101 in 1001 List


I've been reading Mackenzie Horan's 101 in 1001 lists since she first started publishing them and I finally wrote my own. Some of my items are very realistic and I've actually already started crossing some things of the list, while others are more 'dreams' or are out of my control (like having a 2nd baby). Here's hoping I am able to accomplish most of these over the next three-ish years.

Start Date: July 17, 2020
End Date: April 14, 2023

11 down, 90 to go

Personal Development (3/13)
 1. Read 100 books (1 - The Amber Spyglass, 2 - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A                       Mostly True Memoir, 3 - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, 4 - The              Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, 5 - The Girls: An All-American Town, a
     Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts who Brought Him Down, 6 - Untamed,
     7 - The Winters in Bloom, 8 - The Underground Railroad, 9 - Hood Feminism: Notes from the
     Women that a Movement Forgot, 10 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her
     Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, 11 - Between the World and Me, 12 - All Adults Here, 13 - This
        is The Story of a Happy Marriage, 14 - The Female Persuasion, 15 - Sick: A Memoir, 16 - The              Family Upstairs, 17 - The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, 18 - Woman on             the Edge, )
 2. Read 25% BIPOC authors (1 - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness     
     by Austin Channing Brown, 2 - The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World     
     by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Carlton Abrams, 3 - The Underground                     Railroad by Colson Whitehead, 4 - Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement
     Forgot by Mikki Kendall, 5 - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, 6 - Sick: A Memoir          by Porochista Khakpour, 7 - The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by                       Desmond Cole)
 3. Investigate Lasik
 4. Post on my blog at least 2x per month (08/20,
✓ 5. Transfer important Dropbox documents and photos to Google drive (and delete Dropbox      account!)
✓ 6. Find a local hairdresser I like (I started going back to the woman who cut my hair as a teen; she
     lives in the same town as my mom so it works out great for childcare during my appointments!)
 7. Investigate Invisalign
 8. Journal every day for a month
✓ 9. Complete silver linings CBT course
 10. Swap all makeup/skincare to cruelty free
 11. Wear sunscreen every day
 12. Be able to describe what type of wine I like when asked
 13. Learn to needlepoint Professional (3/9)  14. Complete Masters in Inclusive Education through VIU
 15. Start using Twitter professionally and tweet 2 times/month
✓ 16. Update LinkedIn (and keep up to date)
✓ 17. Take on a part time resource position
 18. Find a mentor in district
✓ 19. Create a website to track professional development
 20. Write a short story
 21. Submit a short story to a journal
 22. Update my work wardrobe (somehow I only own 1 dress shirt?)

Marriage (0/8)
 23. Take a trip just the two of us
 24. Print and frame honeymoon photos
 25. Print and frame engagement photos
 26. Make a will
 27. Plan for baby #2
 28. Send Christmas cards (2020, 2021, 2022)
 29. Buy an electric vehicle with room to expand our family
 30. Celebrate our third (dinner at Les Faux Bourgeois), fourth, and fifth wedding anniversaries

Baby (3/16)
✓ 31. Celebrate Amelia's 1st birthday
✓ 32. Create/buy a height chart that we can move from home to home
 33. Take Amelia on an overnight camping trip (local)
 34. Take a second set of swimming lessons with Amelia
✓ 35. Go to science world
 36. Go to Granville island
 37. Go to the aquarium
 38. Go to Capilano suspension bridge
 39. Enrol her in dance or baby gymnastics
 40. Go to baby time at library when it reopens
 41. Go on a bike ride with Amelia
 42. Keep up to date with Amelia's baby book
 43. Take Amelia to Disney
 44. Go on a US road trip with Amelia
 45. Have a second baby
 46. Send thank you notes for second baby gifts
Family & Friends (0/13)  47. Visit Diane and Andreas in Manitoba
 48. Visit Traci and Dwayne on the Sunshine Coast
 49. Print and frame photos from Webb anniversary
 50. Send flowers to both Grandmas out of the blue
 51. Go to a Van Arts Club production with mom to make up for cancellation of Kinky Boots
 52. Plan a local family trip
 53. Visit friends in Calgary
✓ 54. Go 'mini' golfing with Grandma Webb
 55. Go on a double date with Cody and Maddi
 56. Go on a double date with Jason and Hilary
 57. Have a reunion with friends from University
 58. Host teacher friends for a dinner party
 59. Have neighbours over for wine & snacks to get to know them better

Home (1/11)

 60. Paint the living areas
 61. Wallpaper the 'office'
 62. Paint the master bedroom
 63. Decorate the master bedroom
✓ 64. Look into installing a/c (Decided against this)
 65. Install laminate upstairs (and on stairs?)
 66. Set up deck with patio furniture
 67. Set up container gardening on deck
 68. Create some type of shelving/organization for laundry
 69. Decorate 2nd baby's room
 70. Convert Amelia's room to accommodate overnight grandma visits

Fitness and Health (0/13)
 71. Meet my step goal every day for a week  72. Sell my cruiser bike and buy a road or gravel bike
 73. Complete a grand fondo
 74. Run 50 km in 1 week
 75. Run 200 km in 1month
 76. Run a 25 min 5k (stretch 24)
 77. Run a 52 min 10k (stretch 50)
 78. Run a sub 1:52 (stretch 1:50) half marathon
 79. Run a sub 4:10 (stretch 4) marathon
 80. Run a 10 k with a stroller
 81. Complete a 'try a tri' or sprint triathlon
 82. Eat vegetarian 6/7 days for one month
British Columbia (1/7)

 83. Go to the Okanagan for wine tastings
 84. Go to UBC apple festival
 85. Visit Bowen island with Edmund and Amelia
 86. Visit a new to us island
✓ 87. Go to a flower festival (Chilliwack Sunflower Festival)
 88. Stay overnight in Whistler
 89. Stay overnight in downtown Just for Fun (0/11)  90. Record our family histories (write it down!) so we can share it with our children
91. Kayak at least 5 times
 92. Go downhill skiing at least 4 times
 93. Go cross country skiing at least 2 times
 94. Learn to make at home lattes
 95. Try 20 new to me restaurants (Firehouse Grill - 26/07/20, Ancora - 31/07/20, Happy Day Cafe -          08/09/20)
 96. Buy nothing for a month (outside of food/toiletry necessities)
 97. Leave my phone behind on a vacation
 98. Completely unplug for one weekend
 99. Donate blood
 100. Have a social media free week
 101. Get a massage

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