Friday, June 09, 2006

101 things to do in 1001 Days


My List
    Travel
  1. Visit Edinburgh

  2. Visit Croatia

  3. Visit Rome

  4. Visit Amsterdam completed 4/9/2006

  5. Visit friends & family in Texas/Mexico

  6. Go to the Tower of London

  7. Go to York

  8. Organise a holiday for a group of friends completed 4/9/2006

  9. See the Giants Causeway

  10. Knitting/Crochet
  11. Knit something for everyone in family and close friends birthdays

  12. Knit a toy Competed 18-9-2006

  13. Knit a bag(and learn cabling while I'm at it) completed 22/6/2006

  14. Knit a cardigan completed 6/9/2006

  15. Learn to crochetcompleted 18/12/2006

  16. Complete a stitch as bitch crochet project

  17. Knit/crochet a blanket

  18. Knit/Crochet something I have designed myself

  19. Creative
  20. Paint an oil painting

  21. Fill an art pad with charcoal drawings

  22. Walk round hatfield house and draw things that I like

  23. Fill a pad with pastel & pencil drawings

  24. Draw picture of everyone I see in a day - will probably pick a boring work/family only day for this

  25. Pick and press some flowers and make them into a card

  26. Make all my own christmas cards

  27. Learn how to make my own bead jewellery completed 18/4/2007

  28. Make a pillow - knit sew crochet I don't care

  29. Sell something I made and give the money to charity

  30. Customise a few of my boring t-shirts

  31. Do a photography course

  32. Something New
  33. Create a vegetable/herb patch in garden with tomatoes, cucumbers, corriander and rocket

  34. Learn to identify 5 peices of classical music and their composers and what the point of the music is

  35. Learn to drive a Motorbike

  36. Do an artsy open university course (to reclaim my artsy side from the pedantic and logical computer brain it has become)

  37. Cookery
  38. Learn to cook a dish I like with tofu (really hard becuase Tofu's soooo boring)

  39. Cook myself a meal from scratch for a week

  40. Make something from scratch to take into work for a week

  41. Bake loads of cookies and share them with every friend/family I see that day

  42. Learn how to make a smoothie

  43. Cook a 3 course meal

  44. Financial
  45. Pay off my credit card

  46. Save £1000 in my ISA

  47. Write a budget and keep to it for 3 months

  48. Health
  49. Lose 2 dress sizes

  50. Cycle in to work every day for a whole month

  51. Go a month without ordering takeaway

  52. Give up fizzydrinks/caffeine for a month

  53. Walk/bike to town rather than bus at weekends for a month

  54. Cycle to st Albans

  55. Go to the Dentist completed 14/11/2006

  56. Reading
  57. Read all the books on my bookshelf and not buy anymore until I have finished then all

  58. Read a newspaper from cover to cover(except the sports section) for a week

  59. Read a book and look up in a dictionary every words I don't know (keep a list to prove i've done it)

  60. Read 5 books from Observer, Guardian, Time and Waterstones top 100 list (not to coincide with books already on bookshelf)
  61. Read 5 Shakespeare plays

  62. Read every book by George Orwell

  63. Vanity
  64. Get a lot of my hair chopped off and get a proper style completed 30/3/2007

  65. Get 5 more Piercings

  66. Design myself a tattoo and get it done

  67. Get contacts lenses sorted out again

  68. Get eyebrows plucked professinally

  69. Let my sister do my toenails

  70. Thing I should really have done already
  71. Sort, scan and upload to flickr all my Film pictures

  72. Buy a Peter's map of the worldand learn where about 5 countries I haven't heard of before completed 22/8/2006

  73. Move out of home (maybe even get a mortgage)

  74. Visit my Grandad completed 26/12/2006

  75. Volunteer for something (maybe AI)

  76. Sort out my stuff in roof and give unwanted videos and other stuff I'm not ever going use to charity

  77. Clear out my wardrobe and get rid of all the really old clothes I have in the back of it

  78. Sort out all my dvds and put cases in roof so all unnessecary clutter it gone until I move out completed 15/7/2006

  79. Keep my CV up-to-date every 3months for entire 1001 days

  80. Learn more about the main political ideologies and what the pros and cons of them are
  81. Build a computer from parts

  82. Convert all my albums into MP3s

  83. Learn to Drive

  84. Stoopid Fun Stuff
  85. Ride a horse

  86. Do a jigsaw

  87. Make a new friend

  88. Meet someone online

  89. Get in contact with someone I've lost contact with

  90. Play an outsidey type game over the field

  91. Complete a cryptic crossword

  92. Enter the sea in a wet suit or even a swimming costume if the weight loss thing works

  93. Go on that scary fair ground ride I'm always to scared to go on. The one that you stand up in and aren't strapped into and spins round and you're held in place by the centrifugal force

  94. Go to the Comedy Club in London for the hell of it not because it's someone's birthday
  95. Build a sandcastle by hand (can be rubbish as it probably will be)

  96. Watch a film that is very worthy but I always thought looked very dull

  97. Have a garden party with crochet, boules, cucumber sandwichs, strawberries and cream and pimms completed 26th May 2007

  98. Go goofy bowling. Each frame try bowling with a different twist; wrong-handed,
    between your legs backwards, between someone else's legs, on one foot, from on your knees, etc (stolen from discoverfun.com)

  99. Get led spokes for bike that spell out words and make it say something rude each week for 4 weeks I'm cycling to work

  100. Have a Dinner party with napkins in fancy shapes and everything nicely presented

  101. Finger (and hand and foot) paint with friends

  102. Go to/Host a cocktail party and try 5 different cocktails I've not had before

  103. The rest
  104. Get over 100 views on one of my flickr photos completed 6/9/2006

  105. Learn Some Latin

  106. Stick up for myself against someone who I would normally give into

  107. Donate blood every 4 months for a year

  108. Register as a bone marrow donor

  109. Learn basic phrases in 5 different languages ie hello, goodbye, thankyou, excuse me, 1-10, 'one ticket please' etc

  110. Listen to a new song every day for a week

  111. Don't moan about anything for a whole day, yes a WHOLE day ;o)

  112. Vote in all the elections held in 1001 days