101 Things in 1,001 Days

List: [list] -noun. A series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record.

If you’re anything like me, you love to make lists. Grocery lists**, lists of things to pack, everyday to-do lists, lists of movies to see, books to read, lists of things about yourself, and lists of things you’ve already done just so you can cross things off said list.

The original idea of the “101 things in 1,001 days” apparently began a while ago and continues at DayZeroProject.com but, since we all know I’m not necessarily an early-adopter^, I sat back and waited for a while just to make sure the thing took hold. 😉  Apparently, it did. So, after much brooding and thinking and mulling and deliberating and reasoning, here’s my list of the 101 things I plan to accomplish in the next 1,001 days. If I start today, I should complete the list by.

So, after much thinking and pondering and mulling and reasoning and excogitating, I’ve come up with my list. Let the crossing off begin! 

Note: I’ve been working on this list for a while and just so happened to do some of the things on the list before I published it. And because I’m the master of this domain, I say they count. 🙂

1. Make a personal book of recipes
2. Write a letter to myself to open in ten years
3. Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day
4. Sleep under the stars
5. See the Northern Lights
6. Join a book club Joined a foodie book club at Nicholas Hoare
7. Go to a showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight
8. Go to SXSW
9. Send a secret to PostSecret
10. Take a hot air balloon ride
11. Watch a meteor shower
12. Go on a picnic
13. Buy a bicycle — and ride it!
14. Start my own business — I haz ideas!
15. Finish Infinite Jest
16. Make a bucket list
17. Try colouring my hair brown
18. Complete a half marathon
19. Do meditation once a week
20. Go snowshoeing
21. Find out my blood type (I think it’s A-, but not I’m not + :-))
22. Build and sleep inside a blanket fort
23. Start doing yoga
24. Buy new furniture (dining room table and sofa)
25. Go to the Texas State Fair and eat a fried Twinkie
26. Start recycling
27. Start playing tennis again
28. Drive across Canada
29. Learn to sew a button
30. Delete my MySpace account
31. Visit an apple orchard
32. Visit the wineries in Prince Edward County
33. Go dogsledding
34. Take a multi-vitamin everyday
35. Find and meet with a financial advisor
36. Create my will
37. Balance my chequebook everyday
38. Adopt a cat or a dog
39. Ride the Polar Express
40. Learn to play Hearts and Texas Hold ‘Em
41. Watch “What the Bleep Do We Know” in its entirety
42. Grow an herb garden
43. Go to cooking school for a week
44. Finish watching every season of “Lost“
45. Watch at least one full season of “The Simpsons“
46. Spend a weekend at Le Scandinave
47. Get nominated for the Junior League Board of Directors Nominated as the Communications Director for 2010-11
48. Skate down the Rideau Canal***
49. Watch “Roots“
50. Publish an article in a travel publication
51. Finish knitting the scarf I started in July 2009
52. See A Prairie Home Companion live
53. Watch the complete AFI Top 100 Movies
54. See the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
55. Eat at The Doctors House, Splendido, and Harbourd Room
56. Clear out the 765 emails in my Gmail inbox Completed February 22, 2010! I deleted more than 1,600 emails from my inbox! W00t!
57. Figure out if I should keep or sell my condo in Houston
58. Go up the CN Tower
59. Read a book written by someone with whom I disagree (which shouldn’t be very hard)
60. Fly on the new Boeing 787 (cannot. wait.)
61. See the Tragically Hip live
62. Move my blog over to WordPress.org
63. Hike four Ontario trails
64. Attend the BlogHer Conference
65. Find a plane spotting group in Toronto
66. Try Ethiopian food Ate at Ethiopian House in Toronto with my Yelp friends. Let’s just say I won’t be going back. Ahem.
67. Set up the 1TB external hard drive I’ve had for six months
68. Put together a first aid kit for my (newly paid off) car
69. Play golf at Pebble Beach
70. Become a docent at an art gallery
71. Complete a Berlitz French course
72. See a play at the Stratford Festival
73. Go to High Park
74. Frame all the unframed things I have lying around my house
75. Actually finish the Flickr “365-Day Challenge”, rather than starting it and finishing it after 45 days. Ahem.
76. See contemporary dance at the Winch at least six times
77. Start taking hip-hop dance classes again
78. Participate in NaBloPoMo twice a yar
79. Try out roller derby
80. Provide school supplies for an underprivileged family
81.  Buy a MacBookPro, because I’m really tired of double-clicking 🙂
82. Get rid of my landline
83. Fly a kite
84. Go camping in an actual tent and not what I like to call “Hyatt” camping
85. Learn how to use my Canon DSLR I’ve had for two years rather than just shooting on Auto
86. Go see a sport I’ve never seen before (I’m looking at you, soccer)
87. Write down ten things for which I’m thankful everyday
88. Begin the courses towards becoming a master sommelier
89. Get my eyes checked
90. Eat dim sum…and dim some more!
91. Watch 26 movies that begin with a letter in the alphabet
92. Travel to: Asia (Angkor Wot, Thailand, Hanoi, China); Canada (Banff, Halifax, Winnipeg); Chile and Argentina
93. Backup my computer
94. Skate at Harbourfront Centre
95. Complete my digital afterlife
96. Build a snowman****
97. Stop swearing for a whole month
98. See a baseball game at Wrigley Field
99. Make a key lime pie
100. Try to make heads or tails of Canadian Parliament and their constant proroguing. 😉

 

^ although I’m not necessarily a late-adopter either; to wit, I have three close friends who don’t even have Facebook pages. Also, they drive horses and buggies. 🙂
** I ❤ the Grocery app on my iPhone. No more losing my arm in my purse looking for a pen and paper!
*** Completion which requires actual cold weather and not this hovering-right-above-freezing all winter. The skateway is actually closed because it’s not cold enough!
**** See above. This task also requires snow and we haven’t had any snow this year. In fact, Vancouver’s having to *ship it* in for the Olympics. Global warming, indeed.