‘Round the bend ….

and a bit further down the road.

My thoughts, my fears, my frustrations, my loves …

… my life ..

Take it or leave it … this is me ..

Some music while you read :-)

Come visit my video blog .. to listen to some great music ..http://twinzplusone.vodspot.tv/ Ummmmm ......... while Twilight is still in the back of my mind .... ahem ...... Here is a playlist of a few groups I don't often listen too .. that the author Stephanie Meyer said she listened to or helped her to write the series of books ..

Slinking to my goal ...

Saturday, January 4, 2020

101 in 1001

In Progress | Completed
1) Create a blog post for each item I complete
2) Complete the nine week Couch to 5km program (0/9)
3) Read & finish 50 books (22/50) (the book list)
4) Visit a state I’ve never been to
5) Catalog all of our books into Collectorz (all but the kids are done)
6) Do dance lessons
7) Have three weekends away with just the four of us (3/3)
8.) Have a long weekend away with friends
9) Do a photography course
10) Learn & use all of the functions on my camera
11) Grow watermelons
12) Grow sunflowers
13) Throw a proper dinner party
14) Sort all of my recipes including ones from magazines
15) Make recipes from #14 into a book
16) Take a family portrait once a month for a year (0/12)
17) Get photos of the four of us in a photo booth
18) Go to five yoga classes (0/5)
19) Learn how to put on makeup properly
20) Make a cheesecake from scratch
21) Make / Get a new camera strap
22) Take the kids to a pick your own strawberry farm
23) Take the kids cherry picking in Young
24) Learn sign language
25) Buy a new money box
26) Make an outfit for myself & wear it!
27) Have at least 10 dates with Aaron (6/10)
28) Complete the 100 Strangers project & print the photos
29) Go on five picnics somewhere I have never been (0/5)
30) Finish painting the skirtings & window / door frames
31) Paint the bathroom & toilet
32) Make a birthday cake for a friend as a surprise
33) Have one TV free day every month (23/32)
34) Fly a kite
35) Make my bed every day for a month (30/30)
36) Make a herb garden
37) Eat two things I’ve never tried before (2/2)
38) Bake a pumpkin pie
39) Learn to juggle properly
40) Watch the sun rise & set
41) Go for a walk in the rain
42) Go whale watching
43) Go swimming 10 times in Summer (6/10)
44) Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (17/26) (the movie list)
45) Build a snowman
46) Identify 101 things that make me happy
47) Complete a 365 Project
48) Have a computer free day once a month (19/32)
49) Create an artwork for the house
50) Learn to knit
51) Complete the knitted blanket from the magazine subscription
52) Knit something other than the blanket
53) Give 10 “just because” presents (4/10)
54) Buy flowers for the house 10 times (3/10)
55) Read Peter Pan to Alexzander
56) Watch (or rewatch) every Tim Burton movie
57) Buy the ebook Pro Blogger’s 31 Days to a Better Blog
58) Complete the exercises in 31 Days to a Better Blog (0/31)
59) Enter the Canon Photo 5 competition
60) Make a photo book for Alexzander
61) Make a photo book for Juliette
62) Finish Amanda & Aaron’s recipe book
63) See a movie I normally wouldn’t
64) Build a sand castle
65) Take a Young Me Now Me photo
66) Wear a dress a day in October, for Frocktober
67) Update my Photo Fairy website (cancelling this one & replacing it with Mum’s Mind)
68) Do five paid photography jobs (0/5)
69) See another theatre show
70) Start editing my novel
71) Post one chapter of my novel to my blog
72) Go to a cooking class
73) Have another baby
74) Go vegetarian for a week
75) Grow a vegetable from a seed and eat it
76) Go on a ghost tour
77) Complete a colouring book (purchased Oct 2010)
78) Learn to change a tyre
79) Go to a concert
80) Go to five zoos / animal parks (3/5)
81) Organise the book shelves properly
82) Go skinny dipping
83) Make a dish from each country going through the alphabet
84) Take Alexzander on a rollercoaster
85) See a movie in 3D
86) Host a murder mystery night
87) Buy a set of 1000 thread count sheets for our bed
88) Play putt putt golf with the kids
89) Make a topsy turvy cake
90) Make a family tree
91) Post three photoshop tutorials on my blog (1/3)
92) Buy a pair of rollerskates & use them
93) Watch a documentary (One Born Every Minute)
94) Learn how to say “I love you” in 15 different languages
95) Participate in Operation Beautiful
96) Go on a cake decorating weekend with Cake Decorating Central
97) Stay off Facebook for two weeks
98) Create a photo blog to post all of the photos for the photography goals on my list
99) Save $1 every day for the entire challenge & spend it on something fun! 0/1001)
100) Save $2 for every item on this list I complete (0/202)
101) Make a new list of 101 things to do