The Original of the Species

[izmeina]

Just a quick squiggle to post the original 101 list of unofficial New Year's Resolutions before adding the amended version with all completed items removed


Lurking in the Lair

1.Plant almond, avocado, fig, pecan, walnut and mulberry trees
2.Be self sufficient in herbs and vegetables
3.Install solar panels and connect to grid
4.Install 2 rainwater tanks for the garden
5.Create a Circle Mandala garden
6.Grow 12 varieties of medicinal plants
7.Grow 12 varieties of poisonous plants
8.Reduce water usage to 50% of  water bill from 2006
9.Reduce electricity usage to 50% of 2006 average
10.Grow Lucerne and Lupins for mulch
11.Find a way of getting the essential oils out of oranges and eucalyptus
12.Lure galahs and corellas to lurk around the Lair

Out and about

13.Watch at least one  summer solstice sunset at Cottesloe Beach
14.Visit One Tree Hill (Orcland) at Full Moon
15.Organize itinery for 2010 Grand European Tour
16.Visit Tasmania
17.Visit the Art Gallery's Egyptian Exhibition
18.Visit the Country Gardens Festival
19.See the wildflowers in bloom
20.Go whale watching in Albany
21.Stay overnight at Rotto
22.Visit 6 gardening shows
23.Visit 6 Open Gardens
24.Visit 6 permaculture or organic gardens for inspiration

Goblin Business

25.Do the Izzie taxes online
26.Finish CV
27.Apply for 12 jobs
28.Start Chartered  Accountant  registration and study
29.Earn 20% of income from other than work sources
30.Pay $40,000 off house
31.Write  a will
32.Finish making Snowflake Bear
33.Buy 4 bookcases
34.Sort out the Broom Cupboard
35.Decorate Dolores's Den
36.Toss 10 things for 101 days

Geekish Things

37.Find and learn five free open source software programs
38.Learn Linux basics
39.Get a new Preciousss ( we don't really need one but we wants one)
40.Back up important files at least once per month
41.Learn to use a graphics tablet
42.Sort out and watch DVD collection
43.Sort and put all computer related stuff in one place
44.Find 101 nice things to say about Bill Gates
45.Invent an alphabet
46.Translate the numbers from 0-144 in an Izzie invented language
47.Translate the Babel text also
48.Design a font

Bookish Bits

49.Reread "Gödel, Escher, Bach"
50.Reread "Animal Farm"
51.Reread “1984”
52.Read the Potter series again from start to finish
53.Read "Lord of the Rings" from start to finish without skipping all the boring bits
54.Read “This Perfect Day”
55.See all the Matrix movies
56.Read 12 science fiction novels
57.Read “M C Escher – Visions of Symmetry”
58.Finish reading “Against the Gods”
59.Learn to make handmade paper
60.Make at least one handbound book from scratch – paper and all

Wierd and Wacky

61.Follow five planets
62.Recognize 12 or more Constellations
63.Buy a telescope
64.Design a Tarot deck
65.Practise using protective shields
66.Learn the properties and uses of the SEP field
67.Find four unusual or beautiful tarot decks
68.Do the 13 steps in Leslie Kenton's “Journey to Freedom”
69.Do 3 random acts of kindness each day for 101  days straight
70.Acquire a goblet or chalice – preferably with images of serpents on it
71.Reread the Izzie green spiral notebooks from 2002
72.Make a suitable Sybil Space upstairs in the Lair

Munchies

73.Try one new recipe every month for 6 months
74.Invite the Dursleys over for Dinner
75.Bake sourdough bread at least once
76.Find and make 10 recipes with chickpeas
77.Learn how to cook at least 10 Juicy Beetroot Cafe dishes
78.Try out a Vietnamese Restaurant
79.Try out a Korean Restaurant
80.Make dark chocolate moon truffles
81.Make pesto instead of buying it
82.Make garlic soup
83.Make DIY Dukkah and Zaatar
84.Make Mango and Chai Lassi

Odds and ends

85.Adopt a Buchling (or even better - Become One)
(Buchlings are utterly adorable one eyed creatures obsessed with books who dedicate themselves to one writer and learn all their works word for word. We thinks that Anthony De Mello or Douglas Hofstadter are the most likely candidates for adoption)
86.Complete the Rostrum Intermediate Development Prgram (Public Speaking)
(Still got five speeches left on this list including a poetry reading, leading a discussion, conducting a tutorial or workshop and a competition speech)
87.Declutter and tidy the kitchen cupboards
88.Keep them that way
89.Master the Dark Art of Feng Shui Sabotage
90.Make a Hexenecke in our Garden of Arcane Delights
91.Make a frog pond
92.Plant a bird friendly native garden on the verge (full of evil critters such as banksias, grevilleas and acacias with the odd evil South African import such as King Proteas
93.Design a quilt
94.Find a nice fractal computer program
95.Do something useful with it
96.Make a Serpent Seal so that we can find a worthy use for those green and silver letter wax sticks

The Final Five

97.Begin a business from home
98.Sort out our munchies hoarding problem
99.Find five books from our present collection to read
100.Find five things to be thankful for each day
101.Finish everything on this list

Comments

[ozfille]

When are you doing the Tassie tour and where are you going in Europe?

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

The Grand Izzie Wish List runs for 1001 days from May 2007 until mid February 2010. Half way there, realizing that it was way too ambitious. Not just too many complicated things but also a few rather contradictory ones
Taming the plastic and paying $$40,000 off the Lair are seriously incompatible with any travel plans. Well at least with this present house elf job. Now if Izzie stopped being such an appalling procrastinating python and got a proper goblin job, that would tick off a whole bunch of things on the list and make others a whole lot easier. But 'should be' was never a good honey bee.

The last grand European tour got put on the house and it's a bit too soon to put the next one there too. So cannot see the serpent slinking up north west or south east any time before 2010 or more likely 2012
But you know - sometimes such lists have magical powers. They sneak into the deepest subconscious depths of the mind and bubble and boil away there. And maybe the inner serpent will come up with some inspiration like Kekule and his snaky benzine rings.

[dreamabella.livejournal.com]

I just read the titles you have for your list sections, they're awesome! I need to do that with my next list.
Good luck finishing this one. :0)

[izmeina.livejournal.com]

Thanksss. Titles and categories are fun and they make the list so much easier to navigate and nibble off bite size pieces

Will probably be keeping the same categories for the next list - just pruning out those done or half done and replacing them with new goals with the same theme