Mission 101
Those of you who have been around here for a while might remember my mission101 list I started way back in 2006. That feels like such a long time ago, but I did (sort of) see it through to the end, managing a total of 61 on my list, which isn't too bad, I guess. That list can be seen here, if you so desire: http://samincittagazze.livejournal.com/13338.html
I've been thinking recently about putting a new list together, and have spent the past few weeks coming up with what I want to achieve in the next near-3 years. Some of them are fairly realistic and simple, and some I will be pleasantly surprised if I manage to achieve. But what I learnt last time is not necessarily shown on the list, but that time can change you, and needs and desires either flux with it or remain eerily constant.
It's for that reason that I'm continuing with giving myself the 1001 days deadline date. I like targets, something to aim for, and seeing how those aims change during the course of a few years. The list is below the cut, and any help/co-listing/volunteering to join me on anything will be most greatly appreciated, especially suggestions for 96! My 1001st day will be Saturday 26th April 2014. I find it hard to believe that there is a 2014 in my tangible future, but then, at the beginning of the last one, I never dreamt just how different my life would be in 2009, much less 2011. Roll on the next few years, laughs, tears and experiences, I guess!
Completed:18
In Progress:9
1) Watch all tv shows on my watch list (here: http://samincittagazze.livejournal.com/162506.html ) [9/38]
2) See five musicals/plays live
1. Jack and the Beanstalk (It counts!) - Dec 2012
3) Go to 5 music concerts
1. Evanescence - Nov 2012
4) Road Trip America
5) Take a weekend break in a city I've never been to before
6) Begin Graduate Diploma in nursing
7) Do an i-to-i challenge
8) Pay back Mum and Dad Completed 10/12/2011
9) Pay off overdraft Completed April 2013
10) Pay back loan
11) Read all unread books on bookshelves [21/186]
12) Update photo albums
13) Attend 5 conventions
1. LFCC - July 2012
2. E=MC Geeked - April 2013
14) Do a full XF re-watch and analysis
15) Learn enough German to have a basic conversation (my German friends, I want you to tell me when you feel I've achieved this)
16) Learn up to Grade 1 piano/keyboard
17) Go to a summer music festival
18) Learn 10 poems by heart
19) Take a meditation course at the Tara Buddhist Centre
20) Get down to target weight
21) Cycle the whole length of the Tissington Trail.
22) Buy a new bike (mine is my mum's old one and it's too small for me)
23) Join a Roller Derby team
24) Make myself an item of clothing. Completed 28-08-11 (It's only a knitted hat, but still)
25) Write 10 fandom/meta essays/rants/theories etc [2/10]
26) Have another fangirl holiday somewhere warm (who's with me?!)
27) Visit Clo in Utrect
28) Visit 10 National Trust sites
1. Shugborough Hall
2. Longshaw Estate
3. Calke Abbey
4. Clumber Park
29) Visit Scotland
30) Buy new camera
31) Clean out room at parents house
32) Learn work mobile number off by heart
33) Get off medications. Completed, well, not sure really. But it's done.
34) Go ice skating
35) Have a go on a jet ski
36) Go rock climbing
37) Go sailing
38) Go canoeing
39) Watch DVDs I own and haven't watched yet [21/25]
40) Learn bank account details by heart
41) Go go-karting
42) Collect missing 'Official Guide to X-Files' books
43) Collect 10 more fandom analysis books
44) Sort out uni work into what I want to keep, and what can be thrown away
45) Sort out contents insurance. Completed 27/01/12
46) Archive a decent selection of fanfic on Delicious
47) See a F1 race live
48) Find camcorder discs and actually upload them
49) Attend a pub quiz
50) Get a massage
51) Watch an Indiana Jones film
52) Take Joey and Harry out for the day
53) Do something nice for someone, just 'cause
54) Have a 'girls day out' with Fliss and Lea
55) Convince someone new to watch Supernatural (any volunteers?)
56) Convince someone new to watch Dr Who. Completed August 11 (Yay badforthefish!)
57) Cuddle a newborn baby. Completed 02/08/11, baby Aimee.
58) Complete collection of Discworld novels
59) Set up Message Board with Marie
60) Sort necklace-holder thingy. Completed 06/08/11
61) Read The Bible (or at least Genesis and Revelations, anyway)
62) Spend £100, guilt free, in Equatorial
63) Swim in a sea
64) Answer '50 questions that will free your mind'
65) Learn to play poker
66) Update address book. Completed 27/12/11
67) Do something ridiculous for charity
68) Find out what credit rating is and improve it (it seems to be bad for some reason, which is weird cos I've never defaulted on anything). Completed April 2012
69) Do a full course in something that interests me.
70) Go to a funfair
71) Get rid of glass tank. Completed 4/9/11
72) Hold an Alice in Wonderland tea party
73) Find a vegetarian restaurant near to where I live and eat at it
74) Run/Cycle 1001 miles
75) Make a list of places I want to visit. Completed 25-08-2011
76) Send someone flowers Completed Jan 2013
77) Put aside a pound a day in a money box. That should be £1001 saved by the end of this.
78) Try and find cheaper contact lens deal Completed 8/12/11
79) Book and go to smear test. Completed 21/2/12
80) Go for a bike ride across Cannock Chase, for old tiems sake
81) Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day
82) Go to 5 museums
1. Roman-German Museum, Cologne
2. Pickford House Museum, Derby
3. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
83) Cut articles out of magazines I want to keep and recycle the rest. Completed 18-08-11
84) Complete 'Things that make me happy' notebook
85) Watch an entire season of a television show in a weekend. Completed 21-08-11: Fringe Season 1
86) Create a playlist of songs that make me feel happy
87) Go stargazing
88) Climb a mountain
89) Write a list of 101 things I’ve already achieved in this lifetime
90) Read a book in one day
91) Attempt to learn to like coffee. I tried, I did. I am not a coffee person. Completed June 2012
92) Watch all LOTR films in one day. Completed 09/12/11
93) Make a playlist of 101 of my favourite songs
94) Make a playlist of every song used in The X-Files
95) Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
96) Ask friends for a suggestion, and do my favourite (anyone?)
97) Have a picnic in the park with friends
98) Make 10 presents for 10 different people. Completed 23/12/11
99) Buy a sewing machine and learn how to use it
100) Learn how to skip a stone across a lake.
101) Obligatory make a new list after this one is done.
I've been thinking recently about putting a new list together, and have spent the past few weeks coming up with what I want to achieve in the next near-3 years. Some of them are fairly realistic and simple, and some I will be pleasantly surprised if I manage to achieve. But what I learnt last time is not necessarily shown on the list, but that time can change you, and needs and desires either flux with it or remain eerily constant.
It's for that reason that I'm continuing with giving myself the 1001 days deadline date. I like targets, something to aim for, and seeing how those aims change during the course of a few years. The list is below the cut, and any help/co-listing/volunteering to join me on anything will be most greatly appreciated, especially suggestions for 96! My 1001st day will be Saturday 26th April 2014. I find it hard to believe that there is a 2014 in my tangible future, but then, at the beginning of the last one, I never dreamt just how different my life would be in 2009, much less 2011. Roll on the next few years, laughs, tears and experiences, I guess!
Completed:18
In Progress:9
1) Watch all tv shows on my watch list (here: http://samincittagazze.livejournal.com/162506.html ) [9/38]
2) See five musicals/plays live
1. Jack and the Beanstalk (It counts!) - Dec 2012
3) Go to 5 music concerts
1. Evanescence - Nov 2012
4) Road Trip America
5) Take a weekend break in a city I've never been to before
6) Begin Graduate Diploma in nursing
7) Do an i-to-i challenge
8) Pay back Mum and Dad Completed 10/12/2011
9) Pay off overdraft Completed April 2013
10) Pay back loan
11) Read all unread books on bookshelves [21/186]
12) Update photo albums
13) Attend 5 conventions
1. LFCC - July 2012
2. E=MC Geeked - April 2013
14) Do a full XF re-watch and analysis
15) Learn enough German to have a basic conversation (my German friends, I want you to tell me when you feel I've achieved this)
16) Learn up to Grade 1 piano/keyboard
17) Go to a summer music festival
18) Learn 10 poems by heart
19) Take a meditation course at the Tara Buddhist Centre
20) Get down to target weight
21) Cycle the whole length of the Tissington Trail.
22) Buy a new bike (mine is my mum's old one and it's too small for me)
23) Join a Roller Derby team
24) Make myself an item of clothing. Completed 28-08-11 (It's only a knitted hat, but still)
25) Write 10 fandom/meta essays/rants/theories etc [2/10]
26) Have another fangirl holiday somewhere warm (who's with me?!)
27) Visit Clo in Utrect
28) Visit 10 National Trust sites
1. Shugborough Hall
2. Longshaw Estate
3. Calke Abbey
4. Clumber Park
29) Visit Scotland
30) Buy new camera
31) Clean out room at parents house
32) Learn work mobile number off by heart
33) Get off medications. Completed, well, not sure really. But it's done.
34) Go ice skating
35) Have a go on a jet ski
36) Go rock climbing
37) Go sailing
38) Go canoeing
39) Watch DVDs I own and haven't watched yet [21/25]
40) Learn bank account details by heart
41) Go go-karting
42) Collect missing 'Official Guide to X-Files' books
43) Collect 10 more fandom analysis books
44) Sort out uni work into what I want to keep, and what can be thrown away
45) Sort out contents insurance. Completed 27/01/12
46) Archive a decent selection of fanfic on Delicious
47) See a F1 race live
48) Find camcorder discs and actually upload them
49) Attend a pub quiz
50) Get a massage
51) Watch an Indiana Jones film
52) Take Joey and Harry out for the day
53) Do something nice for someone, just 'cause
54) Have a 'girls day out' with Fliss and Lea
55) Convince someone new to watch Supernatural (any volunteers?)
56) Convince someone new to watch Dr Who. Completed August 11 (Yay badforthefish!)
57) Cuddle a newborn baby. Completed 02/08/11, baby Aimee.
58) Complete collection of Discworld novels
59) Set up Message Board with Marie
60) Sort necklace-holder thingy. Completed 06/08/11
61) Read The Bible (or at least Genesis and Revelations, anyway)
62) Spend £100, guilt free, in Equatorial
63) Swim in a sea
64) Answer '50 questions that will free your mind'
65) Learn to play poker
66) Update address book. Completed 27/12/11
67) Do something ridiculous for charity
68) Find out what credit rating is and improve it (it seems to be bad for some reason, which is weird cos I've never defaulted on anything). Completed April 2012
69) Do a full course in something that interests me.
70) Go to a funfair
71) Get rid of glass tank. Completed 4/9/11
72) Hold an Alice in Wonderland tea party
73) Find a vegetarian restaurant near to where I live and eat at it
74) Run/Cycle 1001 miles
75) Make a list of places I want to visit. Completed 25-08-2011
76) Send someone flowers Completed Jan 2013
77) Put aside a pound a day in a money box. That should be £1001 saved by the end of this.
78) Try and find cheaper contact lens deal Completed 8/12/11
79) Book and go to smear test. Completed 21/2/12
80) Go for a bike ride across Cannock Chase, for old tiems sake
81) Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day
82) Go to 5 museums
1. Roman-German Museum, Cologne
2. Pickford House Museum, Derby
3. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
83) Cut articles out of magazines I want to keep and recycle the rest. Completed 18-08-11
84) Complete 'Things that make me happy' notebook
85) Watch an entire season of a television show in a weekend. Completed 21-08-11: Fringe Season 1
86) Create a playlist of songs that make me feel happy
87) Go stargazing
88) Climb a mountain
89) Write a list of 101 things I’ve already achieved in this lifetime
90) Read a book in one day
91) Attempt to learn to like coffee. I tried, I did. I am not a coffee person. Completed June 2012
92) Watch all LOTR films in one day. Completed 09/12/11
93) Make a playlist of 101 of my favourite songs
94) Make a playlist of every song used in The X-Files
95) Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
96) Ask friends for a suggestion, and do my favourite (anyone?)
97) Have a picnic in the park with friends
98) Make 10 presents for 10 different people. Completed 23/12/11
99) Buy a sewing machine and learn how to use it
100) Learn how to skip a stone across a lake.
101) Obligatory make a new list after this one is done.