Well, I’m done! Here’s the full list of my 101 goals in 1001 days.
The only rules that I have are that I must blog about my achievement once it’s done and I have the right to remove and replace THREE goals at any time I wish.
Start date: February 14th, 2010
End date: November 11th, 2012
(I picked Valentine’s Day as my start date without even knowing that my challenge would end on Remembrance Day. It’s fitting, I think)
Travel/Outdoors:
1. Take a trip to somewhere I haven’t been at least three times a year
2. Visit three or more provinces or territories
3. Visit NYC
4. Sail on the Atlantic ocean
5. Take a road trip with my sister at least once a year
6. Spend at least four days in a cabin in a forest on my own
7. Go to a kite festival
8. Go dog sledding
9. Get my boating permit
10. Go canoeing every summer
11. Sleep in a teepee
12. Work on a farm for a weekend
13. Watch the sun rise and set in the same day.
Food:
14. Make a poached egg (completed on April 25, 2010)
15. Make a meatpie
16. Make the perfect lemonade
17. Eat local for one month
18. Grow at least four tomato plants on my balcony (Plants introduced to my garden balcony on May 1st, 2010)
19. Learn how to roast and grind coffee beans
20. Go to the farmer’s market at least once a week during the summer
21. Milk a cow
22. Make chocolate truffles
23. Eat at Arby’s
24. Make homemade orange juice
25. Go blueberry picking
26. Invent a signature dish that represents you
27. Try the Spanish dish, “Paella”
28. Host an Xmas dinner with all the trimmings for family
Monthly:
29. Pick a spice every month and learn how to use it, prepare food with it and how to store it properly
30. Cook a new ethnic dish every month (photo and recipe to be included on blog) (Cancelled – Replaced with: Read at least two comic books every month)
31. Giveaway one book a month on my blog (click here for the July book giveaway!)
32. Document a day in the life of Julie one day a month, in pictures.
33. Watch two TED lectures every month
Creative/Entertainment:
34. Have an art exhibit
35. See all of Denys Arcand’s films (after the decline of the american empire)
36. Write another spoken word piece
37. Make a documentary film
38. Make a longer claymation video
39. Direct a porn film
40. Get my website redesigned
41. Make an art piece for Katia
42. Choreograph and fly my stunt kite to the song “El Tango de Roxanne” from Moulin Rouge
43. Make a marionette
44. Make a kaleidoscope
45. Convince someone to perform my spoken word poem at Capital Slam
46. Let someone photograph me
47. Buy a decent macro lens
48. Read a book on photography
49. Watch a film made by Ingmar Bergman
50. Watch Season One of the Smurfs
51. Watch Season One of The Wire
52. Design a tshirt
53. Post a note on Facebook and create something random for the first five friends that comment
54. Complete a 26 Things photo shoot
55. Compose a doumbek solo
56. Learn how to tango or learn all about the tango and its different variations
57. Experiment with movement and dance enough to make a short, experimental video of it
Nerdy:
58. Learn a new language (including braille or ASL)
59. Learn insect identification and start an album with photographs
60. Buy a microscope (traditional or USB)
61. Read at least one Economist magazine a month
62. Be able to name all of Canada’s Prime Ministers starting from the first to the current one.
63. Finally learn why some words are capitalized and some are not in Gulliver’s Travels
64. Throw all of the world’s countries in a hat and pick 10. Read a book on each country’s history.
65. Of those 10 countries, discover one visual artist, one musician and one author/playwright from each country.
66. Throw the name of all existing music genres in a hat. Pick 10 of them and discover 3 artists/musicians from that genre.
67. Write a blog article about my favourite superhero, Iceman
68. Host a Settlers of Catan or Zombie game night
69. Read 101 books
70. Study political art and write one or several blog articles about it
Humanitarian:
71. Sort through my clothes and donate what I no longer wear
72. Build a house with habitat for humanity
73. Volunteer in a homeless shelter, a food bank, soup kitchen or women’s shelter.
74. Create a yearly scholarship for artists
75. Create a spoken word contest for women
76. Sponsor three women through Women for Women International
Financial:
77. Pre-plan and pre-pay my natural burial
78. Write up my will
79. Open a self-directed investment account with a discount brokerage
80. Max out my TFSA each year
81. Get a part-time job to pay for “the trip of a lifetime”
82. Save all of my change for 1001 days and cash it in when the challenge is done.
83. Go 10 days without spending any money
Living quarters:
84. Switch to a natural cleaner
85. Fix my furniture
86. Build a chair
87. Sort the files on my computer, including music files and my desktop and keep it all organized
88. Organize my closets and keep them organized
89. Prepare an emergency kit
90. Update my box of treasures (completed April 11, 2010)
Drumming:
91. Buy myself a Turkish doumbek (completed Feb. 21st, 2010)
92. Sign up for the introduction to japanese drumming workshop
93. Learn to play a new percussion instrument
94. Go to the women’s drum camp
95. Learn how to make a drum
Quirky:
96. Take Mara out for dinner
97. Wear my hair down for an entire week (because I tie it up way too often)
98. Write five “Dear Stranger” letters and leave them in random spots around the city
99. Build a snow Gandalf (for Beth)
100. Send a random gift to Paula in Portugal
101. PRIVATE
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If you decide to learn ASL let me know. I’ve been wanting to learn ASL for a really long time now and just haven’t. Maybe we could learn together.
Definitely, I will let you know! I still haven’t made up my mind yet.. torn between a few language options.
Fabulous list my dear. I would love to take part in a few of them with you. You know I am all over # 93
Yep, I’ll make my kit and then you can come over and inspect it to make sure I have everything k? I would love to have you join me on a few of them. For example, the tango (which I left a bit obscure just in case my knees can’t handle it… at the very least, I can learn more about it!).
Oh, you’ll like this: I’m going to buy a carbon monoxide detector tonight, finally. Get one for your new house!
By the way, congratulations. You were commenter #100 on my website.
I win
Heh!
This is a fabulous list! You’re going to have so many wonderful homemade, handmade treasures when you’re done.
BTW, if you need someone to taste test your truffles I volunteer. I’m nothing if not altruistic!
Perfect. Consider yourself part of the truffle taste testing team.
I stumbled across this list while doing a Capital Slam search and saw:
45. Convince someone to perform my spoken word poem at Capital Slam
I thought I should let you know that at a slam you can’t perform someone else’s poem… unless you are talking about doing the Open Mic, I suppose.
What would be better is if you changed it to:
45. Perform my spoken word poem at Capital Slam
Hehe, thanks for the encouragement but I’ve already performed it at Voices of Venus and learned quickly that it’s not my thing. But, I’d love to hear it performed by someone else and I’ve found the PERFECT person to do it for me! Yes, open mic at Capital Slam.
By the way, I never heard back from you in regards to hosting a woman’s night of slam at the Merc… sent you a note via Facebook a long while back, did you get it?
Great list! Mind if I link you up to my friend page?
Thanks! No, I don’t mind at all! Feel free to link to it from wherever you’d like.
I’ll have a look at your list too! (It’s really nice to see that there are so many people undertaking their own 101 challenges… makes life that much more interesting)
I like this…I may have to join in on the fun. Have a blast doing all of these things!
Rocs.
Ok you I am not seeing enough of your list accomplished yet. I think I could help with 89 and 84…and 21 I’m working on.
Yes
Ahhh, you think I don’t have enough on my plate eh?
I would love your help with those objectives.
Thank you!
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