My Epic To-Do List For the 365 days from 27th May 2010
I was inspired to create this list by DarkEmerald and her awesome Project Empty. Our motto: "Thin-slice it. Get it done."
My rules
- I may make additions to this list, but under no circumstances may I make deletions.
- One-off items completed to be marked
like this (completion date: details); one-off items in progress to be marked like this. I got this idea from Heidi's list of Goals for 2010.
- Deadline for review of all items is the 27th May 2011.
Priorities
- Look after my dad, my mom, my niece, my dogs, my family, my friends, and myself.
- Practice my spirituality.
- Look after my health.
- Reduce my carbon footprint.
- Support the charities that make the world a better place.
- Remain calm at all times.
- Have somewhere (i.e. the acre) to live and something (i.e. the bus) to live in.
- Have some kind of income.
Daily practices
- Pray.
- Take a breath before I speak.
- Speak only if what I'm going to say is kind, truthful, and necessary.
- Meditate for at least five minutes.
- Exercise for at least thirty minutes.
- Sleep at least seven hours a night.
- Go to bed by midnight at least one night a week.
- Drink two litres of water.
- Take vitamins and supplements (garlic, evening primrose oil, iron).
- Eat more organic veggies, pulses, and fruit. Less fat, salt, sugar, and processed foods.
- Pay more attention to grooming, e.g. apply moisturizer, put on lipstick, file my nails, get my hair cut occasionally.
- Check my diary every morning.
- Make a to-do list every morning.
- Actually do the stuff on my to-do list.
- Stop swearing like a drunken sailor who's just stubbed his or her toe.
- Have a break where I put my feet up, drink some tea, eat some chocolate, and read or watch something trashy.
Ethical
- Eat vegan.
- Buy nothing new. Exceptions: food, cleaning products, toiletries (e.g. soap), medical items (e.g. medicine, spectacles), essential craft or repair materials, and essential items (e.g. underwear, shoes) that wear out and can't be repaired or bought second-hand.
- Get rid of leather products.
- Get rid of anything animal tested.
- Join the ALF.
- Do my duty as a warden.
Relationships
- Work on being a better aunt.
- Work on being a better friend.
- See my friends more often.
- Take no crap off my friends.
- Take no crap off anyone.
- Write to Joan and Robin
in summer and at Christmas.
- Write to Tanni in summer and at Christmas.
- Avoid Arthur.
Going out & entertainment
Online
- Use goodsearch instead of google.
- Keep my inbox clear.
- Leave feedback for every piece of fanfiction I read.
- Keep current with my flist.
- Investigate DW.
Research it.- Check my flist and see what their DW usernames are.
- Subscribe to their DW journals.
Buy a year's paid time.Do something about the style.Change my bookmarks.
- Post on my blog more often, i.e. at least once a week.
- Validate the xhtml and css of all my sites.
- Actually update my sites with actual content.
- Back up my files monthly.
- Declutter my server.
- Declutter my bookmarks.
Possessions
- Tidy, organise and declutter all my stuff, and note my progress on the declutter tracker.
- Declutter my jewellery boxes.
- Set aside the jewellery I actually like and wear.
- Ask M & L to make me an aromatherapy necklace and a necklace or two out of the broken bits and pieces, respectively.
- Donate or recycle or give away the remainder.
- Donate or recycle all but one jewellery box.
- Deal with my bags.
Go through my bags and decide which to keep and which I don't need.- Sell the bags I don't want on eBay.
- Donate, recycle or give away any that I can't sell.
- Keep my bag properly stocked.
- Declutter my bag once a week.
- Declutter the bathrooms.
- Declutter my bathroom cabinet and toss anything I'm allergic to or that dates back to the Paleozoic Era.
Declutter the shower room cupboard. (7th July 2010)
- Declutter my bedroom.
Tidy my bedroom. (30th July 2010)- Stick all the postcards and pictures that I've saved up on the wall.
Declutter chest of drawers. (30th July 2010)- Declutter the boxes under the bed.
- Declutter the boxes and suitcases beside the bed.
Declutter bedside table. (30th July 2010)Declutter the wardrobe and donate anything I dislike, that doesn't fit, or that is made of polyester. (30th July 2010)
- Declutter my living room.
- Sort out all the storage boxes in the den.
- Declutter the bookcases.
- Declutter my paperwork.
- Sort out the towering inbox of doom.
- Go through my files and file my papers correctly.
- Keep on top of the incoming mail.
- Prepare an instant-desk box.
New skills
- Learn to dance.
- Learn to do maintenance on my bus and car.
- Learn to garden.
- Learn to read tarot.
- Start learning to play the organ.
Finances
- Have an income.
- Create a budget, i.e. figure out how much money I actually need per annum.
- Figure out some way to make money that doesn't involve doing anything boring or immoral.
- Start doing it.
Open Etsy store/website to sell stuff I've made. (31st May 2010, shadowandsparkle.etsy.com)
- Sell one item.
- Open website to sell services I provide.
- Sell one service.
- Get my eBay seller feedback count up to 500.
- Have some savings.
- Open a savings account.
- Take 10 per cent of current funds (contents of current account, cash in hand, money in my purse, small change in my Snoopy piggybank) and stash it in my savings account.
- Sell as much decluttered stuff as possible and stash that income too.
- Lodge 10 per cent of all income to my savings account.
Books & music
- Read at least two books a month, from the supply on my shelves.
- Read everything I can find by Euripides.
- Also everything available by Homer.
- And the Oresteia.
- And the Sagas.
- And the Gospels, starting with the oldest, Mark.
- And the rest of the Bible.
Get a library card. (26th June 2010)- Learn one song off by heart.
Transport
- Give the bus a good scrub.
- Check the boot for proper equipment, e.g. first aid kit, spare tyre, tools, maps.
- Give the car a good scrub.
- Check the boot for proper equipment.
- Paint my car a colour I like.
- Think of a better name for the bus than 'the bus.'
- Check the battery, oil, water, and tyre pressure on the bus and car monthly.
Shelter
- Have the acre legally transferred into my name.
Consult solicitor.Acquire valuation.Acquire memorial of deeds.Acquire certified Ordnance Survey of Ireland map.Ring the Brother's solicitor and ask for copy of original deeds.Have acre drawn on OSI map by surveyor, in consultation with the Brother.Lodge papers with solicitor. (2nd July 2010, dropped off the papers at Caitriona's office)- Signing.
- Registration with Land Registry.
- Confirmation.
- Get the acre into a habitable condition.
- Have the acre fenced.
- Install a gate.
- Put up a shed or other structure on the acre.
- Dig a well.
- Install a water supply.
- Install a sink, toilet, and shower.
- Plant a garden.
- Convert the bus into a campervan.
Acquire sink.Acquire cooker.- Acquire bed.
- Acquire table.
Hire carpenter.Install cabinet to hold sink and cooker. (26th July 2010)- Install sink.
Install cooker. (27th July 2010)- Install bed.
- Install table.
- Install curtain rails.
- Put up some curtains.
- Get the bus legally reclassified as a camper.
- Get the bus legally reclassified as an Irish vehicle.
- Have the bus checked out by an engineer.
- Insure the bus.
- Get the bus taxed.
- Sleep in my campervan.
- Apply icing to the cake.
- Acquire a yurt or similar structure for extra space.
- Sleep in my yurt.
- Get a woodburner.
- Spend 24 hours on the acre.
- Think of a better name for the acre than 'the acre.'
Experiences
- Get a tattoo.
- Visit Cork.
- Visit Eamhain Mhacha.
- Visit Uisneach.
- Attend Viking re-enactment group and embrace my inner Valkyrie.
Leave the county at least once. (21st June 2010, visited the Niece in Tipperary)- Leave the country at least once.
- Go swimming.
- Plant a tree.
- Throw a party.
- Have a bonfire.
- Watch a sunset.
- Look at the stars.
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