Wednesday, May 20, 2009

THE LIST!!!!!!!

So one of my best friends in the world Tara gave me and some of my friends the bright idea to do 101 thing in 1001 days. Like newish things we have never done, or things that we want to do more of or whatever. I wanted to start mine on my 25th bday... but my freaking Internet was out. So here we are. Today I post the list and we let it begin:

COMPLETE
In Progress

Self Improvement
1. Get F.O.I.D. Card
2. Get a Fishing License
3. Join the Finer Things Club
4. Get an Apartment in Springfield
5. Visit Grandpa's grave
6. Get a camera
7. Have a picnic
8. Subscribe to a paper
9. Change hair style every 6 months (1/5)
10. Contribute to my Alumni Association
11. Keep a change jar
12. Adopt a dog

Travel
13. Go to the east coast
14. Go to a spa
15. Go to a destination unknown
16. Take a roadtrip
17. Go to the west coast
18. Go to an island
19. Go to Navy Pier
20. Go to a Winery
21. Go Camping
22. Go to TSU Homecoming
23. Go to 5 Capital cities (0/5)

Education
24. Take a ballet class
25. Take a painting class
26. Learn to play a song on the piano
27. Learn conversational Spanish
28. Learn to make sushi
29. Take a class unrelated to anything I know
30. Read the whole NIV Bible
31. Read 20 books on the 1001 book list (http://www.listology.com/list/1001-books-you-must-read-you-die)
~The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
~Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
~Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
~Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
~The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
~The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
~MatigariNgugi Wa Thiong’o
~Perfume – Patrick Süskind
~Queer – William Burroughs
~Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
~The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
~A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
~Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
~The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
~Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
~Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
~Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
~Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
~Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
~The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
32. Make 25 Turtles A.Y.A.T?(4/25)
33.Learn to BBQ
34. Learn Hello in 10 languages (0/10)
35. Learn to make 10 quick meals (0/10)
36. Learn 5 phrase in 5 languages that aren't French
37. Learn to jump a car
38. Take a self defense class

Community
39. Go to a different P.R.I.D.E.
40. Do freerice.com and do about 5000
41. Get people 5 just because gifts (2/5)
42. Buy a meal or coffee for a stranger
43. Volunteer with the Girl Scouts of America
44. Write 3 freelance articles (0/3)
45. Volunteer at a Museum
46. Volunteer with the Phoenix Center
47. Show loved ones how to celebrate Kwanzaa
48. Go to 2 LHS games (2/2)
49. Donate blood
50. Work with a suicide hotline
51. Clean a park
52. help with GLBT safety and awareness (1/?)

Arts
53. Write a song and preform it at an open mic
54. Do open mic poetry
55. Write 5 short stories (5/5)
56. Enter an Art Fair
57. create 20 paintings (2/20)
58. Create 30 pieces of jewelry
59. Make a piece of clothing
60. Re purpose a piece of furniture

Family
61. Hang out with my lil brother for a day without fighting
62. Treat a parent to dinner
63. Keep a garden going with grandma
64. See all 5 siblings in one years time
65. Take 5 friends on "friend dates"(1/5)
66. Go hunting with Shane
67. Take friends to a Unitarian church
68. Make mom and sister eat sushi

Health
69. Run a half marathon
70. Run a marathon
71. Do 10 military grad push ups
72. Run a 5k
73. Run a 10k
74. Take a pole dancing class
75. Join a gym
76. No fast food for a month
77. eat fruit everyday for a week
78. play tennis again
79. Get a full check up

Technology
80. Keep the Springfield 365 blog up
81. Watch a full tv series

Adventure
82. Go to a roller derby
83. Play full 18 holes of golf
84. Host Breakfast at Tiffany's Themed party
85. See a Cabrera
86. Go to a pow wow
87. Host 5 other themed parties (0/5)
88. Organize a bar crawl
89. Go to Shakespeare Fest
90. Go to a random tourist trap

Random
91. Get my book of poetry finished and published
92. Start my Masters Program
93. Write a Living Will
94. Put back $2 for every goal I reach
95. Visit the Gulf
96. Throw a surprise party
97. Surprise someone with a visit
98. Teach someone to play clarinet
99. Wear Make Up everyday for a week
100. Treat grandma to a day of awesomeness
101. Make another list

5 comments:

  1. I LOVE how your list turned out!! I'm excited to help you with some of these specially ones I didn't think to put on my list :)

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  2. Great list! I've added your list to the master goal list at http://www.101goalsin1001days.com, too.

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  3. You need to add a links list to your side bar and include this page (http://delami101.blogspot.com/2009/05/list.html) so that after you've got a lot of posts on here people can still get to your list easily. :)

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  4. I LOVE number 37! :)

    Good luck with your list!

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  5. Your #65 is really cute. Love it!

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