So, other than the obvious "Get someone else to do mission 101" task, I've yet to complete any off my list.
However, I am actively doing # 1, pass my driving test. Which ultimately I think is the most important one on there, although I could do with starting to look at #2 which is to pass my theory. I feel too disorganised to start such things though.
Once my room is sorted (which I really need to get round to doing!) I plan on starting on # 11, "fill a cork board with pictures of good memories" although that will be a work in progress as I don't want to rush it, obviously.
Me & Janet plan on going for a nice meal somewhere new soon, so that'll be one of my five for #28.
I asked Allan's opinion on an aquarium, he suggested I visit blue planet, neat cheshire oaks, sounds like a plan. So that'll be # 96 done, & he even said he'll come with me, which would be nice for sure. On the topic of Allan, he said if I give him lists of films, he'll download them as he'd like more films on his harddrive, then I'll make him help me start on # 79, "watch 5 movies, back to back in one day, 5 times"
So I have plans to start my list, if that's any good? I guess it's better than nothing for certain.
I'll start soon, I really really will. It was sort of feeling like this list was taunting me in a way (if that's even possible?) 'cos everything seems difficult right now, 'cos my life is just so ... everywhere. My room is ridiculous. My job seems up & down, although I know it's not at all, but it doesn't stop it feeling like that! & my home life seems unstable. But, that's okay.
I'll make a start very very soon. I'm determined, that's what's important.
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Day Zero
The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
The Start Date: January 4th, 2009.
The Finish Date: October 2nd, 2011.
The Tasks:
1) Pass my driving test. - in progress, kind of?
2) Pass theory driving test.
3) Go a month without drinking coke.
4) Save tips from work for three months, at least twice.
5) Visit Lucy
6) Visit Caz
7) Visit Glara
8) Visit DM at uni. - went to see The Damned Things in Sheffield & spent a couple days there just chilling.
9) Spend a full day hanging out with Janet, just the two of us. - soon!
10) Repair our friendship. (this is the only one I'm worried about because it's not just me that has to be willing)
11) Fill a cork board with pictures of good memories.
12) Keep an active memory box.
13) Eat 5 a day for at least a month.
14) Go to the gym at least twice a week for three months. - once I'm moved & settled, I will get back to the gym!
15) Start a course and complete it! - in theory in progress, saving the money for the (first of at least 3) 10 week Italian course that starts in January 2011.
16) Try to actively update my LiveJournal. (& not just with rubbish ramblings either)
17) Move back out. - done too many times!
18) Answer the LiverJournal writer's block every day for a month, however boring or short the answer.
19) Take two pictures a day for a month (& upload them!) for 6 individual months.
20) Re-take up running. - Once I'm moved & live close to the beach again, I will! Despite the cold. & if it's THAT cold, I'll just go the gym.
21) Reread the twilight series.
22) Go swimming!
23) Make a scrapbook for every year. One for 2009, one for 2010 & one for 2011 Unless I backtrack & make one for 2009, failed. :(
24) Maintain a steady weight.
25) Get someone else to do mission 101. (Amy, Janet, Rachel (Lee not Scarisbrick)!)
26) Dye my hair a completely different colour (semi permanent) and get my second tattoo (cheating, two in one, I know) Dyed my hair twice now & got my second & third tattoos.
27) Stay in a beautiful cottage for a week/weekend.
28) Eat out at five new restaurants.
29) Walk to work and back everyday for a month in the summer.
30) Work on learning to cook. (it needs to be done!)
31) Try new foods at least once (it won't kill you!)
32) Research into photography more & make use of my S6500 before I buy a new one.
33) Visit (& fund the trip entierly myself) another country on my own.
34) Swap my mp3 player with a friend for a week.
35) Go driving, with no map, no sat nav, get lost & find my way home again. - with Rachel & Ruth :)
36) Go to Leeds Festival for the 5th time (& hopefully the 6th & 7th) 5th & 6th time done, possibly not going for my 7th year running in 2011 'cos I have Glastonbury tickets, but hopefully Leeds can be on the cards too 'cos I miss the Leeds group already.
37) See Fall Out Boy in another country. - Could be quite difficult as they're on "hiatus" & all doing other things, but I've seen Joe & Andy's new band - The Damned Things - twice now.
38) Wear matching underwear (colour wise!) everyday for a week. - Once I'm moved & have all my clothes in one place again!
39) Wear a different necklace everyday for a week.
40) Fly a kite.
41) Watch the sun rise & set from the same place in one day.
42) Walk the full distance of the beach. & back.
43) Visit Clandestine store in Chicago, IL. Failed 'cos it closed before I got a chance to go.
44) Genuinely try to save money.
45) Go on a picnic somewhere beautiful.
46) Go ice skating.
47) Go rollerblading.
48) Go horse riding.
49) Donate blood.
50) Volunteer somewhere worthwhile.
51) When financially stable, lend money at least once through kiva.org.
52) Build a sandcastle.
53) Get rid of clothes I don't wear & stop buying clothes I don't love.
54) Get all old disposable cameras developed.
55) Eat vegeterian for a month at least once.
56) Buy myself flowers because flowers are amazing.
57) Learn to play the piano.
58) Spend a night just looking at the stars (preferably in the country)
59) Stay in the Alton Towers Hotel!
60) Buy a beautiful dress & wear it somewhere special.
61) Buy a postsecret book & gift it to someone.
62) Purchase a polaroid camera.
63) At least start to learn to ride a motorcycle.
64) Send a postcard to postsecret.
65) Get into the habit of drinking water before bed.
66) Get into the habit of eating breakfast regularly.
67) Stop biting nails, permanently.
68) Have a cocktail night. - Christmas time.
69) Go swimming in the sea abroad.
70) Buy someone a subscription for something in 2010. - Failed. Couldn't afford it.
71) But a llama through World Vision.
72) Go to a safari park & have someone else drive. Toby & I went to the Safari Park & let the monkeys try & rip my car apart.
73) Make home made candles.
74) Purchase both of Obama's autobiographies for Amy & I.
75) Do not lose 2009 diary!
76) Get organised for Christmas & birthdays in advance.
77) Help mum celebrate her 50th birthday in a great way.
78) Do not ignore my 21st birthday, however tempting.
79) Watch 5 movies, back to back in one day, 5 times.
80) Organise computer & keep it that way.
81) For one month, track every penny I spend.
82) Make a pizza from scratch.
83) Make a vegetarian, wheat free meal for mum, Amy & I.
84) No plastic bags for a month!
85) Spend a summer day reading in the park.
86) Take part in Buy Nothing Day, 29th November 2009 & 2010. - Can still half salvage this by remembering in 2010!
87) Give five "just because" gifts.
88) Feel good wearing a bikini.
89) Take part in "gimme your stuff"
90) Take photographic evidence (where possible) of completed tasks.
91) Update LiveJournal (& blogspot) regarding my progress in this mission!
92) Pay off overdraft & feel comfortable with the amount of money in my account.
93) Reclaim £500 back from Natwest & open a seperate savings account. - Not going to happen.
94) Visit New York with Amy for her 18th (& go to five different gigs while we're there) - Obviously didn't go to plan.
95) Take a day trip to five different UK cities. Definitely done. Can't remember the first 5 I did though. But I've visited some lovely places & people.
96) Visit an aquarium. - Seaworld! Loveeee.
97) Find the perfect boots, however difficult that is! - Constantly looking!
98) Wear a dress everyday for a week (x5)
99) Wear different coloured contacts.
100) Carpe Diem. - Trying, so hard.
101) For every incomplete task after 1001 days, donate £5 to an undetermined charity.**
** which has now been decided as http://alzheimers.org.uk/
For selfish reasons, partly. My grandma got Alzheimers & it was heartbreaking. As far as we're aware, every female on that side of our family has developed it, & not exactly at a particularly old age, either. It is horrible to watch one of the closest & most important people to you deteriorate & it's my biggest fear, that one day I will be dependant on those closest to me. & so, a cure is very important to me, personally. & if one isn't found by the time I reach 65, if I'm still of sound mind, or once I've started to lose it slightly, I'm sure assisted suicide for those with Alzheimers will be legalised by then.
I've already amassed £37.50 that I will be donating to charity. While I don't mind this as it's a charity so close to my heart, I'd rather be completing things, not failing them!
... I'm anxious. There are so many, but if I don't do these things now, I never will.
Edited November 8th 2010. Less than 13 months to go, this is something I really need to take seriously!
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
The Start Date: January 4th, 2009.
The Finish Date: October 2nd, 2011.
The Tasks:
1) Pass my driving test. - in progress, kind of?
2) Pass theory driving test.
3) Go a month without drinking coke.
4) Save tips from work for three months, at least twice.
5) Visit Lucy
6) Visit Caz
7) Visit Glara
8) Visit DM at uni. - went to see The Damned Things in Sheffield & spent a couple days there just chilling.
9) Spend a full day hanging out with Janet, just the two of us. - soon!
10) Repair our friendship. (this is the only one I'm worried about because it's not just me that has to be willing)
11) Fill a cork board with pictures of good memories.
12) Keep an active memory box.
13) Eat 5 a day for at least a month.
14) Go to the gym at least twice a week for three months. - once I'm moved & settled, I will get back to the gym!
15) Start a course and complete it! - in theory in progress, saving the money for the (first of at least 3) 10 week Italian course that starts in January 2011.
16) Try to actively update my LiveJournal. (& not just with rubbish ramblings either)
17) Move back out. - done too many times!
18) Answer the LiverJournal writer's block every day for a month, however boring or short the answer.
19) Take two pictures a day for a month (& upload them!) for 6 individual months.
20) Re-take up running. - Once I'm moved & live close to the beach again, I will! Despite the cold. & if it's THAT cold, I'll just go the gym.
21) Reread the twilight series.
22) Go swimming!
23) Make a scrapbook for every year. One for 2009, one for 2010 & one for 2011 Unless I backtrack & make one for 2009, failed. :(
24) Maintain a steady weight.
25) Get someone else to do mission 101. (Amy, Janet, Rachel (Lee not Scarisbrick)!)
26) Dye my hair a completely different colour (semi permanent) and get my second tattoo (cheating, two in one, I know) Dyed my hair twice now & got my second & third tattoos.
27) Stay in a beautiful cottage for a week/weekend.
28) Eat out at five new restaurants.
29) Walk to work and back everyday for a month in the summer.
30) Work on learning to cook. (it needs to be done!)
31) Try new foods at least once (it won't kill you!)
32) Research into photography more & make use of my S6500 before I buy a new one.
33) Visit (& fund the trip entierly myself) another country on my own.
34) Swap my mp3 player with a friend for a week.
35) Go driving, with no map, no sat nav, get lost & find my way home again. - with Rachel & Ruth :)
36) Go to Leeds Festival for the 5th time (& hopefully the 6th & 7th) 5th & 6th time done, possibly not going for my 7th year running in 2011 'cos I have Glastonbury tickets, but hopefully Leeds can be on the cards too 'cos I miss the Leeds group already.
37) See Fall Out Boy in another country. - Could be quite difficult as they're on "hiatus" & all doing other things, but I've seen Joe & Andy's new band - The Damned Things - twice now.
38) Wear matching underwear (colour wise!) everyday for a week. - Once I'm moved & have all my clothes in one place again!
39) Wear a different necklace everyday for a week.
40) Fly a kite.
41) Watch the sun rise & set from the same place in one day.
42) Walk the full distance of the beach. & back.
43) Visit Clandestine store in Chicago, IL. Failed 'cos it closed before I got a chance to go.
44) Genuinely try to save money.
45) Go on a picnic somewhere beautiful.
46) Go ice skating.
47) Go rollerblading.
48) Go horse riding.
49) Donate blood.
50) Volunteer somewhere worthwhile.
51) When financially stable, lend money at least once through kiva.org.
52) Build a sandcastle.
53) Get rid of clothes I don't wear & stop buying clothes I don't love.
54) Get all old disposable cameras developed.
55) Eat vegeterian for a month at least once.
56) Buy myself flowers because flowers are amazing.
57) Learn to play the piano.
58) Spend a night just looking at the stars (preferably in the country)
59) Stay in the Alton Towers Hotel!
60) Buy a beautiful dress & wear it somewhere special.
61) Buy a postsecret book & gift it to someone.
62) Purchase a polaroid camera.
63) At least start to learn to ride a motorcycle.
64) Send a postcard to postsecret.
65) Get into the habit of drinking water before bed.
66) Get into the habit of eating breakfast regularly.
67) Stop biting nails, permanently.
68) Have a cocktail night. - Christmas time.
69) Go swimming in the sea abroad.
70) Buy someone a subscription for something in 2010. - Failed. Couldn't afford it.
71) But a llama through World Vision.
72) Go to a safari park & have someone else drive. Toby & I went to the Safari Park & let the monkeys try & rip my car apart.
73) Make home made candles.
74) Purchase both of Obama's autobiographies for Amy & I.
75) Do not lose 2009 diary!
76) Get organised for Christmas & birthdays in advance.
77) Help mum celebrate her 50th birthday in a great way.
78) Do not ignore my 21st birthday, however tempting.
79) Watch 5 movies, back to back in one day, 5 times.
80) Organise computer & keep it that way.
81) For one month, track every penny I spend.
82) Make a pizza from scratch.
83) Make a vegetarian, wheat free meal for mum, Amy & I.
84) No plastic bags for a month!
85) Spend a summer day reading in the park.
86) Take part in Buy Nothing Day, 29th November 2009 & 2010. - Can still half salvage this by remembering in 2010!
87) Give five "just because" gifts.
88) Feel good wearing a bikini.
89) Take part in "gimme your stuff"
90) Take photographic evidence (where possible) of completed tasks.
91) Update LiveJournal (& blogspot) regarding my progress in this mission!
92) Pay off overdraft & feel comfortable with the amount of money in my account.
93) Reclaim £500 back from Natwest & open a seperate savings account. - Not going to happen.
94) Visit New York with Amy for her 18th (& go to five different gigs while we're there) - Obviously didn't go to plan.
95) Take a day trip to five different UK cities. Definitely done. Can't remember the first 5 I did though. But I've visited some lovely places & people.
96) Visit an aquarium. - Seaworld! Loveeee.
97) Find the perfect boots, however difficult that is! - Constantly looking!
98) Wear a dress everyday for a week (x5)
99) Wear different coloured contacts.
100) Carpe Diem. - Trying, so hard.
101) For every incomplete task after 1001 days, donate £5 to an undetermined charity.**
** which has now been decided as http://alzheimers.org.uk/
For selfish reasons, partly. My grandma got Alzheimers & it was heartbreaking. As far as we're aware, every female on that side of our family has developed it, & not exactly at a particularly old age, either. It is horrible to watch one of the closest & most important people to you deteriorate & it's my biggest fear, that one day I will be dependant on those closest to me. & so, a cure is very important to me, personally. & if one isn't found by the time I reach 65, if I'm still of sound mind, or once I've started to lose it slightly, I'm sure assisted suicide for those with Alzheimers will be legalised by then.
I've already amassed £37.50 that I will be donating to charity. While I don't mind this as it's a charity so close to my heart, I'd rather be completing things, not failing them!
... I'm anxious. There are so many, but if I don't do these things now, I never will.
Edited November 8th 2010. Less than 13 months to go, this is something I really need to take seriously!
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