Photo by Beth77 (on flickr)

No, not a post about reaching my estimated due date without the arrival of gyermek… Instead, this is about the Day Zero Project, where you set yourself 101 tasks to complete in 1001 days.

Unfortunately, pregnancy brain really seems to have taken hold and I wrote this post with the intention that I could complete another task, that of writing a blog post every day for a week. However, when I returned to the list I found that that wasn’t actually one of the tasks that I had set myself. It does mean that I am 25% of the way towards task no. 13 (to blog every day for a month), although I would be incredibly ambitious to believe that I could complete this run, given that today is the due date and if gyermek doesn’t make an appearance in the next 14 days, I will be induced. Oh well, I’ve still got more than 950 days to go… 

Day Zero tasks

1. Eat at 10 new restaurants – already three new restaurants down (mainly because we’re getting out and about as much as we can in these last few days before gyermek arrives).
2. Read 10 non-fiction books – two down, eight more to go!
3. Finish off the nursery (part 1) – this will be complete once the cot arrives (any day now.
4. Learn some new knitting stitches – learned how to do extended moss stitch this week; not quite sure when I’ll allow myself to call this task completed – how many is “some” after all?!
5. Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years
6. Ice skate on a lake
7. Buy something from Etsy
8. Attend a film festival
9. See the Northern Lights
10. See 10 classic movies I’ve never seen
11. Go ice skating
12. Host a tea party
13. Participate in NaBloPoMo
14. Learn how to play poker
15. Make snow angels
16. Don’t complain about anything for a week
17. Take a photography class
18. Make my own bread
19. Photograph a landscape from the same location, capturing all four seasons
20. Bury a time capsule
21. Visit 5 parks or public gardens
22. Take more photos
23. Host a board game night
24. Visit Japan
25. Visit Australia
26. Learn Swedish
27. Make a font out of my handwriting
28. Learn CPR
29. Bake bread
30. Improve my posture
31. Visit 5 new museums
32. Read War & Peace
33. Learn how to play chess
34. Blog at least once a week
35. Learn more about wine
36. Wear false eyelashes
37. Floss at least once a week
38. Inspire someone else to make their own 101 in 1001 list
39. Visit the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi
40. Wear nothing black for a whole week
41. Visit the Eden Project
42. Start a new family tradition
43. Get rid of 101 things I don´t need or want
44. Take a photo of 26 things, one for each letter of the alphabet and post on my blog
45. Drink more water
46. Tie notes to five balloons and let them free
47. Go to the library, close my eyes and pick a random book that I have to read
48. Get a cleaner
49. Sell something on Etsy
50. Send someone flowers, just because
51. Take 1001 photographs
52. Attend wine tasting
53. Buy cakes from Betty’s
54. Walk the York wall
55. Read 100 books from 1001 books to read before you die list
56. Lose the baby weight that I have put on
57. Finish knitting gyermek’s blanket
58. Finish putting our wedding photos into the album
59. Learn how to use the DSLR camera properly
60. Buy some artwork/photos for the walls
61. Make use of Spotify more often
62. Teach myself the basics of calligraphy
63. Call my personal trainer and restart training
64. Remember birthdays
65. End the 1001 days with the same plants I started with
66. Keep my desk at home tidy
67. Buy a piece of secondhand furniture and renovate it
68. Finish off the nursery (part 2)
69. Learn CSS and update blog layout
70. Visit Patagonia
71. Travel somewhere by steam train
72. Revisit the British Museum
73. See a Formula One race live
74. Take a trip to see the Norwegian fjords
75. Buy a summer house
76. Read five books that have won the Booker prize
77. Take that large pile of clothes and shoes to the charity shop
78. Have a difficult conversation instead of deflecting and avoiding when it arises
79. Make eye contact and smile with each person I encounter for a day instead of looking away
80. Organise wardrobe and give what I don’t want to charity
81. Learn to ski properly
82. Put away 101kr for each completed task – the total to be spent shopping at the end of my 1001 days
83. Run Tjejmilen in Stockholm
84. Comment on others’ blogs more
85. Learn a new word in Swedish every day for 4 weeks
86. See an opera here in Stockholm
87. Revisit Budapest, taking the little one with us
88. Drink champagne for breakfast
89. See the Changing of the Guard in London
90. Visit St Paul’s Cathedral
91. Have a meal at The Fat Duck
92. Have a meal at Noma in Copenhagen
93. Have a meal at Mattias Dahlgren
94. Start a photo blog – another challenge completed (English Mamma’s photos)
95. Have a meal at Frantzen/Lindeberg
96. Visit the Victoria & Albert Museum
97. Learn how to use Photoshop properly
98. Go mushroom picking
99. Write birth plan – tick!
100. Finish packing hospital bag – tick!
101. Finish adding 101 tasks to this list! – tick!

Why not have a go too and let me know how you get on. I’ll be posting on my progress from time to time (4% done so far) up until my deadline of 2 January 2013.