Mission 101
I found a lj community recently mission101. The objective is to complete a list of 101 things in 1001 days (about 2.75 years). I like lists. It was obviously going to suck me in.
Start Date: Friday 26th May 2006
Finish Date: Friday 20th February 2009
Completed so far: 61
Complete
In Progress
1. Stop being a chicken and get my tattoo
2. Read all the books I brought but haven’t got round to reading yet (23/87)
3. Get every season of Buffy on DVD
4. Learn to crochet/knit - Knit achieved, still working on the crochet
5. Cook a complete meal for my friends from scratch
6. Convince someone else to start a 101 things in 1001 days list (mackenziegrace was the first one to complete.)
7. Finish my degree
8. Learn to speak enough Spanish to understand a basic conversation
9. Find a job I enjoy, and which I feel makes a difference I am most proud of this one.
10. Get a passport
11. Go to Latvia
12. Go to Germany
13. Go to Paris
14. Go to Ireland (Went to visit Mary September 2006)
15. Go to a country outside of Europe - America, July 2008
16. Go swimming at least once a week for three months
17. Start training and get fit until I am able to…
18. …Run (or rather jog) the London Marathon for Oxfam
19. Sort out my CD’s and sell the ones I never listen to on Ebay
20. Camp at a summer festival
21. Go to a theme park and get on a ride which scares me. (NOTE: I reserve the right to choose which ride. I still believe ‘Oblivion’ at Alton Towers should be used to punish criminals, not for some warped idea of fun.) ( I went on Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park. It counts and therefore I win.)
22. Sort out my photos and put them in my photo album (Completed 09/06/2006)
23. Fill my quote book
24. Learn about tags and memories on LJ that I currently don’t understand
25. Back up all my digital photos onto CD’s
26. Back up all my music onto CD’s
27. Learn to customize a T-Shirt (I made funky X-Files, Sci-Fi and Joss Whedon T-shirts for/with mackenziegrace)
28. Go and see at least 5 West-End musicals/plays
1. All About My Mother - September 07
2. Shadowlands - December 07
3. Grease - May 08
4. The Lion King - May 08
5. Under The Blue Sky - August 08
29. Attend a sci-fi convention - Attended London Expo with mackenziegrace in May 2007
30. Eliminate non-organic meat and dairy products from my diet as much as possible (if I do this for six months I’ll consider it achieved) - I went veggie 7 months ago, so I figure this is done!
31. Triple the amount I currently give to charity
32. Drive around the UK randomly, going wherever I feel like going
33. Sign up to the bone marrow donation list
34. Give blood 4 times (should be an achievable number even with the tattoo)
35. Meet at least another 5 people from online in real life
1. June 2006 - mackenziegrace
2. September 2006 - Grainne
3. November 2006 - Kirsten
4 & 5. November 2006 - Donna and Lou
36. Stop leaving lights on/ TV on standby etc, and learn to do more to help the environment
37. Learn the words to Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Wear Sunscreen’ by heart.
38. Learn basic HTML
39. Create a notebook of things that make me happy
40. Do a ‘Day in the life’ Photo day
41. Make 50 icons for LJ that are of an acceptable quality
42. Update my First Aid at Work certificate
43. Find and add 10 new LJ friends
44. Go horse riding
45. See a Shakespeare play at the Globe
46. Ride the London Eye at night
47. Take a boat trip down the Thames (Completed 02/06/2006. Myself and Peet [wombat07]took a boat to Tower and back)
48. Go to at least 5 music concerts (4/5)
19/06/06 - KT Tunstall
26/02/07 - The X Factor Live (I went with my mum, k?)
09/04/07 - Dancing on Ice Live (I've decided I'm counting this)
08/07 - Hyde Park Calling to see Aerosmith
49. Refresh memory on the basics of science that I have completely forgotten
50. Organise my email account and get rid of the emails I no longer need (Completed September 2006)
51. Scrap-book all my postcards from the clutchie post-card exchange
52. Get a paid LJ account, and change my layout - Thanks to londonbeauty001 for the paid account.
53. Go to the dentist and get my teeth checked, no matter how scared I am
54. Read the Harry Potter books
55. Queue up for the release and be one of the first to get something from one of my fandoms; The Book of Dust, XF2, The HDM film, whatever will actually be available at some point over the next 1001 days - Queued for Deathly Hallows and also saw The Golden Compass on the day of release, which counts.
56. Completely eliminate anything to do with Nestle from my life (I’m nearly there but sometimes I still slip up on their subsidiaries.) (I haven't brought anything remotly Nestle related for over 6 months, so I'll consider this achieved.)
57. Do a nice thing for someone anonymously
58. Buy a friend a present just because it made me think of them
59. Watch a sunrise
60. Write down the various ideas for stories I have in my head, even if I can’t see a way they will amount to anything
61. Join bookcrossing.com
62. Get up really early one morning and walk around Central London whilst it’s quiet
63. Learn more about World War One (again, forgotten everything) and go back to Flanders fields etc to place poppies on Allied and German graves.
64. Go to Harrods. Don’t break anything
65. Take pictures of a Waterloo sunset
66. Get a readers pass at the British Library
67. Get/watch ‘firefly’ and ‘Serenity’
68. Get/watch ‘Millennium’, all 3 seasons (brought all 3 seasons, haven't watched it yet)
69. Get/watch ‘The Lone Gunmen’
70. Get/watch ‘Harsh Realm’
71. Visit the Women’s Library, since I’m privileged enough to have it at my uni
72. Figure out what makes my laptop overheat and fix it (Except it now has a problem with the power board, I can't win!)
73. Actually reply to an article in a magazine/newspaper that pisses me off, and not just whinge about it
74. Do some volunteer work
75. Own and play The Sims, however addicted I know I’ll get. - Funny thing, I played for a bit then got bored. I have a go every now and again but no obsession acquired. Highly unusual behaviour for me. Quite frankly I'm worried.
76. Learn to say ‘hello’ in 15 languages So far:
1. 'Hola' - Spanish
2.'Bonjour' - French
3.'Guten Tag' - Germany
4.'Cau' - Latvian
5.'Oi' - Portuguese
6.'Konnichi wa' - Japanese
77. Subscribe to ‘New Internationalist’
78. Subscribe to ‘Ethical Consumer’
79. Send off at least 30 letters that Oxfam/Amnesty International ask me too. (3/30)
80. Find and buy a copy of ‘The Last Unicorn’, and read it - So, so much love to so_vieh for buying me this for Christmas, I can't tell you how touched I was by the thoughtfulness of it.
81. Buy a dress and actually wear it out somewhere (So it was a different dress to the one I brought, but I still went out in one, and I have witnesses.)
82. Learn some basic yoga techniques
83. Finally get round to watching season one of ‘Scrubs’ on DVD
84. Convert someone new to the wonders of the X-Files
85. Convert someone new to the wonders of His Dark Materials (hahaha, Mel cannot escape me.)
86. Latch-hook a rug - For Harry's bedroom, January 08
87. Complete a ‘5 positive things of the day’ list everyday for at least a month
88. Learn to recognize at least 5 constellations. - I can do 3.
89. Read a whole book in one sitting
90. See a film in Leicester Square (Completed 31/05/2006 - Went to see The Da Vinci Code with Margs [medland]and Peet [wombat07])
91. Attend a march/protest (ACTSA Rally, March 10th, Trafalger Square)
92. Collect up my 1p and 2p coins and take them to Oxfam once money box is full.
93. Buy some photo frames and frame my favourite photos
These are the ones which I won’t be able to cross off until I’ve finished:
94. Spend time with my sisters at least once every three months (and do so accepting who they are, not allowing myself to get wound up.)
95. Learn a new word a week
96. See/email/phone/write to/text my girls at home at least once a month
97. Update my to do list at least once a week and actually USE it
98. Don’t eat at McDonald's for 1001 days
99. Write a letter to a friend at least once every two weeks
100. Watch a new film at least once a month, either at the cinema or at home
101. When my 1001 days are up, make a new mission 101 list
Making the list was actually more difficult than I thought, I had to steal loads of ideas from other posters. Though what struck me as funny is the amount of times I thought of something and then saw it pop up on someone else's list. The hard part is now trying to achieve all this. I have a habit of getting really enthusiastic about these things then just not achieving them. Poke me if you see I'm slacking, please? And hey, make your own, if only so I can cross one of my things off!
Start Date: Friday 26th May 2006
Finish Date: Friday 20th February 2009
Completed so far: 61
Complete
In Progress
1. Stop being a chicken and get my tattoo
2. Read all the books I brought but haven’t got round to reading yet (23/87)
3. Get every season of Buffy on DVD
4. Learn to crochet/knit - Knit achieved, still working on the crochet
5. Cook a complete meal for my friends from scratch
6. Convince someone else to start a 101 things in 1001 days list (mackenziegrace was the first one to complete.)
7. Finish my degree
8. Learn to speak enough Spanish to understand a basic conversation
9. Find a job I enjoy, and which I feel makes a difference I am most proud of this one.
10. Get a passport
11. Go to Latvia
12. Go to Germany
13. Go to Paris
14. Go to Ireland (Went to visit Mary September 2006)
15. Go to a country outside of Europe - America, July 2008
16. Go swimming at least once a week for three months
17. Start training and get fit until I am able to…
18. …Run (or rather jog) the London Marathon for Oxfam
19. Sort out my CD’s and sell the ones I never listen to on Ebay
20. Camp at a summer festival
21. Go to a theme park and get on a ride which scares me. (NOTE: I reserve the right to choose which ride. I still believe ‘Oblivion’ at Alton Towers should be used to punish criminals, not for some warped idea of fun.) ( I went on Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park. It counts and therefore I win.)
22. Sort out my photos and put them in my photo album (Completed 09/06/2006)
23. Fill my quote book
24. Learn about tags and memories on LJ that I currently don’t understand
25. Back up all my digital photos onto CD’s
26. Back up all my music onto CD’s
27. Learn to customize a T-Shirt (I made funky X-Files, Sci-Fi and Joss Whedon T-shirts for/with mackenziegrace)
28. Go and see at least 5 West-End musicals/plays
1. All About My Mother - September 07
2. Shadowlands - December 07
3. Grease - May 08
4. The Lion King - May 08
5. Under The Blue Sky - August 08
29. Attend a sci-fi convention - Attended London Expo with mackenziegrace in May 2007
30. Eliminate non-organic meat and dairy products from my diet as much as possible (if I do this for six months I’ll consider it achieved) - I went veggie 7 months ago, so I figure this is done!
31. Triple the amount I currently give to charity
32. Drive around the UK randomly, going wherever I feel like going
33. Sign up to the bone marrow donation list
34. Give blood 4 times (should be an achievable number even with the tattoo)
35. Meet at least another 5 people from online in real life
1. June 2006 - mackenziegrace
2. September 2006 - Grainne
3. November 2006 - Kirsten
4 & 5. November 2006 - Donna and Lou
36. Stop leaving lights on/ TV on standby etc, and learn to do more to help the environment
37. Learn the words to Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Wear Sunscreen’ by heart.
38. Learn basic HTML
39. Create a notebook of things that make me happy
40. Do a ‘Day in the life’ Photo day
41. Make 50 icons for LJ that are of an acceptable quality
42. Update my First Aid at Work certificate
43. Find and add 10 new LJ friends
44. Go horse riding
45. See a Shakespeare play at the Globe
46. Ride the London Eye at night
47. Take a boat trip down the Thames (Completed 02/06/2006. Myself and Peet [wombat07]took a boat to Tower and back)
48. Go to at least 5 music concerts (4/5)
19/06/06 - KT Tunstall
26/02/07 - The X Factor Live (I went with my mum, k?)
09/04/07 - Dancing on Ice Live (I've decided I'm counting this)
08/07 - Hyde Park Calling to see Aerosmith
49. Refresh memory on the basics of science that I have completely forgotten
50. Organise my email account and get rid of the emails I no longer need (Completed September 2006)
51. Scrap-book all my postcards from the clutchie post-card exchange
52. Get a paid LJ account, and change my layout - Thanks to londonbeauty001 for the paid account.
53. Go to the dentist and get my teeth checked, no matter how scared I am
54. Read the Harry Potter books
55. Queue up for the release and be one of the first to get something from one of my fandoms; The Book of Dust, XF2, The HDM film, whatever will actually be available at some point over the next 1001 days - Queued for Deathly Hallows and also saw The Golden Compass on the day of release, which counts.
56. Completely eliminate anything to do with Nestle from my life (I’m nearly there but sometimes I still slip up on their subsidiaries.) (I haven't brought anything remotly Nestle related for over 6 months, so I'll consider this achieved.)
57. Do a nice thing for someone anonymously
58. Buy a friend a present just because it made me think of them
59. Watch a sunrise
60. Write down the various ideas for stories I have in my head, even if I can’t see a way they will amount to anything
61. Join bookcrossing.com
62. Get up really early one morning and walk around Central London whilst it’s quiet
63. Learn more about World War One (again, forgotten everything) and go back to Flanders fields etc to place poppies on Allied and German graves.
64. Go to Harrods. Don’t break anything
65. Take pictures of a Waterloo sunset
66. Get a readers pass at the British Library
67. Get/watch ‘firefly’ and ‘Serenity’
68. Get/watch ‘Millennium’, all 3 seasons (brought all 3 seasons, haven't watched it yet)
69. Get/watch ‘The Lone Gunmen’
70. Get/watch ‘Harsh Realm’
71. Visit the Women’s Library, since I’m privileged enough to have it at my uni
72. Figure out what makes my laptop overheat and fix it (Except it now has a problem with the power board, I can't win!)
73. Actually reply to an article in a magazine/newspaper that pisses me off, and not just whinge about it
74. Do some volunteer work
75. Own and play The Sims, however addicted I know I’ll get. - Funny thing, I played for a bit then got bored. I have a go every now and again but no obsession acquired. Highly unusual behaviour for me. Quite frankly I'm worried.
76. Learn to say ‘hello’ in 15 languages So far:
1. 'Hola' - Spanish
2.'Bonjour' - French
3.'Guten Tag' - Germany
4.'Cau' - Latvian
5.'Oi' - Portuguese
6.'Konnichi wa' - Japanese
77. Subscribe to ‘New Internationalist’
78. Subscribe to ‘Ethical Consumer’
79. Send off at least 30 letters that Oxfam/Amnesty International ask me too. (3/30)
80. Find and buy a copy of ‘The Last Unicorn’, and read it - So, so much love to so_vieh for buying me this for Christmas, I can't tell you how touched I was by the thoughtfulness of it.
81. Buy a dress and actually wear it out somewhere (So it was a different dress to the one I brought, but I still went out in one, and I have witnesses.)
82. Learn some basic yoga techniques
83. Finally get round to watching season one of ‘Scrubs’ on DVD
84. Convert someone new to the wonders of the X-Files
85. Convert someone new to the wonders of His Dark Materials (hahaha, Mel cannot escape me.)
86. Latch-hook a rug - For Harry's bedroom, January 08
87. Complete a ‘5 positive things of the day’ list everyday for at least a month
88. Learn to recognize at least 5 constellations. - I can do 3.
89. Read a whole book in one sitting
90. See a film in Leicester Square (Completed 31/05/2006 - Went to see The Da Vinci Code with Margs [medland]and Peet [wombat07])
91. Attend a march/protest (ACTSA Rally, March 10th, Trafalger Square)
92. Collect up my 1p and 2p coins and take them to Oxfam once money box is full.
93. Buy some photo frames and frame my favourite photos
These are the ones which I won’t be able to cross off until I’ve finished:
94. Spend time with my sisters at least once every three months (and do so accepting who they are, not allowing myself to get wound up.)
95. Learn a new word a week
96. See/email/phone/write to/text my girls at home at least once a month
97. Update my to do list at least once a week and actually USE it
98. Don’t eat at McDonald's for 1001 days
99. Write a letter to a friend at least once every two weeks
100. Watch a new film at least once a month, either at the cinema or at home
101. When my 1001 days are up, make a new mission 101 list
Making the list was actually more difficult than I thought, I had to steal loads of ideas from other posters. Though what struck me as funny is the amount of times I thought of something and then saw it pop up on someone else's list. The hard part is now trying to achieve all this. I have a habit of getting really enthusiastic about these things then just not achieving them. Poke me if you see I'm slacking, please? And hey, make your own, if only so I can cross one of my things off!