I really like lists. And I really like new beginnings, New Year’s resolutions, those things. No wonder I keep making these „Day Zero“ lists, or as I like to call it, THE LIST.
It’s actually a whole thing with a website and everything, but I never really used that, I’d rather have the list here on the blog and in my journal and quietly (or not so quietly, depending on my mood, really) work on it, so I just mention this for credit where credit is due. The criteria are that items on the list must be
The Day Zero Project website footer
[…] specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).
Considering how spoons vary from person to person, some of my goals might not seem like an achievement to others, but to me they are. Look here for previous LISTS.
I started this iteration of THE LIST on New Year’s 2021, giving me 1001 days from January 1st 2021 to September 29th 2023.
Tally: 31/101
Finished | In Progress
- Get new nibs for my outlining pen from that small paper shop in List
- Make candied violets or rose petals
- Have the desk pretty and tidy at least once
- Find a job that doesn’t kill my soul but pays the bills
- Make a reform or laundry dress
- Visit 5 new places in Germany | 4/5 (Bunker Ulmenwall Bielefeld, Göttingen, Augsburg, Hirschbach)
- Learn basic 2D animation
- Draw 5 more Tarot cards | 0/5
- Brush up on my French
- Sew a walking skirt
- Make a pair of 18th century stays
- Buy aquatic elf ears
- Go stargazing
- Read As You Like It
- Have my whole bedroom be tidy for once
- Go urbexing
- Make 33 videos | 26/33 (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26)
- Take part in NaNoWriMo
- Finish a training or uni degree
- Visit Karoline in Denmark
- Finish building Fetch far enough for them to be playable
- Play Fetch
- Go to a non-Mythodea LARP
- Sew an Edwardian blouse
- Draw 5 commissions | 1/5 (tentacle tattoo)
- Finish reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- Write 11 reviews or recaps | 6/11
- Find a new C:tD group
- Make a turn-of-the-century corset
- Explore the Lüneburg Heath
- Reach 1k subscribers on YouTube | 425/1000
- Send 5 love-filled parcels | 4/5
- Publish 3 more recipes | 0/3
- Get a new cutlass for Trif
- Try 11 new bakes (almond sage biscuits, chocolate macarons, brandy snaps, orange cake, quick red wine chocolate muffins, matcha chiffon cake, floofy apple loaf, floofy lemon cake, weird Dutch pumpkin cheesecake, rum cupcakes, 2021 Bûche, chocolate meringues, Mojito Cake)
- Read and rewatch The Importance of Being Ernest
- Redecorate the balcony
- Go to Amsterdam
- Take part in MerMay
- Write 33 blog posts| 10/33
- Make a doll or puppet
- Get new glasses
- Practice the cello 11 times | 0/11
- Go back to therapy
- Get a business license
- Repair the chair
- Post 11 pictures on my art Instagram account | 5/11
- Draw the first chapter of Miserable Spirits
- Try 11 new cafés or restaurants in Hannover | 3/11 (that cute Italian one with the great mango cake, the place we went to with the outlaws with the okay mango cake, the new chain one, the Bauerncafé in Laatzen)
- Finish rebranding my social media
- Bake 5 pies or pastries | 0/5
- Grow oyster mushrooms
- Make a satyr outfit, horns, legs and hooves
- Finish reading 33 books (Rosen für Apoll – Joachim Fernau, I Want To Be Where The Normal Peope Are – Rachel Bloom, The Old Silent – Martha Grimes, Death at La Fenice – Donna Leon, one very bad historical romance novel, The Amulet of Sarmarkand – Jonathan Strout, The Glass House – Ashley Gardener, Was Sie schon immer über Goethe wissen wollten, aber nie zu glauben wagten – Bockholt & Huxel, Generation Golf – Florian Illies, Niederlande – W. Jappe-Alberts, Woyzeck/Leonce und Lena – Georg Büchner, The Case Has Altered – Martha Grimes, Downward Facing Death – Michelle Kelly, Jerusalem Inn – Martha Grimes, The Horse You Came In On – Martha Grimes, Rainbow’s End – Martha Grimes, The Blue Last – Martha Grimes, Tüte oder Sowas – Ulrike Sterblich, The Grave Maurice – Martha Grimes, Say it with Poison – Ann Granger, The White Magic Five and Dime – Steve Hockensmith with Lisa Falco, The Old Wine Shades – Martha Grimes, Großmama packt aus – Irene Dische, A Share in Death – Deborah Crombie, The Power of Ritual – CasperTer Kuile, The Falls – Ian Rankin, Death of an Outsider – M.C. Beaton, The Silent Woman – Edward Marston, Love in a Cold Climate -Nancy Mitford, Tells Tochter. Julie Bondeli und die Zeit der Freiheit -Eveline Hasler, The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford, Tod im Apothekenhaus – Wolf Sarno, The Haunting of Lamb House – Joan Aiken)
- Design and make armor patches
- Try a new painting technique
- Go to London
- Record some singing and put it out there
- Go to the zoo
- Take part in Inktober
- Move to a nicer part of town
- Make brandy snaps
- Get my nose pierced
- Sew shoes for Trif
- Get back into playing the guitar (or ukulele or mandolin)
- Go ice-skating
- Open an online shop
- Go see the Blue Wonder in Linden
- Take artsy self-portraits
- Make 11 designated Histopunk pieces | 1/11 (Urchin pants)
- Get another tattoo
- Use up 20m² fabric per year | 11/20m² in 2021 | 0/20m² in 2022 | 0/20m² in 2023
- Go to the opera, ballet or theatre
- Buy a waterproof mp3 player
- Visit the seaside
- Try a new craft (cold smithing)
- Go to Edinburgh
- Watch Gentleman Jack
- Explore the Harz highlands
- Weigh less than 70kg at some point
- Make tempered chocolate
- Have a C:tD kith photoshoot
- Write 5 in-character letters | 2/5
- Go swimming 5 times | 1/5
- Get a croquet set and play
- Have 3 picnics | 1/3
- Make plus fours
- Take a cello lesson
- Get 2 more ear piercings | 0/2
- Visit Schloss Herrenhausen
- Take a craft class
- Sew Landsknecht pants
- Visit 11 museums | 4/11 (Van Gogh Experience, Bunte Götter: Gold Edition @ Liebighaus, Slow Fashion/ Lithophanies @ MAK Hannover, Renoir @ Liebighaus)
- Finish playing 3 games | (Grim Fandango, Deponia Doomsday, Eastshade)
- At least look for adult beginner’s ballet classes
- Make those Bastion spirit cocktails
- Recreate a painting, sew and photoshoot it
- Visit Verdinium in the South
- Make ice cream
- Try at-home ballet workout
- Write a new list