101 things in 1001 days
the mission: to complete these 101 things in 1001 days, counting from 25th august, 2007. the complete items will have a different background.
progress will be tracked weekly, any news on progress will be left in the comments. this list should be completed on 20th may, 2010. wish me luck! :)
1. clear debts 28/08/07
2. reach my healthy weight
3. backpack in south america
4. go to tibet by train
5. learn mandarin till i reach a conversational level (work in progress)
6. quit my job and go freelance (work in progress)
7. learn proper xhtml
8. make an effort to be a good webdesigner
9. properly decorate the place where we live (work in progress)
10. develop a steady blogging habit (work in progress)
11. finish the design of my personal website (work in progress)
12. read 10 classics (1/10)
13. receive 200 postcards through postcrossing.com (142/200)
14. take my parents on vacation
15. pick up swimming
16. get a piano
17. start to have piano lessons
18. re-learn to play the violin
19. knit a beanie
20. volunteer
21. start a compost pile
22. frame 7 of our pictures (3/7)
23. plan an exhibition
24. draw everyday for a month
25. publish 5 articles (0/5)
26. go camping
27. offer flowers to someone
28. fill a moleskine with rants
29. win something cool 25/10/07
30. subscribe a magazine
31. re-visit hong kong
32. bake some muffins and offer them
33. learn to make good ice-cream
34. offer surprising gifts for xmas 24/12/07
35. be a good community manager (work in progress)
36. bake 5 pies (0/5)
37. make cupcakes with colorful frost
38. roadtrip coast-to-coast in the US
39. have a white xmas
40. take dani to a foreign country
41. go vegetarian for a month
42. move again
43. get a digital camera 01/09/07
44. get a polaroid camera
45. fill my passport
46. read 3 philosophy books (0/3)
47. have gluhwein again
48. write 5 thank you notes (0/5)
49. get a gocco
50. go to the netherlands again and eat vla
51. give blood twice
52. make tiramisu
53. find out all of my friends birthdays
54. watch 100 movies (11/100)
55. de-clutter my life
56. sponsor a child
57. make my mom’s leite creme 16/10/07
58. taste all of celestial seasonings teas
59. start a new project 07/02/08
60. return to boulder, CO
61. go skiing
62. fill my ibook with stickers (work in progress: about 60% done)
63. see kings of convenience live
64. use at least 50% of my enjoy card discounts by february 2007 2008 (miserably failed, will try again in 2008)
65. meet some of my erasmus friends again over new year
66. run a 5k
67. write my will
68. go to karaoke
69. go sailing
70. make 2 custom tshirts (0/2)
71. compile a recipe book
72. take a photobooth photo strip with p.
73. make 10 handmade postcards and send them to friends (0/10)
74. invest in the stock market
75. fly on a hot air ballon
76. distribute all my name cards (work in progress)
77. go to Xi’an and see the terrakota warriors
78. make a stamp 1/12/07
79. support an artist by buying an etsy print and framing it
80. learn how to cook pad thai
81. ride on a rollercoaster
82. go to macau
83. visit DC in Australia
84. read something by Albert Ellis
85. fly a kite
86. make my own jam
87. learn more about chinese history
88. sell stuff on ebay
89. be better at iceskating
90. do our scrapbook
91. fix meiadeleite.com’s archives 05/11/07
92. borrow a lomo holga and try it out to see if i like it 20/12/07
93. teach something to kids
94. have a proper honeymoon
95. replace the ibook’s drive not done, but i bought a macbook… :)
96. donate some money for reflorestation projects done in mid 2007
97. do 50 of keri smith’s 100 Ideas (1/50): 49
98. celebrate the chinese new year 07/02/08
99. see a volcano
100. get myself a drawing tablet
101. celebrate when i finish this list!
ps - i’ve noticed that many of the items in this list involve a lot of money and time, especially the traveling bits… let’s hope the stock market helps! :P
i had no intention to do this by any order, but it happened that the first thing i finished was to pay off a loan, long overdue. :)
i also received 2 postcards these last few days, so my postcrossing count rose to 77. yay!
i love you :)
so, it’s time for the weekly report (week 35) :)
yesterday we bought a digital camera (a canon eos 350d), so i can scratch that item from the list.
and i finished reading ‘pride and prejudice’, by jane austen, so i’ve read a classic too. only 9 left!
week 36: nothing exciting, apart from having received 2 postcards from postcrossing this week :)
I think this is one of the best things I have ever seen on anyones personal site. What a great idea. You have inspired me to make my own. You’re right about the money though- it will take a lot of it to accomplish very little but that’s the challenge right?
J
81 postcards received! :) this week i also tried to catalogue all the celestial seasonings tea, to sort out which ones i have tasted already, but it’s been a hard task! let’s hope i’ll have it done by next week.
82 postcards received - this has been a bit on a hiatus, since we don’t have the key to our mailbox yet.
one of keri smith’s ideas done, number 49: Research a celebration or ritual from another culture. (http://meiadeleite.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=261&Itemid=9)
yay! today i won 1000 rmb worth of catering in a enjoy shanghai survey!
(and i forgot to mention that the other week i got a $25 certificate on threadless, for a contribution on tcritic.com)
i think can scrap number 29 out of my list!
which proves the point that, sometimes, to win something, all you have to do is try :)
movies we have seen since i’ve started this list:
diarios de motocicleta, memoirs of a geisha, the prize winner of defiance ohio. i think we’ve seen more, but we’ve been sticking to series mainly (and not that much lately, for the sake of productivity on postcrossing 2).
btw, 85 postcards received. helloana.com is on the good track, and so is my chinese and i’ve fixed the archives, so now they’re browsable by month. i’d like to tune them up a bit, and maybe import some of the entries pre-2005, but i don’t know. for now, it stays like this.
anyway, feels good to keep things going :)
so, the news:
* 90 postcards received (yay!)
* we saw ‘freedom writers’ and ‘last four songs’.
* i’m cooking up an idea for a new project :)
I’ll say it in Portuguese: FANTÃSTICO!!! Simplesmente fantástico!!! Back to English Mode: amazing!!! This is a great idea!!! Hope you don’t mind, but I’ll do the same thing for my blog!!! Again…amazing idea!! I’m crossing my fingers for you!
Ola Ana,
I haven’t done a list like this in years and now you’ve just inspired me to make a new one for 2010! But this time I’m also going to start one for all the things I want to do before I die…scary thought, but exciting as well. Thanks for the push!
small update: 100 postcards sent, 96 received! :D
i think i am going to do something like that… thanks for opinion.
it’s funny. i wanted to see 100 movies, but it seems i watch more movies when i’m on a plane than in any given month… here’s an update on the list anyway, 6 more movies i’ve seen.
juno
freedom writers
the emperor’s club
ratatouile
mr. magorium’s wonder emporium
atonement
i’ve also started a new project: anitanachina.com. :)
Grapes Of Wrath for your next classic?
How do you define a classic anyway?
Looks like this weekend would be a great day for number 85. Outside of the Science & Tech museum is a great kite flying spot, as is (I think it’s callled…) Gong Qing park.
what a good idea. may i take your lead? i think i need another project, hopefully something that won’t fizzle out.
i bloghopped from postcrossing. :D
hi, thanks for the reply. :D Here’s mine. http://fluffygirdlebiscuits.blogspot.com/2008/05/101-things-in-1001-days.html
I just hope I can finish half of them. :D
Bem, ao ler a tua lista fiquei impressionada o quanto parecidas somos! :-)
Curioso é o teu item nº 37! Há já alguns anos que adoro ver estes bolinhos. Sempre disse que algum dia havia de experimentar os fazer (adoooooooooooooro cozinhar). Prometo que se os fizer coloco uma foto no blog!
Boa sorte com a tua lista.
Beijinho