And without further ado, here is my amazing 101 challenges. I'm really looking forward to this!
Being A Grown Up...
Do the dishes every day
Pay off credit card
Make a plan to get rid of student debt
Not my actual student loan... just the debt I built up as a consequence of going to university in a city that also had a Harvey Nichols...
Clear out my wardrobe every three months. Get rid of things I don't wear and donate to charity. [0/11]
Do my laundry twice a week
Go three months without phoning in sick to work [0/3]
Keep track of the news at least 3 times a week
I have lost track completely of what's going on in the world!
This is proving hard as my TV has gone broken again... but I bought a paper, whoo!
Get up when my alarm goes off three times a week for 12 weeks [0/36]
Go out sober once a month [0/33]
Clean my make-up off every night
Only high-powered, hard working executives should be allowed to fall asleep fully dressed on top of their laptop. I am not one of these, I should be able to undress and remove my make up before hitting the hay.
Doing Things For The World
No new stuff challenge
Buy nothing new (except necessities) until the end of March. Should you really really need something (a jumper, shoes, etc) then either buy second hand or make it yourself. Fight the capitalist system, baby!
Give blood
Do Race for Life again... and run it!
No plastic carrier bags
Research ethical shopping / banking and stick to it
Creative
Write 40,000 words of my book [0/40,000]
Join in NaNoWriMo
Write a song
Complete a 26 things challenge
Play my piano at least once a week [1/143]
Write a Harry Potter fanfic
Yep, I'm a nerd...
Create a 'zine. Maybe, even, give it to people...
Making and Doing
Learn to make my own clothes and make a dress
Learn to knit socks
Learn three knitting techniques I've never used before [0/3]
Amigurumi 4 Girs [0/4]
One for me, Loz, Carley and Kay
Get a sewing machine, by any means necessary
Complete at least 3 assignments in the Harry Potter Knitting/Crochet House Cup each month
3 done for January, I am toying with the idea of more :)
Make a collection of embroideries with random happy sayings on them
I always see these in galleries and think 'I could do that easy', but I never do
Make myself something from Clothkits
I remember my mum making my beautiful stuff from here when I was tiny. They've just opened up again and have some awesome patterns!
Food Food Food
Learn to make 2 raw meals [0/2]
The idea of going raw is so fascinating to me, I want to see what it's actually like.
Bake 5 different varieties of bread [0/5]
Make 5 different types of soup [2/5]
1) Mmm, I made tasty watercress soup today... yum!
2) I made carrot and butterbean soup today (26/01/09). It was bland. I added garlic, cumin and chilli powder. It was good. I ate it straight out the pan with homemade bread. Mmmmm.
Find and visit 4 different vegan restaurants round the country [0/4]
Make my own vegan cheese
Get a local, organic fruit and veg box delivered. Eat everything in it.
Grow three types of tasty herbs and cook with them. [0/3]
Learn to make chutney or jam
Make vegan cakes / baked goods once a month [0/33]
Self-Development
Write one sentence in my journal every night to sum up my day
Go to church at least once a month [0/33]
Participate in TiLT weekly [2/143]
Learn to drive
Start french conversation class
Make sure I actually go to university
Do my youth work qualification
Complete Alpha course
Spend one morning a month in a coffee shop reading / writing / thinking [0/33]
Listen to something interesting on Radio 4 each week [0/143]
Read a Harry Potter book in French
Learn to play Moonlight Sonata all the way through
Take time every Sunday to breathe and do EFT [0/143]
Seeing Places
Go back to Paris alone
I did this once, loved it, and really want to do it again
Visit a European city I've never been to before
Stop saying I'm too old and go to another festival
NB The folk festival does not count, this is full of old people...
Take a random trip to the seaside by myself
Have a day out to a safari park
Visit the Cerne Giant
Culture
Watch all the Studio Ghibli films
Have a media free day once a week [1/143]
Turn off the TV and the internet!
Read 10 non-fiction books [0/10]
Listen to my whole iTunes library
Read Walden by Thoreau
Read all the books I own that I have never started / finished
I might actually catalogue all these on here to keep check...
Actually read the Lord of the Rings trilogy [0/3]
See at least 5 bands I really love play live [0/5]
Read an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
Go see a play or ballet somewhere impressive
Health
Stay vegan
Having been reading many of these 101 blogs, it amazes me how many people want to try being vegetarian or vegan... I feel quite proud!
No fast food for a month
5-a-day at least 3 times a week
Lose 5 pounds and keep it off
Go snowboarding
Start ballet again
Run at least twice a week
100 sit ups a day
Floss every day
Give up smoking
I'll see this as done when I've not smoked for 6 months
Go 2 months without drinking coke [0/2]
Drink 2 cups of green tea a day for a month
Family / Relationships
Research family tree
Call Grandma once a fortnight [0/72]
Visit all my maternal family
Remember everyone's birthday
Say yes to invitations that frighten me
Send someone a 'just because' postcard every month [0/33]
Complement someone every day
When introduced to a person, try not to assume that they're not clever and that I won't like them
I know that it's terrible, but I actually do this. I need to stop!
Just Because...
One bubble bath a week [2/143]
Get an external hard drive and clear up my Macbook
My Mac is full of photos, films and books. I have actually no room left.
Go airsofting
Save up for a pair of Uggs!
Make a Suicide Girls' photoset
I have ALWAYS wanted to do this
Treat myself to 5 items from my Amazon wishlist [0/5]
Surf standing up
Have champagne afternoon tea at Harriet's
Get rid of two boxes' worth of stuff that I never use, but have kept 'just in case'
The Challenge
Blog all of this
Photograph as many achievements as possible
Review my 101 things every three months and modify as necessary
And off we go...
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