101/1001 or the Day Zero List

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K, so I finished the 101/1001 list. I also signed up at the webpage, Day Zero.
But since LJ is my home I need to have the list here as well.


Starting Date: November 8th, 2009
Finish Date: August 5, 2012

I decided to divide it into categories for easier overview (the list at Day Zero is int he same order but without category headers)

Bolded - finished
Italics - active/working on it
Clickable - link to post regarding the goal in question


Creativity
01. Make 10 pieces of clothing (9/10)
- striped underbust corset
- purple floorlength skirt
- pale green dress/tunic with leather straps
- dark green tabard inspired something with glass beads and embroidery
- charcoal and light greyish fine knit jersey dress
- teal and sea green long fine knit jersey dress
- purple wool cloak
- Burgundian gown in blue wool and steel grey velvet
- medieval linen shift

02. Make a hat of some kind
03. Sell something I've created myself (not counting CafePress)
04. Use three pieces of fabric from my stash
05. Participate in 8 graphic challenges on LJ
06. Make 10 pieces of jewellery, all different designs
07. Create something in an unfamiliar medium/technique
08. Make scrap books for tickets
09. Make a snowman/woman/dalek/alien/spaceship/something
10. Make something geeky out of gingerbread
11. Send 10 things by snailmail w. something handwritten

Entertainment
12. Read 50 books (graphic novels or kids' books don't count, short story collections etc do however) (35/50)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle du Jour
- Sista ordet - citat och fakta om döden by Aron Flam & Jonatan Unge (Swedish)
- Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- Torchwood: Trace Memory by David Llewellyn
- The Werewolf's Guide To Life - a manual for the newely bitten by Ritch Duncan & Bob Powers
- Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
- Torchwood: The Twilight Streets by Gary Russell
- Torchwood: Almost Perfect by James Goss
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
- 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
- Mellan ting och text by Anders Andrén (Swedish, for uni)
- Heat Wave by Richard Castle
- Naked Heat by Richard Castle
- Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- Tretton by Mårten Sandén (Swedish kids/ya, we had a book release at work)
- A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
- Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
- Heat Rises by Richard Castle
- The Lightning Bolt by Rick Riordan
- The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
- The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
- The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
- The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Divergent by Veronica Roth

13. Read eight books written before 1900 (also counting for the 50) (3/8)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

14. Go to the cinema 7 times
15. Watch 10 movie "classics" I haven't seen before (classics not necessarily meaning oldies, but rather the kind of movies you're supposed to have watched) (4/10)
- Back to the Future
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Tron
- Some Like It Hot

16. Attend three stage productions (3/3)
- La Clique in London (burlesque/circus/cabaret)
- Pricilla, Queen of the Desert in London (musical)
- One Man Lord of the Rings in Edinburgh

17. Go to two concerts (2/2 - Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes and Josh Groban)
18. Watch a ballet
19. Complete my Bruce Springsteen cd collection
20. Learn how to play Star Wars Risk (which I own but have never played)
21. Discover four new bands/artists to listen to (4/4 - Rob Thomas, Matchbox Twenty, Maroon 5 and Natalie Merchant)
22. Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the English alphabet (original titles) (23/26)
A - Accidental Husband, The
B - Bounty Hunter, The
C - Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
D - Dorian Gray
E - Eragon
F - Fame
G - Get Him to the Greek
H - Hangover, The
I - Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The
J - Just Friends
K - Kick-Ass
L - Love and Other Disasters
M - Make the Yuletide Gay
N - New York, I Love You
O - Other End of the Line, The
P - Proposal, The
R - Robin Hood
S - Sherlock Holmes
T - Triumph, The
V - Van Wilder
W - Wild Wild West
Y - Your Highness
Z - Zombieland

23. Finish a 750+ piece jigsaw
24. Watch a movie in 3D
25. Convert at least 5 people to one or more of my bigger tv fandoms

Food
26. Bake 10 things that I've never tried before (baking means cookies, pie, cake, candy or bread) (5/10)
- spelt gingerbread from scratch
- crescents w. almond paste filling
- saffron biscotti
- rocky road
- polenta moons

27. Make a classic dish from 10 different cuisines (desserts count, baking does not) (2/10)
- bread pudding
- Carambar flavoured crème brûlee

28. Learn to like tea (or at least make a proper effort to)
29. Find 10 new recipes worthy of being entered into my personal cookbook (3/10)
30. Cook for family 10 times
31. Try five new kinds of food or bevarages
- mince pie
- proper English fish and chips
- bannoffee pie
- curly fries
- French macarons

32. Eat fruit and/or vegetables twice a day for three weeks (0/21)

Health/Exercise
33. Run at least 2km, two times a week, for a month (0/9)
34. Attend a pilates class
35. Learn how to use inlines
36. Do the sun salutation (yoga) every morning for 3 weeks (0/21)
37. Donate blood 4 times (unless something happens making me generally unfit to donate) (2/4)
38. Do something outside every day for three weeks (take a walk, shopping, bike to school, picnic etc) (0/21)
39. Have my reproductive system checked properly (ultra sound and everything)
40. Floss every night for a month (yeah, I really suck at remember to floss. Don't hate me) (0/30)
41. Have the hard thingie (maybe a wart?) on the sole of my foot looked at and possibly get it removed
42. Give contact lenses another try
43. Don't eat any candy or cookies/cakes for three weeks (0/21)
44. Go to bed before 10.30pm Sun-Thur for a week (0/5)
45. Make 20 situps or legups (both for abs) a day for 2 weeks (0/14)

Travel/Visits
46. Go someplace abroad I've never been before
47. Write a complete report of a trip/vacation
48. Visit 5 parks or public gardens, properly (4/5)
- Hyde Park (London)
- Treptower Park (Berlin)
- Botanical Garden (Lund)
- Hampstead Heath (London)

49. Visit a national park (Dalby Söderskog, one of Sweden's smallest national parks)
50. Visit 5 museums (5/5)
- Sherlock Holmes Museum (London)
- The Wellcome Collection (London)
- Hause am Checkpoint Charlie (Berlin)
- Zoology Museum (Lund)
- Museum of Natural History (London)

Experiences
51. Go on a date
52. Go out (to a club/bar/something like that)
53. Walk barefoot in the rain
54. Attend a Pride parade
55. Go to a convention
56. Kiss someone
57. Get a tattoo
58. Stay up all night in spring/summer and watch the sun rise (watching sunrise in winter is meaningless since that's when I'm biking to school anyway)
59. Meet two internet friends IRL that I haven't met before (2/2 - dametokillfor and aliasagent)
60. Go stargazing
61. Watch a cosmic "event" (eclipse, meteor shower, comet etc)
62. Swim in the ocean (obv I have done this before, but not for several years)
63. Take a bubblebath surrounded by candles
64. Fire a gun
65. Do a parachute jump
66. Take a trip in a small aircraft (like helicopter or two-person plane)
67. Attend a proper religious ceremony (type of religion doesn't matter)
68. Spend time in a graveyard, looking at headstones and statues (by Whitby abbey)
69. Go horseback riding
70. Attend a fancy dinner
71. Take real photobooth photos
72. Have 5 picnics with friends (3/5)

New Knowledge
73. Learn the entire Greek alphabet
74. Learn how to walk in heels
75. Attend a dance class
76. Learn how to properly sharpen knives manually
77. Learn a new word, in Swedish or English, every day for 4 weeks (keep a list) (0/28)

Looks
78. Wear a proper hat (not a wooly cap or anything) every time I go out for 2 weeks. (0/14)
79. Go out in drag
80. Go somewhere not geeky, but in full cosplay (shopping for example)
81. Wear only home-made clothes and accessories at five different occasions (shoes, underwear, socks, glasses and minor accessories excluded) (4/5)

Misc
82. Move out
83. Send a postcard to Post Secret
84. Organize all my LJ tags into categories (ie "tv: farscape" or "people: bruce springsteen")
85. Slip nice/encouraging notes in 10 books at the library (3/10)
86. Put my clean laundry directly where it belongs for 3 months straight
87. Send a message in a bottle
88. Organize computer stuff on Sam, Cy and Sharon (and transfer everything that's mine from Darth)
89. Donate 10,000 grains of rice through FreeRice

To be added after 500 days
90. Watch 10 movies in a language other than English that I haven't seen before (1/10)
- Mr. Robin kkosigi (Korean)

91. Sew a garment completely by hand
92. Get another ear piercing
93. Attend an additional 3 stage productions (1/3)
94. Let my hair grow for at least a year (March 2012) (maintencance cut if I get too much split ends does not count, nor does fringe maintenance of course)
95. Go to the cinema an additional 5 times (added July 20th) (4/5)
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