99 in 999



These are 99 things I want to accomplish in the next 999 days.  I will document my experiences with a blog called "living deliberately."  Each time I finish a goal, I will donate $1 to a kick starter or an established charity (like IRC or Charity Water).  Other donations to my church do not count.
Start Date: June 1, 2013
End Date: Feb 25, 2016

Outdoors
1. Bryce Canyon (Utah Bucket List)
2. Capital Reef national park (Utah Bucket List)
3. Back pack in the Uintas  (Utah Bucket List)
4. Test my 0-60 on salt flats  (Utah Bucket List)
5. Camp in lava tube  (Utah Bucket List)
6. Rappel into subway in Zion's  (Utah Bucket List)
7. Go Jeeping (or some other off road vehicle) in Moab (Utah Bucket List)
8. Explore East Bay of Utah Lake in a canoe (Utah Bucket List) 
9. Ride my bike around the circumference of Utah Lake (Utah Bucket List) --decided not to do because of sketchy roads
10. Go on a several day backpacking trip (Life Goals)
11. Go to Mesa Verde (Life Bucket List)
12. Finish hiking up all 7 peaks of the Wasatch Front (Utah Bucket List)
  • Timpanogos--previously done
  • Nebo--previously done
  • Provo Peak
  • Lone Peak
  • Cascade Mountain
  • Santaquin Peak
  • Spanish Fork Peak
Get the Most out of Provo
13. Experience 10 new things in Provo (10/10)
  • Crandall Historical Printing museum
  • Museum of Peoples and Cultures
  • BYU Museum of Paleontology
  • Food Truck Round Up
  • Take the FrontRunner
  • Provo Rec Center
  • Provo Airport
  • Go hiking at Sundance
  • Float the Provo River
  • Zipline
  • Shop at an Asian market
  • Go to poetry night at the Coffee Pod
  • Play frisbee golf at Bicentennial Park
  • Go to a pawn shop
14. Eat out at 10 new places, such as: (11/10)
  • Sensuous Sandwich
  • Banana Leaf
  • Spicy Thai
  • Malawi's Pizza
  • Ripple's Drive Inn
  • Bombay House
  • Molly's
  • The Wall
  • El Azteca
  • The Chocolate Mousse
  • The Red Mango
  • Sodalicious

Get the Most out of Utah
15. Go to the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake
16. Go to 5 festivals, such as: (6.5/5)
  • Peach Days - Hurricane - Aug 30-31
  • Strawberry Days - Pleasant Grove - June 16-22
  • Payson Highland Games - Payson - July 12-13
  • Chalk Art Festival at the Gateway, June 14-16
  • Provo Freedom Festival--balloon festival
  • Lindon Days (ish)
  • Chalk Art Festival at Riverwoods
  • Festival of Trees
  • Provo Christmas Market
17. Go to the Utah State Fair
18. Museum of Church History and Art
19. Olympic Park in Park City, including Alpine Slide $
20. Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City
21. Go to dinosaur museum in Vernal, UT $
22. Visit 5 new temples: (5/5)
  • St. George
  • Vernal
  • Bountiful
  • Redlands
  • Rexburg

Get the Most out of Southern California
23. Kayak La Jolla sea caves
24. Attend a horse race at the San Diego County Fair (bonus points if I wear a big flowery hat)

Travel
25. Do humanitarian work in Africa and go on a safari (Life Bucket List)
26. Plan return trip to Brazil (it should happen within 6 months of finishing these 999 days)

Academia/Intellectual growth
27. Graduate graduate school
28. Publish a paper with Dr. Miner 
29. Contribute to the field of improving teaching and learning
30. Get my traditions book published by a national publisher (Life Goal)
31. Write my parenting case study 
32. Create my own history of the world and make it an interactive timeline (Life Goal)
33. Create my own church history and make it an interactive timeline
34. Create graphic organizer of beliefs of various Christian sects (Life Goals)
35. Write a blog post outlining the Palestinian/Israeli conflict
36. Listen to one Ted talk per day for 30 days
37. Watch 7 of the following films (5/7):
  • Lawrence of Arabia 
  • Wall-E
  • Seven Samurai
  • Ben Hur
  • Vertigo 
  • Citizen Kane
  • Schindler's List 
  • Jaws
  • Ghostbusters 
  • Rear Window
  • Philadelphia Story
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Witness for the Prosecution
  • Charade
  • North by Northwest
  • A Lady Vanishes
  • Psycho
  • Some Like It Hot
  • Airplane
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Rocky
38. See 5 documentaries (5/5)
39. Write a manners/etiquette book, pamphlet, or at least a blog post for pre-teens
40. Read 10 of the following books: (5/10)
  • The First 2,000 Years - Cleon Skousen
  • The Lost 500 Years: What Happened Between the Old and New Testaments - S. Kent Brown and Holzaphel
  • The Cleansing of America - Cleon Skousen 
  • The Signs of the Times - Perry and Perry
  • 1776 - David McCullough
  • Beauty - Robin McKinley
  • Democracy in America - Alexis Detouquerville
  • Wild Swans - Jung Change
  • The Enoch Letters - Neil A Maxwell
  • Jerusalem: the Eternal City - Skinner, Ogden, Galbraith
  • biography of Gordon B Hinckley - Sherry Dew
  • autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 
  • Les Miserables
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis  
  • 1984
  • The Time Traveller's Wife
  • The Hobbit
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Dune 
  • Life of Pi 
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 
  • The Koran...in English
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
41. Read 5 well-referenced/influential books about an aspect in my field that I'm interested in
42. Memorize 5 poems

Living My Religion
43. Missionary work: Give someone a Book of Mormon
44. Missionary work: post 20 Mormon-themed things on Facebook, Twitter, or my blog - in progress
45. Emergency Preparedness: Make a legit 72-hour kit and acquire water storage
46. Family History: Record dad's stories 
47. Family History: Record Grandparents' stories
48. Family History: Record Mom's history in some way
49. Service: Find a weekly service opportunity that I resonate with and do it for at least 3 months (the IRC or teaching hispanic women to read)
50. Temple Service: perform all ordinances as proxy for a deceased ancestor in one day 

Learning New Things
51. Learn to drive stick shift
52. Get scuba certified
53. Take a Middle Eastern dance class
54. Shoot at a shooting range
55. Become half-decent at tennis
56. Learn to sing, then sing a solo or duet in church
57. Be able to confidently play 20 songs out of the Primary Children's Songbook
58. Be able to confidently play 5 hymns out of the normal hymnal
59. Learn about and identify 20 new local plants/trees/flowers
60. Learn the basics of photography and take some pictures I am proud of
61. Learn how to drive a motorcycle
62. Acquire a violin and learn how to play at least three songs
63. Learn Photoshop

Physical Health
64. Swim half a mile
65. Complete a sprint triathlon
66. Run a half marathon in less than 2 hours 11 minutes
67. Take up yoga 
68. Weigh 130 pounds
69. Have sexy abs

Healthy Eating
70. Cook the perfect turkey for Thanksgiving dinner
71. Eat 5 vegetables I've never tried 
72. Try 100 new recipes, documenting each with photos and rating them (67/100)
73. Eat fish twice per week for a month 
74. Develop a maintainable eating lifestyle centered around whole foods
75. Try eating fresh produce basket for 3 weeks

Experiences
76. Join or create a gospel choir
77. Meditate at the Huntsville Trappist monastery 
78. Meditate on Sundays for 6 months
79. Attend the services of the following churches: The Rock, 7th Day Adventist, St. Mary's Episcipal Church, Provo United Pentecostal Church, United Methodist Church, Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, and the Khadeeja Islamic Center $
80. Go to a movie at the theater by myself
81. Work out on top of a train car and on a train track, like Rocky
82. Hot Air Balloon (Life Bucket List)
83. See a silent movie with an organ playing
84. Go fly fishing
85. Go downhill skiing 
86. Go paintballing 
87. Be an "extra" on a film set (Life Bucket List)- 

Personal Finance
88. Use my budget for three consecutive months, tracking all purchases (3/3) 
89. Graduate debt free from grad school  (almost)

Culture
90. Go to an opera
91. See a play at the Tuacahn
92. Go to the Utah Symphony at Abravanall Hall (see Chihuly glass sculpture)
93. Go to a Shakespeare Play at the Globe Theater in Cedar City 

Family
94. Write my nephew weekly on his mission 
95. Take DeVore kids out on dates (4/4) 
96. Call my older brother once a month 

Other
97. Take a gun safety class 
98. Obtain a concealed carry permit
99. Acquire a gun (22 or pistol)

Options if I can't do one of the official 99
Learn Illustrator
Learn Premiere Pro
Read Don Quixote...in the original Spanish
Read the Alchemist in Portuguese
Hike King's Peak
Go ice fishing
Go camping in a yurt
Go to Antelope Canyon in Page, AZ
Compete in a game competition
Go to ComicCon
Stay up on current events

6 comments:

  1. Diane RochaJune 17, 2013 at 12:54 AM

    Sabrina,
    You have inspired me. I love this idea! Love it! I may even do the same but with my own list, of course. I am on summer break right now, so I have time to write out a thoughtful list. Or at least I will once I am done preparing for the next school year. I am re-vamping my spelling program - yes, I finally had to let the one go that your class piloted. I loved it and had great success with it, but the books were just worn out. I'll let you know when I post my blog. Did I ever tell you that I have a bread blog? Check it out: itsallaboutthebread.blogspot.com. About 200 other bread bakers and I committed to baking every recipe in Peter Reinhart's great book, The Bread Baker's Apprentice. Not everyone finished, but I did. Forty-three different recipes over the course of a year and a half. It was great. I learned so much, even though I have been baking bread for 40 years. In fact, I fell in love with one of the breads and have been making it as my everyday bread ever since. It's the Poilane-style miche, which happens to be on the cover of the book. Matthew took the picture that is posted in my blog. It is just like that cover. Hmmmmm ... now which 99? : )

    Diane Rocha

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    1. SabrinaJune 17, 2013 at 6:58 AM

      So cool! I didn't even know you were a bread baker! Just checked out the blog. Super cool and inspiring. Good luck revamping spelling...I know how long teacher prep in the summer takes! I would love to follow your blog if you decide to do your own 99. When I made mine I searched Google for "99 in 999 blogs" and enjoyed reading other people's lists to get ideas.

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  2. KyleaJuly 6, 2013 at 7:30 AM

    Awesome list! I want to do some with you, and can help with the photography stuff. Plus I happen to have an adorable model you can use :)

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  3. IndiaJanuary 10, 2014 at 9:49 AM

    if you want, i'll mail you brave new world. i'm trying to have less books, and while it's a good one, i'll always be able to find it at a library.

    also, just let me know any time (after jan 31) you want to watch lawrence of arabia, because it's on my list too, and i'd love to watch it as together as we could make it at such a distance!

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  4. UnknownJanuary 4, 2016 at 10:14 AM

    I've been reading over your list. I also want to see a play at Tuachan! Their shows in 2016 look pretty great. And of you know I love opera, so maybe we can help each other out with our bucket lists!

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  5. UnknownJanuary 4, 2016 at 10:18 AM

    Also I had no idea you could camp in a lava tube!!! That sounds rad!

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