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101 in 1001

Another Beginning

Sunday, January 8, 2012 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

So, here we are, a week into the new year. I don’t do resolutions, I know myself well enough to know that’s pointless. I have, however, decided to pick a theme. Basically an idea, or motivator of sorts, to keep in mind and use to guide my decisions this year. Theme for this year is Just Do It (to steal from Nike). This year the idea is to be more active in my pursuits, to take action to get where I want to be.

In that light, I’ve made some related decisions in what I want to do this year, both long term things that I want to start this year, as well as things I want to accomplish. Most of the stuff I can’t, or rather won’t, talk about just yet. But I hope to provide further updates soon.

I also have some stuff that I will talk about. First of that being this blog. It took way longer than expected to fix the image issue I was having. This was mostly my own problem because I let it lie for too long while it, in the end, turned out to be a relatively simple fix. After it got fixed I did one of the photo posts I said I would and then left it again. Putting pics together for the August photo post was annoying the crap out of me, so I just sorta stopped.

To prevent shit like that from making me stop blogging again, I’m not scheduling anything anymore. No more ‘I’m going to do this on a weekly basis’ or ‘every month I’m gonna…’ or even non-committal shit like ‘I plan to regularly…’ I’m not planning anything any more in regards to the blog. I still have a lot of things in my head that I wanna post, but I’m just gonna do whatever comes up, whenever I want to. There’s already enough shit in life that you have to do, I don’t want this blog to be one of those things. After all, I have this website to have fun with and to make a record of who I am and what I like. If it becomes a chore, it’ll loose all life it has.

 

Something else I think I haven’t mentioned here yet is Milo. Milo is my new cat, whom I got from the shelter on October 22. He’s a young boy of almost two (in March) and he’s almost the complete opposite of Monkey. He’s playful, and active and a bit of a talker. Monkey only makes a noise when he really wants to go outside and I don’t respond fast enough. Milo opens his mouth a lot more, and when he does the most adorable little shriek comes out. It’s almost like a friggin’ baby bird going meeeeep! The shelter named him Bo, which is stupid, so I renamed him. But, in keeping with tradition I kept (most of) his shelter name as part of his name.

So, without further ado, meet Milo Beauregard Gibbs:

My cat

Monkey and Milo are getting along pretty well. Milo wants to play with Monk but he’s not really into that. They do chase each other around (in mostly good fun), though. This usually starts with Milo approaching Monkey to sniff at him or invite him to play and then Monkey does this hissy fit kinda thing where he yowls a bit and waves his paw around. Milo the backs off a bit and seconds later they’ll be chasing each other around the house.

He also loves feather teasers, so much so, even, that the one I had is almost dead already. So I bought three new ones right away to get a bit of a supply. And today the laser pointer I ordered came in. Tried it on him, he went insane for it 😀

In comparison, Monkey ignored it and pointedly reminded me that he knows I’m the one controlling the toys so he’s not gonna waste his energy on that, thank you very much. (related sidenote: Monkey has very expressive eyes).

Tomorrow Milo gets to go outside for the first time since I got him. I kept him inside a little longer than I normally would because of New Year’s and the fireworks and such. I hope he likes it, he tends to still be a little skittish with loud noises or big/tall objects/people although he’s progressed heaps in that since he came. The first week he would hide under the bed every time I walked through the house. He still runs when he gets spooked, but now he almost right away comes back out from wherever he runs to, to check out what happened.

In short, he’s a cool cat 😀

 

Other stuff… eh… Work is going well I guess. I applied for a trainer/coach position within my department, got through the initial interview with flying colors and got to do an assessment. I felt pretty good about that, the tests were easy and the talk with the counselor about work and ambitions and what type of person I was went well too, at least I thought so. The role play situation went less well. Both because I hate role play situations, and because I found the set-up they had for it not relevant to what actually goes on at my job. All in all, I had a good feeling about it.

The result came in a week later, and I got a negative result. They thought I would not be suitable for the position because, in a nut shell, I ‘m not social enough, and that’s not fixable… Right. I was fuming for two days. There’s a core of truth in the report. Yes, I am an introvert, I told him so, but that does not mean I’m antisocial, it just means that interaction with people costs energy (versus giving me energy). I know this of myself so I take precautions. This is the reason I don’t work on Wednesdays so I have a day in the middle to recharge. Also, social interaction has been difficult for me in the past. I used to be more shy but this is something I’ve learned to overcome for a large part. Especially since I started working at my current job I’ve learned so much about interacting with people and have grown so much in that regard.

So, back to the report, I felt as if it were a snap shop of me three years ago, give or take. I discussed it with my supervisor and some other people later on, and they all were surprised by it. They saw the core of truth that was in there, but the extent of it…

Regardless of that, though, the assessment is final so it meant I was out of the application procedure. So I’m still doing what I did before, and that’s not a bad thing either. I love writing so the e-mail and letter thing is a good job for me to have. I’m doing a lot of letters these days, more so than e-mail, and I’m really enjoying that. However, I will be looking for opportunities to move forward or at least expand my skill set. For the moment still preferably within the same company.

 

I think this is more than long enough for a first blog of 2012. I hope to do a post to catch up on my booklist and 101 list. Booklist definitely because I failed my target so very much I think it might be the lowest in years. The 101 list… Meh, I think it needs revising first. I’m having second thoughts on a lot of the goals and I think the sheer amount of them, even keeping in mind the long time one has for it (1001 days) it might be too many things for a person with an attention span like mine.

Posted in: General Tagged: 101 in 1001, Animals, Books, Cats, Holidays, Introvert, Me, Milo, Monkey, New Year's, Random, Reflection, Site, Work

101 in 1001 Update

Sunday, January 2, 2011 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

The first 7,5 months of my 101 in 1001 project are over, time to balance things and see, so far, what’s been accomplished, what got fucked up and what is in progress.

Things Done:

  • 4. Start automated savings.
  • 10. Identify something I’m grateful for, something that made me happy, something that made me angry or sad and something I learned each week.
  • 36. Create new icons for the LJ from my own graphics/photos.
  • 37. Update the blog at least twice a month outside update posts on the book list, this list or the weekly four.
  • 41. Get a new theme for the blog.
  • 44. Get a new mood theme for the LJ.
  • 46. Attend BlizzCon. I’m never gonna be able to physically go within the time frame of this list, so I’m opting for a virtual ticket.
  • 47. Get Cataclysm in pre-order.
  • 50. Go to Castlefest 2010, and more of these things in the years after.
  • 72. Sleep under the stars.
  • 91. Inspire someone else to create a 101 list.
  • 96. Replace my current phone with a fancier smartphone when my current contract is up.

On the whole not very many things finished. This is partly because quite a good number of goals are long(er) term ones so they end up being In Progress for quite a while. Also, I’ve not been actively working on the list for the last two or three months due to being otherwise occupied and, especially in November, being down and not interested in doing much about it.

The blog things done were pretty easy, but some of it (the LJ related stuff) turned out to be pointless only days after doing them 😀

Things in Progress:

  • 1. Finish transforming the attic from mess into usable space. Working on it, about halfway done with this.
  • 2. Finish the garden.  Working on it? The plans are made, it’s just a matter of waiting for the right season to do things.
  • 6. Loose weight, not a specific goal for a specific date, I have a number in my head but don’t wanna pin that to a date, as long as it doesn’t go up.  This is going very well.
  • 15. Do a Picture-a-Day series in 2011, doesn’t matter what, just one photo a day of something that piques my interest, except one shot of myself a month. Afterwards, make it into a little photobook. Started!
  • 25. Buy a pretty colouring book and finish it. Try to do this as neatly as possible too (my fine motor skills could do with some training). Working on it. Turns out I already have some pretty colouring books, about ancient Rome and Egypt and such. I started with the Rome one, but am taking this slowly.
  • 26. Read 8 currently owned but unread books per year (4 for 2010), where owned but unread is being defined as books I’ve had for 6 months or more and still haven’t read. Working on it
  • 28. Get caught up with the various tv shows I watch/have always wanted to watch. Working on it.
  • 29. Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen before starting with each letter of the alphabet (new releases in the cinema don’t count). Working on it.
  • 31. Watch 2 owned but unwatched DVDs per month until I have actually seen every DVD I own. This can nicely be combined with the alphabet thing :D . Working on it: Juno, The Merchant of Venice, A Christmas Carol.
  • 33. Post reviews of the books and movies I read/watch on my LJ at least once every 2 months. Working on it, not yet considering it done, since I don’t always feel in the mood to review. It hasn’t become a habit yet.
  • 38. Pay back the parents for the laptop. Working on it.
  • 39. Sort and file my GMail inbox. Working on it.
  • 40. Find a better way to manage all my logins and stuff. Working on it.
  • 43. Sort my bookmarks, and sort additional ones on a monthly basis. Working on it.
  • 45. Level all my current WoW toons plus the Worgen to 80. Working on it.
  • 51. Visit at least 3 museums or other type of exhibition or cultural event a year, no matter how large or small. Working on it.
  • 60. Send random cards to friends and family. Working on it. I’ve collected pretty cards :D
  • 62. Make a list of 100 things that make me happy, in no particular order. Taking this slow. Working on it.
  • 92. Get my tattoo. Working on it. Design/Idea has been 90% finalized. Now to find a tattoo artist.

The attic has turned into the Land of the Forgotten as autumn became winter. It’s too cold up there now to be there for any decent stretch of time. Plus, with it being dark early, the little light I have up there is insufficient. Will finish that probably around March or so, when spring is coming and Daylight Savings is back on. Same goes for the garden, the tiling I want to do will have to wait until the ground is no longer frozen.

Weight loss is going great. I’ve lost 16 kilos (35.2 lbs) since June, yay me! The rest are more long term things that are in progress, but I can’t really mark them as done until either all has been read/seen/written/done or it has become a habit.

Things That Did Not Quite Go as Planned:

  • 16. Finish scrapping 2008 in 2010. Then scrap 2009 and 2010 in 2011, and 2011 in 2012 while trying to stay up to date with scrapping 2012 itself so when 2013 comes around, finishing it should not take more than a month or so before sending it off to the printer.
  • 27. Read 4 owned but unread non-fiction books per year (2 for 2010).

Failed at scrapping. Not done yet with 2008, in fact I still have about a third of the year to do :S I strive to get that done as soon as possible in this year, so I can at least try my hardest to get the rest done according to plan. I will probably use a lot of templates and stuff for either 2009 or 2010. Probably 2010 as there were less standout things that need their own pages, and more Life-in-General pics.

The reading of non-fiction was a total failure this year. I tried, halfheartedly, to read a couple quick ones, just for the list, but that didn’t work. However, I’m determined to do better next year. After all, I have so many non-fiction books too, reading some of ’em should not be that hard 😀

Posted in: General Tagged: 101 in 1001, List

Organise, Organise, Organise

Sunday, July 18, 2010 by Tse Moana 4 Comments

Spent the day at the parents, and before I left again after dinner I headed up to use their scales (I don’t have one). While I’m keeping the magic numbers to myself for a while longer, I can say that I have now lost 5.2 kilos (11.4 lbs) since starting my no/low carb eating habits (which was roughly June 10). Not bad for a little over a month 🙂 Mom’s been saying she can see it for two weeks now, but I’m just now slowly noticing some of it. The pants I’m wearing now, for example, are looser than they were before. Yay!

Dad picked me up this morning. Before we left, he attached the holders for the strawberry planter so I now have a pretty planter on the wall! He also attached a wood peg thing I have, originally designed to hold mugs, to my bedroom wall. I’ve wanted it there for a while now so I can use it to hang my collection of bags on so they’re no longer strewn about the floor. In my house, there’s a place for everything. I’m not very good at always returning things to their particular place, but there is always a designated area or location where it is stored.

I also had Dad move a hook from the hallway to the bedroom to hang my clothes on when I get ready for bed. The chair I used for it is getting in the way so this should eliminate the problem. And since the hook offers less space than the chair did, it’ll force me to look more closely at what I choose to wear on a given day so as not to create a pile of barely-used clothes; too used to put back in the closet and too clean to wash; bigger than the hook can hold.

My house in general could also do with a good re-organise and clean. What with the warm weather of the last two weeks I barely got anything done. I take heat very badly. However, now the weather has turned and since Nienke is working tomorrow I have no-one to distract me. I’m hoping I can get myself to do at least some of the organising/cleaning. Definitely a vacuuming of the house, there’s cat hair and leafy bits everywhere (and sawdust in the bedroom :D).

To get myself in the right set of mind I’m currently re-organising my fonts. I’m a moderate fontaholic, with a collection of just around 1600 or so fonts, but I don’t use most of ’em. Therefore, I’m throwing away a lot of them, and am taking an especially good look to weed those that look too much like others.

And to close on a slightly more gross note: My toe is almost completely healed. Today the piece of old skin that was still attached let go to reveal gloriously pink new skin underneath. Just a few more bits right in the bendy part of the toe still need to let go, but then it’s all good. So, all in all, it’s taken two weeks to heal.

Posted in: General Tagged: 101 in 1001, Body, Dad, Garden, Graphics, Health, Mom, Parents

Celtic Midsummer Fest (KMF)

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Tse Moana 7 Comments

19 GroepSo, I went to re-enact the Iron age over the weekend at a festival. I’ve still got everything jumbling around in my head so not really a proper telling in story order, more this was awesome and this was awesome kinda bulletpoints.

The group of people was awesome. I’m not always very good with larger groups, let alone when there’s people in it I don’t know or don’t know very well, but I liked the (for me) new people and got along very well with those I did know but not very well.

I slept outside the first night. It was very cool to see the stars, plus, it’s something that was on my 101 list 😀

15 SlaapplekIt was insanely warm the two days and my hair was really getting in the way. Too long in the neck and hanging in my eyes near the sides. So I asked Eva if she would cut it, Iron age style 😀

On Saturday we cut the back side. First I got soapy water poured over my head (remnants from the wool felting) Then Eva massaged some of the camomile blossoms (actually there with other herbs and such to demonstrate plants that can be used to dye wool…) in my head, all the while bullshitting the spectators on how they first needed to calm the skin on my head 😀

Then the awesomely made (by our very own blacksmith Juut) Iron age knifes were grabbed and Eva and Wilma started cutting my hair. It was a hit with visitors, people stopped at the camp in droves, intrigued at what we were doing. Some must have declared me crazy for letting them do that to me 😀

48 Yngvar kusSunday we finished the job with the front end.

Eva and Signe brought their horses. This made the whole encampment come alive, and look much more real life than without it. It was too warm to do anything with them during the day, but we did some pulling with Yngvar on Sunday evening. It was hilarious dragging the event volunteers from one point to another.

All the various works that were done/demonstrated over the weekend were all very well thought out (the group’s been doing this for about a year now, this was my first time going with them) and it felt completely natural to be doing them or to see them done around. Wool felting, card weaving, scraping horns to prep them for being turned into drinking horns, chopping wood, carving wood, cooking over fire, blacksmithing (normally done, but this weekend it was too warm), the aforementioned hair cutting, sewing etc… The whole experience felt very natural, just like a regular kinda lifestyle (as opposed to really feeling like you’re playing or something) 🙂

22 Wol & Verfplanten

Wool and plants to make dyes

 

23 Etenswaren

Food stuff

 

24 Etenswaren

More food stuff

 

65 Gevilt Wol en Kaardweven

Felted wool and card weaving

 

25 Naaiwerk

Everyone has something they can do for when there are spectators. I brought a tunic so I could sew edges on it

 

32 Kamp

Cooking set up

 

11 Ingrid & Juut

Felting

 

14 Voet

I hit, and tore open, my small toes on a tent pike…

 

15 Vuur

Feeding the fire

 

48 Bodhran

Also music

 

 

Posted in: General, Photos Tagged: 101 in 1001, Creativity, Eva & Jarig, Events, Friends, History, KMF, People, Photos, Re-enactment

Weekly Four: Week 21

Sunday, May 30, 2010 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

Per #10 on my list, starting today, I will post my Weekly Four every Sunday identifying something in the past week I was grateful for, something that made me happy, something that made me angry, sad or otherwise gave me a negative emotional response, and something I learned.

I’m grateful for the lovely weather we had yesterday for most of the day. I tried to do some yard word, and also sat in the sun, read a book, it was all out lovely.

Having lost some weight, even if it’s just a little, made me happy. It’s a first step.

A particular customer e-mail I got on Friday during my e-mail shift kinda pissed me off. Partly because of the content of the mail, but mostly because of how the person communicated. He ended with wanting to cancel his service, and I set the end date for June 5th because he pissed me off (instead of further away allowing him time to get a new isp). An hour later there was another panicky e-mail, my co-worker picked it up and took it upon her to calm the person while I pulled the end date of his service back to July 1st. So it ended well, but lesson is to be nice to customer service people, even if you’ve had loads of issues, that will usually get you further.

I learned yesterday that my shovel works just fine for digging through already loose soil but isn’t sharp enough to cut through packed ground. Hence the trying to do yard work above, I barely managed to dig two small cuts to mark where the garden bit has to be. I’m gonna need to borrow dad’s shovel to finish the job. Wanted to do that today but the weather sucked.

Next week should be fun. Slightly busy-ish, but fun. Working full days tomorrow and Tuesday, then Wednesday is dad’s birthday. Thursday and Friday are stupid days with 3 or four hours work each day at not always convenient times. Thursday for example from 15:15 to 19:15. While that gives me time to sleep in after the birthday, it also means you don’t really get anything done because you keep going ‘I have to leave soon’. The same goes for Friday. And then it’s weekend again.

Saturday I want to go to Ikea and get the two Billy’s I’ve mentioned before. The holiday bonus got deposited so I have some leeway to get them. Then I can get rid of the pile of crap in the bed room (all the stuff that has to go in the Billy’s). And I just figured I might wanna put the old black bookcase that’s still in the bed room (one of the Billy’s is its replacement) in the attic so I can put my kid and YA books in there instead of in boxes. Makes it easier when I wanna reread something in bouts of nostalgia 😀

Posted in: General, The Week in Review Tagged: 101 in 1001, Furniture, Garden, Home, IKEA, Work

101, LifeLines

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by Tse Moana 3 Comments

I can hardly believe it’s only been ten days since I posted my list :S It feels like a month has passed. I’m sure that, as time goes on, I’ll slack off a bit in getting things done and posting about it, but I’m off to a good start. But first this.

I had my LifeLines (Dutch) intake today. LifeLines is a medical research program where they follow people for 30 years to see how health evolves, why some people get old and stay healthy and some get health issues early on. They’re looking at lifestyle but also genetics, so they try to get not just people, but also their parents and their children involved so they can see how things get passed on, what gets passed on and how that affects people and interacts with their lifestyle. It involves filling in questionnaires and getting basic medical exams every couple years, and maybe sometimes a more specialist exam if you fall in a specific group.

So far I haven’t been poked and prodded too much just yet 😀 Before the intake I had to fill in this mega questionnaire about my physical health. At the intake they took weight, height and blood pressure, looked at my heart, did a lung test and had me answer some basic psycho questions on if I’d been feeling depressed and stuff lately. Oh and a fairly quick problem solving test where you get the same pattern of dots and you have to connect the dots (minimum of 2 of ’em) and make as many non-repeating patterns as you can in a minute. This repeats a few times but they trick it up then by busying the background of the paper so it’s harder to see your patterns and stuff 😀 It was fun!

I have another appointment in three weeks, then they want samples of both red and yellow fluids 😀 Plus I got another mega questionnaire, this time about food.

It’s also slightly related to my list as well: 6. Loose weight, I’m not setting a specific goal here, just that the line ever goes down.
I wasn’t gonna put this here, and I’m not marking it on the list post itself as in progress just yet, but I was pleasantly surprised today.
I mentioned they took height and weight, and turned out I was 3 kilos lighter than last time I stood on the scale! Now, that has been a while, but down is down so yay me!

So, with that bridge, here’s the rest of my Irons in the Fire:

1. Finish transforming the attic from mess into usable space.
This is going really well, I posted about it a few days ago, but the attic is 1/3 done. Biggest part of the room area of the attic is done, there’s just some final pushing around of furniture that needs to happen. In contrast, the junk area of the attic hasn’t been tackled at all. Well, except for putting my pile of folders with my university notes and all that in a big box. For the rest, I first need to sort the shelf unit, then move it about and then repack that what gets to stay and get rid of the rest. Then, finally, I can block of the last openings into the crawlspaces so I can safely use the attic without risking the cat getting behind everything.

2. Finish the garden (tile the part in front of the window, put up a privacy fence between me and neighbour, get a picket fence at front, create a proper flower/rock garden in front of the privacy fence and get a nice looking piece of lawn in between the tiled area and the garden)
Nothing really done about it, but the plan has been made and drawn up, plus I figured out how many tiles I need and am getting a clearer image of what the gardeny part in the corner is going to have in it.

25. Buy a pretty colouring book and finish it. Try to do this as neatly as possible too (my fine motor skills could do with some training).
I found I don’t need to buy a colouring book, turns out I already owned three very pretty ones I totally forgot about. I bought them years ago while I was studying in England in a museum bookshop. They’re Dover books and two are Life in… types about Ancient Rome and Egypt, and another is about Egyptian deities.

Posted in: General Tagged: 101 in 1001, LifeLines

Icons v.2

Sunday, May 16, 2010 by Tse Moana Leave a Comment

As per #36 on my 101 list, I went around my house today and shot pictures to use in making new icons. I decided to go for simple macro type shots of things in my house. This contrasts nicely with my previous batch of icons, which were more graphic things and all designed in such a way that they looked like pencil sketches. You can see them here.

The new ones worked out surprisingly well, even though I will probably replace them again at some point in the future 😀

Here’s all 15 of em:

101
101: The icon for my 101 list, for no particular reason really, I just thought it was pretty. And if I get with cat-centric posts I’ll probably use this too.
Create: For when I talk about stuff I made, it’s a painting I did.
Default: Default userpic, my hand
Genex: For talking about gender, sexuality, general LGBTQness and Fan Fiction :D, it’s Star Trek’s Benjamin Sisko locked in a tight embrace with Data
Inside: Stuff about my house, and other indoor things, it’s some decorative glass things with a portrait of me and my parents in the background.


Life: General ramblings about my life, it’s my collection of necklaces and my tie.
Listen: My pile of Omnia CDs, for when I wanna talk about things I listened too, music, but also spoken word or whatnot.
Me: Myself in the mirror
Outside:
One of my new plants of this year, for garden talk and other out-and-about things.
Pagan: My other hand, for pagan and other spirituality/religion/mythology stuff


People: A tiny anatomical doll I have, it’s for posts about other people, be they friends, family or strangers.
Quote: A shot of Shakespeare’s Romeoo & Juliet, just after the bit where Romeo exclaims “What light through yonder window breaks”, and to be used for when I want to share some quotes or other lines of text that inspire me or maybe make me think, or laugh or sad etc..
Read: Some of my books. This happens to be my shelf of pagan related books, but I wanted something colourful and not piled (since I tend to pile my books)
Watch: A close-up of my bust of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jean-Luc Picard as Locutus of Borg. It’s for posts about things I’ve watched: movies, TV shows etc…
Write: And the last one is my laptop’s keyboard and used for post about writing.

Posted in: General Tagged: 101 in 1001, Graphics, Icons, Made by Me, Photography

101 in 1001

Sunday, May 16, 2010 by Tse Moana 1 Comment

(The List can be found on the page above marked 101 in 1001. That’s also the one that’ll be updated as I complete things.)

A friend of mine started one of these a while back and it intrigued me back then but I never got around to doing anything with it. When she approached me, among others, a few days ago with a request relating to one of the items on her list, I got re-intrigued 😀
So I looked it up, at Day Zero Project, and decided to create my own list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. It took me a few days to make the list, but it’s complete now.

The Challenge:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of work on your part).

My startdate is May 15, 2010
My enddate is February 9, 2013

I wanted to make the list start today, but something already got done yesterday. Might have been slightly cheating as I didn’t think to include it after it had been done, but I still find it something that I want to include, so I shall try if I can get it done again.

I will be posting an update on this list at least every three months (as per my item #100), but probably a bit more often as I complete things. When I do, this master list will be updated to show what’s been done and when, and will link to the relevant LJ post.

Also, when I finish #36, which should be this week or next, there will be a pretty icon for the 101 posts as well.

Without further ado, here’s the list, conveniently divided into categories:

Home/Finances
1. Finish transforming the attic from mess into usable space.
2. Finish the garden (tile the part in front of the window, put up a privacy fence between me and neighbour, get a picket fence at front, create a proper flower/rock garden in front of the privacy fence and get a nice looking piece of lawn in between the tiled area and the garden)
3. Sort my finances, goal is to be in order by the end of 2010.
4. Start saving, goal is to set up automated savings by the end of 2010.
5. Build a counter-like thing in the kitchen to make better use of the space.

Health/Self Improvement
. Loose weight, I’m not setting a specific goal here, just that the line ever goes down.
7. Move more, start with cycling at least once a week, building up over the summer.
8. Cook properly at least once a week.
9. Spend a day in silence, and without the common technologies (internet, tv etc…)
10. Identify something I’m grateful for, something that made me happy, something that made me angry or sad and something I learned each week.

Arts & Crafts
11. Complete NaNoWriMo
12. Enter (and hopefully win 😀 ) a writing contest.
13. Get back to playing the bagpipe, probably after accomplishing #88 & #89.
14. Do a photoshoot of my parents.
15. Do a Picture-a-Day series in 2011, doesn’t matter what, just one photo a day of something that piques my interest, except one shot of myself a month. Afterwards, make it into a little photobook.
16. Finish scrapping 2008 and 2009 in 2010. Then scrap 2010 in 2011 and try to stay up to date with scrapping 2011 itself so when 2012 comes around, finishing it should not take more than a month or so before sending it off to the printer.
17. Get a new moleskine and actually fill it with sketches.
18. Write fiction at least once a week.
19. Learn to properly sew with a sewing machine and then learn to make clothes.
20. Make my own holiday cards for at least the closest friends and family.
21. Do a self-portrait shoot in various forms and locations.
22. Finish that scarf I started knitting 😀
23. Participate in at least five 26 Things projects from http://sh1ft.org/projects. (0/5)
24. Create that big painting I’ve been planning/thinking about for ages.
25. Buy a pretty colouring book and finish it. Try to do this as neatly as possible too (my fine motor skills could do with some training).

Reading/TV/Movies
26. Read 8 currently owned but unread books per year (5 for 2010), where owned but unread is being defined as books I’ve had for longer than 6 months. <2010 read: 2/5, 2011: 0/8, 2012: 0/8>
27. Read 4 owned but unread non-fiction books per year. (2010: 0/4, 2011: 0/4, 2012: 0/4)
28. Over the summer of 2010, get caught up with the various, currently airing, tv shows so when the new seasons start I’m up to date.
29. Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen before starting with each letter of the alphabet. (0/26)
30. Read a poem each day for a month.
31. Watch 2 owned but unwatched DVDs per month until I have actually seen every DVD I own.
32. Get my geek cred up higher and watch all six Star Wars movies. (0/6)
33. Post reviews of the books and movies I read/watch on my LJ at least once every 2 months.
34. Finish S4 of (new) Doctor Who.
35. Reread my entire Suske & Wiske comic collection.

Computer/Internet
36. Create new icons for my livejournal from my own photos and/or graphics.
37. Update LiveJournal at least twice a month outside update posts on the booklist, this 101 list in general or number 10 on this list.
38. Update Photo Blog at least once a week.
39. Sort and file my GMail inbox.
40. Find a better way to manage all my logins.
41. Get a new theme for the Photo Blog.
42. Learn how to make themes for WordPress.
43. Finish scanning in and editing the old photos I have around. Get at least the B&W ones done.
44. Keep my bookmarks sorted, sort new additions into the current folder structure at least once a month.
45. Get a new mood theme for the LiveJournal.

World of Warcraft
46. Level Yathra to 80 before Cataclysm.
47. Level all my current <80 toons (5) plus the Worgen I’m going to roll once Cataclysm comes out to 80.
48. Try getting into the Cataclysm Beta. This one isn’t really in my hands, I’ve filled out the opt-in thing, now to wait and see if I get picked.
49. Down the Lich King with Asraelion.
50. Get Cataclysm in pre-order 😀

To Go/See/Do
51. Go to the Zoo! I’ve not been since I was a kid.
52. See another opera, a play (preferably Shakespeare) and a ballet.
53. Go to Castlefest and, starting in 2011, to more of these things.
54. Visit at least 3 museums or other type of exhibitions a year, no matter how large or small.
55. Bicycle Road Trip! Go out and about with bike, mini tent and sleeping bag for a weekend or so.
56. Go abroad on a holiday.
57. Visit the UK family again.
58. Visit all of the twelve provinces.
59. Go to Madame Tussaud’s.
60. Go to Madurodam.

Fun Stuff
61. Shave my head again.
62. Try postcrossing.com.
63. Send random cards to friends and family.
64. Join a (board)game club or a D&D group.
65. Make a list of 100 things that make me happy, in no particular order.
66. Tie 5 notes to 5 balloons and let them go.
67. Put 3 notes in 3 bottles and set them adrift.
68. Toss all countries in a hat and pick 10. Read up on that country (either via a book or the internet) and discover (through watching/listening/reading) an artist, musician and author from each country.
69. Buy a few basic t-shirts and decorate them myself.
70. Get a top hat.

Learn
71. Learn a programming language to such an extent that I can produce functional code on my own.
72. Learn some balfolk dances.
73. Once #84 comes around, take a photography class.
74. Learn some more basic star-gazing related astronomy so I can identify more star signs than just Orion, Ursa Major, Andromeda and that tiny cluster whose name I forgot.
75. Learn CSS and update my HTML knowledge.

Nature
76. Watch a sunrise and a sunset from start to finish. (0/2)
77. Collect rocks of varying sizes for my garden and the small flowerpot.
78. Spend an afternoon cloud gazing. Take pictures and note what I see.
79. Sleep under the stars.
80. Get soaking wet in a big rain storm.

Sell/Buy
81. Sell the books I’ve read and don’t like enough, this will mostly be from my classics pile (prime example once I finally manage to chew through it, Jane Austen’s Emma).
82. Try to get my Star Trek dvd collection complete (TOS 1-2, TNG 1-7, DS9 4&6, VGR 1-7, remaining movies).
83. Sell the dvd’s I’ve watched and don’t like enough (Heroes for example).
84. Get a fancy DSLR camera and tripod.
85. Get a pair of proper high boots that fit properly around my larger than normal calves (probably from duoboots.nl)

Other
86. Actually use my Public transport chip card, will have to learn/do this sooner or later anyway :/
87. Finally pay a visit to that cute little gift shop thingy in my town.
88. Get my driver’s license.
89. Get a car.
90. Inspire someone else to create a 101 list.
91. Get my tattoo.
92. Research opening a book store.
93. Sort my clothes.
94. Re-join the GreenLeft political party in 2011.
95. Replace my current phone with a fancier smartphone when my current contract is up.
96. Try 5 different cocktails. (0/5)
97. Create a staff from that long branch I have.
98. Once #89 happens, decorate the car.
99. Subscribe to a magazine.
100. Review this list every three months. Mark what has been done and post about it on LiveJournal. This way I stay accountable.
101. Make a new list in the week before the time period for this one is up.

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