The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Why 1001 Days? Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as New Year's resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

Start Date: Thursday, March 5th, 2009.

End Date: Thursday, December 1st, 2011.

Completed: 17/101

Charity

• ✔ Donate blood.
• Participate in a charity walk.
• Volunteer for a cause or charity I care about.
• Donate $5 to a random charity for every item not completed on this list at the end of the 1001 days.
• Lend $100 through Kiva.org. ($0/$100)
• Give up something for Lent.
• Earn 100,000 grains of rice on FreeRice.com. (4,970 grains/100,000 grains)
• Vote.

Health

• Eat vegetarian for six consecutive months. (0/186 days)
• Create a vegetarian recipe book with fifty recipes. (0/50)
• Take a yoga class.
• Completely substitute cow's milk for soy milk (unless it turns out that I'm allergic, at which point I'll come up with a different thing to do). (I'm allergic... nooo!)
• Take a multivitamin every day for at least a month. (1/31)
• ✔ Do not snack in between meals for at least a week.
• Drink only water for one week. (0/7)
• Once college starts, go on a liquid fast for the last three consecutive days of every month for three consecutive months and record each of those days either online or in a written journal. (0/3)
• Every time I go to a restaurant, I will order a dish I've never tried before.
• Go swimming once a week for one month. (0/4)
• ✔ Floss at least once a day (before bed) for at least a month.
• Bellydance every Sunday for a month. (0/4)

Beauty

• Grow my hair out for 1001 days (bangs and split ends are the only exception). FAILED - got my hair cut, cause it was pissing my off, always getting matted.
• Do not dye my hair for 1001 days unless the dye washes out (permanent and semi-permanent dyes prohibited).
• Do not bite/peel/pick at my fingernails for at least a week.
• Complete a full home teeth whitening kit.
• Get my split ends cut once a month for the duration of the 1001 days. (2/32)
• ✔ Get a tattoo.
• Cut words like "fuck," "shit," "bitch," and "ass" out of my vocabulary for an entire month.
• ✔ Make my bed every day for one month.

Eco-Love

• ✔ Stop using pads altogether for my period and make the switch to using the DivaCup.
• ✔ Buy a reusable, stainless steel water bottle. At this point, there is no excuse for me to use plastic water bottles anymore.
• Make the complete switch to rechargeable batteries.
• Grow three different kinds of potted plant and keep them alive for at least six months. (0/6) (0/6) (0/6)
• Stop using pantyliners altogether and make the switch to using reusable ones that can be thrown in the wash.
• Post something on FreeCycle.org.
• Make a bird-feeder and hang it outside of my college apartment (not out the window, it's against college rules). Be sure to replace the bird-feeder when it runs out.
• ✔ Discover a farmer's market somewhere in Montreal.
• Buy something handmade on Etsy.com.
• Start a composting program for my whole dorm. If a program already exists, make damn good use of it for at least my first college school year.
• Buy something from Greenfeet.com.
• Buy all of my Christmas gifts free trade or make them myself.
• Boycott Walmart. Refuse to shop there for six consecutive months. (0/6)

Recreation

• Go on a camping trip.
• Learn the b-girl basics.
• Go rock climbing.
• ✔ Join a club at college.
• ✔ Attend a college party and have fun!
• Win ten games of chess without my opponent "going easy on me" or letting me win. (0/10)
• ✔ Find three different kinds of alcohol I like the taste of. (Sour Puss, Smirnoff Ice, Muse cocktail, Tequila)
• Give WoW a try (on someone else's computer/account).

Useful Skills

• Bake a loaf of bread from scratch, without a breadmaker.
• Force myself to learn to write with my left hand so that the writing is just as neat as that of my right hand.
• Learn how to change a flat tire.
• Learn how to mix three different alcoholic drinks. (0/3)

Arts & Crafts

• Make myself one of each of the following pieces of clothing: 1) shirt, 2) pants, 3) shorts, 4) socks, 5) bra, 6) panties, 7) hoodie.
• Make myself five cute new dresses to wear. (0/5)
• Enter a contest through Threadbanger.com.
• Make a loom and weave myself a scarf.
• Spin my own yarn.
• Knit or crochet a scarf for each of the Hogwarts houses. (0/4)
• ✔ Make Christmas cards with mum.

Maintain Sanity

• Keep my current e-mail address for one year without changing it in a fit of paranoia.
• Stay off the internet completely for one week.
• ✔ Turn off my cell phone for one day.
• Continue to be in good contact and friends with Matt for the duration of this project. (We broke up)
• ✔ Find a Pagan group to worship with.
• Get all school assignments done within two days of them being assigned for at least a month (31 consecutive days; school projects are an exception, but must be finished at least one week before the due date).
• Keep a handwritten journal and write in it at least three times a week for at least six consecutive months.
• Fly to Colorado and visit for at least a week.
• ✔ Keep a neat, updated address book.

YouTube

• Make at least ten videos for YouTube of me using sign language to interpret a song. (1/10)
• Buy a camcorder.
• Make a stop-motion music video and put it up on YouTube.
• Participate in Project for Awesome when it next rolls around on YouTube.
• Make a video every other week documenting my first year of college and put it up on YouTube. (0/71)

Financial

• Graduate from college with absolutely no debt.
• Save $5,000.
• Decorate a jar dedicated to spare change. Put all of my spare change in this jar and keep it for the duration of this project. (started: Wed. March 25th '09) (I used it as lunch money a few times.)
• At the end of this project, take the money saved from all of my spare change and treat myself with it.
• Purchase something on iTunes.
• ✔ Buy 'The Secret' audiobook.
• Get a passport. (EXPENSIVE!)
• Get a part-time job, working no more than twelve hours per week. (0/143 weeks)
• ✔ Buy the newest version of iLife for my MacBook.

Personal Education

• Take a formal sign language course.
• Buy an American Sign Language dictionary.
• Complete all of the free Spanish courses on LiveMocha.com. (0/4)
• Be able to identify all U.S. states correctly on an unlabeled map. (4/50)

Projects

• On homemade flashcards, pick three people and write down five compliments about them (one genuine compliment on each flashcard) and anonymously deliver one flashcard to each of them every school day of a week (5 consecutive days). (0/5) (0/5) (0/5)
• Get a balloon filled with helium, and attach a letter (written in French and English) with my contact information. Let the balloon go.
• Make a penfriend and write to them at least once a month for three consecutive months. (0/3)
• Write 50,000 words in November for NaNoWriMo. (0/50,000)
• Devote an entire day to riding the subway and recording (whether through photos, words, or video) the experience and the different kinds of people I meet/see.
• Take a trip to the Toronto Zoo and document the experience through either photos, video, or words.
• Pick a sunny afternoon and go on a picnic with the girls I share my dorm apartment with.
• Meet Jimmy in real life.
• Bake cookies for everyone on my dorm floor.
• Make each of my roommates a breakfast-in-bed when each of their birthdays rolls around. (0/3) (0/3)
• Mail in a secret to PostSecret.
• Take one Dailybooth picture a day for one year.
• Send in a listener email to the More Hip Than Hippie podcast each week a new episode comes out. (3/143) (I felt like a stalker.)
• Take the Fort Henry Guided Ghost Tour in Kingston, ON. If the tour is not available, take the Kingston or Ottawa Haunted Walk (again).