I've decided to make a 101 Things in 1001 Days list. I made it a couple weeks ago, actually, but I didn't post it til now, cause I wanted to try to fill it up with 101 things first. I still haven't, but I thought it was time. Hopefully I can get all the empty slots filled in within 1001 days...
June 30, 2012 - March 28, 2015
Struck through - Achieved Italics - Failed Bold - In progress
Education/Career
1. Design costumes for a mainstage show at my college 2. Graduate magna cum laude - Current GPA: 3.72 (required: 3.75), graduating June 2014 3. Have an internship at a costume shop 4. Get a job
Sewing/Knitting
5. Design and make a dress 6. Design and build a fashion collection 7. Sew a Halloween costume for 2012 - I ended up being a zombified Daisy from Downton Abbey. I did do some extremely minimal patterning/sewing for this costume, so it counts. I also did some amazing zombie makeup. 8. Sew a Halloween costume for 2013 - I'm going to be Ygritte, with my boyfriend as Jon Snow. Most of my costume will be assembled from pre-existing clothing, cause I'm going with a modern interpretation, but I will be sewing a pair of grey jeans for the costume. 9. "" 2014 10. Make a corset 11. Make a quilt 12. Learn to cross-stitch 13. Learn to embroider 14. Spin one of the things of wool I have into yarn 15. Finish my bird cardigan - Lower torso and 2 sleeves joined, working on the shoulders 16. Knit another sweater 17. Post on Stitches in the Ditch once a month (starting in September)
Writing
18. Write a full-length play 19. Write a novel 20. Write another screenplay 21. Write a radio play - 20 pages
Media
22. Read 100 books - 11/100 American Gods by Neil Gaiman Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Who Could That Be at This Hour by Lemony Snicket The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami Holes by Louis Sachar
In progress: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell Wicked by Gregory Maguire
23. Read a book in a day 24. Watch all the movies I'm embarrassed not to have seen 25. Read all the books I'm embarrassed not to have read - 1/? The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. Read all of John Green's books - 4/5 Looking for Alaska An Abundance of Katherines Paper Towns Will Grayson, Will Grayson
27. Read Infinite Jest 28. Read 5 Shakespeare plays Henry V
29. Ask 20 friends to suggest one book, and read them all 30. Listen to 10 books on tape - 3/10 Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
In progress: Stiff by Mary Roach A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
31. Get a book signed by its author 32. Watch 26 movies, one for each letter of the alphabet - 12/26 C - The Cabin in the Woods D - The Decoy Bride F - The Fall G - The Great Gatsby H - The Hunchback of Notre Dame I - I Know Where I'm Going L - Lars and the Real Girl M - Much Ado About Nothing N - Newsies P - Paranorman R - Roberta S - Shakespeare in Love T - Tiny Furniture
33. Watch all of Marble Hornets - 11/61 34 Watch all of lonelygirl15 - 256/547 35. Finish all the .hack// games 36. Finish Kingdom Hearts 37. Finish Kingdom Hearts II - Working on Nightmare Before Christmas level 38. Finish all the Pokemon games I have Yellow Crystal Sapphire
39. Finish all the Golden Sun games 40. Make and upload a fanvid 41 Upload a vlog every fortnight for Strangerhood 2.0 - 10/26 42. Make a playlist with a song for every letter of the alphabet "Antebellum" - Vienna Teng "Burying Song" - Hem "C'mon" - Panic! at the Disco (feat. fun.) "Dinner at Eight" - Rufus Wainwright "The Engine Driver" - The Decemberists "Falling" - The Civil Wars "Goodnight Rose" - Ryan Adams "Hush" - Bedouin Soundclash "Into My Arms" - Nick Cave "Just for Now" - Imogen Heap "Keep the Mood" - Empires "Lying Is the Most Fun..." - Panic! at the Disco "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers "Not Your Concern" - The Hush Sound "Our Lawyers Made Us..." - Fall Out Boy "Prostitution Is the World's Oldest Profession" - Cobra Starship "The Queen and I" - Gym Class Heroes "Risky Business" - The Cab "Stray Italian Greyhound" - Vienna Teng "Transatlanticism" - Death Cab for Cutie "Until We Burn in the Sun" - Bedouin Soundclash "Violet Hill" - Coldplay "The Wrong Song" - Juana Molina "XR2" - M.I.A. "Your Song" - Ellie Goulding (Elton John cover) "Zebulon" - Rufus Wainwright
Decreasing WorldSuck
43. Donate blood 44. Vote in every election Presidential Election '12 45. Donate 100,000 grains of rice on freerice.org - 3360/100,000 46. Go to a rally or protest 47. Donate to public radio once a year 2012 - Donated $20 to WNYC
48. Make 5 Kiva loans - 1/5 49. Make 5 Kickstarter/Indiegogo/etc. donations - 2/5 $20 to Evil Baby Orphanage card game $25 to The Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck for P4A 2012 50. Do someone a big favor
Relationships/Friendship
51. Be in a relationship 52. Kiss someone in the rain 53. Have good sex 54. Fall in love 55. Host a dinner party 56. Have a tea party 57. Have a picnic in the park 58. Go on a road trip 59. Have lunch with a friend I haven't seen in a long time - Saw Desi, whom I haven't seen since last December 60. Meet an online friend in person 61. Ask my grandma about her life story 62. Get a penpal 63. Write postcards to someone from every trip I go on- 2/? Scotland - Four postcards New York - Three postcards
Food
64. Open a cookbook to a random page and make whatever is on it 65. Make jam 66. Make macarons 67. Cook an Indian meal from scratch 68. Make cookies shaped like teapots 69. Eat food from a food truck 70. Find a beer I like
Skills
71. Learn to French braid 72. Learn to swim 73. Get my driver's license 74. Learn the alphabet in sign language 75. Talk to someone in Chinese for an hour 76. Learn ballroom dancing 77. Learn a song on ukulele well enough to perform it 78. Learn to ride a bike 79. Learn to tie a full Windsor
Other
80. Fill up a notebook with writing and drawings 81. Write down every dream I have for a week 82. Memorize Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy 83. Participate in a clothing swap 84. Complete 7 goals in a week 85. Build a snowman 86. Follow through with a New Year's resolution 87. Buy an item of clothing that costs over $100 88. Buy something made with real leather 89. Buy a bicycle 90. Audition for a musical 91. Go to a drag show 92. Finish the 5000-question survey - 200/5000 93. Grow a plant 94. Do 5 mail swaps and don't flake on any - 3 done, ended up flaking 95. Exercise 3 days a week for a month 96. Floss my teeth every day for a month 97. Do something that scares me 98. Do something awesome