The Longlist: Part 2

[stapsdoes101things]

Here's the next section of the longlist. Any comments?

- make pilgrimage to Canterbury
- come out to family
- be out at work
- compile a family lexicon
- monthly memory post à la deana_in_texas
- compile a bank of family stories
- do a first aid course
- go to a jazz event
- go to a folk event
- make will
- compile a Paris bus songbook
- go to a BookCrossing meet
- start a book blog
- start an Official BookCrossing Zone
- walk Offa's Dyke or across England
- give up alcohol for a month
- write 1 letter in longhand every month
- squirrel-proof birdfeeders and birdboxes
- make a loan via Kiva
- do A Day In My Life
- leave guerrilla art
- wild release 101 books
- make a donation for every goal left incomplete at the end of the 1001 days
- learn about how music works - be in a position where I would be able to pass Grade ? Theory
- learn about heraldry
- take singing lessons
- transcribe more of the family tree
- eat only local produce for 1 day
- eat only British produce for 1 week
- do 3 things to help others reach their 101
- join bone marrow donor registry
- get next level award from Blood service
- learn about meteorology
- do NaBloPoMo
- collect a set of photos of the Royal Arms and be able to date them by the heraldic variations
- have really nice underwear (not necessarily sexy - just high quality, well-fitting and comfortable)
- read the Bible
- post recipes to AllRecipes.co.uk, rather than just making them!
- make a quilt for any surprise babies (other people's, that is. If I have any surprise babies myself I shall rethink the list quite seriously.)
- pass driving test
- volunteer
- enter random competitions for the hell of it

Comments

[shewhostaples]

With the family, the longer I leave it, the sillier I feel. I am hoping that they will or already have worked it out by themselves... Work: you say that, but actually my manager has a rainbow coloured lanyard with 'Out in [company]' for her security pass. I have my rainbow icthus badge (see icon) on the collar of my coat, but I'm not sure how obvious it is.

Family lexicon: my family has a lot of nonsense words, or, rather, words that only make sense within the family. Some of them tie in with family stories (like my great-grandmother, who used the verb 'to trollop', meaning, roughly, 'to walk where one is not supposed to walk').

I might be able to do a first aid course through work. I am one of the Health and Safety reps, but there is already a first aider in the office. I don't know how many they need.

I kept failing to join the bone marrow register last time round, because I was always trying to do it at the same time as giving blood, and as luck would have it my iron levels were too low, so it got lost in the confusion. I didn't know they'd moved on to saliva. Thank you for the link - that looks like a nice easy one!

I'm quite fussy about underwear - has to be natural fibre, I'm not keen on underwired bras, etc, etc, so shopping is a real faff and I put it off as long as I can. Having it as a goal might force me to do a complete overhaul!

They don't have to be surprise babies - it's just that they're likely to be! I don't know that any of my close friends have babies timetabled, but there are at least three couples who might Make An Announcement in the next few years.

At the moment Tony and I are both quite happy without a car. But you never know.

Anyway, thank you for all that - it's got me thinking!