Top 100 - Vanessa-style

Top 100 - Vanessa-style

Here are the top-100 things that I would like to accomplish in my lifetime.

Commit to exercising – 5 times a week – no excuses
Finish a scrapbook album
Tell Alex more often that I love him
Steal kisses from Victoria anytime I want
Remind Don that he is the centre of my world
Relax in the Caribbean sun with a rum punch in my hand
Complete my FCI designation
Learn how to “let it go, Vanessa!”
Find time to read every day
Be the leader of my pack, and walk my dogs daily.
Organize my house – de-clutter
Develop more “girlfriend” relationships
Laugh every day
Visit Wales and AJ
Take a Hawaiian cruise for our 20th anniversary
Improve my health before I am 40
Finish at least one layout per week for one year – total 52!
Go paperless in my department at work
Repair our backyard fence…ourselves
Learn how to build a fence – see #19 – ha ha.
Eat chocolate – ok…like I wouldn’t!
Cook more often – give Don a break twice a week
Visit Vegas…and leave a secret there!
Take my Mum to a spa for a girl’s only weekend.
Forgive others (and myself) more quickly.
Walk 10,000 steps in one day.
Participate in the Walk for Cancer – and finish it!
Buy a boat…and fish with my man!
Go to NYC and shop, really shop!
Make and mail my own Christmas cards before Christmas
Get one good family picture for 2007!
Learn to use my camera – take a photography class!
Scrapbook with my friends more often.
Write a book
Ask Brian to design my tattoo and have the nerve to get it “inked”.
Visit Miami and have Chris Nunez tattoo me!
Be a corpse in an episode of CSI Miami / CSI Investigation / CSI NY
Participate in a car rally and win!
Watch my kids grow into happy adults
Catalog all my digital pictures – properly
Finish the 43 scrapbook kits that I have been hoarding
Donate to charity more often
Be kinder to the earth – reduce, reuse and recycle more, better, with thought.
Take Don and his dad to watch Philly beat the Steelers.
Remember birthdays and send cards more often
Find spirituality in my life
Have lunch with my Dad – just me!
Watch Tori swim with dolphins.
Curb the urge to get distracted – stay focused.
Get a mammogram without chickening out
Trace my family tree.
Go to the Oprah show once in my life
Be kinder to everyone – especially Don
Be completely alone with Don on a beach…the rest is private!
Meet my friends from the Nook website in person
Spend more time with my in-laws
Eat lunch every day – no skipping/forgetting.
Build a website with my Dad
Be thankful every day – count my blessings out loud
Stay positive in the face of negativity
Take my niece to see the Nutcracker – pass on the tradition from AJ to Marisa
Volunteer my time to help those in need
Camp with Brian and Trina at Algonquin Park
Tour Europe in style
Be at my goal weight by 2010
Blog more often – use the posts in scrapbook pages
Make at least 10 cards a month
Spend the day with Alex without arguing
Learn to garden and keep up the summer maintenance
Take dance lessons with my husband
Budget better and save more for retirement
Learn to accept the things I can not change – and stop trying to change things that are out of my control
Get to know my brother, Andrew as an adult
Re-affirm my wedding vows – just for fun this time!
Be more patient – with everyone!
Document our family stories before those who remember them best are gone
Listen more / talk less
Let my kids live their own lives, not the one I envision for them
Get enough rest / sleep every day
Visit the Greek Isles – truly explore Greece
Travel to Paris with Don in the spring
Buy myself a laptop
Compliment someone every day – tell them why they are special and valued.
Spend more time with my nieces and nephews being the “best Aunt ever”
Teach Bandit and Bailey to swim
Learn to think faster on my feet
Visit the 7 Wonders of the World
Attend an Elton John concert
Go ice skating at Rockefeller Centre
Sleep in the Ice Hotel
See Don’s face while watching his NY Isles play in Long Island
Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Swim with sting rays and sharks without being scared
Explore Canada from coast to coast
Kiss under the mistletoe
Visit Hershey PA…and eat my favourite food – Chocolate
Drink more water – take care of my skin
Say I love you more
Be a better friend
Be happy with the life I am already living

There..that's my list...if you can help me cross any off the list...please feel free!