And Now I Owe Myself Twenty-Two Dollars

Sometimes I don't even plan to do some of the goals on my list. Sometimes they just happen.

Driving around, it dawned on me that it was Pi day! 3.14. There is only one day to celebrate that day! Eat pie! It also happens to be a goal on my 101 list. I would have loved to make a pie to celebrate the day but I had to settle for getting a hershey sundae pie from BK. It was delish...

On the same day, I was at the mall with my loves and we walked by a photobooth! One of my goals is to do a photobooth picture!  Of course, we did it! I love photobooth pictures. You can strike quite a few poses and you have a sweet souvenir to always remember.

and now I owe myself 22 for completing 2 goals!

Searching

I was searching in my room for something that I couldn't remember where I put it. It had been so long since the last time I used it and I'm not the most organized person, anyway. I didn't actually have to search very long. Thank God. Yes, Thank you, God. I was searching for my bible...

A sad thought passed over that it had been so long since I have seen my bible that I had no clue where it was but a happy thought washed over the sad one quickly. I needed my bible and I found it right away. There is probably something amazing in that. I needed my bible because the next morning I was heading to church.

I haven't been to church in years. I haven't used my bible in years. I haven't been the best Christian in years.

For not being a morning person, I woke up excited but nervous on Sunday morning. Excited and nervous to go to church years after not going. Excited and nervous at being at a church I had never been to before. Excited and nervous to FEEL that feeling(or not feel it) that I use to get at church. 

Excited and nervous, definitely.

I had been searching for my bible that Saturday night but I had been searching for something else much longer.

I think I found that again, too.

Gift Shop Book

I'm a sucker for gift shops. I know that most of the things in there are nothing that I actually need but I can't help myself. I get sucked in. I totally needed little porcelain bird salt and pepper shakers, the record player that has Christmas music, the frog squirting water, the pens, notebooks, books. Oh my. They are all scream at me to buy them or at least admire them.

One book in a gift shop recently caught my big blue eyes and I had to have it. It was a cutesy book about love and I was on a date. I just had to have it.

Me and the boyfriend read this book together. I read a few pages and then he read a few pages. It was so strange that everything we read it was fitting for us to read it and not necessarily the other way around. I don't know how that was possible at all but it was really beautiful reading the book together.

Reading a book together just so happens to be one of my 101 goals on my list. I didn't actually mean read a book together like we did. I kinda thought we would pick a book and read it separately and talk about it. Very strange that we did this goal totally...by the book.

This just made me love and appreciate gift shops even more. You never know what you are going to find.

Reading My Height In Books

Almost too many books for me to carry like this anymore. All in all I have read 15 books since starting this goal of reading my height in books. There are 2 books not in this pictured. I felt like I've read more but even thinking about 15 books in 2 months. Wow. I'd say that is quite a lot of books. Many more to go!

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I've read 5 books since the last time I updated. Here are 3 of the 5.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling

This was a fun easy read. I mean I read it in hours. It was funny. Mindy Kaling is funny. I knew that she wouldn't disappoint. I'd recommend this book to someone who really doesn't like to read as much as I do. I can see that type of reader enjoying this book. This also would be a good book for a plane ride or a short road trip or a beach day(I don't know what those are but some people are lucky!).

Love Saves The Day by Gwen Cooper

Oh, this sweet book. Sweet little book. It is written from a cats perspective(for the most part). It is adorable the way the cat, Prudence, sees the world. It actually was a sad story with a very happy ending. I'm a sucker for happy endings. I would have been very upset if the book didn't end happy. This is a wonderfully cute book. If you are a cat lover, go read it!

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Have you read Gone Girl? This is by the same author. I don't know if I like the book or not. It wasn't a bad book. In fact it was a decent book. It just didn't leave any lasting impressions on me. The plot of the book actually could have gone a few ways and once it didn't go the way I wanted to start to rewrite it! Hah. If there is a big thunderstorm coming up, I think I would light a few candles, grab a blanket, and curl up with this murder mystery book. See? That doesn't sound bad.

Goal List Money

I have been whipping out my goals on my 101 in 1001 goal list. Maybe 9 doesn't seem like a lot when you think about having 101 but I really feel like I have accomplished a lot! On top of the 9 completed I have so many that are in progress. I tried to do 101 in 1001 a few years ago and I never came close to completing it. It is a wonderful feeling getting things done from the list!

Some of my goals are fun and light hearted while others are more challenging. I didn't want it to be a list that felt like a chore. I'm right! This list has been fun! Even the challenging ones are fun!

Kind of...

One goal I didn't think I would actually have any problems with is saving 11 dollars for every goal completed. I guess I just assumed the goals wouldn't be completed like BAM BAM BAM! I'm really lucky that because of my job I always have cash on hand but even so handing over $99 in the first 2 months was hard to do! I could have gotten a shirt on clearance, a new coffee mug, a delicious frappe, or something else but off the money went into a envelope marked "Goal List Money".

Saving money is a good thing and I really am not complaining. I just always need to have $11 on hand because who knows when the next goal is going to be completed.

Romantic Getaway

My amazingly sweet boyfriend surprised me with a little romantic getaway for my birthday. I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate. The getaway was just perfect. He kept it all a surprise, which is a little hard to do with me. I don't like surprises all that much! Maybe I'm changing my mind on that. He also has been amazing at trying to knock goals off my 101 in 1001 list. He thought of a few things we could do on this trip but I don't know if he realized that "Go on a romantic getaway with My Love" was a goal on my list! Goal completed!

It is really hard to get him to take a serious picture.

He is cute so he can get away with that, I suppose.

We went to a tiny little town in Kentucky not far from where we live. It had a cute little Inn. It was full of antiques and had plenty of history behind it. I'd love to just duplicate it and have it as my own house!

Even the key is cute!

One of the goals on my list is to do the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. We have already done the Evan Williams one and on our little getaway we did the Four Roses Distillery! I'm actually not a huge Bourbon fan. My face will give that away. It is really neat to see how it is made and my favorite part, the gift shop!

It was the PERFECT birthday and romantic getaway. I can't thank my sweet boyfriend enough for doing something so special for me. I'm definitely already loving being twenty-eig AHH I'M OLD already.

Hearts&A Check Mark

It was Valentine's Day. One of my favorite days of the year. The weather wasn't sure if it wanted to cooperate. Marshall, my boyfriend, decided to take me and Gage out to lunch. By going to lunch we definitely avoided the crowds. Seemed like this lunch was going to be a good lunch.

Unfortunately, things started to go bad. We were sat at a high top table in the bar area. My 6 year old child isn't tall enough to reach the seats on his own not to mention it is in the bar area! We get settled. We order. Our food takes forever to get there. We ordered sandwiches and chicken tenders. Our drinks were sitting there empty. When our food got there, mine was not great and I didn't eat it. All in all for me, it wasn't a pleasant dining experience.

Then I remembered what I just posted about the perfect meal. I looked at my 2 boys and decided I was going to enjoy this lunch no matter what. It was Valentine's Day. I had the 2 greatest Valentine's with me. It didn't matter that the service and food were not outstanding. The meal was perfect.

Since, it was Valentine's Day and at this point I'm sure the waitress thought she wasn't going to get a good tip I decided to go ahead and 100% tip her. It is on my 101 goal list to do. Marshall was paying for the actual lunch but I decided since it was my goal I should leave the 100% tip. Luckily, I had exactly that much in cash. Funny how that worked out!

Goal Completed! Woohoo!

Valentine's Day was an adventure for us. It didn't stop there. The whole day brought on more crazy, crazy ,crazy times but it was a wonderful day. I got to spend it with my 2 loves. That is what counts!

Silly Faces

Silly faces in crowded places

Make pretty smiles as big as a child's

Silly faces in crowded places

Makes loud laughter as we keep making faces after

Silly faces in crowded places

Makes this place brighter and our hearts lighter

101 Rewards

I was doing a little thinking about my 101 in 1001 goal list. I really like the idea of it. I'm still excited to get things done on it. However, a question popped into my head and that is "Should I reward myself when I have completed the list or a certain amount of goals?". I think that idea if rewarding myself sounds really fun and exciting as much as the list is fun and exciting!

The more I thought about it, though, the more it came to me that the goal list in itself is a reward! How amazing is that?! I don't think I need a reward for completing any of these goals. They are rewards on their own already.

Plus, at the end of the goal list I will have saved $1,111 and that is a lot! I can do quite bit with that much. Vacation? Clothes shopping spree? Donation to the Arthritis Foundation? Or even one of the goals on my list is to donate to someone else's charity of choice.

I have some time to think about it some more. I've only completed 3 goals. Many more to go!

Candy Quarters

While, me and the little man were shopping in the mall we passed a bunch of candy machines. I dug in my purse for some quarters. I handed them to Gage and told him to them on top of the machines. I only had 4 quarters. He put 3 on the machines and got a piece of candy for himself. 

About a hour later we walked back by and one of the quarters was gone! I hope someone enjoyed their candy! It was pretty exciting to leave the quarters and come back and see if they were gone. Gage loved it. We hoped we brightened someone's day!

*This was a goal in my 101 in 1001 days list.

Love Lettering

Love Lettering

I'm love lettering you because I love you

I love when your hair falls in your face

I love you when you act stubborn and you know you do

And I love you even when you need your space

I'm love lettering you because you make me happy

I love it when you bring me a yellow flower

I love you even if you think this is sappy

And I love the days I see you even if it just a hour

I'm love lettering you because you are wonderful

I love you because you're smart

I love that you make life less dull

And I love you because you have a big heart

I'm love lettering you because who doesn't like love letters?

I love you

I love that things are only going to get better.

And I love that I know you love me, too.

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As I was writing this silly little poem at work a song was stuck in my head. A really random song. I don't know how it got there but it hasn't left. 

Skidamarink a-dink, a-dink

Skidamarink a-do

I love you

I love you in the morning

and in the afternoon

I love you in the evening

and underneath the moon

 #backthatazz up to this song.

Skeet. Skeet.

Reading My Height In Books Part 2

I read 3 books last week. One was a easy enjoyable read. One was a book I didn't even want to finish reading. The other was really long and took most of the week to finish. I didn't take a picture but I think I finally read enough books to make it the size of my head. I'm getting closer to reading my height in books.

Crazy Love by Francis Chan

My Review: I didn't like it at all. I really didn't even want to finish it. He wrote in circles the whole book. In one chapter he said this and the next he went back over it but had a different take. It was awful. He describes most Christians as being "lukewarm". That might be a true statement. No one wants to admit that they are lukewarm but I am. I fall in that category and I would like to change that. This is the wrong book to get me inspired to do that. It was far from inspirational. I felt like through the whole book he was saying "LOOK HOW GOOD I AM. IF YOU DON'T LOVE GOD EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS ME YOU ARE GOING TO HELL". It just didn't sit well with me. I probably could write a whole post about this book but there are already plenty of them out there.

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

My review: Ahh! I preordered this book and was so excited when I got it. I absolutely loved the first novel. I loved the 2nd one just as much. I couldn't put it down. I finished it in a day. The pictures in this book are amazing. It really gets your imagination going. It is about children who are "peculiar". They have/can do special things and they've been hidden away for years. The first book tells that story. The 2nd book is them finally leaving their hidden island and going out in the world to help other peculiars and the one's who look after them. The story line was great. The plot twist was shocking and I didn't see it coming! These novels are really something special.

                                               

                                           

The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My review: My coworker really wanted me to read this. It was one of her favorite books. It was a very long read. I think it took me almost 4 days to read it. It was wo

rth it. This is a pretty magical book. It is about a special book, too! The boy in the book picked this book and was told to guard it for the rest of his life so it would never be forgotten. The book brought on a great mystery and the characters tried to solve it for years. They were trying to figure our what happened to the author and why was someone trying to burn all the authors books. The book definitely kept me hook. I don't think it ever got boring to me. It was a great book. I look forward to reading more of Carlos Zafon's books!

Saturday Style

Last Saturday I wore a dress to work and it started something I didn't even planned on doing. It started a goal from my 101 in 1001 list. To wear a dress/skirt everyday for 2 weeks. I didn't know when I was going to actually do the goal. I guess now is as good as a time as ever, right? The first week was pretty easy peasy.

I wanted to do this for a bunch of reasons. I really need to weed out the undesirables in my closet. Also, because I love dresses and skirts. They make me feel purdy.

I have run into a few problems with this fun little goal.

 1. I have no clue how I am going to pull of 4 more outfits for work. I might have one or two more dresses/skirts in my closet that are black. I might have to just restyle one of these gems pictured.

2. Why am I doing this in the Winter? It is so cold outside! As you can see in the last picture I threw on some leggings, a stripey dress, and my gap hoodie. It was just too cold(and snowy) to even try to look cute. Believe it or not I left the house looking like that! And a lot of my dresses are for the warmer months. They aren't going to get touched. I might have to do this goal twice!

It wouldn't be a goal if it wasn't challenging, I suppose.

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.

Or in my case Just keep dressin'

The Sunrise That Got Away

A coworker joked around with me about how I am not a morning person. I don't think I'm very unpleasant in the morning. Maybe I am. I hope not terribly so. It might have something to do with me coming to work with no make-up and my hair not brushed on more than a few occasions. No worries. I have the luxury of doing those things there. By the time I usually see faces other than my coworkers I am pretty presentable. I would say it could be because I'm always almost late but that isn't true. I like to be early and I'm always the first one at work, coffee made, and the opening tasks already done.

I actually have no idea where she gets the idea that I'm not a morning person but she is right. I am not.

One of my goals on my 101 in 1001 list is to take a picture of the sunrise. I made this goal for two reasons. The first being I really need to pick up my camera and start shooting again. It has been too long and my camera never use to be out of arms reach. The second being because I rarely get to see a sunrise. If for some reason I am seeing a sunrise I'm sure I'm in no state to notice the breathtaking event happening. It was probably a good night, though.

I want to capture a sunrise.

And this is a story on how I almost did it. Almost being the key word.

It was really early in the morning. The time when sunrises usually happen. Possibly a little after but still early enough that it was barely peaking through the sky. I had a few errands to run before work one day. It must have been important because that never happens. I'm usually never out of my door before exactly when I need to be. Just by chance I had my polaroid camera in a tote bag that was slung over my shoulder as I walked to my car. I started to open my car door when I turned slightly and noticed the sky and the gorgeous color it had. I'm surrounded by trees where I live and that just added to the beauty that I was witnessing. A soft orange color meeting the hazy morning blue color of the sky. It was mingled low in the trees. Beautiful, I tell you and as about as close to a sunrise that I have ever been.

I whipped out my polaroid. I knew wouldn't capture the details as well as my 7d but it would have to do. If anything I could remember this moment and feel inspired to capture another sunrise again soon. I snapped my first photo and out popped the picture from the side. I thought I'd better go ahead and snap another just to be safe I had a good picture. Snap, and out it popped. I put the polaroid back in my tote bag, climbed in my car, and drove off.

It was that easy! I did it! I captured my first sunrise!

Or so I thought.

I looked down at the snapshots on the passenger seat and I could have cried. The pictures were just white. Blank. Nothing. Nada. Zip. There was nothing. There was no picture of a sunrise on either one.

What happened? I somehow moved a setting on a camera that wasn't meant to work in the light I was trying to use. Sad but it happens. It especially happens to a girl who has forgotten all about her cameras for the better part of a year.

And that is my story on how I almost captured a sunrise.

Better luck next time.

Book-A-Thon Book Review

What fun this book-a-thon was! The best part is every one left me alone to read because...I was in a book-a-thon. I wonder how long I can get away that excuse! Also, in my 101 goals in 1001 days list, one of my goals is to read my height in books. I've been completed 5 books since starting my goal list.

This goal is definitely going to take awhile! My 5 books isn't even as big as my head!

My books for the week:

Book 1: Looking For Alaska by John Green
My thoughts: I've heard  lot about this author. I thought I wanted to read The Fault In Our Stars especially because it is going to be a movie soon but I couldn't do it. I knew it was going to be sad. I have a son with an auto immune disease and I don't want to read about a child dying from a disease. So, I picked another book about a child dying! Great! Looking For Alaska kept my attention from start to finish. I like the way John Green writes. It was a pretty sad book. I think I even shed some tears near the end of it.

Book 2: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
My thoughts: After the last book I knew I needed something more uplifting. This book still had its sad moment but this book was mostly just inspirational. I have so many pages marked and turned down in the book. It was wonderful. I loved every part of it. It was a easy read. The book wasn't very long but it packed a strong message.

Book 3: The Sweetest Thing by Elizabeth Musser
My thoughts: I was hesitant to pick this book up. Something in me told me to and that something was right. This book touched my heart. It spoke straight to my soul. It had very religious tones it and I loved every minute of it. It is a huge book and I didn't think I would finish it so quick. I started reading around 9am and finished right before midnight with many breaks in between. All of the characters in it were wonderful. They found themselves and they lost themselves. They failed at things and were triumphant in other things. They loved and they lost. Isn't that what is life is about? Overcoming our obstacles. This book was amazing.

I was going to go ahead and break my goal for the book-a-thon but after taking a day break I decided that I needed to take a little more time before picking up my next book. I'm also still swarming with thoughts on the 3 books I just read. I'm a reader, though, and my hands won't be off a book for long!

Inspiration List

A list of inspirational things, one thing for each letter of the alphabet

• Anyone who can find the silver lining in a tough situation
• Bible verses that shake you to your soul
• Children doing anything with childlike wonder
• Daydreaming
• Emotions. Mine and others.
• Falling in love
• Gage inspires me to be a better person not only for me but for him
• The happiness in other people
• Imagining the world being a better place
• Joy. In anything and everything
• Keys. They are a reminder that there always ways to unlock close doors
• Libraries filled with so many books that I will never be able to read them all
• Marshall, my love. I can't even put in to words how this man inspires me.
• Nature
• Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
• Photography. Both taking photos and looking at them.
• Quotations from authors both known and unknown
•  Road trips with just me, myself and the radio
• Sunrises and sunsets. So grand that they inspire almost every one
• The tenderness in other people
• Uniting together
• Veterans who fight/fought bravely for my country
• Watching Gage overcome anything his disease throws at him
• Xenodochial. It mean being friendly to strangers and being intuitive or easy to understand
• Yearning for more
• Zest for life

*This is my first completed goal of my 101 goals!

My Night With Marilyn

I spent the evening with Marilyn Monroe on Friday. It was an amazing way to start the weekend off. She was an extremely sexy but somewhat innocent-like date. She played many roles through out the night...

As she played each character in the three movies I watched!

I had a little Marilyn Monroe movie marathon going on. It wasn't really intentional. I watched the first one and thought 'why not?' and I kept going. It was great. Before this I have only seen 1 of her movies. I enjoyed watching her quite a bit. I'm definitely still an Audrey gal but I have a lot of new found love for Marilyn.

I watched How To Marry A Millionaire, Monkey Business, and River Of No Return.

How To Marry A Millionaire was definitely my favorite. She was adorable in it and the story was wonderful.

I don't have any big plans for the rest of the weekend so I might keep the Marilyn marathon going.

2 Goals And A Baby

There is no baby despite the title of this post. I just thought it was catchy. 2 men and a baby. 2 goals and a baby. Get it? Ok. Maybe not. On to the goals!

I read The Spectacular Now earlier this year. It was a pretty good book. It was one of the first books I read on my iPad after swearing I would only ever read paper books. Now I find myself rarely buying paper books.

I watched the movie yesterday. I'm having a lot of fun with the goal of watching a movie for every letter in the alphabet. I'm not going to count the The. So, my movie was an S.

The Spectacular Now is just sad. Not sad in a bad way. Sad in a sad way. Through out the movie and book, I didn't know if I liked the main character, Sutter Keely. He was frustrating. I realized, though, that he is just trying to figure out the world and making mistakes along the way like the rest of us. Not a hugger but he needed a hug. If only I could reach through a book or screen.

Speaking of rarely buying paper books, while Christmas shopping I picked up one. It was The Book Thief. It took me a minute to get into the book but once I did I couldn't put it down and blazed through in no time. I'm really excited to see the movie now. I'm also excited that I am starting another goal on the list and that is reading my height in books. A couple inches down and only about 5 feet and 3 inches to go!

The Letter E

Just so happens the day after I started my 101 Goals I started on a goal. I watched a movie and that goes with Watch 26 movies one for each letter of the alphabet goal. Its title happens to start with E, which I thought was going to be a rather hard letter to find to watch. This was just too easy. I like how this challenge is going already.

Elysium

"In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth." - Taken from IMDB

I'm not a movie critic. No review here.

Movies like this make think of the future. Could this stuff really happen? If it did I wonder what I would do. Would I be among the lucky people who live in Elysium or would I be the regular joe's living on Earth? No matter which one I was I know I would be part of the revolution. 

Bring it on, future world. Bring it on.

101 Goals In 1001 Days

Start date: December 22, 2013
End date: September 18, 2016

Goals Completed: 39/101

Save $11 for every completed goal (109/1111)
Go 1 month without buying any unnecessary items (0/30)
Get emergency fund to goal
Add $10 extra dollars for everything month in Gage's savings for a year ($120 extra) 2/12
Shop with coupons for a month
Use credit card in emergencies only
Make a budget and stick to it for 3 months (0/3)
Don't buy lunch at work for 1 month (3/30)

Wear a dress every day for 2 weeks (14/14)
Organize clothes
Get rid of everything I really won't wear (Completed 2/21/13)
Wear an outfit that is completely one color(monotone)
Keep my toes 'done' for one summer
Buy a wedding dress

Cook 10 dinner meals on my own(10/10) 
Bake 10 desserts on my own(2/10) Chocolate chip cookies from scratch on 1/10/13, brownies
Open a cookbook to a random page and make whatever comes up
Make/Eat a pie on Pi day
Build a bonfire and toast marshmallows (camping 5-23-15)
cook My Love his favorite meal
create a recipe book

See all of Audrey Hepburn movies (The Unforgiven)
See all Marilyn Monroe Movies (How To Marry A Millionaire, Monkey Business, River Of No Return)
Read my height in books
Make a playlist of 101 of my favorite songs
See 10 concerts/shows (2/10) Emancipator Ensemble, The Hold Steady
Watch 26 movies one for each letter of the alphabet (19/26) Admission, The Book Thief, Croods, Devil's Pass, Elysium,Flowers In The Attic, How To Marry A Millionaire, In Her Skin, Killing Season, Lawless, Monkey Business,Overnight, Paradise, River Of No Return, The Spectacular Now,Toad Road, Underdog: The Julian Assange Story, Would You Rather
Attend a play/ballet/performance

Go ziplining
Go on a bi-plane
Go snowboarding/skiing
Ride a horse
Visit Mammoth Cave
Stay in the Wigwam camp
Visit all the distilleries on Bourbon Trail
Get a passport
Go to a church
Go ice skating
Visit 5 musuems(4/5) Frazier History Musuem(2/17) (Cincinatti Tri Musuems)
Throw a dart at a map and go where it lands
Go to the Kentucky Derby/Oaks Day
Travel to a foreign country
Disney World Gage went on Spring Break with Papa!
Have a girls weekend
Go on a romantic getaway with My Love
Go on a family walk 5 times(5/5) 

Complete a 365 day photo challenge
Use your DSLR at least once a week in a month
Take 100 polaroids
Take a picture of each letter of the alphabet
Take a picture of the same place every month for a year and then turn it into a calendar(Have to start by Sept 2015)
Sell a photograph
Photograph a sunrise
Take photobooth pictures

Write a list of inspirational things, one thing for each letter of the alphabet
Write my name in the sand
Start a pressed flowers notebook
Tie a secret to a balloon and let it go
Write a poem(5) 5/5
Leave a note inside a book for someone to find
Send a message in a bottle
Make a photo album of me and my love Wedding Album
Learn calligraphy
Finish the 642 book
Send a post card MY WEDDING INVITATIONS!
Answer the '50 questions that will free your mind' (50/50)
Carve my name in a tree
Put 5 surprise notes in Gage's lunch(0/5)

Leave a 100% tip
Pay for someone else's food behind me in the drive-thru
Compliment someone everyday for a week
Plant a tree on Earth Day
Send a note of appreciation
Leave quarters on candy machines
Do something special for my love he would appreciate
Participate in the Angel Tree
Buy a small gift for someone just because
Contribute to someone else's charity of choice
Give away a free haircut
Send anonymous flowers to someone

Buy a magic 8 ball and base all my decisions on it for a week
Have family game night
Find my signature cocktail
Make a stepping stone
Build a blanket fort and sleep in it
Participate in a 5k
Get a library card
Get a hour long massage
Go to a hookah bar
Have a family dinner at a table
Fill the house with at least 10 pictures of family
Learn to play chess
Create and celebrate our own family holiday
Take a class
Quit smoking
Achieve my personal weight goal 
Kiss in the rain
Read a book with my love
Join/create a book club
Work out for 30 days straight(0/30)
Try 3 new types of tea (2/3) (Monkey Picked Oolong) (black tea)