Thursday, September 18, 2008

The It List

Basically this is like my to-do list, but I thought it would be fun to make it.
You think of 101 things, and have to complete them in 1001 days. It seems shorter than it really is, but it's actually roughly three years! I didn't think it would be so hard to think of this many things that I need/want/should do, but it kinda was. Well here goes nothing:
  1. Vote (10/22/2008)
  2. Take a trip to Hawaii (02/2011)
  3. Finish reading "Chasing Harry Winston" before the movie comes out
  4. Get an English Bulldog
  5. Buy a purse that doesn't weigh 10 lbs. with all my stuff in it (12/25/2008)
  6. Read the Twilight series (11/30/2008)
  7. Visit at least 7 states-Vermont, New Hampshire, Mass., Montana, Washington, Nevada, Hawaii
  8. Take better care of myself when I'm sick
  9. Bring my lunch to work for a month
  10. Start going to Relief Society
  11. Grow my hair out-past my shoulders
  12. Then get my hair cut super short
  13. Start/Finish my brilliant idea of a recipe book
  14. Make an antenna for my TV in my room Got a new tv (9-28-08) and HD adapter (12/22/2008)
  15. Business Idea: Natelin's Pumpkin Patch
  16. Learn to swim...better
  17. Attend an OSU football game (10-4-2008 WE WON!)
  18. Give my car a good washin' (okay Nathan will prolly do this, but I watch :))
  19. Get Baptized (7-25-2009)
  20. Decide what I want to study/make a career of
  21. Get my degree/certificate
  22. Take Nathan to see California Lutheran University (my 1st college and where we spent our first year of dating apart)
  23. Give Meredith my TV (9-28-2008 I'm such a nice sister)
  24. See Britney Spears in concert (4/9/09)
  25. Don't eat fast food for a month!
  26. Go to the zoo
  27. Get a new camera-well I did because mine died, but it's technically Nathan's so it's not new, but it counts
  28. Take lots of pictures with my awesome camera
  29. Get a new iPod or iPhone
  30. Take Nathan to see Cirque De Soleil's "Beatles LOVE" (It's AMAZING)
  31. Get a library card and use it
  32. Keep my room tidy
  33. Visit the Larson's in Vermont (and surrounding areas, Hello New York)! (6/12/2009)
  34. Try teeth whitener again
  35. Use up my tanning credits before they expire in January '09
  36. Sell things that are laying around and aren't in use
  37. Learn how to shift on a dirt bike/motorcycle (7/4/2009)
  38. Get married (01-02-2010)
  39. Stop cracking my knuckles!
  40. Actually eat all 3 meals in a day
  41. Take a CPR class to get my certificate (3/17/2009)
  42. Do my own taxes at home (3/13/2009)
  43. Go hunting, or successfully shoot something
  44. Get a snowboard, boots, bindings, all the fixin's (12/25/2008 thanks love)!
  45. Complete our camping gear supply
  46. Enroll in Health Insurance
  47. Open up a Savings Account (4/2/2009)
  48. Move out of my parents house (01-02-2010)
  49. Understand the rules of football
  50. Mail in a secret to http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/
  51. Read more books
  52. Blog at least twice a week
  53. Successfully make it off the lift with my snowboard
  54. Get new riding gear (in pink of course)
  55. Become a regular at the gym or exercise in general, regularly
  56. Sew things, other than holes in mine or my sisters clothes
  57. Learn to drive a manual
  58. Cancel myspace/facebook...or both
  59. Get all my pictures printed and put into photobooks
  60. Have a fondue party
  61. Sight-see in Portland
  62. Welcome Home Kevin (4/16/09)
  63. Get a part-time job
  64. Figure out what's wrong with me...haha (11-12-2009)
  65. Do the Portland to Coast every year (08...it sucked)
  66. Buy a coffee table and put books on it
  67. Go camping in the middle of Winter/snow
  68. Make someone take fun pictures of me and Nathan for a day (October sometime)
  69. Lose weight i.e fit into my older jeans
  70. Buy a bicycle
  71. Ride it
  72. More Q-time with Nathan
  73. Cancel the crappy magazine subscriptions
  74. Read the scriptures at least once a day
  75. Actually wear my glasses and not just admire them
  76. Switch my banking accounts to a new bank (5/25 they kind of did it for me. go chase)
  77. Grow a vegetable garden
  78. Grow a flower garden
  79. Wear the clothes that sit in my drawers untouched
  80. Donate to Stand Up 2 Cancer...Here
  81. Learn to play the piano
  82. Finish the photo book type thing I'm making for Nathan
  83. Take my dog (or Chloe) to the dog park
  84. Get my car fixed (battery-9/26-2008)(heater 9/15/2008)
  85. Stain mine and Nathan's furniture
  86. Become better friends with "the girl-friends"
  87. Get a new cell phone and NOT drop it everywhere
  88. Get my first Nordstrom Credit Card Rewards certificate (12/13/008)
  89. Start scrap-booking again
  90. Go to Disneyland during Christmas time
  91. Don't do my laundry until I run out of clothes
  92. Participate in 4 walks a year
  93. Buy cute Fall/Winter clothes (try every weekend :))
  94. Pay off both my loans-(i did one!!!)
  95. Dress up my cat for ALL holidays
  96. Go to the Dentist (10-14-09)
  97. Get a NEW dirt bike/quad
  98. Get my wisdom teeth out (11-27-09)
  99. Dye my hair (non-blonde)
  100. Get in contact with Kristin/Mandy/Becca/Tabitha
  101. Stay Alive
So, there ya go... If it's highlighted PINK, then I've done it... There will also be a link on the left side to go to it...don't expect anything soon, I mean, I've got three years right!

4 comments:

Rich Vial said...

Awesome!

Hailey Vial said...

Are 70 and 97 the same?
I'm here for you on the scrapbooking thing, I have to finish the girls baby books, then I'm going to just print the dang pictures out and put them in a book.
Awesome list, when you write it all out like that it becomes possible, not just an idea.
Good luck, and #102 is plan an awesome Halloween/Birthday party with Hailey, cause you gots good idears.

Caitlin said...

um yeah that should have been bicycle (70) I think after Nathan's accident we kinda never talked about bicycles again. ever. haha but 102 is definately a MUST! im excited

paula said...

good luck ! great list! when it is written down and you look at it you really can get it done or at least started!!I have never had a list like this I think it would make me crazy. The first one would always be CLEAN and ORGANIZE the house. NOW it is just MOVE and leave it all behind!! PMV