Wednesday 4 February 2009

The list!

  1. Create blog to track progress

  2. Maintain blog at least once a week

  3. Take Understanding Children course with open.ac.uk

  4. Learn Spanish to conversational level

  5. Go to a gallery once a month

  6. Start jogging at least once a week

  7. Get allotment presentable and producing

  8. Save mortgage deposit and buy house

  9. Become debt free (bar mortgage!)

  10. Get a hamster

  11. Get a rescue dog

  12. Visit Mr Magoo again

  13. Send 10 cards (not for birthdays or christmas)

  14. Visit 3 UK cities that I have never been to

  15. Learn to knit

  16. Take more photos, including ones of each challenge when completed

  17. Read and note down 101 books (including challenge 27)

  18. Watch and note down 101 films (including challenges 20 and 58)

  19. Learn how to make at least one curry well

  20. Watch 10 “classic” films – TBD

  21. Be properly fitted for a bra

  22. Volunteer with children

  23. Perform breast check weekly

  24. Watch/read and understand the news

  25. Do the Camino de Santiago – or at least part of it

  26. Go to Dubrovnik

  27. Read 10 “classic books” - TBD

  28. Complete Introduction to Social Sciences course

  29. Donate at least one box every Christmas to http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/

  30. Have a “date” with Mike once a week

  31. Give 101 things to charity

  32. Make £1001 on Ebay

  33. Have one night a week with no TV

  34. Take a monthly picture of Mike and I

  35. Visit parents twice during the year, not including Christmas

  36. Share a bottle of sparkling wine/cava with Mike every 27th of the month to celebrate the day we got together

  37. Learn a new word every week

  38. Research family tree

  39. Get a new job

  40. Learn to drive

  41. Get married

  42. Make a will

  43. Have breakfast “out” once a month

  44. Make some jam

  45. Send and receive 5 postcards through http://www.postcrossing.com/

  46. Learn basic sign language

  47. Make a cheesecake from scratch

  48. Find a dentist and go for a check up

  49. Buy and use a bread maker

  50. Buy and use a sewing machine

  51. Save £2 for every challenge completed

  52. Do 10 random acts of kindness

  53. Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice on www.freerice.com

  54. Lend to someone on http://kiva.org/

  55. Take biscuits or cakes into work once a month

  56. Complete Child Development course on open.ac.uk

  57. Learn jewellery making skills

  58. Watch a Bollywood movie

  59. Reacquaint myself with a lost friend

  60. Do something special to celebrate Mike's 35th birthday

  61. Sell something I have made

  62. Go to a wine tasting

  63. Have a review or article published

  64. Watch every episode of Heroes, Lost and One Tree Hill broadcast

  65. See another play at the RSC that doesn't have David Tennant in

  66. Fill in address book

  67. Sponsor a child

  68. Get a bike

  69. Go to Alton Towers

  70. Go to the Zoo

  71. Plant a tree

  72. Make some cushions

  73. Carve a halloween pumpkin

  74. Paint a painting

  75. Go to the top of a mountain

  76. Watch an open-air film with a picnic

  77. Once a month go for a drink and think on my own

  78. Book a holiday paid for entirely with Tesco Clubcard vouchers

  79. Go for a walk in Chorlton Water Park once a month

  80. Visit 10 local places of interest

  81. Give blood again

  82. Buy a Scrabble board and play once a month

  83. Donate a blanket to http://projectlinusuk.org.uk/

  84. Organise a charity drive at work (charity TBD)

  85. Go camping

  86. Have 3 months of living expenses saved

  87. Get a bird table (when I have a garden)

  88. Put together a recipe book

  89. Take a sleeper train to Scotland

  90. Learn how to cross stitch

  91. Become first aid qualified

  92. Watch the whole of The Wire

  93. Watch the whole of Prison Break

  94. Go back to Paris

  95. Give away 10 books through bookcrossing.com

  96. Do sit ups twice a week (Wednesdays and Saturdays)

  97. Buy some Tom and Jerry DVDs

  98. Swim in the Mediterranean

  99. Go to a Salsa class

  100. Make a new list

  101. Open champagne and celebrate


1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a great list and am glad you are joining us on the journey. Good luck with it all hope you enoy the next 1001 days!

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