Lauren’s
2016 101 List
Start date:
July 18, 2016
End date:
April 15, 2019
Doing Good
1.
Send Aunt Nancy
thank you gift (will need to do this again in 2017)
2.
Write a letter to
the editor
3.
Participate in a Food Stamp Challenge
each year during 101 list (for at least one day)
4.
Be a relentlessly positive person for
an entire week – no negativity out of my mouth
5.
Draft MGAS administration policy
6.
Find a cause that I love and donate
money or volunteer my time
7.
Spend a day volunteering – Habitat
for Humanity, Soup Kitchen, etc.
8.
Pay it forward – pay for a stranger’s
coffee or lunch at least once per year of 101
9.
Send at least three birthday cards
during 101 list
10.
Send a positive message
in a bottle
Self-Improvement
11.
Decide if I'm going
to get my Bachelors in Business Admin & sign up to do it
12.
Participate in a Lady Caroline’s
Players Production
13.
Read at least three non-fiction books
(not Kindle or audiobook) during 101 list
14.
Take a one month Facebook vacation
15.
Try out toastmasters
16.
Pass my Series 66
17.
Take a day off of work, get a
massage, and enjoy a quiet day by myself
18.
Determine cost basis for my two
lonely MTB shares
19.
Get a new headshot
20.
Update my LinkedIn profile
21.
Send in a secret to Postsecret
Family Life
22.
Go ballroom dancing
23.
Meet up with my
cousin Emily - either in Boise or elsewhere (one day it will happen)
24.
Go camping
25.
Go fishing
26.
Go crabbing
27.
Make Jay a new mug
28.
Take Markface on a glass bottom boat
ride
29.
Decide on our next vehicle for when
Roxie (Civic with 300k+ miles) finally dies
30.
Take Markface to the National Zoo
31.
Take Markface to at least three
sessions of swimming lessons during list
32.
Get Loki more training – whether
private or a public obedience class
33.
Visit my second cousin Linda in NC,
spend at least a weekend there
34.
Come up with a food storage
plan/supplies for our family for 2+ weeks
35.
Have an emergency plan for Zombie
Apocalypse or Weather Event
36.
Come up with a regular date night
plan
Travel
37.
Use our timeshare at
a sister resort (not in the DR or Mexico)
38.
Spend a weekend in
NYC
39.
Plan a visit to
South America
40.
Go on a last-minute
vacation (choose dates, book place <4 out="" span="" weeks="">
41.
Take a two-week
vacation (easy when I already have my flight booked!)
42.
Write 10 new reviews
on TripAdvisor
43.
Go on a 3 (or more) night girl's trip
and act totally ridiculous at least one night
44.
Go on a book club trip (Debbie must
be there!!)
45.
Spend a fun weekend in DC with Angela
and Tiffany
46.
Visit at least five UNESCO world
Heritage Sites during 101 list
47.
Blog about each UNESCO site I visit
(even just a photo and where it was)
48.
Plan a trip to the Outer Banks
Fun, Games, Art,
& Adventure
49.
Attend a murder
mystery dinner theatre
50.
Go whitewater
rafting (preferably Class V)
51.
Re-learn how to play
Chess
52.
See a Broadway show
53.
Go on a sailing
adventure (take a sailing course if possible, even for one day)
54.
Watch the Eurovision
awards in 2017 and host an impromptu Eurovision party in OZ
55.
Do an Escape Room adventure
56.
Attend a Plein Air event (bonus
points for participating)
57.
Decide on my next tattoo – location
and art
Scuba Diving
58.
Obtain a new PADI
certification- Zombie Apocalypse Diver or Nitrox - anything!
59.
Go diving in the
Baltimore National Aquarium
60.
Dive a wreck
61.
Get to 50 dives (current count: 20)
by the end of this 101 list – (10 dives a year)
62.
Try out diving at Dutch Springs
Fitness / Health
63.
Hike Old Rag (still
on my list!)
64.
Commit to using Lose It regularly for
at least 3 months (ok to enter food up to 2 days late)
65.
Go one week without coffee and/or
caffeine
66.
Go one week without eating anything
sweet or using sugar
Food, Eating, and Cooking
67.
Make another batch
of wine
68.
Make Maryland Beaten
Biscuits
69.
Make at least six attempts to
duplicate Sara’s favorite pasta sauce
70.
Have brunch at Miss Shirley’s
71.
Dinner with Jay at Charleston in
Baltimore (tasting menu w/ wine)
72.
Learn how to make croissants
73.
Make rainbow cookies
74.
Make fresh lemonade from scratch
House, Home, & Garden
75.
Have a yard sale (to
clean up house)
76.
Can tomatoes or
sauce from my garden
77.
Get rid of blue
couch
78.
Rearrange furniture
in reading nook & downstairs
79.
Successfully grow a
plant from seed
80.
Grow herbs inside
81.
Help Jay design & assemble
outdoor fire pit area
82.
Frame trip photos and decide where to
hang them in our house
83.
Print & frame pics of at least
ten new friends/family to hang in hallway
84.
Buy a lawnmower & fire our lawn
guy
85.
Build a backyard deck
86.
Decide if we want to sell our house
87.
Plant annuals at least once during
101 list
88.
Hatch chicks from eggs – make this
the start of my RIR & EE flock
89.
Find a place that will butcher our
chickens for us
90.
Research solar panels or a generator
for power loss
91.
Clean out closets in all bedrooms
92.
Make a donation at least once a year
to Purple Heart (declutter)
Miscellaneous
93.
Make a filing system
for all of my important documents
94.
Spread some of Dad
at Martinak State Park
95.
Spread some of Dad
at Adkins Arboretum
97.
Enter something in
the county or state fair
98.
Get some mats so that I can make my
Etsy listings look prettier
99.
Buy a new DSLR
100. Post at least 20 updates a year to blog/101 list
101. Make a new 101 list by the end of old one
