I can't believe how well I'm doing with #4. I'm actually cooking! Sometimes it's even stuff that didn't start out in a box or come from the frozen food aisle!!!! I've always HATED cooking, I'm still not a huge fan, but for some reason I'm feeling motivated to do it! So far I've made:
1. Meatloaf (believe it or not this was my first time!)
2. Chicken n' dumplings (from scratch)
3. BBQ ribs (in my crockpot)
4. Chipped beef w/ chicken (thanks Rob!)
5. Pork fried rice (also tried beef, chicken and shrimp)
6. Mac n' cheese (from scratch, came out great!)
7. Chicken/Steak fajitas
8. Pork Lo Mein and lumpia
Before I started this list I made a pineapple upside down cake and a bunch of Xmas cookies including p'nut butter cookies from scratch and iced pumpkin cookies.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
My List
I'm really psyched about this list! And I'm working on a lot of the items. I'll post blogs for completed tasks and make list edits in red.
I'm hoping that blogging this list and my progress will lend some accountability towards keeping me on track. The 101 Things project was developed by triplux, I found it on a friend's blog (Thanks Jen Pack!) When I saw it I knew it was exactly what I needed to give my life a much needed kick in the ass! I can't believe how freakin' long it took me to come up with 101 things!! I scanned tons of other people's lists for ideas, but also managed to come up with quite a few of my own. I tried to make them realistic, attainable goals, otherwise what's the point, right? And I really tried to stay in the spirit of the project by setting pretty concrete parameters. Here's the list so far, in completely random order, listed as I agonizingly thought of them:
1. Take tennis lessons, or teach myself
2. Learn a new japanese word once a day for a month(0/30)
3. Visit someplace new in Japan every month for 12 months
4. Cook 50 new recipes (8/50)
5. Play in the snow!
6. Go for a walk everyday for a month. (0/30)
7. Floss everyday
8. Go to Yunessun Resort
9. Take the kids to Disney Sea
10. Keep a food journal for a month
11. Update my address book with current phone/address/email.
12. Make a list of 100 things that make me happy
13. Track every expense for one month
14. No fast food for one month
15. No soda for one week
16. Drink 80 oz of water every day for one week
17. Do 100 crunches in a row
18. Go to pilates class twice a week for a month (0/8)
19. Go to Singapore
20. Eat at a new restaurant once a month for 12 months (0/12)
21. Take a Japanese cooking class
22. Make scrapbook pages for all of our major trips
23. Learn 100 Kanji (0/100)
24. Go to Hawaii
25. Create a budget and follow it for 3 months
26. Buy an iPOD sports kit
27. Create a morning schedule and stick to it for a week
28. Buy a Japanese-English electronic translator
29. Get rid of all the clothes I don't wear anymore
30. Go camping
31. Go to three cultural events in Tokyo (0/3)
32. Picnic in a park, with all the fixings
33. Cook an entire authentic Japanese meal
34. Make my will
35. Visit Harajuku on a Sunday
36. Send out all birthday and anniversary cards for one year – 2008 (1/20)
37. Take and pass JLPT 4
38. Take a craft class
39. Go to 3 music concerts in Tokyo
40. Transfer home movies to DVD.
41. Stay at a love hotel
42. Take Japanese 101 class
43. Visit Okinawa
44. Visit Hiroshima
45. Go to 2008 Tokyo Jazz Fest
46. Run 5 5K races
47. Stay at the New Sanno. Done! 02.19.08
48. Go to Ueno Zoo
49. Ride a Shinkansen
50. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Yokohama
51. Pay off credit cards
52. Learn to Salsa
53. Eat some fruit everyday for one month (0/30)
54. See the Christmas lights in Sendai
55. Visit Chinatown
56. Finish my crane chain
57. Get a Micro Fit Assessment test
58. By day 1001, have $5000 in an emergency savings account
59. Go to a Seibu Lions game
60. Find a better way to organize my shoes, and do it!
61. Finish Gabi’s scrapbook
62. Make our cruise scrapbook
63. Paint a picture with my kids (on real canvas)
64. Celebrate Ethan’s Shichi-Go-San
65. Do the Outdoor Rec Lazy Bike Ride to Tama Hills
66. Climb Mt. Fuji
67. Exfoliate and moisturize my face everyday for one month (0/30)
68. Pay off Club card
69. Get a pedicure every month (1/33)
70. Go to Mt. Mitake/Mt. Takao
71. Start Hooked on Phonics with Ethan (before his 4th b-day)
72. Print all photos (500+)
73. Organize photos
74. Make a memory box for Ethan
75. Create a blog for this list - Done! 01.11.08
76. Get a MySpace page
77. Buy a sewing machine
78. Learn to sew
79. Ride Cosmo Clock 21
80. Spend an entire day in bed, just because
81. Spend $100 (or 11,000Y) on one item of clothing
82. Go to Sunday Champagne brunch
83. Go an entire day without yelling at or berating anyone/thing (not even in my head!)
84. No complaining about anything for one week
85. Have family game night once a week for a month (sincerely try to make this a permanent activity)
86. Have a “date night” with each kid once a month for 3 months, encourage O to do the same(sincerely try to make this a permanent activity)
87. Take vitamins and supplements everyday
88. Have weetbix with milk every night for one week
89. Buy a Wii
90. Go snorkeling
91. Learn Tai Chi
92. Back up my pix every month (need to make this a habit) (1/33)
93. Experience something new every month for 12 months (0/12)
94. Find some pineapple wine. I know it exists!
95. Make fondue
96. Play Bunko. Bunco?
97. Buy a bigger jewelry box and organize my jewelry
98. Take Candy’s spinning class
99. Vote!
100. Send out New Year’s cards for 2009
101. Go to a horserace
I'm hoping that blogging this list and my progress will lend some accountability towards keeping me on track. The 101 Things project was developed by triplux, I found it on a friend's blog (Thanks Jen Pack!) When I saw it I knew it was exactly what I needed to give my life a much needed kick in the ass! I can't believe how freakin' long it took me to come up with 101 things!! I scanned tons of other people's lists for ideas, but also managed to come up with quite a few of my own. I tried to make them realistic, attainable goals, otherwise what's the point, right? And I really tried to stay in the spirit of the project by setting pretty concrete parameters. Here's the list so far, in completely random order, listed as I agonizingly thought of them:
1. Take tennis lessons, or teach myself
2. Learn a new japanese word once a day for a month(0/30)
3. Visit someplace new in Japan every month for 12 months
4. Cook 50 new recipes (8/50)
5. Play in the snow!
6. Go for a walk everyday for a month. (0/30)
7. Floss everyday
8. Go to Yunessun Resort
9. Take the kids to Disney Sea
10. Keep a food journal for a month
11. Update my address book with current phone/address/email.
12. Make a list of 100 things that make me happy
13. Track every expense for one month
14. No fast food for one month
15. No soda for one week
16. Drink 80 oz of water every day for one week
17. Do 100 crunches in a row
18. Go to pilates class twice a week for a month (0/8)
19. Go to Singapore
20. Eat at a new restaurant once a month for 12 months (0/12)
21. Take a Japanese cooking class
22. Make scrapbook pages for all of our major trips
23. Learn 100 Kanji (0/100)
24. Go to Hawaii
25. Create a budget and follow it for 3 months
26. Buy an iPOD sports kit
27. Create a morning schedule and stick to it for a week
28. Buy a Japanese-English electronic translator
29. Get rid of all the clothes I don't wear anymore
30. Go camping
31. Go to three cultural events in Tokyo (0/3)
32. Picnic in a park, with all the fixings
33. Cook an entire authentic Japanese meal
34. Make my will
35. Visit Harajuku on a Sunday
36. Send out all birthday and anniversary cards for one year – 2008 (1/20)
37. Take and pass JLPT 4
38. Take a craft class
39. Go to 3 music concerts in Tokyo
40. Transfer home movies to DVD.
41. Stay at a love hotel
42. Take Japanese 101 class
43. Visit Okinawa
44. Visit Hiroshima
45. Go to 2008 Tokyo Jazz Fest
46. Run 5 5K races
47. Stay at the New Sanno. Done! 02.19.08
48. Go to Ueno Zoo
49. Ride a Shinkansen
50. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Yokohama
51. Pay off credit cards
52. Learn to Salsa
53. Eat some fruit everyday for one month (0/30)
54. See the Christmas lights in Sendai
55. Visit Chinatown
56. Finish my crane chain
57. Get a Micro Fit Assessment test
58. By day 1001, have $5000 in an emergency savings account
59. Go to a Seibu Lions game
60. Find a better way to organize my shoes, and do it!
61. Finish Gabi’s scrapbook
62. Make our cruise scrapbook
63. Paint a picture with my kids (on real canvas)
64. Celebrate Ethan’s Shichi-Go-San
65. Do the Outdoor Rec Lazy Bike Ride to Tama Hills
66. Climb Mt. Fuji
67. Exfoliate and moisturize my face everyday for one month (0/30)
68. Pay off Club card
69. Get a pedicure every month (1/33)
70. Go to Mt. Mitake/Mt. Takao
71. Start Hooked on Phonics with Ethan (before his 4th b-day)
72. Print all photos (500+)
73. Organize photos
74. Make a memory box for Ethan
75. Create a blog for this list - Done! 01.11.08
76. Get a MySpace page
77. Buy a sewing machine
78. Learn to sew
79. Ride Cosmo Clock 21
80. Spend an entire day in bed, just because
81. Spend $100 (or 11,000Y) on one item of clothing
82. Go to Sunday Champagne brunch
83. Go an entire day without yelling at or berating anyone/thing (not even in my head!)
84. No complaining about anything for one week
85. Have family game night once a week for a month (sincerely try to make this a permanent activity)
86. Have a “date night” with each kid once a month for 3 months, encourage O to do the same(sincerely try to make this a permanent activity)
87. Take vitamins and supplements everyday
88. Have weetbix with milk every night for one week
89. Buy a Wii
90. Go snorkeling
91. Learn Tai Chi
92. Back up my pix every month (need to make this a habit) (1/33)
93. Experience something new every month for 12 months (0/12)
94. Find some pineapple wine. I know it exists!
95. Make fondue
96. Play Bunko. Bunco?
97. Buy a bigger jewelry box and organize my jewelry
98. Take Candy’s spinning class
99. Vote!
100. Send out New Year’s cards for 2009
101. Go to a horserace
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