2013 To-Do List

Short explanation - I have the attention span of a squirrel, so I have to make lists to remember things I want to do. I have a tendency to move on to the next thing before I ever finish what I have. So my goal is to start working through things I have and haven't finished, and projects that I have to do. The ground rule is this: If it is on my list, I can buy the things that I need to do to finish the project. If I want to do something that isn't on this list, it goes on the 2014 to-do list. If I finish everything on this list early, I have to take a break from doing stuff, because that was one busy year!

Here is my to-do list for 2013, grouped in no particular order:

Books:
1. The Infernal City - Greg Keyes
2. Lord of Souls - Greg Keyes
3. Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects - Christie Golden
4. The Sagas of Icelanders - Penguin Classics
5. Njal's Saga - Penguin Classics
6. The Norse Myths - Kevin Crossley-Holland
7. Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
8. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
9. Letters From Honeyhill - Cecilia Hennel Hendricks
10. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
11. The Passionate Observer - Jean-Henri Fabre
12. Call of the Wild - Jack London
13. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
14. Chicken and Egg - Janice Cole
15. Riddlemaster Trilogy - Patricia McKillip
16. Iron Druid Chronicles - Kevin Hearne
     16a. Hounded
     16b. Hexed
     16c. Hammered
     16d. Tricked
     16e. Trapped
17. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - Henry David Thoreau
18. Beowulf
19. Mountains of California - John Muir
20. Collected Poems of Robert Frost

Movies/TV:
21. Monty Python's Holy Grail
22. NCIS Season 1
23. Tales of the Green Valley Series
24. Victorian Farm Series
25. Andy Griffith Show Season 1
26. Doctor Zhivago

Games:
27. Complete Morrowind Main Quest
28. Complete Skyrim Main Quest


Music:
29. Learn Ragtime Nightingale on Guitar
30. Learn Arkansas Traveler on Guitar
31. Lear Swallowtail Reel on Guitar
32. Learn to play songs on tinwhistle in 'The Clarke Tinwhistle' book

Cooking:
33. Cook recipes from Sarah Foster's Southern Cookbook (minus seafood)
34. Cook recipes from Jamie at Home (minus seafood)
35. Make tamales
36. Make something from sourdough starter every week
37. Make homemade pasta
38. Make beef jerky
39. Can peach jam
40. Can marmalade
41. Can pickles
42. Cook with lingonberries

43. Make peanut brittle
44. Make hot sauce
45. Homebrew root beer
46. Boyle a pigeon

Garden:
47. Move the flowerbed from the computer-room window
48. Mulch flower beds
49. Make a new raised garden bed
50. Grow soapwort and calendula
51. Grow peanuts
52. Grow a lotus
53. Set up the pond again
54. Save garden seeds from beans and tomatoes
55. Set up vermicomposting bins
56. Powerwash the outside of the house and sidewalks
57. Catch a wild honeysuckle plant
58. Put up a trellis for the honeysuckle plants
59. Paint the butterbug
60. Make a miniature garden
61. Make a fairy house

Crafting:
62. Crochet Skyrim Viking Hat
63. Knit hat for me
64. Knit scarf for me
65. Knit gloves for me
66. Knit flower hat for friend's baby
67. Knit something for other friend's baby
68. Knit socks for John
69. Knit socks for cousin's wife
70. Finish Barn-Raising Quilt
71. Sew Quilt for/with the GS
72. Sew GS's Angry Birds
73. Spin yarn on my Navajo spindle
74. Spin yarn on drop spindle
75. Make small tri-loom
76. Make large tri-loom
77. Weave Gordon tartan

78. Make shampoo with soapwort
79. Make balm with calendula
80. Finish preparing fleece and spin it
81. Learn Nalbinding and make something with it
82. Work on watercolor/drawing
83. Make a treebark throw
84. Make a straw hat
85. Learn Fair Isle knitting
86. Learn how to cable in knitting
87. Put together the Starry Night puzzle
88. Make an olive oil lamp
89. Make a terrarium
90. Knit a Sky Scarf

House/Organization:
91. Make rotating menu plan
92. Make pantry supply list
93. Make home inventory
94. Make electronic cookbook
95. Make budget and debt repayment plan

96. Organize family pictures
97. Make a photo wall
98. Finish lifewalk planner
99. Make a garden scrapbook
100. Take donations to the Salvation Army
101. Update Christmas Card Mailing List
102. Finish reading/crafting room

Travel (Local/Distant):
103. Take GS to a movie
104. Take GS on a picnic
105. Go to the Art Museum
106. Go to the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge
107. Go to Burritt-on-the-Mountain
108. Go to Constitution Village
109. Go to Falls Mill in TN
110. Hike every trail in the Monte Sano park
111. Go to Buck's Pocket State Park, AL
112. Go to Gulf Shores, AL
113. Go to Arkansas
114. Go to the Ozark Folk Center
115. Go to Nebraska
116. Go to Mansfield, MO and the Baker Creek Seed Co.

Overall:
117. Reduce amount of waste