Days mean more: 2010

December 20

Posted in 20x20 project, fruit on 11:47 PM by Maree

Mango, December 20

Mango! I'm counting this for 20x20: "Try 20 new foods". It's slightly cheating, because I've had mango-flavoured things - yoghurt, etc. But I've never eaten fresh mango. It kind of tasted like watery orange, plus I couldn't cut right through it - I have no idea what I did wrong there - lol.

December 13

Posted in pretty picture on 1:52 AM by Maree

Sunset December 13 :-)

November 30

Posted in pretty picture, sunset on 2:42 AM by Maree

Taken with the sunset filter on my camera. It was actually still light. :-)

November 29

Posted in pretty picture on 11:58 PM by Maree

Cloud formation, November 29

November 28

Posted in patrick, piper on 3:04 AM by Maree

Piper on Patrick's bed, November 28

Cats always know the best places to catch a nap.

November catch-up

Posted in 20x20 project, catch-up, landscape, patrick, tuatara on 12:24 AM by Maree

Trees at sunset, November 20

Tuatara babies with Patrick's reflection, November 21

This one counts as a 20x20 tick: "take 20 photos of 20 different things", so that's one down!

Bubbles in the sky, November 24

20X20 Project

Posted in 20x20 project on 9:08 PM by Maree

The lovely Chris from http://www.dreamstuffbooks.com/blog/ is working on a 50X50 project that you can see on his tumblr: http://chrisa511.tumblr.com/post/1095611155/50x50-list and I decided to co-opt the idea for myself, but scale it down slightly.

I'm putting it up here because I don't want to clutter http://justaddbooks.blogspot.com/ with it, and I don't want to start a tumblr - I barely have time to maintain the blogs that I DO have, so this one has been pressed into service for my own little 20X20 project - 20 things of 20 each that I'd like to do. There's no deadline on it, so I'm probably just going to poke at it when I remember. ~~or abandon it totally when I get bored and move on to something else~~

Anyway, here's my list, which took me way too long to compile, and is heavy on book-related things:

Go to 20 live shows

Find 20 children's classic books to read to/with Patrick

Buy 20 singles by artists I've never heard of

Read 20 novels by Kiwi authors
I've been doing this one by accident, because of my Kiwi YA challenge, and NZ Book month.
So far this year I've read
- Dreamhunter and Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
- The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
- Genesis by Bernard Beckett
- August by Bernard Beckett
- The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
- The 10pm Question by Kate deGoldi
- The Sea-wreck Stranger by Anna Mckenzie
Read 20 novels by authors I've never heard of

Watch 20 classic films, broken down by genre (eg: 5 horror classics, 5 fantasy classics, 5 film noir classics, 5 comedy classics)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (classic horror)

Buy 20 new pieces of clothing

Donate to 20 charities
Cryptic but for it to count I don't want to go into details. So far this year, two charitable donations made

20 Pay it forwards

Try 20 new foods
1. Mangos: http://daysmeanmore.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-20.html
2. Raspberries: http://daysmeanmore.blogspot.com/2011/01/january-15.html
3. Skittles: http://daysmeanmore.blogspot.com/2011/04/catch-up-post.html

Try 20 new recipes
Cream of carrot soup: http://daysmeanmore.blogspot.com/2011/05/starting-over-post-may-15.html
Crisp-skin soy chicken with spiced salt: http://daysmeanmore.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-22.html

Finish 20 cross stitch projects
Two bookmarks: http://daysmeanmore.blogspot.com/2011/02/catch-up-post.html

Take 20 photos of 20 different things
1: http://daysmeanmore.blogspot.com/2010/11/november-catch-up.html

Take 20 walks in 20 different locations

Read 20 books from my TBR bookcase (that I haven't read before)
Watch 20 seasons of TV on DVD (Blatantly stolen from Chris)

Visit 20 beaches

Go to 20 exhibitions

Make a list of 20 things I've thought "I'd love to know more about that"