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September 16, 2005
101 Things in 1001 Days
I once told Luke that I was making a list of things I wanted to do before I died, and he said it was morbid. I don't know where that list is now, but morbid or not, I'm building a new list. (Yes, you can cross #73 off your list.)
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
Some of these require not only effort, but money as well, so eating in is a must.
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 my part).
Start: Friday, September 16, 2005
End: Friday, June 13, 2008
Tasks Completed: 56
Financial:
- Pay off school loans.
- Find a job upon graduating.
- Start a retirement fund.
- Invest in the stock market.
- Stop abusing my credit cards.
Looking in the mirror:
- Have long, healthy, straight hair at college graduation.
- Get braces off.
- Try Mystic Tan.
- Try a shot of wheatgrass.
- Go on a detox diet.
- Get hair done at a salon.
The "healthy" sort of purge:
- Make back-up copies of digital pictures on external hardrive.
- Clean out and reorganize filing cabinets.
- Get a manicure.
- Get a pedicure.
- Sell/trade/give away old Marvel comic books.
- Sell/trade/give away the numerous bags and purses litering the closet.
- Sell/trade/give away Disney VHS tapes.
- Convert all my CDs to MP3s.
- Send in a secret to PostSecret.
- Use all the makeup in bathroom drawer before buying more.
- Use all the lotion, facial masks, washes, soaps, etc under the sink before buying more.
- Throw away old shoes that should have been done away with a long time ago.
- Treat myself to a health spa.
Purchases:
- Buy a new laptop.
- Buy sunglasses.
- Buy a car.
- Buy a scanner.
- Buy a betta fish. x2
- Buy 7th Harry Potter book at some fun midnight extravaganza.
- Buy a bottle of wine that I would actually drink.
- Buy the cat a collar with a name tag.
- Buy a camera phone and find a new phone plan. x2
- Buy a new bed.
- Buy new bed sheets, pillow cases, pillows, and a comforter.
- Buy a musical instrument.
Learn something new:
- Learn beginner's sign language.
- Learn how to drive a stick-shift.
- Build a sandcastle.
- Make a pizza from scratch.
- Skydive.
- Snowboard.
- Read and write Korean 100 times better.
- Build a snow fort or snowman.
- Go white water rafting.
- Use the tennis racket that I have been carrying around the last 2+ years.
- Make a dinner from completely raw diet recipes.
- Make pad-thai from scratch.
- Bake a pie completely from scratch.
- Make my own jam or jelly (I honestly don't know the difference).
- Complete a beginners course in yoga.
- Learn more about using Photoshop CS2.
Travel within the backyard:
- Visit the Newport Bay Aquarium (for the turtles).
- Crater Lake.
- Oktoberfest at Mt Angel.
- Visit a local winery.
- Visit a local brewery.
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
- McMenamins' theater + beer.
- Pittock Mansion.
- Portland Chinese Garden.
- Multnomah Falls.
- Silver Falls State Park Hike.
- Sauvie Island.
- Portland Japanese Garden.
- Mt St Helens.
- The Grotto around Christmas.
Travel beyond the backyard:
- Hoover Dam.
- Road trip to Yellowstone.
- Disneyland.
- See Shamu at Sea World.
- Las Vegas.
- NYC.
- Florida.
- Canada.
- Korea.
- Japan.
View:
- Go to the theatre.
- Enjoy the scenery on a hay ride.
- Watch a movie on IMAX.
- See the third Star Wars movie even though I kind of don't want to.
- Throw a "Lord of the Rings" party.
- See a Saturday Night Live taping in person.
- See a movie at a drive-in.
- See a taping of Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.
- Go somewhere to see the fireworks on the 4th of July.
- Watch movie in theater because the boyfriend likes that sort of thing.
Do:
- Go horse riding.
- Catalog all of my books, CDs, and DVDs.
- Be in the TRL audience before I'm too old to do so.
- Have happy hour drinks & apps at Portland City Grill for the view.
- Camp out on a beach.
- Apply to be on a reality show.
- Graduate from OSU.
- Find an alternative for depo shot that works for me.
- Adopt a pet.
- Become an organ donor on driver's license.
- Go ice skating and roller skating.
- Take a hot-air balloon ride.
- Participate in a charity walk/run.
- Celebrate Day 1001.
Posted by Stacy on September 16, 2005 02:51 AM | Filed In: 101 in 1001
Comments
It creepy how many of these we share. I am in full support though, 1001 days is only 2.74 years (about 2 year 9 months) is that really long enough to do all that? #74 is very important!
Posted by Brandon at September 16, 2005 06:06 AM
I love your list! Good luck with that! :)
I would love to go to New York to see Katie Couric and Matt Lauer and the TODAY show! ~maybe one day....
Posted by stef at September 16, 2005 06:28 AM
Now that's a list!
If I actually had a list, numbers 20, 40, 75, and 96 would probably be on it as well.
Let us all know when you do #20, that way we can guess which one is yours. Hehe :)
Posted by Ian Ashley at September 17, 2005 01:28 PM
Wow, I had to do those 7 tagged things and I ran out of ideas after the 6th one. Teehee.
Posted by Esther at September 18, 2005 11:18 AM
You want to be an organ donor within the next 1001 days?! O.o Doesn't that require... you dying in the next 1001 days??
:P jk.
Posted by loudlysilent at September 19, 2005 01:16 AM
