Wednesday, June 11, 2008

101 goals in 1001 days

It seems fitting for my final day of grade 11.
See http://triplux.stilljournal.com/dayzero/

Start Day: June 11th, 2008
End Day: March 9rd, 2011

To be accoplished

Accomplishing

Accomplished


Education (8/12)
Graduate in 2009 :)
Apply to U of C, HBU, and Dalhousie
Complete my Freshman year of university with marks I'm proud of

Take a cooking class
Learn basic Latin
Learn how to drive a manual transmition
Learn how to speed read (ie, finish speed reading book and speed read one novel)
Make a well educated vote
Learn how to properly shoot a gun
Learn how to change a tire
Pick a topic, totally immerse myself, and write a paper
Take the photography class offered at school in Fall '08

Art (5/15)
Take one photo each day of 2009 and make an album of them (0/365)
Do the Alphabet Photo Challenge (1/26)[Done: x]
Do the 100 Snapshots Challenge (4/100)
Sew a dress
Make a dishes set at the Harry Potter
Finish my quilt

Create a Tshirt quilt and start a WR quilt (0/2)
Embroider six pillowcases (3 sets of 2) (0/6) {Edit-> make a set of 7 tea towels}
Make a paper crane mobile and give it to someone as a baby shower gift
Attend a school play
Frame 10 pictures and display them (0/10)
Press flowers
Make my grad scrapbook
Preform on the piano for >10 people at once
Embroider a table cloth

For Others (4/10)
Give Blood
Pay for the person behind me in the drive through line
Buy someone flowers
Plant a tree
Take Ziggy to the Children's Hospital 5 times (0/5)
Cook dinner for both sets of grandparents (0/2)
Put change in someone's expired meter
Handwrite and mail 1 letter a month for 2010 (2/12)

Make a family member breakfast in bed
Attend one of Aneca's basketball games and Kim's swim meets (0/2)

For Myself (7/8)
Grow my hair out long for the 1001 days, and only cut to trim
French braid my own hair
[Personal: dsumrwm]
Fly a kite
Complete a 1000 piece puzzle
[Personal: malotfmhcact]
Go to a prayer room for an hour

[Personal: fabtf]

Health (2/8)
Drink only water for 2 months (except the weekly tea)(0/61)
Go on a 20 minute walk each day for a week (0/7)

Reach weight goal (aka loose 11 lbs)
Intentionally take the stairs rather than the elevator >5 stories (up and down)
Bike through GBP 3 times (2/3)
Have a cup of tea once a week (8/33)
Get wisdom teeth removed
Wear retainer every day for 3 months (0/92)

Organization (0/8)
Make a list of the "vital items" in my life
Donate the rest
Do this again 3 months later
Make CDs for all my pictures and file them
Reorganize emergency evacuation box
Create a laminated, wallet sized version of this list

Schedule all these goals
[Private: FOMMBACDD] (0/30)

Really Stretch Myself (2/6)
Submit a photo into the Calgary Stampede show
Submit a quilt into the Heritage Quilt show
Go flying with my dad
Do all my cooking for a month on one day
Compete in a Sudoku Championship

Apply for Camp Nanny and/or Baby Ruth at PC

Reading (0/6)
the Bible (finish this first time, and go through it again)
Memorize a new passage each month (1/34)
Read Scottish Chiefs for Librivox

Read Brother's Karamazov
Read Vanity Fair
Read The Chronicles of Narnia in Spanish

Travel/Nature (3/16)
Go on a real picnic
Go to a drive in theatre and watch whatever they're playing
Go to a bed and breakfast
Watch the sunrise from over downtown Calgary
Go to Devonian Gardens once it's reopened
Visit the Creation Museum by Red Deer
Go to the museum at the foot of the Sam Houston statue

Go to 8 other museums (7/8) [Done: Scottish National Museum, Royal Scottish Museum, the military museum in Edinburgh Castle, Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, Writer's Museum, Cartoon Museum, Brittish Museum]
Watch a meteor shower (Aug 11/12)
Visit Nicole's memorial 4 times (0/4)
Attend little white church next to Dad's house one Sunday
Go to King's Orchard
Go to a Flea Market
Tour 5 Universities (4/5) (University of Edinburgh, University of Calgary, Dalhousie University, University of Brittish Columbia)
Visit my Great-grandmother and Great-Grandfather's grave sites (0/2)
Go to Brazos Bend S.P's planetarium

Finances (1/3)
Save [$xxxxx] by Day 1001
Don't attend any movie in theatres (select, preplanned, exceptions allowed)
Rather, rent one movie a month for a relax night (2/33)

Random (4/9)
Beat Matthew at chess
Add 10 spoons to my spoon collection (5/10) [Wallace, Stonehenge, one Bianca has for me, Peggy's Cove, Maltnomah falls]
Complete US Quarter collection ( 40/50)
Play chess with a complete stranger at a park
Make apple butter
Wear a skirt every day for a month (0/30)

Make perogies
Attend a wedding
Attend two graduation ceremonies (0/2)

3 comments:

Latharia said...

Great list! Good luck in accomplishing them all!

rachel shea said...

lovely list!
just so you know-Devonian's still open as of right now. if you need someone to go with you, I'm there! :)

Sadie Daniels said...

This is beautiful! Chelsea, you inspire me! :)