I’ve decided to participate in the Day Zero Project. I was inspired by Caity most of all, who is such a passionate person and has tried really hard in her own project. 101 in 1001 is basically a challenge to 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 your part).

Start: 12th November 2011
Finish: 9th August 2014

Key:
red – completed
italics – in progress
bold – date completed

Personal

1. Get a full time job once I graduate.
2. Go for a whole month without swearing/cussing. (17-12-2011)
3. Reach #1000 in my personal ‘The Road to Optimism’. (200/1000)
4. Don’t wear a skirt or a dress for a month (everyone knows how much I hate pants). (8/30)
5. Keep a diary when I go to Indonesia in mid-2012.
6. Take sticker photos with Lilian at least twice a year. (2/6)

Celebrations

7. Dress up for Halloween.
8. Drink a glass of beer. Do not get drunk.
9. Drink a glass of cider. Do not get drunk.
10. Go on a dinner date with James. (16-12-2011)
11. Have a birthday dinner.

Cooking/Food

12. Make my own sushi (missed doing this!).
13. Cook 10 complete meals independently. (0/10)
14. Make a cake for a friend’s birthday.
15. Make my own bubble tea.
16. Go to ten new restaurants. (10/10) (05-02-2012)
17. Make breakfast for someone in my family.
18. Eat a whole lettuce in a day.

Craft and Creativity

19. Crochet or knit a scarf.
20. Make a positive outlook poster – a collage of things that make me smile. Put it on my wall.
21. Fold 100 paper stars. (0/100)
22. Fold 500 paper cranes. (0/500)
23. Buy an A1 sized piece of cardboard and draw a scribble encompassing the entire whitespace.
24. Make a papier mache ball, fill it with candy, and play piñata with friends.
25. Finish a colouring book.
26. Make something out of wood with James’s help. :B
27. Choreograph a jazz dance.
28. Choreograph a ballet dance.

Education

29. Graduate from university with at least a Graduate Diploma in Interactive Multimedia.

Gardening

30. Plant a small indoor herb garden.

Good deeds

31. Pay for a stranger’s meal.
32. Do some kind of volunteer work at least once.
33. For a year, every time I bump into one of those sellers for a good cause/charity, buy something from them. (from 30th March 2012)

Health/Beauty

34. Participate in the Sun-Herald City 2 Surf.
35. Dye my hair red. (28-04-2012)
36. Don’t cut my hair for one year (trims permitted, restyles not).
37. Be vegetarian for a week. (0/7)
38. Wax my legs.
39. Do not eat any junk food for three months. (0/3)
40. Sleep before 10:30pm for a month. (0/30)
41. Get another ear piercing.
42. Paint my nails every month for a year. (6/12) (November 2011)
43. Go jogging 6 out of 7 days a week (1 rest day) for four weeks. (1/4)
44. Go swimming every week for ten weeks. (0/10)

Money and Purchases

45. Buy one red-coloured (useful) item every month. (7/33) (November 2011) (long sleeved shirt, train ticket, iPad case, earmuffs, ring, scarf, notebook)
46. Buy new sunglasses. (09-05-12)
47. Save up all earnings for a month, don’t spend any of it.

Movies/films

48. Watch a movie at the theatre/cinema.
49. Watch all seasons of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.
50. Watch the Back to the Future series again. (0/3)

Music

51. Go to ten gigs/shows/concerts/festivals. (6/10)
52. See an opera.
53. Make a playlist of songs that remind me of a friend, for five different friends. (4/5)
54. Get my hands on all of Bob Dylan’s studio albums and listen to them from beginning to end.
55. Find Nirvana on vinyl, doesn’t matter what album it is, and buy it.
56. Buy three band shirts. (2/3)
57. Learn a new song on piano.
58. Find out how to sell a song through iTunes.

Reading

59. Finish reading all of Bryce Courtenay’s books. (0/10, but he does write a new one every year)
60. Finish reading all of Cecelia Ahern’s books.
61. Read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series again.
62. Read The Book Thief again.
63. Read The Great Gatsby again. (13-11-2011)

Recreation

64. Go ice-skating.
65. Go bungee-jumping.
66. Go to a ball pit.
67. Ride a rollercoaster without freaking out.
68. Go bowling.
69. Ride a go-kart.
70. Go paintballing again.
71. Ride in a hot air balloon or go on a balloon flight.

Photography

72. Finish my ‘A Thousand Roses’ project. (314/1000)
73. Watch the sunrise and photo-document it.
74. Watch the sunset and photo-document it.
75. Take a good, in-focus, well-composed full-body shot self-portrait.
76. Print one of my favourite photos poster-size.
77. Complete three projects on chasethelight.org (previously sh1ft.org) (3/3) (03-04-2012)
78. Take one good photograph of ten friends and print them. (0/10)

Travelling

79. Go to the Zig Zag railway, Lithgow.
80. Visit Avalon, Sydney.
81. Get a photo taken with a koala.
82. Go to the tulip festival in Bowral.
83. Visit a national park.

Digital and Internet

84. Create a Doctor Who fan video.
85. Cut down to 45 fanlistings. (05-01-2012)
86. Go for 24 hours without using the internet.
87. Go for a weekend without using the internet.
88. Record a video documenting one of my days.
89. Blog every day for a month. (0/30)
90. Have someone guest blog on my website. Thanks Rachel! End the 71, Part I (18-04-12)
91. Don’t get Facebook.
92. Don’t have any more than ten domains. (currently at seven)
93. Learn HTML5 from various internet sources. (05-03-2012)
94. Use a Dvorak keyboard for seven days straight. No Qwerty. (0/7)
95. Send a secret into PostSecret.com.

Video Games, Board Games

96. Finish all levels in Supaplex. (12/111)
97. Get and play Duke Nukem Forever.
98. Finish a game of Monopoly with at least one other person without cheating/breaking rules.
99. Finish a jigsaw puzzle. (22-03-2012)

Writing

100. Finish writing my novel.
101. Write fifty poems. (7/50)