February 3, 2010

I’ve not kept up with my vocab learning…my goal in my 101 list was to learn one a week and use it…well, I’m behind…but here are my new ones since the last time I posted:

1. Capriciously
2. colloquially
3. astute
4. perspicacity
5. eviscerate

That’s it…so I’m about 38 words behind…guess I’ll double up this year!  I WILL have 142 new”ish” words learned by the end of my 1001 days!

March 20, 2009

Here are the words I’m learning…It’s quite fun, thankfully at the expense of no one, as in a schadenfreude.

1. Magnanimous
2. Archipelago
3. Patriate
4. Gallimaufry
5. Sesquipedalian
6. Vendetta
7. Ostentatious
8. Schadenfreude
9. Pandmonioum
10. coquettish
11. egregious

So my good friend, Carolyn, has told me about the 101 in 1001 list…it’s the 101 things you want to do in 1001 days.  So, I’m going to make a list.  Keep in mind, I am not a very good judge of time, and I am extremely optimistic.  So my list may be unrealistic, but here goes…at least the beginnings of a list:

1. Back up the pictures that are on my hard drive.
2. Re-model my bathroom
3. Go to New York for Thanksgiving
4. Get 4-6 flute students who actually live in Norman.
5. Memorize Claire de Lune on the piano
6. Save up enough money to by my next car in cash
7. Read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
8. Get rid of 45 pounds, 20 by summer, 25 more over the summer!
9. Plant bulb flowers for the spring
10. Get to know Valorie and Loretta
11. Read a book on Team Work
12. Re-read The Leadership Challenge
13. Get to the point where I can run and swim 30 minutes straight
14. Get all of my Scripture Memory review up to date
15. Help my mom fix up the room in her house that used to be my room
16. Spend significant amounts of time with Rusty and El Bean
17. File the stacks in my office
18. Read the biography of Oswald Chambers
19. Go through the boxes in my garage and throw out/consolidate
20. Paint my laundry room
21. Read about and complete the Couch-to-5K Running Plan
22. Get more shelves for my garage
23. Go to Cuba
24. Try all 10 formulas in my new bread cookbook (0/10)
25. Learn to cook more french cuisine
26. Figure out how to use my fireplace
27. Complete StrengthsFinder 2.0 Assesment and read the accompanying book
28. Get my gutter fixed
29. Plant and maintain an herb garden
30. Make fresh pesto from my herb garden
31. Drink NO soda from mid-January to Spring Break, re-evaluate need to continue this at Spring Break
32. Get hair cut and keep hair cut to style (or at least some true style) for the next 1001 days…got it cut!!  Now working on keeping it styled!
33. Give an appreciation gift once a quarter (5/11)
34. Send a thank you gift card to eye doctor
35. Find and go to a dentist 2 times a year (o/6)
36. Plant vines and hang lights on pergola
37. Call and catch up with alums of the ministry once every two months (4/17)
38. Do 5 “touristy” things in Oklahoma City (1/5)
39. Listen to one sermon on www.discipleshiplibrary.com per week (0/143)
40. Save three months of salary in money market (0/3)
41. Have a good conversation with Allison, Carolyn, Kristen, Kayla, Emily, Corly, and Jessica at least once a month (9/33)
42. See Mandy at least once a month (10/33)
43. Learn a new piece of flute music once every three months (0/11)
44. Learn a new symphony exerpt once every three months (0/11)
45. Stick to my food budget for three months in a row (0/3)
46. Plan meals for the week for one whole month (0/4)
47. Keep a food diary for two weeks (0/2)
48. Go to church 10 MINUTES EARLY for one whole month (0/4)
49. Host a Fondue party once a semester (1/6)
50. Have Susanna up for a weekend every spring (0/3)
51. Babysit for Alex and Kim and Jen and Kels at least once a semester (2/6)
52. Get time with Sandra at least once a month (1/33)
53. Go to bed by 11 pm during the week for at least once month straight (0/20)
54. Memorize the words to 6 lullabys
55. Finish Travel Scrapbook
56. Do a Europe Scrapbook
57. Learn how to make home-made pasta
58. Visit Doni and Glen in Ohio
59. Learn one new word a week and use it (16/143)
60. Send love in some format to my friends overseas at least once a month (6/33)
61. Read “The Insider”
62. Read “Practicing His Presence”
63. Read 2 Isobel Kuhn books (1/2)
64. Finish Classical Devotions book
65. Memorize  II Tim. 3:1-5
66. Get a friend to look at my house settlement issues and do something about it if necessary
67. Get gate fixed
68. Get roof flashings fixed
69. Get a camelback water bottle and drink more water
70. Hang verse above my bed
71. Go to the OKC Philharmonic at least twice a season (1/6)
72. Re-visit Chicago
73. Go to Jackson Hole
74. Read/re-read the Narnia series
75. Read through all the Christmas newsletters I receive and pray for the families
76. Take a weekend trip to Houston
77. Have a spa day
78. Develop my blogsite into a fun place to visit
79. Try my friends’ latest recommendations on tea
80. Go to a tea room every 3 months (0/11)
81. Get flute over-hauled
82. Pray for 45 minutes straight at least once a week (54/143)
83. Learn a new vegetable recipe once a month (2/33)
84. Read “How to Read a Book”
85. Have a Tea Party
86. Purchase or obtain a Chihuly sculpture
87. Re-read “Disciplines of a Beautiful Woman”
88. Go to 5 Historic spots on Route 66 (2/5)
89. Take a Friday/Saturday trip to Eureka Springs
90. Go to a Peter Cincotti Concert
91. Take my nephew out for a day two times a year
92. Do something to help upgrade the Sullivant Retreat Center
93. Visit my Grandparents at least once a year (1/3)
94. Reconcile on old friendship that has gone awry
95. Read one Jane Austin novel
96. Watch Dr. Zhivago
97. Make a yule log for Christmas
98. Climb Baldy while at GLO
99. Take Dr. T’s New Testament Backgrounds class
100. Visit 5 Art Museums (1/5)
101. Go to both FL and AZ spring trainings

There…I did it!  I completed making my 101 in 1001 List.  My start date is (was) January 12, 2009 and my finish date is October 20, 2011 ( I think…if I did the math right).  I am motivated.  I think this will be a TON of fun!  So…here I go!  Wish me luck!   Or pray for me, which would be a far more productive thing to do!  Thanks!