Mission 101

(This list is in progress)

Anything marked with a ☺ also appears on Emily's M101 list. We might do it together.
Anything marked with a ☻ Also appears on Shiloh's M101 list. We might do it together.




Start: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 (First day of third term, senior year)
End: Tuesday, October 22, 2013

  1. Go to a concert alone (with no one I know planning to be there)
  2. Finish a first draft of OETTS
  3. Start & finish a 365☻
  4. Go to a religious service somewhere non-Christian
  5. Go skinny dipping ☺
  6. Camp by myself (somewhere safe & reasonable)
  7. Get my license
  8. Try yoga
  9. Legitimately dance with someone and have it mean something
  10. Vote in every election after I turn 18 ☻
  11. Win all NaNoWriMos included in the time span ☻(Impossible; lost '10)
  12. Accumulate $1000 in my savings account
  13. See a play/live performance. (professional)
  14. Put together a photo album FOR MYSELF.
  15. Lose 25 pounds. Keep it off.
  16. Send a Postsecret card
  17. Donate blood at least once ☺☻
  18. Get my helix(es) and/or traguses pierced ☺☻
  19. Do not apologize unnecessarily for an entire day.
  20. Learn to cook a meal other than spaghetti. Make it for someone.
  21. Sew a wearable article of clothing
  22. Go canoeing with Emily and Shiloh! Teach Em how to paddle. ☺
  23. Learn to play at least three songs on the guitar
  24. Exchange at least three snail-mail letters with someone (3 on each side)
  25. Meditate 20 minutes a day for a week
  26. Make a mini documentary. Include interviews and other research.
  27. Find a recipe for Friendship Bread. Make it, and give the starter part to three other people.
  28. Make a family tree with some family stories from both sides.
  29. Pay off my library fee. Try not to add to it. ☻
  30. Complete another mosaic
  31. Submit photography for some kind of publishing/showing
  32. Do 50 total ninja notes or Nerdfighter notes. ☺
  33. Shoot and get prints of a roll of color film.
  34. Successfully fly a kite.
  35. Take a photobooth photo strip with someone.
  36. Do my “Ten Good Things About Today” list every day for a month
  37. Get a tattoo. OR, decide for sure what one to get in the future.
  38. Do a Thoughts from Places video, vlogbrothers style. Photo instead of video is acceptable.
  39. Go to Rocky Horror in the most scandalous costume available.
  40. Write and send letters to authors I admire—John Green, JKR, Stephen King
  41. Do a photoshoot in a graveyard.
  42. Spend one night walking around somewhere with someone. Like Bloomington. Or somewhere.
  43. Attend a masquerade. Possibly throw it myself.
  44. Go to at least three political or LGBTQiA rallies or events (excluding Pride)
  45. Write a list of 20 things I like about myself
  46. Spend a day in Minneapolis, doing interesting things. Preferably with friends.
  47. Bike to Fat Lorenzo's again. At LEAST twice.
  48. Write a letter to Ms Kiene at least a year after graduation. Sig, too, if I have her address.
  49. See one or more of my “Bucket List Bands” live (Hurt, Modest Mouse, TBM, WT☺)
  50. Kiss someone first (before they kiss me) Completed March 17, 2011
  51. Have one successful wheel piece that doesn't get lost or broken.
  52. Re-create the Boat/playground from Saugerties in clay.
  53. Climb the rock wall at REI
  54. Keep a scrapbook of the 101
  55. Do some version of the “someday runaway” plan for two weeks
  56. Go back to Kruger Caves
  57. Build a snow fort and sleep in it.  Completed February ??, 2011
  58. Obtain one of these three: lomo/fisheye, Holga diptych shooter thing, or instant Polaroid. ☻
  59. Do the Minnesota AIDS walk ☻
  60. Do an all-natural detox at least once ☻
  61. Find out if I can re-start Irish Step as an adult beginner.
  62. Do a legitimate, planned-out self portrait shoot that I'm happy with. Post it on Facebook as well as Blank Page.
  63. Get my nose pierced
  64. Go to a strip club.
  65. Dye my hair for at least a week
  66. Figure out my shark week stuff.
  67. {Private}
  68. Attempt Script Frenzy. Possibly with a worthy partner.
  69. Try to grow vegetables on my deck in window boxes. Like carrots and peppers.
  70. Do a puppet show of a childhood book. (Like Rikki Tikki Tembo) Or re-create a Potter Puppet Pals episode. That's okay too.
  71. Have a successful Harry Potter Day/Victory at Hogwarts day. Repeat if possible.
  72. Do something creative/artistic for commission.
  73. Learn 100 words in ASL.
  74. Wear heels every day for a week.
  75. {Removed}
  76. Take a trip out of the country. Possibly similar to Shiloh's airport weekend.☻
  77. Be able to run an entire mile. Time doesn't matter, pace does.
  78. Buy a bikini. Wear it in public. Continue doing so.
  79. Create/decorate a “memory box” and put the journal envelopes, ect. in it.
  80. Find 10 photo editing tutorials and try them all.
  81. Buy and complete a Wreck This Journal or other prompt journal.
  82. Make a set of wind chimes.
  83. Get my face painted at a carnival or something like that
  84. Do a luminary path somewhere on Christmas, Halloween, and/or Fourth of July.
  85. Finish at least 3 journals (including the fern one I'm in right now) (1/3)
  86. Have a glass of wine
  87. Make and; give 5 music mixes for friends. (2/5)
  88. Go to the Gay Ninties
  89. Go on a solo adventure on the Bloomington train tracks.
  90. Gamble at a casino.
  91. Write a poem a day for a month (Not NaPoWriMo because it's the same time as Screnzy)
  92. Have a picnic!
  93. Re-learn 5+ constellations and be able to name and locate them.
  94. Create a collage (a piece of art, not a photo collage)
  95. Send a “care package” to 3 people (like Sam!)
  96. Try waxing. Area to be waxed is non specific.
  97. Return to the East Coast. Hopefully see Hally in the process. ☺☻
  98. Send five interesting postcards to Becca.
  99. Spend an all-nighter writing. (All-nighter meaning midnight until sunrise.)
  100. Purchase art from an artist I know (can be writing or visual)
  101. Ride in a hot hair balloon, or do some other open-air flying type activity.