Numbers
27. Find ways to power through my own procrastination and get more productive and motivated.
and
98. Wake up every day when the alarm goes off
are already causing trouble. I DID get up when the alarm went off this morning, and the pull of gravity was just too much for me. I couldn't stay standing. I went back to bed until an hour later, then flopped around for half an hour feeling stupid for being incapable of mustering the willpower to keep my eyes open. My only excuse is that I worked for a million hours over this Black Friday Weekend, and I'm just beat. And the fact that I'm posting here instead of working is proof that I'm not past procrastination.
On the other hand, it IS only day 3 of 1001, so I guess this is the process, huh? The pointing out that things need to change?
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Day 2: 11-29-08
So yesterday I decided to get in on this 101 things in 1001 days deal, and I spent all the spaces between customers on a not-so-horrible Black Friday plugging in and figuring out the 101 things I want to do in the next 2.75 years between yesterday, my half-birthday, and my brother's birthday in 2011.
This is the list, with in-process points bolded and finished things italicized (of which there are none yet, but that'll change).
101 things in 1001 days
November 28, 2008 to August 28, 2011
Writing
1. Write a novel a year (2.75 over the course of this experiment).
2. Publish at least one short story a month.
3. Get into a writing program for grad school, and excel at both writing and making the connections I’ll need for the rest of my life.
4. Go to more conferences then just ICFA by picking up one or two conferences a year and becoming a regular at the ones I like.
5. Write a book about the experience of this experiment.
6. Write at least one academic book to high standards and good reviews.
7. Figure out how / where to publish essays and start doing so, one per quarter at least.
8. Get all the way through one NaNoWriMo.
9. Win an award (or at least a nomination) for something I write.
10. Start writing poetry again and study forms, writing at least three of each form that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to read in public.
11. Write a movie and try to sell it.
12. Write at least one complete short story a week, and have it typed and sent out before the end of two weeks.
Living
13. Eat seasonally for a full year, making at least three home-cooked meals a week, and write a book detailing what I’ve learned and what I experienced.
14. Start making my own clothes.
15. Figure out inventive and stylish alternatives to bras.
16. Revamp the fish tank, replant it, and get as many natural water-chemistry-balancers as possible, as well as algae-eating fish and other diversities of life.
17. Become more informed on the politics that apply to me—the environment, paganism, women’s rights, healthcare, gay rights, etc.
18. See about starting a community gardens project with City Hall—is it even feasible? Get the info together to make a proper report to whoever it should go to.
19. Downsize my belongings to de-clutter my space, and give away, upcycle, freecycle or sell on ebay anything I don’t need.
20. Track and budget my money better so I can replenish savings, afford trips, and pay off my debt (and this includes knowing bank totals, not splurging, and getting to the bank on time so things don’t bounce).
21. Find out what goes into planning a CSA program, and see if I can do it.
22. Do something new to green my life once every two months.
23. Keep a calendar up to date with deadlines, accomplishments, failures, holidays, notes, full moons, birthdays and anniversaries, schedules, etc for the length of this exercize.
24. Be a better pagan—celebrate the holidays, keep track of moons and their names, keep track of the months, take up divination again, meditate more, and keep the altar up and seasonal.
25. Find three things to be grateful for every day and write them down.
26. Plant, grow and actually maintain a proper kitchen garden and get a real harvest out of it.
27. Find ways to power through my own procrastination and get more productive and motivated.
28. Organize all the stuff I never scrapbooked into boxes by year, and throw away or upcycle anything I can’t remember the significance of.
29. Free up at least one bookshelf for other storage needs / pare down the books to those that really matter and send the rest to Book Crossing.
30. Avoid buying what I can make myself—and actually make it.
31. Finish at least one unfinished project a month before starting another.
32. Learn a new crochet stitch a month, and use it in something practical and easily-finished.
33. Make herb jellies in the spring, salsas and sauces in the summer, jam and preserves in the fall, and jar them all up for the winter, trying out two new recipes per season.
34. Use only reusable shopping bags or paper.
35. Organize all my things so that everything has a place, and don’t get something new if there’s nowhere to put it.
36. Make my own frozen meals.
37. Get my holiday gift-shopping / making done before December at least once.
38. Build self-watering containers to get the food-veg through the summer.
39. Resubscribe to all my magazines and get back on top of all the news and info.
40. Have the next 101 list ready in time to start Round Two immediately.
41. Take up embroidery and make something new and original each month.
42. Plant two trees for each Christmas, and for each of my orchard trees I manage to kill.
43. Make sugar cookies for every holiday to justify the cookie cutter addiction.
44. Develop all the old disposable cameras.
Working
45. Keep my Etsy shop full and with a good selection, and start selling handmade gifts and cosmetics regularly.
46. Be my own boss.
47. Get traffic / readers to my blogs to justify writing books about what’s detailed in them.
48. Do better and more consistently as an Avon Rep and make it a major source of income.
49. Go to at least one craft fair as a seller.
50. Join at least one professional association.
51. Get things done before due dates.
52. Budget my time better so I can accomplish more.
Fun
53. Learn to juggle / do poi / contact juggle / use the staff for a whole routine, for the purpose of increasing coordination and balance.
54. Fold 1000 paper cranes and write a wish on each one.
55. Visit Vancouver.
56. Visit London again.
57. Visit Scotland again, and see where I used to live and where we never got to when we were there.
58. Visit Morocco and shop in the markets.
59. Visit Sweden.
60. Visit Japan again, and tour the mainland before visiting the islands.
61. Get new tattoos, the first before ICFA 2009.
62. Become a rennfaire regular.
63. Write a formal bucket list and update it every year on my birthday.
64. Make a real effort on the webcomics and the blogs—at least once a week on each, gather attention, make banners, comment on other things, link all over.
65. Read at least one book a month that I already own and haven’t read, or get rid of it.
66. Come up with something to do in the seven extra days I earn each time I try a new food.
67. Be more artistically creative once a month—try something new and time consuming that I’ve been putting off.
68. Own one piece of hot new cutting edge tech when it’s new.
69. Make an origami creation story set.
70. Get better at math—find a text book and work my way through it until I can do all the problems correctly.
71. Be able to carry on a conversation in Swedish and make sense.
72. Learn to play at least one ideal song for all the flutes I have.
73. Attend at least one special class on food—the icecream class at the University of Wisconsin or the Artisan Bread class in San Francisco, or something like them.
74. Try my hand at all the main categories of home brewing: beer, meade, cider, wine and kombu.
75. Cook outside more than twice in the spring and fall.
76. Go swimming more than twice in a year.
77. Learn retail-useful phrases in all the major languages we get, as well as sign language, and keep it fresh and usable in my mind.
78. Learn to play at least one song on the fiddle.
79. Build a really neat website and keep it up to date and on track.
80. Make my own icecream with my own hand-crank icecream maker in fun and unusual flavors like thai tea, rose-ginger, and candied violet.
Interacting
81. Pay more attention to Ninja and be a better friend to my friends.
82. Find love.
83. Get more involved in the local and online pagan communities, and celebrate at least three holidays a year in a group.
84. Write to friends and family more—at least every other month.
85. Remember birthdays and anniversaries.
86. Visit mom and dad ON one actual major holiday.
87. Think before I speak.
88. Write more thank you notes, even if I’m just thinking people for being themselves.
89. Give more gifts than I receive.
90. Give no less than 5% of each paycheck to a cause or a charity I believe in.
91. Get a mah-jong set and learn to play with three other people so we can have games.
Health
92. Lose 30 lbs at 1-2 lbs a week, then level off successfully and keep it off.
93. Pay more attention to how I look and figure out useful and doable improvements, one a month, that I can stick with.
94. Take classes in yoga / bellydance / tai chi / something out of the norm to make exercise fun and to force me to do it.
95. Look better and feel better at 30 than I did at 20.
96. Keep up up date on my henna—at least once a month—for the whole length of this exercise.
97. Exfoliate and lotion all my skin at every shower so I’m never itchy and flaky and ashy.
98. Wake up every day when the alarm goes off, and take no more than one nap if it’s needed.
99. Eat only high-quality chocolate once the holiday candy is gone.
100. Get healthcare insurance of some sort and get all these itchy moles checked out and removed if they need it.
101. Rebuild my makeup collection, and use it at least half the week.
This is the list, with in-process points bolded and finished things italicized (of which there are none yet, but that'll change).
101 things in 1001 days
November 28, 2008 to August 28, 2011
Writing
1. Write a novel a year (2.75 over the course of this experiment).
2. Publish at least one short story a month.
3. Get into a writing program for grad school, and excel at both writing and making the connections I’ll need for the rest of my life.
4. Go to more conferences then just ICFA by picking up one or two conferences a year and becoming a regular at the ones I like.
5. Write a book about the experience of this experiment.
6. Write at least one academic book to high standards and good reviews.
7. Figure out how / where to publish essays and start doing so, one per quarter at least.
8. Get all the way through one NaNoWriMo.
9. Win an award (or at least a nomination) for something I write.
10. Start writing poetry again and study forms, writing at least three of each form that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to read in public.
11. Write a movie and try to sell it.
12. Write at least one complete short story a week, and have it typed and sent out before the end of two weeks.
Living
13. Eat seasonally for a full year, making at least three home-cooked meals a week, and write a book detailing what I’ve learned and what I experienced.
14. Start making my own clothes.
15. Figure out inventive and stylish alternatives to bras.
16. Revamp the fish tank, replant it, and get as many natural water-chemistry-balancers as possible, as well as algae-eating fish and other diversities of life.
17. Become more informed on the politics that apply to me—the environment, paganism, women’s rights, healthcare, gay rights, etc.
18. See about starting a community gardens project with City Hall—is it even feasible? Get the info together to make a proper report to whoever it should go to.
19. Downsize my belongings to de-clutter my space, and give away, upcycle, freecycle or sell on ebay anything I don’t need.
20. Track and budget my money better so I can replenish savings, afford trips, and pay off my debt (and this includes knowing bank totals, not splurging, and getting to the bank on time so things don’t bounce).
21. Find out what goes into planning a CSA program, and see if I can do it.
22. Do something new to green my life once every two months.
23. Keep a calendar up to date with deadlines, accomplishments, failures, holidays, notes, full moons, birthdays and anniversaries, schedules, etc for the length of this exercize.
24. Be a better pagan—celebrate the holidays, keep track of moons and their names, keep track of the months, take up divination again, meditate more, and keep the altar up and seasonal.
25. Find three things to be grateful for every day and write them down.
26. Plant, grow and actually maintain a proper kitchen garden and get a real harvest out of it.
27. Find ways to power through my own procrastination and get more productive and motivated.
28. Organize all the stuff I never scrapbooked into boxes by year, and throw away or upcycle anything I can’t remember the significance of.
29. Free up at least one bookshelf for other storage needs / pare down the books to those that really matter and send the rest to Book Crossing.
30. Avoid buying what I can make myself—and actually make it.
31. Finish at least one unfinished project a month before starting another.
32. Learn a new crochet stitch a month, and use it in something practical and easily-finished.
33. Make herb jellies in the spring, salsas and sauces in the summer, jam and preserves in the fall, and jar them all up for the winter, trying out two new recipes per season.
34. Use only reusable shopping bags or paper.
35. Organize all my things so that everything has a place, and don’t get something new if there’s nowhere to put it.
36. Make my own frozen meals.
37. Get my holiday gift-shopping / making done before December at least once.
38. Build self-watering containers to get the food-veg through the summer.
39. Resubscribe to all my magazines and get back on top of all the news and info.
40. Have the next 101 list ready in time to start Round Two immediately.
41. Take up embroidery and make something new and original each month.
42. Plant two trees for each Christmas, and for each of my orchard trees I manage to kill.
43. Make sugar cookies for every holiday to justify the cookie cutter addiction.
44. Develop all the old disposable cameras.
Working
45. Keep my Etsy shop full and with a good selection, and start selling handmade gifts and cosmetics regularly.
46. Be my own boss.
47. Get traffic / readers to my blogs to justify writing books about what’s detailed in them.
48. Do better and more consistently as an Avon Rep and make it a major source of income.
49. Go to at least one craft fair as a seller.
50. Join at least one professional association.
51. Get things done before due dates.
52. Budget my time better so I can accomplish more.
Fun
53. Learn to juggle / do poi / contact juggle / use the staff for a whole routine, for the purpose of increasing coordination and balance.
54. Fold 1000 paper cranes and write a wish on each one.
55. Visit Vancouver.
56. Visit London again.
57. Visit Scotland again, and see where I used to live and where we never got to when we were there.
58. Visit Morocco and shop in the markets.
59. Visit Sweden.
60. Visit Japan again, and tour the mainland before visiting the islands.
61. Get new tattoos, the first before ICFA 2009.
62. Become a rennfaire regular.
63. Write a formal bucket list and update it every year on my birthday.
64. Make a real effort on the webcomics and the blogs—at least once a week on each, gather attention, make banners, comment on other things, link all over.
65. Read at least one book a month that I already own and haven’t read, or get rid of it.
66. Come up with something to do in the seven extra days I earn each time I try a new food.
67. Be more artistically creative once a month—try something new and time consuming that I’ve been putting off.
68. Own one piece of hot new cutting edge tech when it’s new.
69. Make an origami creation story set.
70. Get better at math—find a text book and work my way through it until I can do all the problems correctly.
71. Be able to carry on a conversation in Swedish and make sense.
72. Learn to play at least one ideal song for all the flutes I have.
73. Attend at least one special class on food—the icecream class at the University of Wisconsin or the Artisan Bread class in San Francisco, or something like them.
74. Try my hand at all the main categories of home brewing: beer, meade, cider, wine and kombu.
75. Cook outside more than twice in the spring and fall.
76. Go swimming more than twice in a year.
77. Learn retail-useful phrases in all the major languages we get, as well as sign language, and keep it fresh and usable in my mind.
78. Learn to play at least one song on the fiddle.
79. Build a really neat website and keep it up to date and on track.
80. Make my own icecream with my own hand-crank icecream maker in fun and unusual flavors like thai tea, rose-ginger, and candied violet.
Interacting
81. Pay more attention to Ninja and be a better friend to my friends.
82. Find love.
83. Get more involved in the local and online pagan communities, and celebrate at least three holidays a year in a group.
84. Write to friends and family more—at least every other month.
85. Remember birthdays and anniversaries.
86. Visit mom and dad ON one actual major holiday.
87. Think before I speak.
88. Write more thank you notes, even if I’m just thinking people for being themselves.
89. Give more gifts than I receive.
90. Give no less than 5% of each paycheck to a cause or a charity I believe in.
91. Get a mah-jong set and learn to play with three other people so we can have games.
Health
92. Lose 30 lbs at 1-2 lbs a week, then level off successfully and keep it off.
93. Pay more attention to how I look and figure out useful and doable improvements, one a month, that I can stick with.
94. Take classes in yoga / bellydance / tai chi / something out of the norm to make exercise fun and to force me to do it.
95. Look better and feel better at 30 than I did at 20.
96. Keep up up date on my henna—at least once a month—for the whole length of this exercise.
97. Exfoliate and lotion all my skin at every shower so I’m never itchy and flaky and ashy.
98. Wake up every day when the alarm goes off, and take no more than one nap if it’s needed.
99. Eat only high-quality chocolate once the holiday candy is gone.
100. Get healthcare insurance of some sort and get all these itchy moles checked out and removed if they need it.
101. Rebuild my makeup collection, and use it at least half the week.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
1. Fun / Not Fun
Text:FUN: Brushing out your waist-length, newly-washes hair when it's been dirty for over a week.
NOT FUN: Finding out the hard way that your incredibly tangled hair is wrapped around your peripheral cartilage piercing.
Also, I have bad spelling.
Anyway! Welcome to Makeshift Surfaces! This is where all the things that star the people of Professional Fangirl but don't have anything particularly fannish in them will be, so remember to get the feed and don't miss any!
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