Inspired by the list over at your wishcake I snooped around the Day Zero site and found myself even more inspired. With the big move coming up and all the big plans we have for the next year I started thinking about what I want to do with my life, so I decided to join in. My list is going to be a bit of a twist on the idea though. When Matt and I arrive back in the US there will be 2,055 days until my 30th birthday. I’m setting out to accomplish 205 things in that time.
Start: July 1, 2009 / End: February 14, 2015
In Progress: italic / Completed: bold
- Ride the Seattle Century.
- Attend a Jeep Jamboree.
- Do an Eola Hills Winery bike tour.
- Ride in the North Idaho Blue Cruise – CDA.
- Go to Speed Week in Salt Flats, Utah.
- Buy a house in Spokane, Washington. 08/07/09
- Learn to sew.
- Write to my grandfather.
- Take a photo a day through one deployment.
- Play my flute every day for 30 days.
- Attend Interlochen adult band camp.
- Learn to change my own oil.
- Learn basic vehicle maintenance.
- Throw a successful surprise party.
- Join a non-military book club.
- Join the Enlisted and Officers Spouses club.
- Have a baby.
- Volunteer at an animal shelter, human society, or rescue.
- Go kayaking.
- Go canoeing. 08/01/09
- Go camping.
- Hit some balls in a batting cage.
- Go to a pro football game.
- Go to a Spokane Chiefs game. 10/09/09
- Join a softball team.
- Buy a professional C flute.
- Get a new snowboard. 08/02/09
- Drink beer with Matt. 07/04/09
- Attend a concert at the Gorge.
- Go on a Hawaiian vacation.
- Go on a Vegas vacation.
- Go camping in Yellowstone National Park.
- Go to Oktoberfest in Leavenworth, WA.
- Bike in Yellowstone National Park.
- Go back to the Budweiser Brewery in Ft. Collins, CO.
- Go to Seattle again.
- Visit relatives I’ve never met in Texas.
- Vacation in Lake Tahoe.
- Go snowboarding at Whistler.
- Take an impromptu road trip.
- Plant and grow a vegetable garden.
- Plant and grow an herb garden.
- Plant (09/27/09) and grow tulips.
- Plant a tree on Earth Day or Arbor Day.
- Buy a Sleep Number bed. (okay, it’s not Sleep Number, it’s Mountain Aire.) 08/08/09
- Take a dance class for myself.
- Take a dance class with Matt.
- Find a church.
- Attend an overnight function put on by the church.
- Go on a spiritual retreat.
- Have girls’ night once a month for a year. (0/12)
- Go on a road trip with my girl friends.
- Remember how to juggle.
- Learn German.
- Take a cooking class with Matt.
- Go wine tasting.
- Go on a vineyard tour.
- See a performance at the Blue Door Theatre.
- Shoot a gun.
- Take part in Postcrossing.
- Try 5 vegetables I’ve never had before or convinced myself are gross. (2/5) – Asparagus 08/20/09, Broccoli 09/29/09
- Host a big family Thanksgiving at our house.
- Go to Lost in the ’50s in Sandpoint, ID.
- Start an all female poker night.
- Drink only water for 2 weeks. (0/2)
- Donate blood.
- Vote.
- Participate in a protest or rally.
- Pay off my Jeep.
- Learn to change diapers.
- Re-learn to play the piano.
- Get my own espresso machine.
- Perfect making lattes at home.
- Learn to make a perfect fried egg.
- Learn to make a perfect omelet.
- Purchase a digital SLR camera.
- Learn how to use my new digital SLR camera.
- Bike instead of drive 30 times. (0/30)
- Buy a new laptop.
- Back up all my photos online.
- Work a job that makes me happy.
- Go to a drive in movie.
- Learn to drive a stick shift.
- Go geocaching.
- Make a recipe book or get catalog my recipes with echef.
- Put together a regular photo album.
- Cook a new recipe once a week for 6 months. (0/24)
- Make a quilt.
- Get professional “wedding” pictures with friends & family.
- Memorize the military alphabet.
- Cook with Caitlyn once a week for 3 months (0/12)
- Teach Bravo to come when he is called.
- Teach Bravo to behave off the leash.
- Teach Bravo 1 new trick a month from this book. (0/60)
- Go to the REI Women’s Climbing Night. 08/03/09
- Take a CPR class.
- Take photo booth pictures with Matt once a year. (0/5)
- Learn sign language.
- Get reusable grocery bags & use them!
- Keep my nails painted for one month. (0/1)
- Get braces.
- Try a teeth whitening kit.
- Learn to hit golf balls at a driving range.
- Read Chicken Soup for the Military Wife’s Soul.
- Read Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul.
- Buy this book and take one recommendation from it.
- Perfect my own salsa recipe.
- Enter my salsa in a contest.
- Perfect my own chili recipe.
- Enter a chili cook-off.
- Perfect potato soup.
- Perfect chicken noodle soup.
- Fly a kite.
- Make some origami.
- Go to the fair as a family.
- Don’t criticize anything Matt says or does for a week. (0/7)
- Float the CDA River. 07/12/09
- Go horseback riding.
- Learn more about investing.
- Start contributing to a TSP fund or 401K.
- Take a kickboxing class.
- Take a self defense class.
- Get a 5 diamond wedding band.
- Have a Coach diaper bag.
- Buy produce at a farmer’s market.
- Go ice skating.
- Go to a hockey game.
- Sell the Cougar. 08/24/09
- Buy a new couch.
- Get rid of the old couch.
- Buy a new TV (50″ Panasonic Plasma). 09/15/09
- Get rid of the hand-me-down TV. 09/12/09
- Read about 5 US presidents. (0/5)
- Read a book on US history.
- Have professional pictures taken during my pregnancy.
- Take pregnant belly pics once a month. (0/9)
- Win something.
- Go paintballing.
- Make potato salad.
- Build a Bear.
- Buy a crib.
- Buy the perfect rocking chair.
- Find a great daycare.
- Try Soduku.
- Build a snowman with Matt.
- Teach Matt to snowboard.
- Get the autographed Staind tour poster & ticket stub framed.
- See Incubus with Matt.
- Go fishing.
- Eat sushi. 07/07/09
- Play Beer Pong.
- Play Drunk Wars.
- Have Beer Fest before the baby.
- See The Nutcracker performed.
- Attend an orchestral performance at least once a year. (0/5)
- Keep my passport up to date.
- Get a massage once a year. (0/5)
- Start taking a daily multivitamin.
- Get coordinated storage totes.
- Organize all our holiday decorations.
- Have a baby shower.
- Buy some home things for the house from IKEA.
- Send family photo Christmas cards to everyone in our address book every year. (0/5)
- Turn in all our cans for money.
- Recycle all trash that can be (glass, paper, plastic, etc.).
- Go one month a year with no unnecessary purchases. (0/5)
- Learn to surf.
- Send a card or a letter to 5 people each year just because. (0/25)
- Write the Story of Us.
- Find a local bar to be our hangout.
- Watch an entire Discovery Channel show.
- Save $10 for each task I complete. (0/205)
- Spend an afternoon in Manito Park.
- Take an art class.
- Physically help with the landscaping of our house.
- Plant trees along the back property line. 08/22/09
- Get the dirt work done in the yard. 08/22/09
- Put up the landscape border. 09/20/09
- Complete rock areas in front yard.
- Complete mulch areas in front yard.
- Hydroseed front and back yards.
- Play tennis.
- Install granite counter tops in bathrooms and kitchen.
- Fence the back yard.
- Mow the lawn.
- Change faucets and fixtures that don’t match.
- Roll a perfect burrito or wrap.
- Replace kitchen sink.
- Have a garage sale after we get our stuff from England. 09/12/09
- Take the framing class on base.
- Repaint the doors and trim inside the house.
- Get air conditioning.
- Get Bravo a playmate.
- Attend our 10 year high school reunion.
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