I really have a lot of things to tell you about.  Namely my jury duty experience, my trip this past weekend to Northern California (or as we call it around here NorCal) and my upcoming trip to Iowa.  However, this morning my post will be posting my 101 in 1001.  Joyce over at From This Side of the Pond is participating in this as well and she has inspired me to make my own list (so she can cross off her number 101).  What you do is make a list of 101 things you want to accomplish in 1001 days.  Mine has a few that are on going and I am sure that will be hard to track, but I wanted to include those.  So check out my list and join up if you want.  Be sure to let me know if you decide to participate because then I can cross off my number 101.  I will be posting updates throughout the 1001 days so we will see what happens by May 4th 2015 (that is if my math is correct)

August 6 2012

May 4 2015

1. Catch up on scrapbooking

2. Loose 40 pounds

3. Take Rich to New York

4. Organize all my shutterfly albums

5. Try a new recipe each month (33)

6. Buy living room furniture

7. Make my own spaghetti sauce

8. Go to the dentist

9. Bake macaroons

10. Replace the old windows in the house

11. Develop comprehensive sixth grade music theory unit

12. Plant a vegetable garden

13. Learn how to make sushi

14. Stop eating lunch at my desk

15. Be able to do a double under

16. Be able to do a pull up

17. Clean out video cabinet in my classroom

18. Catalog sheet music 

19. Get out sewing machine and sew a skirt

20. Start an etsy shop

21. Make flossing my teeth a habit

22. Upload my pictures from camera to computer and then to shutterfly each 

23. File all the music in my classroom bins

24. Write a handwritten note to 36 people (36)

25. Be thankful for 3 things each day and write them down

26. Finish knitting blanket

27. Have the guts to get a pedicure

28. Grow fingernails so I can get a manicure

29. Change out picture frames with new pictures of family

30. Work up a new aria

31. Get my California teaching certificate

32. Teach Bella how to shave her legs

33. Purchase a chair for the downstairs family room

34. Try to debug Bella's netbook

35. Purchase shoe inserts like the doctor prescribed so I can run more than 3 miles at a time

36. Make Rich an apple pie from scratch like I used to in high school

37. Find perfect lamp for bedroom

38. Call my mom once a week...I miss her

39. Put Richs childhood pictures in some order

40. Scan them 

41. Make a shutterfly book for him

42. Let Bella and Sarah help cook dinner once a week

43. Teach Andrew how to cook 5 dishes before he goes to college

44. Dye my wedding sundress a color that I will wear again

45. Start an exercise calendar

46. Learn a new song on the piano

47. Work on my sight-singing

48. Read three books that deal with the brain

49. Read another Malcolm Gladwell book

50. Figure out how to use Smart Music

51. Do my own arrangement for my Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

52. Be able to do 10 pushups in a row

53. Never walk away from a meal feeling guilty

54. Keep my current pair of sunglasses

55. Remember and send a birthday card to all my current students and 1st year alumni

56. Clean out drawers in cabinet in classroom

57. Use new 2nd anniversary hammock once a week

58. Develop comphensive sight singing units for my upper school chorus

59. Find a daily devotional site

60. Develop and use my teacher page on our website

61. Work the Sunday LA Times crossword puzzle without cheating

62. Conduct 10 pieces of music from memory (10)

63. Relearn how to play cribbage

64. Send my nieces and nephews a little something each month

65. Cut out all processed foods

66. Learn how to make homemade refried beans

67. Get caught up with Chuck episodes

68. Purchase and use a good quality facial sunscreen

69. Reread the Harry Potter books

70. Make journaling an every night habit

71. Change the windshield wipers on my car all by myself

72. Get all of my favorite recipes into Pepper Plate

73. Organize all of Bella's artwork

74. Finish getting all of my warm ups on cards

75. Write a letter to my congressman about an issue I feel strongly about

76. Figure out a way to get family members to stop smoking

77. Write Andrew a going to college letter and get his family members to join in

78. Come up with a great graduation present for Andrew

79. Go tent camping

80. Start composting

81. Come up with some sort of shelving unit for back porch

82. Add more green and flowers to patio area

83. Host a BBQ at our house

84. Find some clarinet piano duets

85. Make homemade ice cream

86. Find a home church

87. Get involved with Bella and Sarah in a community service project

88. Get Kristin to sing duets with me

89. Fix tires on the bike and go for a bike ride

90. Take a family trip to the beach

91. Find and go to a professional development conference

92. Make choral alumni day a bigger event

93. Develop and upkeep a choral alumni data base

94. Figure and use Skype

95. Do another Melting Pot tour

96. Go on a girls only trip

97. Try a new ethnic restaurant

98. Go see a concert at the Civic Arts Plaza

99. Go see the musical Wicked

100. Go see an independent film at the Arclight

101. Inspire one other person to do their own 101 in 1001 list

More Later

- A Ro