What I found in the Mail this Morning...

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Full to do list

And I'm closing the lottery as well as posting the whole ideas of things to do this year list.

And the winners!
Randomly chosen: #14 ekolter from USA
And two more for good ideas:
sofiangie from Russia for the fun calendar idea
Isabella from Brazil for the kisses, one week trip without telling anyone and the one day as a character ideas 

Some stats about the list:  there are 242 entries made by 41 person from 21 country.

Write a book (you can start with a story you imagined).
Write a fan fiction story and post it (it's free and a perfect way to express yourself as a fan of a book, movie, drama, etc.).
Write a scenario for a movie or imagine an alternative ending of a serial or a movie.
Try to think what unicorns eat for breakfast and tell this story to your friends.
Write a story about your life so far.
Keep a personal diary (write it by hand and decorate the notebook for it) or an online journal.
Read a lot of books!
Read at least one book considered 'classic'.
Read a book of poetry.
Read a foreign language book (for example in English, if it’s foreign to you).
Start reading Chicken Soup for the Soul: Campus Chronicles.
Make a list of the books you have read and every month compare it with your friends and talk about them.
Learn a poem.
Write on a paper the 20 things you are good at.
Make a list of crazy things you always wanted to do, and this year to do all things on the list.
Start learning a new language (for example Russian or Lithuanian) and read an entire book (a children's book, to pick the simplest) in that language.
Learn an exotic language and shock your friends.
Make better the language you already speak.
Learn how to say 'I love you' in five new languages!
Learn to say HI in all European languages.
Redecorate/design your place or your bedroom; for example, decorate it with foreign ornaments or souvenirs.
Buy the biggest palm and put it in the center of your room.
Decorate your room in a new way for every new season's starting (first day of spring, summer...) and invite your friends to share it with them and have a party.
Clean your closets and find interesting things.
Try a new image (make-up, hairstyle and hair color once in 3 months).
Change your haircut by yourself.
Dress up with different style.
Give every nail a different color nail polish.
Start doing sports (or doing it more regularly) to enjoy and feel fit.
Try a new sport.
Take dancing lessons.
Make at least one yoga class.
Go ice-skating.
Run a marathon for a cause.
Be healthy!
Start learning a new card game like bridge, poker etc.
Learn to play an instrument.
Learn to play "Clocks" from Coldplay on piano.
Get a driving license, if you are the right age.
Learn how to paint.
Learn to write with your other hand.
Learn a new game to play.
Take a class that is not in your field of study - in fact that is far from your field of study!
Learn to take and develop film photos - how old-fashioned!
Take a surf course.
Jump with parachute - it will make you believe in yourself more than you ever did.
Ride a snowboard.
Try skydiving.
Go to a Japanese tea ceremony class.
Read something about the history of your town/city.
Learn the history of your family.
Learn Constellations.
Learn to drive a motorcycle.
Go to a cooking class or a special class.
Learn all world countries and their capitals by heart.
Study a little philosophy.
Try orienteering.
Try geocaching.
Couchsurf.
Join a choir; no matter if you think you sing out of tune.
Join a club/activity at school that you know next to nothing about.
Start a new collection and collect strange things and start a museum.
Make theater.
Try some new hobby.
Find new passion.
Make something handmade.
Spend rainy days doing cross-stitching (learn it if you need to).
Learn quilling or scrapbooking.
Take part in Bookcrossing.
Leave a Postsecret in a book at your local bookshop for a stranger to discover.
DO POSTCROSSING!
Send or adopt a traveling toy.
Start a new RR, traveling toy or a notebook.
Design your own postcard.
Write cards in reverse.
Start collecting a certain type of postcard from around the globe, like map cards, ad cards, etc.
Receive such a postcard to enjoy it a few days.
Send 100 postcards.
Receive 200 postcards.
Make a lottery for Easter.
Make a lottery for Christmas.
Do this lottery again in the end of the year for 2012.
Send cheerful cards to random addresses in your city.
Help rrooss with the seal project.
Write and send postcards to your friends for their birthdays.
Send some Birthday cards to children from orphanages (addresses, dates and names can be taken from volunteers).
Knit a pair of socks and mittens for a newborn baby.
Baby-sit a child.
Volunteer somewhere that you find very special like an origination or a local charity.
Join an environmental project.
Become a volunteer at a shelter for dogs, cats.
Do some volunteering work like help in painting murals in a school.
Do a random act of kindness each week.
Donate money anonymously to someone having a hard time.
Be a blood and/or organ donor.
Help and bring an old person across the street.
Help a friend in his/her studies (then, at the same time, you can strengthen your knowledge about that particular subject and become closer with your friends).
Buy an unusual present for a person you love or care about and give it to him\her without reason.
Send your best friend lots of flowers.
Make a painting and give it as present to your relative.
Tell every person who is close to you how you love him.
Hug someone everyday: family, friends, pets, it doesn't matter.
Throw a surprise party for someone.
Smile everyday to everyone you meet, even unknown people.
Meet new people.
Make new friends.
Make a friend from foreign country.
Make a new friend by pen-palling and try and get a pen pal from a country that few people have heard of (or just one where you don't have a pal from yet!).
Organize a penpal meeting.
Strike up conversations with strangers on the bus/train/at the bookstore etc.
Have a meeting with a person you haven't seen a lot.
Reconnect with a friend from your past that you have lost touch with.
Visit a family member you haven’t seen for a very long time.
Spend a weekend visiting your family.
Visit one member of your family (any of them, besides mom and dad) every month.
Spend every day a bit of time with your dearest ones.
Go out with your friends at least once a week.
Talk to a senior about his experience.
Write a letter to someone faraway.
Go to a speed date party.
Spend a night on the roof with bottle of wine and great company.
Pay a visit to someone who is alone.
Become friends with someone who needs a friend.
Meet a person whose birthday the same day as yours.
Visit your first teacher.
Interview someone you admire.
Buy flowers for yourself.
Buy a gift for yourself.
Knit something for yourself.
Compose your own song which will make you happy at any time or draw some nice things to you.
Each month reserve at least one day just for yourself (for your hobbies or for things in which you enjoy the most).
Lock yourself in your house, unplug the phone and indulge in sinful food and your favorite movies for a weekend.
Spend an entire day by yourself - watch a movie, go shopping and then dine at a restaurant all alone, just for the experience.
Sleep a whole day.
Find at your parents' home some drawings and diaries from your childhood and spend an evening or two with them.
Phone to the radio station, and ask them your favorite song.
Kiss someone you've always wanted to kiss (is not necessarily a romantic kiss can be a brotherly kiss on a friend).
One time, when you come into a food shop and see something you really want, take it and buy it without thinking that, for example, it's too much calories.
Eat a kilogram of candy.
Cook for all your friends.
Try new recipes.
Cook some new and complicated dish.
Taste some new cuisine, for example Thai.
Cook a foreign dish (like Adobo!).
Eat Finnish traditional Easter dish "mämmi".
Drink a different flavored tea for a month.
Eat a VERY, VERY, VERY hot food.
Eat things you don't like.
Eat something you grew yourself (after cooking it, if necessary).
Start to grow herbs.
Go to some place you always wanted to be for a week and not tell anyone where you were.
Go somewhere where you can feel free, it can be the calm lovely place or loud cities like Rome or Barcelona or landscapes.
Travel to a country on another continent.
Go on work/vacation in a country far away.
Leave on an extremely spontaneous trip of more than 2 days with less than an hour of planning.
Travel around your country by yourself.
Visit local places you haven't been to before.
Take the train to the end of the line and to the beginning of the line.
Take the train and visit some cities not far from yours.
Travel 300 Kms on train to somewhere just to get your breakfast.
Take a bicycle tour around your city.
Spend a whole day walking the streets of your city. You will discover things you never knew about it. And also think about things to improve in it.
Spend the night walking the streets of your town.
Hitchhike.
Go hiking with family or friends and spend one week with them in nature in wild landscape far away from civilization.
Climb the highest mountain in your country.
Make a trip to the mountain side and sleep in the tent.
Go to the top of a mountain and scream as loud as you can.
Visit a place where you can horseback-ride, and do that.
Do horse-riding on the beach.
Visit Poland if you haven’t made it or revisit it.
Travel to Spain and run a away from a bull.
Visit britanica in Lithuania.
Go to the seaside.
Go to the sea in winter.
Come back to your native town.
Go to a music festival.
Go to an unusual festival/celebration.
Visit every weekend a museum or art gallery.
Go to any unusual exhibition of a museum at least once.
Watch the Japanese animation "Spirited Away".
Watch a movie from the year you were born.
Do a movies marathon (like a drama marathon for more than 5 hours).
Watch all the Harry Potter movies in 1 day.
Watch a list of "100 Greatest Films" that you can find on Google.
Watch at least one new movie in cinema each month.
Go to the cinema on a spontaneously chosen film, which you had never heard of!
Go to see independent films.
Listen to new music, something out of your taste.
Listen to a new band every month for the year.
Buy Iron Maiden’s CD and adore the music.
Try photography with a simple point and shoot camera.
Take a lot of nice pictures and make a special album with the best ones!
Print your best photos of all your life and do an album with them.
Take a picture of yourself each morning during 3 years.
Go to the hospital and make a photo of your teeth.
Go to the party with costumes.
Ware a crazy costume on Halloween.
Start gardening on your windowsill or on a flowerbed near the place you live.
Have a Mini Garden.
Plant a tree, a rose bush or take care of potted plants.
Buy or adopt a pet.
Buy an orange fish and call him Nemo and a blue one called Dory.
Make your own birdhouse or a feeding-rack for birds at your window.
Do something out of character.
Make an extraordinary act.
Always say Yes, as Jim Carrey did.
Say YES to everything at least for one day.
Live one day as a character.
Follow the example of the main character of the "Julie and Julia" movie.
Think about your future by not copying others close to you.
Work on a liner that makes trips around the world thus you can both see the world and earn some money.
Take part in a flash mob.
Sing karaoke.
Finish a 100-300 piece puzzle by yourself.
Start a Time Capsule.
Sell any books that you don't need anymore and earn some $.
Swim naked in the sea at night.
Buy a retro thing.
Start your own business.
Start a great web shop.
Start recycling.
Draw graffiti behind your house.
See a sunset over the sea and a sunrise over the roofs.
Dance on the top of a disco counter.
Take a bath in a public fountain.
Make a snowman.
Get a tattoo.
Send a message in a bottle.
Spend a night in a haunted house.
Buy a new orchid.
Look in the mirror and stick out your tongue.
Do training through the whole country.
Blow lots of bubbles and enjoy it with children.
Dance in the street.
Dance in the rain.
Follow the system of FLY LADY here http://flylady.com/ even if you do not live in chaos.
Enjoy every single day of your life with this site http://www.kalen-dar.ru/.
Live your dream.
Keep smiling.
Love and be loved.
Sit on the chair and hardly say "uffff" when you will finish my list.

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