Update!

Evidently, it's been a long time since I made this list, but as I was reminiscing, I realized I've actually accomplished a lot of the things I hadn't accomplished :P  (I'll add notes for those that I hadn't written about just below the new ones.  Pictures to come!)




1. Slow dance in the rain

2. Read the Bible

3. Serve a full-time mission 
UTSLCTMSQ Mission!  Simply the best :)

4. Drink a virgin piña colada in the rain

5. Build a snow fort

6. Read Romeo and Juliet

7. Go without facebook for 2 weeks (not included in mission time or internet-less time)

8. Share testimony with someone every fast Sunday for a year
I may have cheated, but I wrote it in my journal for my whole mission... for my future posterity, you know?

9. Do a complete fast 3 times in a row (24 hours, prayer, offering) (0/3)

10. Watch all three LoTR extended editions back to back

11. Climb 5 new trees

12. Give up the internet for 2 weeks (not included in mission time)

13. Sing in a group of less than 8 in public

14. Attend a session at the Salt Lake Temple
A few times actually ;) on the mission! God is awesome that way :) 

15. 12 days of Christmas someone

16. Full out decorate for Halloween
It's happened a couple times, but I think our Trunk or Treat was the best! 

17. Go camping with friends

18. Start and contribute monthly to a personal travel fund

19. Take a photography class

20. Take a mechanics course

21. Go snow shoeing

22. Go paintballing with a sling shot

23. Attend the family camping trip
It may have been the last one... but I'm hopeful we'll have more ;) 

24. Have “coffee” or a meal with a friend from elementary school

25. Get recertified for first aid
I did it, but now I need to do it again :/

26. Get a pet

27. Learn to be fluent in a new language

28. Pay for the person behind me at a Timmy Ho’s drive thru

29. Fly a kite

30. Learn to golf
Thank you Connor!! the BEST golf teacher ever! Apparently I have some natural skills ;p 

31. Play through an RPG

32. Have three friends attend the Calgary Temple open house (0/3)
I assume more than that went, but I'm pretty sure of 1... and I think her parents went too :)

33. Accept falling in love
It's not as bad as it sometimes seems

34. Be vegetarian for a week each summer (0/3)

35. Write and send a letter once a week (x/143)

36. Take a tap or Irish dance class
Took ballet for a year! :D but... not these dances... yet ;)

37. Go on one of those crazy and pay for me rides (slingshot, bungee jumping or something)

38. Get my graduated driver’s license

39. Dress up as a famous group that goes together for Halloween

40. Not eat junk food for a month

41. Learn to play soccer properly

42. Go up the Calgary tower

43. Sew myself a dress

44. Go on a “date” with each of my direct family members (4/5)

45. Get myself drawn as an anime

46. Bring 3 names to the temple (1/3)

47. Wave to everyone I make eye contact with while driving on a road trip

48. Cook and host a more formal dinner with family and close friends

49. Have two jobs at once

50. Drive outside of Canada

51. Swim under the stars

52. Learn to play and be able to sing along to a song on guitar

53. Go to sleep before midnight for two consecutive weeks (also not included in mission time)

54. Bike on a highway

55. Go running for 30 minutes weekday mornings for 2 weeks
I didn't do this outside the mission, but I became almost an addict to running on the mission.  I have since recovered, but need to get into it again :)

56. Successfully make aji de gallina

57. Have a sleepover with all my cousins on my mom’s side

58. Wash dishes without being asked once a week for two months

59. Write 101 reasons why I love each of my siblings
They each got a list for their birthday while I was on my mission :) 

60. Catch a fish

61. Watch the three High School Musicals back to back and sing along to every song

62. Read Jesus the Christ

63. Invite a friend to take the discussions

64. Go carolling twice a winter season (1/3)

65. Get Anne of Green Gables I & II
On sale at Costco! :D

66. Learn to belay
Took a class to go on a date ;) 

67. Eat tofurkey

68. Make tamales

69. Read the Book of Mormon in Russian

70. Go canoeing in a row boat in the moonlight

71. Watch a sunset and a sunrise within 24 hours

72. Write something in my journal every day for a month

73. Go to Utah for conference
 I've actually done this a couple times now... my first October when I got back I went down with my parents and grandparents :) then again April 2015 with my best friend and roommate (same person :) ) AND I get to go again this next month! :D 

74. Read Preach My Gospel
Best idea on the misson! Even though I wasn't learning a new language... I learned to speak to my companions better :)

75. Learn to, and make alfajores on my own for someone else

76. Learn to, and make crema volteada

77. Practice piano every day for 3 weeks

78. Acquire a brass instrument for myself

79. Attend a play

80. Attend a local group’s concert

81. Shovel someone’s walk anonymously
I reckon they might've noticed by the matching shovel marks next door, but maybe not? :) 

82. Get rubber boots

83. Learn to skate properly

84. Go winter camping

85. Make meals that don’t involve rice for five days in a row

86. Drink the eight cups of water a day for a week

87. Use each of the EFY Gospel Lessons DVDs in a lesson (0/3)

88. Read 20 books over a summer (6/20)

89. Pixie someone
When I got home from my mission I made some great friends from smaller towns in Southern Alberta, and apparently, they do this a lot for fun ;p 


 

90. Learn the marinera

91. Know all 100 scripture mastery references (31/100)

92. Do my visiting teaching in the first week of the month

93. Be in three places at once

94. Learn to apply eye make up properly

95. Give out 3 Books of Mormon (1/3)

96. Give 5 compliments a day for a week

97. Learn to play harmonica

98. Learn to juggle consistently

99. Make a list of songs that remind me of each of my siblings

100. Clean each of my parents’ communal living areas (kitchen, living room, stairs, entrance) without them asking (1/2)

101. Document the fulfilling of this list with pictures and short notes

oops!

Well HELLO!!! 

I have finally fulfilled my long awaited dream of serving a full time mission! ... sadly, I failed to recognize that I wouldn't be home in time to finish the 101... but! the most important one has been completed :) and I'm happy to report it's been the greatest thing ever!  However... I think I'm going to end this blog... and move on to greater things! ... maybe make a new list? we'll see... 

143!

44. Go on a “date” with each of my direct family members #3

Went to the Stamps - Lions game back in September actually!!! and it was SO bad! we lost! :( I think... haha! I don't actually even remember that... I'm pretty sure we did... we left like... 3 mins to the end of the game, and in those 3 mins, they scored their only touch down!!! so disappointed in myself for making that call to leave :( Oh wells... we got to go to Peter's :p

 

 That there my friends are the faces of disappointment

94. Learn to apply eye make up properly

Ok, so I don't think I ever wrote about this cuz I didn't think I actually knew how... I guess it's more of an experience thing, and I'm slowly, but surely gaining that.  I'm not big on make up, so I hardly ever put it on, and when I do, apparently you can't actually tell :p but! the point is, I have a good idea of what I'm doing now thanks to a super cool cousin :)

 

This is the napkin she used to explain things to me ;p

 

 And this is my attempt to duplicate it! :)

13. Sing in a group of less than 8 in public

This is one that probably won't have any picutres... cuz it was kinda a more sombre occasion.  I sang the EFY Medley with my cousins at my grandpa's funeral this Monday morning... I think a few of us cried and therefore cracked, so it wasn't the best performance, but it was pretty amazing considering the circumstances (ie - only having ever practiced the song for the first time about 15 hours before performing and all of us being emotional).

I very much enjoyed this once it was a little more organized :) I love my cousins SO much! and honestly... I think we're all pretty invincible when we're all together :) Huzzah! and RIP Lito.

80. Read 20 books over a summer - Failed

Well, I won't be able to read 20 books, I might give it one last attempt when I get back from my mission, but in the meantime, I wanted to check out this list, and see how much I have read :) so... the ones in italics are books I haven't finished, the bold are the ones I've completely read :) The plan I think will be to finish the italicized ones in those 20... *I didn't italicize the ones that I started reading in a library and then just didn't take out... but there's a few of those too :/ :p

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *this book was a little too weird to want to finish... I rented the movie, just to see what I had given up, and I decided Emily Bronte is just... really weird! so is Charlotte Bronte... but not as weird... and they have another sister! Anne... I kinda wanna see where on the Bronte scale of lunacy she sits... :p (judged on their writings)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *The Subtle Knife was read in french! my first french novel read by choice ;p **random fact - the translation for the title is actually The Tower of the Angels

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *ok... call it blasphemy, but I think I've tried reading every single one, and never made it more than half way... if I even get by more than 3 chapters... :/ mind you... it was the same kinda deal for The Hobbit, but I eventually made it through that one too! so...

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis *... why is this on here twice?

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *ditto Chronicles of Narnia

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel *ok! I would have finished this if it wasn't for a book club, and thus having to return the book... so don't tell me how it ends!

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante *had to read some for English 20IB... or something... don't think I'll finish that one...

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola *oh man! don't read this!!! haha! we read exerpts of/ the sparks notes kinda version of it in FLA 20IB, and then we watched the movie... weird!!! and by the sounds of the other books described to us that year by him... he could be put on the scale of lunacy too

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery *aka - Le Petit Prince, I think I've read it twice and parts of it over and over again! and I went to the play ;p My kids might not like this one cuz I might just read it to them a lot :p

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


... also... there's a bunch on here I can't believe I haven't read... I think I might get to do some more reading before I leave! :p plus... there's some on here I wish I hadn't read ;p and some I know I never will ;p