101 Things

So here’s my Day Zero Project list. 101 things in 1001 days. Started 08/01/2011, due to end 05/10/2013.

Key: Not started In progress Complete

Travel

1. Go on a successful honeymoon – the last two attempts have been defeated by bureaucracy, snow and illness. Let’s hope no.3 works out better…
2. Go camping
3. Walk the West Highland Way
4. Visit all the Scottish Island areas
   • Shetland
   • Orkney
   • Outer Hebrides
   • Inner Hebrides
5. Ride the Harry Potter train
6. See the Northern Lights
7. Go snorkelling somewhere exotic
8. Visit the Giant’s Causeway
9. Visit the Enchanted Forest
10. Visit the Scottish “Dark Skies” project and see the stars
11. Sail on a Tall Ship


Crafty

12. Finish my Baby Jane quilt
13. Make a jelly roll quilt
14. Make a quilt for each of my nieces and nephew
15. Crochet a blanket
16. Finish the bedroom curtain
17. Make a Christmas wreath
18. Send homemade Christmas cards
19. Make a Christmas tree skirt
20. Make something from each craft book I own and any I buy over the 1001 days
21. Properly frame my colour wheel and “Get Excited and Make Things” embroideries
22. Make something for each room in the house
23. Make a bed runner and cushions for the bedroom
24. Use the sewing machine lessons I was given when I bought my machines
25. Make a cover for my Kindle Completed 27/02/11
26. Make a piece of jewellery Completed 10/03/12
27. Make and send 3 homemade hobos


Fun stuff

28. Use Orange Wednesday 6 times 1 of 6
29. Complete a 2000 piece jigsaw
30. Read 10 books suggested by other people
31. Read 1 non-fiction book a month
32. Watch Firefly and Serenity
33. Watch 10 films from the IMDB top 100
34. Watch at least one film a month or cancel the LoveFilm subscription
35. Take a photo of the same place once a month for a year
36. Have a proper picnic using the picnic rucksack we’ve never used
37. Use the cocktail glasses we were given as a wedding present


Events

38. Watch a jousting event
39. Go on the Falkirk Wheel
40. Go to a carol concert
41. See the Cirque du Soleil
42. Go once to each of the following: theatre, musical, opera, ballet, classical concert
43. Get seats for the fireworks at the end of the Edinburgh Festival
44. Go to an event in each of type of Edinburgh festival (excluding the Children’s one)
    • Science
    • Film
    • Jazz & Blues
    • Art
    • Military Tattoo
    • Fringe
    • International
    • Book
    • Mela
    • Storytelling
    • Hogmanay
45. Go to the Stonehaven Fireball Festival
46. See Bon Jovi live – ok the tickets are already booked so this is kinda cheating but I’ve wanted to see them for ages so it wouldn’t be right to have a list like this and not have them on it
47. Watch an Olympics event – London 2012 here I come


Games

48. Play Diablo III
49. Play Skyrim
50. Play a co-op RPG with hubby
51. Finish Sam & Max Season 1 and Braid
52. Build a new PC
53. Take a day off work and play a game on the day it’s released


Household

54. Sort and store the wedding stuff
55. Store CDs in the attic
56. Make a Flylady control journal
57. Finish the bathroom
58. Find nice bathroom storage boxes
59. Move somewhere with a garden…
60. … and have a house-warming party
61. Take meter readings each month
62. Fully offset the mortgage


Exercise

63. Exercise once a week for 12 weeks in a row
64. Go back to Ceroc (must do 4 sessions)
65. Try climbing
66. Go walking once every 2 months
67. Bag a Munro
68. Use the exercise bike for 20 mins a week or get rid of it (can skip max 3 weeks in any 8 week period if there’s a REALLY good reason like illness) Completed 20/02/11.


Cooking

69. Try 2 new recipes every month
70. Make something with each unused piece of kitchen equipment
71. Host a 3 course dinner party
72. Make jam
73. Eat fresh pineapple
74. Find a great smoothie recipe
75. Gets the recipes for Mum’s flapjack and Granny’s chocolatey off Mum and make them
76. Grow food to eat
77. Cook a proper Christmas dinner with all the trimmings on Christmas day


Friends and Family

78. Do something special each wedding anniversary
79. Have date night once a week for 12 weeks in a row
80. Make breakfast in bed for hubby 3 times
81. Make a note of my friends and family’s birthdays and send cards to all for at least 1 year
82. Start a family tree
83. Have a 10 year graduation reunion with my uni mates


A better me

84. Give blood 6 times
85. Sponsor a child
86. Register as a Kiva lender
87. Read Agile Estimating and Planning
88. Read A History of Britain Vols I-III
89. Learn to identify 10 constellations and learn the story behind them
90. Be able to name and locate all countries in Europe…
91. … and Africa
92. Weigh less on day 1001 than I did on day 1
93. Stop biting my nails
94. Have a manicure to celebrate #93
95. Stop eating chocolate for 3 months
96. Cut out all unnecessary purchases for a month


Finishing up

97. Watch sunrise and sunset in the same day
98. Write a letter to myself to read in 10 years time
99. List 101 things that make me happy
100. Inspire someone else to start a list
101. Record each attempt of something on this list, whether it ends in success or failure