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Things to do in 2002

I've broken this year's list down into categories so I can track/accomplish them more efficiently. This year, I actually had a really hard time getting the list down to 102. Usually, I have trouble making the list long enough.

One-time/finishable

  1. Finish Elvis quilt (started in '94)
  2. Use 5 pieces of fabric; don't buy more (used 1)
  3. Make nice new labels for Buffy tapes; catalog episodes & record any missing ones
  4. Make hanging hamper and matching ironing board cover for kitchen with cherry fabric
  5. Set up automatic shipping amounts for international orders
  6. Finish DH glasses
  7. Get important paperwork filed by April (DBAs, copy, etc.)
  8. Fix laptop; re-network
  9. Make Christmas light skeletons
  10. Replace little wheel on vacuum cleaner
  11. Come up with a better kitchen setup (shelves, better table, reduce clutter)
  12. Look into better insurance; switch if necessary
  13. Get an annual exam
  14. Lose 15 pounds so I can frolic around in my underwear like the girls in the Hanes commercials (It turns out it's goinna take more than 15 pounds to make me frolicky; I didn't consdier the fact that the models pretending to be people on TV are actually pretty darn underweight, which means I need to be less than my normal weight or in way better shape to act like a Hanes commercial. Bah.)
  15. Switch around outlets & surge protectors
  16. Make a chart of what gets paid when
  17. Consolidate Christmas boxes
  18. Clear out bathroom; clean & decorate
  19. Change over domains
  20. Get rid of stray socks & ragged tights
  21. Replace blinds in utility room
  22. Replace doorknobs
  23. Use dental plan by February or cancel
  24. Finish and print dad's literature
  25. Implement a video storage system
  26. Use 2 patterns
  27. Copy Elizabeth McGuire's kitchen/cabinets in blue
  28. Paint bathrooms
  29. Send both parents' birthday & mother's/father's day presents early
  30. Year of the Slut Calendar. Really. This is the year. I can feel it.
  31. Purge 30 items of clothing
  32. Add new merch to site
  33. Mend all clothes in hamper (4 items down)
  34. Make valances
  35. Index cookbooks
  36. Link up or kill off Tupperware site
  37. Install dog poop thing
  38. Revamp & relaunch Frying Pan
  39. Win bet with dad
  40. Update affiliate pages/ads
  41. Update dad's site
  42. Rachel Girls I Like
  43. Malin Girls I Like
  44. Angele Girls I Like
  45. Rebecca Girls I Like
  46. Make 3 things from my ideas folder (made map case)
  47. Sell all my stupid fucking stock and swear off forever
  48. Tax planning
  49. Taxes on time
  50. Complete Spice Encyclopedia
  51. Finish snowdome gallery
  52. Edge appropriate areas in cemetery rocks; use up mulch
  53. Honda/boxes
  54. Use photo albums
  55. Eliminate new debt
  56. Add search to Frying Pan & Housewife
  57. Sell off stupid packets
  58. Come up with some kind of plan for SAAN boards
  59. Come up with a plan to pay for Housewife et al

    First part one-time; then periodic

  60. Update & keep Dick List
  61. Update & keep Secret Confessions
  62. Clean up yard; then compost leaves & pick up poop regularly to prevent another fly epidemic
  63. Set all possible bills to autopay; pay remaining bills on time

    Periodic (weekly, monthly)

  64. Balance checkbook monthly
  65. Make one new recipe/week & keep track of them
  66. Assault one cluttery area a week until I'm as close to feng shui heaven as someone with my penchant for crap can be
  67. File papers monthly
  68. Keep up with mowing yard & pruning shrubbery
  69. Monthly UBB maintenance/necessary upgrades
  70. Work out or yoga 3x/week
  71. Regular maintenance of car(get one more oil change)
  72. Replace air & hepa filters on schedule
  73. Kiki's injections on schedule
  74. Water and tidy up plants on Fridays; Feed worms alternate Fridays (do it between now & the end of the year)
  75. Weekly backups
  76. List 30 items a week
  77. Eat out only 1ce a week
  78. Weekly DH update or mail
  79. Take off one full day each week (keep computer off)

    General Lifestyle

  80. Check out forums daily
  81. Walk dogs weekdays
  82. 4 fruits or vegetables/day + water
  83. Vitamins
  84. No new underwear!
  85. No new makeup!
  86. Avoid putting labeled things in dishwasher
  87. Save change in penny banks; use for something fun at the end of the year
  88. Quit being such a sour old crank
  89. Keep inbox down to 50 messages
  90. Plant cuttings; take new cuttings & plant until all empty pots are filled
  91. Use Vaseline on lightbulbs (and that's not as illicit as it sounds, you perv; an electrician told me I should do that because it makes them more conductive & will help with my problematic sockets)
  92. Use candles & aromatherapy stuff
  93. No subscriptions
  94. Buy only fresh produce and groceries specific to recipes; use up existing groceries and stockpile of toiletries before buying any new (quad coupons, HEB meal deals & freebates okay) (stay with it thru the end of the year + organize toiletry stockpile)
  95. Adopt a more rigorous oral hygeine program
  96. Make and keep a budget
  97. Write every day
  98. Continue to use breadmaker regularly
  99. Reclaim normal human sleep schedule or quit feeling guilty about vampiric schedule
  100. Return NetFlix movies day after watching
  101. Cultivate an old fashioned chore routine
  102. Reconcile receipts with credit card statements

12.30.01 01.05.02

About a third to half of last year's list rolled over in some incarnation

 

Red ital=too late; written off

Blue=judgement call; went back and forth

Orange=May strike it if I meet the state qualification

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