Failure is Still My Middle Name... Or How I Went On My 101 Things in 1001 Days Project

 And so it goes again.  Another 101 things in 1001 days completed.  This time I completed 33 of my 101 tasks which is 3 more than last time.  So I guess that's progress, right?  

We'll just not talk about the 68 fails... Although I did give some a go even if I didn't quite meet my target.  Hopefully I can do better with my next lot of 101 things...

 

Start:    1 Feb 2021

Finish:  30 Oct 2023 

 

 

1.     Buy 10 items that are second hand     Easily done thanks to all the jigsaws I brought,  though I did buy other items also.

 

2.     Buy a telescope and learn how to use it     I very nearly did this recently as Other Half found one online and was super keen to buy it.  Sadly we can't justify the cost at the moment.

 

3.     Buy only second hand clothes for 1 year 

4.     Do 5 things that are good for the environment     Again easy to do thanks to buying mostly second hand, planting a garden, etc.

 

5      Do an Ancestry DNA test     Like the telescope I can't justify the cost of getting one of these. Maybe one day when I win lotto...

6.     Do an online course

 

7.     Do facial exercises every day for 1 month     A weird one I know.  Hopefully they will keep the wrinkles at bay for a little longer

 

8.     Do yoga once a week for 1 year

 

9.     Drink water every day for 1 month

 

10.   Experience a White Christmas

 

11.   Finish a 1000+ piece jigsaw puzzle     I've actually finished about a dozen, so there's a new addiction right there.  As if I didn't need another thing to obsess over.

 

12.   Finish 1 of my ongoing stories

 

13.   Finish a cross stitch project

 

14.   Get a greenhouse and use it

 

15.   Give flowers to someone

 

16.   Give myself a manicure once a month for 1 year

 

17.   Give myself a pedicure once a month for 1 year

 

18.   Give or donate to a charity     SPCA, Hospice, Red Cross and Cancer Society

 

19.   Give someone a care package

 

20.   Go 1 month without eating chocolate     The sacrifices I make just to achieve a goal

 

21.   Go sugar free for 1 week     Is it sad that I'm amazed at how easy this was to do?  Because I feel like it is.

 

22.   Go on a horse drawn carriage ride

 

23.   Go to a car boot sale

 

24.   Go to a Christmas Market

 

25.   Go to a Farmers Market

 

26.   Go fruit picking

 

27.   Go glamping

 

28.   Go on a picnic

 

29.   Go to a lantern festival

 

30.   Grow a plant from a seed     I've grown quite a few things, though my growing rate is still very hit and miss.

 

31.   Grow a sunflower     I planted 10 seeds last summer and grew 3 so I'm counting it as a win.  I'm hoping to grow even more this year.

 

32.   Have breakfast in bed

 

33.   Have a meal by candlelight

 

34.   Have a spa day

 

35.   Have afternoon tea at a hotel

 

36.   Have fish ‘n’ chips by the beach     We were actually making this a fairly regular thing until the price of everything went up.

 

37.   Install a bee house

 

38.   Knit a cardigan     Knitted only to unpick and start again as I didn't quite like the look of it.

 

39.   Knit a hat

 

40.   Knit a pair of socks

 

41.   Learn a new language

 

42.   Learn how to knit on a knitting loom  I have in fact brought my looms... even if I haven't used them yet.  Story of my life right there.

 

43.   Learn how to make compost

 

44.   Learn to crochet

 

45.   Learn to identify 10 constellations

 

46.   Learn to arrange flowers

 

47.   Learn to make gingerbread  As if I was ever going to cook something.  Maybe I should have said eat gingerbread which with me is much more realistic

 

48.   Learn to play backgammon

 

49.   Leave an inspirational note inside a book for someone to find

 

50.   Listen to 5 TED talks  I managed one and then completely forgot all about this goal until now.

 

51.   Listen to 10 songs or pieces of music you haven't heard before     Another easy one as I found I pick up quite a lot of music from TV shows.  Explains a lot really

 

52.   Lose 10 kilos  Lost 10 kilos only to put 8 back on.  So a win/lose goal really.  Hopefully I can do better next time

 

53.   Participate in "A photo an hour" and post on my blog   Achieved about 7 or 8 times.  I'm hoping to get back into doing this as I really enjoyed it.

 

54.   Plant a herb garden

 

55.   Plant a tree  Planted 3 fruit trees

 

56.   Plant some spring bulbs  Anemones which didn't do that well so I won't be doing that again. 

 

57.   Read 5 'classic' books  I pretty much stuck to kids books which made this so much easier

The Velveteen Rabbit

Rebecca of Sunnybrooke Farm 

Emily of New Moon

A Lantern in Her Hand

Pollyanna

58.   Read 25 graphic novels  I read 12.  So almost half way there

 

59.   Read a book a day for 1 year 

 

60.   Read 1 Agatha Christie novel   And Then There Were None... though technically it was a BBC audiobook but I'm still counting it

 

61.   Renovate 1 room in our house

 

62.   See a meteor shower

 

63.   See a movie outdoors

 

64.   See the Aurora Borealis

 

65.   See the cherry blossoms

 

66.   See the snow  Living at the bottom of the South Island made this one super easy

 

67.   Send 10 postcards     Did this through Postcrossing which was kind of fun.

 

68.   Send a message in a bottle

 

69.   Sleep under the stars

 

70.   Start an orchard in our garden     See plant a tree

 

71.   Stay overnight in a castle or historic house

 

72.   Stay overnight in a treehouse

 

73.   Take a boat trip

 

74.   Take a photo a day for 365 days

 

75.   Take a pilates class

 

76.   Take a Tai Chii class

 

77.   Take a train tip

 

78.   Take part in NaNoWriMo

 

79.   Try 5 beauty products/brands that I haven't used before

 

80.   Try 5 foods products/brands that I haven't had before

Kombucha

Pickled cucumber

Pickled cabbage

Oh My veg - plant protein product

Hart and Soul - plant protein product

 

81.   Try 5 new smoothie recipes

 

82.   Try a mail order subscription of some sort (Loot crate, Book crate etc.)

 

83.   Try a new kind of tea every month for 1 year

 

84.   Visit an island  Monkey Island.  It's a tidal island

 

85.   Visit a lake

 

86.   Visit a sunflower field  Bucket list goal achieved and it was so pretty.  I might just do that again one day.

 

87.   Visit 5 museums online and do an online tour for each one

 

88.   Visit 5 places/sites in New Zealand that I haven't been to before

Fortrose

Otautau

Colac Bay 

Monkey Island

Karitane

 

89.   Visit Stewart Island

 

90.   Walk for 30 minutes every day for 1 month  Managed 24 days - it rains a lot down here so this can be a hard one to do.

 

91.   Watch 5 foreign language TV series  Watched 2 - Borderliner (Norwegian) and 3 seasons of Trapped (Icelandic) which was so good.

 

92.   Watch 10 documentaries

 

93.   Watch 10 movies from 10 countries

 

94.   Watch 10 movies from before the year I was born 

That Hagen Girl 1947
The Thin Man 1934
Miss Annie Rooney 1942
The Voice of Turtle 1947
Foreign Correspondent 1940
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House 1948
Janie 1944
Holiday Affair 1949
The Mating Game 1959
I love Merlin 1953

 

95.   Watch 52 movies in 52 weeks

 

96.   Wear each piece of clothing I own at least once in 1 year

 

97.   Win a giveaway/competition  I won a book.  On gardening no less.

 

98.   Write a book

 

99.   Write a story and post it on Inkiitt

 

100. Write and post 50 blog posts a year for 3 years in a row  Not even close

 

101. Write a "To Do List" every week for 1 year