create a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days

So this will take me into my 30s!!!

My List of 101 Things to do in 1001 Days!!

TRAVEL

1 Visit Kez in Christchurch
2 Visit Becky in Dublin
3 Go to Asia
4 See the Aurora Borealis

ANIMALS
5 Get some chickens (and name them after girls in punk rock songs)
6 Puppywalk
7 Go vegan
8 Learn about animal psychology
9 Learn about pet bereavement counseling
10 Volunteer with elephants
11 Swim with dolphins
12 Go whale watching
13 Enroll Kdog as a PAT dog (Pets As Therapy)
14 Get sugar gliders
15 Do Animal Freedom day (vegan day in July)
16 Ride a dog sled
17 Get Casey trained, possibly fly-ball/agility

LITERARY
18 Read all my books
19 Join a writers club
20 Do my writers book of days regularly
21 Write a letter to Gwyneth Lewis
22 Enter 1 short story competition
23 Write 3 poems
24 Write an article for the newspaper
25 Write a kids book
26 Write more of my ‘books’
27 Do NaNoWriMo 2012

MUSIC & COMEDY

28 Write down all the song lyrics I love
29 See No Use for a Name live again
30 See Pink Live
31 See Lady Gaga live
32 See James live
33 See Eve 6 live
34 See Russell Brand live
35 See Bill Bailey live
36 See Michael McIntyre live
37 See Chris Rock live
38 See Lee Evans live at least once more

ARTY & CRAFTY

39 Finish 3 paintings or drawings
40 Enter a photo in a competition
41 Make presents
42 Make jewellery
43 Make a quilt
44 Knit socks

FITNESS & SPORT
45 Surf
46 Scuba Dive
47 Go to the driving range
48 Walk the West Highland Way
49 Do the half moonwalk for Breast Cancer
50 Learn to break-dance
51 Teach a regular pole class
52 Do the splits

CHARITY

53 Fundraise for Papyrus
54 Do Earth Hour in March
55 Give blood at least twice
56 Do a sponsored adventure
57 Do Earth Hour

FUN

58 Go to Cirque de Soleil
59 Go to a Post Secret event
60 Drive a monster truck
61 Drive a tank
62 Attend a Pole Competition
63 Go to Gay Pride Parade
64 Cliff Jump
65 Have a mustache party
66 Go zorbing
67 Go for a hot air balloon ride
68 Fly a plane
69 Bungee jump
70 Go paint-balling
71 Windsurf
72 Go to/have a mad hatters tea party
73 Make a music video with friends

RANDOM

74 Buy a house
75 Learn the keyboard (properly! Get lessons)
76 Go on a 1st aid course
77 See a ghost
78 Make a card ladder
79 Win at poker
80 Yell ‘I LOVE YOU!!’ to Stu in a busy place (a la Gavin & Stacy) :)
81 Drive a yellow car
82 Go to the castle thing near Newtyle
83 Get out of overdraft & put all my savings back I borrowed from myself
84 Phone a friend every Wednesday
85 Leave post-its with quotes on for people to find
86 Save money for traveling
87 Go on a demonstration
88 Convince someone my name is pronounced with a silent K
89 Write letters to friends that live far away in Jan & July
90 Smoke a Cuban cigar
91 Do a handbrake turn in my/a car
92 Drive through a line of cones
93 Dreadlock my hair
94 Get married
95 Go to the opera
96 Make a vegetable patch in my garden
97 Get a Peach Fur photos shoot
98 Learn about (my) past lives/reincarnation
99 Learn the chemical The Cat says on Red Dwarf off by heart
100 Get a new job
101 Tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue
102 Write a will
103 Beat a dude at arm wrestling
104 Get another tattoo
105 Buy a cherry blossom tree 5 months ago

I did 50% of the last list. It’d be interesting to know how much I would have done if I hadn’t made an actual list… I think about half that…
I’ve also done awesome things that werem’t on the list which I’ve added as completed goals on here so I can keep track of all my shenanagins

I feel like it has been successful :) 5 months ago

1. Take the boys somewhere different every month.
2. Take a life drawing class.
3. Take the boys on a ferry.
4. Do a weekly yoga class.
5. Swim twice a week.
6. Ride my bike more often.
7. Publish poetry online.
8. Make my own clothes.
9. Make a living by doing what I enjoy.
10. Write my life story.
11. Help my dad write his stories online or in a book.
12. Take singing lessons.
13. See a live performance every quarter.
14. Knit a tea cosy.
15. Create a list of 100 movies I want to see.
16. Watch all the movies I have listed above.
17. Travel to Western Australia.
18. Compile the soundtrack of my life.
19. Work because I want to rather than have to.
20. Be organised and creative in my cooking.
21. Send more letters to friends.
22. Create a written gratitude diary.
23. Make an amazing themed cake and share it with friends.
24. Shout my sisters on a sister weekend.
25. Learn to play the mandolin.
26. Take and print more artistic photos.
27. Take a cooking class at the Buddhist temple.
28. Cook savoury dishes with chocolate.
29. Make a short film.
30. Climb a big tree with friends.
31. Learn to surf at a retreat.
32. Attend a Bali Bliss retreat.
33. Organise a day of fun and activities.
34. Perform on stage.
35. Read tarot for other people.
36. Practise ritual more often.
37. Teach the boys to make their own magic.
38. Make a piece of furniture.
39. Make a May Pole.
40. Stop living in Chaos (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome)
41. Knit a blanket.
42. Cut an apple to show its star.
43. Make toffee apples.
44. Eat Vegan foods for a week.
45. Spend an evening by an open fire with someone amazing.
46. Make Christmas gifts in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
47. Make my own peanut butter.
48. Give flowers to someone random.
49. Make my own peanut butter.
50. Celebrate a small success in a really big way.
51. Drink tea with someone unexpected.
52. Spend a whole day being pampered by someone.
53. Spend a whole day pampering someone else.
54. Raise a guide dog.
55. Drive a manual car.
56. Improve my handwriting.
57. Make hair accessories.
58. Take regular romantic weekends away.
59. Have friends over for dinner every month.
60. Fall completely and totally in love.
61. Kiss under a waterfall.
62. Hold monthly themed dinner nights with the boys.
63. Tell people how I feel about them.
64. Lose 20kgs.
65. See the sun set in Western Australia.
66. Generate wealth from silly things.
67. Bake for friends as I used to.
68. Pre-plan and make as many birthday gifts as I can.
69. Create a visual inspiration diary.
70. Visit the Northern Territory.
71. Visit South Australia.
72. Visit Byron Bay.
73. Visit Cairns.
74. Make quarterly trips to Melbourne.
75. Make trips to Newcastle at least twice a year.
76. Write a letter to my father.
77. Write a letter to my mother.
78. Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
79. Complete a triathlon.
80. Do the Illawarra Fly Walk.
81. Do the Sydney Sky Walk.
82. Visit Jenolan Caves.
83. Go to the open air cinema.
84. Hold a backyard cinema party.
85. Fly in a seaplane.
86. Go in a hot air balloon.
87. Feed sharks.
88. Go to Seaworld.
89. Swim with Dolphins.
90. Swim with seals.
91. Swim with sharks.
92. Tour New Zealand.
93. Fly in a helicopter.
94. Go on a cruise.
95. Go to Fiji.
96. Cycle Vietnam Cambodia.
97. Go to the Hunter Valley Vineyards for a romantic weekend.
98. Visit the 29 South Coast National parks.
99. Camp in a national park.
100. Do everything on this list before April 20, 2014. 6 months ago

Well I’ve done half & only have a month to go….

Things that just will not happen this year:

15. Puppywalk
16. Go vegan
21. Volunteer with elephants
22. Swim with dolphins
23. Read all my books
35. See No Use for a Name live again
45. Surf
46. Scuba Dive
56. Bungee jump
67. Fundraise for Papyrus
69. Stress Down Day fundraiser at work
71. Buy a house

Things That Are No Longer A Goal:

19. Run the Running of the Nudes … think it’s cancelled! But will do something similar/look into it more…
96. Get my belly button pierced – just changed my mind. Simple as that.

Things I have no control over:

76. See a ghost!!!

All the rest, I could do…if I pulled my finger out. I’ll aim for a few more then at least I’ll be over the half-way mark :) Pretty pleased with how much I’ve done & how many opportunities I’ve grabbed & created for myself :D xxx 7 months ago

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, Germany 17th to 26th Nov 2009)
2. Visit Patts in London (twice) :)
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 (Africa Nov 2010)

ANIMALS
11. Get a dog
12. Get some chickens (and name them after girls in punk rock songs)
13. Get a bunny rabbit
14. Buy Stu a chinchilla (degus technically, but they count)
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. Go to 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 That , 18th October 09: Green Day , 3rd April: X-Factor, John Butler Trio: 9th April, Alkaline Trio: 24th May, Blink 182: 17th August)
33. Go to at least 2 festivals (Warped tour 2010, Glastonbury 2011)
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
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 Pole Dancing party!
58. Go to a masquerade party
59. Ride a mechanical bull
60. Go paintballing
61. See Hairspray at the theatre
62. Walk on fire
63. Have a professional massage
64. See Lee Evans live at least once more … booked for Oct 2011

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 (August 2008 & May 2010)
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 ... just not taking any! Haha! Happy pills are better than contraception pills anyways! ;)
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
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! ;) 3 years ago

Completion date is March 23, 2014.

1. Go kayaking
2. Go rappelling
3. Go ziplining
4. Watch 100 movies
5. Cycle to Sidney or further
6. Harvest a meal
7. Make up a signature drink
8. Take a cooking class
9. Make macarons
10. Take an anthropology class
11. Find a pair of yellow high heels
12. Own a French horn
13. Buy a bottle of port costing more than $100
14. Have tea at The Ritz in London
15. Go to a new continent
16. Visit Grandpa Morgan’s grave
17. Sit outside in Millport at night, listening to the waves and drinking hot chocolate
18. Knit something
19. Do the hydropath walk with mum at the Kingfisher Spa
20. Celebrate Christmas and/or New Year in another country
21. Visit the Museum of Anthropology at UBC
22. Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
23. Go to the dentist
24. Get a psychic reading
25. Run around Stanley Park
26. Read a novel in French
27. Complete two 10K runs within a month of each other
28. Go to a music festival
29. Place a bet
30. Buy a corset
31. Make Skittles-infused vodka
32. Maintain a weight of 120lbs for a month
33. Serve tea in my china set
34. Get my legs waxed
35. Stop eating out for 1 month
36. Visit New York City
37. Be vegan for a week
38. Visit the Vancouver Aquarium
39. Make 80% of the recipes in “Iced”
40. Book a half-day spa package
41. Create a mixed-media art project for my home
42. Go to Las Vegas
43. See Love
44. Try absinthe
45. Make a successful batch of muffins
46. See a Van Gogh in person
47. Make gluten-free bread
48. Take a train trip
49. Successfully plan and execute a project at work
50. Go on a beach holiday
51. Get a journal and fill it with creative writing
52. Have reflexology done on my feet
53. Cycle to a picnic at Ogden Point
54. Go mini golfing
55. Go down a waterslide
56. Go away for a weekend by myself
57. Have nothing in my wardrobe that I don’t really like or that I know I’ll never wear again
58. Go on a road trip
59. Volunteer at a Victoria festival
60. Try 50 new kinds of tea
61. Do something awesome for my 30th birthday
62. Re-finish a piece of old furniture
63. Get dressed up and go out dancing
64. Ride a scooter
65. Swim in the ocean
66. Go to the Netherlands
67. Have a Sims family that goes back 10 generations
68. Take Grandma out for lunch and a pedicure
69. Get a journal just for when I’m sad...June 27, 2011
70. Watch Helvetica
71. Make 30 different kinds of cake or cupcake
72. Get a pair of riding boots
73. Visit Portland, Oregon
74. Ride in a horse and carriage
75. Go on a ghost walk
76. Read The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
77. Order room service
78. Visit Sara and meet her baby
79. Go to New Zealand
80. Dye my hair blue
81. Go on a yoga retreat
82. Do a tea tasting at Silk Road with my dad
83. Go to southern California
84. Read The Count of Monte Cristo
85. Walk barefoot on a beach in December
86. Go to a convention of my choosing so I can geek out
87. Take a breadmaking class
88. Plant a herb garden
89. Grow a salad
90. Do 10 random acts of kindness
91. Have my hair and makeup done professionally
92. Pay off my degree
93. Attend a Pride parade
94. Wear false eyelashes
95. Make a tarte tatin
96. Send out Christmas cards
97. Enter every in-person raffle I’m offered
98. Try rowing
99. Go camping with G&N
100. Make a rainbow cake
101. Make a concerted effort to be a better person, while at the same time not punish myself endlessly for my mistakes (both perceived and real) 7 months ago