The Mother of All Lists

It is finished.

It begins.

Here 'tis - 1 baby down, 100 to go.

'Deprivation/Discipline Tasks:
1. Clear my credit card
2. Put aside £1 - or £10 - for each goal achieved (0/101)
3. No chocolate, ice cream or caramel, for one month (10/31)
4. Spend £0 for one month – excl rent and food (0/1)
5. Watch no TV or DVDs for one month (0/1)
6. Keep my room tidy for one month (0/31)
7. No alcohol for a month (0/31)

Travelling Tasks:
8. Go up Arthur's seat
9. Visit Istanbul
10. Go to the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens
11. Go on the "London Eye"
12. Visit Venice with Chris
13. Visit Barcelona
14. Walk across the Dolomite's
15. Visit Sweden
16. Visit Greece
17. Go on a trip by myself
18. Get a Eurorail pass and train around Europe
19. Go on a ghost tour under Edinburgh's city streets
20. Go to Perth
21. Go to York
22. Go to Loch Ness
23. Go to Glasgow
24. Go on the Edinburgh Literary Tour
25. Go to the Camera Obscura exhibition
26. Go to the Edinburgh Writer's Museum

Family/Friend Tasks:
27. Send 25 postcards to friends and family (0/25)
28. Write to Dad once a fortnight for 6 months (0/12)
29. Bake 10 cakes and give them to people (0/10)
30. Have a dinner party twice a year (0/4)

Writing Tasks:
31. Write a one-act play
32. Write 50 pages of a novel
33. Write 50 pages of a novel
34. Write 50 pages of a novel
35. Write 50 pages of a novel
36. Write 50 pages of a novel
37. Re-write novel
38. Submit a story to JAMM
39. Write in a journal every week for six months
40. Write down my life story in 3 hours
41. Write an essay on what I want out of life in an hour
42. Don't work for a month and just write
43. Go for a two-hour walk by myself once a month for a year (0/12)
44. Write and draw an eight-panel comic
45. Re-write three greek myths

'Input' Tasks:
46. Watch Andrei Rublev, and nine other "Chris" movies (0/10)
47. Watch Roger Ebert's "Great Movies."
48. Join the Edinburgh Library
49. Listen to every track on my iPod
50. Go to the Gallery/Art Museums ten times
51. Go to an Opera
52. Attend at least one of the Filmhouse's Cinema Courses – and go to all movies screened (0/6)
53. Go to 5 live music gigs (0/5)
54. Go to 5 plays/theatrical performances (0/5)
55. Read at least 25 proper books (none of this "anecdotal humour" nonsense) (0/25)
56. Take Spanish lessons – twenty weeks (two ten-week courses) (0/20)
57. Eat 20 untried foods off the top 100 omnivores list
58. Listen to all 50 of the Rolling Stones top 50 albums of all time all the way through at least once (0/50)
59. Try 50 new recipes (0/50)
60. Learn First Aid
61. Eat at 20 restaurants I have never been to (0/20)
62. Go to a cooking class
63. Read an Alan Moore comic all the way through.
64. Go to bed at 9pm for a week and read (0/7)
65. Watch at least one season of The Wire
66. Read a page of the Tao every day until it is finished
67. Read the Psalms from the Bible
68. Go to an Edinburgh Festival gig at random
69. Re-read ten Greek myths.

Indulgence Tasks:
70. Have champagne breakfast with Chris
71. Make Limoncello.
72. Get a massage
73. SECRET
74. Bake date scones
75. Have a chocolate fondue evening
76. Have a martini or margarita night
77. Celebrate Chinese New Years (Feb 8)
78. Go on the Waterslides at Leith Waterworld

Shallow Tasks:
79. Drastically change my hair (cut or colour)
80. Wear nothing but skirts/dresses for two weeks
81. Learn to walk in heels

Misc:
82. Finish the '101 in 1001' list
83. Identify 100 things that make me happy (0/100)
84. Sing Karaoke in front of people
85. Watch the sunrise 5 times (0/5)
86. Go in a sensory depravation tank
87. Ride the scariest ride in a theme park
88. SECRET (0/5)
89. Get a better job
90. Create a mix-tape for the year, each year (2.5)
91. Build a snowman
92. Skinny dip
93. Get hypnotised

Body/Fitness:
94. Go to yoga classes once a week for three months (0/12)
95. Partake in the April swimathon
96. Run a half marathon in Paris
97. Run a half marathon in Edinburgh
98. Run a half marathon in London
99. Run a half marathon in Barcelona, Vienna or Italy
100. SECRET (0/2.6)
101. Try meditation