101 things in 1001 days - Mission 101 Re-post: 1/1/13-9/29/15

Happy New Year, all! I posted here in October saying I was going to start a new Mission 101 list on 10/21/12, when I moved into a new house with a friend of mine. But the entire autumn and early winter have been crazy for me, and it didn't take more than a week for the list to fall by the wayside. So eventually, after several attempts to get it on track, I realized it would be better to wait for a later time when I could actually focus on the list and accomplishing the things I wanted to do. New Year's Day 2013 seems like an excellent time to revisit this list. So here, with a few very minor changes, is the list I posted 2 months ago, which I am finally officially starting today. Good luck to all my fellow Mission 101-ers who are also starting on New Year's Day!



Start Date: January 1, 2013
End Date: September 29, 2015

These goals are complete
These goals are in progress
These goals are somewhat incomplete, but I'm going to keep trying
These goals are failed and have been removed
These goals have been added and/or changed

Travel/Adventures

1) take a day trip by car without choosing a destination ahead of time
2) take a day trip on foot without choosing a destination ahead of time
3) take at least one of the following trips:
- go to San Diego Comic-Con
- go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- do a Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives road trip, where we choose at least 5 places from the show to visit
- with my sister, do our Alba, Italy/Stratford, England “exchange trip,” where we each take the other to the places where we studied abroad in 2008
- go to one of the top 5 cities/countries I have never visited but want to see (Ireland, India, Israel, New Zealand, or Barcelona)
- go with hitRECord.org to the Sundance Film Festival
4) complete all 50 Washington D.C. City Walks cards [0/50]
5) do one thing from each category of the “100 Free (or Nearly Free) Things to Do in D.C.” list [0/10]
6) tail a random car from one destination to another

Purchases

7) buy a new laptop
8) buy a digital piano

Self-Sufficiency

9) renew CPR certification
10) learn how to ride a bike
11) do meal plans each week for a month and stick to them
12) grow something successfully
13) get a full-time teaching job by September 2013
14) try at least one new recipe each month
15) improve my parallel parking skills until I can do it successfully about 90% of the time
16) move into an apartment or house of my own (no roommates) by the end of the Mission 101 period
17) pay off my credit card debt
18) pay family back for the loans they gave me this past year when I was struggling
19) at the end of the Mission 101 period, have enough money in savings to afford a plane ticket to the U.K.

Writing and Creativity

20) do 20 minutes of free-writing every morning
21) complete a short writing or creative goal every day (to be chosen after each morning’s free write)
22) do 30 minutes of work on hitrecord.org each day*
23) successfully complete NaNoWriMo
24) publish a story in a literary magazine
25) write the screenplay for a film
26) make the film I wrote the screenplay for
27) get the film I made screened/distributed in some way
28) make my radio show demo
29) choreograph an entire dance
30) compose an entire piece of music
31) write something for a fanfic meme/challenge/fest
32) be involved in at least one theater production, either as cast or crew

Health and Fitness

33) do basic stretching exercises every day, including theraband and pointe warm-up**
34) do monthly breast self-exams, every month
35) get my weight up to at least 110 pounds
36) test my swimming endurance, and then set a swimming goal (in laps) and achieve it
37) test my running endurance, and then set a running goal (in distance or minutes) and achieve it
38) attend at least 1 session of a dance class or workshop
39) floss at least once a day for a month
40) go to a yoga class
41) track my period every month for a year [0/12]

Miscellaneous

42) start a private blog and post in it each day*
43) attend at least 1 public event (concert, play, sports event, etc.) at a school every month, except during the summer months
44) get a pet of my own
45) go ice-skating
46) every day, choose 1 not-too-big non-writing task (errand, for-fun activity, etc.) that I must complete by the end of the day and complete it
47) submit a secret to PostSecret
48) Go horseback riding
49) donate blood
50) have my first kiss
51) correctly guess the culprit in a mystery novel/film
52) go caroling at Christmastime
53) do each of the items in the “88 Ways to Make a Stranger Smile” list [0/88]
54) finish UK scrapbook with Gen
55) do my holiday traditions each Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
56) go on at least one date
57) have friends and family over for dinner at least once when I have my own place
58) build a snowman
59) fly a kite
60) climb a tree
61) finish tagging all saena17 blog entries
62) post an update to the Mission 101 community each month describing my progress on this list

Movies

63) watch at least ten movies from the AFI Top 100 Movies of All Time list [0/10]
64) rate and review every movie I rent from Netflix
65) rent a seasonally-themed movie each Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas season

Religion and Spirituality

66) go through all the prayers in the prayer book I got at my confirmation
67) successfully stay up and do my all-night Easter tradition one year
68) give regular offerings to the church (no matter how much or how little). If I am not going to be at church one week, set aside the offering and bring it next time.

Music

69) learn to play the pennywhistle I got for Christmas a few years ago
70) learn at least 5 pieces of piano music by heart [0/5]
71) learn to play the guitar
72) make at least one recording of myself singing that I'm satisfied with
73) make at least one recording of myself reading/speaking/acting that I'm satisfied with (radio demo does not count for this)

Languages

74) learn to speak basic Irish Gaelic
75) work my way through my college German textbook and workbook
76) learn enough of the basics of at least 3 other languages to be able to give directions to foreign tourists
77) learn basic American Sign Language (ASL)

Clearing Out the Clutter

78) sort through all piano music; keep any that I still want, and sell the rest to a used bookstore
79) watch and give away all my VHS tapes
80) watch and sort through all my DVDs
81) listen to and give away all my audiocassette tapes
82) listen to and sort through all my CDs
83) clear out email inbox and keep it to under 50 emails for the remainder of the Mission 101 period
84) sort through and save or recycle all old papers from the stuff I have in storage

Reading and Books

85) read at least one chapter of a book every day
86) read at least one article in a magazine every day
87) choose an author and read his or her entire collected works (author must have written at least 3 things for this to count)
88) listen to an audiobook (while reading along or not)
89) read at least ten books from The Complete List of TIME Classic Novels [0/10]
90) read at least one news article, either in print or online, every day

Physical Appearance

91) change my hairstyle significantly in some way
92) try out at least 5 makeup looks from magazines, youtube tutorials, etc.[0/5]
93) try out at least 5 hairstyles from magazines, youtube tutorials, etc. [0/5]

For the Future

94) add a new goal in June 2013
95) add a new goal in December 2013
96) add a new goal in June 2014
97) add a new goal in December 2014
98) add a new goal in June 2015
99) add a new goal here anytime
100) add a new goal here anytime
101) add a new goal here anytime

*This can be excluded on days when access to a computer is not available.
**Pointe warm-up can be excluded if in a place/situation where it wouldn’t be feasible, but stretching and theraband should be done every day no matter what.