neadods | Resolution Update

2005 Resolutions

HANDIWORK
~~Cutting Y2K patches down to size~~
Cross-stitching Tudor roses on black twill bodice

HOUSEHOLD, GARDEN & LIFE CLEANUP
~~Declutter basement~~
~~Donate excess fabrics or make quilt kits for PfF III~~
~~Organize all fabric by project in neat containers~~
~~Clean up Library (dumping ground for things that didn't belong in basement)~~
~~Apply for Gov't job~~
~~Clean up bedroom~~
Sell on ebay:
- psaltry
- 10K Newspaper prop
- Vincent costume shirt
~~- gold crystal ball stand~~
- old BatB fanzines
Buy frames as necessary and hang at least two more pictures
- wolf pack
- National Mall in the snow
For Garden:
- order 100 more bags mulch
- order 12 more large containers
~~- aphid treat roses~~
- Rescue Roses!
~~Go through magazine stack in basket and pull articles for future reading~~
~~Reorganize DVDs & VHS tapes~~
Find home for CDs and put them away
Start cloning old series to DVD, if the tapes will play (crossed fingers!) Tapes cloned: #0 (Still fighting with new burner)

SHORE LEAVE
~~Recruit crew~~
~~Set up dedicated database (with help of programmers)~~
~~Buy Young Fan awards for Shore Leave~~
~~Order Shore Leave awards~~
Run Masquerade

TEAM WENCH/CHARITY
~~TW 5K MS Walk~~
~~Lead Bylaw committee - get mission statement and bylaws drafted by mid-June~~
See the Bylaws through full Team vote and make all amendments as required
Help with Prepare for Fair III
~~Make 4 book baskets for MSFB~~

WRITING
~~Get another reviewing job~~
Write 10K/B&B crossover story
Finish putting old BatB fic online
Write up for

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~~- Maine Pyar Kiya~~
- Mujhse Dosti Karoge
- Santa Clause Conquers the Martians
- ?another Bollywood movie?

EDUMACATION
General
~~Learn to make bread by hand from scratch~~
Learn how to make my own patterns for embroidery machine
~~Choose possible next degree~~ Need to take at least one more year to pay off stuff before I think about this.
Teaching Company
~~- History of the English Language~~
- Mozart, His Life and Times
- Mozart: the Chamber Music
- Shakespeare: Word and Action
- The Bible and World Literature
- History of Science Fiction
- Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning

Tudor Self Study (to be rolled over into 2006 as necessary)
Read:
- Everyday Life in Renaissance England
- This Realm of England Smith (pertinent chapter)
- Rhyming History of England (pertinent verses just for the laugh)
- Great Harry, Carolly Erickson
- Henry VIII, Jasper Ridley
- The Sisters of Henry VIII, Maria Perry
- In the Lion's Court, Wilson
- The Perfect Prince, Wroe
- Divorced, Beheaded, Survived, Lindsey
- The Wives of Henry VIII, Antonia Frasier
- Six Wives, David Starkey
- Mary and Elizabeth: Cousins, Rivals, Queens, Dunn
- Queen of Scots, the True Life of Mary Stuart, Guy
- A Crown for Elizabeth, Mary Luke
- Elizabeth 1, Jasper Ridley
- Elizabeth the Great, Elizabeth Jenkins
- Elizabeth, David Starkey
- The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England, William Camden (an edited version of a biography written right after her death)
- England's Elizabeth, Dobson & Watson (more a history of how history has treated her)
- 1603, Christopher Lee
Listen to Teaching Company courses:
- History of the Religious Wars in Europe
- History of Henry VIII
- History of England, Tudors through Stuarts

MISSIONARY PROJECT
Outline missionary book
Create pitch package
Finish Hiram's Diary - scanning, putting into timeline, hunting down quotes
Look up pitching requirements for McFarland
Create comprehensive list of HMCS references, give to Aunt

COOKBOOK PROJECT
~~Go through and reorganize cookbooks~~
~~Create personal cookbook of favorite recipes~~
Make holiday-recipe cookbook of tried and trusted recipes (NaCookWriMo?)
Finish old recipe cleanup - gut and toss backlog of magazines and clippings

MENDING/SEWING
~~Mend mundane clothes~~
~~Dye stained skirt and blouse, both black~~
Mend Renfair clothes
- Embroider
- - blue Irish dress (with celtic thistle)
- - black Irish dress (applique with tudor roses)
~~- - green Irish dress (celtic knot)~~
- Take in black skirt
- Fit flat caps (black, ~~green,~~ tapestry)
- Convert drawstring skirts to elastic
- - street skirt
- - light brown skirt
- - dark brown skirt
- - light blue skirt
- mend two chemises
- - heavy cotton - pick out lace on wrists and put in elastic
- - light cotton - hem, put elastic in neck and wrists
- sew three chemises
- - white cotton
- - natural cotton
- - black gauze

CRAFTS
~~Make tassels for decorative carabiners~~
~~- shades of pink and purple for purple butterfly (regular tassle)~~
~~- white and blue stars for howling wolf~~
~~- gold and silver and blue with gold stars for "celestial"~~
~~- blue and black with silver stars for moon~~
~~- shades of pink and white for pink ribbon (regular tassle)~~
~~- red, green, and gold for dragon (regular tassle)~~
Test 4 soapmaking recipes to pick a favorite
Test the favorite soap recipe with 3 varying amounts and types of milk
Learn to make 3 kinds of candy
- molded chocolates
- eggnog fudge
- press cookies

QUILTING (to be rolled over into 2006 as necessary)
~~Hang grandmother's quilt in hall~~
Make baby quilt for tchwrtr
Pineapple scrap quilt
Rainbow Braid quilt
Embroidered denim quilt
Denim and flannel crazy quilt
Silk Fibonacci butterfly crazy quilt
Machine embroidered redwork
Y2K Colorado stripe quilt
Y2K watercolor quilt
Machine embroidered floral cheater cathedral window

TRAVEL
~~Go to VA quilt show and make a stop in Colonial Williamsburg~~
~~Weekend in NYC and see Spamalot!~~
~~Malice Domestic~~
~~Media*West~~
Stratford
Bouchercon