Big Old To-Do List

Things that I really want to do this year, or next year. Sort of a bucket list but not really. Just to get me all motivated and goal-orientated. Introductory post here. Links open in a separate window so you don't have to Ctrl-click.

Tomatoes are a'growing, crocheting is underway, and books are being read!

1. Find a well paying job over the summer -just call me "two jobs Limpet" (post)
2. Save all pub tips until the new year
3. Open a Help-to-Buy ISA with the max deposit -Completed July 2016
4. Hit £2000 in there (Nov)
5. Hit £3000 (Mar) -Aww yeah, all the savings!
6. Put some money into a two year bond and let it multiply -Completed March 2016
7. Don't buy anything (excluding food/bills) for one month
8. Buy a new phone -Completed July 2016
9. Go back to University (and prepare for it!) -October 2016 (post)
10. Finish dissertation one month before the deadline
11. Average at least a 2:1 for the year
12. Take German language courses
13. Start practicing yoga -August 2016
14. Do the splits (finally!)
15. Learn to headstand -I can, but turns out this takes a lot of practice. Still working on it!
16. Complete a 30 day squat challenge
17. Eat breakfast every day for one month -Finished September 2016
18. Eat lunch every day for one month -August 2017 (I'm bad at eating...)
19. Don't drink tea of coffee for one month
20. Don't hit snooze for one week straight
21. Get my kung fu blue sash -December 2016! I am so happy about this! 
22. Give blood -June 2016 (I'm finally big enough now!)
23. Finish skull cross stitch -Feb 2017 (post)
24. Finish wolfy cross stitch
25. New rude cross stitch
26. New big project cross stitch (like Alice)
27. Make three sizes of crochet Cthulhus -I have about 10 on my rainbow bookshelf!
28. Crochet a whole blanket
29. Embroider a cushion
30. Make a card for every friend's birthday
31. Read lots of books -hard to quantify, but I'm keeping track! (post and reading list)
32. Research all about snakes -Completed May 2016
33. Get a pet snake -Completed June 2016 (4 snakes- July 2016. Oops!) (post, post, and post)
34. Breed lil' baby snakes
35. Make a big resin snake hide
36. Go fossil hunting -September 2016 (post)
37. Go swimming in the sea
38. Go camping
39. Dye some of my hair -it's been purple, it's been blue, it's been green
40. Watch a meteor shower -August 2016 (post)
41. Grow some herbs and keep them alive
42. Grow something edible that isn't herbs -Tomatoes 2016
43. Move out with just my boyfriend -July 2017
44. Learn some origami off by heart
45. Don't wear makeup for one week
46. Learn 5 star constellations -The Plough, Ursa Minor, Orion, Cassiopeia, Perseus
47. Go crabbing
48. Paint an ornament
49. Make bath bombs
50. Play Skyrim to the end
51. Play Fallout 4 to the end -Ending one Nov 2016
52. Watch 26 films of the alphabet
53. Draw 25 things
54. Watercolour 5 things -September 2017 (post)
55. Finish a Code-academy course
56. Put up photos of friends and family
57. Sell car
58. Make cereal bars
59. Go to an airshow
60. Go to an aquarium -Bournemouth Aquarium, October 2016
61. Go to a zoo -Marwell Zoo, March 2016
62. Find a pen friend and write regular letters
63. Bind a book -September 2016 (post)
64. Make my own cross stitch pattern -Skull
65. Play Alien: Isolation to the end (part of my goal to stop being a scaredy cat)
66. Get my ears pierced -November 2016 (post)
67. Get a tattoo -December 2018

Painting, snaking, and cushioning.