THE OFFICIAL STARTING DAY!!

DAY ONE: FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The Finalized List:

A Funny Thing About Teaching

1. Start my masters

2. Quit my job

3. Find a new job

4. Get a part time job

You Can’t Scare Me

5. Take a surfing lesson

6. Travel to a new continent (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, or Australia)

7. Climb a mountain

8. Go bungee jumping

9. Take a hot-air balloon ride

10. Travel to 3 new states

11. Visit Keeks in Cincinnati

12. Go to NYC

13. Swim in a new ocean

14. Go to an aquarium

15. Go to Kalahari with the QL’s

16. Runaway for a weekend

17. Return to the scene of the crime: Tracy’s - Ridgeland, SC

Young, Fabulous, and Broke

18. Save $3 dollars a day ($3003)

19. Save $20 for every item completed

20. Pay off my credit card

21. Make a budget – and stick to it!

22. Buy a new car

23. Buy myself a piece of jewelry

24. Don’t buy any clothing, purses, shoes, handbags, etc. for three months

We Have No Control of Our Own Hearts

25. Trace my family tree

26. Surprise someone

27. Visit 3 friends in their city (0/3)

28. Send 30 cards (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) (0/30)

29. Fall in love

30. Turn my cell phone off and enjoy the company of the people I’m with for an entire day at least 3 times (0/3)

31. Call a family member that I don’t see very often 15 times (0/15)

32. Visit family on more than just the holidays

33. Host a slumber party

34. Host a theme party

A Better Version of Me

35. Join a volunteer organization

36. Volunteer 20 times (0/20)

37. Write 15 hand written notes to people I care about for no special reason

38. Grow something (TBD)

39. Do three walks/ runs for a good cause

40. Give an abandoned pet a permanent home

41. Clean out all of my closets and drawers and donate anything I have not worn in the last year

42. Help a stranger 15 times (0/15)

43. Pay for the car behind me at a toll booth

44. Do something nice for someone who will never find out

45. Plant a tree

46. Write a positive customer service note

47. Scribblelaughs - Leave funny notes/ drawings in random places to make people laugh

48. Participate in the Susan G. Komen 3 Day

Curiosity Killed the Cat

49. Learn how to change a tire

50. Be EARLY to 25 engagements (0/25)

51. Learn how to do my own taxes

52. Get something published

53. Skydive

54. Learn something new (TBD)

55. Shoot a gun on a shooting range

56. Make a quilt out of important items from my family and friends

57. Pay attention to the little things and details

58. Take a cooking class

59. Learn to drive a manual car

60. Try 30 new restaurants (0/30)

61. Join a book club

62. Take a dance class

63. Go wall climbing

64. Learn how to be a better communicator

65. Find a dark room to develop my own pictures

66. Learn how to bounce back after a hard fall

I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This

67. Move Out

68. Live alone

69. Take a walk in the rain

70. Read 20 books (0/20)

71. Read a classic novel

72. Go ice skating in an outdoor rink

73. Keep my room completely clean everyday for at least 3 months

74. See 101 new movies (0/101)

75. Be more me without regret

76. Start and update a blog at least once a week

77. Go to five museums or exhibits (0/5)

78. Take pictures in a photo booth

79. See a Broadway play

80. Go for 50 walks (0/50)

81. Go 30 days without going out to a bar

82. Go for a midnight walk on the beach

83. Dance in the rain

84. Go to church 30 times (once a month)

85. Sleep under the stars

86. Sneak into a wedding

87. End an unhealthy relationship

88. Be more self-confident

89. Go “naked” :o)

90. Take at least one picture at every event that is important to me

91. Eat vegetarian for one week

92. Attend one professional sporting event each season

93. See 5 live shows (0/5)

94. Go to a sit down restaurant by myself

95. Mail a secret to PostSecret

96. Everyday record one thing I am grateful for, made me laugh, or made me happy

97. See a movie by myself

98. Finish a crossword puzzle

99. Swim with the polar bears, the people not the animals

100. Insert something here that I think of at a later time :o)

101. Have a party on Saturday November 5, 2011; to celebrate day 1001!