Today I watched the first of my 250 films, so I'm going to start my list :)
1) The Tale of Despereaux - 5/01/09
2) Kate and Leopold - 5/01/09
3) Millions - 6/01/09
4) Walk The Line - 10/01/09
5) Bolt - 11/01/09
6) Underworld 1 - 18/01/09
7) Underworld 2 - 18/01/09
8) Camille - 21/01/09
9) The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - 22/01/09
10) Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - 23/01/09
11) Ratatouille - 23/01/09
12) Slumdog Millionaire - 24/01/09
13) Penelope - 24/01/09
14) Bride Wars - 24/01/09
15) The Garden State - 26/01/09
16) The Last Castle - 30/01/09
17) Vanity Fair (2004) - 04/02/09
18) He's Just Not That Into You - 23/02/09
19) The Ocean Waves - 25/02/09
20) Ten Inch Hero - 26/02/09
21) Not Another Teen Movie - 01/03/09
22) Bruno
23) The Proposal
24) Push
25) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
26) Knowing
27) Angels & Demons
28) Star Trek
29) X-Men Origins - Wolverine
30) Coraline
31) He's Just Not That Into You
32) Confessions of a Shopaholic
33) Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
34) Watchmen
35) I Love You, Man
36) Lesbian Vampire Killers
37) Charlie Bartlett
38) Hannah Montana: The Movie
39) 17 Again
40) Nowhere Boy
41) My Sister's Keeper
42) Coco avant Chanel
43) Princess Protection Programme
44) S. Darko
45) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
46) (500) Days of Summer
47) Bandslam
48) Persuasion
49) The Time Traveller's Wife
50) The Imaginarum of Doctor Parnassus
51) The Wizards of Waverly Place Movie
52) Milk
53) Sherlock Holmes
54) Brothers
55) According to Greta
56) New York, I Love You
57) Where The Wild Things Are
58) Paranormal Activity
59) Batman Forever
60) Zombieland
61) Fame
62) Brick
63) Closer
64) District 9
65) Dear Jack
66) Inglorious Basterds
67) Jennifer's Body
68) John Tucker Must Die
69) Just Friends
70) Pokemon 12
71) Planet 51
72) The Hangover
73) Up In The Air
74) Whip It
75) New Moon
76) The Boat That Rocked
77) Miss Congeniality 2
78) The Invention of Lying
79) The Proposal
80) Coraline
81) The Princess and The Frog
82) Couples Retreat
83) Persuasion
84) The Family Stone
85) Fame
86) Daybreakers
Sunday 4 January 2009
Saturday 3 January 2009
Day Zero
The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
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 my part).
The Start Date:
January 4th, 2009.
The Finish Date:
October 2nd, 2011.
The Tasks:
1) Dye my hair purple.
2) Lose 20lbs.
3) Watch 250 films I've not seen (??/250).
4) Finish my reading list (will type up).
5) Re-read Harry Potter (0/7).
6) Take a hot-air balloon ride.
7)Dance in the rain.
8) Visit New York with Charl.
9) Visit Paris again.
10)Pass my AS levels.
11) Pass my A Levels.
12)Drink a glass of milk every day for a month (0/31). This I cannot do as I have been told I am lactose intolerant. Oh.
13) Visit three different states.
14) Learn how to cook three unusual dishes (2/3).
15)Go to Leeds fest.
16) Meet three of my favourite bands/artists (2/3) (Joe Brooks) (The Scene Aesthetic)
17) Be in bed before 10 every day for a week.
18) Write and illustrate a book of 101 things that make me happy. (In progress)
19) Win NaNoWriMo.
20) Complete Couch 2 5k.
21)Tidy my bedroom.
22) Make a picnic and have it with my best friends.
23) Have a Yes Man-esque Harry Potter party.
24) Have a shut-in and invite people we know.
25) Send a postcard into Post Secret.
26)Get a webcam and webcam with friends.
27) Video blog. If I like it, start a vlog to update regularly :)
28)Get a fairly-decent camera and take pictures of beautiful things.
29)Discover ten bands I didn't know about (10/10).
30) Have enough money in my bank to impulse buy a book at least once a month (19/33).
31) Get rid of 101 personal things I no longer need.
32) Write a paragraph about each of 101 things that inspire me (0/101).
33) Read every Jane Austen novel (1/6)
34) Learn to drive.
35) Drive somewhere far away, spontaneously.
36)Say yes to something I'd usually say no to.
37) Participate in NaBloPoMo.
38) Throw a message in a bottle into the sea.
39) Wear a dress at least once a month (19/33).
40) Completely get rid of my eczema.
41) Donate 50,000 grains of rice at www.freerice.com (8270/50k).
42) Take the 5000 Question Survey.
43)Get 'Eternity' tattoo on my left wrist.
44)See another Shakespeare play performed.
45)Go bowling.
46) Go ice-skating.
47) Write a novel outside of NaNo.
48)Sing in public.
49) Do karaoke with a friend.
50) Sleep under the stars.
51)Drink a litre of water a day for a month (30/30).
52)Stay up with friends to watch both the sunset and the sunrise.
53) Buy pretty paper and make paper stars for people.
54) Send five postcards via www.postcrossing.com (0/5).
55)Send in a sentence to onesentence.org
56) Send my future self a letter with futureme.org
57) Be silent for a whole day.
58) Learn to play guitar to a reasonable standard.
59) Go rollerblading.
60) Write 52,000 words. A thousand words a week for a year. (0/52,000)
61) Send ten hand-written letters (0/10).
62) Take a friend out for a meal on me.
63) Make a scrapbook.
64)Compliment a complete stranger.
65)Buy five gifts for my friends 'just because'. (2/5)
66)Buy myself a new phone.
67)Swap my iPod with someone for a week.
68)Play Monopoly with Charl.
69)Go to at least two Jonas Brothers concerts (5/2).
70) Find a job that interests me.
71)Get bookcase put up.
72) Scatter Dad's ashes.
73) Go antique shopping.
74) Buy good curling tongs.
75)Get The Sims 3.
76)Post this list online.
77) Rewrite my 'Things to do before I die' list.
78) Go to three different countries in Europe that I've never been to before.
79)Celebrate my 17th birthday with people I've not celebrated it with before. (20/02/09)
80) Write a poem I can be proud of.
81)Get over my camera-shyness.
82) Complete Kingdom Hearts 1&2.
83)Don't eat chocolate for a week. (4/1/09-7/1/09)
84) Don't swear for a week.
85) Write a letter to my future children.
86) Complete 25 Creative Writing Prompts.
87) Read The Times or The Independent at least twice a week.
88)Organise all the images and files on my computer.
89) Write a letter to the editor of a paper/magazine/news site about an article I read that moves me.
90) Plant a tree.
91) Start a photo journal, where I post simply a photograph I have taken and a title to go with it. No other specifications.
92) Make 1001 paper cranes (0/1001).
93)Give up something for Lent.
94) Start putting together a family recipe book.
95) Complete the fourth Times book of Sudoku and date each puzzle when finished.
96) Get a stepometer, set myself goals of steps and continue to beat them.
97) Make and bind my own notebook.
98) Read the entire body of an author’s work.
99) Answer '50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind'.
100) Buy a bunch of different flowers every month (19/33).
101) Make another list.
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
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 my part).
The Start Date:
January 4th, 2009.
The Finish Date:
October 2nd, 2011.
The Tasks:
1) Dye my hair purple.
2) Lose 20lbs.
3) Watch 250 films I've not seen (??/250).
4) Finish my reading list (will type up).
5) Re-read Harry Potter (0/7).
6) Take a hot-air balloon ride.
7)
8) Visit New York with Charl.
9) Visit Paris again.
10)
11) Pass my A Levels.
12)
13) Visit three different states.
14) Learn how to cook three unusual dishes (2/3).
15)
16) Meet three of my favourite bands/artists (2/3) (Joe Brooks) (The Scene Aesthetic)
17) Be in bed before 10 every day for a week.
18) Write and illustrate a book of 101 things that make me happy. (In progress)
19) Win NaNoWriMo.
20) Complete Couch 2 5k.
21)
22) Make a picnic and have it with my best friends.
23) Have a Yes Man-esque Harry Potter party.
24) Have a shut-in and invite people we know.
25) Send a postcard into Post Secret.
26)
27) Video blog. If I like it, start a vlog to update regularly :)
28)
29)
30) Have enough money in my bank to impulse buy a book at least once a month (19/33).
31) Get rid of 101 personal things I no longer need.
32) Write a paragraph about each of 101 things that inspire me (0/101).
33) Read every Jane Austen novel (1/6)
34) Learn to drive.
35) Drive somewhere far away, spontaneously.
36)
37) Participate in NaBloPoMo.
38) Throw a message in a bottle into the sea.
39) Wear a dress at least once a month (19/33).
40) Completely get rid of my eczema.
41) Donate 50,000 grains of rice at www.freerice.com (8270/50k).
42) Take the 5000 Question Survey.
43)
44)
45)
46) Go ice-skating.
47) Write a novel outside of NaNo.
48)
49) Do karaoke with a friend.
50) Sleep under the stars.
51)
52)
53) Buy pretty paper and make paper stars for people.
54) Send five postcards via www.postcrossing.com (0/5).
55)
56) Send my future self a letter with futureme.org
57) Be silent for a whole day.
58) Learn to play guitar to a reasonable standard.
59) Go rollerblading.
60) Write 52,000 words. A thousand words a week for a year. (0/52,000)
61) Send ten hand-written letters (0/10).
62) Take a friend out for a meal on me.
63) Make a scrapbook.
64)
65)
66)
67)
68)
69)
70) Find a job that interests me.
71)
72) Scatter Dad's ashes.
73) Go antique shopping.
74) Buy good curling tongs.
75)
76)
77) Rewrite my 'Things to do before I die' list.
78) Go to three different countries in Europe that I've never been to before.
79)
80) Write a poem I can be proud of.
81)
82) Complete Kingdom Hearts 1&2.
83)
84) Don't swear for a week.
85) Write a letter to my future children.
86) Complete 25 Creative Writing Prompts.
87) Read The Times or The Independent at least twice a week.
88)
89) Write a letter to the editor of a paper/magazine/news site about an article I read that moves me.
90) Plant a tree.
91) Start a photo journal, where I post simply a photograph I have taken and a title to go with it. No other specifications.
92) Make 1001 paper cranes (0/1001).
93)
94) Start putting together a family recipe book.
95) Complete the fourth Times book of Sudoku and date each puzzle when finished.
96) Get a stepometer, set myself goals of steps and continue to beat them.
97) Make and bind my own notebook.
98) Read the entire body of an author’s work.
99) Answer '50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind'.
100) Buy a bunch of different flowers every month (19/33).
101) Make another list.
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