My 101 things to do in 1001 days

Official Start: 9/10/2003

Anticipated Completion: 6/7/2006

Hold on tight because here we go.....

1. Publish this to the web. [Completed - 9/12/2003]

Adventurous

  1. Next time it hails put a bucket over your head and test how big the hail stones are

  2. Walk in a small stream and see where it takes me

  3. Shower in a waterfall

Childlike

  1. Get a slinky and play with it [Completed - 10/1/2003]

  2. Set up a treasure hunt

  3. Draw with chalk on the sidewalk

  4. Go puddle-jumping

  5. Have a water balloon fight

  6. Roll down a hill

  7. Play flash light tag

  8. Teach the kids how to blow bubbles with gum [Completed - 11/12/2003]

  9. Play-doh

Creative

  1. Make some candles

  2. Go to the mall just to admire creativity

  3. Carve a pumpkin [Completed - 10/25/2003]

  4. Learn to play the harmonica

  5. Take up calligraphy

  6. Make soap

  7. Take photographs of my neighborhood

Family

  1. Play family twister

  2. Make and hang a bird feeder [Completed - 10/10/2003]

  3. Go to the zoo

  4. Ask each other what their goals in life are

Food

  1. Eat a fruit I have never tried before

  2. Slurp spaghetti really loud when you eat it

  3. Make gingerbread men and eat them

  4. Put my fork aside and eat with my fingers and entire meal

  5. Made homemade root beer

  6. Eat an entire meal that is one color

Free

  1. Make and have a paper plane contest

  2. Watch the sunset

  3. Test drive my dream car

  4. Sleep in a tent in the backyard

General

  1. Shoot a whole roll of film in one day

  2. Kidnap the family and go out to breakfast in our pajamas

  3. Go a full 24 hours without using a computer

  4. Go to the highest lookout point and look

  5. Wash my hair in rainwater

  6. Go a whole day without music, TV, radio, computer, newspaper, or phone calls

  7. Get a makeover

Good Will

  1. Bake something for your neighbors

  2. Send flowers or cards to someone for no special reason

  3. Send a get-well package to someone who's ailing, be sure to include crayons and coloring book regardless of age [Completed - 10/15/2003]

  4. Give Hershey's kisses to people

  5. Volunteer some time for a good cause

Home

  1. Put a pink flamingo on my lawn

  2. Build a play house for the kids

  3. Make an entertaining phone answering-machine message

  4. Go to the playground

  5. Make Home made ice cream

  6. Attack a household chore as a team then go out and celebrate as a team

  7. Go for a walk together

  8. Clean one room top to bottom [Completed - 10/24/2003]

Inside

  1. Play video games [Completed - 11/20/2003]

  2. Have a carpet picnic

  3. Do a crossword puzzle

  4. Go shop for a really cool book and read it!!

  5. Origami

    Offbeat

    1. Find a natural hot spring and go for a skinny dip

    2. Play Frisbee

    1. Play scrabble without using real words. All words must sound phonetically and have a meaning

    2. Buy a Chia Pet and call it Chia Charlie

    3. Find an address to your favorite famous person and write them a letter. See if they write you back

    4. Play Frisbee at night

    5. Let a helium balloon float up to your ceiling and throw things at it to pop it

    6. Stuff a phone booth with people

    Relax

    1. Take a romantic holiday

    2. Have a Lady & the Tramp dinner. Buy super-long spaghetti noodles, set the table with a red-checkered cloth. Have the video playing while you eat.

    3. Eat dinner on a lake

    4. Look for shapes in the clouds

    5. Get some flowers for myself

    Sporty

    1. Skip to the grocery store from your car

    2. Have a wheelbarrow race

    3. Go to the playground hang on the monkey bars, play on the slides or teeter totter

    4. Go bowling

    5. Go goofy bowling. Each frame try bowling with a different twist; wrong-handed, between your legs backwards, between someone else's legs, on one foot, holding a balloon between your legs, from on your knees, etc

    Summer

    1. Go to an outdoor coffee shop

    2. Play backgammon outdoors somewhere

    3. Cook breakfast on an outdoor fire

    4. Yee-ha - take a hayride

    5. Build a sandcastle

    6. Float down a river

    7. Learn to throw a boomerang

    Travel

    1. Go to the local fish jail (the aquarium)

    2. Go see a first-class pyrotechnics show

    3. Fill the tank with gas - drive till it's half gone, take pictures, and then come back

    4. Have a picnic on top of a mountain

    5. Escape to a Bed & Breakfast

    6. Look at my city through a tourists' eyes [Completed - 11/16/2003]

    7. Just go out the door and start meandering

    8. Go to a national park

    When Severely Bored

    1. Pick out all my outfits for the next two weeks

    2. Wear two different colored socks for one day

    Winter

    1. Have a barbecue in the middle of a snowstorm

    2. Write five postcards to friends even if you are not on vacation

    3. Boil a large pot of water and make sure all the widows are closed, Steam the windows up, just to draw on them with your fingers

    4. Watch the snow fall

    Finish

    1. Finish this list.