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Mission 101 Update

I'm almost 8 months into my current mission101 list, but I also found an old Mission101 in one of my notebooks that I never even posted. Apparently I just made it and forgot about it. I thought it would be neat to look at the goals I managed to accomplish even though I wasn't actively working towards it.

The forgotten list had a start date of January 1, 2013 and end date of September 29, 2015. Here are the ones I've completed and am actively doing right now:

1. Lose 15 (acceptable) - 30 (ideal) pounds: I've lost 25!

2. Quit Little Debbie/chip addiction

3. Take another Coursera course or two

4. Read ladysmith's book and write Amazon review. (I devoured it so quickly the first time that I want to read it more slowly before I do a review.)

5. Keep a list of all books read in one year: You can see that here, although I think I may have left off a book or two at the end of the year. I hadn't realized how few books I read, spending way too much time on the internet or magazines. I plan to do this again next year and hopefully at least double my number. (In fact, I plan on doing this 50 Book Challenge that I found on facebook.)

6. Find a place to volunteer at for at least 3 months - Salem Fitness Center

7. Offer to braid Josh's hair at least 3 times - Twice. His fault for not taking me up on it.

8. Do a homemade Christmas - We did a semi-homemade Christmas last year. That's a step in the right direction.

9. Finish Chloe's and Maya's presents – I've worked on Chloe's picture and just re-found it, though I'll have to draw it over since it got something on it. I found Maya's blanket and one ball of matching yarn, but the girls have lost my crochet hooks.

10. Put together a planting schedule/calendar

11. Build/buy/barter for rabbit hutches - We traded Josh's pit bull, Sasha, for rabbits since she ate most of my chicken flock and could not be trained out of it.

12. Get meat rabbits - We had them, but somehow we were never able to get them to breed. I don't even know how that happened, but there you have it.

13. Build a pen for the dogs - We have the pen, and now we just need to build one big house/shelter that they can share in one end.

14. Get the Grateful Stead blog going - I actually have recommitted to this and tried to get started after NaNo was over. Unfortunately, my website was down for several months. A friend hosts it for me, so I really need to work on finding & moving to my own host. It's up now, but I need to do some clean up, figure out how to get spam help that I don't have to pay for, and start posting again.

15. Finish flash fiction/short story prompts from friends - I think I finished them. Certainly most of them. Unfortunately, I was having horrible writers' block at the time and thought all of them really sucked, so I never really shared them. There is one idea a prompt gave me that I plan to rewrite, since I got a better idea and never ran with it.

16. Order NaNo winner shirts - I ordered from three of the four years that I won, but one year was sold out. :( And one of those three was sold out in my (unisex) size, so I have the largest women's size that they offered. Unfortunately, I guess “women's” really means “toddler's”, but I'm keeping it around in case I ever get down to my goal weight.

17. Do at least 1 more generation of the NaNo WonderSaga for NaNoWriMo

18. Get a good, affordable writing laptop just for me - This was a gift courtesy of my wonderful friend, Jess! ♥

19. Make a real budget - I've sat down and made the budget. We're having a hard time with the 'keeping' part of it, though.

20. Pay off old trailer - This is one of the best, most freeing things that has ever happened to me. I wish it wasn't falling apart in the yard, but the next part is the fixing-it-up part.

21. Start bringing in money - I started with two part-time jobs, until I finally found a full-time one. Which I was laid off from in October. I was getting unemployment, but that's finished. And none of the very few jobs in my local area will hire me (dreadlocks now), and it's really not worth it to drive an hour either direction when Josh is working now. I do have an interview (still a drive), so we'll see. I wish I could get my writing to take off well.

22. Look into being a gestational surrogate - Obviously I have not been one yet, but I know what I need to do to make it happen one day.

Not bad! And a lot of them are very similar to goals on my current list, so I've made those red to show the overlap.


Now for the current 8 Month/New-ish Year Update:


Start Date: Monday, June 9, 2014
End Date: Monday, March 6, 2017



Family

1. Go exploring together again
2. Find cultural activities for homeschool fieldtrips
3. Keep better HS records/portfolios
4. Develop a new HS routine
5. Do more reiki/ceremonies together
6. Get girls involved in 4-H
7. Everyone submit something to the county fair
8. Start playing D&D regularly
9. Get everyone's teeth fixed
10. Wean family off of so much sugar
11. Get house cleaned & organized
12. Move bedrooms around
13. Start having Date Night



Writing

14. Consistently participate in LH flash challenges
15. Create new writing routine – and stick to it!
16. Finish revising NaNo WonderSaga
17. Submit WonderSaga to the interested agent & editor
18. Revise/finish The Dragon Alliance
19. Participate in every NaNoWriMo - 2014
20. Win NaNo - 2014
21. Participate in at least 2 Camp NaNos
22. Finish What We Become: A Supernatural/Walking Dead Crossover fanfic
23. Write, revise, & submit at least 1 story per month - working on finishing one now
24. Write, revise, & submit at least 1 poem per month
25. Choose a handful of good writer blogs to follow
26. Resume blogging at GratefulStead.com and livejournal
27. Fix up library and reclaim it as my study
28. Cull email lists – and then keep up with email!
29. GET BETTER WITH THANK YOU CARDS!
30. Resume sending handwritten letters
31. Join one or both of the writers' guilds (changing this to 'groups')
32. Join a good online writing group or create a local one - Have a pretty good group, with twice-weekly write-ins, going on in my NaNo WonderCabin on FB.
33. Resume consistent weekly posting at dailyrumi
34. Resume consistent daily posting at yearofpoetry
35. Reward self with subscriptions to magazines
36. Read more contemporary genre writers
37. Continue attending workshops & conferences
38. Qualify for Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America membership
39. Secure an agent!
40. Submit to contests (at least one each quarter)
41. Look for local small business resources/help (also for 'Farm' goals)




Farm

42. Research grants
43. Repair & fence chicken coop
44. Rebuild compost
45. Buy good heavy-duty mower
46. Improve/expand garden each year
47. Finish inner circle of Mom's memorial/meditation garden
48. Get some kind of dedication stone
49. Make a faerie garden each year
50. Contact Conservation Department for landowner resources
51. Clear out dead/unwanted trees
52. Fence yard – or at least enough of it for the dogs to run free
53. Build or buy proper dog houses
54. Get more chickens
55. Get more goats or get cows
56. Get deep freezer
57. Learn canning - also had, which I'd like to add: and make soap, cheese, & butter
58. Freeze/dry/can enough veggies for winter
59. Get enough surplus to start selling
60. Get old trailer blocked up & start cleaning out
61. Rent dumpster & cull
62. Fix fireplace
63. Fix leaks
64. Work on recognizing edible wilds




Health

65. Consistent mealplanning
66. Stick (mostly) with healthy eating habits gained from The Whole30 challenge (ends Tuesday 6/10/14) - 2nd Whole30 done January 2015!
67. Develop & maintain consistent schedule
68. Start doing yoga at least 3xs/week
69. Start going to gym again
70. Resume taking regular walks
71. Start strength training
72. Resume logging at SparkPeople.com
73. Get control of BP & get off meds
74. See dermatologist about spot
75. See chiro again
76. See about learning Tai Chi
77. Enter a race
78. Start practicing survival skills
79. Resume prepping
80. Try oil pulling
81. Get a juicer

(See 'Spirit' for more related goals)



Spirit

82. Continue daily reiki self-healings
83. Create consistent meditation routine
84. Resume Medicine Reiki ceremonies
85. Get a good drum
86. Teach a Reiki I class again
87. Start a reiki share &/or drum circle
88. Resume regular shamanic journeying
89. Visit church more
90. Start a new reiki school
91. Find a good name for new reiki school (My previous school was the Blue Ridge Reiki Center, but I'm now living in MO.)
92. Make vision boards
93. Resume regular personal practice
94. Resume major abundance work
95. Read more spiritual books; build reiki & shamanism library more
96. Reconnect & really LISTEN to Spirit
97. Build & maintain a Little Free Library
98. Resume fasting
99. Subscribe to Daily Word again
100. Consistently love & care for Momma's memorial/meditation garden
101. Learn how to build a labyrinth around it