The Mission:Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.The Criteria:Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part). Visit Day Zero for links to Other Lists and Tips for Creating Your Own
My 101 things to do 1001 days
FYI: These are things I have NEVER done before or have rarely done in the past
COMPLETED ARE IN GREEN!
1.Start a blog and journal about my 100 experiences (completed 7/6/08)
2.Skinny Dip
3. Befriend someone over 80 years old
4.Get a pet
5.Wear a birthday hat through a meal at a restaurant in a month no where CLOSE to my birthday (btw: April)
6.Raise money from loved ones to buy a Heifer (http://www.heifer.org/)
7. Go a week without caffeine
8.Ride a train
9. Eat a quail egg (Arenal volcano, Wed, 8/27/08)
10. Create a place setting for 8 with 8 different patterns found in thrift shops (plate and a bowl)
11.Visit a WA winery and buy a bottle of wine
12. Get a body wrap at a spa (07/08)
13. Participate in a Habitat for Humanity Project
14. Receive postcards from all 50s states (6/50)
15. Finish a NY Times crossword puzzle, (Jon West says “Monday and Tuesday don’t count)
16. Become educated about changing a tire
17. Go to three live music events
18.Go on a spontaneous road trip
19. Sing a song in public (07/08)
20. Buy 20 dollars worth of flowers and give them away to complete strangers
21.pay off one of my 5 student loans!
22. Try to learn how to crochet or knit
23. Cultivate a garden of some sort
24.Ride on a motorcyle
25.buy flowers for myself
26.buy flowers for some one else
27. Go on a blind date
28. spend half a day playing a video/computer game
30. Not drive my car for a week
31.Attend a book or poetry reading
32.Trade something on gimmie your stuff (http://gimmeyourstuff.blogspot.com/)
33.Visit Mount St Helens and the Ape Caves ( 7/5/08)
34. Spend a girls weekend with my sister Caity
35. Go fishing
36. Visit an apple orchard in Washington
37.Drink pink champagne
38. Donate my hair to locks of love (http://www.locksoflove.org/)
39. Do something with dry ice
40. Watch the sunrise and the sun set in the same day
41.Learn how to use google reader and organize my favorite blogs
42.Complete a mad lib asking total strangers to supply the words
43.Ride in a hot air balloon
44.do yum cha or korean stirfry with friends
45. Take a class that features something I am not good at or have never done
46.Buy a frivolous kitchen gadget
47.learn how to say “where’s the bathroom” in six languages
48.Make a toast in a bar
49.make a sandcastle OR make a snowman
50.floss every day for a week
51. Visit a craft store in the morning and complete a gift project for a friend in one day
52. Give a care package of money, food, and clothing to a homeless person
53. Spend at least three nights in a cabin
54.Panhandle $5 (Jess wants to document this!)
55. publish something (a research article, letter to the editor)
56. Hike Mt Rainer
57.Create a survival kit good to last a week
58. Do something special with my mom
59. Eat only food produced with 100 miles of where I live for one week
60. Post Something on BookCrossing (http://www.bookcrossing.com/) ( 7/17/08)
61. Go Caroling
62. Buy a pair of shoes that cost more than $100 (runners don’t count!)
63. Lie in a hammock (Costa Rica, 08/08)
64. Spend a day from sunrise to sundown in silence with no technologym without using electricity
65. Ask a guy out on a date
66. Throw a dinner party for 6, having each guest pick an ingredient and prepare a special course for each featuring that ingredient
67. Do not use my credit or debit card for an entire month, living only on a cash budget
68. Stay up all night
69.See a comedy routine
70. Complete a puzzle
71.Buy something on ETSY
72. Try Rockclimbing or Canyoning (Costa Rica, 8/27/2008)
73. Research the foster care system and the process for becoming a foster parent
74. Tour a farm
75.Ask someone to tell me his/her life story
76. Organize a community/neighborhood event
77. Watch 3 foreign films
78. Do something from The Art of Doing Nothing (like take a “gourmet nap” )
79. Sneak into a convention
80.Try to send someone a telegram
81. Host/Throw 6 Themed Potlucks (1/6 Nourishment Potluck, 8/15/08)
82. Do a “Price is Right” Challenge by spending as close to $100 in Whole Foods on 25 items.
83. Visit the biggest bookstore in America: Powells in Portland (7/31/2008)
84.Pick an inspirational book (Who Cares?) or movie and organize a community discussion of the book
85. Play Dress Up
86. Eat a meal at a sit down restaurant by myself WITHOUT reading
87. Learn something new (like 5 constellations) and teach something to someone else
88. Write a “If something ever happens to me letter” and give it to a family member AND close family friend
89. Go Camping/Sleep outside
90. Create the “ultimate” picnic
91. Attend a sporting event and drink a beer
92. Do NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano)
93. Take 10 pictures with 10 people I love and write one paragraph about our relationship together
94. Attend a murder mystery party
95. Spend a full day shopping with $500 in cash AND NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT!
96. Go to someplace people would called “sacred” (e.g. Great Wall of China, Grand Canyon, Great Barrier Reef, a monastery)
97. Have a share week at work where I share something with a new person each day
98. Do something out of character/comfort zone that others would not expect me to do
99. Follow a financial plan (such as this one: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/31/31-days-to-fix-your-finances-a-wrapup/
100. FREEBIE: TO BE DETERMINED
101.Throw a HUGE shower/celebration for myself when I finish this list