Sunday, November 30, 2008

December goals

I am going to start a goal list for things I need to do when I get out of school this fall quarter.

[ ] Finish the "little silk shrug" I started last year.[ ] Finish the "felicity" hip slouch beanie I started this quarter.

That's when I first started, about a week and a half ago?

There it is now, on top of my evidence base for a final paper.

[ ] Bake cookies. I bought chocolate chips in anticipation -.-;
[ ] Make HK style borscht. I first had it at LA cafe (the red soup)... but we no longer go to LA cafe, hopefully for reasons unrelated to the soup. Then I went over to my friend's house, and she made it for dinner... it was sooo good. To my surprise, she said it was borscht... but Chinese style. I guess good stuff will migrate across miles and cultures. Tomato (instead of beet) + water base (maybe throw some chicken stock in there?), plus onions, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, garlic and parsley, perhaps? Maybe add chicken or beef? Yeah baby. Get me some bread and butter and call it good.
[ ] Finish up resizing my dad's old shirt for my personal use. My dad was going to Goodwill this shirt with a beautiful plaid pattern. "I'd wear that if it were my size," I thought. So I took it from the Goodwill pile and pinned tucks and folds into the back and front to draw it in at the torso. I'm not sure if it will work out or not, but if it doesn't-- I have only robbed an unfortunate person of a good find at Goodwill. Anyway, I pinned the approximate measurements last year, but this is what it has been looking like in my room since then:
The picture of which reminds me of another goal...
[ ] Clean up the room for real. I'm more of a "mess manager" right now... but I really need to figure out what to do with all the papers, books and crafts around my room. There's not enough space for it all! Sub categories:
...[ ] Get a new craft drawer organizer. I have this thing which has been holding everything from stationary to my beads to my yarn and needles to random crap. The wheel in the back is broken, so the craft drawer organizer slouches dangerously to the left.
...[ ] Figure out what to do with all my OT program papers. This is just a pile of the stuff I accumulated last year, not knowing what to do with it all/being too lazy to look through everything and recycle the unnecessaries:

By the way... thanks to Dorothy for that CD on the top: OC Mix 2, which actually has good music (although I never watched the show). Anyway... that pile is representative of my indecisive nature about what to do with anything in my room. It seems necessary to have it out at the time, for easy access. The second step is that the time to have it out passes, but I forget about its existence, so it stays out. The third step is accumulation of a pile.

I think that last goal is big enough to last 4 weeks, potentially. So I'll call the list good for now :)