End of September update

[peaceful_sands]

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 731 days (01/10/18)
Goals finished this month :
• Redecorate bedroom – redecorated dining room instead so am counting that. (09/09/18)
• Declutter bedroom (25/09/2018)

101 in 1001 List – Take 3

Social (started 4/4 : complete 4/4)
1. Host a dinner at mine 5 times (5/5, 12/03/17)
2. Eat in 5 different restaurants (5/5, 10/10/16 BH, 13/10/16 MusB, 25/10/16 LP, 29/10/16 Qside, 22/11/16 TLodge)
3. Spend time with family (to average at least once a week for duration of stay here - 132/132 – 20/12/17)
4. Write at least 20 letters to overseas friends (20/20) (December 2017)

Travel (started 6/6 : complete 5/6)
5. Visit 5 historically interesting places (5/5, All-Hallows at the Tower, Arthurian Centre, Chateau de Comper, Amsterdam Boat trip, Antwerp Train to historical points, Submarine La Flore at Lorient 28/5/18)
6. Visit 5 environmentally interesting places (3/5, Merlin’s tomb walk to lake, Leiden boat trip, Kinderdijk Windmills boat trip and film 25/08/17)
7. Visit 5 places I’ve never been before (5/5, St Paul’s by Covent Garden, Josselin, St Léry, Leiden, Den Haag 22/08/17)
8. Visit 5 World Heritage Sites (Tentative Heritage Sites are also acceptable) (5/5, Tower of London, Cathedrale d’Amiens, Kinderdijk Windmills, Gardens at Versailles, Monet’s House and Garden 29/08/18)
9. Visit 5 museums/art galleries or similar (5/5, British Museum, V and A, Escher in h/et Paleis, The Hague, Museum of Impressionism 29/08/18)
10. Visit 5 nature reserves/animal preservation sites/botanical gardens or similar (4/5, The Arboretum, Nottingham, Ness Botanical gardens, Little Neston, Middelheim Park & Sculpture Museum, JWPT, Monet’s house and gardens at Giverny [proposed for World Heritage Status] 29/07/18)

Pampering (started 4/6 : complete 4/6)
11. Have 5 manicures (5/5, 23/01/18)
12. Have 5 massages (5/5, 19/7/18)
13. Have hair done professionally 5 times (5/5, 12/07/18)
14. Have 3 facials
15. Buy myself flowers 5 times (5/5, 13/01/18)
16. Have a pedicure


Help (started 10/10 : complete 5/10)
17. Give something to someone else that they need more than I do (19/3/17 )
18. Donate clothes/things to charity shop 5 times (5/5 20/12/17)
19. Donate unwanted books to charity/school or give to someone else 10 times (10/10, 13/05/17 M/STM/JM/M/STM/H/JM/H/STM/STM 01/07/17 )
20. Donate £20 to charities 5 times (5/5, Movember, Swimmarathon, Red Cross Hurricane Irma Relief, Red Cross Rohingya Appeal, Solving Kids’ Cancer 16/01/18)
21. Complete a charity event (e.g. walk/run/cake bake etc) 3 times (2/3 6/5/18)
22. Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice at freerice.com (657,560/1,000,000) (30/09/18)
23. Click to give at The Greater Good site for as many of the charitable organisations as possible at least 500 times (290/500) (30/09/18)
24. Click to give at Care2.com for as many of the charitable organisations as possible at least 500 times (290/500) (30/09/18)
25. Recycle 50 times over the course of the challenge (47/50) (14/09/18)
26. Commit 5 RAKs (5/5, 27/5/17)

Challenge (started 6/6 : completed 1/6)
27. Complete the Walk to Mordor challenge (2,552.51 miles/3,664 miles) (30/09/18)
28. Read more books than I buy over the course of the challenge (254 read: 105 bought) (31/08/18)
29. Complete five jigsaw puzzles (2/5)
30. Complete a Sudoku book (30/06/17)
31. Finish a colouring book (started)
32. Finish Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call (started)

Creative (started 9/11 : complete 5/11)
33. Complete six projects with wool (knit/crochet/felt) (started)
34. Complete a cross stitch design (started)
35. Make one project in patchwork
36. Finish at least one scrapbook from my year away (started) – I’ve actually finished a scrapbook as a gift for someone else and am now returning to making my own.
37. Make at least 20 gifts by hand (the above projects can count within this)(7/20, 18/3/18)
38. Make a dreamcatcher
39. Make 5 new soups (5/5 – pepper and butternut squash, cauliflower soup, butternut and cumin soup, butternut and maple syrup soup, sweet potato and carrot 3/6/18)
40. Make 5 new main dishes (5/5 – sea bass, chicken, orange & pomegranate salad, marinaded duck, turkey shepherds pie, chicken pie) complete 30/01/17
41. Make 5 new side dishes (5/5 – chard, sweet potato with tuna/avocado, date, halloumi & tomato sticks, sprout tops, tomato and apple chutney) 05/09/2017
42. Make 5 new desserts (5/5 – gluten free apple tart, meringue cream and raspberry slices, gooseberry and apple gluten free crumble, home made berry compote and Skyr, nectarine puff pastry slices 1/4/18)
43. Make 5 baking/treats (5/5 – date and banana flapjack, banana coconut flour muffins, choc chip muffins, gluten/lactose free Victoria sponge, blueberry coconut muffins)(10/09/17)

Health, Fitness and Well-being (started 5/6 : completed 3/6)
44. Eat wheat free for 3 months (3*28 days=84 days : 14th September – 7th December) (84/84) (07.12.16)
45. Exercise at least 3 times a week (includes walking at least 3 miles in a day) (ongoing)
46. Meditate at least once a week for 12 weeks 2 times (1/24)
47. Use natural progesterone cream for 3 months (month 3 complete 28/09/17)
48. Drink at least ½ litre of non-carbonated drink a day for 31 days consecutively 4 times (3/11/17 – 4/4)
49. Complete physio/pilates exercise at least once a week for 12 weeks 3 times

Home (started 11/11 : completed 5/11)
50. Declutter garage (10/05/17)
51. Declutter spare room (started)
52. Declutter bedroom (29/09/2018)
53. Declutter loft (started)
54. Declutter kitchen (12/11/17)
55. Declutter cupboard under stairs (started)
56. Redecorate hall/stairs (19/12/17)
57. Redecorate bedroom – redecorated dining room instead so am counting that. (09/09/18)
58. Renovate front garden area seasonally – 3 times a year – 9 times (4/9 21/04/18)
59. Renovate back garden area seasonally – 3 times a year – 9 times (4/9 7/5/18)
60. Wax pine furniture once a year (3 x 10 = 30) (6/30)

Read (started 12/12 : completed 11/12)
61. Read 10 science fiction books (10/10, 29/10/17)
62. Read 10 fantasy books (10/10, 23/02/2017)
63. Read 10 classics (10/10, 27/05/17)
64. Read 10 biographies (10/10, 30/04/18)
65. Read 10 non-fiction books about historical events (10/10, 24/08/18)
66. Read 10 non-fiction books to learn something new (Science/Geography/Politics/Medicine/Health etc) (10/10, 06/07/18)
67. Read 100 books that I already own as of 1.10.16 (these may also contribute to 61-66, 68, 70-72) (102/100, 31/05/18)
68. Listen to 40 audio books (40/40, 16/01/18)
69. Borrow 20 books from the library (20/20, 29/03/17)
70. Read 10 ebooks (7/10, 31/12/17)
71. Read 2 books then watch the associated movies (started have finished reading 2 books – that have been/are being made into films – ½ Ender’s Game 2/2 The Fellowship of the Ring)(01/07/17)
72. Read 20 poems (20/20) 08/09/17

Watch (started 7/7 : completed 3/7)
73. Watch 10 movies at the cinema (10/10, Dr S 04/11/16, Arrival 12/11/16, Rogue 1 15/12/16, La-la Land 27/01/17, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 03/05/17, Wind River 13/09/17, The Darkest Hour 29/1/18, Black Panther 13/2/18, I, Tonya 23/2/18, Avengers: Infinity War 26/4/18)
74. Watch 20 movies I’ve never seen before (20/20) (28/1/17)
75. Watch 40 historical programmes on TV/DVD (25/40)(31/07/18)
76. Watch 40 environmental programmes on TV/DVD (23/40)(29/09/18)
77. Watch 40 scientific programmes on TV/DVD (15/40)(30/04/18)
78. Watch 5 plays/operas/shows e.g. going to local theatre or similar (5/5, Bright Stream 06/11/16, Kinky Boots 23/11/16, Nutcracker on Ice 24/11/16, Carol Service 01/12/16, Essential Street Dance 24/03/17)
79. Watch (or get rid of) all DVDs that are already in my collection as of 1 Oct 2016 (280/285) (31/07/18)

Write (started 5/6: completed 0/6)
80. Complete a nano challenge (can be campnano) (didn’t manage to write 50K, but managed a lot more writing than of late) – starting campnanowrimo 30/04/18 (again, didn’t meet target but still wrote a pretty big amount) – starting campnanowrimo 01/07/18
81. Write 100,000 words (started - )
82. Keep a journal and note one good thing for every day for at least 6 months (started)
83. Keep a journal of books read with at least a brief comment (started)
84. Make a list of 100 things I have achieved (started)
85. Write a will

Other (started 15/16 : completed 6/16)
86. Lose 14 pounds of weight (13lb 30/09/17)
87. Complete a course of study (signing up – course isn’t likely to start until January)
88. Learn something new (started – felting 08/09/17)
89. Try something new (sushi, 23/11/16)
90. Do something that scares me (9.12.16)
91. Wear a skirt or dress 100 times (87/100, 16/09/18)
92. Go a month (30 days) without buying any books (18 days – 19th Oct restart 21st Oct – 30 days) (19/11/16)
93. Go a month (30 days) without buying any books (repeat 4 times – this is a repeat of goal 91 but as I set out to only do it once on accomplishing it, and it being a challenge, it felt right to set it again rather than changing that one) 4 of 4 months completed (26/07/17)
94. Go a month (30 days) buying only essentials (2 times) (30/30, 2/2, 24/02/18)
95. Buy something odd that really appeals to me but that other people wouldn’t think I’d like (Himalayan Rock Salt Lamp) (07/03/17)
96. Keep a food diary for three months (month 1 of 3 complete [15/06/17] 0/60 - need to rethink this as previously used method is no longer viable)
97. Keep a financial journal for 1 month four times (2/4, 1/30, 01/05/18 month 3 started)
98. Pay all bills on time for 1001 days (26/33)
99. Organise and keep up to date with filing of important information (organised and currently up to date)
100. Add 7 new goals to this list – at least 1 by each of following dates (30 Nov 16, 31 Jan 17, 31 Mar 17, 31 May 17, 31 July 17, 30 Sept 17, 30 Nov 17) (7/7)
101. Give £1 to charity for every goal not started at the end of each 12 months and those not completed by the end. (check on 1/10/17, 1/10/18, 29/6/19, 2/3) (13 unstarted on 1/10/17 – made an extra donation to Red Cross rounded it to £15, 7 unstarted on 1/10/18 – £10 donation to Red Cross)


101/101 tasks set, 52/101 tasks complete, 94/101 tasks started