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Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 546 days (01/04/18)
Goals finished this month :
1. 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)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 39/101 tasks complete, 91/101 tasks started

vampiresincowboyboots

Start date March 17, 2018
End date Dec 12, 2020
1000 days remaining
1% complete, 4% in progress, 95% not started

( my list )

peaceful_sands

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 487 days (01/03/18)
Goals finished this month :
Go a month (30 days) buying only essentials (2 times)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 38/101 tasks complete, 91/101 tasks started

glinda

Well, when I started writing this update it felt like the end of winter was finally in sight and there were hints that spring was in the air. So of course this week we've had snow, weather chaos and wind straight from Siberia.

December proved to be an unexpectedly good month for completing items on the list. I finished off a few longer term items and had an opportunity come up to do a one off thing (though I actually ended up doing that twice!). Four in total in one month! Unfortunately, I've only managed to finish one thing each for January and February, though I've started work on another couple of longer term projects that I'm working on as New Years Resolutions. I'd hoped to get a start in on a few more, but February has been a month of life happening to me at great speed. There are going to be a great deal of changes coming to my life over the next few months so I hope that will mean greater productivity on the list will come with it!

No. Items Completed: 16

Completed
Donated Blood
Tried Bubble Tea
Went on a picnic
Grew some herbs
Tried 10 different types of tea
Did the 30 day song challenge
Wore nothing black for a whole week
Attended an academic conference
Gave up alcohol for a month
Read a book in Gaelic
Eat at 10 new restaurants
See a ballet
Gave up alcohol for 3 months
Read 10 Non-fiction books
Make 5 new soups
Take Vitamin D daily for 3 months

Progress Made
Expand my Gaelic vocabulary by 100 words (30/100)
Do the 50 books poc challenge (15/50)
Ask 20 friends to suggest one film, and watch them all - (watched 1/20)
See 26 films I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (16/26)
Go to 25 gigs (10/25)
Watch a movie from every year I've been alive (10/33)
Listen to a new artist every month
Bake something new every month for a year
Listen To The Observer’s 50 Albums That Changed Music (7/50)
Watch 25 documentaries (20/25)
Read more books than I buy over the course of the challenge
Read 10 books of poetry (7/10)
Finish 10 craft projects that are lingering about half-finished (2/10)
Donate 20 books to charity or bookswaps (16/20)
Grow some vegetables - seeds and tubs bought
Complete the A-Z travel challenge - (2/26)
Visit 10 Museums/Galleries I've never visited before (4/10)
See at least 7 UNESCO World Heritage sites (1/7)
Complete a big cross-stitch project
Enter 5 writing competitions/Submit 5 short stories (1/5)
Watch 5 children's films not in English (1/5)
Read 10 new-to-me SF Masterworks (1/10)
Donate blood another 5 times (1/5)
Eat at another 10 new restaurants (6/10)
Cook with a new ingredient every week for a year
Contribute to 5 collaborative sound projects (1/5)

peaceful_sands

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 459 days (01/02/18)
Goals finished this month :
• Buy myself flowers 5 times (5/5, 13/01/18)
• Donate £20 to charities 5 times (5/5, 16/01/18)
• Listen to 40 audio books (40/40, 16/01/18)
• Have 5 manicures (5/5, 23/01/18)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 37/101 tasks complete, 91/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Goals finished this month :
• Spend time with family
• Write at least 20 letters to overseas friends
• Donate clothes/things to charity shops at least 5 times
• Redecorate hall/stairs

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 428 days (01/01/18)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 33/101 tasks complete, 91/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Only one goal completed this month – drink at least ½ litre of non-carbonated drink a day for a month 4 times – actually did this with the four months virtually back to back and am drinking just shy of a litre most days, hopefully this means it’s a habit now; a good one – lots of small bits of progress added but nothing else got finished.

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 397 days (01/12/17) (Just past one third of the way through my 1001 days)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 29/101 tasks complete, 88/101 tasks started

glinda

It snowed last week, autumn has definitely reached an end.

I've completed 3 things since last time! I seem to be holding fairly steady at completing one thing a month. Which is less than I'd like, but nonetheless, is at least a steady pace. Next year I hope to up the rate of completion, but then, a lot of the longer term projects will be coming to fruition by that point. After all, some things are dependent on weather, time of year, and many of my health related targets are dependent on time - I can only give blood every few months, and when it comes to giving up or taking up dietary items I can only control when I start, I just have to wait and commit for the intervening period.

Most of the progress I've made ongoing challenges since last time has been on film related targets. For some reason in the first half of the year I read lots and lots of books and watched barely any films, but in the second half of the year (well actually mostly just the last few months) I watched a tonne of films but hardly read any books. Though I absolutely held off making this post for a couple of days so that I could finish another book to make my total look slightly better.

No. Items Completed: 11

Completed
Donated Blood
Tried Bubble Tea
Went on a picnic
Grew some herbs
Tried 10 different types of tea
Did the 30 day song challenge
Wore nothing black for a whole week
Attended an academic conference
Gave up alcohol for a month
Read a book in Gaelic
Eat at 10 new restaurants

Progress Made
Expand my Gaelic vocabulary by 100 words (30/100)
Read 10 non-fiction books (9/10)
Do the 50 books poc challenge (11/50)
Ask 20 friends to suggest one film, and watch them all - (watched 1/20)
See 26 films I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (15/26)
Go to 25 gigs (9/25)
Watch a movie from every year I've been alive (10/33)
Listen to a new artist every month
Bake something new every month for a year
Listen To The Observer’s 50 Albums That Changed Music (4/50)
Watch 25 documentaries (16/25)
Read more books than I buy over the course of the challenge
Make 5 new soups (3/5)
Read 10 books of poetry (7/10)
Finish 10 craft projects that are lingering about half-finished (2/10)
Donate 20 books to charity or bookswaps (4/20)
Grow some vegetables - seeds and tubs bought
Complete the A-Z travel challenge - (2/26)
Visit 10 Museums/Galleries I've never visited before (4/10)
See at least 7 UNESCO World Heritage sites (1/7)
Complete a big cross-stitch project
Give up alcohol for 3 months
Enter 5 wriing competitions/Submit 5 short stories (1/5)
Watch 5 children's films not in English (1/5)
Read 10 new-to-me SF Masterworks (1/10)
Donate blood another 5 times (1/5)
complete a big cross-stitch project
Take Vitamin D daily for 3 months

peaceful_sands

Only one goal completed this month – to read 10 science fiction books – lots of small bits of progress added but nothing else got finished.

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 367 days (01/11/17) (Just past one third of the way through my 1001 days)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 26/101 tasks complete, 88/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

More progress but I don't think anything major - Reached the 1 year mark! 366 days done today... Newly finished - make five new side dishes (I've included a chutney here), completed month 3 of using progesterone cream and I finished a book of poetry which meant I'd completed the read 20 poems goal (with the book finishing and continuing past that). So more progress than I thought - 3 more goals! So that's 25 finished, 88 started (including the ones finished), and as of today, I counted 13 left to start, some of which I've made arrangements for but I'm making a donation to the Red Cross to account for the non-started items (this will not count towards the making donations to 5 charities goal, only to goal 101 of non start/completion of goals).

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 366 days (01/10/17) (The one year complete mark was yesterday)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 25/101 tasks complete, 88/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Still ticking along and so here is my latest update. I’ve made some good progress this month with some of the ‘away from home’ goals, but have only fully completed one of them. I need to make a concerted effort to actually start the rest of the goals and to make sure that I’m putting some more focus on to some of the longer term goals.

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 336 days (01/09/17) (Just past one third of the way through my 1001 days)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 22/101 tasks complete, 82/101 tasks started

glinda

Yesterday the cars had condensation on them and today the Pumpkin Spice Lattes have appeared, it seems that Autumn is officially upon us. I've completed six things since last time. (Well, actually only five, because I'd forgotten I had 'go on a picnic' on my list so hadn't marked that off last time.) Which has pulled me back up to having completed one item a month on average. I've made good steady progress on quite a few of my ongoing projects and added a few new things to my list (still not quite at 101 things)

No. Items Completed: 8

Completed
Donated Blood
Tried Bubble Tea
Went on a picnic
Grew some herbs
Tried 10 different types of tea
Did the 30 day song challenge
Wore nothing black for a whole week
Attended an academic conference

Progress Made
Expand my Gaelic vocabulary by 100 words (28/100)
Read 10 non-fiction books (6/10)
Do the 50 books poc challenge (8/50)
Ask 20 friends to suggest one film, and watch them all - (watched 1/20)
See 26 films I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (7/26)
Go to 25 gigs (5/25)
Watch a movie from every year I've been alive (4/33)
Listen to a new artist every month
Bake something new every month for a year
Listen To The Observer’s 50 Albums That Changed Music (4/50)
Watch 25 documentaries (2/25)
Eat at 10 new restaurants (7/10)
Read more books than I buy over the course of the challenge
Make 5 new soups (2/5)
Read 10 books of poetry (6/10)
Finish 10 craft projects that are lingering about half-finished (2/10)
Donate 20 books to charity or bookswaps (4/20)
Grow some vegetables - seeds and tubs bought
Complete the A-Z travel challenge - (2/26)
Visit 10 Museums/Galleries I've never visited before (3/10)
See at least 7 UNESCO World Heritage sites (1/7)
Complete a big cross-stitch project
Give up alcohol for a month

peaceful_sands

Still ticking along and so here is my latest update. I’ve completed 4 more goals – the one to find the rest of the goals, donating unwanted books 10 times to a charity or school, not buying new books for 4 months (I managed to do the four months consecutively and also watching 2 films for which I’d read the books within the time of completing the challenge – I’ve now watched 3! My ‘new’ final goal is in the Pamper section – there is a little salon near where I work where they offer a ‘fish spa – the Garra Ruffa fish experience’ – and it sounds strange so I want to give it a try and this is a perfect excuse for doing something different.
I’ve started some more new goals too – I’ve had my first massage (of the challenge), started using the natural progesterone cream, drinking a minimum of ½ litre a day (I amended this slightly to be not a carbonated drink, and have bought a bottle that holds just over ¾ litre which means drinking one of these a day fulfils the goal) and decluttering the kitchen. Part of me thinks I should finish one of the decluttering tasks before starting another, but at different times it seems to suit to work in different areas, hence I’ve started another decluttering task.

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count : 305 days (01/08/17) (By next month I’ll be a third of the way through my 1001 days)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 21/101 tasks complete, 81/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Progress is continuing; some of it slowly, some of it steadily. I’ve finished one goal this month – completing a book of Sudoko. I’ve also started two more goals – visiting botanical gardens/nature reserves etc with a visit to Ness Botanical Gardens at Little Neston and The Arboretum in Nottingham and also decluttering the loft.
I have to say I’m amazed with myself, having set the challenge to not buy any books for a month on 5 occasions (2 goals – 1 to do it for one month, the second to repeat the previous goal on 4 occasions), I’m just entering the final month (5 days in) and if I get to the end of this month, not only will I have completed another goal, but I did four of the months consecutively. Even if I don’t get through this month, I figure it’s still pretty impressive to have got through three months.
I’m still hunting my final goal. Feel free to make suggestions, nothing has occurred to me for a while and I may repeat the no book buying goal again (maybe for 2 consecutive months twice). It’s a real challenge as I am often tempted, but I have been helping myself by keeping a very tight count of how far in to the month I am and how many days left to the end of the month.

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count :274 days (01/07/17) (Just over a quarter of the way through my 1001 days)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

100/101 tasks set, 17/101 tasks complete, 77/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Although I'm posting late, this still reflects what I'd done on the first of June as opposed to by today (when I've managed to watch a couple of extra history programs and so on!).

I made a bit more progress on some of my Travel goals as I had a very short break in France (three days) which meant I could visit some places I hadn't been before. I also managed to finish three goals this month which is pleasing - I've given something to someone that they needed more than me, finished reading 10 classics (my final one was 'Behind A Mask : the Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott') and I committed my final RAK. I'm also pretty proud of myself for getting through a second month, immediately after the last one, of not buying any books - 60 straight days!!! I've gone straight into month three but I'm not sure I'm going to make it to 90 without succumbing to be honest, but that's okay because although I intend not buying books for 4 months for this goal (5 in total), the months don't have to be consecutive).

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count :244 days (01/06/17) (Almost a quarter of the way through my 1001 days)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

100/101 tasks set, 16/101 tasks complete, 74/101 tasks started

glinda

When I reached the end of my last list, it never seriously occurred to me that I wouldn't make another one. I really enjoy them, and it always makes me get round to a whole bunch of things that I wouldn't otherwise. So I started a new list at the start of the year. This has been a little harder than the last few times becuase, I'm trying to stick to more realistic goals (I mean I tried that last time, but I didn't really succeed) so that more things actually get done. As much as I did get more done last time round, I'm still lingering around the 1/3 completed point.

I was feeling quite chuffed with myself that while I hadn't actually completed very many things yet, I had started a lot of things. Surely I'd started far more than I had this time last list! Not so much actually, it turns out that I'm pretty much where I was last time. (Though I do think that I'm actually further on with those things that I've started...

No. Items Completed: 2

Completed
Donated Blood
Tried Bubble Tea

Progress Made
Expand my Gaelic vocabulary by 100 words (20/100)
Read 10 non-fiction books (4/10)
Do the 50 books poc challenge (6/50)
Ask 20 friends to suggest one film, and watch them all
See 26 films I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (5/26)
Go to 25 gigs (3/25)
Complete a 365 day photo challenge (started 1/2/17)
Watch a movie from every year I've been alive
Listen to a new artist every month
Bake something new every month for a year
Listen To The Observer’s 50 Albums That Changed Music (4/50)
Watch 25 documentaries (1/25)
Eat at 10 new restaurants (3/10)
Try 10 different types of tea (7/10)
Read more books than I buy over the course of the challenge
Make 5 new soups (2/5)
Read 10 books of poetry (5/10)
Finish 10 craft projects that are lingering about half-finished (2/10)
Donate 20 books to charity or bookswaps (4/20)
Grow some herbs/vegetables - herb seedlings planted 26/3

peaceful_sands

Slow progress on most fronts this month, but while I haven’t finished anything, I’ve started another couple of tasks, read purely from the in-house collection and not added to that at all and also made really good progress on watching the in-house DVD collection (not only the ones that count towards this but also ones that have been acquired since which don’t count in goal terms, but do count as real life progress – which is also a good thing!)

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019
Current count :213 days (01/05/17) (A little over a fifth of the way through the 1001 days)

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

100/101 tasks set, 13/101 tasks complete, 74/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Progress is still being made, I surprised myself by completing four goals this month (which was particularly impressive as I thought I was going to be able to complete 1!). Looking at my position through the other goals I think I will be lucky to complete one goal next month and I’m still looking for a final goal. I’m becoming a persistent restarter with my goal to not buy any books but I’m not doing badly at making it through the DVD collection. There is a possibility that I’ll be taking part in a charity event toward the end of the month which will help progress through both the taking part goal and the donating goal.

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

100/101 tasks set, 13/101 tasks complete, 71/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Still plodding along and making some progress having completed five months. I'm in a bit of a down patch with regard to feeling liking I'm making adequate progress, possibly because I've made some of the tasks so big before I've achieved them. Guess I just need to knuckle down and get on with some of the ones I haven't started yet. I've only included the goals that I've started in this month's post.

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

100/101 tasks set, 8/101 tasks complete, 68/101 tasks started

peaceful_sands

Posting the whole list this month - I've managed to complete another two goals, but haven't yet managed to find my elusive final goal or start any that weren't already started. Take that back on checking the preview of this post I spotted one goal that I have started this month. The progress made so far leads me to think that I may well manage to finish at least one other goal in the forthcoming month.

( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

100/101 tasks set, 7/101 tasks complete, 67/101 tasks started

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