Happy Mother's Day everyone! I can't believe this is my second year as a mom.

So, I completed 50/101 goals. Part of the reason I didn't complete as many is because I got lazy/bored of the whole thing for about a year. Some of the goals I just simply lost interest in, or I came close to completing but never did. I'm waiting until July 23 begin the tasks on my new list (I already have a few ideas I've been jotting down), that way it ends on my daughter's birthday again. As far as donating the money for the goals I didn't complete ($5 each), I will probably spread my donations out, and more than likely give to at kiva.org. I've seen it mentioned in other blogs before, and I LOVE the idea.

health, beauty, and yum-yums
01. no chocolate for a week *cries*
02. don't eat meat for a week

03. go one month without drinking soda
04. learn to make a yummy, unique drink (nonalcoholic, of course)

05. take a multivitamin everyday for two weeks (I hate taking pills/vitamins)
06. learn how to wear makeup other than eyeliner

07. do 101 crunches in one night for two weeks straight
08. get a physical (I'm not all for people touching me)

09. get weight down to about 130
10. start a reasonable workout program and follow it for two months straight

11. start a weekly routine for face care, follow for two months straight
12. open my exercise/weight loss blog

13. make tamales from scratch

education

14. take a test and become certified in a computer related area (I THINK I was after taking Web Design in HS)

15. brush up on my Spanish, study five days a week for eight weeks straight

16. brush up on my French (given up by sixth grade to focus on Spanish), study 5 days a week for eight weeks straight
17. get a scholarship

18. learn to braid hair, well
19. into the hardware aspect of the computer (relearning)

20. read at least five long books, not assigned to me (The Da Vinci Code [6-1-06], The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents: America the Book [early 2007])
21. learn a new word everyday for a month, and use them

22. go back to college

love
23. cook Noel dinner, from scratch
24. wake up next to Noel (hey! I just want to wake up one morning and see his face, nothing freaky, lol)

25. go to the drive-in with Noel

family and friends
26. go somewhere big with a friend or two (road trip, out of town for shopping, Vegas, etc)
27. cook a big dinner on my own for someone else

28. when I get off of leave, open a savings account for my daughter with at least $100... add $25 each month until her first birthday (the day this list ends, cool!) and add this goal on my next 101 in 1001 day list

spending
29. get my own pc or laptop (a working one, lol; so the one my neighbor gave me doesn't count)
30. buy five music cds in a week

31. listen to all of those cds in a week
32. get a Playstation 3

33. upgrade web space
34. get a car

35. upgrade cell phone
36. purchase Tomb Raider Anniversary (meaning I have every installment of the series for the Sony PS/PS2)

37. find a new pair of my favorite star earrings that I still haven't found since my pair broke about five years ago

savings and work

38. cash out on five different get paid to programs
39. create a budget and stick to it for at least two months

40. have at least $500 put away
41. get a job

42. invest in stock
43. open a diamond deposit plus bank account on neopets (lol) (done 3-21-08)

44. submit at least three of the many essays (that I think I have a chance to sale) sitting around on my computer to essay selling sites (1 submitted)
45. balance my check book, keep up with it for at least three months

46. look through my stuff for possible items to sell online (probably through eBay)
47. have at least $1,500 put away

web design/internet
48. open up designs site
49. blog at least three days a week, for a month straight

50. for free, design and code a website for a non-profit organization
51. have written and posted at least ten thirty-five tutorials for SLR (16 down as of July 2007)

52. have at least three hostees at a time
53. have all blog comments returned, with an exception of those in the latest entry

54. put up a decent layout at my portal page
55. once a week, blog about five good things that happened that week, for three months straight

56. make at least $50 from my designs site before this list is done (doesn't seem like much, but my items will be inexpensive!) PayPerPost (I'm no longer interested in designs site)
57. create subdomain or directory for this site, set it up, and open

58. do a site with all php pages
59. exceed 1,500 posts at TABU MB

60. exceed 3,500 posts at Sway Forum.com
61. mail down to 1000 or less in my get paid to mailbox

62. donate at least fifty (linking) buttons, to various people (15 down as of December 25, 2005, lol)
63. send a secret to LJ secret

64. blog once a week for two months straight at my myspace
65. reach higher than 500 on the top 2500 list on Sissyfight

66. own a fanlisting that reaches over 500 members
67. make and give out online gifts to fifty different people (birthdays, christmas, etc) (6 down as of February 03, 2006, lol)

68. start a meme of my own and see how far it goes
69. have one hundred or less emails at a time in my primary mail box (it's a bit over 700 as I type this, and it's usually at 500 or so)

70. win some sort of online contest
71. make 5,000 comments on LJ (NOT spam, of course, lol)

literary and voice
72. once a month, until the end of this list, write a letter to my daughter and save it for her (starting July 2007)
73. write to a magazine, and have it appear

74. write a paper in response to the video game violence issue with Jack Thompson

75. finish one of my fan fiction works

other areas of creativity

76. finally do a scrapbook of my own instead of trailing off and doing one for a gift to a friend
77. do a scrapbook for my daughter

78. draw up my dream home, with details and pictures (a combination of hand drawing, Paint Shop Pro, and The Sims; lol)
79. video tape a summary of my week, every week for one month

80. spend a day taking pictures around town with the digital camera
81. make a list of fifty songs that really mean something to me (related directly to my life), and why

82. rearrange/redecorate my bedroom

etc...
83. back up my pictures and blog entires to a disk
84. get driver's license

85. move out!
86. compelete all levels on Tomb Raider: Anniversary

87. develop at least three of the many rolls of film I’ve had for years
88. keep my room clean for two weeks straight (no crap or clothes thrown on the dressers for me!) (failed after two days, lol) have the WHOLE apartment clean (changed goals since I know have my own place since creating the first goal)

89. finish copying all of my favorite songs from all of my cds over to my iPod
90. listen to Noel's new album (hoping he gets around to it)

91. see at least 50 of the imdb.com's top 250 ()
92. get some credit

93. get picture frames up in the living room
94. join a well known organization or club

95. play in the snow (kinda hard when you live in the desert)
96. go to the Sports Park and see the fireworks

97. donate $5 to charity for each thing on my list that hasn't been completed by the last day
98. watch all of my Simpsons DVD, one time with commentary and one time without

99. organize my cds cases again, and buy a new carrying case for the actual cds since I have too many to fit in my current one
100. think of 101 items to throw on this list

I'm upgrading b2evo, which is why everything is messed up. If it doesn't work, I might just switch to WordPress.


edit: Almost There... I almost have this layout back up and running. Just a few more edits, then I have the main blog and my personal site to edit skins for. After that, I'll put my plugins back along with my smilies.

edit II: It looks like my feedback link isn't working. Not only do I need to change the text, but I need to figure out how to get the page back up, lol. I'm going to fix the smilies first, so at least the posts look right.

edit III: Custom smilies are back up; HOWEVER, they will only be fixed if I re-save each post. I did several, but then I gave up, lol. It looks like it's just this blog so far. Smells like Rain is fine (the smilies, that is... the layout needs to be redone).

edit IV, lol: Feedback page is up and running, along with the links for it. I just need to redo the pages and this site is set with the upgrade.

I updated the 1001 Days page. I also cleaned up most of the living room, did a load of clothes, cleaned the bathroom (still need to mop and I forgot to through the rugs into the washer), grabbed a few groceries, picked up my prescription; and hell, I'm even blogging! I got a lot done today, which surprises me. I usually don't have any motivation on my days off since I'm still beat up from working. I even tracked my food intake on Fitday! I went a bit over my limit for calorie intake for the day, but I was very active today so I won't cry about it. I'd do more, but it's late and I have to get up in the morning. Take care!