Between the Covers: May 2010

101 Things in

1001 Days

1. Read all books on 888 challenge list
2. Read War and Peace
3. Read a biography of Richard III
~~4. Read a history of the Wars of the Roses~~
25-10-09
5. Read The Iliad
6. Read the rest of the Outlander series
7. Read the Bible - all of it
I quit!
8. Reach a total of 150 on the 1,001 Book You Must Read Before You Die list
9. For three months, abandon any book that hasn’t grabbed me by page 75
10. Increase by five the number of centuries from which I have read at least one work
11. Read more than 250 pages a day for two weeks
12. Cull my book collection
13. Reorganise my bookshelves
11-4-08
14. Get a wooden bookcase
15. Reduce my TBR pile to a single-figure number
21-1-09
And it stayed that way all of 59 hours ... then I went to a book sale
16. Break the habit of using junk as bookmarks
31-10-08
17. Merge my various want-to-read lists into one
18. Finish adding all my books to LibraryThing
19. Get the hit counter on this blog to 50,000
20. Run another reading challenge
21. Start a meme
31-1-09
22. Add at least one link to the Saturday Review of Books each week for three months
25-4-09
23. Add 20 new blogs to my blogroll
1-11-09
24. Get to 5,000 pages proofed at Project Gutenberg
25. Volunteer at a Lifeline Bookfest
26. Participate in NaNoWriMo
30-11-08
80,000 words in 30 days - fun!
27. Finish and edit the result
28. Send it to a publisher
29. Get paid for a short story
30. Keep a journal
31. Pay library fines
27-8-08
32. Get a new laptop
7-10-08
Out of necessity when the old one died
33. Acquire and deploy a NO JUNK MAIL sticker
34. Start an investment portfolio
35. Leave home
36. Leave Queensland
37. Adopt a cat
38. Get new glasses with Transitions lenses
25-6-08
39. Get a Proof of Age card
28-3-08
40. Find a pair of high heels that actually fit
17-7-08
41. Double my cushion cover collection
42. Buy a photo album and organise my collection of six-year-old photos
43. Frame the painted scroll I inherited from my grandmother
44. Find the Year 11 art class self-portrait that has apparently vanished into thin air
18-3-08
45. Find or make a jewellery container specifically designed to hold drop earrings
46. Finish my butterfly earrings
47. Make a new cover for my ottoman
48. Make a new cover for the cushion on my cane chair
49. Finish sewing my grey skirt
10-4-08
And I am never, ever, ever using fabric like that again!
50. Sew my blue dress
51. Design a pattern for a patterned dress
52. Sew patterned dress
53. Embroider a bookmark
17-3-08
54. Make an easy-to-change doona cover
55. Knit a jumper
18-7-09
56. Knit socks
30-8-08
57. Crochet a shawl
58. Design and make a small quilt
24-12-08
59. Design and make a full-size quilt
60. Decoupage something
61. Design a tarot deck
62. Do one sketch a week for 2 months
63. Paint my toenails
64. Take pottery classes
65. Take bellydancing classes
66. Take Latin dance classes
67. Begin regular exercise
68. Take up yoga
69. Get to the point where I can stop wearing my retainers
No chance - my next appointment isn’t until after the end date
70. Grow my hair long again
71. (Try to) learn a foreign language
72. Study history
73. Learn to make bread
74. Learn to make scones
75. Learn to type
76. Learn to do more with Excel than just putting in data
12-9-08
77. Clear junk off laptop hard drive
20-9-08
And then it died and wasted the effort!
78. Clear junk off desktop hard drive
15-1-10
79. Clear my wardrobe of everything I no longer wear
80. Spend one month clutter-free
81. Learn to meditate
82. Moisturise every day for a month
83. Visit a local art gallery
84. Go on a ghost tour
85. Grow a bonsai plant from seed
86. Grow a herb garden
87. Grow vegetables from seed
88. Keep a gerbera alive for three months
89. Keep an orchid alive for three months
90. Keep a cyclamen alive for three months
91. Get a potted Wollemi pine
92. Grow bulbs
93. Decorate a hat . . .
94. . . . and wear it to the races
95. Get a digital camera . . .
96. . . . and start doing Wordless Wednesdays
97. Make a Regency dress . . .
98. . . . and go to a Jane Austen ball
99. Get up early and watch the sunrise
100. Celebrate my accomplishments!
101. Try to think of another 101 things . . .

End date:26-11-10

Header image shows detail of A Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1776