create a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days

33. Improve my Spanish language reading comprehension
34. Plan my diet
35. Eat grassfed beef and free range chicken
36. Eat more vegetables
37. Improve at knitting.
38. Finish my hat
39. Use my yarn stash
40. Make and sell paper beads
41. Go to a spa
42. Exercise regularly
43. Write in my blog or journal more often
44. Make salsa verde
45. Decrease my waist measurement by 3”
46. Visit Costa Rica
47. Go skiing
48. Make a vision board
49. Reeavluate my fashion choices
50. Investiaget LASIK and other vision improvement procedures
51. Change the world
52. Donate $25 to KIVA
53. Stop eating fast food
54. Cook more
55. Learn to write left handed
56. Sell my stuff on Ebay or Amazon
57. Go to Macchu Picchu
58. Collect all my spare change
59. Organize my music
60. Upgrade my computer
61. Go on a date
62. Reread my favorite books
63. Finish reading every Agatha Christie novel
64. Knit scarf and gloves to match my hat
65. Have a fundraiser
66. Develop a hair and skin care regimen
67. Use all my eyeshadows and make dramatic works
68. Have a container garden
69. Join a food co-op

It took me ages to come up with this list. I’m not going to post it here but you will see some of the things on my list pop up on my 43 things from time to time. Trust me when I say that this is not an easy list to make!!

1.Go somewhere warm in the winter
2.Go somewhere cool in the summer
3.Eat snake and conch
4.Get my nipples pierced
5.Take lessons in an instrument
6.Get my drivers license
7.Swim in the Caribbean Sea
8.Make and fly a kite
9.Make a vision board
10.Rearrange my furniture
11.Take salsa lessons
12.Learn to apply eyeshadow properly
13.Send and receive 100 postcards on postcrossings
14.Read Pablo Neruda and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the original Spanish
15.Document my weight loss journey with words and photos
16.Create my business plan
17.Run a marathon
18.Go handgliding
19.Put a message in a bottle and wait for a reply
20.Learn to play chess
21.Write some stories
22.Visit at least 10 states I have never been to before
23.Take belly dance lessons
24.Eat shark meat
25.Go fishing
26.Find a new job that I like
27.Grow locs
28.Become ambidextrous
29.Go to a winetasting
30.Visit my grandma at least every year
31.Buy a car
32.Go to the beach

My List of 101 Things to do in 1001 Days!!
(that takes me up to my 27th birthday)

TRAVEL
1. Leave the UK at least twice: Italy 1st to 6th June 2009 ...hopefully Germany 16th to 26th Nov 09
2. Visit Patts in London
3. Visit Nige in Newcastle
4. Visit Kez in Christchurch
5. Visit Becky in Dublin
6. Visit Lisa in New York
7. See Stonehenge
8. Go to Alton Towers with Stu
9. Go on the Warped Tour
10. Set foot in Asia or Africa … hopefully April 2010

ANIMALS
11. Get a dog (or two… ;))
12. Get some chickens (and name them after girls in punk rock songs)
13. Get a bunny rabbit (a big house rabbit)
14. Buy Stu a chinchilla
15. Puppywalk
16. Go vegan
17. Learn about animal psychology
18. Learn about pet bereavement counselling
19. Run the Running of the Nudes … think it’s cancelled!
20. Volunteer at Farm Animal Sanctuary
21. Volunteer with elephants
22. Swim with dolphins

LITERARY
23. Read all my books
24. Join a writers/book club
25. Do my writers book of days regularly
26. Write letters to Gwyneth Lewis and Carolyn Parkhurst
27. Enter 1 short story competition
28. Write 3 poems
29. Write an article for the newspaper
30. Write a kids book
31. Write more of my ‘books’

MUSIC
32. Go to at least 6 gigs ( 10th Feb 09: Alkaline Trio , 21st June 09: Take That18th October 09: Green Day )
33. Go to at least 2 festivals
34. Write down all the song lyrics I love
35. See No Use for a Name live again

ARTY
36. Finish 3 paintings or drawings
37. See Starry Night by Van Gogh in real life
38. Enter a photo in a competition
39. Send a postcard to Postsecret
40. Make presents
41. Make jewellery

FITNESS & SPORT
42. Weigh 54kgs .. almost there …I’m at 53 in Sept 09
43. Join a yoga class
44. Join a dance class
45. Surf
46. Scuba Dive
47. Snowboard
48. Ski
49. Waterski
50. Run the Race for Life…
51. …start running routinely
52. Climb Ben Ledi

FUN
53. Go for a hot air balloon ride
54. Fly a plane
55. Be in a parade (Jane Austen festy)
56. Bungee jump
57. Host a Body Shop/Ann Summers party
58. Go to a masquerade party
59. Ride a mechanical bull
60. Go paintballing
61. See Hairspray at the theatre … hopefully when we stop at London on the way to Germany in Nov 09
62. Walk on fire
63. Have a professional massage
64. See Lee Evans live at least once more

WORK
65. Pass all my exams
66. Self study

CHARITY
67. Fundraise for Papyrus
68. Donate my hair once it’s long and all been cut off
69. Stress Down Day fundraiser at work
70. Send an xmas present to Samaritans Purse

RANDOM
71. Buy a house
72. Decorate said house
73. Learn the keyboard (properly!)
74. Go on a 1st aid course
75. Give blood at least twice
76. See a ghost
77. Make a card ladder
78. Win at poker
79. Grow my hair long
80. Sell on Ebay things I don’t want
81. Yell ‘I LOVE YOU!!’ to Stu in a busy place (a la Gavin & Stacy) :)
82. Drive a yellow car
83. Go to the castle thing near Newtyle
84. Get out of overdraft & put all my savings back I borrowed from myself
85. Grow a sunflower (summer 09)
86. Learn about Buddhism
87. Pay for someone behind me in a queue
88. Phone a friend every Wednesday
89. Find a pill that doesn’t make me evil … might give up & find another form of contraception… or just have a baby! ;)
90. Leave post-its with quotes on for people to find
91. Dress up as Cheetara from Thundercats
92. Wear a top-hat for a day (it was a bowler hat, but close enough!!)
93. Save money for travelling
94. Go on a demonstration
95. Get my butterfly tattoo
96. Get my belly button pierced
97. Get my ear scaffolding pierced
98. Use Jagua tattoos … bought them for whenever I feel like it
99. Convince someone my name is pronounced with a silent K
100. Write letters to friends that live far away in Jan & July
101. Only complain once a day (including “I’m tired/hungry/cold”!)

Ta-daaaa! ;)

It’s all written down in a journal. Get a new computer is replacing this goal then I can type it up!

My 1001 days starts today and runs up until my 30th birthday, in May 2011. The list is below and I have put in bold the ones I am going to start working on straight away. In the course of making the list (which actually did take quite a while) it did occur to me that it may seem a little bit arbitrary making a list of things when these things might not remain priorities over the whole period, and I am likely to do at least 101 other things of note without having realised at this point that I wanted to, but still. I’ve tried to include all my biggest dreams, and some things that are trivial but I am curious about. I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew, but the point is that I want the time between now and when I turn 30 to be a period of really living life to the full, and at least having the list will remind me of all the things I do want to do! I’m excited about a lot of things on here!!

1) weigh 140 pounds
2) get a full medical
3) get a mouth guard (think this may be the least exciting goal! No idea why it’s number 3!!)
4) donate blood
5) scrapbook before/during/after pics of when I was losing weight
6) get professional photos taken
7) learn to rollerblade
8) learn to ice skate
9) do a one-day gymnastics/tumbling/trampolining workshop
10) do a triathlon (even if it’s not an official one!)
11) run a 5K (an official one!)
12) 1-mile running speed goal (to be set nearer the time!)
13) be able to swim 200m crawl non-stop with turns
14) climb a mountain
15) try skiing
16) learn some yoga
17) learn at least a bit of a martial art
18) learn to dance
19) Have a professional back/ full body massage
20) get a whole new wardrobe
21) get at least one set of utterly brilliant underwear
22) wear strappy heels
23) paint my toenails 20 different colours
24) write an album, even if it’s total crap – COMPLETE 13/9/09
25) record a demo – done multiple times over 2009
26) record at least one song I’ve written myselfCOMPLETE JAN/09
27) sing in front of an audience (NOT Karaoke!!) – COMPLETE 6/12/08
28) be able to play at least 20 classical pieces on the piano
29) Go to a theme park
30) See a concert of someone I REALLY love
31) go jet-skiing
32) go quad biking
33) ride a horse
34) go canoeing/kayaking
35) go snorkeling
36) go camping
37) go to a driving range
38) go to a batting centre
39) go night fishing!
40) do a self-defence course
41) archery!
42) try kiteboarding
43) do a pottery/throwing class
44) have my palm read
45) go on a helicopter ride
46) ride in a hot air balloon
47) paint a wall
48) go for afternoon tea at a posh hotel – COMPLETE 6/8/09
49) visit a lighthouse – COMPLETE 18/10/08
50) go to a movie premiere
51) climb a tree
52) milk a cow
53) dance till dawn
54) make Grandma’s lemon curd
55) receive flowers (if not I will buy myself flowers on my 30th!)
56) buy one of the toys I miss from childhood and play!
57) make money from something that involves NOT being in an office 9-5 – COMPLETE 7/8/09
58) Have my own home OR move to a different country
59) Get a new job OR be able to go down to part time at my current one
60) Hit my ideal weekly/monthly stationery sales targets
61) have £10,000 in savings
62) write a will
63) sponsor a micro-loan
64) volunteer at least once
65) live on £10 food for a week (including 7 home-made meals)
66) have a month where I don’t save anything
67) buy a new computer – complete 22/12/08
68) write a book and submit it to publishers
69) write 101 poems
70) submit a poem
71) keep a plant alive for a year that’s not a cactus – COMPLETE 7/9/09
72) grow my own herbs from seed
73) sew/knit an article of clothing
74) make a cushion
75) get a sewing machine
76) find one new creative avenue (not painting, calligraphy, knitting, jewellery) – e.g. pottery/candles/sewing…
77) make ALL my Christmas cards one year – COMPLETE NOV 2008
78) learn to juggle
79) re-learn how to drive!! (get some refresher lessons)
80) learn all the countries of the world, their capitals, leaders and currencies!!!
81) read the news every day for a month
82) read 101 books, magazines or journals
83) find 10 new (to me) albums I absolutely love and want to play over and over
84) complete my album collections of at least three favourite artists
85) scan in the best of all the old photos – COMPLETE 6/9/08
86) Take at least one course or conversation exchange in each of my languages
87) Read each Harry Potter book in a different language (1/7)
88) Sit at least some of the DELF
89) Take a GCSE in a different language
90) pass JETRO
91) Sit at least one Kanji exam
92) Take at least the basic level HSK exam
93) go on some kind of boat holiday (cruise, canal boat, etc)
94) go on a trip where I DON’T have everything planned out in advance!
95) watch the sunrise somewhere memorable
96) go on a road trip (even if it means hiring a car!)
97) Visit all the countries in the UK
98) 1 of trips from my travel wish-list
99) 2 ”””
100) 3 ”””
101) plan my 30th birthday party

So there you go! I’m not sure how this will intersect with my 43Things but some of the goals will be active here and some won’t – I will probably set up a Lists-Of-Bests list and track the goals on a blog somewhere too. How exciting!!

I tried to keep it realistic and I got stuck after 57!!
I’m going to look at other peoples lists for inspiration…
But then am I really only adding things for the sake of it? Is there any point in that? Surely I should just KNOW the things I want to do?

IS to do it all!

1) Take a life drawing class
2) Walk 5km daily
3) Do yoga Mon, Wed and Fri each week
4) Do a weapon class weekly to improve my fire twirling
5) Make my own fire staff
6) Do real – 1” push ups
7) Ride my bike 20km every weekend
8) Study to further my career
9) Write my life story
10) Practise Tai Chi twice a week
11) Take singing lessons
12) Practise martial arts Mon, Tues, Wed and Fri each week
13) Learn to ride a motor scooter
14) Give myself more credit
15) Catch up with friends more often
16) Hold more dinner parties
17) Read more books (not self help)
18) Prioritise my boys more
19) Knit a tea cosy
20) See more theatre shows
21) Build a nest egg for the boys
22) Create a list of movies I want to see
23) Travel overseas
24) Sell the exercise equipment I don’t use
25) Take riding lessons
26) Write/compile a soundtrack of my life
27) Volunteer for wires
28) Work because I want to rather than because I have to
29) Be more creative in my cooking
30) Not be afraid to dance
31) Send more letters
32) Create a gratitude journal
33) Stay on top of my martial arts homework
34) Stop making excuses for myself
35) Call a spade a spade
36) Have my cake and eat it too
37) Watch my sister achieve her goals
38) Shout my sisters on a sister weekend
39) Learn to play an instrument properly
40) Take more artistic photo’s
41) Speak my mind
42) Use my potting wheel every week
43) Hold a huge party to celebrate nothing
44) Cook with lentils
45) Work out how to refry beans
46) Take a cooking class at the Buddist temple
47) Walk up Bulli Pass mountain
48) Create a team and participate in the Oxfam trailwalker
49) Make a “Bec-head” for the 2008 sister weekend
50) Cook savory dishes with chocolate
51) Watch the films I listed at #22
52) Make a short martial arts film
53) Climb a big tree
54) Learn to surf properly
55) Ride a unicycle
56) Spend a day replacing my swearing with “smurf”
57) Change somebodies life for good
58) Creat a work exchange for renovations
59) Decide if I have really said goodbye to comedy
60) Organise an activities day for fun
61) Run Pop Music By Candlelight again
62) Perform on stage
63) Custom paint a car
64) Take drama classes again
65) Become green
67) Eco my house
68) Plant a vege garden that I can maintain
69) Own multiple pets
70) Achieve my goals
71) Lose my inhabitions
72) Read tarot more
73) Do more spells
74) Teach the boys to create their own magic
75) Stop laughing inappropriately
76) Knock on wood
77) Make my own piece of furniture
78) Dance around a maypole
79) Stop living in CHAOS (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome)
80) Live with passion
81) Knit a blanket
82) Leave a legacy
83) Repay kindness shown to me
84) Cut an apple to show it’s star
85) Make Toffee Apples
86) Eat Vegan foods for a week
87) Meet a fruitarian
88) Spend an evening by firelight
89) Control my own destiny
90) Make my own peanut butter
91) Paint my piano
92) Teach an old dog new tricks
93) Build a wall and climb over it
94) Let my mother go
95) Tell my father he was a good dad
96) Stop running myself down
97) Drink tea with someone unexpected
98) Spend a whole day being pampered
99) Raise a guilde dog
100) Drive a manual car
101) Achieve everything on this list

I’m liking this – really going to get me thinking!