101 in 1001

Together with Tilly Bud over at The Laughing Housewife we’re attempting our very own Day Zero project!!

The Challenge:

To set oneself 101 tasks, each to be completed over a period of 1001 days. Tasks should be realistically achievable and yet demanding! The list should be clear and unambiguous.

My Reasons:

I saw this idea on another blog and felt it to be the perfect challenge for me because:

Being a stay-at-home mum of four, it’s easy to let the years roll by, concentrating, for the most, part on the children and the husband, but in the process losing sight of oneself.

It’s important to me how my family see me. If I inspire them. If I make them proud.

I will be 40 next year (gulp) and I am very aware that there are certain things I have wanted to do for a while now, but just haven’t taken the time to actually do.

That, and I like lists. 😉

Would you be interested in joining us in our challenge? If the answer’s yes click here. If it’s maybe, then refer to yes. 😉

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Start date: 25.03.2011
Finish date: 21.12.2013

Key: task completed, in progress, to be started
* Count starts from 25.03.2011

My Tasks

1. Complete this list (27/31)

Take Blogging and Writing Seriously

1. Blog 303 times*  (163/303)
2. Finish writing my book
3. Have a piece of writing published
4. Write a children’s story
5. Hit 50,000 visits on my blog (30,662/50,000)
6. Reach 101 Facebook fans (101/101)
7. Attain 101 flags visiting my blog (101/101)
8. Attain 101 different countries on blog flag counter (101/101)
9. Have a guest blogger write a post
10. Maintain this list at least once a month* (15/33)
11. Use a poll on my blog
12. Attempt NaNoWriMo

The Body Beautiful

1. Go swimming 30 times* (14/30)
2. Do a detox with Reini
3. Float in a floatation tank (1/3)
4. Have a facial
5. Go to a spa
6. Go on 15 bike tours* (3/15)
7. Do 1001km on cross trainer (173/1001)

Foodie Adventures

1. Take a cookery course
2. Try 30 new recipes* (30/30)
3. Make crème brûlée
4. Cook a goose
5. Make home-made lemonade
6. Make jam
7. Become the owner of a small Le Creuset pan
8. Become the owner of 5 new cookery books* (5/5)
9. Write up my recipes either as a page or a book
10. Prepare Joni’s recipe book
11. Prepare Lori’s recipe book
12. Prepare Aden’s recipe book
13. Introduce 3 first-timers to sushi (and of course, eat with them) :-D* (3/3)
14. Try 30 new restaurants* (30/30)
15. Start a herb garden
16. Grow vegetables and eat them
17. Find 5 new wines that I really like (so much so, that I would want to buy it again) (5/5)
18. Prepare a healthy snack for playtime at Aden’s school

Stretching Me

1. Try belly dancing
2. Take a pottery course
3. Try archery
4. Host a Eurovision party
5. Host my 40th Birthday party
6. Read 3 novels in German (this will be tough, as I can’t read well in German)
7. Watch 101 new films list here* (101/101)
8. Attend a murder mystery dinner
9. Write a letter to myself to be opened in 10 years time
10. Watch an orchestra
11. Have flowers delivered to me
12. Go to a falconry display
13. Learn how to and make a photobook online

Family Time

1. Go on a date once a month with Reini* (33/33)
2. Have a date night (or afternoon) once a month with Joni, for a year* (7/12)
3. Once Joni’s date night is completed, Lori date night once a month for a year* (4/12)
4. Do a one hour home therapy session with Aden once a week for a year* (4/52)
5. Document the therapy sessions and write it up including findings
6. Take Lori on a bonding trip (Joni and I went to Paris)
7. Ensure Akasha learns to swim
8. Paint a picture with Reini
9. Take Akasha to a dance class
10. Teach Akasha to play chess
11. Take Joni to a concert
12. Take Lori to a concert
13. Teach Joni to iron
14. Help Lori with her portfolio challenge
15. Do large jigsaw with Reini
16. Make soap with all of the kids
17. Take kids to Sensapolis
18. Take kids to a live Wild West show

Places of Interest

1. Go to Insel Mainau
2. Visit Linderhof castle
3. Visit Herrenchiemsee castle
4. Go on a boat trip on the Danube
5. Visit Wiblingen Monastery
6. Go to Poland
7. Go to the Zeppelin Museum
8. Go to stone age museum
9. Go to Botanical Gardens

Necessary Evil 😉

1. Creosote the shed
2. Creosote the car port
3. Plant bushes in the garden It’s not all butterflies
4. Reorganize the filing system
5. Put photos in the picture frame we were given as a Christmas present many years ago (and hang up the frame)
6. Find that cupboard of impossible proportions that will take all of those towels and bedding and fit in the tiny space at the top of the stairs (this task may jeopardise the whole challenge) 😦

Financial and Other-ly Rewarding

1. Save enough money for a family holiday
2. Save Eur 2 for each completed goal towards the family holiday* (Eur 84/202)
3. Do 4 car boot sales, one with each child, put money to holiday fund* (0/4)
4. Give blood
5. Donate 100,000 grains of rice on freerice.com* (84,680/100,000)
6. Volunteer for the school cafe
7. Form a group of 101 10ers (38/101)
8. Buy a pampas grass and plant in the garden (not quite sure where to list this, but it’s something I wanted since about age 5, so should be rewarding)
9. Visit old school friend in Düsseldorf
10. Turn our office into an inspiring room to work in, instead of a dumping ground
11. Find proper support for our family giving real physical help
12. Volunteer at local music festival
13. Resolve the pet question

Perhaps, you are already doing your own 100 tasks in 1001 days challenge and would like to be part of our group? We have a linky set up by Emma

If you would like to display the linky on your blog you can get the InLinkz code