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neadodsBetween Dad's surgery and the holidays in general, I'm going to declare this list as done as its going to get. And y'know what? I haven't done too badly.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- ran con programming, Farpoint
- ran Prepare For Fair II
- ran successful masquerade, Shore Leave
- redecorated bathroom
- repierced ears
- became regular book reviewer, ReviewingTheEvidence.com
- reduced To Be Read book stack by slightly over half
- decluttered top floor and main floor
- Learned how to:
- - make my cat crazy with a bowed psaltry
- - pick out the tune "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee" w/out music on a zither (plucked psaltry)
- - make cold process soap
- - harvest rose hips (even if they don't seem to ripen properly in this climate)
The list of things deferred to next year is much shorter and only two things are all that "major" - the missionary project work didn't get as far along as I'd hoped and the cookbook project remains undone. The crafts are negotiable.
When I clean up the last of the library stuff and rearrange the books this weekend, I'll have a sense of accomplishment that I really needed.
Obligations
Cut my outside obligations (conventions & TeamWench) in half
Host Prepare for Fair II "The Fair Strikes Back"
Run Shore Leave masquerade
Missionary Project
Three out of four diaries loaded into the timeline
Craft Projects
Learn about the harvesting of rose hips weather too warm to bring them to harvest - ie, this was an unsuccessful venture
Learn to make cold process soap.
Learn to replace strings, tune and play 1 song on psaltery
Christmas/cooking crafts deferred to 2005
Books
Started with 575; last count, excluding review books, was 244
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
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: recount after Christmas
Pitch up to three other book review sites to get second reviewing job
House & garden
Hang grandmother's quilt in hall
Declutter basement.
Move rose trees to back yard
Go through cookbooks; toss many, get down to 3 shelves only
Make book of tried and true recipes
"Realize Assets" by selling off:
woodburned feast plate
Pendragon bodice
bowed psaltry
Harry Potter rare & signed editions
Nancy Drew - the two really valuable ones
?camera?
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)
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
- - Hiram Bingam (1819-1826)
?Nanowrimo first draft of book?
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 baby afghan on knitting loom for Lori
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy (molded chocolates, eggnog fudge, press cookies)
Clean new candlemold and make 1/2 dozen winterfest-style candles.
Soapmaking:
- test recipes, find a favorite
- make one batch milk soap & one batch beer soap
- ?bath fizzies?
GENERAL VOWS:
Not to join a new organization
To usher at only one theater, if that
To not pick more than 3 review books per cycle
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- ran con programming, Farpoint
- ran Prepare For Fair II
- ran successful masquerade, Shore Leave
- redecorated bathroom
- repierced ears
- became regular book reviewer, ReviewingTheEvidence.com
- reduced To Be Read book stack by slightly over half
- decluttered top floor and main floor
- Learned how to:
- - make my cat crazy with a bowed psaltry
- - pick out the tune "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee" w/out music on a zither (plucked psaltry)
- - make cold process soap
- - harvest rose hips (even if they don't seem to ripen properly in this climate)
The list of things deferred to next year is much shorter and only two things are all that "major" - the missionary project work didn't get as far along as I'd hoped and the cookbook project remains undone. The crafts are negotiable.
When I clean up the last of the library stuff and rearrange the books this weekend, I'll have a sense of accomplishment that I really needed.
2004 New Year Resolution Checklist:
Obligations
Missionary Project
Three out of four diaries loaded into the timeline
Craft Projects
Christmas/cooking crafts deferred to 2005
Books
Started with 575; last count, excluding review books, was 244
Decluttering
House Decoration
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: recount after Christmas
Pitch up to three other book review sites to get second reviewing job
House & garden
Hang grandmother's quilt in hall
Declutter basement.
Move rose trees to back yard
Go through cookbooks; toss many, get down to 3 shelves only
Make book of tried and true recipes
"Realize Assets" by selling off:
woodburned feast plate
Pendragon bodice
bowed psaltry
Harry Potter rare & signed editions
Nancy Drew - the two really valuable ones
?camera?
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)
Read through the appropriate chapters of what I have in missionary:
- books
- - 9 Doctors and God
- - Let Us Go
- -
- - Paths of Duty
- - Pilgrim Path
- - Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth
- diaries
- - Hiram Bingam (1819-1826)
?Nanowrimo first draft of book?
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 baby afghan on knitting loom for Lori
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy (molded chocolates, eggnog fudge, press cookies)
Clean new candlemold and make 1/2 dozen winterfest-style candles.
Soapmaking:
- test recipes, find a favorite
- make one batch milk soap & one batch beer soap
- ?bath fizzies?
GENERAL VOWS:
Not to join a new organization
To usher at only one theater, if that
To not pick more than 3 review books per cycle
