10 posts tagged “goals”

043: Give a lecture to a college/university group.

I'm going to count team-teaching Koine Greek to the guys at the prison as they're working through Global University.  :)

101. Sort out clothes for charity every time I go shopping.

Sorted out 7 1/2 bags of clothes between Jon and I.

Goal 035: Make bandages for Global Health Ministries.

This is called "Jen's Lenten Discipline for 2007".  I've got 4 done so far and my aim is at least 10.

Goal 069: Have a letter published in the local paper.

I wrote a letter in response to two people who urged "Christians to 'choose life'."  My response was to write with ways that one could choose life and make an informed decision.

Goal 026: Read The Kite Runner

I just finished The Kite Runner and whoa... 

It made me want to order more "We Will Not Be Silent" shirts in Farsi and English.  It made me want to drop everything and go to Afghanistan and work in a women's clinic.  It made me want to give every penny I have to orphanages.

It moved me.

Goal 046: Read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

I finished the 8(?) in the series and am working through The First Four Years which isn't technically part of the collection since it was published posthumously.

The books were inspiring because it really showed the creativity one has to use in life.  The family could have easily starved and I know the parents really sacrificed so that their kids could have everything they needed.  The thing that was so wonderful is that even during the awful times, everyone was so happy.  I guess attitude is a part of life?

Goal 063: Watch The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

I just watched it and OMG it was awesome.  Everything was good: the casting, the way they took care of the scenes, the voices of the animals, the way they did Aslan's sacrifice (very tastefully done!)...

Some highlights:

-the beaver house
-the White Witch's sleigh and castle
-Mrs. Macready
-the battle
-the sacrifice (REALLY meaningful if you understood the allegorical symbolism -- I'm amazed I didn't cry)
-the coronation
-Aslan on the beach and then disappearing

I'd been avoiding it because the cartoon scared me when I was 6 years old; and while I've read the books and all that, I knew that the sacrifice scene would probably reduce me to tears.  I'm either really jaded or really medicated because that scene didn't make me cry though it was an OMG scene because it was so well-done.

Goal 071: Achieve a BMI of 24.9 or less.
Goal 072: Make it through the whole Taebo: Advanced tape with no breaks.

Well... my Taebo basics tape was broken and I wasn't feeling like yoga, so I decided to try the Taebo: Advanced tape and see how far I could go.  I made it about 25 minutes in having not done it for... more than 6 months.  I'm going to replace the Basics tape since it's a good compact workout for days when I need it.  I also have the tape essentially memorized so I could just theoretically do the moves to some decent music.

Goal 018: Figure out what to do for grad school.

I've started looking into programs for grad school and on the west coast (where we'd kinda like to stay) and the west in general, the two I like are the University of Oregon and the University of Denver for History or a J.D./MA in International Studies.  Both have pluses and minuses and it will be a year or two before I really know where God wants me (unless He decides to make that clear and send down a book of instructions on exactly where I'm supposed to go, what I'm supposed to study, and what degree I'm supposed to stop at in this quest.)

It's progress...

Goal 008: Go combining during harvest.

I was telling someone at coffee this morning that I had never been combining and I was jealous that Jon had gotten to go when he was out visiting people.  Well... they were harvesting the last of their wheat and the wife volunteered to take me over to go for a ride.

So... I went up in the combine and the guy driving it explained how everything worked.  It was so fascinating for me because my dad is an engineer and I'm incredibly interested in how things work.  I was amazed at the electronics and computer things they have: GPS, a monitor that tells the number of bushels/the moisture content/the temperature of the grain, and other interesting things.

Soooo... 1 goal down, 100 to go!

Goal 046: Read the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

This was the easiest one to start on because I have all the books (thanks to my mother-in-law).  I read Little House in the Big Woods on my way to and from Conrad today and I'm now partway into Little House on the Prairie.

It's been fun because my mom read the first one to us when we were little and then I had to read it again almost 20 years ago in elementary school.  The second one is interesting because I've lived on the prairie (I'm now on the edge of it) for almost 3 years now so I totally know the landscape and the things they are describing.

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If you haven't already heard of it, the 2,996 Project is trying to get one blogger per 9/11 victim so that they can have tributes posted for each of them on that day.  I signed up and got one of the firefighters who went into the building.  If you haven't signed up yet, I really encourage you to.

OK... I know this started out as a blog on living in Montana but... I needed a place to put my 101 in 1001 list so it's going here.

The idea behind 101 in 1001 is that you meet 101 goals/do 101 tasks in 1001 days.  My start date is today (August 12, 2006) and my ending date is May 9, 2009.  Adding to the fun of this is the promise that for every goal I do not complete, I will put $1 in my changejar on WhatGoesAround.Org donate $1 to the Heifer Project.  That way, I have some incentive to accomplish all this and there's a benefit to the world for those things that I don't do.

So here are my goals/tasks:

001. Do some letterboxing.
002. Camp at least 5 times.
003. Visit the 5 biggest cities in Montana.
004. Plant a garden.
005. Enter some of my crocheting in the fair and win a prize.
006. Visit a Hutterite colony.
007. Learn to cook healthier meals from scratch.
008. Go combining during harvest.
009. Visit Glacier National Park.
010. Spend Holy Week in Canada with Tabatha.
011. Discipline myself to write in a paper journal daily for at least a month.
012. Do something like canoe or float on the Missouri River.
013. Learn to sew by machine.
014. Learn to knit.
015. Ski Showdown
016. Create my own WP template.
017. Perform a sacred classical work with an ensemble.
018. Figure out what to do for grad school.
019. Participate in NaNoWriMo.
020. Spend a week at Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp.
021. Finish the tank top and bolero jacket crocheting projects from SnB Crochet.
022. Be the accompanist for a church service.
023. Get my French back up to fluency.
024. Make at least 3 outfits of my own from scratch.
025. Read "Reading Lolita in Tehran".
026. Read "The Kite Runner". 
027. Read "The Devil Wears Prada".
028. Get an IPod.
029. Call-in on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
030. Raise at least $500 blogging solo for a charity during the Blogathon.
031. Volunteer at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
032. Do some kind of mission work.
033. Write a Confirmation curriculum and a Sunday school curriculum.
034. Read the Bible from cover to cover.
035. Make bandages for Global Health Ministries.
036. Earn some money doing webdesign.
037. Figure out Photoshop.
038. Make baby caps for Global Health Ministries.
039. Have a child.
040. Sort through my boxes of papers.
041. Host a formal dinner.
042. Read to kids at an elementary school.
043. Give a lecture to a college/university group.
044. Read the collected works of C.S. Lewis.
045. Re-read all the Babysitter's Club books.
046. Read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.
047. Go on a picnic.
048. Visit and play at a waterpark.
049. Enter a photograph in the fair and win a prize.
050. Acquire 4 pieces of UCSC apparel.
051. Acquire college apparel from the local college team.
052. Acquire apparel from the local high school team(s).
053. Hyphenate my name.
054. Acquire a "work wardrobe".
055. Actually separate my winter clothes from my spring clothes.
056. Help with a youth retreat.
057. Go snorkelling or SCUBA diving.
058. Visit Alaska.
059. Submit an article to Wikipedia.
060. Cook a 3 course meal over a campfire.
061. Send a care package via AnySoldier.Com.
062. See all the LOTR movies.
063. Watch The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
064. Serve on a jury.
065. Get the cats caught up on their shots.
066. Get caught up on all my health stuff (shots, dentist, etc.)
067. Watch "Luther" on my laptop.
068. Go a month without drinking soda.
069. Have a letter published in the local paper.
070. Give money to public radio.
071. Achieve a BMI of 24.9 or less.
072. Make it through the whole Taebo: Advanced tape with no breaks.
073. Live with no regrets.
074. Make a blanket for Project Linus at least yearly until the end of this meme.
075. Take part in a protest march.
076. Take part in a political rally.
077. Buy fair-trade coffee or chocolate from the Lutheran World Relief site.
078. Make sun tea.
079. Help with VBS at one of Jon's churches.
080. Get a candidate of my choice elected to public office and be an active part of that campaign.
081. Make catnip mice for my cats.
082. Eat venison.
083. Eat duck.
084. Eat rattlesnake.
085. Run in a 5K without stopping.
086. Grow my own basil and make pesto with it.
087. Lead a sing-a-long of camp songs.
088. Send out Christmas cards to family and friends.
089. Put $20.00 a month in my change jar on WhatGoesAround.Org for a year.
090. Float the local river again.
091. Bottle-feed a baby calf.
092. Donate a large animal for the Heifer Project.
093. Visit New England.
094. Buy a car.
095. Live in a place with decent public transit and use it (if it's a city).
096. Keep a prayer journal.
097. Get a manicure.
098. Attend a rock concert.
099. Attend a symphony concert.
100. Lead Holden Evening Prayer at least once.
101. Sort out clothes for charity every time I go shopping.