10 posts tagged “there's something to be said”
You'll find a lot of entries on this list that have to do with food and cooking. I'm hoping that from the work I do to fulfill those items, I'll find myself creating recipes that are unique to me and my kitchen. And for them, this little cookbook.
I don't have an image of it in my head yet. Maybe I'll make it one of my monthly scrap-paper projects ...
... take at least one roll of film for each trip
When Patrick bought himself a new digital camera a few years ago, he handed his old one to me, and I started taking picture after picture after picture.
Let me rephrase: I started taking bad picture after bad picture after bad picture.
So I'm not a photographer. Oh well.
Except that I was cleaning out our closets a few weeks ago when I came across a batch of prints I'd made from some rolls of film I took when I first got Tita and lived in downtown Roanoke (about five years ago). They were good! I framed the shots well, I even did a descent job with lighting.
I don't know, maybe there's something about the physicality of the film camera that makes me take things more seriously. Whatever the case, I'd like to use that thing more; especially as we get closer to the near extinction of the film camera.
By way of a previous job, I came into boxes of old paper sample books. I've carefully cut out the samples (everything from off-white linen paper to vellum to bold colorful printed pages), and stored them in a box in plain site.
It was always my intention to make them into art, but you know me and intentions. But now it's serious. Now this paper art is on The List.
If I can knit a sweater, I can knit socks.
Now this will truly test my patience with the needles.
I've spent a good long time knitting rectangular things; it's about time I tested my mettle. I'm thinking a cute, organic cardigan for myself. Big wooden buttons. Maybe 3/4-length sleeves.
I've knit one blanket. It was good, but terribly misguided. It was the first Christmas Patrick and I spent together. I worked on it for months, and had to be sneaky so he wouldn't catch on. Practically the *moment* he opened it, I realized that he is warm-natured, and that blanket was absolutely the last thing he needed, and probably wanted.
He was more than gracious, of course. But I'd still like to take another stab at it, this time making a blanket for me (I'm always a little chilly), and I have long since shrunken that (100% wool) blanket I made Patrick, with the intention of turning it into a wall hanging.
I've got my lindsaydurango.com. But it's static. And actually, that's mostly as it should be (when perspective employers google me, I want them to get a sense of my work and my personality, but they don't need to know, say, that I'm really trying to make it a point to floss every day.)
But I would like to set up a blog that I can direct friends and family to. This'll require help from Patrick, who's already built some blog CMSs for other projects.
And once that's done, I want to build it around the needs of The 101. It'll be a great exercise in information organization, practice with the technical skills of online that I'm still far from understanding, and a way to show the world ... and myself ... just how serious I am about this list.
The 101
I feel like this one is cheating a little -- I'm already an avid list-maker, and I use a combination of ToDoist and Google Calendar. But I certainly don't use those things regularly enough to truly rely on them.
If I get my Cute Little iPod Touch, I can just imagine how wonderful it'll be to have my to-do life online, ready for me to check off through that Cute Little Screen.
... to track the 101; create individual spreadsheets for any relevant list items
What you've got here is a Spreadsheet Queen. I may not have mastered all the formulas, but I've certainly learned how satisfying it is to twist a spreadsheet into a tool for ... budgeting, food tracking, general info tracking.
When I'm able to dedicate a solid afternoon to this 101 spreadsheet, it will be a thing of glory.
This may be one of my biggest hurdles. I have a real up-and-down relationship with writing, especially blogging.
I'll enjoy the introspection, but then feel so overwrought that it stops appealing to me. This, I think may be different. The focus is inward >and< outward. It'll be the outward that keeps me going, if anything. The factual analysis, hypothesizing, collecting of qualitative research. It seems to giving the writing a greater purpose.
