101 in 1001 with irkstyle: Bees is a useless pet

Monday, 2 March 2009

Bees is a useless pet

#20 Learn 10 poems by heart

Another one learnt - Erebus voices by Bill Manhire. I can't quite crack the voice though. Should they be different? Should I rasp on the first half? still experimenting.

Updated 6/12/2012 : title from Preserve us from The Good Life

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2.01 Catch all the main city buses
COMPLETE 2012/06/08 2.02 See the Old Bank Clock
2.03 See the Treaty of Waitangi
2.04 See the Women's Franchise petition
2.05 Walk along the waterfront sculpture trail
2.06 Eat an icecream at Oriental Bay
2.07 Have high tea somewhere
COMPLETE 2012/04/01 2.08 Drive over the Rimataka Hill
2.09 Visit the Wellington Regionl Parks
2.10 Go to Matiu Soames Island
COMPLETE 2012/03/25 2.11 Create a running repairs kit
2.12 Organise the wrapping paper
2.13 Get the bikes serviced
COMPLETE 2012/07/31 2.14 Join a gym
2.15 Format shift CDs
COMPLETE 2012/02/23 2.16 Go to the marae
2.17 Checkout a weekend market
2.18 Hang one picture
2.19 Update the car survival kit
2.20 Photograph all tickets
COMPLETE 2012/02/12 2.21 Go to a Phoenix game
2.22 Go to a Hurricanes game
2.23 Go to a game at Basin Reserve
COMPLETE 2012/07/27 2.24 Go to a tweetup
2.25 Host a dinner party
2.26 Watch fireworks on the waterfront
2.27 Invite people over for high tea
2.28 Go to a Pulse game
2.29 Bake biscuits for te reo class
2.30 Go to the new bar space at the Embassy
COMPLETE 2012/02/27 2.31 Vist the Auckland Art Gallery
2.32 Drive the Gentle Annie road
2.33 Catch the ferry to Days Bay
2.34 Go to Kuku Beach
2.35 Visit Cambridge Museum
2.36 Visit Hamilton Gardens
2.37 Visit a hot spring
2.38 Go to Kapiti Island
COMPLETE 2012/03/01 2.39 Go to a show in another city
2.40 Visit Maungatautari
2.41 Order business cards
COMPLETE 2012 2.42 Complete a year of te reo classes
2.43 Codecademy
2.44 Cook five classic savoury dishes
2.45 Weave a flax basket
2.46 Memorise five poems
2.47 Juggle four balls or three differently
2.48 Grow something edible
2.49 Fold an origami box
2.50 Make five mocktails
2.51 Walk up Mt Victoria
2.52 Walk Te Ahumairangi Hill Loop
2.53 See the Wind Turbine
COMPLETE 2013 02 17 2.54 Walk around the bays
2.55 Visit the Attaturk Memorial
2.56 Visit the Botanical Gardens
2.57 Walk the Old Shoreline trail
2.58 Hire the waterfront bikes
2.59 Walk to or from work
2.60 Have a massage
COMPLETE 2012 2.61 Buy some yellow things that I can wear
COMPLETE 2012/04/14 2.62 Buy a bookcase
2.63 Buy shoes for summer
2.64 Write a menu for a week and stick to it
2.65 Sell something on Trade Me
2.66 Buy a jar for breakfast cereals
2.67 Buy dinner plates
2.68 Save all $2 for a month
COMPLETE 2012/04/13 2.69 Buy a bedside cabinet
2.70 Buy wine from a vineyard
2.71 Watch the sun rise
COMPLETE 2012/05 2.72 Read five books suggested in 'The Happiness Project'
2.73 Interview the whanau
2.74 Choose a product and track it as far as I can
2.75 Keep a food diary for a month
2.76 Attend a retreat of some sort
2.77 Donate something that isn't money
2.78 Bake with the kids
2.79 Don't talk for a day
2.80 Complete five nagging tasks
2.81 Attend an ANZAC Day memorial service
2.82 Go to the Dowse
2.83 Go to the Carter Observatory
2.84 Go to Museum of Wellington City & Sea
2.85 Go to a cultural festival
COMPLETE 2012/02/12 2.86 Watch the Blessing of the Boats
2.87 Go to an open air film
COMPLETE 2012/03/23 2.88 Sleep on a marae
2.89 Visit Old Government Buildings
2.90 Visit Katherine Mansfield Birthplace
2.91 Watch the Oscar wining films (from years that are multiples of 12)
COMPLETE 2012/08/07 2.92 Read The Tales of the Otori Trilogy
2.93 Have lunch in a foodcourt
2.94 Eat salad for breakfast
COMPLETE 2013 2.95 Take a cake to work
2.96 Buy flowers
2.97 Send postcards to the kids
2.98 Photograph family headstones
2.99 Read 'Alice in Wonderland'
2.100 Pat a strange dog
2.101 Walk one of the Maori Heritage Trails
1. Tramp a Great Walk
2. COMPLETE 26/07/08 Make alphabet cubes
3. Volunteer for Project K
4. COMPLETE 19/03/09 Go to a concert
5. COMPLETE 2/07/07 Call in sick
6. Write a novel
7. Visit all Auckland Regional parks [in progress - 2 to go!]
8. COMPLETE 4/06/07 Make fudge (Plus Russian fudge 17/06/07)
9. COMPLETE/ONGOING Meditate
10. Make yoga/pilates a regular thing
11. COMPLETE 18/12/07 Buy a house
12. Use beads
13. Cycle 'around' New Zealand [551/2097.4]
14. Have a long weekend with the girls
15. Start super payments again
16. Pay off loan
17. Ride a horse
18. Spend a weekend in a fancy spa
19. Read all of Jane A.[3 read - P+P; S+S; E]
20. Learn 10 poems by heart [in progress 4/10]
21. Play music again
22. Do a wine tasting course
23. COMPLETE 23/12/07 Spend a weekend with the sisters
24. COMPLETE 5/03/08 Find a food balance between the 'good' and the 'bad' foods [using the 80/20 rule
25. COMPLETE/ONGOING Live eco-smart - recycling etc
26. Buy a new bed
27. Wear a wig for a day
28. Take a uni course
29. Learn basic Spanish [in progress 02/09]
30. COMPLETE 2/09/07 Have a weekend with the whanau
31. COMPLETE 5/08/07 Go away for a romantic weekend
32. Have a preserving day (for foodstuffs)
33. COMPLETE 2/06/07 Margarita night (mmm, tequila!)
34. COMPLETE 21/02/09 Attend a music at the zoo concert
35. Cook through the Edmonds cookbook [in progress some cakes, biscuits, chicken, salad/lots to go]
36. Spend a night on Tiritiri Matangi Island
37. COMPLETE 29/03/08 See a film at the Matakana theatre
38. COMPLETE 02/06/07 Host a [foreign country] (Mexico) themed meal
39. COMPLETE 01/02/09 '26 things' Flickr challenge
40. Share a meal with friends or family every two months [In progress 12/17] Apr/May; Jun/Jul; Aug/Sep; Oct/Nov; Dec/Jan; Feb/Mar
41. Spend on essentials only for a month
42. COMPLETE 14/06/07 Send a snail mail postcard to nieces
43. COMPLETE 22/08/07 See a performance that doesn't include anyone I know
44. COMPLETE 1/10/07 Go without Alcohol for a month and check results
45. COMPLETE 23/05/08 Go to Te Waka A Maui
46. COMPLETE 1/11/07 Assemble Civil Defence kit
47. COMPLETE 20/10/07 Walk the Auckland isthmus
48. COMPLETE 29/05/08 Visit Waiheke island
49. COMPLETE 22/03/08 Read Montana fiction winners of the last 10 years
50. COMPLETE 4/5/07 Don't wear anything black to work for a week
51. COMPLETE 6/10/07 Visit North Shore literary locations
52. Put an amount of $$ in the pig for celebratory spend up at the end of this [in progress! ]
53. COMPLETE 16/08/08 Make homemade soup
54. Write a book for my niece
55. Make something I can wear and then wear it
56. COMPLETE 1/10/08 Go vegetarian for a month
57. COMPLETE 16/07/07 Have a cheap-as-chips movie day - all movies, all day
58. Go camping at Whangateau
59. COMPLETE 28/10/07 Join a writing club
60. COMPLETE 6/04/2008 Take part in an event for charity
61. COMPLETE 28/03/2009 Drive the Twin Coast Highway
62. Buy something by T.B.
63. COMPLETE 29/04/07 Buy food from the Farmers Market
64. Buy a new fridge
65. Go to a natural hotspring
66. COMPLETE 19/03/09 Attend some festival events - arts, literature, movies etc
67. Figure out carbon footprint and reduce where I can
68. COMPLETE/ONGOING Replace lightblubs with eco-friendly ones
69. COMPLETE 16/10/07 Participate in Bookcrossing.
70. Read the books I own but haven't read [14/07/07 in progress 3/11 or 13, plus 1]
71. COMPLETE 29/07/09 Take a cooking class
72. COMPLETE 10/06/07 Spend a whole day in p.j.s.
73. Have a regular nap on the weekend
74. COMPLETE 22/07/07 Cook risotto from scratch
75. Make and send cards
76. COMPLETE/ONGOING Attend films I want to see - by myself if necessary
77. COMPLETE 4/11/07 Walk around an outdoor sculpture park
78. Go in a floatation tank [5/06/07 found a place in albany that does this. now I just need to book...]
79. COMPLETE 20/07/07 Read "The art of war"
80. COMPLETE 22/09/07 Have a p.j. party
81. Do a local wine tour
82. Learn butterfly stroke
83. Do anti-cranky diet
84. COMPLETE 12/08/07 Walk Mt Auckland
85. Cycle to Bees Online from my place
86. COMPLETE 19/09/07 A-Z reading challenge - authors
87. COMPLETE 15/09/07 A-Z reading challenge - titles
88. COMPLETE 7/06/07 Watch the sunrise from the beach
89. Get income insurance
90. Get an emergency kit for the car
91. Make copies of important documents
92. COMPLETE/ONGOING Comment on blogs if I have something nice to say
93. COMPLETE 6/05/07 Watch 'Dark Angel' on DVD
94. Try Vibra-training
95. COMPLETE 5/10/07 Buy some bonus bonds
96. Do the Round Taranaki cycle (or whatever it's called)
97. COMPLETE 2/01/08 'Run' from home to my home town
98. Change a cycle flat in under 10 mins
99. Go shopping for a day and don't buy anything
100. COMPLETE 25/05/07 Send Power company the key to the house
101. Plant a tree (on) for Arbour day

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