The Day Zero Project

You may have heard of the Day Zero Project. The challenge is to identify and commit to completing 101 goals in 1001 days.

Loving lists as I do, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a massive one to inspire my next 1001 days. Given the less than 3 year time frame, it was surprisingly difficult to come up with 101 items--it took me all week!

I hate to say that my list is sort of a "mom's list", but knowing I'll be pregnant or postpartum the better part of the next 3 years limits my aspirations for certain things like travel, and doesn't leave room for many other physical feats. Eh, so it is!

I'll be updating as I go....

• Get a massage (1/10)
• Take a “knife skills” course (1/11)
• Read at least one book, book club style
• Complete a sprint triathlon
• Go to the shooting range
• Throw an all-out dinner party
• Read a series of books
• Join a CSA (2/10)
• Run a race--10k or better (11/10)
• Read the manual that came with my DSLR (2/10)
• Buy a keepsake baby book (1/10)
• Go to the movie theater with Andy (2/10)
• Listen to a book on tape (The Dance of Anger) (6/11)
• Throw Roscoe a grand first year birthday party (5/10)
• Work through a cookbook
• Close my myspace account (1/10)
• Perfect my boxing technique with personal training (4/10)
• Lose my baby weight, again
• Complete 36 push ups in one minute (6/10)
• Volunteer for my neighborhood (5/11)
• Attend a La Leche League meeting in Summer 2011 (7/11)
• Attend a La Leche League meeting in Winter 2010 (12/10)
• Attend a La Leche League meeting in Fall/Winter 2011 (2/11)
• Attend a La Leche League meeting in Spring 2011 (5/11)
• Shop at an Asian food market (8/12)
• Find and attend a local API meeting (5/11)
• Sew something (7/11)
• Get pregnant (7/10)
• Attend a sporting event as a family
• Take Roscoe to the baby pool (6/10)
• Go camping 
• Take a road trip to NC to visit family
• Take a tropical vacation (7/10)
• Research California towns to move to, and determine the location of our next big move  (10/11)
• Try out CrossFit (7/11)
• Go to the dentist and get on a schedule! (6/10)
• Read a book about photography (6/11)
• Bake a souffle
• Plan another home birth (10/10)
• Get a spa service at the Mandarin Oriental DC (6/10)
• Perfect Jacqueline’s Cupcake recipe, and give it a name
• Get tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll (tried in 2010, and 2011 but didn't make the lottery!)
• Bake a Jelly Roll Cakes (11/10)
• Invite Mel back for Roscoe’s one year photo shoot (5/10)
• Buy digital files from our photography sessions (1/11)
• Go to tea in DC (1/11)
• Decorate my office (3/12)
• Use the weber grill to make s’mores (5/10)
• Find a good resource on food photography
• Get my ring polished
• Find a “perfect” nursing bra (10/10)
• Update my PJ collection and throw out the oldies (7/10)
• Take Roscoe to see the monkeys at the zoo (8/10)
• Buy a post-baby wardrobe or a maternity wardrobe whichever makes the most sense! (9/10)
• Get a seat at a tasting table
• Celebrate something special with a dinner at I Ricci (2/11)
• Download an Add-in to Aperture and learn how to use them to edit my photos
• Renew our vows
• Bike the C&O canal
• Join the Library’s reading club for babies, or other organized toddler group (1/12)
• Nurse Roscoe until he’s at least one year old (5/10)
• Spend an entire day with Roscoe and my mom (1/11)
• Learn how to cook two traditional Filipino dishes (in progress, #1 Ginataang Mais, #2 Chicken Adobo)  (7/12)
• Design another nursery or a playroom (11/10)
• Commit to 7 days without consuming any “sweets” (1/10)
• Take Chloe to an open space so she can run and play (4/11)
• Identify a local (or not) park with a great playground (4/10)
• Buy a jogging stroller, and take it for a spin (7/10)
• Watch a boxing match on TV (1/10)
• Host March’s Bradley Babies Party (3/10) 
• Go to a music concert
• Dress up as my brother for Halloween
• Go to an indoor climbing gym
• Travel to a state I’ve never been to before (7/10)
• Eat at a celebrity’s restaurant (12/10)
• Go to Vegas for the weekend
• Introduce Roscoe (or Merritt) to Grampa Jack (11/12)
• Get brave and act on one of my entrepreneurial concepts (11/10)
• Visit one art gallery and one Richmond museum I've never before visited
• Attend a show in the city (8/10)
• Dress up for Halloween as a family (10/12)
• Spend a total of 24 hours purposefully experimenting with my camera (in progress 2/24)
• Grow cherry tomatoes in the backyard (4/11)
• Create something with felt (1/12)
• Order more fabric from purl soho (7/10)
• Organize a neighborhood potluck
• Go out to dinner with Andy (5/10)
• Play a new game (7/10) MAD GAB
• Go on a first date (since Roscoe was born) (2/10)
• Perfect two marshmallow recipes: vanilla and cinnamon (11/10)
• Shop at a new farmers market (11/12)
• Find a quality second hand store for children’s clothing (11/11)
• Transition Roscoe from The Swing to…somewhere else (8/10)
• See a movie in 3D (2/10)
• Find a second favorite alcoholic beverage to match my nuts and berries shooter (blueberry mojito) (4/12)
• Take Roscoe to check out his first book from the library (5/10)
• Grow out the last four inches of my hair and then cut. it. off. And promise myself never to dye or highlight my hair again! (1/11)
• Reset my engagement ring
• Write 5 important notes of thanks (1-NICU)
• Attend an ethnic festival (6/12)
• Replace all of our towels with fancy, fluffy, new ones
• Consider my options for pursuing a PhD, or other avenues of continuing education (4/12)