it’s been over 1001 days since i made version one of my 101 things list… which didn’t go all that well. i did about 40% of the tasks, and reached some conclusions.
1001 days seemed like a lifetime 3 years ago, and so i sprinkled the list with wishful thinking and lots of travelling adventures… which ended up not happening (e.g. roadtrip coast-to-coast in the US). it turns out, our big travels are not conditioned by items in a list, but rather by whims and opportunities. it’s not that we travelled less, we just ended up choosing different places to go to – and that’s ok.
another thing i’ve learned is that things… change. i’ve lost interest on a lot of items (e.g. be better at iceskating) while others turned out not to be so compatible to our current circumstances (e.g. starting a compost pile). other things turned out better than i expected (e.g. instead of going 100% freelance, i work remotely).

all in all though, i liked the idea of having this big list with a set deadline – it didn’t shape my future, but it did focus me on certain goals. the second list took me a lot more time to draft, as i’ve struggled to remain more practical and make sure all the items are all “doable”. i really want to do better this time.

so, 101 fresh things for the next 1001 days:

• Do the HSK intermediate
• Make a pinhole & take some photos with it
• Take calligraphy/handwriting lessons
• Draw a font
• Read 50 new books (half of which in portuguese)
• Write 750 words for a month
• Spend a week offline
• Reach my goal weight
• Be ok in snowboarding
• Write 20 letters
• Write/draw a small guide to Ljubljana/Slovenia
• Research about Slovenia/Balkans history
• Identify 10 different trees
• Taste 30 different fruits
• Taste 20 different cheeses
• 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
• Do a medical checkup
• Go to the dentist
• Draw a comic strip
• Write 20 lists
• Find 150 geocaches
• Apply to the green card lottery november 2010
• Visit 20 Unesco sites: historic areas of istanbul, october 2010
• Fly a kite
• Visit 15 different museums
• Do 5 videos
• Go to 20 concerts
• Watch a sport event live
• Climb 10 Slovenian mountains: tromeja, ratitovec
• Hot air balloon ride
• Go rafting/canoeing
• Roadtrip in the EU: slovenia-austria-germany-netherlands, september 2010
• Be halfway through our house goal fund
• Move again
• Do 20 surprises: bday parcel
• Find out what I want to do related with stationery
• Sponsor an artist on Kickstart
• Make ice cream from scratch
• Buy some Christmas lights to decorate
• Do a secret art project in the city
• Go see an opera
• 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)
• 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
• Feel a baby kick inside a friend’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
• Write something for a newspaper
• Review 25 pieces of stationery
• Lose the jumping habit
• Try 20 different sodas
• Go karting
• Blog at least 3 times a week for 3 months
• Put 200 meals on Foodspotting
• Go see the sea organ in Zadar
• 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
• Write a letter to someone once a week for 10 weeks
• Learn to cook 10 new soups: mushroom soup
• Design a tshirt
• Fill a notebook with notes from books/articles
• Straighten up the SS details + get EU health card
• Get the surgery done
• 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
• Try 10 different types of film
• Buy something on a flea market
• Try currywurst in Berlin

some of the things i’ve already completed while the list was still a draft, like watching the whole set of star wars movie (pfeeew!), but i’ve only started the official countdown a few days ago, so the new deadline is set for jul 30, 2013. wish me luck! :)

ps – if you’re thinking of doing one, head over to dayzeroproject.com for inspiration from other people’s lists!