
heaps of my extended family from melbourne where visiting adelaide last week including my cousin's 8 year old son lochie... he looks sweet and innocent...
i used to be a lurker ... but now I have a blog of my own to play with!
start date: 24th July 2009
end date: 20th April 2012
green is underway
red is finished!
1. Walk the Overland Track in Tasmania. (It was AMAZING!!!)
2. Climb Waterfall Gully to Mt Lofty (or similar) 30 times before walking the overland track. (30/30)
3. Walk the Yurrebilla Trail through the Adelaide Hills
4. Walk the Deep Creek National Park section of the Heyson Trail (camp halfway)
5. Find another trail that excites me and walk it. Maybe in Victoria, Northern NSW or SE QLD?
6. Walk the Marino cliff tops from Brighton to Hallet Cove Conservation park with Belinda
7. Do the Victor Harbour walk Ben's dad recommended
8. Walk through Mt George Conservation Park with my boss
9. Walk from home/the city to Victoria and Nakita's house along the Torrens River.
10. Try taking Radish (our apartment cat) for another walk on her leash
11. Do a term of Belly dancing lessons.
12. Go on a picnic
13. Visit 15 exhibitions (4/15)
14. Hire out the Mt Lofty youth hostel with friends
15. Go to Deep Creek National Park
16. Go to Kangaroo Island
17. Go to the Flinders Ranges
18. Climb St Mary's Peak in the Flinders Ranges
19. Go on a holiday with just Ben, no one else.
20. Go to a Rainbow Gathering
21. Go to a Confest
22. Go to a Folk Festival … not Woodford again … preferably the national one in Canberra with Belinda.
23. Make sure I see my globetrotting friend Emma.
24. Grown my hair and plait it like it was when I was 17
25. Get a henna tattoo … but not at a festival … little A would be really good at this
26. Visit my nana in Melbourne
27. See my family 4 times a month for 6 months (haha, we ended up living with them!)
28. Do something fun with just my siblings (it's not so hard now we're back in the same house)
29. 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)
30. Do sun salutations every morning for a few weeks and see how I feel (I'm usually a night time yogi)
31. Do 108 sun salutations to celebrate something
32. Organise my pantry (which is really a pile of boxes full of food in the bedroom because my kitchen is that small)
33. Empty my cupboards of nasty things and start cleaning using green, frugal methods
34. Learn to make soap
35. Clean up the plants on my balcony.
36. Clean out my closet and donate at least 2 big ikea bags worth of clothing
37. Sort out my superannuation.
38. Make and bottle lots of tomato sauce
39. Make and bottle lots of jam
40. Make sourdough bread
41. Make ginger Beer
42. Make a fruit or vegetable wine
43. Cook Christmas Pudding with Belinda
44. Cook Sri Lankan wedding cake with mum
45. Cook with duck
46. Cook with rabbit
47. Cook with goat
48. Cook a cassoulet with Ben
49. Cook using another ingredient I haven't used before (i used pomegranate molasses in a persian lamb and rhubarb stew)
50. Cook 10 things from 101 cookbooks
51. Cook slow roasted pork with Jel and steal her secrets
52. Learn a delicious Japanese dish from Jel.
53. Find the perfect Japanese cookbook
54. Cook an Indian feast to share with Ben's siblings.
55. Cook up a tajine feast with Belinda
56. Eat at Bridgewater Mill
57. High Tea at the Apothecary on Hindley St with Belinda
58. Eat/drink coffee at 10 new places with Belinda (3/10)
59. Go to the Willunga farmers market
60. Go mushrooming
61. 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.
62. Only buy organic or 'in conversion' food for a month. See if I feel any healthier…
63. Acquire bags for fruit/veg/loose grains etc from Kel … and use them
64. Don't use a microwave for a month, re-examine whether or not I need to have a microwave afterwards
65. Eat nourishing traditions style for a month and see how i feel ...
66. Learn to sew something wonderful from Anakin
67. Learn to sew a quilt (and finish it)
68. Finish knitting Ben a headband/hat thingamajig
69. Knit dishcloths
70. Learn how to knit something more complicated than a single rectangle/square
71. Learn to crochet
72. Crochet a granny square rug
73. Learn to embroider something pretty
74. Make 10 presents for friends/family instead of buying things (2/10)
75. Sew myself some cloth pads to complete my stash, or get a moon cup (i got a moon cup and it's wonderful!)
76. Give blood. last time i gave blood was also the first i ever fainted so i'm scared of this one
77. Learn to recognise 20 new plant species
78. Learn and draw 20 construction details for work (5/20)
79. Find a way to use Adobe Illustrator usefully for work
80. Learn something about photography/my camera from Victoria, my boss, J and the internet (2/4)
81. Learn something about using Photoshop better from J and the internet
82. Make and Send 10 Postcards
83. Write a letter to Cagri, my highschool penpal from turkey who recontacted me through facebook
84. Write my nana a letter
85. Take photos … one a day for a month
86. Write posts … one a day for a month
87. Read 20 novels recommended/borrowed from Belinda (1/20)
88. Read 20 non-fiction books recommended/borrowed from Belinda (3/20)
89. Read/watch 20 Ben recommended things (7/20)
90. Read 'How to be a better foodie. A bulging little book for the truly epicurious' by Sugi Pigott as recommended by kel
91. Move out of our apartment and into our house (when its finally built)
92. Be 3 years ahead on our mortgage
93. Learn about companion planting
94. Start a Vegetable Garden
95. Start Composting
96. Plant 20 different vegetables/herbs/fruit (kale, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, sage, rosemary, parsley, thyme, basil, oregano, chillies, Vietnamese mint, rainbow chard, silverbeet)
97. Harvest 20 different vegetables/herbs/fruit
98. Get chickens
99. Hold a working Bee at the community garden
100. Start planting in the community garden
101. Harvest something from the community garden
hehe. yes, having two girls and despite my feminist paradihm, they never every drew pics like this with this content. However, looks likes lots of pics boys drew at school. Its timeless. Weird. i look forward to lots o zombie/dinosaur/vampie/robot pics. makes a change to familie and faeries!
ReplyDeleteLooks as if he has quite an imagination each arm/leg ?? has a different capability. The second piccie would make a good stitchery.
ReplyDeletekel - his 6 year old sister drew us all in her pictures with crowns on our heads, rainbows in the sky, flowers on the ground and little houses in the corner! :) i think i love loch's drawings so much becasue they are so different from anything i ever drew...
ReplyDeletepip - it would hake a good stichery wouldn't it?! i've been looking for something to make for my first attempt at embroidery .... it's a bit intimidating, but i do like the idea of a zombie/dinosaur/vampie/robot pillow!
be a great pressie for him! an embroidered something. i agree its a great design
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