#41 Done #61, 63, 64 on their way.

Well, I've made a good dent in my list this week. I purchased a new Pioneer DVD burner to replace my old Plextor one. It was an awesome drive up untill the day I knocked it off the edge of my desk. It was just never the same after that, refused to burn any disks. So that crosses off task #41 from my List.

While out garage saling this weekend, I picked up my first set of alcohol glasses to go with item #73 on my list. To own 6 sets of different types of alcohol glasses. I found a bunch of beer glasses and bought them for a whopping $2.50. That leaves me with only 5 more sets of glasses to buy.


I also started 2 longer tasks at the beginning of this week. #63 - Keeping my room clean for a month, and # 64 - Making my bed every morning for a month. I have to say, it really hasn't been hard to do. 30 seconds to make my bed every morning and just a few minutes to pick up my dirty clothes really helps kep my room looking clean. And it really feels good to come home after a long day of work and walk into a clean and tidy room and sit down at a clean desk. It's very relaxing.

This weekend I also bought the supplies to start building a head board for my bed which begins task # 61 on the list. Who knew that wood was so expensive. I spent just over 100 bucks and I really didn't buy all that much. I'm going to start working on it tomorrow. I doubt it'll take me that long to throw it together.

101 in 1001

Here is my list of 101 thing that I hope to accomplish in the following 1001 days.
I have from:
May 15, 2006 to Febuary 9, 2009 to complete all these tasks.

Some will be easy, others will be quite difficult, but I'm gonna give it a shot and see how I do.
Things in GREEN are in the process of being done.
Things in RED, are tasks that I have accomplished already.

Health

1. Weight around 180 lbs.
2. Exercise, 3X/week for 2 months
3. Complete 100 push-ups straight.
4. Do 30 pushups and 30 sit-ups everyday for a month.
5. Drink 8 glasses of water a day for a month.

Financial

6. Place $500 dollars a month into a savings account.
7. Place a dollar a day into a jar. Celebrate on Day 1001.
8. Have invested at least $5000 in RRSP or other investments.
9. Write down everything I spend money on in 1 month.

Making Me Better

10. Sign up and take a photography course.
11. Get my SCUBA certification.
12. Go 72 hours without using a computer or accessing the web.
13. Get some Microsoft programming certifications.
14. Read 3 Michael Crichton books that I haven’t read yet (Or seen the movie of if possible). - (3 / 3 complete - State of Fear, The Great Train Robbery , Airframe).
    
15. Sign up for a cooking course.
16. Speak without swearing for a week.
17. Get a Pleasure Craft Operators card.
18. Be in a serious romantic relationship.
19. Have an eye exam.
20. Take a bartending class.
21. Learn to shave with an old fashion razor.
22. Live on my own

Food

23. Make others try some Kangaroo meat.
24. Learn to cook a fancy French dish, an Italian dish, and a South American dish.
25. Eat at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.
26. Don’t drink any pop for 2 weeks.
27. Try 10 new restaurants. (10 / 10 - Baton Rouge, Spirit's, The Pilot, Burgundy's Toby's, and a whole bunch in Europe)
    
28. Make a recipe book of all Mom’s / Grandma’s recipes.
29. Go to a famous American burger chain that isn’t available in Canada (Hardeys, Big Boy, In and Out, but not White Castle as I’ve been there, done that).
30. Don’t eat any fast food for 2 weeks.

Sports

31. Go to a Toronto Maple Leafs game.
32. Play at least 4 rounds of golf in a year.
33. Catch a Muskie while fishing.
34. Go white water rafting.
35. Get involved / play in a hockey league.
36. Practice playing pool for 4 hours a week for 2 months.

Things To Buy

37. Buy a house/condo.
38. Buy a high definition TV.
39. Have a full set of 6 English style beer mugs.
40. Buy something from the Pottery Barn over $50.
41. Get a new DVD burner. - 5/27.2006
    
42. Buy something really interesting/unique at a garage sale. (Stella Beer Sign)
    
43. Buy no tech stuff (hardware, software, DVD’s) for a month.
44. Buy a fireproof safe.
45. Buy an original piece of art that I like. - (Turned out to be some of my own art. Got Photos printed and framed.)
    

Travel

45. Travel to somewhere in Europe
46. Travel to at least 4 different countries. (4 / 4 England, Wales, France, Holland)
47. Spend a day as a tourist in Downtown Toronto taking pictures.
48. Go camping
49. Get a years pass to the zoo and visit 3 times (3 / 3)
50. Take a road trip that crosses a boarder (Country or provincial - England to Wales)
51. Film a road trip from the dashboard of the car and them edit it so the trip only takes about 10 minutes.
52. Go to Vegas and actually win money.
53. Go to a rock concert.
54. View a waterfall.
55. Attending a live taping of a TV show.
56. Go to an F1 race.
57. *private*.

Home-Related Things

58. Bake a large gingerbread house based on a real building (Opera House, Sydney harbour bridge, White house as ideas).
59. Get a plant for my bedroom.
60. Get new albums for Australia photos and write comments for all pictures.
61. Build a headboard for my bed.
62. Clean the entire house without being asked.
63. Keep my room perfectly clean for 1 month.
64. Make my bed every morning for 1 month.
65. Build a large case/tower to house my DVD’s.
66. Build a platform for a train track around the ceiling of a room.
67. Buy an expensive map and place a pin on every place I've been.

Booze

69. Drink a full case of beer in a 24-hour period (Re-in-act slab day).
70. Buy and drink a $100 bottle of wine.
71. Write a beer diary database program and review at-least 20 new beers ( 0 / 20)
72. Go to a beer festival (Got the tickets, going on Aug 12th).
73. Build a bar or buy at least a set of 6 glasses of 6 different types (36 glasses in total). - (Bought 6 beer glasses, 6 Martini Glasses, 6 High ball, 6 Old Fashioned, 6 Champaign, 6 Shot Glasses)
    

Technology & Entertainment

74. Watch the 100 top movies on IMDB’s top 250-movie list - link.
75. Own all episodes of the X-Files on DVD (Own Season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9)
76. Buy then watch the Matrix trilogy in one day.
77. Watch every episode of the X-Files (Season 1,2,3 and 4 completed).
78. Program a DVD cataloging database program.
79. Record a video diary for a month.
80. Back up all my MP3’s and TV Shows. - 6/2/06
    
81. Finish Grandpa’s videos of the East Coast.
82. Shoot at least a 5-minute stop motion film.
83. Post this list in a blog. - 6/15/06

Misc. Things to Do

84. Buy/sell something on e-bay (2 Foster's beer glasses with a deck of Foster's playing cards).
85. Get an old time photo taken.
86. Cook a meal seen on a cooking show.
87. Take Mom and Dad to dinner on me.
88. Send care packages to friends in Australia.
89. Release a message in a bottle.
90. Kiss a girl on New Years Eve.
91. Take a good photo and have it blown up and hang on the wall (Bigger than 8x10).
92. Build a snowman.
93. Bleach or Dye my hair.
94. Have a big spaghetti dinner with a bunch of guests and make all the pasta and sauce from scratch.
95. Collect at least 50 quotes that I find moving or funny. (50 / 50)
96. Smoke 5 different high-end cigars.
(2 / 5 - Montecristo #4, Jose L. Piedra Cazadores )
97. Colour an entire colouring book with crayons.
98. Hold a weekend away for the guys at the cottage.
99. Do something extreme (sky-diving, bungee jumping, etc…)
100. Grow my MP3 collection to 15,000 songs. (currecntly 15,500 songs
aprox.)

101. Create a next list of 101 things to do for the 1001 days

#74 - IMDB's top 100 movies

Titles in BOLD are movies that I have seen

43 / 100 left to watch

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. Seven Samurai (1954)
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Pulp Fiction (1994)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. The Usual Suspects (1995)
16. City of God (2002)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
18. 12 Angry Men (1957)
19. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
21. Citizen Kane (1941)
22. Psycho (1960)
23. Goodfellas (1990)
24. Memento (2000)
25. North by Northwest (1959)
26. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
27. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
28. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
29. Amelie(2001)
30. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32. American Beauty (1999)
33. Fight Club (1999)
34. Vertigo (1958)
35. The Matrix (1999)
36. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
37. Taxi Driver (1976)
38. Apocalypse Now (1979)
39. Paths of Glory (1957)
40. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
41. Se7en (1995)
42. Downfall (2004)
43. Chinatown (1974)
44. The Pianist (2002)
45. Léon (1994)
46. The Third Man (1949)
47. American History X (1998)
48. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
49. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
50. Spirited Away (2001)
51. Boot, Das (1981)
52. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
53. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
54. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
55. L.A. Confidential (1997)
56. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
57. Alien (1979)
58. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
59. M (1931)
60. Sin City (2005)
61. Metropolis (1927)
62. Rashômon (1950)
63. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
64. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
65. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
66. The Shining (1980)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
69. Modern Times (1936)
70. Double Indemnity (1944)
71. Raging Bull (1980)
72. Some Like It Hot (1959)
73. All About Eve (1950)
74. Rebecca (1940)
75. The Great Escape (1963)
76. Aliens (1986)
77. Touch of Evil (1958)
78. Life is Beautiful (1997)
79. Amadeus (1984)
80. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
81. The Incredibles (2004)
82. The Sting (1973)
83. Batman Begins (2005)
84. Strangers on a Train (1951)
85. Jaws (1975)
86. Crash (2004)
87. On the Waterfront (1954)
88. City Lights (1931)
89. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
90. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
91. The Apartment (1960)
92. Forrest Gump (1994)
93. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
94. Braveheart (1995)
95. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
96. Blade Runner (1982)
97. Cinema Paradiso (1989)
98. Notorious (1946)
99. Donnie Darko (2001)
100. The Seventh Seal (1957)