5 Year Plan

Places to Go/Visit
1. Go to a live All Blacks game - Watched the All Blacks take on Canada in the Rugby World Cup 2011
2. Go to a live concert
3. Thailand
4. Go on a road trip around the South Island of NZ
5. Go to at least one fancy-pants restaurant a year (1/3)
6. Europe tour - London, Paris, Rome
7. Spend more time down at the bach at Lake Ferry

Finances
8. Save X amount of dollars (it's a real number, I just don't feel like sharing it)
9. Pay off credit card debt and keep it that way
10. Save X amount of dollars towards our Thailand trip (see number 8)
11. Choose a good cause/ person/ charity to make monthly donations to - am now a monthly sponser to WSPA (World Society of the Protection of Animals)

Entertainment
12. Finally watch the Lord Of The Rings series
13. Go and see Paranormal Activity 2 - this will be harder than it sounds
14. Get some cds!

Food/Drink
15. Try 5 new wines
16. Try a "different" kind of meat (like ostrich, emu or.....?)
17. Cook 50 new recipes (7/50)
18. Bake Hot Cross Buns for Easter
19. Make my own ice-cream
20. Cook duck
21. Host a dinner party with a flash 'MasterChef' 3 course meal

Health
22. Exercise three times a week for three months
23. Walk the dogs at least twice during the week
24. Give up my V addiction - I know this is something I really should do but I just dont want to!
25. Eat at least 3 serves of fruit and/or vege a day, for at least 2 months.
26. Go to the Farmers' Market at least once a month for 6 months
27. Start taking proper vitamins
28. Use only fresh vegies instead of frozen overseas ones

Miscellaneous
30. Go to a hairdresser for a proper style cut (none of this 'just a trim' business)
31. Get a professional massage at a health spa - A gift from my lovely husband on my birthday
32. Choose one (or more!) wedding photo(s) to get frame and hang
33. Go 30 days without buying any item of clothing or make-up (including accessories and shoes)
34. Make up our minds about which country to visit next  - Vanuatu Here we come!
35. Once a year, go through my wardrobe and chuck/sell/donate any clothes I haven't worn in a year.
36. Do a Boudoir shoot
37. Submit wedding photos to NZ competition
38. Use only re-usable bags for groceries
39. Recycle as much as we can
40. Spend more time with Codys nanas
41. Finish and send wedding thank you cards (I know. I'm behind).
42. Visit friends and family as much as possible
43. Go to Gisborne at least twice a year - 1/2
44. One Christmas give only handmade gifts (made either by myself or others)
45. Get Ferny up to a rideable standard

Creative
47. Hand sew something for Chloe
48. Get the end room done up all nice
49. Create a wedding scrapbook/album
50. Get into photography - Got the camera!!!
51. Give handmade cards only for a year, no commercial store-bought ones
52. Finish my scrapbook(s)
53. Try making my own jewellery

To Learn
54. How to make pasta from scratch
55. How to make creme brulee
56. To take the hook out of my own fish instead of making Cody do it
57. How to waterski
58. Choose what arguements are worth fighting over and which ones to just drop
59. A language - prob German
60. Basic DIY techniques
61. Take a make-up application lesson/ tutorial
62. Figure out 5 different ways of doing my hair so it isn't just the same every day (2/5)
63. Learn how to do a French manicure
64. Learn how to walk comfortably and confidently in high heels
65. Learn how to take semi-decent photos using a DSLR camera
66. Learn how to decorate a cake
67. Use the newest version of Microsoft68. Keep a plant alive
69. Successfully grow a vegie garden

Relationships
70. Have a Christmas with just the two of us
71. Set aside one night a week for date night (even if we just stay at home)
72. Have a board/card game night with friends at our place - we did this at Lake Ferry, New Years 2011/2012
73. Throw a New Year's Eve party
74. Bake something and give it to someone all prettified "just because"

To Own
75. Get some fun nail-polish colours, espically the OPI Shatter range
76. Get a lipstick or two that I actually like to wear
77. A creme brulee set
78. A nice pair of jeans that dont slip down or ride up79. I-Phone
80. A doer-upper house that I can play with (could be dreaming a little bit there)
81. A paint sprayer
82. A fancy digital DSR camera - We got a fancy camera, it just isnt DSR
83. A home computer! (not a laptop)
84. Buy a nancybird handbag
85. A Sewing Machine
86. A big fur coat

Work/Study
87. Complete my Diploma of Financial Services88. Complete briding courses to convert them into NZQA standards
89. Cross credit to a business degree
90. Decide on a career path

Social Life
91. Host a cocktail night
92. Have sunday night family dinners- Had the Father-In-Law over for tea while Mother-In-Law was overseas
93. Make more of an effort to keep in contact with friends who have moved away
94. Go over to Stokes Valley more often - We pretty much spent every weekend there over the RWC
95. Dont overbook our social activites so we still have time together
96. Do an overseas trip with friends

Paperwork
97. Keep my CV/resume up to date
98. Get my legal name sorted with the 'i' that has been missing since birth
99. Keep the dogs registration and vaccinations up to date
100. Write a will