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101 Things in 1001 Days

yhanos — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:34:34 GMT

I'm going to post this properly somewhere, with a better explanation of all the goals also, but for now this will do.

Starting soon, I will be trying to accomplish the following 101 things in 1,001 days. Some are pretty simple - things I've always wanted to do or have just never got round do doing. Others are more difficult. If you've spoken to me recently you'll probably have been told of a couple of these things, so here's the whole list for anyone who wants to see it.

I'll update soon on this, honest :)

Geek
1. No internet for a week. (0/7)
2. Document a month of my life using a Polaroid camera. (0/30)
3. Do a Day in the Life project.
4. Pick five things to start and finish on Instructables.com (0/5)
5. Re-enact at least one thing from pimpthatsnack.com
6. Complete an entire Sudoku book
7. Complete Final Fantasy VII
8. Host a games night with friends
9. Take a Sims 3 family to 10th Generation (0/10)
10. Play and complete all the Monkey Island games (0/5)
11. Complete the 5,000 question survey (http://5000questionsur.livejournal.com/) (0/5,000)
12. Go to a convention
13. Participate in a flash mob

Good Deeds
14. Raise £1,001 for Cancer Research (£0/£1,001)
15. Volunteer at least 101 hours (0/101)
16. Buy someone a gift from their Amazon Wish list anonymously.
17. Write a letter to five people who changed my life (0/5)
18. Donate 1,000,000 grains a rice via freerice.com (0/1,000,000)
19. Donate 10p for every minute I’m late for work (Currently £0.00)
20. Donate £20 to charity for every task not completed on this list (Currently £0.00)
21. Give my umbrella to a stranger on a rainy day
22. Learn to say Hello, Goodbye, Please and Thank you in ten languages (0/10)

Lifestyle
23. Lose 50 pounds (0/50)
24. No alcohol for a year (0/365)
25. Go for a 20 mile walk
26. Go the gym at least once a week (0/143).
27. Be a vegetarian for a month (0/30).
28. Go to 20 restaurants I’ve never been to (0/20).
29. Have a change work-wise

Food-based
30. Eat 20 things I’ve never tried before (0/20).
31. Eat Caviar
32. Host a ‘Come Dine with Me’ style dinner party.
33. Don’t drink fizzy drinks for 101 days (0/101).
34. No fast food for a month (0/30).
35. Make a curry from scratch.
36. Make a pizza from scratch.
37. Make homemade ice cream
38. Make homemade bread

Weird & Wacky
39. Buy a magic 8 ball and base all my decisions on it for a whole day
40. Dye my hair
41. Shoot a gun
42. Play beer pong
43. Jump into a body of water fully clothed
44. Win an item in a live auction
45. Get a caricature done of myself.
46. Write a message in a public bathroom
47. Say yes to 100 things I want to say no to (0/100).
48. Write a detailed zombie apocalypse plan

Travel
49. Go to Wrestle Mania
50. Go to Las Vegas
51. Go to Glastonbury
52. Watch the 2012 Olympics live.
53. Attend a film festival
54. Take a road trip with friends

Reading, Listening & Watching
55. Read all the books currently on my shelf
56. Ask friends for 20 books to read, and read them (0/20).
57. Read a book by someone I disagree with.
58. Watch 50 headlining bands (not including festivals) (0/50).
59. Listen to the top 500 songs on the Rolling Stones Magazine list (0/500).
60. Listen to every track in my iTunes library.
61. Learn a song on my guitar.
62. Watch 101 films at the cinema (0/101).
63. See a movie in IMAX
64. Watch a 3D movie.
65. See five plays (0/5).
66. Go to a drive-in movie.
67. Have a Star Wars Marathon Day.
68. Watch every DVD and Blu-Ray in my house.

Childhood
69. Carve a pumpkin all by myself.
70. Learn a magic trick
71. Learn to juggle three balls
72. Colour an entire book
73. Go to a basketball game
74. Make a time capsule
75. Build a snowman family
76. Make a snow angel
77. Make a Piñata and smash it up
78. Go Fishing

Grown Up
79. Fly first/business class
80. Grow my own vegetable
81. Open a savings account
82. Put away £10 for each completed task – the total to be spent shopping at the end of the 1001 days
83. Learn more about my family history
84. Register to vote and actually Vote
85. Learn how to change a tire
86. Buy a house plant and keep it alive
87. Buy some shares/stocks
88. Brew my own beer

Misc
89. Learn to shuffle cards properly
90. Go to five theme parks
91. Have a bonfire on a beach
92. Go to the Maize Maze, get lost, find my way out
93. Get a piercing
94. Fly in a helicopter
95. Win a pub quiz
96. Complete a 1000 piece puzzle
97. Get my teeth whitened
98. Watch the Sunrise and Sunset in the same day
99. Watch a meteor shower
100. Write another list by the end of the 1001 days
101. Influence someone to make a 101 things in 1001 days list

Blog Post - Gown-ey Good Times, Temporary Prohibition & Attemping To Be Musical

yhanos — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:46:08 GMT

So where were we? Oh yeah - a post!

Hello to all three of you who will probably read this. And I think I'm probably being a bit optimistic there too. From the list I made I reckon I'll cover a few topics tonight as I'm sleepy and such. Possibly long and most definitely with photo's so I'll be nice and do a cut. Unless you’re reading this on Facebook then there's no cut for you!

So what’s new? Oh yeah, I graduated

That gown was really irritating

Spent most of to day with my hat the wrong way round, and regardless of what my friend said I didn't feel like I was in Harry Potter. Joking aside, graduation was fun. My parents and Aunty and Uncle came for the ceremony with my sister en tow later in the afternoon (she had Uni). I wasn't feeling very well on the day so wasn't in the best of moods and of course, perked up around 9pm when everyone else was ready to nod off - not because of the drinking obviously....

Guess this means I'm officially no longer a student, that’s quite worrying really. The real world, I don't like it.

In somewhat of a novel idea I've decided to not drink until my Birthday. Last time I was drunk was Halloween - well the week after when Mona Road had their belated bash. Yeah fair enough it's only five or six weeks, but you'd be surprised how many people have tried to get me back on the juice. And it's not exactly stopped me going out, been a bunch of gigs, corp a couple of times, The Academy and Babylon. So yeah, been keeping busy.

Corpy good times

3D Glasses make any night better

It's strange though, because I tend to wake up the next day from Corporation feeling worse from not drinking than I do when I've had muchos vodka. Take yesterday for example - hangover-style headache, aching neck and exhausted for the last hour in the club. But I still enjoy myself as much, it costs less and I can at least remember the night.

After spending a long time watching people play, I've decided I want to learn how to play guitar. Now I did buy one in first year Uni aaaaaaall the way back then, but didn't get very far. I'm hoping that with a little bit of age comes a bit of patience, but time shall tell:

My new lady in Red

I've not had chance to play much, had to wait for the tuner to turn up yesterday. Up to now I've 'mastered' the start of 45 by Shinedown, well if you ignore the slightly more difficult than the rest bit in the middle

Yeah, that thing at 15 seconds.

In fairness, a chimp could probably play it, but it's something simple to start with. Check back in three months time....when I'll probably have given up haha.

that's enough for tonight I reckon, well done if you've been bored enough to go through this. More to come, another 9 topics from that aforementioned list at least.

Davey

Preparation for Tomorrow....

yhanos — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:32:36 GMT

Yeah, So thought I might aswell start this post that I was planning on doing tomorrow now. I'm uing my phone which I can't charge, and tends not to last 8 hours without needing a charge, so let's see how this goes

Also I'm up for work in 4 hours, fun stuff haha

Lots has happened not only since my last post, but also in the time before then which I didn't touch on last time. As I'm sure I will miss something I should probably just jott down the key points of recent times which I can remember

~~Capped and gowned~~
~~Temporary prohibition~~
Tried excercise, wasn't good for my health
All things Sainsburys
Flat related shenanigans
Muchos Gaming Systems
Lack of mooolah
Gigs, standup and wraslin'
~~Attemping to be musical~~
Widni people in sheffield
Fun times at the tav
What the future holds?

Chances are these things (and maybe more) will be dealt with on more than one post, otherwise it'll either be really long or have very little information on each topic

So yeah, apologies in advance for clogging up your friendslist =)

Davey

Voice Post

yhanos — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:14:37 GMT

Helloooooooooooooooo!!!

yhanos — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:00:08 GMT

It's actually been over 6months since I last posted here with anything of substance. Too much has gone on in that time so I'll just pretend like I've been keeping it up to date and go with today - eventually I'm sure I'll get around to posting the 'lost months'.

So yeah, off work today (I'm working full time now) and for a change I've been a bit productive. Usually on the days which I don't need to be at Sainsburys consist of me going to another Sainsburys and buying food or doing as little as possible in the flat (I live in a flat now). It's amazing how I consider waking up at 9:30 in the morning a lie in these days, compared to the 5:45 when working or the 12/1/2pm of the Summer shifts. Had a list of things to do today, lets see how we did:

~~Sort out gas and electric stuff~~ - bills on it's way...this isn't exactly a good thing
~~Get a haircut~~ - it's all short and swish now
~~Go to le bank~~ and get the money to le parentials - went le bank, moneys not sorted yet
~~See when exactly my graduation is (I've finished Uni now)~~ - Wednesday 18th November at 11am I shall be all downed in a gown
~~Get the gig tickets for Gary~~ - Not going now
Get the gig tickets for all mine that are on their way</s> - Rise Against, Shinedown, Bowling For Soup/Zebrahead & Miseria Lost all need buying
~~See if anyones hooked me up with 1PW mollah~~ - Yeah they've not, atleast I hope they've not otherwise someone else has it
~~Check payslip at work~~ - Extra 40quid, booya. That'll pay for the fixing of the X-Box (I've got a broken 360 now)
~~Drop off the broken phone~~ - Now sporting an old phone which actually only works as a phone. Imagine that, I shall have my computer-in-your-pocket back in a few weeks though

So yeah, kinda productive day really. Also plattered it up earlier with a plethora of plated picking food - in the sense of you pick at it, or use your hands. Sometimes alliteration shouldn't be attempted =|

Granted, not the most exciting of posts I'll admit. But c'mon, I'm working myself back into this whole blogging thingymajig =) How are we all anyways?

Stuff from that there Twitter thingy

yhanos — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:03:25 GMT

09:52 I'm off to work early today so I can go see Rob and Linas band later at West Street Live, come on down for musicness and booozy good times #
19:14 Work done, next stop home - shower, cheeky few drinks then gig for more. Possibly corp to top it off #