39. Visit 24 hour K-Mart between 1am and 4am, just ’cause
19. Get up early enough to watch the sun rise over the lake
What a long morning it’s been!
The staff at Kmart were quite baffled.
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Kmart and Sunrise
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010The staff at Kmart were quite baffled.
Taco
Monday, January 18th, 201070. Eat a taco
I’ll admit, I was running out of ideas when I thought of this. Nevertheless… my photographic evidence:
Dinner!
In other news, my hair looks good right now, because my sister received a GHD hair straightener in the mail that she ordered from the internet. We tried it out.
Block of Chocolate
Sunday, January 17th, 201052. Buy a block of chocolate and eat it over the space of a week
Om nom nom
This one was a toughie.
I love chocolate so much, normally any chocolate in the house is gone within 4 hours or so. But, one week ago I bought a 200g block of Cocoa Belgian chocolate, and am now in between typing, eating the final two squares.
Tiramisu and Boost Juice
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Hey look! Two wins in one day!
72. Make tiramisu
44. Drink a large Boost Juice
At Boost today, I bought a large (well, they call the size “original” but that doesn’t mean anything) green tea and mango super juice. It took me a good half an hour to finish off.
Tonight, I made a very ugly but VERY delicious tiramisu.
It’s like that Picnic ad. “Deliciously… ugly.”
Moving to Mangerton
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Fairy Meadow?
Mangerton is such an ugly word. With other suburbs in Wollongong having names such as Fairy Meadow and Figtree, Mangerton is a pretty unappealing name for a place to live. But, really it’s a lovely area.
Which is just as well, since we’re moving there on the 12th of February.
Yes, we were offered the Mangerton house. And the Figtree place, too. But, they wanted us in there too soon. We were pleased as punch today, after two harrowing inspections that turned out to be a waste of time, to be called by the real estate agent and told our application was accepted.
We are going to have a dishwasher. Is that not incredible?
It is to me… I detest washing the dishes, at least during summer where I am drenched with sweat by the end.
On the date we sign the lease, I will be able to tick off #69 on my 101 things list.
Best of all, we’re going to have more space… and a dining room. And we get to take a month to pack up rather than a week.
2 Litres
Saturday, January 9th, 201031. Drink 2 litres of water in one day
Well, I did it today. By gum, it was damn easy. Today was hot. Really, really hot. So hot I had to keep fanning myself at work, and it was air conditioned in there. I went through one and a half 1.5 litre bottles of water in the space of six hours.
Well, one down. Only 100 to go.
101 Things in 1001 Days
Friday, January 8th, 2010Yeah, I’m a sucker for these things.
Also on Skippy’s blog was a reference to 101 things in 1001 days, a long-term goals project focusing on doing a set list of things in the ensuing 1001 days precisely. For me, the end date is going to be Friday, 5 October 2012 (calculated using this tool). That’s shortly before the Mayan apocalypse, right?
Anyway, I have finished my list and here it is! I’ll be 
ticking them off as I go.
- Get a full-time job that I don’t hate
- Read the Hitchhiker’s Guide series
- Make one new local offline friend
- Quit Woolworths (in conjunction with #1)
- If I can’t buy a house yet, at least save up $10,000+
- Get down to 85kg or lighter, and keep it that way
- Get the matching tattoos my sister and I have been planning since we were in England
- Actually edit a NaNoWriMo novel
- Try to get novel published
- Hold the “plank” exercise for 60 seconds or more
- Go to the gym twice in one day
- Go to the gym every day from Monday-Saturday (it’s closed Sundays) for at least one week
- See a psychiatrist about my anxiety
- Have my gonadectomy
- Release the first issue of Ather & Earth
- Visit New Zealand
- Go on a road trip
- Go to the beach and go in the water (you’d think this would be an easy one, considering I live right by a beach… but I just never go)
- Get up early enough to watch the sun rise over the lake
- Pay off my Barter Card balance and close my account
- Learn to use a Javascript library
- Own a smart phone, preferably a Google one
- Visit the Blue Mountains
- Find out if I’m allergic to any food
- Have a shift at Woolworths where I do not want to scream in frustration
- Go one day without coffee
- Go two days without using a computer or video game of any kind
- Go one month where I work on Ather & Earth every single day.
- Go a month without buying anything made of chocolate or chocolate flavoured or containing chocolate
- Settle into a smooth weekly routine
- Drink 2 litres of water in one day
- Earn over $40k in one year
- Radically change my hair
- Spend a night out without having a panic attack
- Cook a gourmet meal on my own
- Connect my computer to my TV to become a Media Centre
- Buy better wheels for my rollerskates
- Quit playing Bejeweled
- Visit 24 hour K-Mart between 1am and 4am, just ’cause
- Visit Jamberoo Action Park
- Buy a DSLR camera
- Move to a bigger house
- Be complimented on my home by a visitor
- Drink a large Boost Juice
- Catch and eat a fish
- Get a perfect score on Rhythm Kung Fu (Advanced) in Wii Fit Plus
- Refrain from eating anything sugary on Christmas Day
- Buy that Beatles collection on the USB flash drive in the green apple
- Make delicious cocktails at home
- Roast green coffee beans in a popcorn maker
- Watch all Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes
- Buy a block of chocolate and eat it over the space of a week rather than all at once
- Win something. Anything.
- Finish at least the first draft of at least two novels
- Get my car’s headlights fixed
- Build a new shoe rack
- Learn how to use the washer-dryer properly
- Go one month without seeing an insect or arachnid in the house
- Go on a waterslide
- Get a kitten
- Meet three people in person that I met online
- Clean up my Gmail and keep up with all the emails instead of just looking at them all, sighing, and closing the tab
- Visit Uluru
- Get revenge on someone
- Bake fresh bread
- Go to bed at 9:30pm
- Spend a full day exclusively in bed except for using the bathroom
- Make a really horribly designed website for fun
- Live in the Greater Wollongong area
- Eat a taco
- Brew stout beer
- Make tiramisu
- Find a cake wreck and submit it to Cake Wrecks
- Make steak and stout pot pies
- Consider myself a responsible adult
- See Melbourne when it’s sunny
- Finish Final Fantasy V
- Feel financially secure
- Skate backwards for three laps at the skating rink
- Make scouse
- Make Irish soda bread
- Make soda bread ice cream
- Go to Bowral
- Borrow a book from the local library
- Make real buttermilk pancakes topped with sliced strawberries and pure maple syrup
- See the New Years fireworks in Sydney Harbour
- Have a picnic on the grass
- Wander the Haywards Bay home display village
- Take my parents out to dinner
- Learn how to take care of my car properly
- Make a sand sculpture
- Visit Caringbah Shopping Village for the first time since 2007
- Eat at Outback Steakhouse
- Buy a deck of Uno cards
- Visit the Southern Gateway Centre
- Walk on the Sea Cliff Bridge
- Stay awake for 35 hours straight, and see if I start hallucinating
- Get some new bedroom décor
- Make an animated short
- Eat at the Nan Tien Temple
- Go hang-gliding
