The Original of the Species
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izmeinaThe latest 101 things in 1001 days list
Lurking in the Lair
1.Plant 10 varieties of chili including nasty nagas,ghost chillis and Trinidad Scorpion
2.Be self sufficient in herbs and vegetables
3.Install ceiling insulation and whirly bird ventilation
4.Install drip irrigation in the garden
5.Make the garden drought proof for December till end of February
6.Grow 12 varieties of medicinal plants
7.Grow 12 varieties of poisonous plants
8.Reduce water usage to 50% of water bill from 2010
9.Reduce electricity usage to 50% of 2010 average
10.Grow Lucerne, chia, coriander and buckwheat for the bees
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 schedule for 2012 Grand European Tour
16.Visit Tasmania
17.Visit the Art Gallery's Patricia Piccinini 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 6 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.Do 200 Buy Nothing Days
33.Buy 4 bookcases
34.Sort out the Broom Cupboard
35.Keep credit card balance in the black (or less than $200 in the red)
36.Do the $20 groceries challenge at least 6 times (spending less than $20 on food for a week)
Geekish Things
37.Find and learn five free open source software programs
38.Learn Linux basics
39.Get a 500gb (or larger) external hard drive for back ups
40.Back up important files at least once per month
41.Use a graphics tablet to develop ideas for designing tarot cards
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 "Stadt der Traumende Bucher"
51.Reread “1984”
52.Read "Against the Gods"
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 6 science fiction novels
57.Read “M C Escher – Visions of Symmetry”
58.Enter and win Nanowrimo (ie write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days in November)
59.Learn to make handmade paper
60.Make at least one handbound book from scratch – paper and all
Sybil Says
61.Create a Book of Shadows
62.Learn to recognize Aquarius, Pisces and 10 other non zodiac constellations
63.Visit Astrofest or an astronomical observatory
64.Design and create a Tarot deck - split up because it is waaay too big for one goal
65.(Major Arcana)
66.(Court Cards)
67.(Number Cards)
68.Do the 13 steps in Leslie Kenton's “Journey to Freedom”
69.Read "Hands on Chaos Magic" and do more than half of the exercises
70.Find a cauldron and brew something in it
71.Create a serpent version of "Advanced Potions Making" (scrapbooking with a wicked twist)
72.Make a suitable Sybil Space upstairs in the Lair
Munchies
73.Cook at least two dinners a week for six months (or 50 times)
74.Invite the Dursleys over for Dinner
75.Bake sourdough bread at least once
76.Find and make 6 recipes with chickpeas
77.Find and make 6 recipes with lentils
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 pasta from scratch
84.Make Mango and Chai Lassi
Odds and ends
85.Complete the Cat's tarot writing exercises
86.Complete the Rostrum Advanced Program (Public Speaking)
87.Declutter and tidy the kitchen cupboards
88.Keep them that way
89.Master the Dark Art of Hyperbolic Crochet
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.Do a permaculture course
95.Send 50 thank you cards
96. List 50 things that make the Izzie happy
Corn and Kitsch
97.Read 3 Dan Brown novels
98.Read the Twilight Series
99.Read at least 3 books even worse than "The Alchemist"
100.
101.
Lurking in the Lair
1.Plant 10 varieties of chili including nasty nagas,ghost chillis and Trinidad Scorpion
2.Be self sufficient in herbs and vegetables
3.Install ceiling insulation and whirly bird ventilation
4.Install drip irrigation in the garden
5.Make the garden drought proof for December till end of February
6.Grow 12 varieties of medicinal plants
7.Grow 12 varieties of poisonous plants
8.Reduce water usage to 50% of water bill from 2010
9.Reduce electricity usage to 50% of 2010 average
10.Grow Lucerne, chia, coriander and buckwheat for the bees
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 schedule for 2012 Grand European Tour
16.Visit Tasmania
17.Visit the Art Gallery's Patricia Piccinini 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 6 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.Do 200 Buy Nothing Days
33.Buy 4 bookcases
34.Sort out the Broom Cupboard
35.Keep credit card balance in the black (or less than $200 in the red)
36.Do the $20 groceries challenge at least 6 times (spending less than $20 on food for a week)
Geekish Things
37.Find and learn five free open source software programs
38.Learn Linux basics
39.Get a 500gb (or larger) external hard drive for back ups
40.Back up important files at least once per month
41.Use a graphics tablet to develop ideas for designing tarot cards
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 "Stadt der Traumende Bucher"
51.Reread “1984”
52.Read "Against the Gods"
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 6 science fiction novels
57.Read “M C Escher – Visions of Symmetry”
58.Enter and win Nanowrimo (ie write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days in November)
59.Learn to make handmade paper
60.Make at least one handbound book from scratch – paper and all
Sybil Says
61.Create a Book of Shadows
62.Learn to recognize Aquarius, Pisces and 10 other non zodiac constellations
63.Visit Astrofest or an astronomical observatory
64.Design and create a Tarot deck - split up because it is waaay too big for one goal
65.(Major Arcana)
66.(Court Cards)
67.(Number Cards)
68.Do the 13 steps in Leslie Kenton's “Journey to Freedom”
69.Read "Hands on Chaos Magic" and do more than half of the exercises
70.Find a cauldron and brew something in it
71.Create a serpent version of "Advanced Potions Making" (scrapbooking with a wicked twist)
72.Make a suitable Sybil Space upstairs in the Lair
Munchies
73.Cook at least two dinners a week for six months (or 50 times)
74.Invite the Dursleys over for Dinner
75.Bake sourdough bread at least once
76.Find and make 6 recipes with chickpeas
77.Find and make 6 recipes with lentils
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 pasta from scratch
84.Make Mango and Chai Lassi
Odds and ends
85.Complete the Cat's tarot writing exercises
86.Complete the Rostrum Advanced Program (Public Speaking)
87.Declutter and tidy the kitchen cupboards
88.Keep them that way
89.Master the Dark Art of Hyperbolic Crochet
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.Do a permaculture course
95.Send 50 thank you cards
96. List 50 things that make the Izzie happy
Corn and Kitsch
97.Read 3 Dan Brown novels
98.Read the Twilight Series
99.Read at least 3 books even worse than "The Alchemist"
100.
101.
