today, i decided to take a look at my 101 blog, since it's been so long since i've touched it. to be honest, for about 5 minutes, i just stared. stared at all the things i had hoped to accomplish. How 1001 days seemed like so much time to do all these things. how some of these empty dreams were just a whimsy of the past. I glanced at the top quote and realized that when i started this list, i was 22 years old.

"AS YOU GROW, YOU LEARN MORE. IF YOU STAYED AS IGNORANT AS YOU WERE AT TWENTY- TWO, YOU'D ALWAYS BE TWENTY-TWO. AGING IS NOT JUST DECAY, YOU KNOW. IT'S GROWTH." - MORRIE, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

I didn't think time would pass me by so quickly, and how it is kind of sad that I didn't accomplish all the things I had wanted to. And looking at some of these goals, they didn't seem impossible. They seemed do-able, and yet, somehow i never managed to finish it. However, there are many things on this list, that I never realized I could cross off. That in living life, I accomplished the goals that were closest to me. There were also many things that I finished, though not as specific as my goal, I was able to achieve through other means. I have started contemplating whether I wanted to start over. Sometimes, having this goals push me forward. Other times, maintaining this is just another reminder of me lack of ability to 'finish' something. Either way, it is an exercise to keep pushing forward, striving to make some changes in my life, and to encourage a broader mindset. Maybe I'll come up with more things soon.


Final tally:
Start date: November 12, 2008
End date: August 9, 2011
Days left: -30 days
Updated: September 6, 2011
Done: 33/101
 strike through=completed

just for me
1. Come up with 101 meaningful things to do
2. Blog at least 3 times a week for a month
3. Make a (inspirational) quote wall
4. discover 10 things i like about myself

all about my family and friends
5. Take new photobooth pictures with Kreazeless.
6. Help my sister plan her wedding
7. Get back in touch with three old friends
8. Remind at least one person a day (for a month) that I appreciate them
9. Call a different friend at least once a week
10. Send my parents on vacation (i.e. pay for their vacation and make sure they go!)

inner dork
11. Make a you-tube video (and post it)
12. Learn how to drive standard
13. Finish knitting my blanket
14. Watch the whole star wars series (to see what the fuss is about.)
15. Learn a Chinese song in it’s entirety and sing it at a karaoke night
16. write a fan fic

academics
17. Obtain my bachelor’s degree by April 2009
18.Graduate with Honours
19.Renew my CPR certificate
20.Finish applications for grad school
21.Get into a post-undergrad program
22. Get a paper in an academic journal with my name in/on it 
23. Learn to speak conversational french

athletics 24. Go to the gym 3 times a week for a term
25. Join a new team
26. Fly a kite
27. Go scuba diving
28. Run a charity run (5k, 10k). This was purely to push myself to run... and a half marathon (21k) was... a bit ambitious =P
29. Be able to do 50 real push-ups (in a row)!
30. Learn a trick on the trampoline
31. Eat 3 good meals a day for a month
32. Take a fitness class
33. Go rock climbing
34. Go Tree Trekking
35. Go horseback riding.

girly girl
36. Learn to how to put on make-up
37. Buy make-up essentials
38. Buy a dress I feel beautiful in
39. Do something drastic to my hair
40. Get my ears pierced
41. Go shopping in the states

musical me
42. Choose a one song from each "List" of my Grade 10 repertoire, learn it and memorize it
43. re-learn how to play guitar

God stuff
44. Find a church to attend regularly and will serve at
45. Read the Bible daily
46. Pray more often
47. Rewrite my Testimony
48. Start a prayer journal
49. Write down a blessing every day

learning about the world
50. Daily (for a month) read a news article about the what's going on in the world.
51. Make a well-informed vote.
52. Travel to a foreign destination
53. Learn the constellations and go star gazing and find all of them
54. Travel somewhere by train (a real train, not like Go train, or something)
55. Take a road trip
56. See the west coast
57. Go camping/portaging
58. Go on a hot-air-balloon ride.
59. See 10 plays/shows.
60. Watch 10 classic movies (for ideas see IMDB top 250 movies of all time)
61. Watch a movie at a drive-in theatre.
62. Go to an Olympics event
63. Go on a cruise
64. take a vacation on my own (and not just sleep the entire weekend)
65. Go apple/cherry picking
66. Visit a Pumpkin Patch
67. Go white water rafting
68. Watch a foreign film (chinese movies don't count!)

inner child
69. Learn to make ice cream
70. Start a Collection of Children’s books I love
71. Build a sandcastle
72. Buy a coloring book, and color all of the pictures.
73. Start a Disney DVD collection

bookworm
74. read a book with a book club
75. Read 10 'classics'
76. Read 10 books recommended by friend

domestic goddess
77. Reorganize my room
78. Go through stuffed animals/toys and donate them
79. Organize all my music on my computer into iTunes
80. Back up computer files.
81. Try 10 new recipes
82. Ask my mom/dad/grandmother for her best recipes and translate them.
83. Compile a recipe book.
84. Give out handmade Christmas cards one year
85. Start and actually finish a scrapbook.
86. Paint a room
87. Bake cookies (from scratch) and send them to a friend
88. Make my own dress and wear it
89. Try 10 new restaurants.
90. Attend some sort of event (i.e. concert/fundraiser/play/performance) once a month for a year.
91. Try 10 foods I've never had before.
92. Meet some new people

save the world
93. Send a care package to someone
94. Make a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child
95. Sponsor a child
91. Plant a Tree
97. Help build a house (Habitat for Humanity)
98. Volunteer somewhere that helps people on the street.

money stuff
99. Learn how to do my own taxes
100. Go one week without spending money
101. Contribute 10 dollars a month to my savings account