Tuesday 5 July 2011

80 things!

Okay, so this was meant to be posted a few days ago, but I ended up having a rather busy life, which included the arrival of my Grandmo' who flew over from the middle east, seeing the Waddington Airshow and more work...


The first 80 things however are complete and are...
  1. 1.To learn The Cave - Mumford and Sons on Ukulele. 
  2. 2.Writing and recording an actual song!
  3. 3.To learn to make 100 things using origami!
  4. 4.To draw/paint/getartfunky something that means creativity... 
  5. 5.Learn French!
  6. 6.Cycle from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland (I was going to walk/hike it, but a dear friend pointed out that that may take a considerably long time...)
  7. 7.Write a book
  8. 8.Write a comic book series.
  9. 9.Dye my hair a crazy colour (I'm thinking blue...)
  10. 10.Get a tattoo
  11. 11.Sleep outside and look at the stars
  12. 12.Donate blood
  13. 13.Break a world record
  14. 14.Learn all the moves to a dance
  15. 15.Stop biting my nails
  16. 16.Read the bible, the WHOLE way through.
  17. 17.Run a marathon
  18. 18.Go to France (Test out the French and all)
  19. 19.Rap a whole song
  20. 20.Meet John Green 
  21. 21.Get a badge from Charlie Mcdonnel.
22.Meet Warren Ellis, my favourite comic book Author of all time..
23.Learn to Drive (I don't know how to prove that to you...)
24. Do a blog everyday for a month
25.Have £1000 at any given time in the bank.
26.Be on the Ministry Team (Every year I go to a thing called Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage and the ministry team are the beasts of the whole entire thing)
27. Make a list of all the things I want to own, and buy them.
28.Touch my toes (I am about as flexible as a rock.)
29.Go without Caffeine for a month (I'm rather an addict)
30.Do the picture a day project in 2012
31.Start a vlog to coincide with this blog
32.Write and direct a short film
33.Get 100 followers
34.Stay up for 24 hours
36.Do something for Charity, not sure which, and this may coincide with another number on the list...
37.Write a song with my Mother, she's a writing inspiration, I still love reading all her angsty poems from when she was a teen.
38.Teach my little brother something that would be useful
39.Make a scrapbook
40.Visit the family in South Africa
41.Read the whole Lord of the Rings series
42.Spend an hour a week meditating
43.Go on holiday abroad without Family accompaniment
44.Do a course in massaging/masseuse
45.Do volunteer work
46.Visit the British library
47.Join the gym
48.Learn to snowboard
49.Learn to do and complete a Rubik's cube in under a minute
50.Be a vegetarian for 21 days
51.Fold 1,000 Origami cranes and give them out to people in a well known location
52.Go on a 30 day fast
53.Make 1,000 origami flowers and throw them off a building into a mass crowd of people
54.Skydive
55.Climb a mountain
56.Plant a Tree
57.Dance in the POURING rain
58.Own a pygmy hedgehog or a turtle
59.Pick a random destination on a map and go there
60.See the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
61.Cook a recipe from every colonised continent
62.Pay £20 for a Big Issue magazine and let the seller keep the change 
63.Complete a really big Lego project
64.Spend a New Year kissing someone
65.Do a giant art project
66.Fill 5 sketchpads with drawings from random people
67.Get at least 20 random people to sing Hakuna Matata with me
68.Go to Alton Towers
69.Visit my Grandmother before she leaves living in the Middle East
70.Learn to knit
71.Make a house using ice lolly sticks
72.Make an advert for something that doesn't exist
73.Finish building my guitar
74.Build my own speakers
75.Sleep in a haunted house
76.Audition for a national talent show
77.Go in a Zorb ball
78.Deliver a Christmas/Birthday present to someone living more then 100 miles away
79.Take a girl on a date to a restraunt with a Michelin star
80.Send a letter to the 5 people who've changed my life over the past 5 years telling them how and why they've changed it.

This means that I will be starting to do all these things and have 2 years from now.
I will post another blog this week including the making of my first Origami thing and the next French phrase...
I still need suggestion from any readers, so feel free to email/comment/message me ideas, it would be muchly appreciated!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Jeff, all the best with your 80 things :) have just started following you, so keep us posted when you tick off each of your things :) :)

    Cheers Sunita :)
    http://sunitakurup.blogspot.com

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