100 Moments of Joy

or..making sure I can hear an opportunity when it knocks (reposted from the original blogpost):

  1. Fix the stylings for my lists
  2. Complete an August Break 2011
  3. Learn to swing dance
  4. Rock-climb
  5. Chop down a tree
  6. Make butter
  7. Learn to sew clothes
  8. Screen print my own designs
  9. Play the ukulele
  10. Swim with a whale shark
  11. See the Aurora Borealis
  12. Learn and retell 5 great stories
  13. Have a worm farm
  14. Keep chickens
  15. Make a quilt
  16. Adopt a dog
  17. Decorate a cake (with a piping bag)
  18. Enjoy runnning 5 km
  19. Keep a vegetable garden
  20. Cook and serve each Jamie Oliver 30 Minute Meal
  21. Move back to New Zealand
  22. Attend Webstock 2012 in Wellington (booked and paid for!)
  23. Practice Yoga
  24. Perfect 5 cocktails
  25. Learn to make a rosetta pattern in a cafe latte (still can't get this right)
  26. Complete a year-long photographic self portrait project
  27. Use a telescope to become familiar know the night sky
  28. Memorise the periodic table
  29. Learn a Shakespearian sonnet
  30. Complete an exercise bootcamp
  31. Learn up to the 24 multiplication times table
  32. Make sausages
  33. Learn to sing the Maori version of the New Zealand national anthem
  34. Find out how to mend socks
  35. Wallpaper a room
  36. Fly a camera on a kite/balloons and take aerial photos
  37. Learn to make the best chocolate cake
  38. Finish building thejamjar.com
  39. Learn more about databases, MySQL and PHP
  40. Drive everywhere in the Mini! (on track/off road :)
  41. Make bread
  42. Make a video with real life and animation
  43. Create a comic
  44. Add podcasts to the blog
  45. Attend Web Directrions South 2011
  46. Copy Fox and Nerdfighteria and read The Great Gatsby
  47. Knit a pair of socks
  48. Buy a new MacBook Pro
  49. Sew a skirt, a dress and a shirt for myself
  50. Remember to send family birthday cards during 2012
  51. Find 48 more joyous things to do!

 

Man, finding 100 is harder that it looks - any suggestions for the list? Have you created a list like this for yourself?

UPDATED THOUGHT: looking at this list it could be reframed as a list of blog posts. I wonder if I think of it that way it might be easier to take it up to my arbitrary 100.