Now that a quarter of the year is behind us I wanted to tally up how I'm doing. I chose to do things that I like doing -- but wanted to do MORE of. Things like hiking, running, crafting, reading, and writing. And having adventures, of course! I also allowed my longer-term 101 things in 1001 days project to peek in here -- with any 20 of those doing double duty in this project.
Some of these things should have been really easy. But with the way things are changing, some things that seemed easy now seem uncertain. By now I should have at least 10 hikes, at least 8 bike rides, at least 6 runs, etc. But staying closer to home and self isolating is the new normal.
20 hikes
Ideally most of these will be new hikes rather than old favorites. Snowshoe trips count as hikes.
We had a planned snowshoe trip cancelled, sadly. And with trails and parks closed, we've stopped getting out. This will be challenging.
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20 bike rides
Not just a little commute, but say a trip downtown or something longer would count.
This might actually get some action with the weather getting better -- it's easier to practice "social distancing" on a bike, so maybe this is something we start doing in the evening after work.
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20 runs of at least 5K
They don't hall have to be races -- I just need to set a low bar to get back into running.
We ran two 5Ks so far this year, and would have run another in March. Our 10K for April has turned into a virtual 10K. Somehow I doubt our June half marathon will happen. I had registered for 8 races this year, including one I've thought about doing for over a decade. But we've decided to start adding running back into our mornings. We go for a 4-mile walk every morning; a few days a week we'll start sprinkling running intervals back into the mix. I feel hopeful about this.
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20 swims
The ultimate goal is to swim a mile at the open-water swim.
With local pools and beaches closed, I haven't been able to swim at all. This now seems impossible.
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20 new recipes -- completed 3/27/20!
I've missed cooking; so I'll try a new recipe twice a month.
I got a couple of great new cookbooks and tried a lot of different things in the Instant Pot -- I'll call this a rousing success (and I keep cooking new things!)
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20 new adventures
Think of 50@50, but just 20.
We had a lot of fun on our trip up to see the Northern Lights -- we may be limited in our adventuring for a while, but nice to have a good start.
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20 books read
No big books this year -- but I'm going to count each of the volumes of Macaulay's History of England as a separate book.
I've read four volumes of Macaulay so far -- somehow since we've been staying home I haven't cracked open a non-recipe book. I think this will pick up again, just difficult to make myself sit and read.
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20 sketches
Ideally I'll do this as a 30-day challenge again...
I have started doodling -- not sketching yet, but picking up a pencil. I think this will get going in the spring.
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20 paintings
I'd like to go through the sumi-e workbook and play with my watercolor set. Not art, just paintings.
Haven't done a thing. I feel like I need to sketch before I can paint, so I'm setting up an arbitrary delay. But the year is young, right?
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20 crafty blog posts / check-ins
Should be quite easy, since there will be 17 SAL check-ins, plus a couple of scrap posts too.
So far I've already done 14 of these, between the Stitch-a-Long, the OMGs, and ScrapHappy day -- of course, the best part of the check-ins is that I get crafting done so I'll have something to show!
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20 embroidery stitches
I'd love to make a sampler of some sort using at least 20 stitches.
I designed a piece -- an outline of the state of Washington, a heart over Seattle, and rainbow stripes in different colors in the "background". The piece will have a total of 20 types of stitch; I've done 6 so far. I'm excited to keep trying new ones.
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20 crowns in Duolingo -- completed 1/25/20
It's time to work on my Spanish again!
This was super easy -- and I'm happy to say that I'm still working on my Duolingo, and as of today have a 86-day streak. Very satisfying. And though I would be hard pressed to hold a conversation in Spanish, I do feel like I'm learning.
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20 songs on the ukulele
I don't need to memorize the songs, just be comfortable playing and singing them.
I have this ridiculous idea for -- wait for it -- Apri-Uke-Lele. ("Ay-pri-you-kuh-lay-lee"). I'm going to challenge myself this month to play the ukelele for 15 minutes every day. Out of this I'll get a good 15-20 songs in the rotation, so I feel positive about this!
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20 new things in my portfolio
Could be emails, blog posts, etc.
I've actually written a number of email campaigns at work that I'm quite proud of; the challenge is capturing them and putting them in my portfolio. So that's something to focus on this month.
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20 new skills
Not sure what this could be ... I want to learn some new things.
This is a funny category. So far I've put a travel journaling course (online) and making arboreal salve in here. Other ideas are folding origami cranes from memory, kumihimo braiding, adding a watermark to an image, and taking some courses on Coursera. So more to come on this.
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20 Thames Path posts
I want to document that trip from years ago.
I have FINALLY started this. I've written and published 5 posts so far, and I have 15-16 left to go. And at the end of it I vow to recycle / get rid of all the bits and pieces I've saved in a bag since then. Not the books, but the train tickets, bus tickets, and lodging receipts can go.
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20 movies
This is easy -- or it should be.
This *should* have been easy ... now with movie theatres closed, it seems like a stretch. If we get past, say, August, I'll allow new movies that we stream to "count". But not yet.
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20 hours stitching acanthus -- completed 3/24
This will be harder to track than to accomplish!
I'm sure that I had done more than 20 hours on acanthus by March 24, but that's when I actually tracked it.
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20 hours volunteered
I suspect the difficult part will be identifying volunteer opportunities.
Well, that *would* have been the difficult part... I did some research into volunteering on trails, which would have been my next goal. I had even signed up to sew masks for a local hospital, but they changed the program. But I'm sure there will be more ways to help.
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20 things off my 101 things in 1001 days list
This is a bit of a cheat -- but will allow me to do a range of projects.
So far I've set up email subscriptions on the blog, tried 5 vegan cheeses, completed the "love your lettering" course, and embroidered a pair of dish towels. I'm close to a few others, so I feel good about this. After all, 101 in 1001 days ends in September 2020!
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I have a 2020 Vision tracker on the blog, and I'll do a check-in every quarter. If you're keeping score (I am, of course!), I've completed 128/400 things -- putting me at 32%. Not bad for being just 25% of the way through the year.
Overall progress
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