101 things in 1001 days – second edition
the mission: to complete these 101 things in 1001 days, counting from nov 01, 2010. it is scheduled to finish on jul 30, 2013.
the complete items will have a different background and the progress will be tracked on the blog as we go along.
the previous version of this list is here.
wish me luck! :)
- Do the HSK intermediate
- Make a pinhole & take some photos with it
- Take calligraphy/handwriting lessons: Feb 2012 – Calligraphy session @ Etsy Labs (not sure it counts yet)
- Draw a font
- Read 50 new books (half of which in portuguese): 1. dracula, 2. kitchen confidential, 3. pride and prejudice, 4. the 4 hour body, 5. o homem duplicado (PT), 6. bobby gold, 7. the primal blueprint, 8. norwegian wood, 9. medium raw, 10.the comfort of strangers
- Write 750 words for a month
- Spend a week offline
- Reach my goal weight: bmi < 25, june 2011!
- Be ok in snowboarding
- Write 20 letters: 4
- Write/draw a small guide to Ljubljana/Slovenia: about 75% done
- Research about Slovenia/Balkans history
- Identify 10 different trees
- Taste 30 different fruits
- Taste 20 different cheeses: limburger, brie
- Try a autocaravan holiday
- Visit a volcano
- Fly on a glider
- Learn how to scuba dive
- Visit a mail sorting facility
- Draw and get a tattoo
- Visit a theme park
- Volunteer
- Do a photobook of our time in Slovenia
- Try 25 different teas: 1. Roiboos chai, 2. franck pomegranate tea, from celestial seasonings: 3. perfectly pear, 4. sleepytime, 5. country peach passion, 6. bengal spice, 7. tummy mint, 8. cinnamon apple spice, 9. acai mango zinger, 10. lemon zinger, 11. tangerine zinger, 12. moroccan pomegranated red tea, 13. india spice chai, 14. tropical strawberry, 15. almond sunset, from twinings: 16. a moment of calm (mango, orange and cinammon) and 17. korean matcha tea
- Do a medical checkup: january 2011
- Go to the dentist
- Draw a comic strip
- Write 20 lists: 1. berlin movies, 2. first food list, 3. second food list
- Find 150 geocaches
- Apply to the green card lottery: november 2010
- Visit 20 Unesco sites: 1. historic areas of istanbul, october 2010, 2. alto douro wine region, june 2011, 3. museum island in berlin, 4. august 2011, 5. kronborg in denmark, october 2011, 6. bauhaus sites in dessau, december 2011
- Fly a kite
- Visit 15 different museums: 1. sneznik castle. and in berlin: 2. museum of letters, 3. museum of communications, 4. ritter sport world of chocolate, 5. berlin wall documentation center, 6. museum of natural history, 7. jewish museum, 8. bauhaus workshops & master’s house (dessau), 10. museum of things, 11. hamburger banhof, 12. stasi museum, 13. visionarium, 14. loxx.
- Do 5 videos: kurentovanje (feb 2012)
- Go to 20 concerts: 1. in the blue sky we and a bee + john deer, 2. dan and rachel, 3. bon iver
- Watch a sport event live
- Climb 10 mountains: 1. tromeja, ratitovec
- Hot air balloon ride
- Go rafting/canoeing
- Roadtrip in the EU: slovenia-austria-germany-netherlands, september 2010 and skåne, sweden, october 2012
- Be halfway through our house goal fund
- Move again
- Do 20 surprises: 1. bday parcel, 2. chocolate for turkish friends, 3. mina’s oreos package, 4. chocolate project for paulo
- Find out what I want to do related with stationery
- Sponsor an artist on Kickstart: going nowhere, april 2012
- Make ice cream from scratch
- Buy some Christmas lights to decorate: december 2010
- Do a secret art project in the city
- Go see an opera: yasou aida @ neukolner oper, feb 2012
- Go see a ballet
- Sell something on etsy and use the money to buy something there
- Go an entire month without eating out
- Go an entire month without using a car (not even friend’s cars) whole July 2011
- View all of Star Wars movies october 2010
- Donate five dollars to wikipedia for each goal failed
- Track the progress of every item on the blog
- Fill my recipes notebook with recipes
- Get a Fuji Instax and start documenting our life a present from nídio & maria, august 2011
- Feel a baby kick inside someone’s belly :)
- Try to eat local for a week
- Start laser hair removal
- Take a cooking class
- Use all the yarn I have
- Design and print a postcard november 2011, bielefeld christmas postcard
- Write something for a newspaper: blurb about a product for the sunday mirror, january 2011 + piece on postcrossing for december’s caixa mundo
- Review 25 pieces of stationery: holly webber, dicky bird, lila ruby king
- Lose the jumping habit
- Try 20 different sodas: 1. cockta, 2, multi-sola, 3. fritz-cola, 4. aloha, 5. africola, 6. a&w vanilla cream soda, 7. pepsi wild cherry, 8. hawaian punch, 9. club mate
- Go karting
- Blog at least 3 times a week for 3 months
- Put 200 meals on Foodspotting: march 2012
- Go see the sea organ in Zadar: february 2011
- Make 5 surprise breakfasts
- Drastically reduce the amount of coffee I drink
- Ride a ferris wheel
- Carve a rubber stamp
- Try sledding
- Create an herb garden
- Redesign meiadeleite.com
- Host 10 people through Couchsurfing
- Learn basic German: finished B1 in april 2012
- Learn to cook 10 new soups: 1. mushroom soup, 2. pea soup
- Design a tshirt
- Fill a notebook with notes from books/articles
- Straighten up the SS details + get EU health card: february 2011
- Get the surgery done: june 2011
- Do NaNoWriMo (for the blog) once
- Learn how to do sushi
- Fix hanzillion and plan half a year of posts
- Cook pad thai
- Organize a tea swap
- Track our calories for a month
- Pick a holiday and go overboard on the celebrations
- Make a cute bento box
- Shoot only in black and white for a month
- Ride a scooter
- Buy a Dr. Seuss book: fox in socks, august 2011
- Try 10 different types of film
- Buy something on a flea market: bedroom lamp, october 2011
- Try currywurst in Berlin: april 2011



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Organize a tea swap >> podes contar comigo nesta :)
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Fun list! Always good to have everything written down and the ability to check each thing. This going to be fun to follow. Maybe write a post about a whole thing you have done? Good luck!