This is my blog to document my 101 challenges in 1001 days. This challenge will end on Monday 31st October 2011.
#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
#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
#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 met
#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
#66 Fill in address book
#67 Sponsor a child
#68 Get a bike
#69 Go to
#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
#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
#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
#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
#99 Go to a Salsa class
#100 Make a new list
#101 Open champagne and celebrate
Great news about the debt free date, just as well as it sounds like you have a lot to save for!! Really great news for you though, so well donexx
ReplyDeleteThanks hun! Am going to try and pay it off even sooner, fingers crossed :) x
ReplyDeleteHi there, found your blog on the MSE 101 thread (I'm lonestarsky on there too!). I'm doing this challenge aswell and I have this goal too!! Best of luck with it, and all your other goals x
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