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084 Buy a new laptop
My laptop is almost pushing up daisies. My roommates stupid cat knocked over a glass of water on the coffee table and it got under the laptop and now the disk drive tries to eject 2-3 times when it boots up or down. And, for whatever reason both my USB outlets won’t work either which means I cannot utilize my mouse that is essential for illustrating (or anything else that plugs into the USB). I really just need to take it into the Mac Store and see if it’s fixable. Grr.
096 Reward self at halfway point of 101 goals
Okay so I looked into and the halfway point is 500 days from 09/09/09 (my start date) is January 22, 2011. I used this site, and am mostly linking it here for my knowledge throughout this list. Also, I’m aware the halfway point is 500.5 days.. so maybe I’ll wait til noon to reward myself 
083 Manicure tootsies monthly [5/21]
Still haven’t done this. Blah!
079 Introduce Soymilk into my diet (goal is complete when this is a regular staple in my fridge)
I’m either having cereal with soy milk or a soy latte’ tomorrow. I swear.
064 Finish homework the week it’s due
I turned in all the work that was due last Thursday today and it felt good. I also realized I’m not as far behind as I thought from missing the one day. Yipee!
003 Make a Geocache and stash it
I bought a tiny little book to stash in my geocache (I still need find a box, and items to put in it….)
077 Create a memory box
My little creative monkey wifey/roommate says she’ll help me with this, yay!
100 Create a workout mix 50+ songs (upbeat only) and create a 500+ all time greatest mix for iPod
I think some of this stuff is just going to have to wait until Little Man goes back to daddy’s. Four year old’s keep you busy!
049 Learn a new language via Rosetta Stone or something comparable (Spanish or Italian)
I’m thinking maybe I’ll learn German. And, possible considering a formal class in college – I’m still undecided.
010 Create a weekly cleaning schedule and stick to it
Honestly, I cook and bake. My roommate (wife) and I have decided I’m the cook she’s the cleaner 
So this goal will stay in place for when I get my own place. But, as of now the extent of my cleaning is dishes daily and laundry weekly. Sometimes Ill clean the counters, stove or “my area” – the kitchen. My little housewife is the hard core cleaner though, scrubbing floors, deep cleaning the tub, windows, dust, the down and dirty stuff and I love her for it. In return I buy delicious, fresh and healthy foods then cook and bake up a storm. Yummy breakfast, lunch and dinners
055 Update 101 blog weekly [19/143]
I’m almost caught up, I need to update again before this weekend is over to get there.
070 Come up with a consequence for incomplete goals
For right now I’m going to say a $1 donation to the charity of my choice for each goal not completed. We’ll see how the money situation is closer to the end of this journey. So be advised this consequence may change.
094 Reserved for a knitting goal
I went to my storage unit and found my two huge tubs of lovely high quality yarn calling my name. I just couldn’t justify with the little space that I have now. Some rearranging needs to take place before I can bring in the yarn. To be continued…
057 Develop 5 more habits to make life more green [0/5]
I use so many fresh veggies, fruits, eggs, etc and really want to start a compost. I feel guilty putting the orange, lemon and lime rinds down the garbage disposal, I hate throwing away all my egg shells and coffee grinds. All these things equal delicious soil. But how do you do that on the third story of a Condo? This assists with my gardening goals and would save me $$ off soil which helps my financial goals. I think it’s important I find a way to make this work. See how I justified making this happen? I’m also about 30 minutes into an Ambien so who knows. Whatever. Do you have any advice or links?
I think I missed a week there, so I will update again on Sunday seeing what I’ve done this week. Now apparently I can’t post my Paypal donate button on here, but for some reason my livejournal works so here’s the link over there, if you’d like to donate to any of my goals (thanks in advance!). Real quick I updated The List page and made it a little more fancy if you want to take a gander over there.
084 Buy a new laptop
I think once I’m back to work I’ll be able to use some of my financial aid one quarter to get a new computer. I may opt for the Mac Desktop I just need a bigger monitor.
088 Hang pictures
I got a new framed photo of Marilyn of Vday from The Mister so I had to re-hang a couple, which is fine by me! Gorgeous photo.
096 Reward self at halfway point of 101 goals
I guess I should figure when that is….. Hmmmm.
083 Manicure tootsies monthly [5/21]
So last month when I did my toes all pretty with my new Avon metallic purple nail polish I was so excited! And get this, the color lasted without chipping until this week. Crazy eh? Crazy awesome, that’s what. Anyschmooze, I need to manicure again and I wish I had a new shade to try…..
079 Introduce Soymilk into my diet (goal is complete when this is a regular staple in my fridge)
How silly am I? I have had an un opened box of Soy milk in my fridge for almost a month! I’ve been waiting for our Cows milk to run out and had just bought 2 gallons around the same time as buying the case. Excuses, excuses!
006 Compete in The Daring Bakers
Evidently they changed their name and site to the Daring Kitchen since now they do baking and cooking challenges. The challenge this month is “Mezze” which is more of a type of eating style rather than recipe so I think I’ll hold out for a baking recipe
028 Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice [4,910/1,000,000]
I haven’t done this in months and months… woops!
037 Clean out shoe collection and donate no longer needed items
I found some shoes in on of the three plastic crates of have in my room full of shoes and started them. I just can’t seem to let go of shoes. Hence the goal.
055 Update 101 blog weekly [19/143]
Hopefully back on track here.
064 Finish homework the week it’s due
I thought this goal would be a breeze and it has thus far, but now I’m glad I made the goal. I have been sick since last Friday, so going on a whole flippin‘ week now. I thought I was on the mend and then I get a scratchy throat last night and woke up with no voice and a cough. Point being, there were two assignment due today that I did not turn them in because I didn’t use my time management skills too well this week.
This is the beginning of month 6, only 15 months to go. I feel like this past 5 months has gone by crazy fast! How about you?? Alright, let’s do this!
077 Create a memory box
I grabbed this from my storage unit so I can actually get started on in it. Problem? I have no idea what to put in it.
088 Hang pictures
Omigoodness I actually did this! Woot! I only scratched half of this off because the other part of the goal is to hang them when I get my own place again.
052 Put $0.50 in a jar (daily) or bank account (weekly) for 1001 days (CoinStar every 250 days for physical change)
Remember how I said last week that I CoinStar’d $11.56? Well, I moved that money back to my checking and may or may not have spent some of it. On a depressing note, all the money I’ve put into this savings account thus far I am going to need to use. I’m living on student loans and am not getting a tax return this year so…. yeah, I’m glad it’s there to use if need be.
029 Get to and maintain last goal weight [0/6]
I started a meal replacement diet using a protein shake in place of 2 meals a day and lost, like, a pound. Probably because my one meal of the day wasn’t so great, but you would think with consuming a lot less calories (the shakes were only 140 cals) I would’ve seen more, but noooo. So yeah I’m back up that pound after I got pissed at the stupid scale (not myself of course) and ate Taco Bell. Bleh!
And I still need to lose 6 pounds.
067 Maintain a 3.5 GPA each quarter (change if I feel I can maintain higher) [1/6]
Mid quarter quarter grades show me at 2 A’s and 1 B. Yay!
087 Complete 26 things [0/26]
Now that I have my camera I think I’m going to start this.
005 Cook 5 recipes from all my cookbooks
I brought my bookcase home from my storage unit and have a few of my cookbooks set up. Now I need to use them instead searching the internet every time I make something. Oh the internetz just makes things so much easier.
048 Visit Michelle at least once per year (budget with tax return to ensure this?) [0/2.75]
Soooo… as you may have already read, I will not be getting a tax return this year but there’s still time to save. Thanks super awesome ex-husband for claiming all three of your children, spouse, and home leaving me with only 1 deduction, college. Awesome, awesome, awesome! No, I’m not bitter at all. /sarcasm
047 Mail [Private] a postcard monthly [5/21]
SLACKER ALERT! I did not send one out in January, however I am sending two (one tomorrow) this month. We are still close to the beginning of the month AND my goal month turns over on the 9th. So there!
See how I justify my slacker actions…. ?
009 Grow a Fruit/Veggie garden outdoors
I was so close to buying a Deck Garden starter kit at Bartells. I can’t wait for Spring!
036 Clean out storage unit and donate no longer needed items
On January 31st I moved all my crap from one storage unit to another and didn’t go through practically any of it. We had 2 hours to move all of my things… so there wasn’t much time. I did manage to grab a couple things I needed \and realized I don’t really have a lot of throw-away-or-donate stuff.
055 Update 101 blog weekly [18/143]
I’m keeping up pretty well, what do you think?
064 Finish homework the week it’s due
Totally on schedule with this. Except for waiting-til-the-last-minute thing….
068 Wash linens monthly [6/21]
Little Man had an accident so we did these early in the month. Done and done!
