Finished Goals

1.(56) Get a perfect score in Place the State 6/3/11-0
2.  (15) Get another seat added to my bike 6/4/11-60
3. (71) Put lighting up in the garage 6/10/11-0
4. (25) Kick a 25 yard field goal 6/20/11-0
5. (50) Read a book about another culture 6/22/11-0
6. (67) Get rid of Cable TV  6/24/11-0
7. (75) Build deck on upstairs porch 7/2/11-225
8. (3) Take kids in bathing suits to Millennium Park 7/16/11-56
9. (101) Play golf at Edgebrook 7/18/11-32
10. (77) Volunteer with an organization in Aurora 7/21/11-0
11. (47) Take someone to give their first blood donation 7/25/11-0
12. (93) Visit an ocean 8/6/11-0
13. (96) Go fishing 8/10/11-13
14. (88) Tour Wrigley Field 8/20/11-86
15. (45) Host a movie night outside 9/10/11-20
16. (38) Find a new doctor and get a physical 9/15/11 - 0
17. (69) Make behind the garage useable space 10/16/11 - 160
18. (59) Make applesauce for the winter - 10/23/11 - 40
19. (61) Watch all of the Harry Potter movies - 11/11/11 - 4
20. (10) Write Charlie a Song - 12/5/11 - 0
21. (49) Read 10 books for fun - 12/19/11-0
22. (37) Donate blood using the Apheresis machine 12/31/11-0
23. (70) Tuckpoint the front of the house where needed 1/3/12-16
24. (8) Get bikes for the girls 12/31/11-50
25. (20) Go Curling 1/8/12-40
26. (60) Get and solve a 6X6 Rubik’s cube 1/19/12 - 40
27. (13) Go to Navy Pier Children's Museum 1/13/12 - 75
28. (17) Go bowling as a family 1/8/12 - 25
29. (64) Watch 10 of the top 100 movies 2/3/12 - 0
30.  (68) Watch 5 movies that I watched growing up 3/3/12 - 0
31. (39) Drink no pop for 3 straight months 3/27/12 - 0
32. (35) Ride from work to home in under 15 minutes 10 times 5/30/12 - 0
33. (72) Make a planter for the front of the house 6/10/12 - 18
34. (73) Make a baseball bat 6/17/12 - 35
35. (58) Make a meal with all main ingredients from a Farmer’s Market 8/4/12 - 10
36. (80)  Go up in the Leland Tower to overlook Aurora 8/8/12 - 0
37. (65) Go to Hollywood Palms 8/14/12 - 19
38. (12) Make wood toys with the kids 8/16/12 - 14
39. (11) Take the kids out in the canoe 9/3/12 - 0
40. (78) Go to a Fair 9/8/12 - 22
41. (18) Go to a Cubs game as a family 9/16/12 - 85
42. (25) Swim a mile 12/3/12 - 5
43. (53) Read Plato's Republic 12/23/12 - 0
44. (2) Host a Gingerbread party 12/1/12 - 30
45. (48) Read the Bible 12/30/12 - 0
46. (52) Read 10 of top 100 books 1/7/13 - 0
47. (63) Watch all 6 Star Wars movies 12/24/12 - 0
48. (40) Go without high sugar foods for a month 2/8/13 - 0
49. (66) Watch 10 classic (loosely interpreted) movies 2/23/13 - 0
50. (54) Learn CPR  4/16/13 - 0
51. (34) Ride 1,500 miles on my bike 5/27/13 - 0
52. (94) Go to an ESPN radio show 6/28/13 - 0
53. (42) Go camping with friends 6/7/13 - 60
54. (41) Play tennis 10 times 7/28/13 - 0
55. (14) Catch fireflies 7/2/13 - 0
56. (22) Triathlon 7/21/13 - 77

list of books

Clearly this isn't a list that has gone through much rigor for declaring itself to be the best, but it is a list that contains enough books that I want to read.  I first saw this list on a forwarded facebook message.  It had people mark off how many books they had read and asked for people to return it and forward it along. I had read very few of them which is why I made it a goal to read ten books from this list.  Hopefully I will read many more than just 10.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 8/15/11
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 7/2/11
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 11/4/11
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne11/20/11
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (condensed, English translation)

Guitar songs

Create in Me a Clean Heart

Lord I Lift Your Name on High

All in All

Better is One Day

Doxology

Give Me Jesus

Step by Step

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus


Amazing Love

Next list

Family Goals (18)
Plant a tree
Host a gingerbread party for the kids
Take kids in bathing suits to Millennium Park
Take Hannah out on 5 dates
Take Maddie out on 5 dates
Take Charlie out 5 times
Go out in the country to look at stars
Get bikes for the girls
Go ice skating
Write Charlie a song
Take the kids out on the canoe
Make wood toys with the kids
Go to Navy Pier Children’s Museum
Catch fireflies
Get another seat added to the bike
Make annual family videos
Go bowling as a family
Go to a Cubs game as a family

Health/Physical Goals (18)
Run a mile under 6:07
Play golf at Edgebrook
Go on a 50 mile bike ride
Triathlon
Canoe the rest of the Fox River
½ marathon under 2 hours
Swim 1 mile
Beat my best 5K time (22:20)
Run a mile in under 6:07
Go snowshoeing
Finish P90X program
Race up the Hancock
Kick a 25 yard field goal
Run a 5K with friends
Do the Crane pose for 20 seconds
Ride 1500 miles on my bike
Ride from work to home in under 14 minutes 10 times
Do 20 pull-ups

Health Goals (4)
Donate blood using the Apheresis machine
Find a new doctor and get a physical
Drink no pop for 3 straight months
Drink a gallon of milk in an hour

Goals with friends (7)
Play tennis 10 times
Do a camping trip with friends
Hang out with 3 friends from college
Homerun derby
Do a music video with Matt
Host a movie night outside
Host a poker night

Educational Goals (8)
Read the Bible (0/66)
Read a book about another culture
Learn a scale on the clarinet
Read 10 of the top 100 novels
Read Plato’s republic
Learn CPR
Finish my dissertation
Get a perfect score in Place the State

Food Goals (4)
Make pasta from scratch
Make cheese
Make a meal with all main ingredients from a Farmer’s Market
Make canned applesauce for the winter

Entertainment Goals (9)
Get and solve a 6X6 Rubik’s cube
Watch all of the Harry Potter movies
Watch a movie outdoors
Watch all 6 Star Wars movies
Watch 10 of the top 100 movies
Go to Hollywood Palms
Watch 10 classic (loosely interpreted) movies that most people have seen
Get rid of Cable TV (at least try it out)
Watch 5 movies that I watched growing up

Things to make goals (7)
Make behind the garage usable space
Tuckpoint the front of the house where needed
Put lighting up in the garage
Make a planter for the front of the house
Make a baseball bat
Sew something
Build deck on upstairs porch

Places or Adventure Goals (26)
Go to a High School Play
Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity
Go to a Fair
Visit 10 stores/buildings in downtown Aurora
Go up in the Leland Tower to overlook Aurora
Milk a cow
Go to a State/National Park for a day
Go go-carting
Visit Conference Point
Go to Bears Training Camp
Go for a ride-along with the police
Take the bus somewhere in town
Tour Wrigley Field
Shoot a gun
Start a fire using magnesium and flint
Go to 2 new baseball parks
Volunteer for a race
Visit an ocean
Go to an ESPN radio show
Go to a new disc golfing course
Go fishing
Bike ride to Wrigley for a game
Drive a motorized boat
Pull a fire alarm
Learn how to whistle using my fingers

Memorized verses

Proverbs 23:13
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

1 John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Oh Lord my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 113:3
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.

Psalm 139:14
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Romans 3:23-24
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.

Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

Proverbs 22:6
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Isaiah 53:6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

knots

Alpine Butterfly
Used to make a loop that won't slip
Constrictor knot
Used to attach ropes in the middle that will not slip and is very difficult to remove once pulled tight
Sheet Bend
Used to attach two ropes of different sizes
Square
Used to attach two ropes together
Icicle hitch

http://www.igkt.net/

Canoe Supply List

Maps 1 per boat
Tents
Flashlights with extra batteries
matches
waterproof bags
canoe patching stuff
water bottles
rope for tying down the boats and stuff to the boats
blanket
First Aid kit (bandaids, antibiotic cream, tylenol, pepto, benedryl,
Natural shampoo/soap
Sun Screen
stuff to eat
cell phone and charger
extra paddle
bug spray
Stove of some kind
extra fuel for the stove
cooking pot