Preparations

I see now why people write their lists a day or two before they start them, as I’m getting impatient for 1st June toroll around. Meanwhile, I have set myself a few tiny tasks to tie up loose ends by the end of May, things like finishing my red cable scarf and reading some books that aren’t going to fit into the project.

 

Tasks that I am probably going to change before the lock in date of 1/06:

#9 Send Mills and Boon to publishers (combine with #8 Write Mills and Boon with Fi.)

#19 Ignore Facebook for one week (combine with – still separate weeks – #20 Be internetless for one week.)

#54 Make a stencil (already have #52 write a beautiful quote on a wall, don’t need two graffiti goals.)

#68 Amend to ‘if total amounts to less than $50, donate $50 to charity.’

So, I have three spots on the list now open. I keep thinking of new things and then forgetting them because I haven’t written them down. Currently I am mulling over the wisdom of adding ‘Take one photo a day for 1001 days’, but I think it might just be too much.

Other possibilities are ‘Go on 10 dates with Melbourne’, ‘Write 30 poems’, ‘Visit Vietnam’, ‘Save $20,000 and maintain it’, and I’m sure I will think of more in the coming days.

 

Meanwhile, I have prepared my list of books for #28 (Read 100 new books from 1001 to read before you die), many of which I already own from back in the days where I couldn’t walk past ‘high literature’ in a second hand shop without buying it. I am allowing for the fact that I may hate some of them and be unable to finish, that’s OK as long as they are replaced with a new book from the 1001 list.

I’ve also been thinking about #47, taking portraits of the people in my life. I think I want this to be quite a grand project, starting with making invitations for people explaining what I want to do, and taking care to choose the right location for the portrait (or possibly doing them with a white background, all in black and white, I haven’t decided yet.) and on the same day inviting them to take a picture of me (with my camera.) I’m excited by the possibilities of this, and also with the idea of having dozens of portraits all together in a grid. I want to give a nice printed copy to each of the subjects as a thankyou also. It’s potentially going to be very expensive, and very cool.

Finally, #57, the granny square blanket. I got the idea from ‘Meet Me at Mike’s’ and found a pattern in their book, and have also since found out that my boss is a granny square aficionado who has offered to help me learn. At this stage I want to use 3 or 4 colours only with lots of different patterns to make the blanket, but I’ll wait see how easy it is to make them first! The only thing I can crochet at the moment is circles.

Very exciting!