September 02, 2008

101 Things In 1001 Days: The Offical List

CAREER & EDUCATION:
1. Finish graduate school at Point Park University
2. Maintain a 3.5-3.7 GPA throughout graduate school
3. Develop portfolio of professional work
4. Get a new job in my field

FINANCIAL:
5. Put $5.00 in saving account for everything I cross off. $10.00 for everything I don’t
6. Increase the percentage that goes into 401K
7. Deposit $0.00 into savings account every pay check

HEATLH & WELLNESS:

8. Run and complete a half marathon
9. Walk or run in a race to benefit a cause
10. Learn how to eat and cook healthy
11. Lower and maintain my BMI
12. Work out 5 times a week
13. Get a full body massage
14. Get a facial
15. Don’t drink any alcohol for a month [0/31]

TRAVEL:
16. Visit 5 states I’ve never been too [0/5]
17. Have my picture taken in front of the LOVE sculpture in NYC & Philadelphia
18. Travel to another state to see a concert – not a festival
19. Wake up early at the beach, walk to coast and collect seashells
20. Make a decision to drive, fly, or ride a train somewhere you haven’t been before – 45minutes before you go
21. Go on an unplanned road trip and only make left turns
22. Go to a nude beach and participate
23. Go to a PostSecret exhibit in another state
24. Have my picture taken next to a moon tree
25. Visit Boston with my Aunt Gail
26. Visit Chicago and have a drink with the Liar’s Club

ADVENTURE:
27. Take a dance class
28. Go rock climbing
29. Learn to snowboard
30. Correct my golf swing
31. Go down a zip line
32. Hike to a spot and then camp out
33. Spend a day climbing trees
34. Go kayaking
35. Have someone plan an entire day for me and have no control over what happens
36. Jump off a cliff into a body of water

LEISURE:
37. Play hooky from work and go to an afternoon baseball game
38. Catch a fly ball or homerun ball at a baseball game
39. Go to a book reading and have the author sign their book
40. Daydream under an oak tree in the middle of a field
41. Go on a picnic complete with basket and checkered blanket
42. Go ice skating at PPG Place during Christmas
43. Watch a thunderstorm from Mt. Washington
44. Visit every museum in Pittsburgh
45. Lay in bed with someone all day
46. Watch the sunrise
47. Watch a classic Hollywood movie in a park
48. Watch a scary movie in the dark
49. Watch all the Oscar winning Best Picture films (1938-Present) [0/72]
50. Learn all the words to Young MC’s – Bust A Move
51. Karaoke Young MC’s – Bust a Move
52. Find and master my signature dish
53. Serve that dish at a dinner party I host
54. Learn more about gardening from my Dad
55. Grow a tomato plant and eat a tomato from it
56. Learn to identify 10 new trees or plants
57. Try Kobe Beef
58. Eat at one new restaurant a month [0/33]
59. Have a band make a shout out to me
60. Find a good signature joke
61. Learn how to change a tire
62. Learn how to drive a stick shift
63. Learn to juggle
64. Go fishing

CREATIVE:
65. Frame all the artwork and photography I have
66. Design a blueprint of a piece of furniture I want and build it with my Dad
67. Finish all the books I’ve started before buying or starting any new ones
68. Have an article I wrote printed
69. Edit a video together of my trip to Ireland & England
70. Start a sketch book and draw something in it every day for a month
71. Spend a day drawing in Central Park, NYC
72. Send out a card I made to someone for no reason every month [0/33]
73. Create and sell 10 original hand-made greeting cards sets [0/10]
74. Actually paint the ideas I started in my book
75. Take a picture every day for at least a month straight [0/31]
76. Prove that I completed everything on the list somehow
77. Start printing out digital pictures I’ve taken
78. Make something from Ready Made Magazine
79. Take a picture that represents each letter of the alphabet and frame them as one piece

PERSONAL:
80. Get a tattoo of something I designed
81. Donate my old running shoes
82. De-clutter my material possessions
83. Move to Pittsburgh
84. Become a better decision maker
85. Donate blood
86. Help a stranger
87. Complete a random act of kindness every month [0/33]
88. Be open to new relationships (friends or romantically)
89. Change the life of one person
90. Volunteer with or for a charity
91. Purchase toys for Toys for Tots each Christmas [0/3]
92. Don’t use any technology for an entire day [phone, ipod, computer, etc]
93. Find my favorite beer in all the land, Lev
94. Find a four leaf clover
95. Rollerskate at South Park VIP Pavilion
96. [**Personal**]
97. [**Personal**]
98. [**Personal**]
99. [**Personal**]
100. [**Personal**]
101. Create a new 1001 once this one is completed [add unfinished items to new list]

3 comments:

Mr. Shain said...

thanks for making me both #97 and #98 julie. you're the best.

JulieGong said...

i try. i just wanted you to know how much you meant to me.

blythe said...

102. travel to oklahoma and have a drink with two real liars.