Resolutions

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I plan on donating to Katrina relief, but I'm not sure exactly how or what I want to do... and if I want to do it now, when things are an utter clusterfuck and Homeland Security is barring the Red Cross from entering New Orleans or if my money will do more later, when the initial rush has died down off the front page but the need for rebuilding funds is just as keen.

On the personal side, pressures of work have shoved Teaching Company classes far down the list. Pressures of wardrobe have rocketed the sewing of clothes and shoemaking to the top... whenever I have time to deal with them. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth keeping the list if I'm going to reshuffle it so much. And then I think that because of this list I've decluttered the house, I've read down the TBRs (we'll not talk about the number of books I brought back from Bouchercon, thanks), I've hung the artwork, I've gotten a lot of other necessary jobs done, so... okay, maybe worth it after all, even if I do reshuffle a lot.

Speaking of reshuffling, although I didn't quite get the bylaws through committee or team, I got us almost all of the way there, so I've crossed it off. I got us as far as I could go before the rest of life got too stressful. One thing has been moved from 2006 to this year, as a last service to the team - I want to scan the logo and turn it into a cross-stitch pattern. I have the software and it shouldn't take too long. I'll do the B&W version so that people can fill it in with any colors they want.

HANDIWORK
Cutting Y2K patches down to size
Prep work for Cross-stitching Tudor roses on black twill bodice & matching flat cap

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
Buy frames as necessary and hang at least:
- wolf pack
- National Mall in the snow
- Wolf guardian
For Garden:
- order 100 more bags mulch
- aphid treat 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

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
Pack kits for next year's con.

TEAM WENCH/CHARITY
TW 5K MS Walk
Lead Bylaw committee - get mission statement and bylaws drafted by mid-June
See the Bylaws up to full Team vote
Help with Prepare for Fair III
Make 4 book baskets for MSFB
Make cross-stitch pattern for TW logo

KATRINA CHARITY
I don't know what or who or when yet, but it's going to be done

WRITING
Get another reviewing job
Write up for plan_9_from_lj:
- Maine Pyar Kiya
- Mujhse Dosti Karoge This may be the last one for this year, we'll see

EDUMACATION (General)
Learn to make bread by hand from scratch
Learn how to make my own patterns for embroidery machine
Teaching Company, General
- History of the English Language
- Mozart, His Life and Times
- History of Science Fiction

MISSIONARY PROJECT
Finish Hiram's Diary - scanning, putting into timeline, hunting down quotes

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
?Dress trimming? Keep waffling if it would be nice or just needless time/expense
- - green Irish dress (celtic knot)
- 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
ruana for taking to Stratford and faire

CRAFTS
Make tassels for decorative carabiners
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

SEWING
draft flattering, fitting patterns for:
- pull-on pants
- cap-sleeve top
- 4-gore A-line skirt
- simple blazer
- semi-fitted rectangular skirt

QUILTING
Decided that I'd be more likely to get this done if I narrowed it down to a few quilts a year
Hang grandmother's quilt in hall
Make baby quilt for tchwrtr
Pineapple scrap quilt
Embroidered denim quilt

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