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Alright. Here's the list I've been babbling about for a while now. I don't know why, but I feel really weird posting this.
Anyway, I'll update with comments and completion notes whenever I feel like it. Some of the things are big things, some of the things listed are small things and too many of the things listed cost money to complete. Not everything I want to do is listed and I only listed things that have a definite completability factor, for example "Spend less money on lunches." wouldn't work because it's not concrete and finishable.
I have until January 12, 2010 to complete this all.
1. Get one of the tattoos I’ve been planning for a while.
2. Plan a visit to London.
3. Eat home-brought lunches for a straight month.
4. Do the Grouse Grind.
5. Get a crockpot and start using it.
6. Find 10 new recipes for things we both like and make lots of them.
7. Fix my Nishiki.
8. Visit Portland again.
9. Make kombucha.
10. Get on the employee bus pass thing.
11. Plan and grow a proper container garden.
12. Read Moby Dick.
13. Make kvass.
14. Learn to silkscreen.
15. Read The Magician's Nephew or similar book which I've already read in English, in French translation.
16. Use my sewing machine to make something.
17. Paint all four of my mini-canvases.
18. Make at least three extra payments to my student loan.
19. Get proper winter raingear. (No more soggy kat!)
20. Organize my books.
21. Actually slide (as in, have at least one pair of wheels drifting) a skateboard.
22. Attend at least one Saturday session.
23. Finish season one (at least) of Battlestar Galactica.
24. Donate blood. (Do before #1)
25. Get an IUD.
26. Finish Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
27. Jump off the rock at 30 foot.
28. Bake bread.
29. Make an entire pizza from scratch.
30. Get some reusable cloth menstrual pads.
31. Bake zucchini bread.
32. Learn to trackstand on purpose.
33. Get my passport.
34. Start on that British citizenship thing.
35. Find pants of as good or more awesomeness as my black shorts.
36. Arrange suitable storage for vinyl. (IKEA Expedit maybe?)
37. Paint/make/create a house sign.
38. Finish the Sea of Fertility quartet.
39. Acquire a decent arsenal of brightly coloured socks.
40. Can or preserve something.
41. Make a pie.
42. Write a poem that I don’t hate.
43. See a dentist.
42. Visit Vancouver Island.
43. Swim in the ocean.
44. Finish off the meat in the freezer. (Any hypothetical meat arriving in the freezer after this list is posted does not count.)
45. Acquire a new pair of ear jewelry.
46. Read a book by Kafka.
47. Fall asleep in the comfy chair.
48. Fall asleep outside.
49. Visit the Vancouver Aquarium.
50. Visit the Vancouver Art Museum.
51. Read a book about local history.
52. Go through my clothing and get rid of/donate unwanted stuff. Be ruthless.
53. Pet a llama. (Alpaca is an acceptable substitute.)
54. Get a proper dresser for my clothings.
55. Pay off my fines at VPL.
56. Make sushi.
57. Make sauerkraut.
58. Make kimchi.
59. Get the empty bottles in the house to a zero-point at least once.
60. Clean out the ‘fridge.
61. Watch live theatre.
62. Drive a car. (WTF?)
63. Update address information on my driver’s license.
64. Update everyone, everywhere with my new address.
65. Put my entire library up in LibraryThing.
66. Re-handle the little dresser.
67. Cut hair.
68. Get a credit card. (WTF?)
69. Sew that patch I got in Portland onto my shorts of awesome.
70. Get a food processor (or find the old one.)
71. Buy a nice kitchen knife.
72. Pick buckets of blackberries.
73. Learn about foraging for wild plants around this area.
74. Learn about local mushrooms.
75. Acquire a bird ID book and an arthropod ID book.
76. Make a hummingbird feeder.
77. Bonsai!
78. Get a cast iron skillet.
79. Make jerky (recipe in email).
80. Make toothpaste.
81. Attend poetry event.
82. Get my info fixed up at work.
83. Make a budget.
84. Suspend.
85. Help Anthony change his name.
86. Make tomato sauce.
87. Make pesto sauce.
88. Make gnocchi.
89. Start a paper journal.
90. Go ice skating.
91. Make yoghurt.
92. Begin Operation Steinberger.
93. Find a copy of all four volumes of Dogen’s Shobogenzo (Nishijima translation.)
94. Pick a course from MIT Opencourseware and read through the notes. (Any subject acceptable.)
95. Read another Steinbeck.
96. Start a tabletop RPG.
97. At least once, ride my bike all the way from work in New Westminster to home without cheating and taking the bus, even across the bridge (walking up the hill OK but highly discouraged).
98. Put a map of Vancouver on our wall.
99. Read a book written by someone from each of the continents (as defined by ME) except Antarctica. Books listed earlier can count.
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Pacific, Indian Subcontinent, Africa, Arabia/Middle East.
100. Edit or change my mind about at least one thing on this list.
101. Fail spectacularly at completing at least one thing on this list.
PLEASE NOTE you lose points in my estimation if you try and tell me that #101 is a cop-out.
Anyway, I'll update with comments and completion notes whenever I feel like it. Some of the things are big things, some of the things listed are small things and too many of the things listed cost money to complete. Not everything I want to do is listed and I only listed things that have a definite completability factor, for example "Spend less money on lunches." wouldn't work because it's not concrete and finishable.
I have until January 12, 2010 to complete this all.
1. Get one of the tattoos I’ve been planning for a while.
2. Plan a visit to London.
3. Eat home-brought lunches for a straight month.
4. Do the Grouse Grind.
5. Get a crockpot and start using it.
6. Find 10 new recipes for things we both like and make lots of them.
7. Fix my Nishiki.
8. Visit Portland again.
9. Make kombucha.
10. Get on the employee bus pass thing.
11. Plan and grow a proper container garden.
12. Read Moby Dick.
13. Make kvass.
14. Learn to silkscreen.
15. Read The Magician's Nephew or similar book which I've already read in English, in French translation.
16. Use my sewing machine to make something.
17. Paint all four of my mini-canvases.
18. Make at least three extra payments to my student loan.
19. Get proper winter raingear. (No more soggy kat!)
20. Organize my books.
21. Actually slide (as in, have at least one pair of wheels drifting) a skateboard.
22. Attend at least one Saturday session.
23. Finish season one (at least) of Battlestar Galactica.
24. Donate blood. (Do before #1)
25. Get an IUD.
26. Finish Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
27. Jump off the rock at 30 foot.
28. Bake bread.
29. Make an entire pizza from scratch.
30. Get some reusable cloth menstrual pads.
31. Bake zucchini bread.
32. Learn to trackstand on purpose.
33. Get my passport.
34. Start on that British citizenship thing.
35. Find pants of as good or more awesomeness as my black shorts.
36. Arrange suitable storage for vinyl. (IKEA Expedit maybe?)
37. Paint/make/create a house sign.
38. Finish the Sea of Fertility quartet.
39. Acquire a decent arsenal of brightly coloured socks.
40. Can or preserve something.
41. Make a pie.
42. Write a poem that I don’t hate.
43. See a dentist.
42. Visit Vancouver Island.
43. Swim in the ocean.
44. Finish off the meat in the freezer. (Any hypothetical meat arriving in the freezer after this list is posted does not count.)
45. Acquire a new pair of ear jewelry.
46. Read a book by Kafka.
47. Fall asleep in the comfy chair.
48. Fall asleep outside.
49. Visit the Vancouver Aquarium.
50. Visit the Vancouver Art Museum.
51. Read a book about local history.
52. Go through my clothing and get rid of/donate unwanted stuff. Be ruthless.
53. Pet a llama. (Alpaca is an acceptable substitute.)
54. Get a proper dresser for my clothings.
55. Pay off my fines at VPL.
56. Make sushi.
57. Make sauerkraut.
58. Make kimchi.
59. Get the empty bottles in the house to a zero-point at least once.
60. Clean out the ‘fridge.
61. Watch live theatre.
62. Drive a car. (WTF?)
63. Update address information on my driver’s license.
64. Update everyone, everywhere with my new address.
65. Put my entire library up in LibraryThing.
66. Re-handle the little dresser.
67. Cut hair.
68. Get a credit card. (WTF?)
69. Sew that patch I got in Portland onto my shorts of awesome.
70. Get a food processor (or find the old one.)
71. Buy a nice kitchen knife.
72. Pick buckets of blackberries.
73. Learn about foraging for wild plants around this area.
74. Learn about local mushrooms.
75. Acquire a bird ID book and an arthropod ID book.
76. Make a hummingbird feeder.
77. Bonsai!
78. Get a cast iron skillet.
79. Make jerky (recipe in email).
80. Make toothpaste.
81. Attend poetry event.
82. Get my info fixed up at work.
83. Make a budget.
84. Suspend.
85. Help Anthony change his name.
86. Make tomato sauce.
87. Make pesto sauce.
88. Make gnocchi.
89. Start a paper journal.
90. Go ice skating.
91. Make yoghurt.
92. Begin Operation Steinberger.
93. Find a copy of all four volumes of Dogen’s Shobogenzo (Nishijima translation.)
94. Pick a course from MIT Opencourseware and read through the notes. (Any subject acceptable.)
95. Read another Steinbeck.
96. Start a tabletop RPG.
97. At least once, ride my bike all the way from work in New Westminster to home without cheating and taking the bus, even across the bridge (walking up the hill OK but highly discouraged).
98. Put a map of Vancouver on our wall.
99. Read a book written by someone from each of the continents (as defined by ME) except Antarctica. Books listed earlier can count.
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Pacific, Indian Subcontinent, Africa, Arabia/Middle East.
100. Edit or change my mind about at least one thing on this list.
101. Fail spectacularly at completing at least one thing on this list.
PLEASE NOTE you lose points in my estimation if you try and tell me that #101 is a cop-out.