2013 To-Do List

[boogieshoes]

For 2013, the To-Do List is now filled with some House-related items, which is fun.  Mostly.  When it’s not yet another learning experience. *grins*



HOUSE Stuff:
    1) Finish the office room.  This entails:
        a) Getting a guy out to look at the crack in the cement slab Cancelling this, going straight to termite guy
          b) Getting the termite guy out took all of a half-hour once i got them out there (my fault, not theirs) (1/18)
          c) Another coat of glaze on the ceiling because I didn’t do it right the first time (1/26) looks much better!
        d) Touch-up Pain finished 2/1
          d-1) New carpet down – make sure vapor barrier is put down this time. waterproof the concrete floor.
          e) Replace the Ceiling vent cover and the outlet covers with more appropriate-to-my-style covers.Include the furnace vent cover if possible.
        f) Unpack the bookcases and books into the office
          g) Unpack the craft stuff into the office and/or office closet
          h) Replace the ceiling light and closet light with something more suitable at some point.
          i) Window film on that window
          j) Fix the window sill where the prior owner's dog chewed it, and paint it (same as trim color)
2) Painting:
        a) I’d like to primer paint the hallways and bathrooms,
        b) finish the trim painting through-out,
                 i) trim in the living room and front hall was done Oct. 2012
            ii) trim in kitchen and office finished 1/21
    c) and paint the columns in the living room and kitchen.
3) Misc:
      a) Replace cabinet doors, and paint the cabinets white, and the rest of the kitchen walls blue.  I don’t know if I’ll get to this this year.
      b) Expand Driveway.  If possible, add a raised section for a Workshop outbuilding.
      c) Fix Mailbox (which I did Jan 13th, yay!)






GARDEN stuff:

Garden stuff will be in two parts this year – growing vegetables and herbs in pots, and trying to condition the soil of my proposed garden plot.  Well, and keep up the lawn.

  1) Plant containers with vegetables and herbs,
  2) keep a notebook of what you did, when.
  3) Build 4 2’x2’x10” boxes
  4) Rototille 6’x6’ square patch at the garden site
  5) Put the boxes on the garden site
  6) Plant legumes and grasses
  7) Start Compost Pile
  8) Start Compost pot in Kitchen
  9) Need to acquire a lawn/leaf bag to catch grass clippings for the compost pile
  10) Price how much it would cost to turn the front ditch into a River Runs Through It






SCA:

i'm tossing all SCA things and starting over, since i've had an epiphany about my SCA participation.  there's some deep-thinking things i want to do here, and there may be a few posts about it in the future.  however, i still need to work on my camping kit:

  1) Putting up the pop-up Tent
  2) Make a list of things needed to do to make it ‘live-able’. Those things will include:
        a) Ground tarp
        b) 'Solid' walls
        c) Some kind of cot(s) to put my air mattress on
        d) Floor rugs
        e) Mosquito netting 'walls'
        f) Need to Gesso walls and ceiling of Pop-Up Tent
        g) Need to make out a list of ‘To-Go’ Gear to pack for an event.  Will include things like:
              i) Shovel for water ditch around tent
              ii) Flashlight
              iii) Feastgear
              iv) Other stuff not clothes-related

The other SCA-specific thing I'd like to do is to set up an archery field in my backyard, and begin practicing again:

  1) Get a backstop/ target
  2) Check to see if I've got arrowheads on my arrows
  3) Get fletching and arrow-head-gluing kit
  4) Layout lane with string and stake
  5) mark 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 yard marks.
  6) Wishlist: wind indicator






Stitching:
    1) I’m determined to finish my Thomas Kinkade needlepoint this year
    2) Find a beginner’s stumpwork kit
    3) See if I can’t learn some macramé work (used with my embroidery thread)
    4) Finish another Mag7 Doggie (I've taken this kit to work to work on my lunch hours)
    5) Sylvia's towel
    6) Laney's sampler (and no, i *didn't* set a single stitch on this last year, why do you ask?)






FANFIC - I rolled over everything from last year:

  1) I still... have those two essays on writing to finish!
  2) Finish Seventh Gift
  3) See if I can't make progress on the TS cross-over
  4) Upload stories to Dreamwidth, and AO3
  5) Start Projects on:
      a) LB!JD is actually a girl
      b) Alternate Ending to 'Something Wicked'
  6) Finish alternate ending tale for the Little Match Girl story
         a) Contact Seremela and talk to her about permission to post, since this story depends so heavily on hers.
  7) Finish slice-of-life stories
  8) Finish Highlander-AU first 3 stories
  9) The Bitter Glass (Green Day 'verse story)





Personal ADMIN:
  1) Organize household items, including
        a) cleaning supplies,
        b) house decoration items,
        c) disaster kit
  2) Transfer data from old laptops to PC, when i get it.
  3) Make the database for my library
  4) File rest of bills from 2012 – this went by the wayside for obvious reasons last year, and will be waylaid until the office is actually done this year.
  5) Convert VHS and audio tapes to updated platforms. (Contingent on buying platform converters)
  6) Make a list of cyclical maintenance duties and times due;
  7) hook up tv to house LAN so that when a chore must be done, it’ll flash on the tv when I need to do it.  (Contingent on getting a new tv with internet capability)

HEALTH:
  1) Make an exercise plan and stick to it, although be prepared to be flexible.
      a) Include Kinnect-X games, and
      b) Put Kinnect-Play on the Calender Schedule program with the household chore list.
  2)  Consider going back to the Y, at least in summer.
Notes: Ideal weight-loss should be 1-2 pounds a week.

Pet:
  1) Contact Pennsacola Great Dane Rescue
  2) Get started on making the house/yard doggie-appropriate, with view of getting doggie mid-year.
  3) Research vet/ food/ baby-sitter services for doggie


FURNITURE PROJECTS (all rolled over):

1) Finish that silly chair!
      a) make two matching wood sides (this is a dremel-project, and includes finding my tools... somewhere in the purple room...)






I am adding a section to the To-Do List this year - the WISHLIST section.  This section is for things i'd like to buy, and many of them will help me accomplish things on the rest of the To-Do list, but since they are specifically things to buy, i decided I needed to separate them out so I didn't feel stressed out if i *couldn't* buy them this year.  Weird mental quirk thing.

WISHLIST:
  1) Acquire Garden Software to help Plan Garden and Gardening Stages.
  2) Get that nifty little pull-cart for the lawn mower…
  3) Acquire a VHS to DVD converter
  4) An audio-tape to CD converter,
  5) Replace professionally-produced products with the newer professionally-produced versions.
  6) Buy a new tv  (look, the old one is a 1994 Toshiba… that came with rabbit ears.  No lie.)
  7) Buy an XBOX 360
  8) Kinnect X
  9) Consider buying a household organization software
  10) Patio/Deck Design Software
  11) Household Design Software
  12) Get a calligraphy desk and comfortable chair
  13) Get a cabinet for use in that area
  14) computer desk kit
  15) night-stand kit
  16) Desktop computer
  17) Rocking Chair



-bs, the busy, the greedy, the just darned cool ;-)

Comments

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I like the gardening stuff.