Amy's List of 101 (well..91)

1. Call DOE and find out what I need to do to teach
2. Take MTEL
3. Ger resume together for next summer (2010)
4. Find teaching job and start masters program (2010)
5. Put $5.00 in saving account for everything I cross off. $10.00 for everything I don’t
6. Start up 401k again
7. Create a budget and stick to it
8. Pay off CC's
9. Run and complete a half marathon
10. Walk or run in a race to benefit a cause
11. No more twickets
12. Work out 3 times a week
13. Don’t drink any alcohol for a month [0/31]
14. Only drink on weekends
15. Visit 5 states I’ve never been too [0/5]
16. Wake up early at the beach, walk to coast and collect seashells
17. Make a decision to drive, fly, or ride a train somewhere you haven’t been before – 45minutes before you go
18. Go on an unplanned road trip and only make left turns
19. Visit Europe
20. Take a salsa or ballroom dance class
21. Go skinnydipping
22. Learn to snowboard
23. Correct my golf swing (and just golf more in general!)
24. Go down a zip line
25. Hike to a spot and then camp out
26. Spend a day climbing trees
27. Go kayaking
28. Have someone plan an entire day for me and have no control over what happens
29. Jump off a cliff into a body of water
30. Play hooky from work and go to an afternoon baseball game
31. Catch a fly ball or homerun ball at a baseball game
32. Go to a book reading and have the author sign their book
33. Go on a picnic complete with basket and checkered blanket
34. Go ice skating at the rink in NYC
35. Watch a thunderstorm from Mt. Washington
36. Walk through all of central park
37. Lay in bed with someone all day
38. Watch the sunrise
39. Watch a classic Hollywood movie in a park
40. Find and master my signature dish
41. Serve that dish at a dinner party I host
42. Plant a vegetable & herb garden
43. Take MTEL practice test
44. Try Kobe Beef
45. Eat at one new restaurant a month [1/33]
46. Have a band make a shout out to me
47. Find a good signature joke
48. Learn how to change a tire
49. Learn to juggle
50. Go fishing
51. Frame all the artwork and photography I have
52. Finish all the books I’ve started before buying or starting any new ones
53. Finish sewing projects
54. launch thisnthat
55. Take a picture every day for at least a month straight [0/31]
56. Prove that I completed everything on the list somehow
57. Start and finish photo books of Jackson (2008 & 2009)
58. Create iDVD's with pictures videos (2008,2009,2010)
59. Volunteer somewhere (feeding homeless, etc.) at least once a year (0/3)
60. De-clutter my material possessions
61. Buy a single family house
62. Become a better decision maker
63. Donate blood
64. Help a stranger
65. Complete a random act of kindness every month [0/33]
66. Clean out my inboxes on all my email accounts..and consolidate to just two accounts. 4 is unnecessary
67. ????
68. Make a tastebook
69. Purchase toys for Toys for Tots each Christmas [1/3]
70. Don’t use any technology for an entire day [phone, ipod, computer, etc]
71. Find my favorite beer in all the land
72. Find a four leaf clover
73. Cook something new once a week (4/156)
74. Go through DVD's and organize and get rid of ones we don't watch
75. Write more thank you notes
76. Dress better for work, and life
77. Accessorize more
78. clean out crafting materials & donate/sell what I don't use
79. Go to a live taping of the Ellen Show

80. Visit Meg in Chicago
81. Donate wedding dress nubmer 1 to www.makingmemories.org
80. Attempt to sell wedding dress number 2
83. Shoot a gun
84. Change my last name on all my accounts
85. Make all the paper projects on my PaperSource calendar
86. Get a library card
87. Find a new HR job
88. Go rockclimbing
89. make a legal will
90. Knit jackson a hat
91. Finish Jackson's holiday quilt

77 out of 101..not bad..right?

So, bored at work and decided to work on my list. Well, technically the list I stole and am editing to suit my needs. So I'm up to 77, and now I'm stuck. Like Melissa, I remember thinking of many things that I should put on my list..things I'm sure Jill and I talked about, things I hope Jill remembers because I can't! Well, the coundown is on..lists are due at the end of the month, and the fun begins October 1st!!!

I hope everyone else is doing good on their lists. Maybe we shold email eachother the lists in case there are some that we didn't think of that others did and we can steal them :)

*Poof!!* Where'd it Go???

That's how I feel every time I try to sit down to start writing my list. I go through my day, and randomly a wonderful thought or idea will pop into my head, and I mentally bookmark it to add to my list later. However, it never gets there... It's not that the idea isn't meaningful or important, or isn't something that I really want to accomplish in 1001 days, but I just can't hold onto it. Maybe its my impending 30th birthday- early onset alzheimer's? Or maybe it's just difficult for me to sit down and solidly make out a plan- however casual it may be- for what I want to do with my life in the next three years. Maybe I'm afraid of committing to a list of things I want to accomplish, and then possibly not accomplish the entire list, and feel like a failure... I'm not as worried about the "easy" stuff (travel to XYZ, buy ABC, etc), but the more important, hallmark goals that I may not be able to achieve...

Anyone else feeling performance pressure about writing their list?