Password:
Response
AMPERSANDWICH'S LIST
This list of 101 goals was started Jan 08, 2010 and is scheduled to finish Oct 05, 2012.
1
Make a quilt.
2
Lose 30 pounds.
3
Plant a garden.
4
Write a collection of short stories.
5
Go to a drive in movie.
6
Learn to sew well enough to reconstruct existing pieces and also create new articles of clothing.
7
Knit a pair of leggings (pattern yet to be found or written)
8
Read 50 books (list will be on Goodreads)
9
Find free tutorials on photography and talk with local photographers to progress further my own photography.
10
Learn how to edit and enhance photographs using Photoshop.
11
Submit a piece of art for the Boise Weekly Cover competition.
12
Practice my cello at least one hour per day.
13
Bite the bullet and accept Nate's invite to be a member of his band, and dedicate time and energy into it.
14
Play music in front of an audience.
15
Write an original piece of music.
16
Start a book club and keep it going (beginning with Infinite Jest).
17
Sell my knitted goods, crafts, clothing for profit. Create personal label and brand recognition.
18
Become proficient in French.
19
Explore spirituality and philosophy more in depth and re-build my personal philosophy on life.
20
Learn to play the Mandolin and the Ukulele.
21
Learn how to rebuild/refurbish furniture and make it a piece of functional art.
22
Go to concerts of at least five of my favorite bands.
23
Dedicate time to the kitchen and learn how to master certain dishes via Julia Child and other ridiculously amazing people/chefs.
24
Rewrite my habits and make an effort to look the way I want to look. No more going to work completely disheveled. I want to be put together.
25
Create pieces of street art (paint man-hole covers, knitted street art like tree sweaters and themed pieces).
26
Take a trip to a favorite city by train.
27
Visit my home town and stay with my Grandmother (haven't been there in years).
28
Start a savings account for my major trip to Boston and then to Ireland. Save up at least half of the money needed for plane tickets.
29
Visit places in Idaho I have never been in the 15 years I have lived here (believe me there are many).
30
Hike through the Sawtooth Mountains in Stanley. Spend as much time there as possible.
31
Commit time to volunteering at the library and the humane society.
32
Obtain a beehive and keep bees.
33
Find a home of my own.
34
Get my bee tattoo (1st tattoo, and something that really means a lot to me).
35
Learn how to trim my own hair to reduce number of haircuts needed from a professional.
36
Find a second job.
37
Pay off debt.
38
Start studying on my own the course studies of Library Sciences and also the courses required to become an editor.
39
Keep up with current events and be more mindful of the world.
40
Go camping by myself (safely of course) to see what it is like to experience nature completely alone.
41
Learn how to bake the perfect soufflé.
42
Write letters to immediate and extended family members and compile what I can of a family history.
43
Adopt letter writing through the post as primary form of communication.
44
Host at least 5 dinner parties with new found cooking skills and some expert shopping.
45
Go ice skating, drink cider, and learn how to do simple spins and such (I wanted to be a figure skater briefly as a little kid, but never learned how
46
Spend time every day dwelling on the little things. The small pleasures matter, and I spend way too much time stressed out and overwhelmed.
47
Purge all of my useless/unnecessary belongings and start anew!
48
Write an essay, story, or poem for each publication of The Accordion Review.
49
Knit my first sweater.
50
Learn how to tap dance.
51
Learn Tai Chi.
52
Attend dress-rehearsals for the Boise Phil Harmonic to contribute to and encourage my classical music education
53
Make a literary mix to drop in the library drop box for all of the librarians to enjoy. :)
54
Make an effort to reconnect with old friends.
55
Actually use my Wreck This Journal and try to expand my creativity.
56
Don't eat any food that wasn't prepared at home for a week, even if it is free. Homemade meals at a friend's is fine.
57
Watch 20 movies I have never seen, focusing on foreign films.
58
Write a letter to myself to be opened when this 365 days is over.
59
Do not drink for a month.
60
Spend a weekend completely unplugged--no computer or phone.
61
Keep a dilligent dream journal.
62
Learn/re-learn how to dance (salsa, tango, foxtrot, etc.)
63
Write in a journal consistently.
64
Live the way detailed in the book French Women Don't Get Fat
65
Learn Yoga (it seems interesting, and like Tai Chi focuses a lot on focus).
66
Become proficient at spinning yarn in all different weights and plys.
67
Make a Niddy Noddy.
68
Have a date with my brother and my sister respectively at least once a month.
69
Start the marble system (marbles for everything accomplished). When the jar is filled, I get to do something indulgent.
70
Make more of an effort to exceed expectations at my work place.
71
Cut out soda for a month (and maybe forever? I don't know if I am quite ready for that!)
72
Go to bed before midnight on days I have to work.
73
Reconnect with my cello professor, let him know how much he influenced me, and rekindle that relationship.
74
Learn how to use Dreamweaver to build websites.
75
Get all of my immediate family and my boyfriend together for a meal, games, and such together for the first time in about a decade.
76
Do all of the romantic things I have wanted to do, but never did.
77
Start a knitting circle at the bookstore.
78
Participate in an art collaboration in Kyle Cassidy's community.
79
Learn to strategize in/have fun playing chess.
80
Climb a tree, play hop scotch, jump rope, skip down the street, build a blanket fort and watch The Secret Garden all in the same day to remember what
81
Have my tarot cards read just for fun, and because I have never tried it.
82
Write a letter to everyone in my life I appreciate telling them that I do, and why, and also thank you.
83
Have coffee with my favorite childhood mentor, the librarian at my Jr. High School. Adrienne is the best.
84
Design my own stationary.
85
Bind books again, and learn to do more complicated bindings.
86
Participate in one of the Literature for Lunch events. Not spring though. I am not excited about that reading list. :P
87
Buy only local products for a week to see if that lifestyle is supportable by my income.
88
Write 5 knitting patterns to sell on ravelry.
89
Go shooting with friends, take all of the sculpture class's practice plaster heads for target practice. Pack picnic.
90
Bake treats for staff meeting to do something nice for bosses and coworkers.
91
Make a photo album documenting 2010.
92
Write reviews of the books that I read this year.
93
Write the graphic novel that I sketched out last year.
94
Study maths because I am deficient.
95
Keep up with my blog, Pennywise. :)
96
Learn how to make paper.
97
Throw a masquerade.
98
Make something for each person that I would quantify as a "hero" that represents whatever it is that inspired me and make it into a cool mobile thing
99
Adopt afternoon tea.
100
Go on a drive late at night, w/ music blaring & windows rolled down. Drive to IC, write everything I feel on stones & skip them across the pond.
101
Edit George Dickerson's book "Percy Flats".