Start Date: October 1, 2020
End Date: June 29, 2023
Spiritual
- Do an “Old Testament Survey” type of study
- Read the New Testament in two weeks
- Complete a whole devotional book
- Write down an attribute of God for every letter of the alphabet
Home/Organization
- Basement organized, everything on shelves
- Redo the hall closet
- Remodel bedroom-comforter, paint, decor, window treatment
- Take shelf down in The Room and replace it with something else
- Set up a Pinterest board for every room in the house
- Do 5 small home improvement projects (ex. plants, kitchen towels, artwork, etc)
Knitting/Crochet/Sewing
- Learn to knit English and do 2 color knitting
- Knit 3 Mother Bears
- Dye my bare Knit Picks yarn
- Knit 2 hats for charity and give them away along with all the other hats you still haven’t donated
- Sew an apron for myself and for my sisters and daughters
- Sew a shirt
- Sew a pair of lounge pants
- Host a craft day here
- Complete a small cross stitch project including framing or other way to display
Entertainment
- Watch Pride and Prejudice
- Go to a movie at the theater
- Go bowling
- Listen to 5 songs each by 5 classical composers
- Play a game with family or anyone for 7 days straight
Books/Reading
- Read a book in one day
- Ask 5 people their favorite book and read them
- Read 3 books of 500+ pages
- Have an all day reading day (minimum 8 hours)
- Read all 8 books mentioned in Eight Perfect Murders then read that book (can DNF any you don’t like including EPM)
- Read a book randomly pulled off a library shelf
- Read the entire catalog of one author
- Join a book club or literary society
- Participate in “Middle Grade March” - read at least one middle grade per week in the month of March (any year of this list)
Fashion/Beauty
- Try Stitch Fix
- Get highlights in my hair again
Family/Children
- Do a Lifebook for Lindsey and Allison
- Put together journals for Ben, Lindsey, and Allison
- Finish Lindsey’s 100 Good Wishes Quilt and scrapbook
- Finish Allison’s 100 Good Wishes Quilt and scrapbook. (need more wishes?)
Exercise
- Bike ride with Jay
- Get 50,000 steps in one day
- Walk a 10K
- Play tennis with someone (or a family tennis marathon?)
Food
- Have a smoothie every day for a week
- Eat a whole meal with chopsticks
- Make Sour Soup
Places to Go
- Snowshoeing.
- Drive-in movie
- Wisconsin State Fair
- Lake Geneva cruise with Jay
- LaCrosse
- Go to 3 libraries you’ve never been to
- Visit a national park
- Travel to a state I’ve never been to
- Go on a walk on the trail in Hortonville
- Visit 3 new cities
To Buy
- Jean jacket
- An old Bible at an antique store or thrift store
- A new puzzle
- A new wallet
- A new purse
- A new sewing machine
- Something to display my pencil collection
- New glasses
To Learn
- Learn to play a ukulele (minimum 3 songs reasonably well)
- Learn CPR
- Learn to play a new classic card game like bridge or sheepshead
- Learn a new song on the piano and be able to play it well
- Read a children’s book in German
- Complete a word puzzle book
- Take ballroom dancing lessons with Jay
- Be able to identify every country in the world
Miscellaneous
- Write a letter to myself by 10/14/20 to open when this is over (June 29, 2023)
- Write a letter to myself by 10/14/20 to open in 10 years (October 1, 2030)
- Write a letter to myself on January 1, 2021 to read on December 31, 2021
- Write a letter to myself on January 1, 2022 to read on December 31, 2022
- Take a day out for myself
- Save $50 in change
- Host an all day Game Day
- Host a Soup Party
- Volunteer somewhere
- Do a Random Act of Kindness (send someone flowers, leave $ somewhere, pick up trash, give someone baked goods, etc.)
- Use all gift cards
- Make a Chester photo book
- Get a professional family portrait done
- Go one week without spending (not including bills)
- Sleep until noon
- Make an Advent Calendar
- Try geocaching or letterboxing
- Spend a day going to garage sales
- Play Kick the Can
- Memorize the Gettysburg Address
- Sell homeschool books
- Leave a book and take a book at a neighborhood “library”
- Finish yarn puzzle
- Do dog puzzle
- Declutter 100 items in one week
- Take a family selfie once a month for a year
- Finish a Sudoku puzzle
- Rock painting with my sisters
- Go ziplining
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Close to half of the items were on my previous list, either word for word or some form of it. Making Lifebooks, journals, and 100 Good Wishes Quilts have been on all 3 lists! They're big projects that I just haven't taken the time to do (though they're all partially done). I hope to at least make some good progress on them!
I already finished 3 of the items. I finished the letter to myself to open at the end of the 1001 days (#73), and the letter to myself to open in 10 years (#74). I also had a Soup Party (#80) on Saturday for Allison's birthday. It was fun, I'll do it again. I made Creamy Carrot Soup and Potato/Broccoli/Corn Chowder; Kathy made chicken noodle; and Ginny made Cheesy Broccoli.
I have started working on:
- #4 Write down an attribute of God for every letter of the alphabet.
- #9 Set up a Pinterest board for every room in the house
- #23 Listen to 5 songs each by 5 classical composers.
- #29 Read all 8 books mentioned in Eight Perfect Murders then read that book
- (can DNF any you don’t like including EPM)
- #70 Complete a word puzzle book.
- #72 Be able to identify every country in the world.
- #78 Save $50 in change.
- #95 Finish yarn puzzle.
