of things i want to do in the next 1001 days.
It was difficult to decide what things should go on the list, and what things i wanted to just let be, but this is what i came up with...
start date: Friday 24 July 2009
end date: Friday, 20 April 2012
- Walk the Overland Track in Tasmania. (I'm really excited about this one so it goes first!)
- Climb Waterfall Gully to Mt Lofty (or similar) 30 times before walking the overland track.
- Walk the Yurrebilla Trail through the Adelaide Hills
- Walk the Deep Creek National Park section of the Heyson Trail (camp halfway)
- Find another trail that excites me and walk it. Maybe in Victoria, Northern NSW or SE QLD?
- Walk the Marino cliff tops from Brighton to Hallet Cove Conservation park with Belinda
- Do the Victor Harbour walk Ben's dad recommended
- Walk through Mt George Conservation Park with my boss
- Walk from home/the city to Victoria and Nakita's house along the Torrens River before we move.
- Try taking Radish (our apartment cat) for another walk on her leash
- Do a term of Belly dancing lessons.
- Go on a picnic
- Visit 15 exhibitions
- Hire out the Mt Lofty youth hostel with friends
- Go to Deep Creek National Park
- Go to Kangaroo Island
- Go to the Flinders Ranges
- Climb St Mary's Peak in the Flinders Ranges
- Go on a holiday with just Ben, no one else.
- Go to a Rainbow Gathering
- Go to a Confest
- Go to a Folk Festival … not Woodford again … preferably the national one in Canberra with Belinda.
- Make sure I see my globetrotting friend Emma.
- Grown my hair and plait it like it was when I was 17
- Get a henna tattoo … but not at a festival … little A would be really good at this
- Visit my nana in Melbourne
- See my family 4 times a month for 6 months
- Do something fun with just my siblings
- Practice yoga five times a week for a month so I get into the habit again. (This one doesn't count until I've inevitably gotten distracted from my yoga, then had to drag myself back to it)
- Do sun salutations every morning for a few weeks and see how I feel (I'm usually a night time yogi)
- Do 108 sun salutations to celebrate something
- Organise my pantry (which is really a pile of boxes full of food in the bedroom because my kitchen is that small)
- Empty my cupboards of nasty things and start cleaning using green, frugal methods
- Learn to make soap
- Clean up the plants on my balcony.
- Clean out my closet and donate at least 2 big ikea bags worth of clothing
- Sort out my superannuation.
- Make and bottle lots of tomato sauce
- Make and bottle lots of jam
- Make sourdough bread
- Make ginger Beer
- Make a fruit or vegetable wine
- Cook Christmas Pudding with Belinda (before September)
- Cook Sri Lankan wedding cake with mum
- Cook with duck
- Cook with rabbit
- Cook with goat
- Cook a cassoulet with Ben
- Cook using another ingredient I haven't used before
- Cook 10 things from 101 cookbooks
- Cook slow roasted pork with Jel and steal her secrets
- Learn a delicious Japanese dish from Jel.
- Find the perfect Japanese cookbook
- Cook an Indian feast to share with Ben's siblings.
- Cook up a tajine feast with Belinda
- Eat at Bridgewater Mill
- High Tea at the Apothecary on Hindley St with Belinda
- Eat/drink coffee at 10 new places with Belinda
- Go to the Willunga farmers market
- Go mushrooming
- Only do food shopping at the farmers markets and the central markets for a month. No quick trips to the Woolworths near works or the IGA down the street because I haven't been organised enough to buy what I need or I don't already have what I really want to eat.
- Only buy organic or 'in conversion' food for a month. See if I feel any healthier…
- Acquire bags for fruit/veg/loose grains etc from Kel … and use them
- Don't use a microwave for a month, re-examine whether or not I need to have a microwave afterwards
- Eat nourishing traditions style for a month and see how i feel ...
- Learn to sew something wonderful from Anakin
- Learn to sew a quilt (and finish it)
- Finish knitting Ben a headband/hat thingamajig
- Knit dishcloths
- Learn how to knit something more complicated than a single rectangle/square
- Learn to crochet
- Crochet a granny square rug
- Learn to embroider something pretty
- Make 10 presents for friends/family instead of buying things
- Sew myself some cloth pads to complete my stash, or get a moon cup
- Give blood. last time i gave blood was also the first time i ever fainted so i'm scared of this one
- Learn to recognise 20 new plant species
- Learn and draw 20 construction details for work
- Find a way to use Adobe Illustrator usefully for work
- Learn something about photography/my camera from Victoria, my boss, J
and the internet
- Learn something about using Photoshop better from J and the internet
- Make and Send 10 Postcards
- Write a letter to Cagri, my highschool penpal from turkey who recontacted me through facebook
- Write my nana a letter
- Take photos … one a day for a month
- Write posts … one a day for a month
- Read 20 novels recommended/borrowed from Belinda
- Read 20 non-fiction books recommended/borrowed from Belinda
- Read/watch 20 Ben recommended things
- Read 'How to be a better foodie. A bulging little book for the truly epicurious' by Sugi Pigott as recommended by kel
- Move out of our apartment and into our house (when its finally built)
- Be 3 years ahead on our mortgage
- Learn about companion planting
- Start a Vegetable Garden
- Start Composting
- Plant 20 different vegetables/herbs/fruit
- Harvest 20 different vegetables/herbs/fruit
- Get chickens
- Hold a working Bee at the community garden
- Start planting in the community garden
- Harvest something from the community garden
so that's the list done, now i just have to get started…
wow-what a fantastic list-im honoured to rate a mention! as soon as mushroom season starts up i will definitely invite you along (now i can contact you!). im tempted to challenge myself to one. you obviously enjoy bush walking!
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ReplyDeletethe list was challenging but lots of fun to write. :)
i've only just started bushwalking and am really enjoying it. I'm trying to get in as much practice walking up hills before attempting the overland track as i can so i don't colapse in a heap half way!
Good luck on 10... better you than me. 19 shouldnt be to hard i think. 99 looks like a typo.
ReplyDeleteSad about woodford really... sunrise, sunset.
cats in the cradle and yes we have no bananas.
ben
ReplyDeletethank you love! i've fixed 99 and you've got no choice with 19!
Great list! When you are ready to start up your veggie and herb garden, do contact me, I'd love to share cuttings and seeds with you. There's plenty around here. :)
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ReplyDeletethank you! I've got no idea when we'll be able to move in to our house and start digging (or even when the builder is going to make a start) but when we do i'll definatley take you up on the offer!
I love it this is brilliant! I started a list in May when I turned 30 of 41 things to do before I'm 40 - I'm just trying to narrow it down! Very inspiring.
ReplyDeletekaty - i'm glad you like it! i think i'd find the 30 things to do over a 10 year period much harder ... even with a 3 year time limit the further away a 'thing' was likely to be completed the more i doubted myself and whether it would still be a 'thing' i wanted to do. lists of goals are really quite tricky to compile!
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