One Hundred Days

ONE HUNDRED DAYS TO MAKE ME A BETTER PERSON

This blog started out as a record of my participation in the hundred days project thought up by the lovely Josie Long. More information about the project is available on the website.
Once a day, I aimed to complete one thing from my list of one hundred things which I needed to do in order to bash the mountain of my life into a manageable molehill and in doing so, make me a better person. And a better mum. The original list can be seen below, and each of the items which I completed have been crossed out and linked to the relevant blog post which describes my completion of the item. I did not complete the list, but had a damned good try. And it was great fun.

1. Write a list

2. Replace TV table with something that has doors

3. Write Christmas cards

4. Start paperwork filing system

5. Finish Christmas present shopping

6. Post Christmas cards and presents

7. Hire someone to jobshare with me

8. Put up curtain rail in study

9. Buy and put up curtains in study

10. Put up Christmas decorations

11. Get study ready for family visits

12. Replace bookshelf in lounge with Billy bookcase and cupboard with doors

13. Organise books on bookshelves in study

14. Fix broken kitchen cabinet door

15. Make cables in lounge baby-safe

16. Take videos to charity shop

17. Sell car

18. Finish crocheted mobile for J-cub's room

19. Clean dust from bathrooms walls

20. Write lists of Christmas presents for everyone

21. Clean out and reorganise cat-corner-cupboard

22. Make J-cub cord trousers

23. Sell outgrown baby clothes on ebay

24. Wrap Christmas presents

25. Take J-cub to see Santa

25. Finish making nursery curtains

26. Change J-cub's carseat

27. Turn kitchen shelf into useful baby-area

28. Put up shelf in nursery

28. Make functional stereo area

29. Clean out junk-box in recycling unit, turn into something useful

30. Go through baking cupboard, clean and throw away out of date products

31. Put away oscillating fan

32. Get J-cub measured for shoes

33. Baby-proof kitchen

34. Frame and put up baby photos

35. Start laundry system

36. Fix lounge door handle

36. Clean mildew from shower curtain

37. Sand and paint skirting board in hall

38. Clean radiator and below in lounge

39. Find J-cub a nursery place

40. Bleed radiators

41. De-clutter and tidy downstairs toilet

42. Chuck out rubbish from garden

43. Put up border in nursery

44. Fix curtain rail in lounge

45. Put curtains back up in lounge

46. Pack maternity clothes away

47. Weed patio

48. Sand and paint wooden edge to back door

48. Prune Flamingo Tree

49. Cut back the garden

50. Clean drain in garden

51. Put up pictures in nursery

52. Make photo albums

53. Give J-cub the best 1st Christmas

54. Make stock of healthy food for freezer

55. Empty out and clean wardrobe

56. Put some sort of shelving into wardrobe

57. Organise current clothes into drawers/wardrobe

58. Organise too-small clothes into boxes labelled with size

59. Start baby book

60. Make hearth baby-safe

61. Sort out big kitchen cupboards

62. Weed and remove moss from drive

63. Sort out books from bedroom for charity

64. Put up pictures in study

65. Contact HR about return to work

66. Take cardboard from garage to tip

67. Take all other unused stuff from garage to tip

68. Weed gravelly garden bits, replace stones

69. Clean window, curtain and ledge on landing

70. Clean out cupboard under sink

71. Clean decking

71. Go away overnight (without J-cub, obvs)

72. Mulch borders

73. Decorate hallway

74. Put up pictures in hallway

75. Defer student loans

76. Tidy garden

77. Scrub patio

77. Celebrate Valentine's Day

78. Clean mirror in lounge

79. Get my hair cut ready to return to work

80. Put away all Christmas presents

81. Cut grass

82. Write Christmas thank-you cards

83. Put up shelves in study

84. Sort out work-clothes

85. Water, repot and tidy houseplants

86. Clean and seal around French windows in kitchen

87. Clean and seal around front door

88. Spend a day on my own (without J-cub)

89. Clean and sort out laundry/phone corner in hall

90. Take down Christmas decorations

91. Repaint garage door

92. Prune plants in front garden so we can see out the window

93. Arrange J-cub's birthday party

94. Do Christmas baking

95. Reseal around bath

96. Put up hooks on back of door in hallway cupboard

97. Put up stair-gates

98. Go out for an evening (without J-cub, obvs)

99. Update baby book for J-cub's first year

100. Give J-cub the best 1st birthday

So that's the list. I've tried to build in some leeway so that I'm not up a ladder painting on Christmas Day or weeding the garden when my parents come to visit. The hundred days start today, and finish (rather neatly) on J-cub's birthday.

I'll also be supplementing my challenge by providing an appropriate photo for each list item number, and I may also be blogging about the more mundane aspects of my life (like reorganising my life isn't mundane enough).

Day 1 - mission complete.