My Mission 101 2009 list!

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For those of you who don't know, mission101_2009members each have a list of 101 goals that they're trying to accomplish in 1,001 days. The mission started on January 1, 2009 and ends on September 29, 2011.

1. Don't drink alcohol on more than 10 of the 1,001 days [0/10! Woohoo!]



2. Obtain a better job [Just filled out a stack of applications].



3. Make a binder or scrapbook of some kind with all of my high-school writing in it.



4. Go to a museum (not the Warhol) [Completed - Carnegie Museum of Art, 5/5/09].



5. Write at least 33 haikus (since haikus aren't my usual style at all) [15/33]



6. Don't dye my hair until at least 10/31/09 (may expand this to the full 1,001 days. I've already sworn not to do it until Halloween, so I decided to include it). [still undyed!]



7. Watch five movies in theaters [0/5].



8. Go to at least 5 concerts [1/5 - Saw Freezepop on 5/3/09].



9. Finish the Playlist 'Verse when it tells me that it's over...don't drag it out.



10. Go back to the ocean. I live near a lot of lakes, but I'm rarely in salt water.



11. Read ten books by authors I haven't read before [0/10].



12. Kiss in an elevator.



13. Get a Twitter [Completed - you can follow my if you want; my s/n is “fearlesslove”].



14. Tweet at a celebrity and get a response [Keltie Colleen, 4/24/09].



15. Knit a scarf [I'm apparently incapable of moving to a second row. No idea why].



16. Make sure that my music is backed-up every six months, just in case [0/5].



17. Use my re-useable grocery bags instead of plastic ones at least 20 times [3/20].



18. Decide what I really want to major in [Completed. I’m now a Social Work major].



19. Be polite to Jamie when I see her [haven't seen her since I started this].



20. Stop leaving clean laundry on my floor/in the basket [epic fail so far].



21. Write something for We Are Cities.



22. Read "The Audacity of Hope"...



23. And "Dracula". I know that's an odd combination, but both sit unfinished on my bookshelf.



24. Donate blood [Hasn't happened yet...fear of needles].



25. Bring my college GPA up to at least a 2.5.



26. Drink eight glasses of water on at least 33 days [2/33].



27. Send three secrets to PostSecret [0/3].



28. Try to argue with my brother less.



29. Buy a lottery ticket.



30. Start a savings account and have at least $100 in it at the end of this.



31. Learn to belly-dance.



32. Make healthier food choices.



33. Walk at RRBT more often, especially during summer.



34. Go to the Warhol Museum.



35. Learn to cook at least ten things I don't already know how to make [0/10].



36. Read something by Chuck Palahniuk that I haven't read yet.



37. Try to have a better sleeping pattern.



38. Go to my camp at least twelve times [3/12].



39. Eat lunch with a friend at The Maple Tree.



40. Write a bandom pairing I don't read and/or am slightly uncomfortable with.



41. Leave ten wishing stars with general but positive wishes in random places with "Unfold Me" or something similar written on the outside [0/10].



42. Do yoga at least 33 times [0/33].



43. Keep getting all of the free stuff on iTunes, actually listen to it, and then delete the stuff I don't like.



44. Stop spending so much on magazines [dropped SPIN, so doing nicely there. Still have four though, not counting random purchases. Oh my God, I suck].



45. Get all of the album art for my iPod so the Cover Flow is easier to use.



46. Go to a zoo [Completed - Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, 4/23/09].



47. Stop buying things that I know I won't wear...like those peacock earrings I wore once.



48. Write at least three letters to (a) soldier(s) [0/3].



49. Decide whether or not to get my navel pierced.



50. Join 'adayinmylife' and complete at least one day in photos.



51. Clean my room so that I can actually put the rug I bought last September on my floor [Completed - 3/15/09].



52. Finally donate old clothes [Completed - 3/15/09].



53. Keep my palm tree, Clyde, alive. I got him in Georgia back in March of '08, and he's fine so far. New plant record for me [still alive!].



54. Do something with the empty 20 gallon aquarium that's been sitting on my floor since...August 2006. Oh wow.



55. Stop leaving change on my floor.



56. Also stop losing paychecks and/or taking forever to deposit them (and complaining when there's no money in my bank account.



57. Comment on my friends' posts and things that I read more often.



58. Actually complete my school papers and projects [Success for the Spring ’09 semester. On hold until next semester, obviously].



59. Try to reconnect with Andrew N. [We were texting last week, so we’ll see what happens.].



60. Say "yes" to everything (unless, you know, somebody offers me crack/asks me to have unprotected sex/tries to sell me a panda or something) on at least 10 different days [0/10].



61. Go bowling.



62. Do something sexual that I haven’t done before [Completed many times over. BF and I like all of the same things that out past lovers weren’t interested in].



63. Attempt to skate.



64. Have professional photos taken of myself with my brother, because we're 20 and 18 and they were last done when we were 5 and 3.



65. Shave my legs even when nobody is going to see them [Success, mostly because of the BF].



66. Have lunch or something with Devin.



67. Make a homemade Valentine for someone.



68. Take a Political Science class [Starts on 8/17/09!].



69. Give up MySpace for a week [Completed, 2/25/09].



70. Decide whether I want to use my Facebook more or delete it, and then follow through with my decision [Decided to keep it because the BF has Facebook and not MySpace].



71. Finish my "Wreck This Journal".



72. Make at least one new friend at school during the Spring ‘09 semester [Success! Two friends and a boyfriend! <3 Jon, Jacob, & BF (All start with J. That’s weird)].



73. Walk the RRBT from beginning to end and back.



74. Play croquet in the backyard with E., R., and M. again.



75. Write all of the "Haiku Fics".



76. Type the cookbook that my Grandma E. hand-wrote for her kids and give a copy to each of my cousins - because our parents will never get around to it [in progress. Made it through the Appetizers!].



77. Make at least 10 of the recipes from said cookbook [0/10].



78. Eat at 10 new restaurants [3/10 - Lulu’s Noodles, Shogun, Lucci’s Pizza].



79. Watch or read at least 10 things I haven't yet that are referenced by songs I like [0/10].



80. Try to fight with my mother less.



81. Get back out there and start dating again [Started dating BF on 2/20/09].



82. Love more completely.



83. Write the "Money In My Wallet...Duh" song for Amber.



84. Visit Shannon's grave.



85. Stop texting during class.



86. Bake an apple pie completely from scratch.



87. Read at least 50 books from the Waterstone’s Top 100 Books of the Century list [10/50].



88. Travel to another state - not Ohio [BF and I are planning to spend a week in Michigan in July].



89. Take the upper hiking trail at RRBT more often than the ground-level trail.



90. Cut my hair fairly short [Completed, 2/16/2009]…



91. … and then let it grow back to my shoulders [in progress].



92. Fly a kite.



93. Write a collaborative story.



94. Take my vitamin regularly and not just when I’m not doing well [fail].



95. Put a photo of BF & I on display in my room.



96. Exfoliate my entire body with a scrub at least once a month [Goal was added in May ’09, so 1/29].



97. Add a goal in June 2009.



98. Add a goal in December 2009.



99. Add a goal in June 2010.



100. Add a goal in December 2010.



101. Add a goal in June 2011.