I got this idea from Maia. I’ve always had lists of goals or just things I wanted to do, but they were always like “Things to do before I die” which is stupid, because I don’t know when I’m going to die. Now I’ve got an actual deadline with reasonable goals.
1. Inspire a song.
2. Learn to cook five new meals (0/5).
3. Walk from my house to the loop.
4. Go somewhere where I don’t know a single person.
5. Make a new friend at #4.
6. Finish a book without skipping pages.
7. Go on tour with a band and sell their merch.
8. Learn to let go of the things I cannot control.
9. Get a 3.4 GPA.
10. Go to Europe.
11. Buy flowers for my mom.
12. Drink a pint of Guinness in Ireland.
13. Date a man with an accent.
14. Have a five minute conversation in another language.
15. Sketch my brothers.
16. Take a photo a week for six months.
17. Understand how to use public transportation in the Twin Cities.
18. Go camping with Teeg and Adam.
19. Get involved in a political demonstration.
20. Cause havoc.
21. Live a day with no regrets.
22. Go sky diving.
23. Kiss in the rain.
24. Write a love song.
25. See a really shitty movie with my best friends.
26. Guerilla gardening in Action Heights.
27. Explore an abandoned building.
28. Ride on top of a train.
29. Graffiti something.
30. Knit a sweater.
31. Crochet a blanket big enough for my futon.
32. Invest in a Tempurpedic mattress.
33. Know what it’s like to really be in love.
34. Be comfortable with my body – get healthy.
35. Get a tattoo that really means something to me.
36. Win something.
37. Publish a book.
38. Identify 100 things that make me happy – with photo documentation (0/100)
39. Get lost in a corn field.
40. Tip a cow.
41. Straighten my hair and walk around like that in public.
42. Take pictures with someone I care about in a photobooth.
43. Swim in a fountain.
44. Later fill that fountain with dishwashing soap.
45. Touch an emu.
46. Conquer my fear of heights.
47. Hike up a mountain.
48. Sleep on the beach.
49. Record a song.
50. Do 100 random acts of kindness (0/100).
51. Stand front row at a house show.
52. Go to a show for some bands I’ve never heard of.
53. Cause a drunken scene (when I’m old enough to drink…).
54. Hitchhike to another country.
55. Kiss the blarney stone.
56. Have a FAF marathon with Kathleen.
57. Go somewhere in Chicago I probably shouldn’t be.
58. Eat a weird fruit.
59. Work as a waitress.
60. Ride a motorcycle.
61. Re-learn stick shift.
62. Find that one shack in Beaver Island again and actually go inside this time.
63. See a band play in another country.
64. Start a business.
65. Make an app for a cell phone.
66. Learn to salsa dance.
67. Sing at a karaoke bar.
68. Fall in love in Ireland.
69. Go to a Bears game.
70. See the Princess Bride movie.
71. Have a Star Wars movie marathon with some of my man friends.
72. Try a weird food when I’m abroad.
73. Get into a physical fight and win.
74. Mosh.
75. Join a random club at school and actually attend meetings.
76. Do a photoshoot involving calligraphy and old buildings.
77. Create an unconventional piece of artwork.
78. Make a quilt out of my high school t-shirts.
79. Visit Sam.
80. Have a tea party with my cousin Katie.
81. Go to Mahoment to chill with my cousins down there.
82. Go to the zoo with a bunch of my friends.
83. See all the bands at Frontier Days.
84. Make pancakes at someone else’s house.
85. Attend mass at a cathedral.
86. Volunteer at six places that make me a little uncomfortable (0/6).
87. Complete a song in Rockband on expert.
88. Spend a day playing videogames with my brothers.
89. Learn to throw a frisbee well.
90. Learn to whistle.
91. Play a hackey sack game without getting laughed at.
92. Hold hands with a stranger.
93. Do something my grandmother would be proud of.
94. Do something I will never tell my children.
95. Live at home without a curfew.
96. Stand in the middle of a highway.
97. Tell someone I dislike how I REALLY feel about them.
98. Let go of a balloon with my email address on it so I can find out how far it got.
99. Plant wild flowers along the road in Michigan.
100. Make a noticeable difference in someone’s life.
101. Do all 100 and not change or skimp out on any of them in the 1001-day period unless something insanely radical prevents me from doing so (i.e. emus become extinct before I can touch one.)
