25. Learn how to make my own bead jewellery

25. Learn how to make my own bead jewellery

Daisy Bracelet

Mario Mushroom Bracelet

Skull Bookmark

PacMan Bracelet

As you can see I've completed no 25. I'm not very good yet but really having fun making cheesy jewellery and spent most of this month wages on beads ;o)

49 . Go to the Dentist

49 . Go to the Dentist

I hate dentists, I think it's something about the smelI

I got tooth ache a little while ago decided it was time to get them checked. I stopped going when I went to Uni and haven't been back since (about 7 years ago)
The toothache was gone by the time my appointment rolled round and the dentist confirmed it was due to an impacted wisdom tooth that caused an infection which (thanks to the internet) I already knew.
He said we wasn't going to pull my wisdom teeth out because it needed to be a recurring problem before they do that. Which was a relief,but I had to have two fillings.... Eek!

I've just had them done today and it wasn't so bad - except I really want the feeling in my jaw to come back. It's my first ever local anaesthetic and it's an odd feeling - I keep hitting myself in the face to see if it hurts.
It feels like when you cut off circualtion to your feet by accident, which my brain knows is fixed my forcing my toes to wiggle so I've spent most of the afternoon gurning to try to get blood flow back to my jaw. The problem is this doesn't work and only succeeds in making me look a little crazy.

Ah well at least it's another tick on my list

50 Read all the books on my bookshelf and not buy anymore until I have finished then all

50 Read all the books on my bookshelf and not buy anymore until I have finished then all

Being the list maniac that I am I've made a list of all the books I need to read to accomplish this objective.

The Robber Bride - Margaret Attwood finished 9/7/2007

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Attwood finished 29/10/2006

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Chuck Barris finished 15/4/2007

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote finished 21st Sept 2006

Microserfs - Douglas Copeland finished 3rd Dec 2006

The Great Automatic Grammatizator and other stories - Roald Dahl finished 15th Jan 2007

The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar - Roald Dahl finished 3/11/2006

The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas finished 28/9/2006

LA Confidential - James Ellroy finished15/11/2006

Anasi Boys - Neil Gaiman finished 13th Dec 2006

Passion is the Fashion: The Clash - Pat Gilbert

Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold

Political Ideologies: An Introduction - Andrew Heywood

Love all the People - Bill Hicks finished 7th March 2007

The Odyssey - Homer (Translated by Richard Lattimore)

No Logo - Naomi Klien finsihed 16/6/07

Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell In A Burmese Teashop - Emma Larkins finished 11th April 2007

Dude, Where's my Country? - Michael Moore

The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffeneggerfinished 4/9/2007

The Blank Slate - Steven Pinkerfinished 31/8/2007

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Short Stories - Edgar Allen Poe finished 22/10/2006

Awakenings - Oliver Sacks

The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacksfinished 3/3/07

The White Hotel - DM Thomas finished 30/9/2006

The Social Animal - Edited by Elliot Aronson

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson finished 30/6/2007

11 Knit a toy

Knitted Walrus
Originally uploaded by purplepunk.

I made a walrus for my walrus obsessed friend!

13. Knit a cardigan

Cabled Cardigan
Originally uploaded by purplepunk.

Here's a photo of the finished Cardigan - It's a rubbish photo but it's a rubbish cardigan so I suppose it's fitting. I haven't blocked it yet, I'm hoping that it will look a bit better after I 've done that. Ellie seemed to like it though. ;o)

Jake Burns 31/3/2006
Originally uploaded by purplepunk.

I didn't check my views for ages then found out I'd acheived this goal and totally broken it as well. It has 605 views which I really don't understand beause it's just a blurry picture I took at the SLF gig I was at earlier this year, but yay for crossing off another thing on my list. Hopefully soon I'll get round to taking pictures of the knitting I've done :o)

4. Visit Amsterdam8. Organise a holiday for a group of friends.

4. Visit Amsterdam
8. Organise a holiday for a group of friends.

I've realised I'm not keeping with at all up to date so I'm starting to now. The two significant things I've crossed off my blog are...

4. Visit Amsterdam
8. Organise a holiday for a group of friends.

Things I've learnt are...

1. That Amsterdam is beautiful, so many things that I find interesting a lot of what I didn't get to see.
2. Organising holidays sucks and I'm never going to do it for a group of people again. I'm gonna stick to 2, 3 people tops in future, it's so much easier to sort out when there are only 2 of you.
3. I can explore a foreign city by myself without getting lost, mugged, stranded or any of the other things that my imagination things can happen when you don't know the city or the language.
4. Camp dutch people with cute dogs will try and help you if you look lost.
5. If you're going to trek miles to go to a museum check the closing time before you leave ;o)

101 things to do in 1001 Days

101 things to do in 1001 Days

My List

Travel
1. Visit Edinburgh


2. Visit Croatia


3. Visit Rome


4. Visit Amsterdam completed 4/9/2006


5. Visit friends & family in Texas/Mexico


6. Go to the Tower of London


7. Go to York


8. Organise a holiday for a group of friends completed 4/9/2006
   


9. See the Giants Causeway

Knitting/Crochet

10. Knit something for everyone in family and close friends birthdays


11. Knit a toy Competed 18-9-2006


12. Knit a bag(and learn cabling while I'm at it) completed 22/6/2006


13. Knit a cardigan completed 6/9/2006


14. Learn to crochetcompleted 18/12/2006


15. Complete a stitch as bitch crochet project


16. Knit/crochet a blanket


17. Knit/Crochet something I have designed myself

Creative

18. Paint an oil painting


19. Fill an art pad with charcoal drawings


20. Walk round hatfield house and draw things that I like


21. Fill a pad with pastel & pencil drawings


22. Draw picture of everyone I see in a day - will probably pick a boring work/family only day for this


23. Pick and press some flowers and make them into a card


24. Make all my own christmas cards


25. Learn how to make my own bead jewellery completed 18/4/2007


26. Make a pillow - knit sew crochet I don't care


27. Sell something I made and give the money to charity


28. Customise a few of my boring t-shirts


29. Do a photography course

Something New

30. Create a vegetable/herb patch in garden with tomatoes, cucumbers, corriander and rocket


31. Learn to identify 5 peices of classical music and their composers and what the point of the music is


32. Learn to drive a Motorbike


33. Do an artsy open university course (to reclaim my artsy side from the pedantic and logical computer brain it has become)

Cookery

34. Learn to cook a dish I like with tofu (really hard becuase Tofu's soooo boring)


35. Cook myself a meal from scratch for a week


36. Make something from scratch to take into work for a week


37. Bake loads of cookies and share them with every friend/family I see that day


38. Learn how to make a smoothie


39. Cook a 3 course meal

Financial

40. Pay off my credit card


41. Save £1000 in my ISA


42. Write a budget and keep to it for 3 months

Health

43. Lose 2 dress sizes


44. Cycle in to work every day for a whole month


45. Go a month without ordering takeaway


46. Give up fizzydrinks/caffeine for a month


47. Walk/bike to town rather than bus at weekends for a month


48. Cycle to st Albans


49. Go to the Dentist completed 14/11/2006

Reading

50. Read all the books on my bookshelf and not buy anymore until I have finished then all
    


51. Read a newspaper from cover to cover(except the sports section) for a week
    


52. Read a book and look up in a dictionary every words I don't know (keep a list to prove i've done it)
    


53. Read 5 books from Observer, Guardian, Time and Waterstones top 100 list (not to coincide with books already on bookshelf)
54. Read 5 Shakespeare plays
    


55. Read every book by George Orwell
    

Vanity

56. Get a lot of my hair chopped off and get a proper style completed 30/3/2007


57. Get 5 more Piercings


58. Design myself a tattoo and get it done


59. Get contacts lenses sorted out again


60. Get eyebrows plucked professinally


61. Let my sister do my toenails

Thing I should really have done already

62. Sort, scan and upload to flickr all my Film pictures


63. Buy a Peter's map of the worldand learn where about 5 countries I haven't heard of before completed 22/8/2006
    


64. Move out of home (maybe even get a mortgage)


65. Visit my Grandad completed 26/12/2006


66. Volunteer for something (maybe AI)


67. Sort out my stuff in roof and give unwanted videos and other stuff I'm not ever going use to charity


68. Clear out my wardrobe and get rid of all the really old clothes I have in the back of it


69. Sort out all my dvds and put cases in roof so all unnessecary clutter it gone until I move out completed 15/7/2006
    


70. Keep my CV up-to-date every 3months for entire 1001 days


71. Learn more about the main political ideologies and what the pros and cons of them are
72. Build a computer from parts


73. Convert all my albums into MP3s


74. Learn to Drive

Stoopid Fun Stuff

75. Ride a horse


76. Do a jigsaw


77. Make a new friend


78. Meet someone online


79. Get in contact with someone I've lost contact with


80. Play an outsidey type game over the field


81. Complete a cryptic crossword


82. Enter the sea in a wet suit or even a swimming costume if the weight loss thing works


83. Go on that scary fair ground ride I'm always to scared to go on. The one that you stand up in and aren't strapped into and spins round and you're held in place by the centrifugal force
    


84. Go to the Comedy Club in London for the hell of it not because it's someone's birthday
85. Build a sandcastle by hand (can be rubbish as it probably will be)


86. Watch a film that is very worthy but I always thought looked very dull


87. Have a garden party with crochet, boules, cucumber sandwichs, strawberries and cream and pimms completed 26th May 2007


88. Go goofy bowling. Each frame try bowling with a different twist; wrong-handed,
    between your legs backwards, between someone else's legs, on one foot, from on your knees, etc (stolen from discoverfun.com)


89. Get led spokes for bike that spell out words and make it say something rude each week for 4 weeks I'm cycling to work


90. Have a Dinner party with napkins in fancy shapes and everything nicely presented


91. Finger (and hand and foot) paint with friends


92. Go to/Host a cocktail party and try 5 different cocktails I've not had before

The rest

93. Get over 100 views on one of my flickr photos completed 6/9/2006
    


94. Learn Some Latin


95. Stick up for myself against someone who I would normally give into


96. Donate blood every 4 months for a year


97. Register as a bone marrow donor


98. Learn basic phrases in 5 different languages ie hello, goodbye, thankyou, excuse me, 1-10, 'one ticket please' etc


99. Listen to a new song every day for a week


100. Don't moan about anything for a whole day, yes a WHOLE day ;o)


101. Vote in all the elections held in 1001 days