Ok, here's my list. You can google 101 in 1001 if you want to read the rules and stuff.
All of these are things I can accomplish
Some of them are easy. You try coming up with 101 things you think you can definitely do in 1001 days.
Start Date: 7/25/2013
End Date: 4/21/2016
Start Date: 7/25/2013
End Date: 4/21/2016
- Write each goal on a sticky note
- Try five new foods
- Try 101 different beers (they can be beers I have had before but I have to drink them during the 1001 days)
- Make a souffle
- Make the soft pretzel mix that's been in my cabinet for a while now
- Make Jam
- Make pasta from scratch
- Make a rainbow cake (or similar thing)
- Bake sugar cookies and decorate them beautifully
- Make and decorate gingerbread men from scratch with friends
- Bake a cake and decorate it so that it looks actually nice and not just ok
- Pretend I am on Chopped and make a meal using four surprise ingredients
- Eat at Butter in NYC
- Find (or valiantly attempt to find) a taco place on the east coast that is comparable (or close) to west coast tacos
- Learn to use an espresso machine
- Join a CSA
- Buy a silverware set made only of metal
- Host a dinner party
- Have a wine and cheese party
- Have a tea party
- Complete the 365 photo project
- Send a postcard to PostSecret
- Participate in Postcrossing
- Send mail to 5 friends (not counting birthdays)
- Send at least 5 birthday cards/gifts/etc. on time
- Send fortnightly emails to my dad for three months straight (or call just to talk)
- Send my mothers day cards so they arrive before mothers day
- Send my Christmas cards so they arrive before Christmas
- Put all of my friends' birthdays on my Google Calendar
- Inventory my craft supplies
- Enter a contest that requires actual effort (sweepstakes where you just fill out your info don't count)
- Sell something on Etsy
- Finish (and mail) my sketchbook project sketchbook by the deadline
- Crochet an entire blanket
- Use my dremel for something
- Finish all repairs in my sewing queue
- Make my "you are here" shirt
- Spend at least one hour a month with my real camera
- Build a new cage for Nessie
- Compile and print a list of safe/unsafe foods for Nessie
- Reach level 10 in DuoLingo for both French and Spanish
- Read 50 books
- Memorize all the elements in the periodic table in order
- Install Linux again
- Learn to decently play at least one song on guitar
- Get back the stuff I left at my mom's house when my dad made me empty my room.
- Have my room look nice enough I am not embarrassed to photograph the whole thing and post it online
- Fully clean and vacuum the inside of my car
- Have zero unread emails in GMail account
- Have zero unread emails in Yahoo account
- Reach zero emails in my inbox on my yahoo email (I can move them to other folders, I don't have to delete them)
- Reduce GMail storage to 10% or come up with a good justification for the things I saved
- Use only reusable bags at the grocery store 50 times
- Write a living will and have it notarized
- Go to the damn dentist
- Have no dishes in the sink when I go to bed for 30 consecutive days
- Get to work before 8:25 for 30 consecutive work days
- Don't complain (out loud or online) about anything for 5 straight days
- Stretch every day for 30 consecutive days (at least 5 minutes per day)
- Get a car emergency kit (jumper cables or whatever) for my car
- Visit family in MN again
- Visit Seattle
- Attend a dance performance
- Achieve my Left and Right splits (center is bonus but not required)
- Do 1001 pushups (that's an average of one per day)
- Do 8 pull ups in a row (might change this to a higher number if I get to 8 early on)
- Walk a total of 101 miles (by the end of the 1001 days)
- Walk across the GWB
- Watch the movie Brave
- Finish Okami
- Paint my nails 50 times (can count current polish if I start while my nails are painted)
- Wear a dress or skirt at least one day per month for a year
- Buy a winter jacket that is both very warm and very stylish (or move to a location that is never colder than my London jacket can handle)
- Dry clean my jacket from London
- Fix or get rid of all broken shoes with the exception of the pair I wore in my dad's wedding
- Get a new phone
- Get a less crappy EZ-Pass than the VA one I have
- Invest in at least one more stock
- Frame my Gaslight Anthem, Every Word Handwritten, and Gay Blades posters
- Buy something in which to organize my many show wristbands etc.
- Purchase something in which to file my important documents and file them.
- Get a chair for my desk
- Set up my laptop and hard drives on my desk
- Hang lights under my bunk bed
- Unbox everything that doesn't belong in boxes
- Contribute 2+ more recipes to RIBSless
- Restart the Oats4Breakfast blog
- Write and post monthly recaps of this list
- Complete or make a habit of some sort of journal
- Do an experiment (an actual experiment with a control and data gathering, not just trying something new)
- Do at least 10 things tagged to_do on my pinboard
- Make at least 10 untried recipes from my pinboard
- Contribute to fixing or replacing the WRPI soda machine
- Donate to 5 charities
- Donate blood at least five times
- Pass 200 IMAlive Volunteer Hours
- Donate 101 items
- Donate 100,000 Grains of Rice on FreeRice.com
- Volunteer at an animal shelter
- Put $10 into savings for every goal accomplished.
- If at the end of the 1001 days I have not completed the other 100 goals, give $100 to charity for each one. If I have completed all 100 other goals I can spend $100 on something of my choice.
Rules:
- I am the ultimate judge of whether or not I have completed a task
- If I think of an exception I forgot to note while making the list it can be added on as long as I would have noted it if I had remembered
- Should disaster befall me (such as job loss or serious injury) I am not required to hold true to my donation threat/incentive
- I do not have to complete #101 within the 1001 days if it requires donating more than $100 to charity
- If something on the list becomes impossible I can substitute another similar thing
- Failing to maintain a streak does not count as becoming impossible if it was my fault
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