2014 Spade List

It's that time of year again... this is a list of 50 things I'd like to achieve in 2014. Every year I usually acknowledge that I'm not going to get all of them done, but there are always a few that are extremely important to me to complete amongst the not so important ones. I'll blog about those important ones later! In the mean time, enjoy -

1. Make a short film
2. Go to America
3. Get a new job
4. Read the LotR trilogy
5. Enter a film/photography competition
6. Host a party
7. Go to jazz bar
8. Learn basic Irish phrases
9. Buy a printer
10. Do something I've never done before
11. Hustle!
12. Release 'Unboxed'
13. Make a snowman
14. Go to something at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
15. Have a friend/family visit me in Edinburgh
16. Have a friend visit me in Northern Ireland
17. Have a photograph published / exhibited
18. Go to a concert
19. Get a tattoo
20. Learn Adobe After Effects
21. Give blood
22. Run 5k
23. Take up a personal photography project
24. Unplug for a week
25. Achieve a 'merit' in university
26. Build an amazing pillow/blanket fort
27. Write 40 blog posts
28. Watch the sun rise on Murlough
29. Feel competent in my painting/drawing ability
30. Bring a friend to church
31. Journal daily, even if brief
32. Take instant pictures
33. Do something to be proud of
34. Host a film screening of one of my own
35. Enter my final year of uni
36. Fast weekly
37. Fill a sketchbook
38. Go to France
39. Pull an elaborate prank
40. Read 30 books
41. Introduce my flatmates to Irish food
42. Celebrate my 21st
43. Spend a night stargazing
44. Get a flat stomach
45. Write a letter to someone telling them how much I appreciate them
46. Rearrange my bedroom
47. Watch 100 documentaries
48. Complete a YouVersion Bible study plan
49. Volunteer somewhere
50. Have a great year

2013 Spade List

The end of March seems like an odd time to be posting this, but every year since 2009 I have made a list of things I want to have achieved by the end of the year. This is 2013's 'Spade List' (I totally coined that phrase, make it happen). I will keep coming back to this post and crossing off everything I have done so far.

Spade List 2013 - 

1. Do a film swap
2. Have a friend come to church
3. Go on a camping trip
4. Buy a new camera
5. Go to a concert
6. Get my driving license
7. Give blood
8. Apply for Student Initiative Grant
9. Upload 3+ Joyful Mourne films
10. Get a pixie cut
11. Have a photograph published/displayed/for sale somewhere
12. Get baptised
13. Live in a new flat with good friends
14. Fill a journal
15. Have a successful Lent
16. Learn something new about myself
17. Meet someone famous
18. Discover a new favourite band
19. Do something (good) out of character 
20. Cook a three course meal
21. Buy at least five dorky T-shirts
22. Write to someone who lives on the opposite side of the world
23. Do something nice with no one knowing
24. Go somewhere outside the British Isles
25. Make a pinhole camera
26. Volunteer somewhere
27. Reread the Narnia books
28. Buy a piece of art
29. Make a video and have it hit 1,000+ views
30. Go to the Fringe Festival
31. Win something
32. Go rollerblading
33. Become employed
34. Draw something and like it
35. Watch the sun rise on a beach
36. Attempt NaNoWriMo
37. Cry from happiness
38. Learn a new dance
39. Run 5k
40. Read The Lord of the Rings trilogy
41. Pay for and send someone a surprise pizza
42. Watch 100 documentary films and/or series
43. Leave the house with no make up on
44. Host a movie night
45. Have a defining year