Überlist 2016

Year-end tally: 49, or 42%. Fucking Kelly, as usual.

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Hooray! New Year! 2015 was kinda shitty. Fingers crossed 2016 will be kinda awesome.

I made up a first draft that had a ton of new recurring items (do x thing x times an x). When I added them all up, it was like an extra 200 hours a month. Obviously, that was idiotic and completely against the spirit of the Überlist. First I make the master list, then I think it over and cull, trying to remember my overall theme for the year: Less.

Let’s to this thing.

1. BE A BETTER HUMAN: Be more generous with praise and stingy with criticism. Still need a lot of improvement, but making progress.
2. Be as patient with my parents as I’d be with anyone else. Again, could be better, but improved.
3. Eat all the cheese. Literal and figurative fail.
4. Daily capsule journal to help my memory
5. Have a dinner party like a normal person
6. THE BEST NEST:Fill bedroom display case with stuff I love to look at.
7. Paint the pony wall colors I love.
8. Fix coffee maker or admit failure and quickly buy a cheap replacement without boring myself to death researching every fucking coffee maker in creation, or just forget that and keep using the Clever Dripper.
9. Empty, defrost, and clean deep freeze before new pig is ready.
10. Hot tub time machine!
11. Cut and mount switchplate cover in pantry
12. Figure out some way to mount that awful plug in the pantry
13. Swap around IKEA drawers.
14. Set up fancy new charger.
15. Shelf for cake taker collection
16. Cover steam pipe in basement
17. Cover steam pipe per bathroom/hall in other places it looks terrible
18. Streamline and maintain HomeRoutines
19. Replace laundry room light and back door lights with LEDs as they burn out.
20. Raise up those pantry cabinets off the floor
21. Set up little dining room in apartment with my beloved dinette
22. Reprint dish sign with correct room name
23. Add slats to shed pallets to prevent anguish.
24. Keep FMaD dough in the fridge
25. A FRIEND IN TECHNOLOGY: Opt out of all my self-inflicted spam as it arrives.
26. Set up email on my phone
27. Reset my original Scrabble app.
28. Investigate auto-backup options and implement one for the ipad
29. Fix naughtyneedlesknitting.com issue or just kill site
30. Fix outofthefryingpan.com issue
31. Troubleshoot dad’s email thing
32. Re-enter Paprika recipes and set up automatic backup
33. MAKE: Cure and smoke my own bacon!
34. Cure and smoke my own ham!
35. Add day numbers to 2017 calendar
36. Make one wine kit.
37. Make one beer kit.
38. Knit or sew something new each month 1-mittens for T; 2-cashmere nightgown; 3-unloved cowl; 4-sari tunic for me, dress for T; 5-brown slip dress, indigo slip dress; 6-linen slip dress; 7-sea sheath dress; 8-yellow/gray flower sheath dress; 9-sheet sheath dress; 10-Sarah hat & duck doll for T; 11-Night Creatures mittens. 12-Dad slipper socks & hat
39. Cook or bake something new each month: Bolognese, bagels, flour tortillas, lobster, sauerkraut, half-cooked-freeze-ahead wings, reliably perfect pressure cooker white rice,  pressure cooker chili with beans from dry, crock pot chex mix, squishy yeast rolls, hollandaise, oven toasted cheese bread, rustic croutons (torn-up bread, considerably better and prettier than cubes)
40. HEALTH & LOVLINESS: C25K 3x/week
41. Mini Yoga 3x/week
42. Lose 10 pounds.
43. Then lose another 10 pounds.
44. Weekly scrubby bath and husk maintenance
45. Win the Workweek Hustle (in a regular, non-Yarn School week)
46. Enroll in that cancer plan
47. Look into medical deductions, both for parents and as caregiver
48. Annual exam
49. Pick a PCP already and get a general checkup
50. Mammogram
51. 1/2 credit 2 1 dental cleanings
52. Twyla to dentist
53. Use current and new beauty samples
54. 5 fruit/veg each day
55. THRIFTY JOY: Use and enjoy What Did I Buy Today?
    
56. Earn $3 Mad Money credit for each day I don’t spend a penny and buy a treat every month or two.
57. Buy a large bank and put all the loose change in it, then use it for a family weekend treat at the end of the year. Didn’t fill it up. Really big bank.
58. Continue weekly fridge cleaning and menu plan to rule my leftovers with an iron fist.
59. Resume The Doomsday Pantry.
60. Finish 2015 Reckoning.
61. Re-inventory all freezers and pantries, then print out a list for each to track current use.
62. Update physical lists when adding/using, then update in app asap
63. Pay off all rando store cards.
64. Pay down 10% of all other debt.
65. Monthly YNAB Reckoning for business and personal.
66. MODEST AMBITIONS:Don’t be shy to ask customers for help spreading the gospel of the Harveyville Project/Art Club. Did a bit, but not enough to get credit.
67. Rosetta Stone Spanish 2x/week
68. Take my Craftsy bread class already!
69. HVP LLC.
70. Income tax on time.
71. Sales taxes on time.  Q4 2015 Q1 Q2 Q3 2016
72. File 1099s in January.
73. Market Cupcake Ranch fiber.
74. Figure out google business thing for shop
75. Do a google business thing for Harveyville Project
76. POT LUCK: New collar for Georgie
77. Weekly clearing
78. CHERISHED FAMILY MEMORIES, BITCHES:Transcribe all the weird things Twyla’s said from our texts to a notebook.
79. Make that yardstick marker thingy for Twyla
80. Short weekday “school” for Birdy. Work up to 30 minutes.
81. Spend time outdoors on nice days
82. Print a copy of Year 1 book for us.
83. Make Year 2 book.
84. Make Year 3 book.
85. Re-read No-Drama Discipline
86. 1/2 credit  Fix up an awesome room for Twyla. Good progress, but didn’t finish.
87. Family dinners at a table
88. Twyla dental routine
89. Twyla toy pickup routine
90. Invoostigate preschool
91. LESS:Date all “To sell” boxes and donate after 6 months if not sold
92. Replace any missing drop ceiling tiles next door, then empty out the south sump closet.
93. Sell pizza ovens or printing equipment
94. Destash 100 balls of yarn.
95. Destash 10 pounds of fiber.
96. Read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
97. Inbox zero.
98. Make something from or cull one print cookbook each week.
99. 1/2 credit KonMari: Clothing. Half-credit because I didn’t sell/mend the sell/mend bins, though I did an excellent initial run and dispatched bags and bags of clothing.
100. KonMari: Books
101. KonMari: Papers
102. KonMari: Health & beauty
103. KonMari: Office supplies
104. KonMari: Art & craft supplies
105. KonMari: Kitchen stuff
106. KonMari: Household supplies
107. KonMari: Tools & home improvement crap
108. KonMari: Tech
109. KonMari: Linens
110. KonMari: Livestock/Garden
111. KonMari: Twyla’s Clothing
112. KonMari: Twyla’s Toys
113. KonMari: Collections
114. KonMari: Pictures, letters, mementos
115. SOUL-CRUSHING WORRIES:Repair grade school roof (really needs to be replaced, but the repair is holding up for now, fingers crossed)
116. 1/2 credit Figure out WTF to do about the ceiling tiles (need a better permanent solution)