Start Date: Friday, August 1, 2008
End Date: Friday, April 29, 2011
- Sit front row at a Red Sox game.
- Run a half marathon.
- Run a marathon.
- Get a best time in a college swim meet.
- Achieve all A’s for at least two semesters (0/2).
- Spend a whole day with Daddypoo.
- See a Broadway play.
- Learn how to knit/crochet.
- Learn to drive a stick shift.
- Read 100 books (3/100).
- Graduate with honors.
- Stop cursing. Completely.
- Participate in at least 3 charity walks/runs (1/3).
- Apply to Graduate School.
- Learn to sew.
- Send out at least one letter/package each month for a full school year.
- Sing at an Open Mic Night.
- Cook dinner every night for a week (0/7).
- Complete a whole Crossword Puzzle book without cheating (asking for help is not cheating!).
- Spend a full day with Grammy.
- Visit my older brother in his apartment.
- Get an internship somewhere fun/beneficial to career.
- Find a way to give back to MassGeneral.
- Enter a photography contest.
- Learn to tie a tie.
- Paint my room.
- Actually attempt a Sudoku puzzle.
- Learn three new card tricks (3/3).
- Go kayaking/canoeing.
- Learn a choreographed dance.
- Send a secret to PostSecret.
- Spend an afternoon at an art museum.
- Visit one of the Bodies Exhibit.
- Go to a Paw Sox game.
- Buy a pair of heels.
- Stop cracking my knuckles.
- Visit a zoo.
- Go horseback riding.
- Don’t press the snooze button for a month (0/31).
- Stargaze.
- Write a letter to myself to read at the completion of the 1001 days.
- Make my current phone last at least until due for a new one.
- Create a list of 50-100 adjectives to describe myself or what makes me happy.
- Take pictures of these adjectives.
- Have a photo scavenger hunt.
- Watch the sun rise.
- Watch the sun set.
- Give back or bring awareness to Myasthenia Gravis (other than this).
- Learn how to play tennis.
- Read an entire newspaper cover to cover.
- Go swimming in the ocean in the winter.
- Learn how to French braid.
- Get a massage.
- Leave a note in a library book for someone else to find.
- Make a cake from scratch (including the frosting!).
- Sneak attack someone with water balloons.
- See a movie that genuinely scares me.
- Buy 5 new dresses (5/5).
- Go ice skating.
- Go to Bingo with Grammy.
- Go on a real date.
- Make a random CD for 10 different people just for the heck of it (1/10).
- Mud wrestle!
- Learn how to play chess.
- Go fishing.
- Make pierogi.
- Go to a Lowell Spinners game.
- Be able to skimboard without falling on my butt.
- Go parasailling.
- Ride on the back of a motorcycle.
- Sing the National Anthem at two sports games (1/2).
- Go hiking.
- Get a pair of sunglasses that I actually like.
- Walk away from an argument without yelling or fighting when I’m absolutely livid.
- Try yoga at least once.
- Go biking.
- Learn all of the lyrics to a new rap song.
- Visit an aquarium (to see the sharks!).
- Pay for someone else in a drive-thru or restaurant.
- Get/make a MG reminderband for yourself.
- Play in a doubles beach volleyball tournament.
- Tell the truth when it’s most uncomfortable.
- Have some form of a picnic. Anywhere.
- Give up a parking space in a crowded parking lot to the person behind me.
- Spend an entire day outside. Minus bathroom breaks.
- Try a pilates class.
- Go waterskiing.
- Invest in a Rubik’s Cube.
- Give up something that I really want so someone else can have it.
- Go to a spinning class.
- Play in a poker tournament. Or just a game.
- Explain/thank someone for positively influencing/helping me.
- Learn a song on the guitar or piano.
- Give back to a hospital other than MassGeneral.
- Use Crest WhiteStrips.
- Visit a house/place that’s supposed to be haunted.
- Actually buy makeup, since I really don’t own any.
- See an orchestra in concert
- Give someone a wrapped present for no particular reason.
- Chronicle/describe (& photograph if possible!) the completion of each task (5/1001).
- Build something.
Tasks Completed: 28
Tasks Remaining: 73
Now, go make your own list!
August 18, 2008 at 8:01 am |
Hi –
I am visiting people’s lists trying to get ideas for my last few! I saw that you are in MA (based on the Sox references) If you want to visit somewhere haunted – I would try Fort Warren on George’s Island.
Here is the story of the Lady in Black:
During the Civil War, hundreds of prisoners were captured and incarcerated at Fort Warren. In the Corridor of Dungeons was a young lieutenant who had been married only a few weeks before. He succeeded in getting a message to his young wife by the underground railroad, giving complete directions as to where he was and how she could reach him.
Being very much in love, she obtained passage on a small sloop, and landed in Hull a few weeks later. She quickly located the home of a Southerner in that town and was fitted out with a pistol and dressed in men’s clothing. Choosing a dark, rainy night, the lady rowed across Nantasket Sound and finally landed on the beach at Georges Island. Slipping noiselessly by the sentries, she reached the ditch under the Corridor of Dungeons. After giving a prearranged signal, she was hoisted up to the carronade embrasure and pulled through the opening. As soon as husband and wife had exchanged greetings, they made plans for the future. The prisoners decided to dig their way out of the dungeon into the parade ground and set to work.
Unfortunately for their plans, a slight miscalculation brought their tunnel within earshot of Northern soldiers stationed on the other side of the wall.
The commanding officer, Colonel Dimick, was notified and the whole scheme was quickly exposed. The brave little woman, when cornered, attempted to fire at the Colonel, but the gun was of the old-fashioned pepper box type and exploded, killing her husband.
Colonel Dimick had no alternative but to sentence her to hang as a spy. She made one last request: that she be hanged in women’s clothing. After a search of the fort, some robes were found which had been worn by one of the soldiers during an entertainment, and the plucky girl went to her death wearing these robes. At various times through the years, the Ghost of the Lady in Black has returned to haunt the men quartered at the fort.
Once, three soldiers were walking under the great arched sallyport at the entrance to the fort, and there before them, in the fresh snow, were five impressions of a girl’s shoe leading nowhere and coming from nowhere. Ten years before World War II, a certain sergeant from Fort Banks was climbing to the top of the ladder which leads to the Corridor of Dungeons when he heard a voice warning him, saying: “Don’t come in here!” Needless to say, he did not venture further.
There actually are on record court-martial cases of men who have shot at ghost-like figures while on sentry duty, and one poor man deserted his post, claiming he had been chased by the lady of the black robes. For many years the traditional poker game was enjoyed in the old ordnance storeroom, and at ten o’clock one night a stone was rolled the entire length of the storeroom. As all the men on the island were playing poker, no explanation could be found. When the same thing happened the next time that the men played poker in the evening, the group at the card table decreased appreciably.
By the end of the month the ordnance storeroom was deserted, and since that time, if any of the enlisted men wished to indulge in that pastime, they chose another part of the island. The ghost of the “Lady in Black” was, of course, blamed for the trouble.
August 21, 2008 at 6:23 am |
I really like the way you have written yourself a letter to read in 1001 days. I might even do the same, although I have no idea what I would write about … I guess my blog is a way of me looking back at how I was at the start of my list and a good point to compare my life with at the end.
All the best with achieving your goals!