101 in 1001

Alright.

As school has now finished for the year yet I am still jobless aside from two 3-hour long mornings a week until June, I have decided to accept a challenge (well, two really, but the second will be explained soon enough) in order to keep me from spending my lazy days entirely unproductively. This challenge is entitled 101 in 1001. Essentially, I make a goal list 101 goals long and aim to complete said goals in 1001 days, which is about 2.75 years. One of the things on my list is to start a blog, and as I`m currently unsure of what else exciting I would have to blog about, I have decided to, for the moment at least, centre my blog around those 101 things. In this post, I will include my lengthy list of 101 things for all to see, so that my future references will hopefully make more sense. Here we go:

101 things in 1001 days.

Start date: April 28 2010

Finish date: January 23 2013

incomplete

in progress

completed: 21

1. Donate 500 000 grains of rice using Free Rice (6 000/500 000)
2. Be certified bilingual
3. Learn a third language
4. Read 30 new, non school related books (10/30)
5. Attend at least 3 concerts (1/3)
6. Become a Big Sister (Big Couple?)
7. Ride a horse - south?
8. Go snorkeling - south?
9. Start a real savings fund
10. Try 10 new kinds of tea (1/10)
11. Go tidal bore rafting again
12. Lose 25 lbs (weigh <>
13. Do a set of kitchen drawings (1/10)
14. See a ballet or play
15. Watch all 3 LOTR movies in a row
16. Go to a Farmer`s market and buy something
17. Own at least one season of Full House
18. Own at least one season of Friends
19. Cook five brand new dishes (5/5)
20. Watch/rewatch all the numbered animated Disney movies (6/40)
1. Snow White & the Seven Dwarves
2. Pinocchio
3. Fantasia
4. Dumbo
5. Bambi
6. Saludos Amigos
7. The Three Caballeros
8. Make Mine Music
9. Fun and Fancy Free
10. Melody Time
11. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
12. Cinderella
13. Alice in Wonderland
14. Peter Pan
15. Lady and the Tramp
16. Sleeping Beauty
17. 101 Dalmatians
18. The Sword in the Stone
19. The Jungle Book
20. The Aristocats
21. Robin Hood
22. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
23. The Rescuers
24. The Fox & the Hound
25. The Black Cauldron
26. The Great Mouse Detective
27. Oliver and Company
28. The Little Mermaid
29. The Rescuers Down Under
30. Beauty and the Beast
31. Aladdin
32. The Lion King
33. Pocahontas
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
35. Hercules
36. Mulan
37. Tarzan
38. Fantasia 2000
39. The Emperor`s New Groove
40. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
21. Read the Bible
22. Learn how to drive standard
23. Listen to and love one artist I`d never heard of before
24. Subscribe to a podcast and learn something
25. Hang out with someone I haven`t hung out with since high school or before
26. Try 3 new slowcooker recipes (1/3)
27. Reread all the Harry Potter books (6/7) and the Twilight books (1/4)
28. Own all the Rose books (4/8)
29. Reread all the Laura books (3/9)
30. Expand my Robert Munch collection to 10 (6/6)
31. Buy 5 new books (not for classroom) (5/5)
32. Finish my Alice Munro books (2/2)
33. Plant a garden/window box
34. Go to New Ross Farm
35. Run 5km straight
1. do 5km in under 30 mins
36. Run in a 5km race
37. Hang out with Molly
38. Get another A+
39. Spend 10 days/parts of days volunteering (1/10)
40. Make a list of sex places!
41. Own a sewing machine
42. Start a quilt
43. Eat with chopsticks at least once
44. Buy (and wear comfortably) a sexy piece of lingerie
45. Give a kid a chance when no one else will
46. Take Laura to a movie
47. Watch one of Laura`s soccer games
48. Watch one of Parker`s soccer games
49. Watch one of Parker`s hockey games in Halifax
50. See an NHL hockey game - live
51. Learn a new craft (quilting?)
52. Paint a decent picture
53. Bake a pie
54. Make a gluten-free gingerbread house - december
55. Finish Christmas shopping by November at least once
56. Go on a road trip
57. Stay overnight in a hotel just because - december 10th
58. Go to the Dartmouth Sportsplex and go on a water slide
59. Graduate from Ste Anne`s ready to teach en français
60. Beat Super Mario for Wii
61. Beat a game for Gameboy
62. Travel somewhere by train
63. Go to a new province/territory/country
64. Go to an art gallery or museum
65. Make it home in a softball game
66. Learn to stop throwing like a girl
67. Play basketball again, at least once
68. Skate on the lake
69. Learn how to do something I never tried before
70. Master every crop in FarmVille (17/51)
71. Go camping in a tent
72. Visit Chéticamp
73. Kiss under fireworks
74. Read all of Jane Austen`s works (2/6)
75. Give something up for Lent
76. Start a blog
77. Watch a sunrise/sunset with Cory - south
78. Buy a QEII Lifestyles Lottery ticket
79. Visit Monique at X
80. Catch someone out in a softball game
81. Score 5 goals in a season
82. Go parasailing - south?
83. Waterski
84. Own a pet of some kind
85. Buy (and wear often!) boots with heels - winter
86. Donate blood three times (0/3)
87. Go whale watching
88. Go for walks in three different parks (2/3)
89. Re-read His Dark Materials (1/3)
90. Read a non school related novel en français
91. Get the N off my license
92. Draw with chalk (outside!)
93. Go through my stuff and throw out what I don`t need/use
94. Make a budget
95. Join at least one extra-curricular activity at USA
96. Learn at least three new songs on the guitar (0/3)
97. Make someone`s day (they have to tell me I did!)
98. Help Cory pay off his line of credit & snap-on debts
99. Watch The Secret Garden & A Little Princess (0/2)
100. Own and read Old Town in the Green Groves
101. Attempt 50 newspaper/magazine crossword puzzles (11/50)

Some of these things I had already started before (eg I have of course watched almost all of the Disney movies before) that I didn`t count because I want to do them again, and others I have already started before but counted anyways because it just made sense (eg I already own 3 of the Rose books but I want to own the whole series - I obviously will not be re-buying the ones I already have). I apologize for the long list of Disney movies, but I love crossing things off lists and now I will be able to cross of each movie as I watch it, and it will clearly be easier for me to keep track of which I still need to watch if I have a whole big list there.

I think I will stop my first post here and leave it as a kind of intro before delving into my recent attempts and successes at certain goals on my list.