so much to do and be and see, and so many big, impossible dreams.

• ✓ attend a film's midnight premiere (hunger games, dark knight rises, fast 6)
• attend a sporting event
• be in a movie or television show
• become 125 lbs
• become a vegetarian for a week
• become debt free
• become independent
• become someone I'd admire
• buy a bottle of vodka, watch some fun movies, and sing at the top of my lungs on a day when i'm truly, incredibly happy (just because)
• ✓ buy roses for my mothers on mother's day (2012: roses for mum, an orchid for rae, 2013: had no money)
• change my name
• choose an author and read every book s/he has written
• complete a 365 day picture challenge
• complete the monopoly board pub crawl when i'm back in england
• destroy something beautiful
• do something artistic every month for a year (0/12)
• ✓ do something drastic to my hair (bleached it white at the end of dec 2011, had my friends dye it blue in sep 2012)
• donate all the things I don't need to someone who does
• don't talk about myself for a week (unless explicitly asked)
• ✓ drink tea
• each month, strive to do one thing that terrifies me
• earn 1,000,000 grains of rice on FreeRice.com
• earn 10,000 cups of water on FreePoverty.com
• eat my way through the omnivore's hundred
• fill a sketch book with all my ideas
• finish the 50 questions that will free your mind
• get a job that I would be willing to do for free
• get a new piercing
• get a tattoo
• give ten "just because" presents (1/10: a fez to alex )
• give up soda for one month (0/30)
• go clubbing in another country
• go on a date with a complete stranger
• ✓ go on a road trip (nashville w/jess and ana)
• go to a drive-in
• go to fifteen different museums
• go to the zoo
• have a picnic
• improve my health
• keep a blog for 6 months
• keep a list of my "firsts" for 365 days
• kiss a stranger (again)
• learn a language (to moderate fluency)
• learn all the constellations in the northern hemisphere by sight (15/88)
• learn an instrument
• learn how to cook new foods by heart (macaroons, crêpes, tamagoyaki)
• learn how to do something peculiar
• ✓ learn how to save instead of spend
• learn how to write movie reviews
• learn the basics of bar-tending
• leave inspirational notes inside books for others to find
• list rules for becoming my perfect boyfriend then burn it
• let someone honestly love me
• list 101 things I like about myself
• list 101 things that make me happy
• live in a country where they don't speak my native language
• lose something important to me
• make a dream catcher
• ✓ make a wish at 11:11 on November 11, 2011 (I only wished for an iPad but it came true)
• ✓ memorize my favorite poems (14/?)
• oblige my wanderlust (1/3): south korea
• participate in nanowrimo
• plant a tree on Earth Day
• plant a window box herb garden
• play hide and seek in IKEA
• play russian roulette
• read all the Harry Potter books again
• read seven books from the ALA banned book list
• read one hundred books
• read the bible from start to finish
• save $5000 to run away
• see a concert for a band I adore
• see a psychic (just for kicks)
• ✓ see the ocean
• ✓ sincerely complement fifty strangers
• sleep under the stars
• ✓ sing at a kareoke bar (seoul, south korea)
• spend an entire day in bed with someone I fancy
• take a class for modeling slash getting your picture taken
• take pictures of anything
• take up rock climbing
• take up running
• visit the wizarding world of harry potter again
• volunteer my free time for something worthwhile
• watch an entire television series in one weekend (with a friend)
• watch every episode for one of my favorite childhood cartoons in order
• ✓ watch the sun rise and set on the same day
• ✓ watch the sunrise on december 22, 2012
• when I feel badly, write all the evil on paper before burning it
• write a children's book
• write a complete song
• write a letter to someone I admire

Donate $5 to charity for every item not completed on this list at the end of the 1001 days on August 8, 2014.