Creativity: Graphics tablet
I was going to draw this strip on paper, originally, because I knew it would take much longer on the computer. Then I remembered that one of my 101 goals is to use the graphics tablet more. (At least, I think it is! If not, it will better be after tonight with how long it took me to draw the following strip!)
It’s just as well I find it amusing 🙂
Mission 101
Following is my list of goals for Mission 101. I’ve broken the goals up into categories, but may move them around later on to simplify them.
Goal-achieving started on 24th February 2010. My goal is to have each of the following goals completed by 21st November 2012.
plain text that looks like this = not yet started
text that looks like this = in progress
text that looks like this (with date) = completed
DOMESTIC CHORES
- Purchase three new tops for work.
- Tidy clothes shelves/wardrobe and discard clothing that is out-of-date, stretched, faded or that I will never wear again.
- Purchase new lamp for our bedroom, or swap with son’s lamp that never gets used(March 2010, took my son’s lamp in desperation)
Return all DVDs in house to rightful locations/owners, and get rid of/discuss old videos with husband(done c. June 2010)Cull plastics cupboard considerably(done November 2010)Wash the loungeroom carpet(done, when we moved house, June 2010)- Organise my desk once a month for three consecutive months (1/3 completed, Nov. 2010)
HEALTH
- Take a multivitamin every day for a month
- Determine whether antidepressants are still necessary and act upon determination (i.e. stop or continue taking them) (April 2010, determined that I do still need them, 110mg/daily is ideal dose)
- Give B1 her vitamin supplement every day for a month (and try to continue to remember after that)
- Get my teeth checked (and repaired if needed) and have them professionally cleaned
- Get a teeth guard to protect my teeth at night when I grind them
- Complete resistance workout and/or walk to work  three times a week, for a month
- Use a MoonCup or use other environmentally-friendly method for three complete menstrual cycles
- Have iron infusion done (completed mid-February 2010)
- Reach and maintain goal weight of 75 kg or less
- Develop and maintain pain management techniques for shoulders/neck – be free from significant pain for a month
- Get a bikini wax
- Take B1 and/or B2 for a walk once a week for a month
- Take B1 and/or B2 for a walk once a week for two consecutive months
- Successfully toilet-train B1
- Successfully toilet-train B2
- Go on five bush walks
- Develop new stretch routine for relaxation and post-workouts
Don’t have McDonalds’ icecream in any form for one month(completed May 2010)- Get laser acupuncture at least once to treat menstrual migraines
- Do pelvic floor exercises every day for a month
FAMILY
- For one month, enforce 15 mins of Reading Time every evening with B1 (increasing by 5 mins each year), in addition to her current bedtime story routine
- Make a story/stories (or picture book, at a young age) part of B2’s bedtime routine ( instituted 22/02/2010 – story, The Man started)
- Read a new book to B1 once a month for at least six months each year.
- Prepare and execute ten family picnics.
- Research possibility of Aspergers management/help through dietary changes
- send application form for B1’s funding (completed 8/2/2010)
- Camp with B1 in the backyard at least twice before Mission 101 ends.
- Keep the kids immunisations up-to-date (and get B1’s four-year-old one done!) (done c. 16/2/2010)
LOVE AND MARRIAGE
- Go on a date with The Man ten times before Mission 101 is complete, sans kids for a minimum of 90 mins each (1/6: 1st May to dinner)
- Give The Man a massage three times.
- Write The Man a love letter three times.
- Acquire three certain toys/accessories for The Man and I (1/3: February 2010)
- Have al fresco sex three times.
- Give The Man three compliments every day for a week and notice any changes in him
FINANCIAL
- Purchase land (completed 17/2/2010, settled late February 2010)
- Begin and finish building house on purchased land
- Finish paying off loan on the van
- With The Man, discuss and put in place some sort of weekly allowance/savings method for B1 (13/03/2010 – money box)
CULINARY
- Cook with five new herbs and/or spices
- Cook a loaf of bread or bread rolls from scratch
- Prepare 25 new recipes, 10 of which must be gluten-free (1/25 Carrot and rice loaf -g/f 1/10)
- Cook something with B1’s help at least once a month (April 2010: sausage rolls, October 2010: sponge cake)
- Learn to make homemade low-fat icecream that has a nice texture
- Make six dishes and take to six separate church luncheons
- Use the waffle-maker three separate times
TRAVEL
- Visit Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo
- Take B1 to see the Questacon in Canberra
- Have an overnight (at least) trip to my parents’ house at least five times (1/5, June 2010)
- Have an overnight (at least) trip to a friend’s house at least once each year
- Visit five towns western towns/cities (4/5: Oberon, Bathurst, Mudgee, Orange, 2010)
- Meet two online friends whom I’ve never met before
LITERARY
- Read at least 20 new novels
- ‘Library of the Dead’ by Glenn Cooper – completed January 2010
- “Expecting Adam” by Martha Beck – completed April 2010
- “The MasterHarper of Pern”, Anne McCaffrey – completed June 2010
- “Murder on the Ballarat Express”, tba, forgot author’s name – completed October 2010
2. Read at least six articles from published science journals on topics of my choosing
3. Get a twelve-month magazine subscription to a magazine I enjoy
FUN AND CREATIVITY
- Draw three pictures on graphics tablet, and post in diary (1/3: April)
- Get the kids scrapbooks up-to-date
- Begin and complete a puzzle, minimum 500 pieces
- Complete three puzzles of 500 pieces or more
- Paint three paintings
Go to a professional performance, whether it’s theatrical, vocal or orchestral(David Hobson, Yvonne Kenny, September 2010)- Hang at least ten family framed family photos around our new house (when it’s built)
- Listen to three songs each by ten new musicians/composers (2/1o completed: Esthero; Mama Kin)
- Play my guitar at least twice a month for 6 months (non-consecutive), for a minimum of half an hour each time (3/6, February, April, November 2010)
- Spend two hours playing real-time strategy games, like Age of Conquerors, Age of Mythology or Empire Earth, on 15 separate occasions
- Create a photo DVD for family at least once a year, and post said DVD to family members.
- Buy a new book of guitar music
- Send a postcard to PostSecret.com
- buy or receive as gifts at least three pairs of work shoes (not joggers) (1/3 completed: February 2010)
- get professional manicure – French Polish
CAREER
Attend a professional development seminar(Autism workshop, November 2010)- Set up convenient and user-friendly office environment in the new house once it’s built
- Attend a teaching conference/seminar outside of the compulsory ones
- Set up Coordination systems at Campus Two (started February 2010)
- Train new coordinators at Campus Two (started 16/02/2010)
- Have 20 active clients on the system by June 30 (completed April 2010)
- Find a way to actively market ESOL classes to NESB members of the community
- Be on top of Progress Assessments at work at least once in 1001 days
- Gain tenure at work, whether it’s temporary or permanent
CHRISTIAN HEALTH AND EFFORT
- Read a book of the Bible completely that I haven’t read before
- For at least one month, embark on an intensive journey of daily prayer
- Complete redecoration of foyer in church
- Design Welcome painting for church
- Begin and complete Welcome painting for church
- Begin and complete redecoration of the children’s room at church
- Attend church for each weekend for one month straight (with the exception of real illness or visiting family in other locations than our town)
- Read my Bible for 15 mins per day for a month
- Visit two churches in our denomination that I haven’t been to before (October 2010, Oberon)
- Organise two church social nights
- Give a sermon at church
CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
- Volunteer for a community project at least once
- Give blood once per year
- Update my First Aid qualifications
- Get anaphylactic first aid training (i.e. training in the use of administering an epi-pen)
Sponsor a child or make a donation of $50 (minimum) to a charity of our choosing(Signed up December 2010, to commence January 2011, through World Vision, 10yo Bangladeshi girl)- Become a parent-reader or parent-helper at B1’s school on a regular basis (e.g. once a week or fortnight) for at least a school term
Goals started: January 1st 2010
Goal list completed: 23rd February 2010
Completing goals started: 24th February 2010
Goals to be completed by: 20th July 2012