The 2011 To Do List
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Snatched from the latest 101 things in 1001 days list
A mixture of important, urgent and just plain crazy
Just counted and there's 40 on the list
Will be interesting to see how many of those of those get ticked off. This time some of them are going to get specific dates and times attached
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
Out and about
13.Watch the summer solstice sunset at Cottesloe Beach
20.Go whale watching in Albany
21.Stay overnight at Rotto
Goblin Business
29.Earn 30% of income from other than work sources
30.Pay $20,000 off house
Balance 02/01/11= $44,744
31.Write a will
32.Do 100 Buy Nothing Days
1 27/05/10, 2 07/06/10, 3/4 12-13/06/10
5 20/06/10, 6 22/06/10, 7/8 26-27/06/10
9 29/06/10, 10 04/07/10, 11 08/07/10
12-13 10-11/07/10, 14 18/07/10, 15 20/07/10
16-17 25-26/07/10, 18 01/08/10, 19 03/08/10
20-21 7-8/08/10, 22 11/08/10, 23-24 14-15/08/10
25 22/08/10, 26 24/08/10 27-28 5-6/09/10
29-30 11-12/09/10 31-32 19-20/09/10 33-35 25-27/09/10
36-37 02-03/10/10 38-39 9-10/10/10 40-41 16-17/10/10
42-43 21-22/11/10 44-45 27-28/11/10 46 07/12/10
47-48 11-12/12/10 49-50 18-19/12/10
35.Keep credit card balance in the black (or less than $200 in the red)
Been in the black since the start of this new list
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
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
Bookish Bits
52.Read "Against the Gods"
54.Read “This Perfect Day”
55.See all the Matrix movies
56.Read 6 science fiction novels
Including "Kraken""The City and the City" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
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
Sybil Says
61.Create a Book of Shadows
64.Design and create a Tarot deck - split up because it is waaay too big for one goal
65.(Major Arcana)
69.Read "Hands on Chaos Magic" and do more than half of the exercises
25/05/10 Chapters 1 and 2
71.Create a serpent version of "Advanced Potions Making" (scrapbooking with a wicked twist)
Munchies
76.Find and make 6 recipes with chickpeas
77.Find and make 6 recipes with lentils
81.Make pesto instead of buying it
82.Make garlic soup
84.Make Mango and Chai Lassi
Odds and ends
87.Declutter and tidy the kitchen cupboards
88.Keep them that way
89.Master the Dark Art of Hyperbolic Crochet
94.Do a permaculture course
96. List 50 things that make the
1 Lucky dips
2 the intoxicating fragrance of orange blossoms
3 bright shiny new tarot decks
4 lentils in all their incarnations
5 crisp and crunchy sunny days
6 moon rises and sunsets
7 stargazing
8 pottering in the garden (preferably other people's gardens)
9 spring festivals
10 smelling the roses
11 cheese
12 very dark chocolate
13 books, books and more books
14 drooling over packets of seeds
Corn and Kitsch
97.Read 3 Dan Brown novels
1 "Angels and Demons" 30/05/10 - 06/06/10
This is much more fun than expected. Izzie loves a good conspiracy
99.Read at least 3 books even worse than "The Alchemist"
A mixture of important, urgent and just plain crazy
Just counted and there's 40 on the list
Will be interesting to see how many of those of those get ticked off. This time some of them are going to get specific dates and times attached
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
Out and about
13.Watch the summer solstice sunset at Cottesloe Beach
20.Go whale watching in Albany
21.Stay overnight at Rotto
Goblin Business
29.Earn 30% of income from other than work sources
30.Pay $20,000 off house
Balance 02/01/11= $44,744
31.Write a will
32.Do 100 Buy Nothing Days
1 27/05/10, 2 07/06/10, 3/4 12-13/06/10
5 20/06/10, 6 22/06/10, 7/8 26-27/06/10
9 29/06/10, 10 04/07/10, 11 08/07/10
12-13 10-11/07/10, 14 18/07/10, 15 20/07/10
16-17 25-26/07/10, 18 01/08/10, 19 03/08/10
20-21 7-8/08/10, 22 11/08/10, 23-24 14-15/08/10
25 22/08/10, 26 24/08/10 27-28 5-6/09/10
29-30 11-12/09/10 31-32 19-20/09/10 33-35 25-27/09/10
36-37 02-03/10/10 38-39 9-10/10/10 40-41 16-17/10/10
42-43 21-22/11/10 44-45 27-28/11/10 46 07/12/10
47-48 11-12/12/10 49-50 18-19/12/10
35.Keep credit card balance in the black (or less than $200 in the red)
Been in the black since the start of this new list
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
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
Bookish Bits
52.Read "Against the Gods"
54.Read “This Perfect Day”
55.See all the Matrix movies
56.Read 6 science fiction novels
Including "Kraken""The City and the City" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
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
Sybil Says
61.Create a Book of Shadows
64.Design and create a Tarot deck - split up because it is waaay too big for one goal
65.(Major Arcana)
69.Read "Hands on Chaos Magic" and do more than half of the exercises
25/05/10 Chapters 1 and 2
71.Create a serpent version of "Advanced Potions Making" (scrapbooking with a wicked twist)
Munchies
76.Find and make 6 recipes with chickpeas
77.Find and make 6 recipes with lentils
81.Make pesto instead of buying it
82.Make garlic soup
84.Make Mango and Chai Lassi
Odds and ends
87.Declutter and tidy the kitchen cupboards
88.Keep them that way
89.Master the Dark Art of Hyperbolic Crochet
94.Do a permaculture course
96. List 50 things that make the
1 Lucky dips
2 the intoxicating fragrance of orange blossoms
3 bright shiny new tarot decks
4 lentils in all their incarnations
5 crisp and crunchy sunny days
6 moon rises and sunsets
7 stargazing
8 pottering in the garden (preferably other people's gardens)
9 spring festivals
10 smelling the roses
11 cheese
12 very dark chocolate
13 books, books and more books
14 drooling over packets of seeds
Corn and Kitsch
97.Read 3 Dan Brown novels
1 "Angels and Demons" 30/05/10 - 06/06/10
This is much more fun than expected. Izzie loves a good conspiracy
99.Read at least 3 books even worse than "The Alchemist"