Monthly Resolution update

[neadods]

2004 New Year Resolution Checklist:

Obligations
Cut my outside obligations (conventions & TeamWench) in half
Host Prepare for Fair II "The Fair Strikes Back"
Run Shore Leave masquerade

Missionary Project
Read through the appropriate chapters of what I have in missionary:
- books
- - 9 Doctors and God
- - Let Us Go
- - Missionary Album
- - Paths of Duty
- - Pilgrim Path
- - Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth
- diaries
- - Lucia Holman (entire)
- - Henry Opuka'ahia (entire)
- - Lucy Thurston (1819-1821)
- - Hiram Bingam (1819-1826)
- websites

Craft Projects
Learn about the harvesting of rose hips, make rose hip jelly
Learn to make cold process soap.
Learn to replace strings, tune, and play 1 song on psaltery
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy (molded chocolates, eggnog fudge, press cookies)
Clean new candlemold and make 1/2 dozen winterfest-style candles.

Books
see 2005 and journal entry of 10/21/04

Decluttering
bedroom
office
library

House Decoration
repaint bathroom cabinet
hang framed art where appropriate
Frame all remaining pictures & hang them
replace downstairs switchplates with decorated switchplates

2005 Resolutions

Obligations
Help Lori run Prepare for Fair III (she's running it, I'm just sr. advisor. I hope.)
Run Shore Leave Masquerade:
- recruit crew
- set up dedicated database (with help of programmers)
- advertise and beta test online costume registration
- embroider Young Fan awards
Find second online or paper-based book review job (likesbooks.com?)

Books
TBR: 244

Organizing
Go through cookbooks; toss many, get down to 3 shelves only
Make book of tried and true recipes
declutter basement

House & garden
Hang grandmother's quilt in hall
Read plant propagation books
?set up propagation planters?

Missionary
Read Background books to flesh out life & times
- - Born for Liberty (women in America)
- - Captain Ahab Had a Wife (women in New England)
- - Eyewitness to America/Eyewitness to History (general background)
- - Hen Frigates (women in the shipping industry)
- - In the Heart of the Sea (the shipwrecked Essex crew were cannibalizing each other to survive at the same time/location as the missionaries were sailing to Hawaii)
- - Letters of a Nation (general background)
- - Petticoat Whalers (women in whaling)
- - She Captains (women in the shipping industry)
Library of Congress run:
- - Anti-missionary criticism
- - Pro-missionary Hawaiian Proclamation 1822
- - ??? (don't know what else is there yet)

Costumes/Wardrobe
Finish all mending
Finish all Renfair-related mending
Embroider Irish dress
Take in black skirt
Fit flat caps (black, green, tapestry)
Sew at least 3 chemises, assd colors and weights
Convert drawstring skirts to elastic

Craft
learn how to make my own patterns for embroidery machine
finish 2 quilts (rainbow braid and denim star)
make afghan on knitting loom
Soapmaking:
- test recipes, find a favorite
- make one batch milk soap & one batch beer soap
- ?bath fizzies?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, okay, this is almost too good for me to ignore (especially since I'm a big-time list maker and follow them religiously...


Add to your book reading list:

Lamb -- Christopher Moore

and

The Devil's Apocrypha -- John A. DeVito

There are more I could suggest, but I wouldn't want you to think I was baiting you again.