Finish vol 1 (09-10) scrapbook

78) Make hardback book (09-10)

79) Start/Finish vol 2 (10-11) scrapbook

80) Make hardback book (10-11)

81) Make calendar 2011- us/parents

82) Start Finish vol 3 (11-12) scrapbook

83) Make hadback book (11-12)

84) Make calendar 2012- us/parents

85) Start/Finish vol 4 (12-13) scrapbook

86) Make hardback book (12-13)

87) Make calendar 2013- us/parents

88) Start vol 5 (13-14) scrapbook

89) Update girls albums 2010-2013

90) Make scrapbook for parents

91) Make scrapbook of ????? (TBD)

92) Make hardback book of ????? (TBD)

93) Update MaAlan's scrapbook

94) Make photo book for Syrina

95) Make photo book for Kenzie

Other

96) Trade in "sports car" for "family SUV"

97) Put at least $50/mo in savings

98) Open savings account in Co

99) Close TPCU account in Ok

100) Accomplish at least 80% of list

101) Make new list! :)

Hello the big 3-0!!!

Last Monday (aka President's Day) I celebrated my 30th birthday in STYLE!!!

Prior to my birthday weekend, I went to Denver Thursday-Saturday for an amazing conference on Inclusive Education for children with disabilities. The conference was amazing and I had the chance to hang out with Kim and Traci outside of work!

Ian picked me up from the special education conference in Denver and whisked me off to Boulder for Saturday night and then Estes Park for Sunday/Monday! I am so lucky (at least I think I am) to have a long weekend for my birthday!!! Gotta love Valentine's Day and President's Day!!!

Boulder is a cute city, note it isn't a town... it is an actual city! It kinda reminded me of a smaller Tulsa, regardless, I was thrilled to be in a place that had stores that NORMAL people could afford to enter and shop! We ate at Olive Garden, a place I have been wanting to visit since we went home for Christmas. Only problem was that dinner didn't stay with me for long... actually past the parking lot... unfortunately I had a slight coughing fit and needless to say, before we pulled out of the parking lot, I had an empty stomach! We didn't go out after dinner since it had been an incredibly long day of driving for Ian (snow storm and a sidetrip to Breckenridge for my Valentine's Day gift) and a long day of conference listening. Our hotel was awesome, although I wish we had had more energy to go enjoy the hottub that night!

Sunday we woke up, visited Barnes & Noble, then headed off towards Estes Park. The Stanley Hotel is as beautiful in person as it is online and in photos!!! We still need to go through the hotel and take the official ghost tour at the Stanley. But I digress. We stayed at the Wildwood Inn in a 1 bedroom condo/apartment with a hottub in the living room, fireplace, huge bedroom with king bed and a full kitchen. We walked around town for a little bit, bought some new rocks and fossils for our collections then bought groceries for the night. For Valentine's Day we decided to have our own romantic night in, instead of going to a restaurant. We cooked steaks on the George Foreman Grill, made some mashed potatoes, and had some wine for dinner. We watched some incredibly addictive T.V. shows before enjoying the hottub in our room!

For Valentine's Day, Ian gave me the BEST gift EVER!!!! He stopped on his way to Denver at Breckenridge at the shop that we always visit and bought me a sock monkey hat and glove set. The gloves look like sock puppets!!! The set is sooo cute!!! For my birthday, Ian had arranged for me to have a massage and facial with his cousin Berkeley! I get a day of being pampered by one of my favorite people in Basalt!!!! I am so incredibly lucky!!!

Before leaving Estes Park, we stopped in town again and had our picture taken at the "old time" picture place at the "saloon." I feel like I am the luckiest girl!!! Thirty is going to be fun!!!

We celebrated my birthday for the entire week! We had dinner on my birthday at Riverside with our favorite bartenders, Dave and Donna... then on Friday had dinner with Berkeley, Russell, Traci and Jeri at a small Italian restaurant in El Jebel!

Good-bye 20's... HELLO 30's!!!!

February...

Welcome to February... once again, I am sick on the first week of the month... for the past 5 years I have managed to get an upper respiratory infection or bronchitis/pneumonia type virus the week of the 100th day of school!

This week has been a stressful week. Not only have I been sick, but I had a meeting with my supervisor with BOCES (my employer) on Friday. I found out that it has been requested that I be removed from the school I have been serving since August. I am thinking that a lot of the issues are more political than directly aimed at me professionally, but it is still hard to not take what has been said to heart. I have thoroughly enjoyed working in that building with so many wonderful kids, teachers and para-professionals. I am going to miss them terribly. I hope that the decision to place me in 3 middle schools (grades 5-8) and 1 high school isn't set up for me to fail. I know I am a good speech therapist and that my heart is in the right place when it comes to my kids.

This week is going to be a weird week. I am starting my new assignment, going to Denver for what I hope to be an AMAZING conference on Inclusive Education and then to Estes Park with the boy for my 30th birthday!!!!

I will post soon with my 101 things that I hope to accomplish in 1001 days... thanks to Bethany for the idea!