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
Next time it hails put a bucket over your head and test how big the hail stones are
Walk in a small stream and see where it takes me
Shower in a waterfall
Childlike
Get a slinky and play with it [Completed - 10/1/2003]
Set up a treasure hunt
Draw with chalk on the sidewalk
Go puddle-jumping
Have a water balloon fight
Roll down a hill
Play flash light tag
Teach the kids how to blow bubbles with gum [Completed - 11/12/2003]
Play-doh
Creative
Make some candles
Go to the mall just to admire creativity
Carve a pumpkin [Completed - 10/25/2003]
Learn to play the harmonica
Take up calligraphy
Make soap
Take photographs of my neighborhood
Family
Play family twister
Make and hang a bird feeder [Completed - 10/10/2003]
Go to the zoo
Ask each other what their goals in life are
Food
Eat a fruit I have never tried before
Slurp spaghetti really loud when you eat it
Make gingerbread men and eat them
Put my fork aside and eat with my fingers and entire meal
Made homemade root beer
Eat an entire meal that is one color
Free
Make and have a paper plane contest
Watch the sunset
Test drive my dream car
Sleep in a tent in the backyard
General
Shoot a whole roll of film in one day
Kidnap the family and go out to breakfast in our pajamas
Go a full 24 hours without using a computer
Go to the highest lookout point and look
Wash my hair in rainwater
Go a whole day without music, TV, radio, computer, newspaper, or phone calls
Get a makeover
Good Will
Bake something for your neighbors
Send flowers or cards to someone for no special reason
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]
Give Hershey's kisses to people
Volunteer some time for a good cause
Home
Put a pink flamingo on my lawn
Build a play house for the kids
Make an entertaining phone answering-machine message
Go to the playground
Make Home made ice cream
Attack a household chore as a team then go out and celebrate as a team
Go for a walk together
Clean one room top to bottom [Completed - 10/24/2003]
Inside
Play video games [Completed - 11/20/2003]
Have a carpet picnic
Do a crossword puzzle
Go shop for a really cool book and read it!!
Origami
Offbeat
Find a natural hot spring and go for a skinny dip
Play Frisbee
Play scrabble without using real words. All words must sound phonetically and have a meaning
Buy a Chia Pet and call it Chia Charlie
Find an address to your favorite famous person and write them a letter. See if they write you back
Play Frisbee at night
Let a helium balloon float up to your ceiling and throw things at it to pop it
Stuff a phone booth with people
Relax
Take a romantic holiday
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.
Eat dinner on a lake
Look for shapes in the clouds
Get some flowers for myself
Sporty
Skip to the grocery store from your car
Have a wheelbarrow race
Go to the playground hang on the monkey bars, play on the slides or teeter totter
Go bowling
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
Go to an outdoor coffee shop
Play backgammon outdoors somewhere
Cook breakfast on an outdoor fire
Yee-ha - take a hayride
Build a sandcastle
Float down a river
Learn to throw a boomerang
Travel
Go to the local fish jail (the aquarium)
Go see a first-class pyrotechnics show
Fill the tank with gas - drive till it's half gone, take pictures, and then come back
Have a picnic on top of a mountain
Escape to a Bed & Breakfast
Look at my city through a tourists' eyes [Completed - 11/16/2003]
Just go out the door and start meandering
Go to a national park
When Severely Bored
Pick out all my outfits for the next two weeks
Wear two different colored socks for one day
Winter
Have a barbecue in the middle of a snowstorm
Write five postcards to friends even if you are not on vacation
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
Watch the snow fall
Finish
Finish this list.