101 Things To Do

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days or where abouts

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 your part).

The Personalized Goal:
To complete as many of the tasks as possible, with some personal leeway regarding the time frame. And when goals are open ended, reach a point when a photo can represent it and then wax philosophical about it. Then attempt to blog about the experience.

Addendums:
The author of the list reserves the right to change her mind regarding which items are no longer applicable, and also to add items as inspiration strikes.


101 List - first try

Fun Activities and Outings
1. Watch the sun rise after being out all night
2. Go to another Alamo Drafthouse Sing-Along
3. Have a full picnic in Prospect or Central Park, with blanket, cheese and wine
4. Dance in the rain
5. Go skinny dipping
6. Be in the audience for a TV show or an extra in a movie
7. Ride in a hot air balloon (or go to a hot air balloon festival)
8. Go rock climbing, either outside on on a wall
9. Attend the ACL festival
10. See the Opera
11. See the Ballet
12. See a Modern Dance and/or Avant Garde performance
13. See the Symphony
14. Go to a Kite Festival
15. Go to an Absinthe Bar
16. Do a wine tasting
17. Go Apple Picking
18. Host a Dinner party

Home and fun arts Projects
19. Organize digital pictures
20. Scan old print pictures
21. Send Postcard to PostSecrets
22. 365 Photo Project (taking a picture for every day for a year)
23. Do 5 craft projects from the internet
24. Send one handwritten postcard to a friend each month
25. Make a video and post it on YouTube
26. Make 5 Theme Mix CD's and give them to friends
27. Do 5 photo essays, photo projects. For inspiration see http://sh1ft.org/projects/
28. Buy an item at a flea market and refurbish it
29. Organize my earrings and fix my old jewelry
30. Send Christmas cards on time
31. Put lights on loft closet
32. Create storage/hanging area for belts
33. Get two more plants for the house

Learning New Skills
34. Learn to make origami cranes
35. Learn to knit
36. Learn to sew
37. Take a dance class in something fun (african, flamenco, paso doble, belly dancing, etc)
38. Learn hot to tie a man's tie
39. Learn Michael Jacson's thriller dance
40. Take a dance lesson with Nate (latin dancing)
41. Learn to weld

Cooking and Such
42. Make a Passover Meal
43. Cook 5 Peruvian Meals I haven't made before
44. Take a cooking class
45. Learn to Brew Beer
46. Make a complicated dessert from scratch
47. Drink home made Pisco Sours

Plans for the Future
48. Get Married
49. Make Wedding Invitations
50. Create a Wedding Website
51. Have a Beta Fish
53. Get Confirmed

Things for Me
54. Take a Bubble Bath
55. Have a Homemade Spa day and make clay masks and finally do the cucumber thing in my eyes like the movies
56. Go to the Dentist for a full check up
57. Go to a movie by myself
58. Watch no Television for an entire week (including Hulu), with the exception of Lost
59. Gather all the coins in the house and deposit them in the bank
60. Get a bikini wax
61. Start a 401K
62. Learn to forgive myself a bit more
63. Make Nate feel more comfortable in sharing his faith with me
64. Help in a local vegetable garden
65. Figure out the Smurfs song that's been stuck in my head for weeks
66. Learn 85% of the world's capitals
67. Buy cute and sexy lingerie
68. Watch 10 new movies from 100 Greatest Films
69. Read 10 new books from 100 Best Novels

Getting Healthier
70. Run a 10k
71. Go back keeping a Weight Watchers food journal
72. Do 10 real push ups in a row
73. Eat vegeterian once a week
74. Do 100 crunches every day for 30 days
75. Fast for a 24 hour period
76. Limit my soda intake to only mixed drinks (a slow weaning process)
77. Be more flexible, like being able to touch my head to the ground when doing the middle splits)

Architectural Stuff
78. Take the LEED exam and become LEED accredited
79. Become full time employed in the architecture world again
80. Enter an Architectural Competition
81. Make a list of all the Worlds Best buildings, see how many I've been to and which ones are left
82. Go an Architectural Lecture
83. Learn Flash animation

New York Related Activities
84. See the traveling exhibit at the MOMA
85. Eat the typical ethnic cuisine from three separate neighborhods
86. Walk from my apartment in Brooklyn all the way to Central Park
87. Go to a bar featured in Sex and the City and order a super frilly pink Cosmopolitan
88. See a live Comedy Show
89. Go to a Gallery Opening
90. See a professional major league Sports Event (baseball, basketball, etc)
91. Do a bus tour
92. Ride the Cyclone in Coney Island
93. Go to one of the late festive nights at the Guggenheim or Brooklyn Museum
94. Eat at WD-50 Restaurant
95. Take a NY book or movie tour (Catcher in the Rye, Sex and the City, Saturday Night Fever, any Woody Allen, etc)

Traveling
96. Take a Hounted Tour
97. Have a road trip with Nate to Canada and see Niagara Falls
98. Visit 3 new coutries
99. Stay at a Bed and Breakfast
100. Go to Vegas with my girlfriends
101. Go on a Honeymoon with Nate