Thursday, 31 July 2014

101 things in 1001 days


My friend introduced me to this 101 things in 1001 days. I think it sounds great. It's a good way to get some things done that keep being pushed to the side because of more urgent short term goals. Can't wait to get started. My official start date is tomorrow. End date is 28th April 2017! So that gives me 1001 days or 147 weeks or almost 33 months or 2 years, 8 months and 28 days. 

Health and Fitness
1.          Get under 120kg
2.         Get under 110kg
3.         Get under 100kg
4.         Get under 90kg
5.         Get under 80kg
6.         No fast food for a month
7.         Go without chocolate for a month
8.         Complete Couch25km
9.         Enter a fun run
10.       Touch my toes
11.         Complete 20 monthly fitness challenges
12.        7 mins a day for 7 months challenge
13.        Do 101 different exercise videos on YouTube
14.        Try 20 different slow cooker recipes
15.        Do a OAMC
16.       Create a list of easy, healthy fall back recipes which I could use for a month (for all meals, breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks)
17.        Keep a food diary
18.       Make at least 50 recipes that I’ve pinned on Pinterest
19.       Try 10 new vegetarian recipes
20.      Make a list of ways to treat myself that don’t involve food
21.        Use the slow cooker for meals other than dinner
22.       Digitise my favourite recipes from my cook books
23.       Drink 2L of water every day for 21 days

Family
24.       Start saving for a house deposit
25.       Road trip up to the inlaws
26.      Go on a dolphin cruise
27.       Get a dog
28.      Buy a new lounge
29.      Go camping with the kids
30.      Go on a bushwalk with the kids
31.        Start a photo album for each of the kids
32.       Get family portraits done
33.       Organise a holiday with the kids
34.       Read a series of books to the kids
35.       Set up a folder with all our important documents and have certified copies at mums place
36.       Get the kids birth certificates
37.       Make a cookbook with the kids and try all of the recipes
38.       Create art with the children to go on the walls
39.       Take the family to the snow
40.      Set up a memories box for the kids with work samples from school
41.        Have each of the kids write a book and get it printed
42.       Go out somewhere flash for dinner and get all dressed up
43.       Go away for our 10 year anniversary (Sept 2015)
44.       Hang photo frames in the house
45.       Update photos in the house every 6 months
46.      Take the kids to the Blowhole in Kiama
47.       Go to a Museum
48.      Buy and play 5 different board games
49.      Make a gingerbread house
50.      Have fish and chips on the beach
51.        Go to the circus – one with no animals!
52.       Replace my wedding and engagement rings
53.       Go to the zoo
54.       Make a list of things to do each school holidays

Personal
55.       Utilise a planning system - do a blog about it each week
56.      Graduate
57.       Buy clothes from the 'normal' section
58.      Finish my crochet blanket
59.      Finish journal for NEA award
60.     Work as a primary school teacher
61.       Be a qualified Girl Guide leader
62.      Go on a Girl Guide camp
63.       Write (on average) at least one blog post every week
64.      Ask 20 friends to suggest one book, and read them all
65.      Complete the Goddess Body Quest
66.      Blog my 101 in 1001 journey
67.       Read 101 books
68.      Complete 101 things in 1001 days
69.      Make a list of the top 5 people who have positively influenced me and write them letters
70.      Buy a pair of heels
71.        Buy a dress
72.       Make 10 projects that I’ve pinned on Pinterest
73.       Make a vision board

Creativity
74.       Start an art journal
75.       Give homemade gifts at xmas
76.       Do some art for the wall
77.       Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art or home decor
78.       Learn nail art
79.       Do ten photo-a-day challenges
80.     Complete 5 art classes
81.       Make inspiration journal
82.      Journal in the art journal every day for a month
83.       Finish an art journal
84.      Make DIY art supplies
85.      Draw every day for a month

Self-care
86.      Identify 101 things that make me happy
87.       Get a massage
88.      Learn how to do makeup
89.      Get a manicure
90.     Learn some DIY self care, such as facials and hair masks
91.       Grow my nails
92.      Paint my nails
93.       Do 101 acts of self-care
94.      Learn yoga
95.      Learn how to meditate
96.      Complete Kikki K Wellbeing journal
97.       Complete Kikki K Happiness journal
98.      Read the Happiness Project
99.      Book in some ‘me’ time once a week
100.   Make a list of 101 quotes that inspire me
101.     Learn how to wax my eyebrows properly




Saturday, 3 May 2014

Friday, 2 May 2014

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Friday, 25 April 2014

Anzac Day

My daughter was able to march with her girl guide group for Anzac Day. Luckily the weather held off so that they could march without getting soaked!

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Week of 14th April









This week is relatively quiet - not so much planned activities, more lets see what we do on the run because it's school holidays. Weekly todo list is a little on the light side too. I LOVE my DIYfish pages, without them I wouldn't be able to cope with a planner as small as a personal, but my back wasn't coping with an A5 in my handbag! 

Menu plan






I made up this menu planner printable tonight. I'm still not sure if it's *right* for me, but it's a start. I prefer not to plan to have xyz meal on a certain night. Though some nights I do - Fridays I usually have my folks over, so that means a different meal, and Tuesdays and Thursdays are our scary nights - so usually organise to have dinners in the slow cooker or pressure cooker on those nights. So it's a bit hard to do something that'll set some meals in stone, and not others. However, we are in school holidays at the moment - so anything goes! Because we are gluten/dairy free, I find it easier to cook extra at dinners that we can then have for lunches, otherwise I just don't know what to eat!

So on my printable - I have the meal plan on one side, and then lots of lines for shopping list on the other. I did it as a foldable as without it I would never have had enough room!!





Monday, 14 April 2014

Beef satay

Wonderfully easy recipe from 4 Ingredient's Menu Planning recipe book (found here). I added some frozen stir fry veggies and some rice.  Kids loved it, and I'll definitely make it again. One of those things that you could always keep all ingredients on hand for those nights where you just don't feel like cooking!

Excuse my post of the whole pan, but I had a meeting tonight, and hubby was working, so needed to have dinner on the run, so we packed dinner into our Thermoses that I have for the four of us! I think they'll pay for themselves very quickly. These nights I used to rely on takeaway, but with being gluten and dairy free, takeaway just isn't an option anymore. 

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Saturday, 12 April 2014

Windy party!

Had a party today, and BOY was it windy! But no rain thank goodness. Kids had a great time, and were so good at only eating things that I said were ok. 

Friday, 11 April 2014