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Sunday, October 28, 2012

101 things in 1001 days

Day zero account

101 Things in 1,001 DaysThe 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).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.


Begin Date: 28 October 2012     End Date: 26 July 2015
Completed: ? /101

Key
Not Started
In Progress
Completed (with date)
Failed with a Reason
Failed without a Reason

General Health and Wellbeing

1.   Attend a Yoga Class
2.   Get a Personal Trainer
3.   Drink at least a bottle of water everyday for a month ( 30 / 30 ) DONE
4.   Eat more fruit and vegetables DONE
5.   Start flossing my teeth  DONE
6.   Get a professional massage
7.   Get my hair cut, thinned and straightened every 6 weeks 
8.   Start washing my hair every three days
9.   Start growing my nails
10. Play netball each week We dropped out cause everyone was not turning up to games. 

Educational

1.   Read 50 novels / 100 if I can 


2.   Start my Bachelor of Learning Management (Early Childhood) 
3.   Visit the library once a month ( 0 / 33 )
4.   Attend a training session through my work at least once a month

Check out the update list!

5.   Complete a Sudoku book
6.   Read the newspaper every day (online)
7.   Learn how to say "I Love You" in 10 different languages
Check out the update list!
8.   Buy and learn Ausland Sign Language 
9.   Complete a book of puzzles
10. Get a tarot card reading


Food

1.  Start and keep a food blog (Update regularly)
2.  Try a new restaurant each month for a year (starting in January 2013)
3.  Host a dinner party
4.  Learn 10 new recipes
Check out the update list!
5.   Try new foods
6.   Organise my cook book collection
7.   Get a new cook book each month
8.   Go on a picnic and take photos
9.   Have dinner by candlelight 
10. Collect the entire collection of Cake Decorating 


Entertainment

1.  Finish twenty XBOX and PS3 games

Check out the update list!

2.  Watch 100 movies in a year

Check out the update list!

3.   Create 10 different playlists (upload to box.net)
Check out the update list!

4.   Spend one weekend with just music, art and books. 
5.   Update my blog every month for the 1001 days of this challenge 
6.   Watch a movie at a drive-in
7.   Listen to a new album every month
8.   Listen to a new artist beginning with a letter of the alphabet (A-Z)
Check out the update list!
9.   Start a music blog
10. Ask 20 friends to suggest one book and read them all

Check out the update list!


Photography

1.    Do a dayinmylife post at least once every six months
2.    Take a photo every day and share on Dailybooth and Instagram 
3.    Start a photoblog
4.    Get our Wedding canvas printed and hung in the lounge room
5.    Go on a photo-walk
6.    Have professional photos done of me and my husband
7.    Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet

Check out the update list!
8.    Complete a 365 day photo challenge 
Check out the update list!
9.    Read a photography magazine 
10.  Photography Christmas in the Park - 2012-2013-2014

Purchases

1.    Buy a coatrack
2.    Buy a bigger shoe rack
3.    Upgrade my phone when my contract runs out
4.    Buy a bigger bed
5.    Buy a family car (SUV)
6.    Buy a dress I feel comfortable in This Dress 
7.    Look for a house to buy
8.    Upgrade my gaming PC when my contract runs out
9.    Buy a second TV for the house
10.  Eventually own all Apple products


Finances

1.   Save $5000 over the 1001 days
2.   Create a budget to accommodate my bills
3.   Pay my bills on time each month
4.   Get a pay-rise DONE, a whole 25c
5.   Save all my spare change in a jar
6.   Pay off credit cards and cut them up
7.   Pay off personal loan
8.   Apply for a home loan
9.   Learn new ways to save money
10.  Have a garage sale and sell all my unused things


Internet

1.    Send a secret to PostSecret.com
2.    Create a Question a Day Journal DONE, here
3.    Update tumblr each day 
4.    Update twitter each day 
5.    Create a writing blog DONE, here
6.    Complete 100-free-writing-prompts
7.    Learn 50 things by clicking random on Wikipedia

8.    Find 10 more channels on YouTube to follow
9.    Browse eBay more to save money
10.  Check e-mail more often DONE

Home and Living

1.  Watch 10 documentaries  ( 5 / 10 )
2.   Create a memory jar
3.   Create an inspiration notebook and update it each week
4.   Write all my bad memories on a piece of paper and burn them
5.    Leave 50 Operation Beautiful notes in random places
6.    Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice on freerice.com
7.    Get a passport
8.    Find a new perfume
9.    Read a book in a day
10.  Watch the sun rise and set on the same day

Random

1.  Get a tattoo with my husband
2.  List 101 things that make me happy 
Part 1         /          Part 2
3.  Kiss in the rain
4.  Kiss my husband at midnight on New Years Eve - 2013, 2014 and 2015
5.  Write my name in the sand
6.  Tie a note to a balloon and let it go
7.  Write a list of 101 things I have already achieved in this life
Part 1       /    Part 2
8.  Write a Haiku
9.   Carve a pumpkin 
10. Write a letter to myself and open it after this challenge is completed 

BONUS

* Donate all my unused items to Lifeline and Salvation Army
* Answer the 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind
* Complete the 30 Day Drawing Challenge (December 2012)
* Complete the 30 Day Disney Challenge  (January 2013)
* Complete the 30 Day [Fandom] Challenge (February 2013)
* Complete the 5 hour Personal Challenge (anytime)
* Complete the 31 Day Photo Challenge (anytime)

Saturday, October 27, 2012

100 FILMS IN 365 DAYS

UPDATED: 28 October 2012 (2 months and 3 days to go)

Current Amount of Films: 75 / 100

So, I'm starting this challenge again.

I've tried it a few times over the years and this time I'm gonna TRY and stick with it through to 100.

This list is gonna be the Bonus Challenge. The bonus challenge will be 10 films from each of the following categories:

Basic (Any Films):

1. Little Nicky (2000)
2. There's Something About Mary (1998)
3. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
4. Mermaids (1990)
5. Pagemaster (1994)
6. Thor (2011)
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New (New films I haven't seen):

1. Music and Lyrics (2007)
2. The Social Network (2010)
3. Sex in the City (2008)
4. Sex in the City (2010)
5.The Sisterhood of Travelling Pants (2005)
6.The Sisterhood of Travelling Pants 2 (2008)
7. Easy A (2010)
8. Hackers (1995)
9. Haven (2004)
10. The Black Dahlia (2006)

Repeat (10 films to rewatch):

1. Mr. Deeds (2002)
2. Fanboys (2008)
3. Mr. Deeds (2002)
4. How to Deal (2003)
5. Cool World (1992)
6. Grease (1978)
7. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
8. Point Break (1991)
9. Grease 2 (1982)
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Theatre (10 films at the movies):

1. Red Riding Hood (2011)
2. Burlesque (2010)
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2
4. Dark Shadows (2012)
5. The Avengers (2012)
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Home (10 films at home):

1. The Phantom (1996)
2.Flubber (1997)
3.Fight Club (1999)
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Culture (10 films with subtitles):

1. Amélie (2001) - French
2. Let the Right One In (2008) - Swedish
3. Internal Affairs (2002) - Cantonese
4. All About My Mother (1999) - Spanish
5. Wings of Desire (1987) - German
6. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Spanish
7. Trust Me [Puss in Swedish] (2010) - Swedish
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Theme (2 romance, 2 horror, 2 comedy, 2 drama, 2 action)

1. Suddenly 30 (2004) - Romance
2. City of Angels (1998) - Romance
3. The Marine (2006)- Action
4. Troy (2004)- Action
5. Basketball (2003)- Comedy
6. History of the World Part 1 (1980) - Comedy
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Short (short films)

1. Nought
2. Black Button
3. Finite
4. Touch
5. Snap
6. Geri's Game
7. For The Birds
8. The Life and Death of a Pumpkin
9. Kiwi
10. Please
(found the short films here)

Animation (cartoon):

1. Toy Story 3 (2010)
2. Monsters Inc (2001)
3. Robots (2005)
4. Hoodwinked 2 (2011)
5. Once Upon a Forest (1993)
6. Sinbad Legend of The Seven Seas (2003)
7. The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
8. The Rescuers (1997)
9. The Prince of Egypt (1998)
10. The Road to El Dorado (2000)

Decade (10 films from 1 decade):

2000-2010
1. A Cinderella Story (2004)
2. The Back-Up Plan (2010)
3. Runaway RV (2006)
4. Enchanted (2007)
5. Queened of the Damned (2002)
6. 10, 000BC (2008)
7. Vanity Fair (2004)
8. Nicholas Nicklby (2002)
9. Son of the Mask (2004)
10. Avatar (2009)

50 OR 100 BOOKS IN 365 DAYS

This is the third (yes, third) time I have tried to finish this challenge. But unpacking all my novels into my bookcase recently made me want to read again. So I am going to try (GOD DAMMIT) and reach (at least) 50 if not (hopefully) 100.

My goal is to read 50 or 100 books/novels/stories/short stories by December 31st 2012.
Below the cut you will find each month and what novels I have read (and yes, I have read them all.) I am aiming for at least 10 a month because then I can say "Yes baby yes, I read that many mother-fudging novels!"

Okay. No more rant. Enjoy.

THE LIST
Began:
January 01st 2012
Ended: ?????
Current Count : 25

1. The Other Boylen Girl- Phillipa Gregory- 529 pgs
2. Beyond The Pale- Suvannah Russe- 295 pgs
3. Forget me Not- Isabel Wolff- 341 pgs
4. The Iliad- Homer- 462 pgs
5. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll- 360 pgs 

6. TROY: Fall of Kings- David & Stella Gemmell- 492 pgs
7. Rose by any other name- Maureen McCarthy- 331 pgs
8. Don't forget about me; a gossip girl novel- Cecily von Ziegesar- 273 pgs
9. The Gossip Girl Prequel- Cecily von Ziegesar- 322 pgs
10. Whats Hot; Sparks are Flying- Caitlyn Davis- 206 pgs 

11. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins - 372 pages
12. Mary Poppins Complete Collection - P.L. Travers - 1600 pgs
13. The Boleyn Wife - Brandy Purdy - 320 pgs
14. Shopaholic and Baby - Sophie Kinsella - 446 pgs
15. Passionate Pleasures - Beatrice Small - 288 pgs

16. Sudden Pleasures- Beatrice Small- 280 pgs
17. The Luxe- Anna Godbersen- 433 pgs
18. Forbidden Pleasures- Beatrice Small- 256 pgs
19. The Usurper's Crown- Sarah Zettel- 529 pgs
20. Lovers and Players- Jackie Collins- 532 pgs 

21. The God of Spring- Arabella Edge- 343 pgs 
22. Switched, bothered and bewildered- Suzanne MacPherson- 354 pgs
23. Heaven- Virginia Andrews- 409 pgs
24. A Sense of Duty- Sheelagh Kelly- 631 pgs
25. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Cope - 250 pages

26. Lola and the Boy Next Door - Stephanie Perkins - 338




Goals for 2012


Goals for 2012 

Updated: 30.9.12

Below are my goals for 2012, both fandom and personal. Any help would be appreciated from anyone. All comments are loved.

I also have a day zero account if anyone is interested.
Real Life Goals:

1. Finish Planning My Wedding COMPLETED > wedding pictures here 
2. Finished writing my novel Will probably not finish for at least another year
3. Make a list of 101 things that make me happy (0/101)
4. Put $30 a week into savings fund   Not gonna happen, sorry.
5. Learn the ins and outs of running a household I wash, I clean, I bake, thats enough isn't it
6. Drink 1litre of water every day for a month 
7. Lose 36 kgs (2/36) not gonna happen and I don't really mind right now
8. Maintain a healthy weight see above
9. Try Zumba
10. Exercise for thirty minutes every day I am currently doing this work out 
11. Eat more fruit and veggies
12. Take a walk at least three times a week I walk enough at work
13. Eat breakfast three times a week
14. Stop biting my nails

15. Listen to 26 artists I've never listened to starting with each letter of the alphabet (0/26)
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16. Create 10 playlists and upload to box.net 
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17. Learn how to say "I love you" in ten different languages
18. Burn incense 100 times
19. Fill a photo album with pictures
20. Get a tarot card reading
21. Finish all the levels in Angry Birds
22. Take a photo every day in 2012 using dailybooth (Dont think this one is going to happen)
23. Create a blog an update every day, with even a short update (This one either)
24. Start a personal library COMPLETED
25. Clean my house every Sunday BEEN DOING IT
26. read 50 (if not 100) books in 1 year  (currently at 25)
27. watch 100 films in 1 years (currently at 43)

Personal Goals:
Learn how to cook without burning anything
Start being more active
Stop eating so much junk food
Take a vacation to Melbourne for our honeymoon DONE DONE DONE!
Find all my lost clothes in the cupboard of doom DONE DONE DONE!
Try driving a long distance by myself
Be more accepting of people and help them when they need it


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