Mission 101

[dogzmania4ever]

Idea: mission101
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Shoutouts to e7erlasting, my 101 buddy~57 / 101
Starting Date: November 27, 2008
Ending Date: August 23, 2011
Health & Beauty
Altruism
Self-Improvement
Random Things to Do
Hobbies/Entertainment/Culture
Friends/Family/Relationships
Writing
Reading
Completed/Failed

ALTRUISM

SELF-IMPROVEMENT

RANDOM THINGS TO DO

HOBBIES/ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE

FRIENDS/FAMILY/RELATIONSHIPS

WRITING

READING

COMPLETED

HEALTH & BEAUTY
1. Floss at least 2 times a week for 6 months.
2. Drink 8 glasses of water every day for 3 months [0/3]
   Commenced 1/12/08
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3. Send someone flowers for no reason.
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4. Not go online for a week.
5. Learn a challenging classical piece for piano.
6. Learn to drive a manual.
7. Learn to juggle.
8. Not complain about anything for 14 days.
9. Learn to ski.
10. Write a letter to myself and open it in one year to see what's changed
11. Be sure I can do 75 Skills A Woman Should Master
12. Watch 10 documentaries.
13. List 100 things I like/appreciate about my body.
14. Answer 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind.
15. Learn car maintenance & repair skills.
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16. Swim with dolphins.
17. Do adayinmylife
18. Go horseback riding.
19. Go bungee jumping.
20. Go to a horse race.
21. Bowl 5 games without a gutter ball. [0/5]
22. Get a professional massage.
23. Comment on at least 33 different 101things entries. (Your own entries don't count.) [12/33]
24. Complete a coloring book.
25. Put together a product recommendation post to pimp out stuff I like using.
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26. Knit a scarf.
27. Finish a video game (preferably FPS).
28. Watch all movies on the Times ALL-TIME 100 Movies list. (Horror movies have been replaced with movies from the IMDb Top 250)
    • Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
    • The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959)
    • The Awful Truth (1937)
    • Baby Face (1933)
    • Bande à part (1964)
    • Barry Lyndon (1975)
    • Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
    • Blade Runner (1982)
    • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
    • Brazil (1985)
    • WALL-E
    • Camille (1936)
    • Casablanca (1942)
    • Charade (1963)
    • Children of Paradise (1945)
    • Chinatown (1974)
    • Chungking Express (1994)
    • Citizen Kane (1941)
    • City Lights (1931)
    • City of God (2002)
    • Closely Watched Trains (1966)
    • The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
    • The Crowd (1928)
    • Day for Night (1973)
    • The Decalogue (1989)
    • Detour (1945)
    • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
    • Dodsworth (1936)
    • Double Indemnity (1944)
    • Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
    • Drunken Master II (1994)
    • E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
    • 8 1/2 (1963)
    • The 400 Blows (1959)
    • Farewell My Concubine (1993)
    • Finding Nemo (2003)
    • The Fly (1986) Inception (2009)
    • The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
    • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
    • Goodfellas (1990)
    • A Hard Day's Night (1964)
    • His Girl Friday (1940)
    • Ikiru (1952)
    • In A Lonely Place (1950)
    • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Dark Knight (2008)
    • It's A Gift (1934)
    • It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
    • Kandahar (2001)
    • Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
    • King Kong (1933)
    • The Lady Eve (1941)
    • The Last Command (1928)
    • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    • Léolo (1992)
    • The Lord of the Rings (2001-03) Return of the King
    • The Man With a Camera (1929)
    • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
    • Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
    • Metropolis (1927)
    • Miller's Crossing (1990)
    • Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
    • Mouchette (1967)
    • Nayakan (1987)
    • Ninotchka (1939)
    • Notorious (1946)
    • Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)
    • On the Waterfront (1954)
    • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
    • Out of the Past (1947)
    • Persona (1966)
    • Pinocchio (1940)
    • Psycho (1960) Fight Club (1999)
    • Pulp Fiction (1994)
    • The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
    • Pyaasa (1957)
    • Raging Bull (1980)
    • Schindler's List (1993)
    • The Searchers (1956)
    • Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
    • The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
    • Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    • The Singing Detective (1986)
    • Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
    • Some Like It Hot (1959)
    • Star Wars (1977)
    • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
    • Sunrise (1927)
    • Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
    • Swing Time (1936)
    • Talk to Her (2002)
    • Taxi Driver (1976)
    • Tokyo Story (1953)
    • A Touch of Zen (1971)
    • Ugetsu (1953)
    • Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
    • Umberto D (1952)
    • Unforgiven (1992)
    • White Heat (1949)
    • Wings of Desire (1987)
    • Yojimbo (1961)
29. Make a list of all the piano sheet music I own.
30. Make 50 icons. [0/50]
31. Complete a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
32. Make an AMV.
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33. Make two friends an "I Care" package of things I think they will need or want.
34. Send someone a “Thinking of You” card
35. Write and send/give 20 letters/cards/postcards [5/20]
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36. Enter a writing competition.
37. Write 5 additional (fan)fiction (any length) [0/5]
38. Write a veterinary science-related article.
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39. Read Shakespeare's 37 plays. checklist here
40. Read all the books on the Angus&Robertsons Top 100 list (May 2008).
    • Harry Potter series
    • Twilight
    • Pride and Prejudice (Austen, Jane)
    • Obernewtyn
    • My Sister's Keeper (Picoult, Jodi)
    • To Kill A Mockingbird
    • Book Thief
    • Breath (Winton, Tim)
    • Kite Runner (Hosseini, Khalid)
    • Break No Bones (Reichs, Kathy)
    • The Power of One (Courtenay, Bryce)
    • Fight Club (Palaniuk, Chuck)
    • Magician (Fiest, Raymond)
    • Bronze Horseman (Simons, Paulina)
    • Mao's Last Dancer (Cunxin, Li)
    • Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden, Arthur)
    • Lovely Bones: A Novel (Sebold, Alice)
    • Cross (Patterson, James)
    • Persuasion (Austen, Jane)
    • Jane Eyre (Bronte, Charlotte)
    • Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger, Audrey)
    • Secret (Byrne, Rhonda)
    • Marley & Me: The World's Worst...
    • Antony and Cleopatra (Mccullough, Colleen)
    • April Fool's Day (Courtenay, Bryce)
    • North and South (Gaskell, Elizabeth)
    • In My Skin: A Memoir (Holden, Kate)
    • Wuthering Heights (Bronte, Emily)
    • Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini, Khaled)
    • Other Boleyn Girl (Gregory, Philippa)
    • Nineteen Minutes (Picoult, Jodi)
    • Atonement (Mcewan, Ian)
    • Shantaram: A Novel (Roberts, Gregory David)
    • Pillars of the Earth (Follett, Ken)
    • Pact: A Love Story (Picoult, Jodi)
    • Ice Station
    • Cloudstreet (Winton, Tim)
    • Jessica (Courtenay, Bryce)
    • New Earth: Awakening To Your... (Tolle, Eckhart)
    • Princess Bride (Goldman, William)
    • Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Burroughs, Augusten)
    • Anybody Out There? (Keyes, Marian)
    • Life of Pi (Martel Yann)
    • Seven Ancient Wonders
    • People of the Book (Brooks, Geraldine)
    • Six Sacred Stones (Reilly, Matthew)
    • Memory Keeper's Daughter (Edwards, Kim)
    • Brother Odd
    • Tully (Simons, Paulina)
    • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young... (Albom, Mitch)
    • Catcher in the Rye
    • Eragon
    • Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything (Gilbert, Elizabeth)
    • It's Not Just about the Bike: My Journey (Armstrong, Lance)
    • Tale of Two Cities (Dickens, Charles)
    • Fine Balance (Rohinton, Mistry)
    • Alchemist
    • 1984
    • Fortunate Life (Facey, A.B.)
    • Mists of Avalon (Bradley, Marion Zimmer)
    • Notebook (Sparks, Nicholas)
    • Water for Elephants (Gruen, Sara)
    • Five People You Meet in Heaven (Albom, Mitch)
    • Host: A Novel (Meyer, Stephanie)
    • Dirt Music (Winton, Tim)
    • Eldest (Paolini, Christopher)
    • Shadow of the Wind (Zafon, Carlos Ruiz)
    • It (King, Stephen)
    • World Without End (Follett, Ken)
    • Emma (Austen, Jane)
    • Temple (Reilly, Matthew)
    • Little Women
    • Lean Mean Thirteen (Evanovich, Janet)
    • Scarecrow
    • American Gods (Gaiman, Neil)
    • Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez, Gabriel Garcia)
    • PS. I Love You (Ahern, Cecelia)
    • All That Remains (Cornwell, Patricia)
    • Last Lecture (Pausch, Randy)
    • Past Secrets (Kelly, Cathy)
    • Persimmon Tree (Courtenay, Bryce)
    • Husband
    • Plain Truth (Picoult, Jodi)
    • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked (Maguire, Gregory)
    • Spot of Bother (Haddon, Mark)
    • Always and Forever (Kelly, Cathy)
    • Road (Mccarthy, Cormac)
    • Cents and Sensibility (Alderson, Maggie)
    • Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris, David)
    • Shifting Fog (Morton, Kate)
    • We Need to Talk about Kevin (Shriver, Lionel)
    • Everyone Worth Knowing (Weisberger, Lauren)
    • Hour Game (Baldacci, David)
    • Darkly Dreaming Dexter TV Tie-In (Lindsay, Jeff)
    • Woods (Coben, Harlan)
    • Half of a Yellow Sun (Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi)
    • Middlesex (Eugenides, Jeffrey)
    • Scar Tissue (Kiedis, Anthony)
    • Infidel (Hirsi Ali, Ayaan)
    • Birdsong (Faulks, Sebastian)
41. Read Le Petit Prince in FRENCH.
42. Read all the books which I own but haven't read yet.
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43. Get coloured streaks in my hair.
44. Make my own skin exfoliant.
45. Change my hairstyle.
46. Play basketball/soccer/a sport with a group of friends. (separate to any other mission)
47. Take Barney for a walk along the Eastlink freeway. RIP Barney
48. Donate blood.
49. Have a go at karaoke.
50. Visit a different town.
51. Celebrate New Year's in Melbourne.
52. Visit IKEA.
53. Friend someone new on LJ.
54. Buy a dress.
55. Buy something from Lacoste, just for the hell of it.
56. Offer unsolicited help ten times.
57. Have a job.
58. Walk into a casino, try the first slot machine I see. Then walk out again.
59. Keep a diary and write meaningful things in it, at least three times per week for 6 weeks.
60. Buy a train ticket for the next leaving train without knowing the destination prior.
61. Identify 100 things that make me happy. [ 02.02.09]
62. Register to be an organ donor.
63. Sponsor an animal.
64. Join a club of some description.
65. Watch a sunrise with Barney.
66. Watch the sunset the same day.
67. Own a Mac laptop.
68. Learn to cook 10 new meals.
69. First kiss, love, or something of the like.
70. Eat at 10 restaurants I've never eaten at before.
71. Buy a pair of well fitting, super skinny jeans.
72. Create a scrapbook for a year.
73. Play tennis, or learn to play, or do SOMETHING tennis-related and physically exerting.
74. Get my Probationary drivers licence.
75. Improve my GPA at uni (currently 5.25).
76. Enrol to vote.
77. Watch 10 animes.
78. Go to a music festival.
79. Go to a film festival.
80. Get a car in Queensland.
81. Wish on a shooting star.
82. Go to a Shakespearean play.
83. Read the news on a daily basis for 1 university year.
84. Take a class to learn a new skill.
85. Watch a movie in Gold Class.
86. Cut out alcohol for one month.
87. Nurture my Francophilic nature.
88. Go hiking.
89. Look into doing a large amount of practical work overseas.
90. Visit the Daintree forest.
91. Go on a whale watch.
92. Visit the Great Barrier Reef.
93. Look into doing a language for at least a semester of my degree.
94. Complete the Beef Cattle Training Programme at Emerald Agricultural College.
95. Volunteer with an organisation for at least 1 month.
96. Buy a lottery ticket.
97. Visit a museum.
98. Go to the gym on a regular basis for at least 1 month.
99. Learn 10 new words, longer than 5 letters, and be able to properly use them in a sentence [10/10]
    germane, sophistry, ablution, gormandising, interment, frousy, propitiate, gentility, sundry, prolix

FAILED

100. Go to the dentist yearly. [1/3]
101. Participate & succeed in NaNoWriMo.

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will do some time
am in the mind to change
in progress
done!