Sep. 20th, 2010

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Eight Mergansers

The list is shrinking. Here are a few of the things I've dropped:

- do something once a month that pleases my inner child
- comment on x blogs
- do NaBloPoMo
- leave guerrilla art
- make a list of simple things that make me happy
- save £1001
- transcribe more of the family tree
- make a file of nice letters

They're good goals. They're worthwhile, and would probably improve my life in one way or another at least in the short term. They're specific, measurable, achievable, and realistic. If I did them as part of 101 in 1001 they would also be time-bound. I might well do some or all of them, before, after, or alongside my list.

They're not going on the list, though, because they're not my goals. I saw all but one of those on other people's lists (the last is from a book of useful techniques), and, while I'd quite like to do them, I'm not going to lose any sleep over not doing them. They're things I probably wouldn't have thought of by myself, and, let us be honest, I don't want to do them all that much.

This is not to say that anything that appears on anybody else's list is automatically a non-starter. Here are some things that I'm pretty sure you'll find on at least two other lists than mine, and that have a fair-to-middling chance of staying where they are:

- eat at a restaurant six times, two being new-to-me
- learn how to play a song on the guitar
- go on the London Eye
- do three things to help others reach their 101
- write 30 longhand letters (not counting Christmas/birthday thank yous)
- do project 365
- be able to identify twelve constellations
- record 101 dreams

And here are some that are (I believe - I may be wrong) more or less unique to me:

- collect a set of photos of the Royal Arms, and be able to blazon and date by heraldic features
- squirrel-proof birdfeeders and birdboxes
- make ornaments for the three Christmas trees (ours, my mother's and my father's)
- fix up a device to siphon off bath/shower water. Use at least ten times.
- make a finger labyrinth
- buy a monocle
- listen to/watch 30 proms
- become a Mystery Worshipper

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