mmmmmmmmmmm, so far how am I doing? Honestly, not sure.
I think about it and how things might be done and where I should start and then get slightly distracted.
So far I have:
Written to some friends: the old fashioned way with pen & paper.
I have written a letter to my eldest as it was her birthady: I've decided to keep these safe for both DD's to fine when I eventually die ( and for anyone reading I ain't gonna do that anytime soon I hope). Or possibly if they have kids.
I have read The Time Travellers Wife: Bought it yesterday and couldn't put it down, finally finished at 0132 this morning!
Am also making progress with the debts thing: according to these 'snowball'calculators I will be debt free in 6 years- stuff that for a game of soldiers.......I want to be debt free by the date staed here.......watch this space people, watch this space
What did I put-get through my divorce? we shall see as this is ongoing, hopefully get the first stage by the end of august.
I suppose the question that should be asked is WHY do we choose to take part in this? WHY do we want to post our ideas and hopes all over the internet for starngers to see?
Me, maybe it's to give me a kick up the backside, maybe it's because it is fairly anonymous, maybe someone else has a better idea. Mind you will anyone else ever read it....
Friday, 24 July 2009
Saturday, 18 July 2009
ok, how far have I go with starting down my list........... I have a pot for my Rainy day fund.
I've never ever been in a position to have savings and would love to have at least £5,000 somewhere for emergancies or a once in a lifetime trip when I retire/have a birthday type of thing. And as soon as I clear the debt then the money that I save for that will go to my fund. Have nearly cleared my credit card, that will be done by Sep...it didn't have a large balance but it was there, and so it will go.
Usually on the 1st of Jan every year I send a list to a close friend of all that I hope to achieve during the year and I get a list back from them. Honestly I don't complete most of mine and then spend the rest of the year beating myself up about what I haven't achieved.
And why haven't I achieved or just DONE any of it???? I'm lazy.
No excuses.
I have also managed not to buy any diet/full fat coke so far. I am addicted but a) it's not good for me and b) money. Money for the rainy day/holiday/debts/fun.
more to follow......
I've never ever been in a position to have savings and would love to have at least £5,000 somewhere for emergancies or a once in a lifetime trip when I retire/have a birthday type of thing. And as soon as I clear the debt then the money that I save for that will go to my fund. Have nearly cleared my credit card, that will be done by Sep...it didn't have a large balance but it was there, and so it will go.
Usually on the 1st of Jan every year I send a list to a close friend of all that I hope to achieve during the year and I get a list back from them. Honestly I don't complete most of mine and then spend the rest of the year beating myself up about what I haven't achieved.
And why haven't I achieved or just DONE any of it???? I'm lazy.
No excuses.
I have also managed not to buy any diet/full fat coke so far. I am addicted but a) it's not good for me and b) money. Money for the rainy day/holiday/debts/fun.
more to follow......
Sunday, 12 July 2009
The List
The List
1) pay off debts £9K
2) Reach Blue Belt for Tae Kwon Do Grading
3) Half Marathon time: 1hr 40mins
4) Marthon Time : sub 3:30
5) Learn Russian
6) Learn Japanese
7) Complete OU Degree
8) 1 race per month
9) Learn to cook 20 new dishes
10) send a message in a bottle
11) write a book of things/memories for my daughters
12) Learn to ride a horse fairly well
13) take a hot air balloon ride
14) re visit Paris
15) Buy a digital camera
16) take a holiday with my sister
17) Write a book
18) Take my daughters to all the places that I have lived
19) Do some consitent voluntary work
20) raise money for Charity: minimum of £5K
21) learn to surf PROPERLY ( not just fall in as I seem to do)
22) Learn to snowboard properly ( or better than I do to save on the bruises)
23) Help out at school fetes/BBQ's ect
24) learn to make and decorate birthday cakes
25) grow my own veg in the garden
26) Buy a bottle of seriously champangne
27) learn to forgive my ex husband
28) Read all the Austin novels ( last read at 16 and hated)
29) Buy the last book in the TimeWars series
30) Have a spa day
31) Give blood x4
32) Visit the Natural History Museum
33) Learn to swim CRAWL properly
34) Visit Moscow in the snow
35) Take a salsa class
36) write a letter to my daughters on each birthday: saying their achievments
37) write a letter to me on my birthday
38) take a series of climbing lessons
39) swim the distance of the english channel in one go in the swiming pool
40) Go see Othello on stage
41) Buy a hardback illustrated copy of LoR
42) Read 1 new book a month by an author I have never heard of
43) Have a photo shoot with little sis and daughter's
44) Start a 'rainy day fund'
45) make sure my assignments are in a week early
46) Run The Jungle Marathon
47) Run The Paris Marathon
48) Buy fresh flowers for my bedroom/living room at leats twice a month
49) Watch 3 LoR back to back
50) watch entire series of Buffy over a weekend
51) Make a painting
52) Make a 3 1/2 hr trip to visit some friends
53) Buy a lottery ticket once a week
54) eat 2 pieces of fruit a day
55) Watch a foreign language film every other month
56) Go Blond!!!! ( only colour I haven't been)
57) spend day on the beach making sand castles
58) spend an evening drinking champagne/eating pizza with someone I love
59)Learn how to make a webpage
60) Find an old friend that I have lost touch with
61) Take my Fencing Coaching qualifications for all 3 styles
62) make fresh bread at least twice a week
63) get a penfiend
64) sponser a child
65) Make a will
66) send flowers to my mother
67) send flowers to a friend
68) have some photo's taken ( I hate that)
69) get my car serviced once a year
70) decorate and hold a halloween party for the kids
71) buy some posh underware
72) enter a contest
73)buy a pair of converse allstars
74) have 1 night a month playing board games with kids
75) learn sign language
76) read a favourite book, buy it for a friend ,write a note inside and post to them
77) Lay flowers for my father
78) write to my friends
79) re read Death of a Salesman and Paradise lost
80) NO diet coke/full fat coke: money into a savings pot
81) do not buy magazines ( get 2 on subscription don't need any more)
82) listen to/buy 1 new album a month of someone I don't know
83) Take a trapeese lesson
84) watch Pretty in pink & breakfast at Tiffenys
85) Take part in The Tough Guy
86) Plant flowers in the garden
87) do 1/2 hr of yoga twice a week
88) tell someone that I love them and mean it
89) wash the car at least twice a month ( and clean it inside!!!!)
90) make a list of 100 cities to visit and start saving
91) get my divorce out of the way
92) create a budget and stick to it
93) get a massage every 2 months
94) download all my cd's to the PC
95) run the underround
96) run The Roman Run in sub 2;45
97) buy 1 item of 'designer' clothing
98) send a surprise to a friend because I can
99) teach my daughters and their friends to make at least 5 types of cake
100) make a spounge cake that doesn't explode
1) pay off debts £9K
2) Reach Blue Belt for Tae Kwon Do Grading
3) Half Marathon time: 1hr 40mins
4) Marthon Time : sub 3:30
5) Learn Russian
6) Learn Japanese
7) Complete OU Degree
8) 1 race per month
9) Learn to cook 20 new dishes
10) send a message in a bottle
11) write a book of things/memories for my daughters
12) Learn to ride a horse fairly well
13) take a hot air balloon ride
14) re visit Paris
15) Buy a digital camera
16) take a holiday with my sister
17) Write a book
18) Take my daughters to all the places that I have lived
19) Do some consitent voluntary work
20) raise money for Charity: minimum of £5K
21) learn to surf PROPERLY ( not just fall in as I seem to do)
22) Learn to snowboard properly ( or better than I do to save on the bruises)
23) Help out at school fetes/BBQ's ect
24) learn to make and decorate birthday cakes
25) grow my own veg in the garden
26) Buy a bottle of seriously champangne
27) learn to forgive my ex husband
28) Read all the Austin novels ( last read at 16 and hated)
29) Buy the last book in the TimeWars series
30) Have a spa day
31) Give blood x4
32) Visit the Natural History Museum
33) Learn to swim CRAWL properly
34) Visit Moscow in the snow
35) Take a salsa class
36) write a letter to my daughters on each birthday: saying their achievments
37) write a letter to me on my birthday
38) take a series of climbing lessons
39) swim the distance of the english channel in one go in the swiming pool
40) Go see Othello on stage
41) Buy a hardback illustrated copy of LoR
42) Read 1 new book a month by an author I have never heard of
43) Have a photo shoot with little sis and daughter's
44) Start a 'rainy day fund'
45) make sure my assignments are in a week early
46) Run The Jungle Marathon
47) Run The Paris Marathon
48) Buy fresh flowers for my bedroom/living room at leats twice a month
49) Watch 3 LoR back to back
50) watch entire series of Buffy over a weekend
51) Make a painting
52) Make a 3 1/2 hr trip to visit some friends
53) Buy a lottery ticket once a week
54) eat 2 pieces of fruit a day
55) Watch a foreign language film every other month
56) Go Blond!!!! ( only colour I haven't been)
57) spend day on the beach making sand castles
58) spend an evening drinking champagne/eating pizza with someone I love
59)Learn how to make a webpage
60) Find an old friend that I have lost touch with
61) Take my Fencing Coaching qualifications for all 3 styles
62) make fresh bread at least twice a week
63) get a penfiend
64) sponser a child
65) Make a will
66) send flowers to my mother
67) send flowers to a friend
68) have some photo's taken ( I hate that)
69) get my car serviced once a year
70) decorate and hold a halloween party for the kids
71) buy some posh underware
72) enter a contest
73)buy a pair of converse allstars
74) have 1 night a month playing board games with kids
75) learn sign language
76) read a favourite book, buy it for a friend ,write a note inside and post to them
77) Lay flowers for my father
78) write to my friends
79) re read Death of a Salesman and Paradise lost
80) NO diet coke/full fat coke: money into a savings pot
81) do not buy magazines ( get 2 on subscription don't need any more)
82) listen to/buy 1 new album a month of someone I don't know
83) Take a trapeese lesson
84) watch Pretty in pink & breakfast at Tiffenys
85) Take part in The Tough Guy
86) Plant flowers in the garden
87) do 1/2 hr of yoga twice a week
88) tell someone that I love them and mean it
89) wash the car at least twice a month ( and clean it inside!!!!)
90) make a list of 100 cities to visit and start saving
91) get my divorce out of the way
92) create a budget and stick to it
93) get a massage every 2 months
94) download all my cd's to the PC
95) run the underround
96) run The Roman Run in sub 2;45
97) buy 1 item of 'designer' clothing
98) send a surprise to a friend because I can
99) teach my daughters and their friends to make at least 5 types of cake
100) make a spounge cake that doesn't explode
1001 start
Having seen this on the MSE website of a challenge I decided to have a go for myself.
This is also posted on www.dayzeroproject.com.
Why?
I've always tried to think of a list of things to do every year....have I managed all of them? no...some of them...yes.....make that maybe. But there are always there at the back of my mind along with the excuses as to why I have never managed to complete them or more to the point of even starting them, and then I get annoyed as I haven't managed them.
So it's time to make my goals public.
This is a list of 101 things that I want to accomplish in 1001 days. So, starting today my finish date is Sunday 8th April 2012- not as far off as I think!!
List to follow
This is also posted on www.dayzeroproject.com.
Why?
I've always tried to think of a list of things to do every year....have I managed all of them? no...some of them...yes.....make that maybe. But there are always there at the back of my mind along with the excuses as to why I have never managed to complete them or more to the point of even starting them, and then I get annoyed as I haven't managed them.
So it's time to make my goals public.
This is a list of 101 things that I want to accomplish in 1001 days. So, starting today my finish date is Sunday 8th April 2012- not as far off as I think!!
List to follow
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