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boogieshoes) wrote2015-01-02 08:07 pm
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2014 To Do List
The To-Do List is undergoing a lot of changes from the 2013 version, mostly based on lessons learned, and with a goal to keeping better track of all the things I *really* do, which don’t always get put on the list. The better I know how much I actually do, the less I feel like a slacker when things on this list don’t get done.
HOUSE MAINTENANCE:
1) Find a roofer to fix the roof. Roomie noted I was losing a few shingles around the edges, and that needs to be fixed before it becomes an issue.
1a) roofer came and fixed roof for a reasonable price, but then told me to save $$ for a new roof this year or next. Goal: $10k for a 30yr concrete job.
2) I need to fix the garage door. Which means I really need to get someone out to look at it, update the radio signal to a new code for a new set of garage door remotes, and to fix/ repair the track/ lever thing. Or replace the track and door.
3) I need to repair – or more likely, replace – the outside door to the kitchen.
4) I also need to replace the one window in my living room that’s cracked. It’s possible this will be part of a set replacement, but it completely depends on what I can do at the time.
5) I have a number of outside outlets, and outlets in the kitchen, that do not work. I need to get those fixed.
6) I need to get the door to my bedroom fixed. This *will* be a replacement, because although the door is new, it was hung in-correctly.
7) I need to repair the light above roomie’s vanity.
8) I need to repair my shower.
9) I need to fix the window casings where the prior owner’s dog chewed on them. This may end up being done in conjunction with an update on casements.
10) Zeke needs some new items: fluids, struts, and something else I can’t remember right now…. This item to be done in 3 parts.
10a) this is 80% done, but I had to put it on a new CC, which will be cut up ASAP.
HOUSE UPDATES:
1) I need to finish painting in the guest bedroom, and put new carpet in it.
2) I would like to replace the side-light frames of the front door with new solid-side thingies. (I hate the side windows on the front door. You should be able to run around naked in your own house without getting arrested, and the sidelights prevent that. It’s annoying.)
3) I need to primer-paint the hallways and bathrooms.
4) I want to finish painting all the trim.
5) I want to paint both hallways a bright yellow.
6) I want to get window film for the windows, and also wood casing updates, and curtains. This is an expensive project that will probably be put off until most of the rest of the stuff is done. (ETA1: I keep forgetting, but this has to wait until I replace the windows. Thre's currently ugly lattice-work in the windows, which are double-hung jobs. My preference is for German-style windows: unmarred glass, single-hung windows that swing in or out. This will probably need new casements, too, but we'll see.)
7) Yes, I’d like to update the kitchen, but that will probably have to wait a while.
8) It is more likely I will be able to paint the master bedroom walls, ceiling, and stencil lines.
9) I also want a wall-mural of Neuschwannstein in winter (which can be done via wallpaper).
GARDEN stuff:
This is purely the section for the partierre garden. I have moved the ironwork out to the patch, and now I need to:
1) Build 4 2’x2’x6” boxes
2) Put Weedkiller down 8’x 8’ square patch at the garden site (to allow for walkways between the boxes)
3) Put down the landscape fabric on that square.
4) Fill the square with the boxes, laid so that one could put a path between them
5) Fill the boxes with soil
6) Seed the boxes with seeds already in my stash.
7) Need to acquire a lawn/leaf bag to catch grass clippings for the compost pile
8) Figure out how to fill the walkways, with what.
a) this will be a sand base, with red foot-square plain bricks making up the main walks, and scallop bricks edging the pathways. simple but effective, and should tie in nicely with the house.
LANDSCAPE Stuff:
The major goal this year is to keep landscaping materials to $50 a month. This is necessary to be sure I’ll have enough money to save for things on the wish list.
1) Price how much it would cost to turn the front ditch into a River Runs Through It
2) Work with Landscaper to generate a plan for my yard
3) Finish the front patch out. ==> done except for rocks
4) Price out concrete for extra parking space.
5) Begin doing the furnace patch. ETA1: this is going well, and may be near #3 soon.
6) Mowing upkeep
7) Keep working on getting rid of underbrush. Goal: at least all underbrush in all areas cleared out by end of 2014. Stretch: tree removal of current trees. Really Awesome: Planting of new trees in the yard.
SCA:
My most immediate SCA need is to work on my camping kit:
1) Putting up the pop-up Tent
2) Acquire stuff to make the Tent live-able for Gulf War
3) Practice setting up the tent and other items. Practice packing Zeke for war.
4) The first 3 were all successful, but the wind at War broke the frame. New goal: $1200 this year for new tent and frame kit, periodesque. Next year, $1200 for walls.
I’m not going to specify working on Archery this year. I would like to be able to put up the Archery Lane, but that’s not a garuntee in any event. So instead, the Archery stuff is ‘rolled into’ the Landscaping list, albeit a bit hidden.
However, I *am* going to add the goals of:
a) Creating a stumpwork piece, and entering it into at least one A&S contest. And also:
b) Remember to photograph the garden and the stumpwork as it is being completed.
Those two items are very much ‘practicing’ items, so I put no emphasis on winning anything, I just want to try my hand at entering A&S, and I know I’ll need to practice photography if I want to ‘enter’ my garden in an A&S contest.
Stitching:
I’m rolling over every stitching thing this year, except the Thomas Kinkade thing. I’m changing that to a more generic ‘needlepoint’.
1) Finish a needlepoint piece this year
2) Work a small stumpwork kit this year
3) See if I can make a small macramé item in enough quantities to work as either largesse or a site token.
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) 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 – and now, also 2013!
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.
Adding the following:
7) pay off shared CC
8) pay off goodyear CC
9) pay good chunk of personal CC
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.
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 thepurple room garage...)
WISHLIST:
1) Acquire Garden Software to help Plan Garden and Gardening Stages.
2) (deleted repeat item, see 16)
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) lawn-leaf bag for mower
16) tow-behind cart for mower
17) Rocking Chair
18) Ashley furniture set
19) Furniture set from antique store
20) Running boards, tonneau cover, and bed extender for Zeke
By necessity adding:
21) Tamper for yard
22) New tent top and frame
23) New roof
24) Edger for yard...
-bs, busy as a bee
ETA1: 22 Mar, first major update
HOUSE MAINTENANCE:
1a) roofer came and fixed roof for a reasonable price, but then told me to save $$ for a new roof this year or next. Goal: $10k for a 30yr concrete job.
2) I need to fix the garage door. Which means I really need to get someone out to look at it, update the radio signal to a new code for a new set of garage door remotes, and to fix/ repair the track/ lever thing. Or replace the track and door.
3) I need to repair – or more likely, replace – the outside door to the kitchen.
4) I also need to replace the one window in my living room that’s cracked. It’s possible this will be part of a set replacement, but it completely depends on what I can do at the time.
5) I have a number of outside outlets, and outlets in the kitchen, that do not work. I need to get those fixed.
6) I need to get the door to my bedroom fixed. This *will* be a replacement, because although the door is new, it was hung in-correctly.
7) I need to repair the light above roomie’s vanity.
8) I need to repair my shower.
9) I need to fix the window casings where the prior owner’s dog chewed on them. This may end up being done in conjunction with an update on casements.
10a) this is 80% done, but I had to put it on a new CC, which will be cut up ASAP.
HOUSE UPDATES:
1) I need to finish painting in the guest bedroom, and put new carpet in it.
2) I would like to replace the side-light frames of the front door with new solid-side thingies. (I hate the side windows on the front door. You should be able to run around naked in your own house without getting arrested, and the sidelights prevent that. It’s annoying.)
3) I need to primer-paint the hallways and bathrooms.
4) I want to finish painting all the trim.
5) I want to paint both hallways a bright yellow.
6) I want to get window film for the windows, and also wood casing updates, and curtains. This is an expensive project that will probably be put off until most of the rest of the stuff is done. (ETA1: I keep forgetting, but this has to wait until I replace the windows. Thre's currently ugly lattice-work in the windows, which are double-hung jobs. My preference is for German-style windows: unmarred glass, single-hung windows that swing in or out. This will probably need new casements, too, but we'll see.)
7) Yes, I’d like to update the kitchen, but that will probably have to wait a while.
8) It is more likely I will be able to paint the master bedroom walls, ceiling, and stencil lines.
9) I also want a wall-mural of Neuschwannstein in winter (which can be done via wallpaper).
GARDEN stuff:
This is purely the section for the partierre garden. I have moved the ironwork out to the patch, and now I need to:
2) Put Weedkiller down 8’x 8’ square patch at the garden site (to allow for walkways between the boxes)
3) Put down the landscape fabric on that square.
4) Fill the square with the boxes, laid so that one could put a path between them
5) Fill the boxes with soil
6) Seed the boxes with seeds already in my stash.
7) Need to acquire a lawn/leaf bag to catch grass clippings for the compost pile
a) this will be a sand base, with red foot-square plain bricks making up the main walks, and scallop bricks edging the pathways. simple but effective, and should tie in nicely with the house.
LANDSCAPE Stuff:
The major goal this year is to keep landscaping materials to $50 a month. This is necessary to be sure I’ll have enough money to save for things on the wish list.
1) Price how much it would cost to turn the front ditch into a River Runs Through It
2) Work with Landscaper to generate a plan for my yard
4) Price out concrete for extra parking space.
5) Begin doing the furnace patch. ETA1: this is going well, and may be near #3 soon.
6) Mowing upkeep
7) Keep working on getting rid of underbrush. Goal: at least all underbrush in all areas cleared out by end of 2014. Stretch: tree removal of current trees. Really Awesome: Planting of new trees in the yard.
SCA:
My most immediate SCA need is to work on my camping kit:
2) Acquire stuff to make the Tent live-able for Gulf War
3) Practice setting up the tent and other items. Practice packing Zeke for war.
4) The first 3 were all successful, but the wind at War broke the frame. New goal: $1200 this year for new tent and frame kit, periodesque. Next year, $1200 for walls.
I’m not going to specify working on Archery this year. I would like to be able to put up the Archery Lane, but that’s not a garuntee in any event. So instead, the Archery stuff is ‘rolled into’ the Landscaping list, albeit a bit hidden.
However, I *am* going to add the goals of:
a) Creating a stumpwork piece, and entering it into at least one A&S contest. And also:
b) Remember to photograph the garden and the stumpwork as it is being completed.
Those two items are very much ‘practicing’ items, so I put no emphasis on winning anything, I just want to try my hand at entering A&S, and I know I’ll need to practice photography if I want to ‘enter’ my garden in an A&S contest.
Stitching:
I’m rolling over every stitching thing this year, except the Thomas Kinkade thing. I’m changing that to a more generic ‘needlepoint’.
1) Finish a needlepoint piece this year
2) Work a small stumpwork kit this year
3) See if I can make a small macramé item in enough quantities to work as either largesse or a site token.
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'
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) 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 – and now, also 2013!
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.
Adding the following:
8) pay off goodyear CC
9) pay good chunk of personal CC
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.
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
WISHLIST:
1) Acquire Garden Software to help Plan Garden and Gardening Stages.
2) (deleted repeat item, see 16)
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) lawn-leaf bag for mower
16) tow-behind cart for mower
17) Rocking Chair
18) Ashley furniture set
19) Furniture set from antique store
20) Running boards, tonneau cover, and bed extender for Zeke
By necessity adding:
22) New tent top and frame
23) New roof
-bs, busy as a bee
ETA1: 22 Mar, first major update