Life as We Know It

30days.

New project GO

Day 1: Your current relationship.

Well, Technically I’m not in one. And I don’t see the point of being in one. Being in a relationship doesn’t change feelings, and it doesn’t make it a fact that the other person won’t wake up one day and not feel the same. It just puts a label on what you are. Boyfriend, girlfriend, I’d rather not be anyone’s anything.

I will admit there is someone though. My heart’s set on him, and his on me, and I’m the happiest I’ve been in a while.

CDs

So it just so happens that the last thing on my list (so far) is the first thing that I’ve started to work on.

Yesterday was the last day of Sunday school. No, not like Christian Sunday school, Jew school. I go every week to help out, tutor kids in Hebrew and such, and hang out with the Jews <3

As a ‘last day of Jew school’ present, I made them CDs.

Okay, well not ALL of them. I made one for my sister, one for my 4th cousin who is also a really really good friend, and 4 for all the kids of my second family :)

No joke. Love them all to death.

So that’s 6. And I’m making two more right now, I just need more covers.

Off to a pretty good start, if I say so myself :)

Though I still do need to finish that list…

The List

I give up. 101 things is NOT easy to come up with. So this’ll be uncompleted for a while. I need to actually start keeping track of the challenge thoug, because I’ve actually started some of the things, and I want them to count :)

Completed tasks will look like this.

So here it goes…

101 Things in 1001 Days

1) Learn to play guitar

2) After knowing how to play guitar at least semi-well, go to a park or somewhere with friends and play.

3) Go ice skating in Millennium Park

4) Strike up a conversation with a random stranger

5) Dye my hair some interesting color

6) Fly in a hot air balloon

7) Read a book at least once every two weeks

8) Fill up an entire notebook with lyrics of my favorite songs

9) Write a song

10) Send a message in a bottle

11) Stay up for 42 hours straight

12) Complete a family tree

13) Find a legitimate homeless person, and buy them a nice lunch

14) Organize some sort of fundraiser and donate the proceeds to a charity

15) Keep my room clean for at least a month

16) Decorate my room with posters and fun stuff like that

18) Go to 5 concerts (0/5)

19) Finish a game of Monopoly

20) Finish a game of Risk

21) Finish writing a story

22) Write five letters, and sent them to random people I don’t know

23) Go out legitimately camping instead of in a trailer

24) Watch the sun set, then stay outside until it rises again.

25) Start a regular exercise schedule and actually follow it

26) Get a job

27) Start saving money

28) Learn to speak conversational Hebrew

29) Go to Israel

30) Learn how to edit videos/ photos

31) Read five classic books (0/5)

32) Attend three professional plays (Broadway [in Chicago])

33) See the Blue Man Group

34) Remember close friends’/ family’s’ birthdays and buy them all good presents

35) Join some sort of volunteer group/ program

36) Send some sort of gift (or maybe sponsor) underprivileged kid(s) in a different country

37) Surprise 10 people with gifts, just because

38) Attend services at least once a month

39) Take a day of silence for a cause

40) Go on a skiing trip to Colorado

41) Lay in the middle of a road in a rural area and stargaze

42) Brighten someone who is in a bad mood’s day

43) Conquer my fear of lighting matches

44) Find some secret location and make a fort

45) Build an intricate sandcastle

46) Go paintballing

47) Complete every page in ‘Wreck This Journal’

48) Write a letter to myself in the future

49) Go tanning on the roof of a building

50) Dress up in disguise and walk around in public for a day

51) Go scuba diving

52) Help out at a soup kitchen

53) Write an entire Wikipedia article

54) Clean up a park

55) Do my homework before it is due

56) Watch every classic Disney movie again (0/44)

57) Prank call someone, and get them to talk for at least five minutes

58) Perfect my signature

59) Have a Lord of the Rings marathon

60) Have a Harry Potter marathon

61) Make a pizza completely from scratch

62) Learn how to solve a 4x4 and 5x5 Rubik’s cube

63) Take a photography class

64) Make a photo wall

65) Go to regional Chusy events, other than camp

66) Find a way to make money, and DO IT

67) Go to BAMBOOZLE

68) Wander aimlessly and get lost

69) Learn how to make a fire from scratch (two sticks, flint, etc.)

70) Try out for something I wouldn’t normally (sport, play, something like that)

71) Discover a new band/ musician that I like at least every month

72) Visit a ghost town

73) Take pictures in a photo booth

74) Make ice cream from scratch

75) Buy a planner, and keep track of events/ homework, etc.

76) Buy a really nice camera

77) Climb a large tree

78) Crash a party (bar mitzvah)

79) Go to Six Flags Great America from opening until closing

80) Buy five pairs of pimpin’ sunglasses (0/5)

81) Buy a fedora

82) Spend a day communicating only through song

83) Speak with a foreign accent for a day

84) Make a notebook/ journal filled with random magazine clippings

85) Make 10 CD’s for 10 different people (8/10)

Hey, 85 out of 101 isn’t too bad. Well, wish me luck, I’ll need it.

Start: Saturday, May 16, 2009

End: Saturday, February 11, 2012

Day Zero

Uhum. Hi.

Really, the only reason this is here is because I got a bit over excited. It happens way too often with me. The other day I discovered Day Zero, this project where you set 101 goals for 1001 days. I’m working on my list right now, I only have about 70 things, but as soon as it is done, I’m going to post it here and track my progress and whatnot.

If you’re seeing this and wondering who I am, well, first off that’s a bit of a creepy question. Either way, you can look at my other blog. It’s crap, though, I wouldn’t if I was you.

But anyways, I’m excited to be starting this soon. It seems like such a great thing, and hopefully it’ll give me the extra push to do thing’s I’ve wanted to do for such a long time. 2.75 years may seem like a long time, but it’ll probably go by very quickly with this.

Okay. Um, bye.