tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3781198952780704242012-02-16T04:33:50.576-08:00101 Things in 1001 Daysmiriamnoreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378119895278070424.post-90488812309694940582009-03-14T15:08:00.000-07:002009-03-14T15:12:39.637-07:00Misc #2Today I invested in an aluminum water bottle. I have an embarrassing plastic habit. I always forget to fill up at home and I wind up paying out 1.50 a day at least 3 days a week for water bottles. That's like $200 a year not to mention recycling costs. Yay me!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/378119895278070424-9048881230969494058?l=miriam-101thingsin1001days.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>miriamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378119895278070424.post-57354476776651778832009-03-14T14:54:00.001-07:002009-03-14T15:05:06.746-07:00home #6<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/Sbwoa8tP06I/AAAAAAAAADY/-mpZP-3UOHc/s1600-h/IMG_1107.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/Sbwoa8tP06I/AAAAAAAAADY/-mpZP-3UOHc/s320/IMG_1107.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313166103827960738" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/Sbwoab5AyKI/AAAAAAAAADQ/SaUP77zlwbg/s1600-h/IMG_1099.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/Sbwoab5AyKI/AAAAAAAAADQ/SaUP77zlwbg/s320/IMG_1099.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313166095018936482" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/SbwoaLhonYI/AAAAAAAAADI/ZaZcOW-Rh1Q/s1600-h/IMG_1101.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/SbwoaLhonYI/AAAAAAAAADI/ZaZcOW-Rh1Q/s320/IMG_1101.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313166090625916290" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/SbwoZzhkeQI/AAAAAAAAADA/WkH59naKW44/s1600-h/IMG_1097.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd6DGRZQ-aI/SbwoZzhkeQI/AAAAAAAAADA/WkH59naKW44/s320/IMG_1097.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313166084183193858" /></a><br />It's Spring and the gardening bug has bit me. Here is going on the middle of March and I haven't yet finished my list. I don't think I'm going to give myself a deadline on that one, but it doesn't mean that I shouldn't start on some of my "things". So here I am, "Home #6 - Garden". I finally got into the back yard last Sunday with the help of a really good friend. What I thought was going to have to be a major deforestation project that was going to be completed in phases only really took about 4 hours. I even had ready garden space! So Tuesday morning Sophia and I went out to the garden stores and picked up a bunch of plants and seeds, came home and well, gardened! This is what I have so far as far as my seeds are concerned. We started them Tuesday morning. I had no idea they would sprout this soon! <div> <br /></div><div><div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/378119895278070424-5735447677665177883?l=miriam-101thingsin1001days.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>miriamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378119895278070424.post-30089175199844703952009-01-13T16:44:00.000-08:002009-01-13T17:30:43.755-08:00Health #2Workout #2 with the trainer... and I cried. Yes, I let the floodgates open. I'm not sure he knew how to handle it. But he's a married dude so I'm sure it happens all the time. At the very end of the workout he has me do these sit ups from a reclining position to where my head was lower than my waist. I couldn't even do one without his assistance. In the beginning he gave me a 12 lb medicine ball too! He had to help me do my set. He had to help me do my set!!!! Every. Last. One. That's why I cried. With the exception of training with Mark for those 5 months, I haven't done any stomach/core exercises to save my life. I got over it though. I got myself into this mess and I'm going to get myself out of it. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/378119895278070424-3008917519984470395?l=miriam-101thingsin1001days.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>miriamnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378119895278070424.post-25692512109896035402009-01-08T14:21:00.000-08:002009-01-08T14:38:59.362-08:00Health #2I've hired a personal trainer. I wasn't even looking for one. A couple of days ago I had just finished the elliptical. 50 minutes, mind you. I was feeling proud that I sweat a little, so I rewarded myself with stopping. So I sit down to fiddle with my phone and I hear some one ask me about my workout. I look up and I know it's a trainer drumming up a little business. I answer "good" but as soon as I do, I feel like I'm lying. I know what a good workout is. All I did on the machine was get some exercise. So we had our introductory session today and I've signed up for 16 more. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This also ties into Travel #4 - Climbing Half Dome without chickening out. Once again I'm going to make it a goal. Maybe my end goal. That would be from now until July. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/378119895278070424-2569251210989603540?l=miriam-101thingsin1001days.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>miriamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378119895278070424.post-43669304930247809082008-12-31T00:59:00.000-08:002009-03-14T14:53:58.027-07:00- Career/Work/School<div> 1. Start school Fall 09</div><div> 2. Start arriving to work on time.</div><div> 3. Follow through with the new bar menus</div><div> 4. Create and maintain some sort of on line space for just The Landmark.</div><div> 5. Take the CBEST</div><div> 6. Have my credential in hand by Fall of 12</div><div> 7. </div><div> <br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><div>- Health (Physical and Mental)</div><div> 1. Eat consciously.</div><div> 2. Exercise regularly.</div><div> 3. Stop medicating.</div><div> 4. Be nice to myself.</div><div> 5. Run a 5K.</div><div> 6. Attend a spinning class at least once a week</div><div> 7. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>- Spirituality</div><div> 1. Join a yoga class</div><div> 2. Pray regularly</div><div> 3. Return to my faith somehow. </div><div> 4. </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>- Creativity</div><div> 1. Learn to knit more than just a scarf.</div><div> 2. Write everyday. </div><div> 3. Take a photography class.</div><div> 4. Take a cake decorating class.</div><div> 5. </div><div><br /></div><div>- Travel</div><div> 1. Go on a cruise. </div><div> 2. Omaha to visit Daphne, her main squeeze, and the Huertzs. </div><div> 3. Portland to visit all the Fresno ex-pats. </div><div> 4. Hike Half Dome and actually make it to the top without chickening out.</div><div> 5. </div><div><br /></div><div>- Books</div><div><br /></div><div>- Finances <br /></div><div> 1. Go one month without going to Target. For real. </div><div> 2. Save $250 a month.</div><div> 3. Write a budget.</div><div> 4. Cut out unnecessary expenditures.</div><div> 5. Make a regular grocery list and stick to it. </div><div> 6. </div><div><br /></div><div>- Home<br /></div><div> 1. Clean my house on a regular basis. </div><div> 2. Build my book shelves.</div><div> 3. Make my 3rd bedroom into a home office.</div><div> 4. Clean out the garage. </div><div> 5. Buy patio furniture.</div><div> 6. Garden.</div><div><br /></div><div>- Sophia</div><div> 1. Sophia's room completed.</div><div> 2. Sophia will be sleeping in her own bed.</div><div> 3. Stop looking at my time with Sophia as a chore. </div><div> 4. Start a savings plan for her.</div><div> 5. Family night with a theme, once a week.</div><div> 6. Enroll Sophia in pre-school.</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>- Misc<br /></div><div> 1. Start bringing reusable bags.</div><div> 2. Purchase an aluminum water bottle and ditch my embarassing plastic habit. </div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/378119895278070424-4366930493024780908?l=miriam-101thingsin1001days.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>miriamnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378119895278070424.post-46457456600046237732008-12-30T21:07:00.000-08:002008-12-30T21:39:06.723-08:00It's been awhile since I've defined goals for myself. Suddenly I'm 33 and cruisin'. According to my goals when I was 18, I just wanted to graduate from college. I did...10 years after I graduated from High School. So what did I go to school for again? Somewhere along the way I got really comfortable. But I'm not really. It's time to redefine my goals. So in an effort to do so, I found <a href="http://www.triplux.com/dayzero/">this place</a>. <div><br /></div><div>These aren't resolutions...just goals. I kind of like it too. Every year I make resolutions and every year, I fail them. Hell, I don't even start!! 1001 days translates into 2.75 years. In 2.75 years I'll be nearly 37. Pushing 40. I've got to get my shit together. Not that it isn't already, but it could be a little more together. </div><div><br /></div><div>I've been looking at other lists and some are organized into categories and some are not. Maybe categories might help me define what I direction I should be going in. </div><div><br /></div><div>- Career/Work/School</div><div>- Health</div><div>- Spirituality</div><div>- Creativity</div><div>- Travel</div><div>- Books to Read</div><div>- Finances</div><div>- Home</div><div>- Sophia</div><div>- Misc. </div><div><br /></div><div>I can hang with that. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/378119895278070424-4645745660004623773?l=miriam-101thingsin1001days.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>miriamnoreply@blogger.com0