101 in 1001 - 30. Bake something once a month

Team away day tomorrow. We're off to play on a canal boat!

Ahem. We're off to explore our team structure, learn about our colleagues, problem solve and brainstorm.

Apparently I'm not allowed on board unless I (in the words of a colleague) "bring buns!"

101 in 1001 - 53. Read some (new to me) books

That'll give me something to do this week, then....

13. Unplugged! (1/33)

Well...don't you get so much stuff done when you're not distracted by the TV and the computer?!

I watched "The Tudors" on Friday night (phwoor @ gorgeous men in doublet and hose...shame about the lack of historical accuracy but who cares?!) and then went to bed. Woke up yesterday morning and stopped myself putting the radio on. My unplugged day had begun.

I managed to :

Clean the wooden floors
Do all the washing
Go to the library - four more books to read
Go shopping - I did speak to a couple of people here, well you can't seem *too* rude, can you? :)
Cook dinner
Read one of the library books - "So Me" Graham Norton's autobiography which was really good. Laugh out loud funny in a lot of places.

I held out until 7pm then I plugged back into the world again. So, 21 out of 24 hours isn't bad for a first time and I'm counting it as a success. It's my list, so I can :)

It's been a long, hard tiring week. Could have done with about 12 extra hours a day...

However, some progress has been made and it's the weekend!

11. Posted the first "Saw this and thought of you" present - see previous post.

25. Collect £2 coins - another £6 added, total now £106 in my new terramundi pot.

26/27/28. All on track (4/286)

35. Lay the dining table - I've found that now I have cleared it of junk and put a cloth on it I'm actually using it a lot more.

47. Cross stitch project for someone else - coming along nicely. Hope to have it finished before Christmas.

53. Read some new books (2/50) - Ok, an odd choice, perhaps for the first of my new books but this week I've polished off (ha!) "Executioner Pierrepoint", the autobiography of the UK's last Official Executioner. Not the easiest writing style, but it was a fascinating book.

In the same vein (and also in the same Amazon order) came "The Executioner's Bible" the story of all the UK's 20th century executioners. Sometimes reading more like a long list of crimes and resulting punishments it was nevertheless an interesting counterpoint. There were a few incidents that happened quite differently than in Pierrepoint's book, depending on who you believe.

I'm going to spend a couple of hours in the library tomorrow and I'm expecting another couple of books from Amazon soon. Tudor history this time, so just as likely to contain details of executions. Hmm...maybe I need to get out more? :)

I might also use tomorrow as the first of my "umplugged" days. I'm thinking of revising the exact detail of it slightly, as I know that I'm incapable of going 24 minutes without talking to myself, let alone 24 hours! I think it's living alone...you have to talk to yourself otherwise how can you have a decent argument?! So, the unplugged days will, I think, just be sans electronic gadgets - no TV, radio, DS, computer etc.

98. Update blog once a week - tick!

11. Saw these and thought of you! (1/10)

Hoomins adore kittehs.

Iz gud job, rly.

Kittehs can't opn cat fud tins...

Kthnxbai!

101 in 1001 - 25. Collect £2 coins

101 in 1001 - 25 Collect £2 coins, originally uploaded by Cellach.

The new terramundi pot for my £2 coin collection

Week One - Update

I spent the weekend with a couple of friends and they both got quite excited about "The List". One of them has gone away having written her own! (The other one's decided against it - she's having a baby and frankly will have quite enough to do in a few months time...)

So. What have I done this week?

1. Create blog - done

2. Create a collection on Flickr - done

3. Make a spreadsheet to track these tasks - started

11. Give 10 "Saw this and thought of you" gifts - bought the first, need to post it. I won't put the picture up on Flickr until it's been received, lest I tip the recipient off in advance!

23, Rainy Day fund - I've decided to continue with the saving I'd already started (14.8%)

25. £2 coins - I've bought a new terramundi pot to keep them in (£100)

26/27/28. Financial updates done twice this week (2/286)

35. Lay the dinner table for a meal once a week (1/143)

47. Finish a cross stitch project for someone else - again I won't be posting a picture of this until it's handed over.

48. Finish "Max"

50. Finish the Samurai

96. Blog about each completed item (2/101)

97. Take a photo for each completed item (2/101)

98. Update blog once a week (1/43)

Not bad for the first few days :) Just need to keep the momentum up and remember to take the camera *everywhere*.