Floating my way through lifes cluttered backwaters, succumbing to base piratical urges only when the tedium of todays world threatens to wash me into the mainstream.

Friday, March 09, 2007

101 Things to do in 1001 Days

Well I was baited into writing this list but found it extremely useful to sit down and actually think about what I would seriously (and not so seriously) like to achieve in the next 2.7 years. Try it!

- Start climbing again
- Construct the ultimate blinky/ elwire costume
- Enjoy what I have when I have it
- Learn moderation when it comes to alcohol
- Don't look into the eyes of others for reassurance I am not a dick, look into my own
- Get enough iron working skills so I can make my own sword
- Learn basic photography
- Write my book, then write it again spelling have properly
- Be more open with people
- Build my own Trebuchet

- Support my friends more in their musical endeavours
- Bring cowboy bootsinto fashion in Inverness
- Learn to read a analogue clock/ watch
- Expose the myth of cous cous
- Go on a decent First Aid course
- Sky Dive with a close friend
- Stop using humour to distract from actually saying stuff
- Build, beg, buy ot barter for a full set of armour
- Attend Glastonbury festival
- Dye my hair silver

- Travel the world and refrain from taking those idiotic pictures standing in front of shit
- Never be tempted into froliccing in a rowing boat again
- Execute a hoax/ stunt that makes it into the local paper
- Learn to cook a meal from scratch
- Rip it up at nowhere
- Build a tree house
- Think more with the big head
- Find, climb and name a new bouldering route after my niece
- Learn to play any instrument
- Get a piercing

- Finish this god damn fucking boat
- Shave off all my pubes
- Get a picture taken with celebrity and make bunny fingers behind there head
- Eat less junk food
- Learn to weld
- Hunt, Kill, cook an animal then make a hat from the skin
- Find a mating partner for Isaac
- Develop what makes me happy into a business so it makes me money
- Induldge in some threesome action, remember it in the morning
- Always, always put on shrink tube wrap before soldering
- Learn to drink Red wine

- Develop my survival skills to the point where I could surive if marooned on an island
- Do a Bungee Jump from a bridge
- Stop tauting gullible people with my made up answers
- Own a vintage aracade machine
- Shave my head
- Make my parents and myself proud of my life
- Be less cynical about the prospect of a happy ending
- Read the bible
- See arguments from the other persons perspective
- Host a successful dinner party on my boat
- Go snowboarding with my friends, do not use my surfboard with straps

- Streak some sporting event
- Rescue a duckling, house train it and teach it to fetch
- Inspire a song
- Find a dress that brings out my eyes
- Do what makes me happy, not what makes me money
- Learn to accept gifts without a sense of guilt
- Win a prize/ competition on the radio
- I am loud, learn to be quiet
- Understand what herbs are about and how to use them
- Learn to walk on my hands

- Be an extra in a film
- Swear less, stop using the sailor angle as an excuse
- Get up in the mornings after a maximum of 3 snoozes
- Find the balance between contement and stagnation
- Spread the word of elwire far and wide
- Have sex in a hot air balloon
- Watch a boxset of 24 in one session without screaming at Kim Bauer
- Develop an enjoyment of olives
- Learn some classic dances
- Stage Dive

- Do the Inca trail, don't die
- Notice something new every day in the familiar world around me
- Own a wardrobe consisting of no less then 50% dress up clothes
- Never attend another pointless meeting again
- Tell the people I love that I do love them, when I am sober
- Learn the trainspotting intro
- Orchestrate the scrapping of the Inverness 12am curfew
- Grow a humourously shaped vegetable, then make a soup from it
- Blag my way into a festival
- Enhance my DIY skills so I can fit out boats single handedly

- Hold a workshop on surviving the zombie apoclapyse
- Learn that sarcasm is not always appropriate
- Make more effort to visit friends further a field
- Accept compliments from those close to me without cringing or shying away
- Suprise a ninja
- Make my own cocktail that doesn't taste like wank
- Its alright to fail, its unacceptable to not even try for fear of failing
- Find someone I want to spend the rest of my life with, realise that before its too late
- Witness a tornado
- Learn to sew, super glue is not a suitable seamstressing tool

- Correspond with a different distant friend every week
- Design and ink some of my own tattoo
- Do something that scares me every month
- Own enough lego to fill a 2 person bath
- Build a small boat from scratch, with natural materials I have collected
- Live in a city abroad, England is not abroad
- Actually join a gym and use it more than once
- Learn when to stop drinking before the tiger face emerges
- Tick no less than 2 items off this list every month

3 Comments:

Blogger jamiejamiejamie said...

Brother, you can count on me for whatever piercing you want, and I'll teach you how to sew. In exchange, if you find the "free welding lessons" store, you send me the tip.

10:47 PM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

OMG Google and Blogger have become bedfellows! How long have I been able to post comments and not realised it?

Dougal, you never cease to amaze me and this Biblical list of Spring resolutions is just the latest.

I'm with you on the sword and Trebuchet, learning to read an analogue watch, travelling the world whilst not being a tourist, learning to weld, working for fun, city-living abroad, and threesomes are always on the agenda. But you're on your own with the olives, red wine, pubic itch and fruitless hours duck training.

And of course, I'm always on the lookout for a mating partner for Isacc. You're so lucky to have him in your life.

11:11 AM

 
Blogger Jessica said...

Dude...I can probably help with the basics of herbery. And leave the dress thing to Turtle and me. I recently bought 35 vintage shock frocks off ebay specifically for situations such as yours.

9:40 AM

 

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