Tuesday, December 1, 2009

101 in 1001

Start: 23 November 2009
End: 20 August 2012

To begin with...
1. Publish this list
2. Write a journal entry for every item on the list
3. Get some one else to do this

Reading and Writing
4. Post 25 new items on www.writing.com (0/25)
5. Write 25 short stories (0/25)
6. Write 25 poems (0/25)
7. Finish NaNoWriMo
8. Get published
9. Send and receive 101 postcards from www.postcrossing.com (6/101)
10. List 25 things I really like about myself (0/25)
11. Write every day for six months
12. Keep a dream journal for 6 months
13. Identify 101 things that make me happy (0/101)
14. Journal 101 quotes/poems/passages (44/101)
15. Fill in one of my journals
16. Read 101 new books (0/101)
17. Read 5 biographies of people who inspire/interest me (Eleanor Roosevelt, Tesla, FDR, Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart)
18. Write and send a letter to five famous people and see if they respond
19. Respond to e-mails or letters within 24 hours everyday for a month
20. Instead of storing them, cut up your old magazines and create inspiration notebooks to refer to. I find this process incredibly relaxing, from destroying the magazine spines (kneel on them &tug) to snipping out bouffant hairdos.

Health-y Habits
21. Meditate twice a week for three months
22. Drink two litres of water a day for 3 weeks
23. Walk to or from work everyday for one month
24. Eat vegetarian for two weeks
25. Go kayaking in the ocean
26. Take a dance class
27. Be able to do 10 pull ups
28. plan and stick to a diet for one month (that includes a couple fancy meals)
29. Completely scrub my entire apartment in one day (including finishing all of my laundry)
30. Keep it that way for at least a month
31. Get rid of 101 material things
32. Lose 25 lbs
33. Deep clean my desk once a month for 4 months (0/4)
34. Use coupons for grocery shopping for a month
35. Clean my e-mail inbox(es)
36. Climb a mountain (Korean style is okay)
37. Do 101 push-ups

Money
38. Make a budget and follow it for one month
39. Fill my froggy bank with change
40. Save $10,000
41. Pay off at least half of my school loans

More than on(c)e
42. View the entirety of all the Star Trek Series (except Enterprise)
43. Go on ten picnics (0/10)
44. Have a cooking experiment once a month (0/33)
45. Learn the U.S. Capitols
46. Watch 101 new (to me) films (1/101)
47. Watch the sunrise, set and rise again, consecutively
48. Donate 1,001,000 grains of rice (www.freerice.com) (110/1,001,000)
49. Watch every season of every version of Doctor Who (0/26, 0/5)
50. Go to five new states (0/5)
51. Go to (at least) one museum a month for six months
52. Cook in a crockpot once a week for three months
53. Bake five different loaves of bread (0/5)
54. Go to the theater 5 times (0/5)
55. Do Project 365
56. Do Thankful Thursday every week for 3 months (0/12)

Other stuff
57. Apply to graduate school
58. Get accepted to graduate school
59. Go on a road trip without a predetermined destination
60. Get a new stamp in my passport
61. Have an entire fondue meal
62. Explore a cave
63. make an item of clothing or a bag
64. Go to a Spa
65. Attend a Bhuddist service
66. Explore an abandoned building
67. Learn a fortune telling method
68. Make a time capsule (with long letter to myself) and bury it under the willow
69. Fill in a coloring book
70. Visit a "haunted" house at night
71. Invent a recipe for something delicious
72. Memorize a speech/sonnet/monologue
73. Make an art I'm proud of
74. Learn to drive a stick shift
75. Get a professional massage
76. Refresh my Spanish or French or Latin
77. Do a photoshoot in a cemetery
78. Learn to do a cartwheel
79. Make someone breakfast in bed
80. Go to a rural part of a country (meaning not U.S.)
81. Fill a collage frame with pics of myself that I like
82. Have a Tea Party or Un-Birthday Party
83. Slow dance ending with a kiss in the rain
84. See one of the Seven Wonders of the World
85. Build a fort and spend the night in it
86. Go scuba diving
87. Finish my scrapbook
88. Play my flute again (learn a new song)
89. Go to Peru

TBD (Because I'm sure in the next two and some years me and my goals will change enough that I should add some new ones)
90. Host Pub Quiz Night
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In the end...
100. Donate $5 to charity for everything not done on the list at the end of 1001 days
101. Make a new 101 in 1001 list

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