• train myself to eat salmon (I usually cannot stomach this)
  • make bento boxes for lunch for a week
  • learn something or make something from a mini book kit
  • leave random affirmation notes on people's windscreens for a week
  • leave random novelties with affirmations in the staff room at work for a whole week
  • grow a mini bonsai from a kit
  • have a theme day from a different country for each day in a week
  • build a model from a kit
  • watch every film to have won the Academy Award for 'Best Picture'
  • learn how to confidently parallel park a car (I am still too scared to do this)
  • make 5 different themed packages for 5 of my friends
  • go on a "Literary Journey." Choose a book from the bookshelf and read it until I come to the name of a country or location (such as a store or park). Next, choose a book that has something to do with that place. Repeat the process for a week, with one place per day
  • make a collage picture to go with each one of my poems and then make it into a book
  • set up an online store via Cafe Press or something similar
  • create a new cocktail of my own and give it a snazzy name
  • make up new names for something, such as nailpolish or crayon colours
  • design my own mini golf course
  • publish a Wikipedia article on something completely random and nonsense and track the responses (if any)
  • pick a random topic and make a list of the top ten websites associated with that topic
  • fill jars with random funky objects and give them to friends
  • make a blog for my Blythe doll
  • buy a kids craft kit, make it and see how it turns out
  • design my own rubber duckies
  • leave a random object with a note somewhere in public and see if someone finds it and responds
  • find random photos of people online and write a short bio about each of them (yoinked from "http://www.kerismith.com/funstuff/100ideas.htm")
  • choose a colour for each day and take pictures of things of that colour that I've collected or spotted
  • choose a particular object and gather a bunch of them. For one week, leave them in different places and take pictures of them
  • make a list of songs I hear over the course of a week (besides those I listen to on my Ipod) and make them into a playlist
  • design and make my own board game
  • choose random people from the phone book and send them a postcard. See if they respond
  • create an online food journal of all the things I eat
  • make a picture with string art
  • make a different cupcake each day for a week
  • record how many times in a week I see a banana or banana object
  • take snapshots of my favourite cloud shape each day for a week
  • make or buy a Jane Austen doll and send her off into the world, tracking her travels online
  • find a geocache
  • start to learn the guitar
  • refrain from eating foods that begin with the letter "C" for a whole week
  • learn origami. Make a different object each day for a week
  • place 'Yellow Arrows' in my favourite places in the city and see if anyone finds them and responds ("http://yellowarrow.net/v3/index.php")
  • document the highlight of each day for a week with a photograph
  • watch episodes of a cheesy television program with the mute button on. Make up dialogue and write it down. Watch the same episodes later with the sound on and see how the original and altered dialogues match up
  • take random snapshots of things every day for a week. At the end of the week, make them into a story
  • watch a Disney film each day for a week and find the 'Hidden Mickeys'
  • test different Asian candies and rate them out of ten (one candy per day for a week)
  • create a costume for a theme party
  • apply WWAPD (What Would a Pirate Do?) and do whatever the spinner tells me
  • eat rice for at least one meal each day for a week, varying the recipes
  • "Exquisite Corpse Gad About." Draw names of one aspect of a (local) journey on different pieces of paper (such as "destination" or "activity") and pull one from a hat. Repeat the process each day with a different aspect and culminate the week with the journey
  • write a short story that is different to anything I've written before
  • find one way each day for a week to honour His Noodliness (FSM)

PLUS:

  • Learn to play Chopsticks
  • Increase typing speed
  • Discreetly give people the finger all day
  • "Loss of senses" days
  • Choice words used in everyday conversation
  • Return to childhood
  • Follow certain directions to see where I end up
  • Test a proverb
feb 13 2010 ∞
dec 5 2010 +