Monday, May 10, 2010

1. Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet

A. Away We Go
B. Brick
C. Conversations with Other Women
D. Doubt
E. Exit Through the Gift Shop
F. Flakes
G.
H. Hot Rod
I. Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The
J. Jesus Camp
K.
L. Loverboy
M. Mulholland Dr.
N. New York, I Love You
O.
P. Practical Magic
Q.
R.
S. Shawshank Redemption
T. Twilight
U.
V.
W. Wristcutters
X.
Y.
Z.

101 in 1001 [began Nov. 12 2009, finish by August 9, 2012]

  1. Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet
  2. Get a pedicure COMPLETED 05/2011
  3. Go skydiving COMPLETED 06/2011
  4. Get a tattoo COMPLETED 06/2010
  5. Learn to drive a stick shift
  6. Adopt a dog
  7. Go to the beach in the winter COMPLETED 02/2011
  8. Buy a digital SLR COMPLETED 12/2009
  9. Sit up all night in the city and watch the sunrise
  10. Color every page in a brand new coloring book
  11. Start and finish one entire project (by myself) COMPLETED 12/2009
  12. Send all of my secrets in to PostSecret
  13. Go to a psychic
  14. Go to Bonnaroo
  15. Give $20 to a homeless person COMPLETED 11/2010
  16. Have an Irish Car Bomb
  17. Finish an entire book of sudoku puzzles
  18. Do a keg stand
  19. Make myself a t-shirt blanket (sorta?) COMPLETED 05/2011
  20. Make Ryan a t-shirt blanket COMPLETED 05/2010
  21. Blog/journal every day for a month
  22. Finish an entire book of wordsearch puzzles
  23. Ride a horse on the beach
  24. Get my motorcycle license COMPLETED 05/2010
  25. Make a profit off of something I create
  26. Run in a marathon   COMPLETED 08/2012
  27. Learn a foreign language and travel to the country in which it is spoken
  28. Make volunteering a part of my life
  29. Take a roadtrip without a predetermined destination
  30. Learn how to use/create a darkroom
  31. Learn to play a whole song on the guitar
  32. Read all of the books on my current list
  33. Do something nice for someone anonymously
  34. Don't eat out for an entire month
  35. Finish undergrad and grad school
  36. Get in shape (with actual muscle tone)
  37. Knit an entire item from a pattern
  38. Sew an entire item from a pattern
  39. Play on a see-saw COMPLETED 08/2010
  40. Go to a drive-in movie COMPLETED 07/2010
  41. Tie-dye my pile of white clothes
  42. Reacquaint myself with the piano and learn to play an entire song
  43. Ride a mechanical bull
  44. Travel to Europe (attend Oktoberfest) COMPLETED 10/2012
  45. Get the sign for Veronica Lane
  46. Take dancing lessons
  47. Name 100 things that make me happy
  48. Donate $100 to a charity
  49. Make a 'Day in the Life' documentary
  50. Travel to San Francisco
  51. Spend one night in a haunted house
  52. Eat waffles at the Waffle Shop
  53. Get one of my photographs printed COMPLETED 11/2010
  54. Enter photography contests
  55. Maintain organization in my life
  56. Travel to Portland
  57. Travel to Omaha
  58. Go to a rave
  59. Play a game of Monopoly all the way until the end
  60. Learn morse code
  61. Learn shorthand
  62. Go to Bartender school
  63. Participate in Pedal Pittsburgh (or something equivalent)
  64. Go to the Church Brew Works COMPLETED 09/2010
  65. See Radiohead live
  66. See the Arcade Fire live
  67. Go to the 'Golden Variety' in Mount Pleasant
  68. Find a real/long-term job that makes me feel accomplished
  69. Exist for a whole week (at least) without technology (computer, phone, etc.)
  70. Roll down a grassy hill COMPLETED 06/2011
  71. Go to an apple festival COMPLETED 08/2011
  72. Photograph a stranger (up close...where I'd have to ask permission)
  73. Ride the entirety of the Philadelphia Fairmount Park River Trail
  74. Ride the connecting trails in Pittsburgh (when they are all complete)
  75. Race go-karts
  76. Fly a kite
  77. Go to a driving range
  78. Get my name on a plaque on a wall at Fuel n Fuddle by drinking the 100 beers
  79. Buy Chupa-Chup ice cream lollipops
  80. Play glow in the dark golf COMPLETED 12/2010
  81. Ride a quad COMPLETED 07/2011
  82. Learn to do a backbend from the standing position
  83. Learn to ride a bike with no hands
  84. Learn to gracefully dismount my bicycle
  85. Actually complete my goal of reading 50 books in one year
  86. Explore Amish Country
  87. Go to The Smiling Moose COMPLETED 07/2010
  88. Donate blood all of the times possible in one year
  89. Read my camera manual and learn how to fully utilize it
  90. Own all of the vinyl records that are on my wishlist
  91. Finish the 'Kitchen Sink' at the San Francisco ice cream place in the allotted time period
  92. Find and take pictures of all of the dinosaurs in Pittsburgh
  93. Obtain and solve all of the 450 Lionshead Rebuses
  94. Go to the Columbus Zoo with Sam
  95. Go back to the Washington D.C. Zoo with Sam COMPLETED 08/2010
  96. Re-photograph the Tire Swing in my grandparent's backyard and have it printed COMPLETED 11/2010
  97. Get microdermals on my collarbones COMPLETED 10/2010
  98. Go to a roller derby COMPLETED 07/2011
  99. Fill my entire bear with change COMPLETED 03/2011
  100. Photograph everything that I spend money on for an entire month
  101. Whiten my teeth COMPLETED 09/2011

List for Summer [2010]

X1. play on a seesaw
2. tie-dye
X3. go to a drive-in
4. eat waffles at the Waffle Shop
X5. make ryan eat Rita's
6. make mom her plant holder
7. finish an entire game of Monopoly
X8. go to the Church Brew Works
9. go to the 'Golden Variety' in Mount Pleasant
10. fly a kite
X11. go to The Smiling Moose