Monday, September 21, 2009

My List of 101 Things to Do in 1,001 Days

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101 Things in 1,001 Days

1. Paint 5 watercolor paintings and have them framed. [0/5]
2. Make a list of 5 people who have influenced me to become better and
write them letters. [0/5]
3. Donate blood five times. [0/5]
4. Post a secret to PostSecret.
5. Buy a nice Mac PC.
6. Pay for the person behind me in the drive-thru.
7. Get First Aid certified.
8. Do the Polar Plunge.
9. Pay my car loan off.
10. Learn how to knit and knit at least three scarves. [0/3]
11. Do NaNoWriMo at least once.
12. Completely back up and reorganize all of my computer files on my
laptop.
13. Get my credit card debt back to $0 at least once.
14. Save up $5000.
15. Write 25 cards/letters to people I love [0/25]
16. Keep a written journal for an entire year. [0/12]
17. Learn to cook 10 new dishes - really well [0/10]
18. Pose nude for a piece of art.
19. Throw a message in a bottle out to sea.
20. Start making a patchwork quilt.
21. Collect all of my favorite childhood movies, Disney Classics.
22. Don't complain about anything for one whole day!
23. Write 1001 Haiku (one per day). [0/1001]
24. Learn to drive stick-shift.
25. Complete a "100 Things that Make Me Happy" list and scrapbook it.
26. Complete the 5000 Question survey [0/5000]
27. Complete project 365 / post on flickr
28. Send 2 postcards a month [Post Crossing]
29. Put at least a dollar a day into Philip's piggy bank. [0/1001]
30. Learn basic car maintenance.
31. Participate in DeviantArt's Holiday Card Project
32. Sign up & take at least 200 DailyBooth pictures [0/200]
33. Do Operation Christmas Child [0/5 shoeboxes]
34. Spend one day a week offline for three months - no e-mail, no facebook, no blogging. [0/12]
35. Get a portable hard-drive and organize my photos.
36. Make a list of 25 things I like about myself and post it on my mirror
37. Drink nothing but water for a month [0/30]
38. For every thing completed, put $10 in a box. [0/101]
39. Participate in a flash mob.
40. Brew my own beer.
41. Donate 50,000 grains of rice at http://www.freerice.com/ (0/50,000)
42. Let 10 friends pick something I said I would never ever do, and do it (within limitations). [0/10]
43. Keep an address book.
44. Write a monthly budget and stick to it.
45. Make a list of every dollar I owe
46. Learn the location of every country in the world.
47. Complete 2 years of college. [0/2]
48. Visit Northwest Washington to see my aunt and grandmother.
49. Get AFDO qualified.
50. Make Second Class.
51. Make JSOQ.
52. 100 volunteer hours [0/100]
53. Read something to Philip every day. [0/1001]
54. Pay Melissa back. [0/400]
55. Clean the car out once a week. [0/143]
56. Get my eyebrows threaded.
57. Take Philip to Disney on his 2nd birthday.
58. Finish Philip's room.
59. Reduce book collection to a single bookshelf.
60. Find one geocache per month for twelve consecutive months. [0/12]
61. Do not swear for two weeks in a row.
62. Get my passport.
63. Grow tomatoes.
64. Attend a murder mystery dinner.
65. Get a Disaster Preparedness Kit together for my family and pets.
66. Send a care package via AnySoldier.com
67. Participate in a Habitat for Humanity project.
68. Do the 29 Days of Giving Challenge
69. Read 5 Classic Novels [0/5]
70. Learn how to change a tire.
71. Go to a cemetary and leave flowers for children's graves.
72. Go hiking.
73. Climb Cowles Mountain.
74. Have someone make a caricature of me.
75. Read 10 books from the Banned Book List. [0/10]
76. Complete 20 Creative Writing Prompts. [0/20]
77. Have a classic picnic.
78. Hug a tree at 20 different places, and take pictures of it. [0/20]
79. Climb a tree.
80. Figure out what I want to do, Navy-wise.
81. Apply to and submit to iStock.com
82. Take Philip to a pumpkin patch and let him pick out a pumpkin.
83. Carve the pumpkin.
84. Organize my entire MP3 collection.
85. Buy something from the IKEA catalogue.
86. Interview my Great-Grandparents about their lives.
87. Cook a full Christmas dinner for my family, turkey included.
88. Go to Comic-Con.
89. Go to a concert in L.A.
90. Take Philip to a football game.
91. Take Philip to a baseball game.
92. Make fingerpaintings with Philip.
93. Make genuine conversation with 10 strangers. [0/10]
94. Visit Las Vegas.
93. Teach Philip his ABC's.
94. Build something with my Dad for Philip.
95. Invest.
96. Delete my unused accounts online.
97. Ride a train.
98. Ride a hot-air balloon.
99. Take at least one video of Philip per week, and post/save them online. [0/143]
100. Call my parents and sister at least once a week. [0/143]
101. Grow my hair out to my bum, and donate it to Locks of Love.