101 in 1000 Days: Update

Remember that pesky list where I outlined 101 things I wanted to accomplish in 1000 days? I wrote that back in September so I could see how you would forget.

I haven’t forgotten to work on crossing items off the list. I just haven’t been very diligent about updating you on my progress. If I don’t say so myself, I have made solid progress. I am now able to cross off the following:

9. Get a professional photo taken for LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. I still have mixed feelings about revealing my picture to you, but that may change especially now that I have gotten all the wedding photos back. We’ll see…

36. Marry The Thinker. How could you not know about this one, right? I will be sharing photos as promised.

71. Organize the spice cabinet & toss those that are expired. This took much longer than I anticipated. I have a hell of a lot of spices and even crazier, I use all of them pretty consistently. I like consistency, so I ordered these jars off Amazon. They are pretty freaking sweet along with a label maker. The Thinker is not as impressed as I am, but then it’s not like his opinion matters on this one.

72. Replace the expired spices. After surveying what I had and what should probably go, I only needed to replace three items – onion powder (I was out.), red pepper flakes and saffron. There are a few more I’d slowly like to add to the cabinet that are a little more exotic, so if you know of any good online stores do share.

95. Conduct a purge of old/expired beauty products. Who knew this would be so therapeutic? What started as just cleaning up the makeup basket resulted in tackling the medicine cabinet along with the cabinet under the sink. When all said and done, I think I had an entire garbage bag full. At first, I struggled to toss some things. Any girl knows that stuff adds up, but then once the first bottle went in it became much easier. And really, does one girl need four different kinds of black mascara?

96. Purge clothes & shoes that I haven’t worn in the last year. Given The Thinker and I are moving on up and into a larger apartment, the timing was prefect for this. In the end, I have three bags of clothes and one of shoes that I need to take to Goodwill. As I ordered a new Cole Haan bag from RueLaLa this morning, I should probably do the same with purses.

98. Go to a professional basketball game. The Thinker helped me cross this one off the list without even realizing it. He’s a huge Mavs fan. (I don’t hold it against him.) He was like a little boy when he realized they were playing the Wizzards on a Saturday night. Of course, we had to be there. We had such a good time that we are seriously considering a small season ticket package.

Don’t know about you, but I’m kind of tired seeing everything listed out. I can already tell I am going to have challenges with the “Let’s Get Physical” category.