Progress #10. Do something active for 3 months straight

A stroll with my daughter: L‌ee Lifeson Art Park & Willowdale Park, 3.6 k

Original goal list posted here

Progress: #32. Listen to five new music albums

 1/5: Dark in Here by The Mountain Goats

Release Date: June 25, 2021

I haven't kept up very well with even my favourite bands for at least ten years. Wow, John Darnielle has been prolific in the pandemic! 

This album is good. Not a quick favourite, but I remember thinking there were a few nice quotable lines. However, it will take me a few listens before I recall what they are.

Early standout track for me: "Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review".

Original goal list posted here

Progress: #10. Do something active for 3 months straight

Activities I don't despise: walking, yoga, rollerblading, ice skating, skiing.

Plans: 

Fall: Walks with my daughter, increasing in length, to gradually all-morning - afternoon endeavours, with picnics

Tuesdays in fall: rollerblading solo

Tuesdays in winter: skating at Mel Lastman Square solo, skiing at Earl Bales solo

Winter weekdays: building a snowman outside with my daughter, sledding (?)

Indoor days: Yoga (videos, flash cards, with my daughter?)

Walk ideas and (one-way) lengths:

• L‌ee Lifeson Art Park, 1.5k, 19 mins
• Hinder Property, 1.5 k, 19 mins
• ‌Willowdale Park, 1.8 k, 23 min
• ‌Earl Bales Park, 2.6 k, 36 mins
• ‌G Lord Ross Park, 3.5k, 43 mins
• ‌Bayview Village Park, 3.8k, 47 mins
• York Mills Valley Park / Joy Miller Park, 4.8k, 58 mins
• Grocery Outlet, 5.2 k, 1 hr 6 mins
• ‌Don River Trail, 5.9k, 1 hr 12 mins
• ‌Birdwatch Nature Shoppe, 6.2 k, 1 hr 17 mins
• ‌Bestview Park, 6.5k, 1 hr 19 mins
• ‌Downsview Park, 7.3k, 1 hr 31 mins
• ‌Sweets from the Earth - 7.5 k, 1 hr 34 mins
• ‌De Mello -- Fresh takeout - 7.8 k, 1 hr 38 mins
• ‌Duncan Creek Park, 7.8k, 1hr 38 mins
• ‌Black Creek Pioneer Village, 9k, 1hr, 52 mins
• ‌Toronto Botanical Garden, 9.3 k, 1 hr 55 min
• ‌Brookbanks Park, 10k, 2 hr 7 mins
• ‌Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 10k, 2 hrs 9 mins
• Urban Nature Store, 11 k, 2 hr 14 min
• ‌Moccasin Trail Park, 11k, 2 hr 20 min

Original goal list posted here

Goals, 2021 - 2024

1. Make a vest of map-patterned fabric
2. Own property
3. Build a train set
4. Join a Toronto-based field study group
5. Make a skating rink
6. Learn more about coffee
7. Build a fire
8. Do a jigsaw puzzle
9. Camp in the backyard with my daughter
10. Do something active for 3 months straight
11. Grow my own mushrooms
12. Do more foraging
13. Learn how to felt
14. Grow crystals
15. Birdwatch with my daughter
16. Metal stamp jewellery
17. Make my own cleaner / shampoo / beauty products
18. Burnish rocks
19. Buy / make / set up a bird feeder
20. Take plaster castings of animal footprints
21. Make my own essential oils
22. Try at least three "life hacks"
23. Make candles
24. Learn more about rocks
25. Bake bread
26. Stop drinking bottled water at home
27. Tap a tree for maple syrup
28. Start my own sprouts
29. Make something new for my daughter of her old baby clothes
30. Travel somewhere with my husband and daughter
31. Make my own vegan doughnuts
32. Listen to five new music albums
33. Find five constellations in the night sky
34. Watch the sunrise
35. Extract dyes from plants
36. Complete my graphic novel
37. Make three things with my daughter
38. Make a bird Christmas tree in our yard
39. Play a board game with my family
40. Grow something new
41. Plant bee-friendly herbs
42. Buy an indoor pineapple plant
43. Build a snowman

Goals Recap, 2018 - 2021

I completed 31/43 goals.

I discarded 7/43 goals.

I carried over 5/43 goals.

Update #1. Propose a written text for publication

 One company communicated interest for publication fairly quickly, so many more goals than usual remain unsatisfied in this set, because I've either been busy doing this, or raising a tiny human. It's a good life.

Original goal list posted here

Update #1. Propose a written text for publication

Today I submitted, by mail, to companies that required hard copies:

- Fantagraphics

- Red Deer Press

- Titan Books

This was a lot of work because the printer I've had for at least fifteen years died (though the attached scanner still works perfectly), and I spent way too much time troubleshooting only to figure out that it is, in fact, very old and very dead.

Fortunately, Geoff purchased a mostly (they took the ink and USB cord) new printer/scanner from a garage sale last year. He got it working, I purchased cheap refurbished ink, and we're using my old dead printer's USB cord. I bought some nice three hole folders and plastic display sheets, along with some postage stamps. The printouts ended up looking pretty nice.

This is the last of the submissions for the foreseeable future, until I finish 25 - 50 pages of my graphic novel, as required by some publishers. This is a good thing, as it will compel me to keep on creating.

Original goal list posted here