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If you have a sharp eye, you may have noticed a new Page has appeared in the sidebar. The List (Jan 2010) is finished, and I’m quite pleased with the changes. However, deleting tasks and adding new ones but being too lazy to change the tags section means that they are no longer seperated in pretty sections as they once were, nor are they in any type of order. I suppose I will get used to it in time.
Also, the links within the page have yet to be redone, so if in the next couple of days you click on a ‘HERE’ expecting it to do something and it doesn’t, it’s because I haven’t got round to it yet. Don’t rush me, I’m a busy woman!
In the spirit of the new year just around the corner (and based mostly on my own short attention span) I have decided to do a full audit of my current 101/1001 list and remove all the redundant tasks in favour of new and more interesting things I could be doing.
Perhaps this is cheating, but I don’t care. Is it anarchy? No! Is it exciting? YES! (well it is for me anyhow.)
So, over my Christmas break I will be making the changes, the old list will remain in the Pages section (but will be renamed ‘The Old List’) and the new one will take its place as ‘The List.’
Around the same time I hope to catch up with all the posts I’m currently behind on as well.
Getting a head start on this one, in the past week I’ve booked tickets to both French and Saunders (live for the first and last time in Australia!) and Pink, which are both happening in the same week in July.
Very very excited!
Also, more potential list additions:
- Achieve some level of yoga bendiness (my work are bringing back in house sessions as of next week!)
- Spend a day in costume.
- Volunteer.
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!
Still writing the list. I have ten spots left, though I may change some of the more fanciful tasks already there.
I have split the list into the following sections;
- Career (creative, as I have no interest in climbing the office ladder.)
- Health/Self Improvement (mainly going without unhealthy things for periods of time, exercise goals and a few health checks)
- Learning (books to read, language lessons, family history, camera skills)
- Travel (quite a long list to be realistic in 2.5ish years.)
- Creative (fun things like making presents for people, zines, etc)
- Domestic (things i SHOULD do, not health related. the boring stuff.)
- Life Experience (self explanatory)
- Learning to Love You More (tasks from the project by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher)
- How to Be an Explorer of the World (art related tasks from the book by Keri Smith.)
Getting excited about the possibilities, when i get the last few tasks decided I will start thinking about time frames.
Well, as I have created this journal solely for the purpose of documenting my foray into the 101/1001 project, I guess I have decided to go ahead and do it! How exciting/daunting/stupid.
I imagine this will have a ‘field notes’ feel to it, with progress reports as well as details of finished items, photos, problems, musings and anything else I deem pertinent.
Currently I am compiling my list of 101 items, with the view to beginning the project on 2/07/09. This will make my finish date my 29th birthday.
Wish me luck (I’m going to need it!)
