Day Zero

Since I have been back in Iowa at home all the time I've had a lot of free time on my hands so I've been browsing blogs and what not. On one, and forgive me for not remembering whose now, I discovered something called the Day Zero Project. The whole idea of it is people make a list of 101 things they would like to complete in 1001 days. In all honesty, I've never really written down any goals -- I always kept everything in my head (a trait which I apparently got from my dad) -- so yesterday I used my afternoon to think of 101 things I would like to do. This should be pretty helpful since Matt and I are always looking for something to do other than sit in front of the T.V. (which I absolutely hate!). Some of these things are personal and some are things that Matt and I will be able to do together. Hopefully I can get them all finished -- going on a trip to Barcelona might be a little difficult though with limited income and Matt's career. I am thinking about saving $5 for each one I complete and then using the money for either the Spain trip or a shopping spree. For each that doesn't get completed I am considering donating $5 to Children's Miracle Network, the organization my sorority -- Phi Mu -- was affiliated with.

Here is a copy of my list:

1.) Make a custom recipe book
2.) Send a secret to PostSecret
3.) Run a half marathon
4.) Go to a concert
5.) Go camping
6.) Get a massage
7.) Lose 10 lbs
8.) Deactivate Facebook
9.) No fast food for a month (or longer!)
10.) Write a message in a public bathroom
11.) Go back to school
12.) Bake an apple pie
13.) Take a dance class
14.) Stick to a budge
15.) Buy a car
16.) Get a puppy
17.) Get a gym membership
18.) Make my own dress
19). Start a savings account
20.) Go on a hot air balloon ride
21.) Get a new passport
22.) Drink only water for 2 weeks
23.) Start going to church
24.) Go to Barcelona
25.) Read 3 biographies
26.) Run 5 miles without walking
27.) Hollow out a book
28.) Make a list of 50 women i admire
29.) Don't eat out for one month
30.) Take a cooking class
31.) Buy a leather jacket
32.) Go rock(wall) climbing
33.) Go to a museum
34.) Have a picnic
35.) Learn to knit/crochet
36.) Organize bathroom
37.) Get a pedicure
38.) Bake a cake from scratch
39.) Have a dinner party
40.) Tie-dye something
41.) Grow a herb garden
42.) Take scuba lessons
43.) Go to a comedy club
44) Learn CPR
45.) Organize makeup
46.) Go horseback riding
47.) Clean/Pack apt and move
48.) Blog 3x/week
49.) Get a towel rack and shelves for bathroom
50.) Workout 30 mins/day for 5 days/week
51.) Save $30/week that would have been spent on cigs/alcohol
52.) Take a trip to Destin with Matt
53.) Throw a birthday party for BallGrumble
54.) No drinking for one month
55.) Read 5 novels
56.) Get a decent job in PCola
57.) Find an organization to volunteer with once a month
58.) Get a plant(s) for living room
59.) Clean kitchen every night
60.) Go through closet and take some clothes to Goodwill/Plato's Closet
61.) Be more resilient
62.) Remove makeup every night
63.) Continue to remain tobacco free
64.) Get a road bike and ride it regularly
65.) Read 3 articles on BBC daily
66.) Do meal-planning weekly
67.) No more energy drinks
68.) Get up early and at the same time every day
69.) Vacuum every Monday
70.) Make bed every day
71.) Get a new camera and take a lot of pictures
72.) Spend a day at the zoo
73.) Go wine tasting
74.) Go to Farmers Market
75.) Do the gallbladder cleanse
76.) Use a daily planner EVERY DAY
77.) Frame and hang diplomas (both of mine and Matt's)
78.) Secret from BallGrumble
79.) Go to yoga once a week
80.) With new camera, make a 365 day photo album
81.) Learn how to windsurf
82.) Go para-sailing (again)
83.) Paint a sign with favorite quote
84.) Put away $5 for each completed task, then go on a shopping spree or on trip to Spain
85.) Choose a theme to decorate living room and do it
86.) Take pictures of everything on the list possible and make a scrapbook
87.) Establish an emergency fund of $500
88.) Learn shorthand
89.) Buy bedroom curtains and hang them
90.) Go hiking in Arizona
91.) Get professiona photos of me and Matt for Christmas cards and send them
92.) Get involved in Escambia County Republicans
93.) Go to a Spurs game in New Orleans or Orlando
94.) Visit/Surprise Brittany in Dallas
95.) Learn 3 new words every week for a year, make a file/blog of them
96.) Leave a secret in a PostSecret book
97.) Rent a limo for a night witha group of friends
98.) Dye my hair back to blonde
99.) Make the homemade spice rack Dad and I saw on T.V.
100.) Find a healthy way to deal with anger
101.) Make 10 new mix CDs for my car

A lot of these I can't begin until I'm back in PCola. Like getting involved in local politics and changing daily habits associated with home (there's a few I listed). And yesterday, my mom and I began the process of dying my hair back to blonde! So I guess I can already cross one off the list! So here is a picture of me taken a few weeks ago:



And one once mom had my hair pulled through the cap:



And the final result:



I was messing around with a photoshop like program today so thats what I came up with. Woot. Thats another thing I want to re-learn. Photo-editing and graphic design. I took a class in high school and was very good at it then. Not so much anymore, but I'm sure I can pick up on it again, right?