101 things in 1001 days

Update

Day 48

GAH! Agonizing whine ... shame on me!!! How dare I make a list and ignore it for the better part of this 2nd month. I have to admit, I think I need to re-edit it. Some of the weekly tasks are just piling up. They aren't impossible, maybe I just need more motivation ....

Goal Complete #7 Buy a PS3!! BOOYAH! Actually, it fits nicely into our life. I love it because it brings me Netflix. Corey loves it because he can play NHL 11 and COD with his friends and he doesn't even have to leave the house.


#19. Give Corey a massage once a week (2/143) (owe 5$ charity). This one just ... doesn't happen. It's too hard to keep track of ... wait. I just got a new agenda, maybe I will keep the challenge. I might have an easier time keeping track.

22. Cuddle with Corey on the couch, with a blanket/popcorn/pop/iced tea watch a movie/tv/play a game once a week (7/143) This one is easy actually.

26. Update my wardrobe (at least 2 new pants, 3-4 new shirts, a skirt, panties, sweater, 1 pair of shoes) I'm actually doing good. Updated 2 new shirts, and a new sweater! Which is good because my old one was starting to get holey.

31. Make a habit of folding one basket of laundry and doing one hour of cleaning before going on the computer. Not that tough, now that it's a habit. I will admit it's not always BEFORE going on the computer but ... I'm still calling it a success.

35. Complete at least 4 scrapbook pages per month. (0/33) Crap. I have the 4 pages almost done, but still have 4 more to do for this month. I better pitter patter, just a little over a week left in this month.

43. Do yoga at least 2 times per week. For 15 minutes.(0/286) (owe 14$ to charity) Wow. I'm majorly sucking at this one.
46. Go for a walk. Once a week.(0/143) (owe charity 7$) This one also less successful.

86. No computer for a full 24 hours. Once a month. (0/33) Failed last month. Kind of just forgot about it. I won't fail this month. I'm determined. How. Hard. Can it be? (is preparing to go into full out withdrawal)

88. Blog about each goal completed/failed
89. Post at least once a week on the new blog and once a month on the old (www.thelinfitts.blogspot.com) (7/143) (1/33) Pretty easy to keep up on these two.

96. Read 52 books in 52 weeks. (5/52)  Golem in the Gears (Piers Anthony)

There. All updated. :)

Task Complete!

Day 14


# 28 - Label all our movies

I actually did this one by accident. It wasn't like I planned it out and had a system. I just basically cut out little pieces of paper that said 'c.linfitt' and taped it on to each dvd case.

It started because I wanted to make my living room more efficient and save myself from constantly pulling my son out of my dvd's and wires and what not. It was a two day project but it worked out quite nicely. Even managed to still do my 1 hour of cleaning and 1 load of laundry a day. I'm hoping eventually to push the laundry to every 2nd day (you know ... for the environment) or even being able to adjust it to twice a week ... something will come up once I get a nice system going.

Proof I labeled my DVDs

It's quite surprising how much cleaning can get done in 1 hour. I never realized it only takes me 10-15 minutes to do dishes ... way less than that sometimes. then to wipe the counters and sweep the floors ... then I even, quite often, have time to clean the bathroom. Last week, I had time to reorganize the bathroom. That did set me back but now I'm even getting to the point that I can plan to do other things/projects in that one hour. Like the basement, the kids rooms, our room, clean the fridge, organize cupboards, keep a running grocery list. It's quite nice. Although I do get 'set back' when my routine is interrupted, even on my sleepiest days I can still muster energy for an hour of cleaning and some laundry. I try to get the kitchen (dishes done and counters cleaned and the floors swept), the porch tidied, a load of laundry in the wash, dried and put away, living room tidied, bathroom tidied and the kids bedrooms tidied. Sometimes it all gets done and more ... and other times not. Sometimes I do exactly 1 hour of cleaning, and other times I keep going (especially project wise)



# 93 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Okay, you're right. It was easy because Amelie wanted to watch it. Still counts.

#96 - Nightmare by Piers Anthony - pretty much the rest of his books from this book on will be on this list haha. What can I say ... they are the bomb. (that means awesome) and I also read Dragon on a Pedestal by Piers Anthony.

#98 - Made a Spaghetti Casserole. It was alright. It had been intended for Gayle, but after eating it ... I realize it is probably not going to agree with baby Avery. Maybe if I took out the onion and red pepper, but then ... there wouldn't be much taste to it.

It was even good as a left over! I made some for Gayle but
I don't think it's a good idea now. She's eating bland.

I'm already failing some goals :


43. Do yoga at least 2 times per week. For 15 minutes.Harder than I thought it would be to get back into it.

46. Go for a walk. Twice a week.I just kept forgetting ... unless walking to the garbage bin counts.
So I already owe 4$ for each of those tasks. Lame-o. I won't count them as failed unless I either quit them, or complete less than half.

Charity = 6$
Kids = 20$
Seriously. I'm starting a spreadsheet for this.

I'm SO excited to start some spreadsheets for this!!!

Update! 101 in 1001 things

Okay since it's Sunday ... well actually Monday but ... pretend it's Sunday.

Day 8
Week 2

Or ... is it Day 7, Week 1 ....

I'm starting week 2. That's that.

Now, I was looking at my list and realized I didn't do a couple weekly things.Namely :

19. Give Corey a massage once a week (0/143)
22. Cuddle with Corey on the couch, with a blanket/popcorn/pop/iced tea watch a movie/tv once a week (0/143)
43. Do yoga at least 2 times per week. For 15 minutes.
46. Go for a walk. Twice a week.

Now I realize these should be 'fails' but I'm not going to count them. I had a very hectic, abnormal week, so I said, and Corey concurred, that if I catch up by the end of the week then it can still count. That is quite unfortunate that you don't agree. I hope you don't lose any sleep over it. I won't.

Now for goals that I'm working on .... # 22 went very well with #93. We watched Unforgiven.

I saw a guy on the screen and he said something along the lines of 'put yur gun down mister.' and I said 'THAT'S CLINT EASTWOOD' and Corey said 'no.' and it turned out that ... it was NOT Clint Eastwood. That's an old movie (ish) and ... Clint Eastwood was STILL old in there. Just. Sayin'.

Now money wise ...

Kids = 10$
Charity = 0$

Go me!