101 Things in 1001 Days.
So, I've finished my mission101 list. I'm starting on it today, because today is always a good day to start improving one's life, and on Saturday, February 20, 2010, I will be throwing a "I'M DONE" Party. Unless I somehow finish all this stuff before then.
For those of you who missed my last post on this subject, mission101 is a challenge where you make a list of 101 things you want to do, then do them all in 1001 days. That's 2 years, 8 months, and 25 days, according to this calculator. I think this is pretty stinkin' cool. I like things that provide motivation, as I am naturally a pretty lazy girl, and this is pretty awesome motivation. It has all the things I like in motivation: lists, a deadline, and a LJ community to join. WIN.
So I've put my list here behind two LJ cuts. I've divided my list into two major groups, Serious and Fun, and then categorized those items further. I'm going to italicize things that are in progress, and then strike them out once they are done. Feel free to skip the Serious stuff if you want. Here they are:
SERIOUS Stuff:
Health
001- Lose 60 Pounds.
002- Go 1 month without carbonated beverages
003- Establish a habit of working out AT LEAST 3x/week. Counts after 2 months.
004- Go to a dentist. Make appointment for next visit before leaving.
005- Start taking vitamins (Counts after taking them daily for a month)
006- Get my endurance up so I can survive 1 hour on the elliptical
Being a Girl
007- Go to a good store and buy 2 good bras that actually fit properly.
008- Get sandals. Wear them.
009- Buy a swimsuit. Go swimming.
010- Buy a pair of shorts. Wear them.
011- Buy at least one tank top. Wear it.
012- Buy pants that aren't jeans.
013- Buy a dress. Wear it.
For Others
014- Get over the fear of the needle and give blood three times.
015- Send a care package via AnySoldier.com
016- Pay for a stranger's meal at a restaurant, anonymously.
Livejournal/Internet
017- Tag and re-set privacy settings for all past entries, and do a recap post for every year I've had my LJ.
018- Clean out my gmail inbox. Ugh.
Misc
019- Train myself to type without looking at the keyboard.>
020- Write a letter to myself to be read again at completion of 1001 days.
021- Read all the notes dad made in his old Bible that he gave me.
022- Write down one compliment about myself a day for a month.
023- Note the best moment(s) of the day every day for a month.
024- Spend one night a week for 3 consecutive months away from this computer
Money
025- Get a Costco Card.
026- Pay off credit card, and then use it ONLY for gas, paying it off every month.
Music
027- Listen to every song on my iTunes at least once, or delete it.
028- Get/correct album art for everything I have in iTunes.
Projects
029- Update JoyToyKid.org's code to something not outdated by several years.
030- Duplicated item- See "Cooking"
Purchases
031- Buy a bike.
032- Buy a new, or at least non-broken, desk chair. 10/9/2007! For free!
033- Buy a nicer futon for my couch, or a better couch. Get one that's not black so Tesla's fur doesn't show.
034- Legally obtain copies of at least 75% of the stolen/borrowed items on my ipod.
035- Get nice cookware. (pots, pans, and baking sheets)
Reading
036- Read at least 20 banned books from this list that were banned in America for Real Reasons.
037- Keep a list of every book I read, and write at least a small blurb about each did it for 2009, working on it for 2010. Thanks, goodreads.com!
Writing
038- Write a Novel outside of NaNoWriMo
039- Seriously overhaul Syrup
040- Write about 100 things that make me Me.
FUN Stuff:
Apartment Stuff
041- Frame & hang JE vinyls.
042- Start a recipe book. foodisnommy
043- Get legitimate curtains in my apartment.
044- Set up a legitimate Address Book, digital or otherwise.
045- Go through old shirts- donate them or make something of them. (tossed them)
046- Put old fractal calendar pages up on walls.
Being a Girl
047- Wear something "girly" every day for a week.
048- Buck up and dye my hair a "natural" color (i.e., with permanent dye).
049- Try makeup. Just try it. Nothing fancy, but try it.
050- Buy a hair dryer. Use it.
Cooking
051- Master gnocchi and make strangolapreti gnocchi.
030- Make Feijoada
052- Learn to cook fish.
Dreams
053- Road trip to West Texas for dark sky viewing.
054- Learn the night sky. (to be quantified later)
055- Build my own telescope!
056- Storm chase.
057- See Cirque du Soleil.
For Others
058- Toss a message in a bottle down the Trinity river.
059- Release a book on BookCrossing.
Games
060- Finish Wind Waker.
061- Finish Twilight Princess.
062- Finish Ocarina of Time.
063- Finish the Original Legend of Zelda.
064- Repurchase and beat Oracle of Time & Oracle of Seasons.
065- Finish Minish Cap.
066- Obtain used PS2 and Katamari 1 & 2.
067- Finish the HHGG Text Adventure Game.
Knitting
068- Knit a sweater.
069- Figure out a neat knit headband pattern to intarsia-ify.
070- Knit a pair of socks.
071- Use my Misti Chunky Alpaca yarn for SOMETHING. Stop hoarding it.
072- Knit a baby blanket, and finish it.
073- Finish all unfinished projects. (Green sweater, gloves, pi bag)
Livejournal/Internet
074- Buy a permanent LJ account. 6/21/2007!
075- Buy a rename token. 10/15/07ish
076- Finish Post count breakdown spreadsheet.
Misc
077- Send a letter to everyone on my flist. (Well, everyone who wants one and will give me their address)
078- Learn to draw. Anything more complicated than a stick figure.
079- Join Netflix again.
080- Send something to Post Secret.
081- Participate in Post Crossing at least 10 times.
082- Learn to drive a stick shift.
Money
083- Save $5 for every completed item on this list.
084- Fill my happy face piggy bank thing with change, cash it in, and SPLURGE
Music
085- Buy ALL They Might Be Giants albums I don't already own.
086- Listen to every TMBG album, in order.
087- Listen to every JE album, in order. :D
Projects
088- Refine stenciling shirt technique, make 5 shirts.
089- Do 26 Things.
090- For one month, take a picture every day.
Purchases
091- Get a new, non-crappy TV.
092- Get a switchy thingy so I don't have to juggle cables behind my TV all the time.
093- Buy all the Children's movies I loved as a kid, for my future children. Watch them.
Reading
094- Reread the Mandie Books.
095- Finish all unfinished books.
096- Find & buy at least 10 more George MacDonald books. Read them.
097- Re-read all my George MacDonald books I already own.
098- Read The Silmarillion.
099- Reread all 7 Harry Potter books, in order, over the summer of 2009.
100- Re- listen to/watch/read all variations on HHGG.
101- Do 50bookchallenge
I'm still working on quantifying some of these, like I need to figure out how many CDs I need to get for both 28 & 85. Some of them are neat little quickies I can do if I start feeling like I'm not accomplishing anything, and some of them are long-term things. Some of them go in a sequence, like I know I'll not do most of the "Being a Girl" things until after I make a dent in item #1. I'm pretty excited.
For those of you who missed my last post on this subject, mission101 is a challenge where you make a list of 101 things you want to do, then do them all in 1001 days. That's 2 years, 8 months, and 25 days, according to this calculator. I think this is pretty stinkin' cool. I like things that provide motivation, as I am naturally a pretty lazy girl, and this is pretty awesome motivation. It has all the things I like in motivation: lists, a deadline, and a LJ community to join. WIN.
So I've put my list here behind two LJ cuts. I've divided my list into two major groups, Serious and Fun, and then categorized those items further. I'm going to italicize things that are in progress, and then strike them out once they are done. Feel free to skip the Serious stuff if you want. Here they are:
SERIOUS Stuff:
Health
001- Lose 60 Pounds.
002- Go 1 month without carbonated beverages
003- Establish a habit of working out AT LEAST 3x/week. Counts after 2 months.
004- Go to a dentist. Make appointment for next visit before leaving.
005- Start taking vitamins (Counts after taking them daily for a month)
006- Get my endurance up so I can survive 1 hour on the elliptical
Being a Girl
007- Go to a good store and buy 2 good bras that actually fit properly.
008- Get sandals. Wear them.
009- Buy a swimsuit. Go swimming.
010- Buy a pair of shorts. Wear them.
011- Buy at least one tank top. Wear it.
012- Buy pants that aren't jeans.
013- Buy a dress. Wear it.
For Others
014- Get over the fear of the needle and give blood three times.
015- Send a care package via AnySoldier.com
016- Pay for a stranger's meal at a restaurant, anonymously.
Livejournal/Internet
017- Tag and re-set privacy settings for all past entries, and do a recap post for every year I've had my LJ.
018- Clean out my gmail inbox. Ugh.
Misc
019- Train myself to type without looking at the keyboard.>
020- Write a letter to myself to be read again at completion of 1001 days.
021- Read all the notes dad made in his old Bible that he gave me.
022- Write down one compliment about myself a day for a month.
023- Note the best moment(s) of the day every day for a month.
024- Spend one night a week for 3 consecutive months away from this computer
Money
025- Get a Costco Card.
026- Pay off credit card, and then use it ONLY for gas, paying it off every month.
Music
027- Listen to every song on my iTunes at least once, or delete it.
028- Get/correct album art for everything I have in iTunes.
Projects
029- Update JoyToyKid.org's code to something not outdated by several years.
030- Duplicated item- See "Cooking"
Purchases
031- Buy a bike.
032- Buy a new, or at least non-broken, desk chair. 10/9/2007! For free!
033- Buy a nicer futon for my couch, or a better couch. Get one that's not black so Tesla's fur doesn't show.
034- Legally obtain copies of at least 75% of the stolen/borrowed items on my ipod.
035- Get nice cookware. (pots, pans, and baking sheets)
Reading
036- Read at least 20 banned books from this list that were banned in America for Real Reasons.
037- Keep a list of every book I read, and write at least a small blurb about each did it for 2009, working on it for 2010. Thanks, goodreads.com!
Writing
038- Write a Novel outside of NaNoWriMo
039- Seriously overhaul Syrup
040- Write about 100 things that make me Me.
FUN Stuff:
Apartment Stuff
041- Frame & hang JE vinyls.
042- Start a recipe book. foodisnommy
043- Get legitimate curtains in my apartment.
044- Set up a legitimate Address Book, digital or otherwise.
045- Go through old shirts- donate them or make something of them. (tossed them)
046- Put old fractal calendar pages up on walls.
Being a Girl
047- Wear something "girly" every day for a week.
048- Buck up and dye my hair a "natural" color (i.e., with permanent dye).
049- Try makeup. Just try it. Nothing fancy, but try it.
050- Buy a hair dryer. Use it.
Cooking
051- Master gnocchi and make strangolapreti gnocchi.
030- Make Feijoada
052- Learn to cook fish.
Dreams
053- Road trip to West Texas for dark sky viewing.
054- Learn the night sky. (to be quantified later)
055- Build my own telescope!
056- Storm chase.
057- See Cirque du Soleil.
For Others
058- Toss a message in a bottle down the Trinity river.
059- Release a book on BookCrossing.
Games
060- Finish Wind Waker.
061- Finish Twilight Princess.
062- Finish Ocarina of Time.
063- Finish the Original Legend of Zelda.
064- Repurchase and beat Oracle of Time & Oracle of Seasons.
065- Finish Minish Cap.
066- Obtain used PS2 and Katamari 1 & 2.
067- Finish the HHGG Text Adventure Game.
Knitting
068- Knit a sweater.
069- Figure out a neat knit headband pattern to intarsia-ify.
070- Knit a pair of socks.
071- Use my Misti Chunky Alpaca yarn for SOMETHING. Stop hoarding it.
072- Knit a baby blanket, and finish it.
073- Finish all unfinished projects. (Green sweater, gloves, pi bag)
Livejournal/Internet
074- Buy a permanent LJ account. 6/21/2007!
075- Buy a rename token. 10/15/07ish
076- Finish Post count breakdown spreadsheet.
Misc
077- Send a letter to everyone on my flist. (Well, everyone who wants one and will give me their address)
078- Learn to draw. Anything more complicated than a stick figure.
079- Join Netflix again.
080- Send something to Post Secret.
081- Participate in Post Crossing at least 10 times.
082- Learn to drive a stick shift.
Money
083- Save $5 for every completed item on this list.
084- Fill my happy face piggy bank thing with change, cash it in, and SPLURGE
Music
085- Buy ALL They Might Be Giants albums I don't already own.
086- Listen to every TMBG album, in order.
087- Listen to every JE album, in order. :D
Projects
088- Refine stenciling shirt technique, make 5 shirts.
089- Do 26 Things.
090- For one month, take a picture every day.
Purchases
091- Get a new, non-crappy TV.
092- Get a switchy thingy so I don't have to juggle cables behind my TV all the time.
093- Buy all the Children's movies I loved as a kid, for my future children. Watch them.
Reading
094- Reread the Mandie Books.
095- Finish all unfinished books.
096- Find & buy at least 10 more George MacDonald books. Read them.
097- Re-read all my George MacDonald books I already own.
098- Read The Silmarillion.
099- Reread all 7 Harry Potter books, in order, over the summer of 2009.
100- Re- listen to/watch/read all variations on HHGG.
101- Do 50bookchallenge
I'm still working on quantifying some of these, like I need to figure out how many CDs I need to get for both 28 & 85. Some of them are neat little quickies I can do if I start feeling like I'm not accomplishing anything, and some of them are long-term things. Some of them go in a sequence, like I know I'll not do most of the "Being a Girl" things until after I make a dent in item #1. I'm pretty excited.