Aka the Life List, this is my ever-growing list of things I want to achieve (with the things I’ve done crossed off).
1. Scan all books into LibraryThing
2. Keep LibraryThing updated with new books I buy
3. Do the 100 book challenge each year
4. Organise all digital photos so they are searchable and easily browsable
5. Print the best of them
6. Put them into albums or scrapbooks
7. Show Mimi & Pela my yearbooks & prom photos
8. Get new batteries for watches
9. Rescue stuff from Mum & Dad’s storage
10. Watch more ice skating
11. Go to the figure skating Nationals in Sheffield with Hannah in 2012
12. Try to learn a bit more Italian
13. Volunteer at the greyhound rescue
14. Adopt a greyhound
15. Visit Stonehenge
16. Visit Stonehenge at midsummer
17. Drink less caffeine
18. Drink more tea
19. Ice skate
20. Roller skate
21. Watch roller derby
22. Start a regular savings account
23. Knit, crochet or both an entire blanket
24. Knit something from a pattern
25. Crochet something from a pattern
26. Keep track of knit & crochet projects on Ravelry
27. Knit two squares for Nikki’s baby blanket
28. Buy more socks
29. Never wear a matching pair of socks
30. Find some driftwood and make a necklace hanger
31. Make an emergency kit of makeup/deodorant/wipes/perfume
32. Keep kit in glovebox
33. Keep gloves in glovebox
34. Put a tune I like on my phone and set it as my ringtone
35. Get a fringe
36. Learn to shoot portraits
37. Carry a notebook and pen all the time
38. Keep handbags empty and ready for use
39. Remember to switch extractor fan on in kitchen
40. And in bathroom
41. Start a five year diary on my 25th birthday
42. Keep it up, a line or two a day, till my 30th birthday
43. Photograph dolls – studio, location etc
44. Build a model yard
45. Photograph it & its inhabitants
46. Write, choreograph & photograph photo stories in it
47. Do a rally one year (R2R September 2011)
48. Complete a business plan
49. Do a photography course (or holiday with Caitlin)
50. Contribute to Enchanted Ceiling (or start my own photo notebooks)
51. Stop feeling guilty about taking time off work when I’m ill
52. Complete a 52 project
53. Complete a 365 project
54. Challenge Chloe to an Etsy uploading stint – one item a day for a month
55. Start a craft collective (Etc 2011)
56. Buy a shop or start one
57. Collect quotes for bookshelves
58. Collect quotes for kitchen (tea & coffee for near kettle, chocolate & cakes for fridge)
59. Keep my Amazon wishlist up to date
60. Make my parents dinner at my own house
61. Make a honeycomb smash cheesecake
62. Actually, make any cheesecake without freaking out about the cheese that’s in it
63. Catalogue my horses
64. Use some of my many unused notebooks
65. Stop buying notebooks till I’ve completed #64
66. Make my life-in-pictures scrapbook I was meant to do for my 18th, and then for my 21st birthday
67. Go on that photographic round-Britain road trip in Poppy
68. Buy a campervan with friends
69. Go to a music festival
70. Send more letters (2011, mostly to Dan and Chloe)
71. List things regularly on Etsy
72. Make Ducking Fabulous something to be proud of
73. eBay the dresses & shoes and general stuff I’m never going to use
74. Customise furniture for my next home (2011)
75. Update my address book properly
76. Get addresses from all those people I really like but only have mobile numbers or
email addresses for
77. Go through business cards I’ve picked up, keep details of the ones I like, ditch the ones I don’t
78. Have a networking address book and a personal address book
79. Sort out and streamline my filofax (i.e. get rid of bits of paper weekly)
80. Drink more water
81. Exercise/swim more (or walk greyhounds!) (Skating with Jess 2011)
82. Hold crafting Sundays (various in 2011)
83. Keep up with friends from the library (managed so far in 2011)
84. Have a handmade Christmas – cards, gifts, decorations
85. Remember everyone’s birthday and anniversary for an entire year
86. Write more thank you notes
87. Host Christmas at my house
88. Own a Christmas tree & decorations of my own
89. Go on holiday by myself
90. Make lists of things (that make me happy, that I couldn’t live without, that I love to eat, that I love etc) to boost those down days
91. Read all my books
92. Use my Wii more
93. Use my gym membership more (did for a while, then got a new job and let it expire)
94. Get to know my local area better
95. Take a cupcake decorating class
96. Finish reading WoT when the final book comes out
97. Re-read the entire WoT sequence
98. Attempt to buy a boxed set
99. Find another fantasy series to obsess over
100. Plan where I’m going to put stuff before I move into next flat (2011)
101. Organise new flat beautifully & unusually (2011)
102. Decorate new flat craftily (2011, sort of in progress)
103. Have a separate room/studio for horses & crafting (2011)
104. Make & maintain a recipe folder
105. Get some of my own photos printed & on the wall
106. Make a photo book
107. Re-learn how to use Photoshop (2011)
108. Get Photoshop to work with Windows 7 (2011)
109. Go on a proofreading/copyediting course
110. Buy more handmade things
111. Buy more locally produced things
112. Keep up my blogs (DF and AL dependent on circumstance) (2010 and 2011)
113. Have a wall full of things my friends have drawn and a wall full of photos of my family
114. Use my bike to commute
115. Take my dog to work (when I have a dog)
116. Visit a new age shop without feeling self conscious
117. Go to New York and stay in the Library Hotel
118. Buy and use an IJoyRide or similar (August 2011)
119. Dance again
120. Visit Fiji
121. Write a letter to my teenage self
122. Write a letter to myself to open in ten years
123. Leave a note in a book for someone to find
124. Have something published
125. Go on a cruise
126. Go skinny dipping
127. Write a book
128. See a drive-in movie
129. Make a wish at 11.11 on 11/11/11
130. See Vegas
131. Live on my own (from August 2011)
132. Find a four leaf clover
133. Find out my blood type
134. Have a themed party
135. Start building my cocktail cabinet contents (small, but started, 2011)
136. Go to Ikea (with Lizzy, August 2011)
137. Design & name a cocktail
138. Plant my own herb garden
139. Make beautifully decorated cookies
140. Go on holiday western riding on a ranch
141. Go horseriding on the beach (Devon, during uni)
142. Own a convertible sports car (Poppy, December 2009)
143. Appear in a magazine (Japanese Performance, December 2010)
144. Frame all the art & photos I’ve bought over the years and put them on the wall
145. Watch the whole Harry Potter series on film
146. Buy the whole Harry Potter series on film
147. Make a will
148. Drive on a racetrack (sort of, if Longcross counts)
149. Host a reunion
150. Have a housewarming (mini impromptu one with Fred St girlies, September 2011)
151. Ditch old receipts, bank statements, etc (October 2011)
152. Get and use an electric toothbrush
153. Put minicab numbers for Colchester in my phone
154. And Chelmsford
155. And Witham
156. And Maldon
157. And Reading
158. Put screwdrivers back in man drawer
159. Buy blu tac for man drawer
160. Screw the loose visor on the MR2 (2011, and glued it too)
161. Go to the cinema more
162. Take more photos
163. Organise my flickr account
164. Buy old typewriter to display with old Singer sewing machine (entirely accidentally, two of them, July 2011)
165. Use old Singer sewing machine
166. Email Singer to find out provenance of machine
167. Obtain a new sewing machine. That works.
168. Get a subscription to a magazine – Cloth, 2012
169. Get something I’ve made featured in a magazine
170. Actually use my cookbooks – started to at the end of 2011/start of 2012 at Rob’s
171. Do some crafts for the Craft Experiment
172. Obtain a vase or two
173. Get the silk flowers for my room I’ve been hankering after since before we moved in (sort of, I have silk flowers in living room but not yet in my bedroom)
174. Freecycle
175. Clean the oven
176. Hoover more often (2011 – much easier now I have my Dyson back)
177. Label all my folders of stuff
178. Put magazines in magazine files, in order, on bookshelf (August 2011)
179. Buy new bookshelves (or freecycle some)
180. Get checked winter coat fixed (late 2010)
181. Go to more vintage sales
182. Reclaim DVDs
183. Reclaim USB stick
184. Buy envelopes
185. Use pretty stationery as often as possible
186. Get scanner to work with Windows 7 (2010, just)
187. Change my address to my own for banks, mailshots, doctors, etc
188. Register with a dentist
189. Get a checkup
190. Go to a WI or WI Girls meeting
191. Buy a waterproof MP3 player
192. Expand fabric stash
193. Keep jars around the house with colourful things in them – buttons, ribbons, paperclips, elastic bands, flowers
194. Sleep on big purchases
195. Stop impulse buying small things
196. Be more tolerant of others’ ideals
197. Be prepared to justify life choices to other people, because they will ask and not understand
198. Play more board games
199. Exfoliate, moisturise & tan more often
200. Learn more about herbs
201. Learn the phases of the moon
202. Use UV pen to mark valuables
203. Increase traffic to website & blogs
204. Keep website & blogs updated
205. Sew all hems, loose straps, rips etc on clothes
206. Buy a new lens for the Canon (2010, 55-200mm)
207. Use the camera more
208. Photograph ballerinas
209. Put tissues in every room
210. Put pens in every room
211. Keep a notepad by the phone
212. Use the slow cooker more (much more from March 2011)
213. At New Year, transfer birthdays etc to the next year’s calendar
214. Make Alice-in-Wonderland themed necklace
215. Make a steampunk costume
216. Make more jewellery for myself
217. Write down plans for funeral, put somewhere safe/leave with Ken
218. Investigate laser hair removal
219. Depilate more often
220. Put phone photos on computer (trying to do this more regularly now I’ve worked out how)
221. Clean fountain pen
222. Use fountain pen (if the disposable ones count… still need to use my proper one more)
223. Put useful information on the mirror-noticeboard
224. Get the car cleaned every month
225. Modify the MR2 – debadging, spoiler, style bar
226. Meet up with old friends (Susie, Claire, Sammi, Wendy)
227. Make a feature wall in a room
228. Eat more fish
229. Go to bed earlier at least twice a week
230. Organise bookshelves so I can find books
231. Actually read saved articles from newspapers & magazines
232. Finally sort out my portfolio from the telegraph and chuck all the bits I don’t need
233. Frame the London/Lebanon puff with the date
234. Listen to a podcast on any subject
235. Resubscribe to the Anaheim Ballet video podcast
236. Visit Scotland
237. Visit Ireland
238. Go to Krakow in summer
239. Change filter in the Dyson
240. Customise chairs
241. Buy serving spoons
242. Replace all kitchenware with non stick pans
243. Buy a decent amount of teaspoons
244. Clean all mugs with tea/coffee stains. If the stains won’t come out, chuck them, no matter how sentimental.
245. Get a bread bin
246. And tea/coffee/sugar/hot chocolate canisters
247. Keep sweetener in the house for visitors
248. Install and use skype
249. Send post to previous tenants
250. Put Ducking Fabulous receipts in order and on Excel
251. Don’t add up totals on that spreadsheet
252. Keep a stock of birthday, anniversary, get well soon, new house, new job etc cards
253. Start a present box or drawer (it’s a cupboard, but same difference)
254. Buy things throughout the year when they’ll suit people
255. Keep list of what I’ve given who which year
256. Keep list of who’s given me what which year
257. Learn to make Gran’s chicken pasta
258. Come up with a signature dish for unexpected guests & impromptu dinner parties
259. Get better at cooking veggie food
260. Keep a supply of new razor blades
261. Keep spare new toothbrushes & a tube of toothpaste in the bathroom
262. Read some classics/the sparknotes to the classics
263. Be ready to recommend books from the genres I like
264. Buy a set of decent kitchen knives and another sharpener
265. Have a properly stocked & labelled spice rack
266. Get a cordless landline phone
267. Take own bags shopping
268. Take some costumed self-portraits
269. Learn to shoot in a studio and on location
270. Get a flash that works TTL with my Canon
271. Try TTV photography
272. Shoot six to ten rolls of film on the Zenit
273. Find time to go riding with Mily
274. Go to the theatre more
275. Take Louise to a musical
276. See Legally Blonde, the musical
277. Get a job that enables me to live on my own, run the MR2, have a social life and save a bit (2011, apart from the saving part!)
278. Get to some more live shows
279. Get to some more ROC meets (CAE 2011, Ding Day 2011)
280. Organise my craft stuff into some sort of cupboard/shelving system
281. Create an alter-ego who is more vintage, pin up, steampunk than me (That’d be Lotta then…)
281a. Incorporate her behaviour and looks into my own life
282. Stop being so scared and try altered art – books, ATCs, etc… (one altered book to date. More added to bottom of the list)
283. Have champagne bottle vases (in my living room!)
284. Get shoes & boots re-heeled
285. Buy shoe polish
286. Get typewriters to work (well, one of them does, it’s not bad going!)
287. Go to the ballet
288. Open a vintage/handmade shop
289. Do a course in something, or learn a new skill
290. Make things from the magazines and books I own
291. Have confidence in my own abilities.
292. Trim my own hair
293. Go to a vintage event
294. Drive a classic car
295. Rollerskate in Hyde Park
296. Watch burlesque (at the Fling 2010 and 2011)
297. Go to an actual burlesque show
298. Go extreme ironing (in various countries, September 2011)
299. Create & maintain a facebook fan page for one of my many projects
300. Sew my own clothes
301. Paint my nails more often
302. Get my hair cut and styled more often
303. Remember to schedule in quiet weekends, to actually breathe once in a while
304. File all my paperwork in a proper filing cabinet
305. Eat less chocolate
306. Horse ride in Hyde Park
307. Go to a trade fair (Autumn Fair 2010, but would like to do another one)
308. Register self-employed (be doing something that warrants this first)
309. Make some money from doing something outside the day job
310. Meet other bloggers
311. Participate in more internet swaps (Curiosity Project October 2011, A Curious Christmas December 2011)
312. Postcard Project
313. Customise some more shoes
314. Create R2R artwork with map, bits from Rusty and photos
315. Get it framed and hang it in the living room
316. Make a rally folder with tweets, blogs and other stuff
317. Attend a business networking event
318. Change air filter on the MR2
319. Replace light bulb in hallway
320. Buy corsets (2 so far, although can’t imagine they’ll be the last!)
321. Wear a corset during a normal day
322. Post photos to other rally teams
323. Sew buttons onto all my clothes that have lost them
324. Own a Vivien of Holloway dress
325. Create more altered art
326. Plan and do an Irish rally
327. Buy a tablet/netbook for blogging on the go
328. Watch Cars properly, and then Cars 2
329. Watch the other Narnia films
330. Watch the rest of the Northern Lights films
331. Watch Swallows and Amazons on film when it comes out
