The Longlist: Part 5

[stapsdoes101things]

This is the last part of the longlist. I'm sure you know the drill by now: if there's anything you want to know more about, or anything you'd like to share relating to these goals, comment away!

- take Tony out to dinner
- take part in Buy Nothing Day
- buy a monocle
- publicise the Mooncup
- make a scrapbook of friends' weddings
- investigate veg box services
- wake up to fresh bread and fresh coffee 10 times
- watch 101 TED talks
- do something to thank G. for those lifts to choir
- have a 1001 plant (that I buy on the first day, and that is still alive on the 1001st day)
- explore Bradford and associated family history
- get another game for the Wii
- make ornaments for the 3 Christmas trees
- try 3 new cocktails
- make crumpets from scratch
- travel 1001 miles on public transport
- try 30 different beers
- read a book in the place it's set
- walk the Camino del Norte
- argue with an evangelist
- do the 100 snapshots project
- try x techniques from "Everything I've Ever Done That Worked"
- write 1001 words every day for a month
- take packed lunch to work every day for a month
- learn to juggle
- skip (something like this: 500 times forward continuously, 100 times backwards continuously, 10 cross-skips continously)
- do something once a month that pleases my inner child
- go to Tolksoc challenge; MethAng musical; Microcon
- save £1001
- fix up a device to retrieve bath water for watering the garden. Use this at least 10 times.

If you've any more general comments about my longlist, feel free to leave them here, as well. Thank you all for your advice so far.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

I have sort of taken part in Buy Nothing Day. As I was living in college, fully catered, I couldn't decide whether or not that counted.

[stapsdoes101things]

Heh. So long as I have my season ticket up to date, make my own lunch, and plan dinner in advance, I think I can do it!

[cuculine]

Part 4 already has make platski/pierogi/piernicki/lebkuchen/churros/crumpets, here you have make crumpets from scratch. And man, just copy-pasting that first goal has made me hungry.

travel 1001 miles on public transport and your other walk-1001-miles goal -- how will you keep track of these, out of curiosity? I suspect you'll fulfill both regardless of tracking if you follow through with your see/do/visit goals.

Whew! That's quite a list. Also, I don't think you should hold to the 101 number - you make the rules work for you, but you do not have to work for the rules. These lists are, after all, about us doing things we've always wanted to do, or things we know we should do but haven't buckled down to do it yet, and so on. To me, the stronger constraint (so to speak) is the time limit, which enforces a gentle pressure to get going on accomplishing these self-identified goals. One should be mindful of human limits (obviously 100000001 goals couldn't be tracked/finished/etc in 1001 days), but I don't think having, say, 130 goals for 1001 days is bad. It just means you'll have a wondrous and busy 2+ years ahead!

[stapsdoes101things]

Ah, thanks - I must have added 'crumpets' on to the end of the first set and then forgotten I had. (They occupy different compartments in my mind - all the Polish stuff I have eaten home-made versions of, Lebkuchen are very similar to piernicki, so if I can do one I should be able to do the other, and 'churros' fits in with the 'awesomely yummy - if fattening - continental food' category.)

Tracking 1001 miles, either way: I think I would get a ACCOUNT account - I have seen someone else use this to track distance travelled in the course of their 101.

Fair point, with regard to the numbering - but I have deliberately over-catered. I think I'll cut it down as far as it wants to be cut, and then see where that leaves me.

Thank you for this and all your comments - I'll reply to the others later in the day, as the end of my lunch break is approaching!

[stapsdoes101things]

...erm, that would be a DAYTUM account!

[adelheid]

It's the things like "walk the Camino" that make me dreadfully jealous of Europeans. There's been no point in my even putting anything on my list about New Zealand because I don't think it will be possible to get there in the next three years.

~sigh~

~is jealous~

[stapsdoes101things]

Realistically, the Camino is not going to happen this time round, though that's more because I don't see myself getting that much time off work, and anyway I'd much rather go with my friend A, with whom I did the Camino Frances in 2007, when her ME finally has the decency to leave her alone. But it is an important thing that I want to keep in mind, so I put it down.

[adelheid]

- write 1001 words every day for a month

... let me introduce you to 750words.com

[stapsdoes101things]

...ooh.

[adelheid]

Let me know if you decide to sign up. :-)

Okay, as for WildGodComm: I don't think invites tend to come by email unless you've told them to. If you go to Communities and then down to My Invites on the LJ menu bar, it will hopefully show up.

[stapsdoes101things]

I have :-) Seems fun so far; possibly also useful!

... and I was missing something really obvious, then! Oh well.