On Wednesday, March 1, 2006 I made the following goals. They were meant to be completed in 1001 days, landing me on Wednesday, November 26, 2008. I pretty much forgot that list and never looked at it again. However, I believe if you suggest to your mind things you wish to do, they come to fruition. The ones that are underlined are completed.
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Financial/Career
1. clean up credit report
2. become debt current/free
3. move up one level at work
4. open a savings account for a rainy day
5. open a Christmas club account
6. prepare a will
7. buy a house
8. pay off car
9. get rid of truck and buy a new vehicle for rick
 Things to do
10. Take Rick parasailing
11. Paint pottery with Keith
12. Have wedding pictures printed, framed,hung.
13. test drive a Mazda RX8
14. test drive a new Honda Prelude
15. Buy a pair of sexy shoes and wear them every day for a week
16. have a themed party for Rick’s brothers
17. get a poem published in a literary magazine
18. have dinner on a deck overlooking the ocean
19. ride a hot air balloon
20. visit the Florida Holocaust Museum
Things to learn
21. take a craft class at Michaels
22. gain 3 more college math credits
23. buy a flute and take lessons
24. learn how to write in calligraphy
25. take a photography class
26. take a cake decorating class
Home Sweet Home
27. Frame a copy of Pop a Pill and hang
28. Buy a booksellers table for next to bed (I optedfor a spine bookshelf in the end)
29. Organize shoes
30. Organize and catalog books
31. organize CD collection
32. have all film lying around developed
33. hang pictures around a room at chair rail height
34. Paint at least one wall in living room a color
35. clean out bathroom closet and organize in colorful way
36. Paint a kitchen wall red
37. plaster a wall with my own poetry
Things to buy
38. A better digital camera
39. Buy a filing cabinet and marry husband/wife paperwork
40. Buy Robert Frost book and read a poem every morning for one week
41. find a signature fragrance to adopt for myself
42. find a chunky substantial piece of jewelry, all gold or all silver
43. get a new address book and update it
44. Send Aunt DeDe some flowers
45. buy a funky coffee scoop for a friend
46. buy new chef’s not missing heads
47. a new pretty collar for bitty dogs for Chloe
48. a gift for my husband that makes his eyes pop out of his head
49. pretty container for marriage license for china cabinet display
50. sexy lingerie
51. buy myself flowers
52. a fish eye camera
Travel
53. visit my hometown of Johnstown with Rick
54. go to Illinois to visit Rick’s hometown
55. go back to Harborside for anniversary
56. visit New Mexico for a weekend
57. drive down to key west
58. rent a moped at key west
59. watch a movie at the MOSI
Personal
60. Get new spectacles
61. buy some funky sunglasses, be more daring!
62. Organize some of my poetry and self publish a zine
63. Sing the Pina Colada song in the rain
64. Paint an abstract picture and hang it on the wall with pride
65. Buy a cookie jar for the kitchen and keep it full
66. Cook a new recipe
67. Go to a palm reader or a psychic
68. Read Infinite Jest by David Wallace Foster
69. Foster female to female friendships
70. Find a new therapist
71. Experiment with new makeup colors
Spirituality/Religion
72. Find a pretty Catholic church and go to at least one mass
73. Write my grandfather a letter
74. Do something in memory of my father
75. Get tattoo on foot
76. Buy an annotated bible
77. Give to Leukemia charity
Goodwill
78. Pay for the person behind me at Starbucks drive thru
79. Donate a book to the library in memory of my father
80. clean out closet and give clothing items to charity
Food
81. make strawberry spaghetti
82. make no-bake cookies for Rick
83. Buy a slow cooker just to make overnight oatmeal
84. make Rick a soufflé
85. go to a wine tasting event
86. make homemade potato bread for Rick
87. Buy a pizelle iron and make pizelle’s
88. Bake a homemade pie for Rick
89. Make something with cheese on cheese for Rick
90. Give Rick an hour long massage by candelight
Relationships
91. Buy ten cans or more of whipped cream and…
92. Fly a kite on the beach with someone special
93. Picnic at the park
94. Send handwritten Christmas cards
95. write my husband a love letter
96. have breakfast on the beach with my husband on a Sunday morning
97. take a walk on the beach at sunset
98. buy a disposable camera’s and take pictures for a day with my son
99. buy buy co-worker/friends cards for their birthday’s thanking them
100. write my grandmother a letter
101. stay up all night and watch the sunrise together
From date: Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Added 1,001 days
Resulting date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008