101 Things to do in 1001 Days
Health:
01. No soda for a month. (Andrew finished)
02. No fast food for a month (limit twice a week for when working) (Andrew finished)
03. No nail biting for 3 weeks (*Andrew and Brian have finished)
04. 700 push-ups and 700 sit-ups over 2 week span
05. No eating past
06. Receive a professional/proper massage
Food & Drink:
07. Try 30 different alcoholic beverages we've never had before (No idea where we are all at, but we're getting up there)
08. Chug a Das Boot
09. Eat 24 (traditional) wings each (6 must be a sauce hotter than we're used to)
10. Eat an entire meal with chopsticks (Brian and Alex completed)
11. Eat at 10 restaurants we've never eaten at before (at least 3.5)
Bad Habits:
12. Be on time for everything for a week (mostly Alex)
13. No texting during movies (no full conversations, can answer with “busy, ttyl”) (so far, no problems)
14. No being a douche for a week (The Witz completed)
15. Be decisive (make instinctive decisions)
16. No swearing for a day (includes “that’s what she said”) [slap penalty]
17. Delete Myspace account/Don’t check Facebook for a week. (Brian and Andrew completed)
18. No quoting lines while watching something we've seen before. (slap penalty)
Challenges:
19. Save $3000
20. Deposit $50 every two weeks into savings (can’t touch until after 1001 days)
21. Quit Showplace/Target/etc.
22. Get better, “real,” better paying jobs
23. No quoting movies/t.v. shows/etc. for a day (includes “that’s what she said”)
24. No texting for a day (Andrew completed)
25. Create our own catch phrase
26. Say hello to 20 strangers (outside of work)
27. Take the Witz on big roller coasters all day
28. Watch all 8 Harry Potter films in a row (the 8th must be in theater)
29. Have a mini horror movie marathon (3 movies in a row; for Brian)
30. Use cheesy pick-up lines on 3 stranger girls
31. Get in a bar fight
32. High five a stranger
33. Compliment a stranger
34. Participate in a geo-cache
35. Complete a corn maze at night
36. Watch Lethal Weapons 1-4 starting at
37. Watch 25 classic movies we’ve never seen before
38. Finish crossword puzzle
39. Learn how to play and finish Sudoku (Andrew and Alex completed)
40. List all 50 states in under a minute
41. Learn to drive stick
42. Finish a big coloring book
43. Learn how to properly iron clothes (Alex completed)
44. Finish a 2000 piece puzzle together
45. Build a fort/tree house-type thing
46. Perform an hour and a half long set on Guitar Hero (no skipping, no failing)
47. Go gambling
Sports:
48. Go to a Black Hawks game
49. Go to a Bears game in the dead of winter
50. Play a game of Calvin Ball (make up rules as you go along)
51. Golf 18 holes under 100 (Alex and Brian), under 180 (The Witz)
52. Play football in the snow
53. Try snowboarding
54. Bowl over 175
55.
56. Play a game of Quidditch
57. Go paintballing
58. Go ice skating (possibly play a little ice hockey if applicable)
59. Go jet skiing
Writing & Reading:
60. Finish movie script (Brian and Alex)/Write and finish 3 micro-fictions (Witz) (Andrew:1)
61. Read 7 pre-approved and recommended novels (1 can be a graphic novel) (Andrew:4, working on 5)
62. Write new topical slash/femme fiction (The Office or How I Met Your Mother)
Travel:
63. Roadtrip without a destination
64. Go camping
65. Visit
66. Acquire passports and cross into
Get Creative:
67. Write and film 5 low budget YouTube comedy skits (1 down 4 to go)
68. Make funny t-shirts
69. Build snow castle
70. Write a song and film a music video for that snow castle
71. Create video resumés
72. Immortalize our names in theater 3 of River Tree Court Cinemas
Just for Fun (Misc.):
73. Get buzz cuts
74. Throw a beach party
75. Host a classy suit-up party
76. Have a bonfire in November
77. Go bar-hopping in
78. Suit up! for laser tag
79. Decide on & purchase a new mp3 player
80. Vote for the local politicians, not just the President, etc. (Alex completed)
81. Suit up! and check out the Art Institute of Chicago while pretending to be snooty
82. Go to Shedd Aquarium (*bonus challenge: provoke a duck to bite our butts)
83. See Nick Swardson live
84. Celebrate Count Ludwig Joseph von Boos-Waldeck Day (October 9th)
85. Get picture taken with Santa Claus
86. Strap a bunch of bottle rockets to an action figure and launch it into the sky
87. Write a message in a bottle and send it off
88. Take Witz to a strip club
89. Go to an improv comedy club
90. Go to a taping of a t.v. show
91. Do karaoke
92. Host a cook out at a park
93. Play a game of hide ‘n’ seek
94. Boys night out to
95. Play “penis” game in a park (*with children present)
96. Take a brewery tour
97. Host a Madden tourney
98. Attend a film festival of some kind
99. Go see a drve-in movie
100. Successfully put on a punk rawk show for charity
101. Rent a dwarf
