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| oceanchild (profile) wrote, on 1-1-2009 at 3:06pm | |
| Subject: 101 things |
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| Instead of making resolutions this year, I've made a list of 101 things that I'll hopefully have accomplished in 1001 days, by September 29, 2011. Got the idea from an LJ community. Here's my list. I've grouped this roughly into categories for easier reading and organization. Social 001. Get back in touch with my high school friends and see them when I’m home 002. Hang out with each of my in-town friends at least once a month 003. Write the stories I promised my family members several Christmases ago 004. E-mail home every two weeks 005. Say yes if I’m invited to do something and I’m available 006. Organize Mums’s photographs 007. Write Ruth at least once a month 008. Join a club 009. Get off the computer if I’m not on it for a specific reason 010. Be more open with Nathan about how I’m feeling 011. Send cookies to Chris and Josh 012. Make the art project I planned for Nathan Health 013. Work out 2-3 times a week 014. Stop biting my fingernails and cuticles 015. Floss every night, including the teeth with the permanent retainer 016. Wear my removable retainers at least once a week, more often if they’re tight 017. See a chiropractor 018. Get regular massages (perhaps from Adi) 019. Change birth control methods 020. Do stretches every day until I can touch my toes 021. Drink more water 022. Do yoga Education 023. Learn some web design and HTML 024. Finish essays a day before they’re due 025. Type up some notes after each class to use as study material for tests 026. Learn to make coffee 027. Take Japanese classes 028. Practice my German by reading novels and watching movies in the language 029. Sign up for the editing professional sequence w/ the UC Berkeley extension program 030. Learn to read runes 031. Finish all the books I started once, then put down and forgot to finish: -Moby Dick -The Picture of Dorian Grey -Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -Fragile Things -The Book of Margery Kempe 032. Read the books that are on my yet-to-read list -Heart of Darkness -Dhalgren -The Sound and the Fury -Ulysses -Mrs. Dalloway -more to come as I remember them... 033. Start re-learning Spanish 034. Read the Bible all the way through 035. Learn to recognize some more constellations 036. Read or listen to the news 037. Graduate university with better than a 3.5 and no extra time 038. Learn to identify all the beach birds near my house Financial 039. Save 10% of every paycheck 040. Keep track of the money I spend 041. Stop buying things impulsively 042. Pay the insurance on my truck myself 043. Find a job with health insurance benefits Domestic/organizational 044. Move somewhere I can have pets 045. Adopt a kitten (or two) from the shelter 046. Stop leaving dirty dishes in the sink 047. Clean the house every weekend 048. Sweep the kitchen after dinner each night 049. Get rid of my clutter – paperwork, internet accounts, old clothing, etc. 050. Give away stuff I don’t want via Craigslist 051. Make a little more effort with my appearance 052. Cut my hair short 053. Figure out how to make my hair not frizzy 054. Back up the data on my computer 055. Move out of my mom’s house permanently 056. Rig my laptop so it will connect to the TV 057. Fix my old laptop 058. Make an album (or two) of all my photographs 059. Take my truck in for oil changes on time 060. Clean the truck out well every six months or so New experiences 061. Travel to some other country in North or South America 062. Volunteer at the SPCA 063. Go somewhere it's legal and try a hallucinogen 064. Enter a creative writing contest 065. See the Northern Lights 066. Go to a con in costume 067. Go to a ren faire in costume 068. Ride the Big Dipper 15 times in a row 069. Finish a Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle 070. Burn old schoolwork in a beach bonfire 071. Send something to Post Secret 072. Glue some chess pieces to a board and take an XKCD-style roller-coaster action shot 073. Go snowboarding Recreational 074. Start riding lessons again, preferably cross-country jumping 075. Knit the binary scarf 076. Write in my journal 4-5 times a week 077. Play or sing in a musical group again 078. Beat Mario with minimal cheating 079. Finish all of Kenshin 080. Finish all of Bleach 081. Finish all of Soul Eater 082. Take a picture of myself every day for a year 083. Write a new poem on Daddoo’s memorial bench 084. Make banoffee pie 085. Dress up as all the Village People at once for Halloween 086. Make a dress out of old ties 087. Go for walks on the beach more often 088. Get my flight certificate renewed 089. Plant a garden and grow some of my own food 090. Get a new bike 091. Practice my flute regularly 092. Get a telescope and look at stars 093. Watch a meteor shower from the roof 094. Play my bass more 095. Get good at bowling 096. Keep a creative writing journal 097. Keep a dream journal 098. Watch every episode of The West Wing 099. Have a picnic in Golden Gate Park 100. Go stargazing in the mountains 101. Build a fort in Upper Campus |
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