Nerds With Birds

The 101 goals in 1001 days List:
Started 11/3/07 and ending on 7/31/10
(14 done, 3 in progress, 87 to work on still)

1. Move to a farm with some land
2. Quit drinking soda for a month(it really is bad for you)
3. Buy a flock of babydoll sheep (only if I have the land)
4. Visit Niagra Falls
5. Ride in a helicopter
6. Get all my dental work completed (1 more procedure)
7. Get 1/2 the classes required for an animal science degree
8. Complete the kids scrapbooks up to school age
9. Buy a kiln
10. Buy a pottery wheel
11. Learn to speak spanish
12. Start another retirement fund (MCI took our old one *grr*) (401k started in ‘08)
13. Get a fire proof gun safe - to store guns but also valuables and important things
14. Restore an old airstream travel trailer (well get it started anyway)
15. Keep to my budget for three months
16. Go one week without spending any money at all (not including direct debits for bills)
17. Travel to 10 new states
18. Get through at least 1 novel/book without skipping to the end (Jenny MaCarthy Life Laughs)
19. Stock at least 2 weeks worth in case of emergency (food,water,heat ect) (Heat down, water down!)
20. Get a Tattoo (I really want the kids newborn footprints but it just seems like to much detail…ya know?!)
21. Get passport’s for Me, Jay and the kids
22. Paint a picture on canvas
23. Go see Bodies or Body Worlds exhibit (In Branson 9/07)
24. Buy a large flatscreen tv
25. Send a message in a bottle
26. Contact/Find old school friends (I’ve found more than I thought *L*)
27. Reduce all debt (except the house) down to zero and stay that way for 6 months
28. Go on vacation to somewhere that I’ve never been before for a week
29. Write three letters of thanks/praise about a good service/product
30. Learn how to spin wool
31. Get my CHL
32. Get some type of solar energy started
33. Rain barrels under the gutter drains
34. Start my vermiculture under the rabbit’s (WooHoo free garden mulch for next year!)
35. Kinda goes with above but buy my favorite handgun
36. Start a farming business
37. Meet everyone on my Dad’s side of the family
38. Win some cash in Vegas
39. Sleep in - all weekend!
40. Read from a book everyday for 1 month (thanks to English 101 *L*)
41. Visit the house of shock haunted house in New Orleans, LA @ Halloween
42. Celebrate my 30th birthday out somewhere
43. Learn to play guitar (not electric)
44. Learn how to belly dance
45. Learn to use sign language
46. Spend a day riding roller coasters
47. Enter something at the fair
48. Have at least $4,000 in my savings account by the time I complete this list.
49. Go without fast food for an entire month
50. Submit a post secret @ postsecret.com
51. Put all my cd’s on my ipod
52. Read the entire bible
53. Do 10 RAOK (random acts of kindness)
54. Acquire a WWII food ratio coupon book with coupons
55. Create a shadowbox in honor of my grandfather
56. Learn how to drive a standard without giving myself whiplash *L*
57. Become an expert on something historical
58. Sew a complete outfit - that I would wear in public
59. Scan all my photo’s into the computer
60. Can/Preserve something from my garden
61. Learn to scuba dive
62. Eat at 10 restaurants I’ve never eaten at before (2 down 8 to go)
63. Crochet Cody a Mario Bros. blanket
64. Teach Anubis to not jump on you
65. Send a care package to a soldier
66. Volunteer in Habitat for Humanity
67. Complete my brain Age everyday for a month on my Nintendo DS. (ahh I’m back to zero)
68. Watch all seasons of Lost
69. Go gambling with Becky
70. Get a professional Massage
71. Blog at least once every week for a year (Started 4/19 so far so good)
72. Get better at knitting and actually complete a knit project
73. Learn 10 new crochet stitches
74. Meet up (in person) with a childhood friend
75. Get involved with PTA
76. Enroll Cody in either 4-H (he has to be 8) or Boy Scouts(1st grade for cubscouts)
77. Enroll Emily in Girl Scouts
78. Actually clean out the attic and fix the floor up there
79. Get my Dad’s side of the family tree completed
80. Keep this URL and create a book from my blog
81. Learn to grill a steak
82. Start getting all veggie’s @ the farmers market
83. Create a kitchen rag rug
84. Have MawMaw teach me to quilt
85. Goes with above but make a quilt *L*
86. Buy an actual nice bedroom set
87. Take the kids to Disneyworld
88. Take the family to get locked down in Alcatraz
89. Potty Train Emily (Currently in progress)
90. Build A Snowman
91. Teach Cody and Emily to Swim
92. Go play bingo with Holly at a bingo hall
93. Go geocaching
94. Spend New Years Eve in New York watching the ball drop in person
95. Visit the Diamond Mines in Arkansas
96. List/Buy/Get something off craigslist (Sold the potbelly on craigslist *L*)
97. Buy an outfit that isn’t on sale or clearance
98. Visit the titanic museum in Branson
99. Make 5 recipes from my gramma and 5 from my mom
100. Reach Pro status in all the Wii Sports games
101. Complete all the tasks on this list then create a new one!

Bookmarks:

• My favorite kids craft site
• Weird news & gadgets *L*
• Craftster
• Get Crafty
• Roadside America
• Blog Search Engine
• Etsy
• SlickDeals - Freebie Board
• FatWallet
• OLS - Sweepstakes Community
• Woot!
• BzzAgent - Be a Product Tester!
• Moola!Free fun game to win real money - only by invite. Send me a message and I’ll send you an invite :)

TV Shows we watch:

1. Jericho <—it’s gone forever now :(
   
2. House M.D. <— The best show on TV
3. Medium
4. Prison Break <—-Getting kinda weird now
5. Deadliest Catch
6. Big Brother <—I quit watching this year
   
7. Survivor <—This year sucked
8. Ghost Whisperer
9. Signing Time!
10. Cold Case

Podcasts I listen to:

1. Geek Farm Life

Books to buy:

1. All of the “Storeys guide to…” (chickens,sheep,pigs,farm stuff)
2. Serendipity books (any of them - Collecting them for Emily)
3. Choose your own adventure books (any of them - Collecting them for Cody)