Happy New Year, & 101 things
Happy New Year! I had a splendid evening at marnameow's & sbp's last night, finally bailed around 4am, & feel entirely bright-eyed & bushy-tailed this morning, hurrah. Hope you all had similarly enjoyable times.
NY resolutions didn't work so well last year, so I'm giving the 101-things-in-1001-days a go instead. (thank you for suggestions at the weekend!) Feel free to comment, or to suggest things for the suggesty-things.
(bold = done, italic = in progress)
Creative
001. Sew a top with set-in sleeves
002. Design and knit a cardigan
003. Make a summer dress 10.09.2007
004. Make up a proper pattern from scratch, and make the garment from it
005. Take a photograph daily for a month & blog it 03.07.2007
006. Make a cushion cover for the spare cushion in my room 23.09.2007
007. Finish all currently ongoing sewing/knitting projects 27.12.2007
008. Make candle(s) from old candle-ends 07.01.2008
009. Write a short story and put it out somewhere public 04.11.2008
010. Write an article for thefword 29.11.2007
011. Photo frame with photos of family 01.01.2008
012. Play guitar for an hr weekly for 3 months
013. Make bobbin lace
Food & drink
014. Eat lunch without "empty" carbs (potato, bread, pasta, rice) every weekday for a month week. (NB this will be aborted if it makes my head go funny; I'm curious to see if bean/veg carbs will be enough) 01.08.2008
015. Make tofu. 16.08.2008
016. Eat salad (i.e. greenery/raw veg type salad) every day for a week 07.05.2008
017. Cook something with the 'vegetarian tendon' Dave gave me 31.10.2007
018. Keep nutritional track of my diet for a month week 23.08.2009
019. Grow salad leaves on the balcony and keep them going for 3 months (i.e. enough to eat daily for those 3 months) 01.08.2008
020. Set up a proper container garden on the balcony. 15.05.2008
021. Try a new recipe every week for 3 months 01.04.2008
022. Be a non-rubbish vegan for a month 22.12.2007
Music, books, films
023. Listen to one new album (by someone I don't know already) every week for 3 months. 07.09.2009
024. Listen to one old album, and review it, every week for 3 months. 01.05.2009
025. Go to 3 gigs of bands I've not heard before.
026. Get 10 band recommendations from friends, listen to them, & review them. 27.09.2009
027. Keep track of my reading for 3 months 01.04.2008
028. Reread the Baroque Cycle 14.10.2008
029. Read Ulysses. 24.06.2009
030. Get 10 book recommendations from friends, read them, & review them. 23.09.2009
031. Read the Doonesbury archives.
032. Read "London: The Biography" 26.09.2009
033. Watch a hates-fun film with Marna & Pete 15.02.2007
034. Get 10 film recommendations from friends, watch them, & review them.
035. Watch the rest of Babylon 5.
Learning/Work
036. One evening a week college work for 3 months 08.05.2007
037. Finish course with distinction 15.07.2008
038. O'Reilly blog entry once a week for 3 months 26.04.2007
039. Get in to work for 9am every morning for a month 01.02.2008
040. Write an OSX app
041. Write an Palm Android mini-calendar app 28.08.2009
042. Read a book in German 03.07.2009
House/money/etc
043. Get out of current debt (MPhil loan & credit card; student loan is excluded) 01.07.2007
044. Get downstairs bathroom taps fixed 30.01.2007
045. Redo upstairs bathroom 07.09.2009
046. Rehang study door 25.01.2007
047. Rearrange bike storage to get 3 bikes in 04.04.2007
048. Sort out the balcony storage (i.e. lose the shed and put something else there) I know what needs doing but it won't happen till the shed's cleared out of wood.
049. Shelves in kitchen cupboard under fusebox 04.04.2007
050. Make a will 05.09.2008
Cycling
051. SR series 30.09.2007
052. PBP - not going to happen now. LEL? but I did ride 1279k in Australia
053. Build up a fixie 06.04.2007
054. RRTY (Randonneur Round The Year i.e. one 200+K ride every month for a year)
055. Go cycling for a weekend at random (i.e. don't plan where I'm going beyond a start point, just take a map with & find somewhere to sleep when I'm tired) 19-20.04.2008
056. Build a wheel 04.12.2007
Health etc
057. Give up alcohol for a month 10.07.2008
058. Give up caffeine for a month (includes chocolate) Give up refined sugar (biscuits...) for a month 08.08.2009
059. Have a pedicure 23.01.2007
060. Have a massage monthly for 3 months (& see if it makes a difference!) April 2009
061. Do my back exercises daily for a month 21.03.2009
062. Floss twice daily for a month 20.02.2007
063. Meditate 10min daily for a month
064. Attend a Pilates class 04.04.2008
Family/friends
065. Write a proper letter once a week for 3 months 27.12.2007
066. Visit relatives in Aberdeen 19.09.2009
067. Phone parents weekly for 3 months 08.06.2007
068. Have jam session with Dad 27.11.2007
069. Visit museum/art gallery with Mum 25.08.2009
070. Take Wendy out to dinner 12.04.2007
071. Catch up with someone I've not seen in a while for dinner/lunch monthly for 6 mths 09.08.2008
072. Meet up with Elaine & Katherine (together or separately) 24.11.2007
Fun
073. Go to an illegal rave 05.05.2007
074. Learn to beatmatch
075. DJ at a proper club (i.e. not my Dad's party!) Did DJ for several Polyday / Bifest / etc things though.
076. DJ at a proper dance music club
077. Swim in the sea 29.07.2007
078. Go snowboarding Learn to surf 16.03.2009
079. Go to Boom Exodus (non-UK festival was really the point) 11.01.2009
080. A day doing tourist-stuff in London
081. Fill the remaining pages of the poetry-book Marna gave me with poems I like. 20.06.2008
082. Go riding
083. Go to a proper play (not a musical...) 21.11.2007
084. Go to Purr anything else similar.
085. Go sailing fortnightly during a summer (Easter-September)
086. Get coastal waters addition to Level 2 RYA sailing certificate and sail on the sea afterwards
087. Skydive (subject to decision that my back will take it; should poss consult GP first)
088. Go to one of the S Ken museums for lunch (to look, not to eat lunch!) once weekly for a month 13.09.2008
Misc
089. Write a "proper" (i.e. non-diary, non-organising) LJ post once a week for 3 months. 28.09.2007
090. See sunrise and sunset at the equinoxes & solstices for a year 20.03.2009
091. Cycle into work before breakfast (& eat breakfast at work) every day for a week Dec 2007
092. Make rat-cover for sofa; get rats out daily for a month 22.08.2007
093. Visit the bluebell woods by my parents at bluebell-time 05.05.2008
094. Learn dry-stone-wall building 23.09.2009 OK this was a bit of a stretch: I don't know how to do it myself, but I do now know how it works & have watched & talked to someone who really does know!
095. Go on one of the permaculture courses at the Centre thingy in Wales Read the Big Permaculture Book
096. Stick all my old photos into a scrapbook(s) 17.06.2007
097. Go to Australia 04.10.2008
098. Write Amnesty appeal letters that I'm sent for 3 months
099. Send IMSoc stuff off to the Johnson Johnson collection as I have been meaning to do for about 5 yrs now 01.09.2007
100. Decide if I want my damn eyebrow pierced & get it done if so 18.02.2007
101. Another 101 things list 27.09.2009
Start date: 1st January 2007
End date: 27th September 2009
Update 27.09.2009: 1001/1001 days, 76 completed, 2 still in progress, 23 not going to happen
NY resolutions didn't work so well last year, so I'm giving the 101-things-in-1001-days a go instead. (thank you for suggestions at the weekend!) Feel free to comment, or to suggest things for the suggesty-things.
(bold = done, italic = in progress)
Creative
001. Sew a top with set-in sleeves
002. Design and knit a cardigan
003. Make a summer dress 10.09.2007
004. Make up a proper pattern from scratch, and make the garment from it
005. Take a photograph daily for a month & blog it 03.07.2007
006. Make a cushion cover for the spare cushion in my room 23.09.2007
007. Finish all currently ongoing sewing/knitting projects 27.12.2007
008. Make candle(s) from old candle-ends 07.01.2008
009. Write a short story and put it out somewhere public 04.11.2008
010. Write an article for thefword 29.11.2007
011. Photo frame with photos of family 01.01.2008
012. Play guitar for an hr weekly for 3 months
013. Make bobbin lace
Food & drink
014. Eat lunch without "empty" carbs (potato, bread, pasta, rice) every weekday for a month week. (NB this will be aborted if it makes my head go funny; I'm curious to see if bean/veg carbs will be enough) 01.08.2008
015. Make tofu. 16.08.2008
016. Eat salad (i.e. greenery/raw veg type salad) every day for a week 07.05.2008
017. Cook something with the 'vegetarian tendon' Dave gave me 31.10.2007
018. Keep nutritional track of my diet for a month week 23.08.2009
019. Grow salad leaves on the balcony and keep them going for 3 months (i.e. enough to eat daily for those 3 months) 01.08.2008
020. Set up a proper container garden on the balcony. 15.05.2008
021. Try a new recipe every week for 3 months 01.04.2008
022. Be a non-rubbish vegan for a month 22.12.2007
Music, books, films
023. Listen to one new album (by someone I don't know already) every week for 3 months. 07.09.2009
024. Listen to one old album, and review it, every week for 3 months. 01.05.2009
025. Go to 3 gigs of bands I've not heard before.
026. Get 10 band recommendations from friends, listen to them, & review them. 27.09.2009
027. Keep track of my reading for 3 months 01.04.2008
028. Reread the Baroque Cycle 14.10.2008
029. Read Ulysses. 24.06.2009
030. Get 10 book recommendations from friends, read them, & review them. 23.09.2009
031. Read the Doonesbury archives.
032. Read "London: The Biography" 26.09.2009
033. Watch a hates-fun film with Marna & Pete 15.02.2007
034. Get 10 film recommendations from friends, watch them, & review them.
035. Watch the rest of Babylon 5.
Learning/Work
036. One evening a week college work for 3 months 08.05.2007
037. Finish course with distinction 15.07.2008
038. O'Reilly blog entry once a week for 3 months 26.04.2007
039. Get in to work for 9am every morning for a month 01.02.2008
040. Write an OSX app
041. Write an Palm Android mini-calendar app 28.08.2009
042. Read a book in German 03.07.2009
House/money/etc
043. Get out of current debt (MPhil loan & credit card; student loan is excluded) 01.07.2007
044. Get downstairs bathroom taps fixed 30.01.2007
045. Redo upstairs bathroom 07.09.2009
046. Rehang study door 25.01.2007
047. Rearrange bike storage to get 3 bikes in 04.04.2007
048. Sort out the balcony storage (i.e. lose the shed and put something else there) I know what needs doing but it won't happen till the shed's cleared out of wood.
049. Shelves in kitchen cupboard under fusebox 04.04.2007
050. Make a will 05.09.2008
Cycling
051. SR series 30.09.2007
052. PBP - not going to happen now. LEL? but I did ride 1279k in Australia
053. Build up a fixie 06.04.2007
054. RRTY (Randonneur Round The Year i.e. one 200+K ride every month for a year)
055. Go cycling for a weekend at random (i.e. don't plan where I'm going beyond a start point, just take a map with & find somewhere to sleep when I'm tired) 19-20.04.2008
056. Build a wheel 04.12.2007
Health etc
057. Give up alcohol for a month 10.07.2008
058. Give up caffeine for a month (includes chocolate) Give up refined sugar (biscuits...) for a month 08.08.2009
059. Have a pedicure 23.01.2007
060. Have a massage monthly for 3 months (& see if it makes a difference!) April 2009
061. Do my back exercises daily for a month 21.03.2009
062. Floss twice daily for a month 20.02.2007
063. Meditate 10min daily for a month
064. Attend a Pilates class 04.04.2008
Family/friends
065. Write a proper letter once a week for 3 months 27.12.2007
066. Visit relatives in Aberdeen 19.09.2009
067. Phone parents weekly for 3 months 08.06.2007
068. Have jam session with Dad 27.11.2007
069. Visit museum/art gallery with Mum 25.08.2009
070. Take Wendy out to dinner 12.04.2007
071. Catch up with someone I've not seen in a while for dinner/lunch monthly for 6 mths 09.08.2008
072. Meet up with Elaine & Katherine (together or separately) 24.11.2007
Fun
073. Go to an illegal rave 05.05.2007
074. Learn to beatmatch
075. DJ at a proper club (i.e. not my Dad's party!) Did DJ for several Polyday / Bifest / etc things though.
076. DJ at a proper dance music club
077. Swim in the sea 29.07.2007
078. Go snowboarding Learn to surf 16.03.2009
079. Go to Boom Exodus (non-UK festival was really the point) 11.01.2009
080. A day doing tourist-stuff in London
081. Fill the remaining pages of the poetry-book Marna gave me with poems I like. 20.06.2008
082. Go riding
083. Go to a proper play (not a musical...) 21.11.2007
084. Go to Purr anything else similar.
085. Go sailing fortnightly during a summer (Easter-September)
086. Get coastal waters addition to Level 2 RYA sailing certificate and sail on the sea afterwards
087. Skydive (subject to decision that my back will take it; should poss consult GP first)
088. Go to one of the S Ken museums for lunch (to look, not to eat lunch!) once weekly for a month 13.09.2008
Misc
089. Write a "proper" (i.e. non-diary, non-organising) LJ post once a week for 3 months. 28.09.2007
090. See sunrise and sunset at the equinoxes & solstices for a year 20.03.2009
091. Cycle into work before breakfast (& eat breakfast at work) every day for a week Dec 2007
092. Make rat-cover for sofa; get rats out daily for a month 22.08.2007
093. Visit the bluebell woods by my parents at bluebell-time 05.05.2008
094. Learn dry-stone-wall building 23.09.2009 OK this was a bit of a stretch: I don't know how to do it myself, but I do now know how it works & have watched & talked to someone who really does know!
095. Go on one of the permaculture courses at the Centre thingy in Wales Read the Big Permaculture Book
096. Stick all my old photos into a scrapbook(s) 17.06.2007
097. Go to Australia 04.10.2008
098. Write Amnesty appeal letters that I'm sent for 3 months
099. Send IMSoc stuff off to the Johnson Johnson collection as I have been meaning to do for about 5 yrs now 01.09.2007
100. Decide if I want my damn eyebrow pierced & get it done if so 18.02.2007
101. Another 101 things list 27.09.2009
Start date: 1st January 2007
End date: 27th September 2009
Update 27.09.2009: 1001/1001 days, 76 completed, 2 still in progress, 23 not going to happen