Überlist 2012

Only 30. Trying not to hate myself, since I did survive a book, a tornado, a pregnancy and birth, two Yarn Schools, Felt School, and Mitten School!

Still have a couple more days to pretend I might finish more, but I’ve marked definite successes and failures.

1. Scrilla: Keep a running tally of all the interest and bank fees I’m paying (free)
2. Get rid of the extra checking account that was supposed to simplify my life, or else start over and figure out how to use it as intended (free)
3. Go another year without buying any new clothes except some new cotton socks for summer ($10) That was very satisfying in 2011! FAIL, bought maternity & nursing clothes, but pretty thrifty about it.
4. Keep a running list on the fridge of all the food I waste, and figure out some kind of reward/penalty system for goals (free) FAIL
   
5. Keep tabs on the cost of the cats/dog/sheep/chickens (free)
6. Schedule payments immediately when invoices come in (free) FAIL
7. Don’t buy new when old will do. Pay down instead. (free!) FAIL (but better than before)
8. No fiber or yarn purchases until I’ve hit my destash goals. (free) FAIL
9. List 50/month on ebay (free) FAIL
10. Use Nike gift certificate (free)
11. Use salon gift certificate ($20 tip) FAIL
    
12. Open vintage etsy shop (free)FAIL
13. Keep up with CSA. Don’t go shopping until after bag arrives, make a meal plan, freeze/can anything I won’t have time to use. (free) MISERABLE FAIL
14. $20/week grocery budget (mostly produce; there’s still almost half a beef and a quarter hog in the freezer) BIG FAIL
15. Have a great booth at Winter Woolfest (free-ish)
16. Owe a satisfying amount less at the end of the year. (free!)
17. Make/list 5 new etsy items weekly after book. (free) FAIL
18. Occasionally send customers coupons with orders (free-ish) FAIL
19. Publish a pattern for sale every month after book (months with paid designs in other pubs = free) (free) FAIL
20. Tax Question #1 (not sure)
21. Tax Question #2 (not sure) FAIL
22. Tax Question #3 (not sure) FAIL
23. Tax Question #0 (not sure) FAIL
24. Make a monthly and annual budget (free) FAIL
25. Fixties: Get vacuum cleaners serviced (no idea) FAIL
    
26. Get food processor fixed (no idea) FAIL
    
27. See if rice cooker can be repaired (no idea) FAIL
    
28. Repair push mower (no idea) FAIL
29. See if it’s possible to fix the awesome waffle maker so I can ditch the blah one (no idea) What actually happened is that I got an awesome waffler from vine, same net effect.
30. Fix chainsaw (no idea) FAIL
31. Continue Work Swap with Charlene (free) FAIL
32. Examine the roof and evaluate whether there are any repairs I can try (evaluation=free; repairs…?) Got pretty obliterated in the tornado, so it’s beyond DIY repairs now, but got two of the wings repaired from tornado, so I’m calling it good.
33. Put all the hardware back on the back door (free)
34. Install one auto-off light switch ($30) FAIL
    
35. Make: Make something new out of my old coats (free) FAIL
    
36. Hem all pajamas (free)
37. Hem ski pants (free)
38. Make hats and scarves to coordinate with my sweaters so I can minimize the hobo look (free) FAIL
39. Make a baling wire basket (free) FAIL
40. Set up and use the knitters loom (free) FAIL
41. Make a wool-filled comforter of old sheets and wool seconds (free) FAIL
42. Make some supersoft neck liner things for scratchy wool sweaters (free) FAIL
43. Make cardboard forms of stock sizes (free) FAIL
44. Make some recycled wool throws (free)
45. Make hard cider (free) FAIL
    
46. Make at least one of my beer kits (free) FAIL
    
47. Attach leather soles to Bunny Hop slippers (free)
48. Tour de Fleece (free) FAIL (first week only)
49. Put deck back on top of barn (should have everything, but maybe $25 for extra fasteners) FAIL
50. Make something fun with Ron (free) FAIL
51. Make screen door for north back door ($50) FAIL
52. Cupcake Ranch: Start a fiber CSA (free)
53. Rearrange the coop so the new chickens like it better (free)
54. Add panels to the hay rack to minimize messy fleeces ($30 if I don’t have suitable materials) FAIL
55. Chop down and kill off seedlings in pasture (free) FAIL
56. Spray fields if possible; pull weeds like a maniac if not ($500 or free except for the crippling labor of weeding 7 acres by hand) FAIL
57. Gather up all the sticks in the pasture before the grass starts growing again (free)
58. Make a nice burn pile near the fire pit (free)
59. Clear the path around the property (free) FAIL
    
60. Make a winter door for the top of the coop (free, if I can find the hardware) FAIL
61. Make a winter drop ceiling for the coop (free) FAIL
62. Make a mower shelter with the 2nd swingset frame ($50 for tarp) unnecessary; we bought the  garage next door, but I’m taking this one since the net effect–shelter for mower–is the same
63. Get some greenhouse plastic and cover the old coop for a sun hut/greenhouse ($100) FAIL
64. Repair stanchion and return to Sherri Didn’t actually repair it, but did give it back. :) (free)
65. Move dead freezer into hay shed for grain/storage, and move that whole rutting back door farmy clusterfuck outside (free)
66. UV-protect sheep jackets (free) FAIL
67. Jacket sheep (free) FAIL
68. Install solar light in hay shelter (free) Not solar, but inexpensive handy led work light with a hook and a magnet, nice!
69. Process 2011 Cupcake Ranch fleeces (a lot…)
70. Process State Fair fleeces into yarn (probably a lot) FAIL
71. Send 2012 fleeces out for processing by July (a lot…) FAIL
72. Streamline/Organize/Clean: Find a nice bin to use to keep scarves, hats, etc. attractively at the ready FAIL
73. Destash (knit or elminate) 100 balls of yarn. (free) FAIL
74. Destash (spin or eliminate) 10 pounds of fiber (free) FAIL
75. Vacuum/tidy up boiler room (free)
76. Get Purple Wave to auction all that random extra crap (free-ish) FAIL
77. Open up 25% of the space the storage room (free) FAIL
78. Darn 5 prs socks (free) FAIL
79. Clean laundry room (free)
80. Clean one thing each day (free) FAIL
81. Get rid of one thing each day (free) FAIL
82. Make a Goodwill run every month (free-ish) FAIL
83. Art Club: Do a full inventory on my shop (free) FAIL
84. Find suitable inventory software–ideally an ip ad app ($50?) FAIL
85. Talk to an accountant to help drag my head out of my ass (not sure) FAIL
86. Figure out what’s up with calendar clould sync fuckup (free)
87. Design: Issue Naughty Needles as an ebook FAIL
88. Issue Naughty Needles individual patterns as pdfs FAIL
89. Finish up href=”http://alpacasofwildcathollow.com”>Wildcat Hollow site (free)
90. Finish Wiley book on time (no idea) A bit late thanks to tornado, but reasonably close
91. Promote the book as much as I can (no idea)
92. Publish 5 free patterns (free) FAIL
93. Make a web site for the book (free) Skimpy so far, but there.
94. Self-improvement: Spanish rosetta stone level 1 (free) FAIL
95. No more than 1 free game of scrabble/day (free) FAIL. Some extended runs of Scrabble depravity.
96. Sweep on Mondays (free) FAIL
97. Scrub sinks and toilets on Tuesdays (free) FAIL
98. Laundry on Thursdays (free) FAIL
99. Take out the garbage and tidy up the recycling on Wednesdays (free)
100. Dishes MWF (free) FAIL
101. Keep Sonicare charged and use the FULL cycle every day (free) FAIL Kept it charged, impatient about finishingfull cycle
102. Find out if I can do the Flint Hills technical program just one class at a time (free to find out) FAIL
103. Cancel Monthly Pass (free)
104. Achieve and Maintain WW goal (WW fees) FAIL, for obvious reasons
105. Harveyville Project: Hammer down cheese school details in January (free) FAIL
106. Start Yarn School planning early, and spend conservatively (free) FAIL
107. Follow the same for Fiber School! (free)
108. And Mitten School! (free)
109. Harveyville PSIQs (free) FAIL
110. Finish Eskridge photos (not sure) FAIL
111. Return Eskridge photos to Alumni Assn if sale goes through (free) FAIL
112. Make some feed sack totes (free) FAIL