The Longlist: Part 3
Sep. 1st, 2010 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Another batch of things that might or might not end up on the list.
- do something outrageous with hair
- go one week without wearing black
- hold a murder mystery dinner
- try x new restaurants
- try 10 new items from the food meme that was floating around a while back
- go on a demo
- make washable sanitary pads
- record 101 dreams
- comment on x different blogs
- see an opera, a musical, a ballet
- see x Shakespeare plays
- work out a routine of prayer/spiritual exercises that work for me
- swim in the sea at least once per year
- listen to/watch x Proms
- make a quilt American-style
- hold a dinner party
- catch up on 80s/90s kids' TV
- cook two different recipes for each herb in my garden
- go on the London Eye
- complete a cryptic crossword
- make a perpetual birthday/anniversary book
- finish the queerlit50 challenge
- play Akoha
- go to another country I've never visited
- play cello once a month
- find group in which to play cello
- make a file of nice letters
- obtain a decent shredder
- have smear test
- get something else published
- watch a meteor shower
- be able to identify twelve constellations
- walk 1001 miles
- gratefulness (can't quite remember what I meant by this - was possibly a thing wherein one wrote down things for which one was grateful)
- do an Advent observance
- read 3 different translations of the same book of the Bible
- watch a whole season of any TV series
- go to 3 museums I've visited before and 3 I haven't
Thoughts?
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Date: 2010-09-01 11:37 pm (UTC)What's an American-style quilt?
With the musical, opera, ballet and Shakespeare plays (although mostly with the Shakespeares) do you mean on stage, or are filmed stage productions (or films) sufficient?
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Date: 2010-09-02 07:02 am (UTC)American-style is where the pieces are joined together without any paper backing (as opposed to English paper piecing). Here is quite a good explanation of the difference.
Definitely on stage - I never watch things properly on screen - well, perhaps at the cinema, but by the time I've got a cinema ticket I might as well have a theatre ticket.
Even some of the figures that aren't x aren't final. I still need to work out how often I would like to do something and how often I could plausibly do something, and come to a compromise!
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Date: 2010-09-04 08:39 am (UTC)Paper piecing has always befuddled me. And now that gives me something else to add to my list (although not actually to do with paper piecing: just to finish off a long-standing wallhanging that doesn't even need all that much quilting before it's done.)
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Date: 2010-09-04 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 05:57 pm (UTC)On Part 2 you have "read the Bible" and here you have "read 3 different translations of the Bible" -- by the time you do the second, wouldn't you have fulfilled the first? This is (to me) is one goal, so you can further pare down your list.
gratefulness (can't quite remember what I meant by this - was possibly a thing wherein one wrote down things for which one was grateful) -- I see (or used to see) a lot of "list X things I'm grateful for daily" but for me, I knew that would be too much. Now I list 5 Great Things for every week. Not quite the same attitude as "grateful," but it's being mindful nonetheless. Were you thinking of doing something like ThxThxThx (she writes a daily "thank you" note)?
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Date: 2010-09-06 06:03 pm (UTC)I only want to read one book of the Bible in three different translations, so it could be something really short like Ruth or Philemon.
I think trying to do anything daily is asking for trouble! Maybe every day for a month, or something like that. And I still can't remember what I meant, though having looked around www.gratefulness.org I've found several other things I'd like to do...