13 for 13

I make no new years resolutions but here is 13 goals I give to myself for the coming year.

2012 I visited Barcelona. What will be the next adventure?

1. Do a big knitting work such as a blanket or a cardigan.
2. Write to this blog regularly. I'll aim to once a week, because I have to get over the idea that the posts need to be big and great.
3. Get my drivers license. I signed up for the course today!
4. Photograph more. I have a lovely new camera and nice older cameras and none of them get to be used as much as they'd deserve.
5. Learn new things in the kitchen and try out a new recipe at least once a month.
6. Get into the habit of doing some kind of exercise at least once a week. 
7. Read 52 books in a year. (A goal I have every year, but it doesn't make it any worse.)
8. Write every day a small note about something good that happened to my "The very best of 2013 every day" jar so I have lot of good memories to remind myself of one year from now. (Inspiration)
9. Loose some weight. I'm overweight and for health reasons would be rather happy not to be.
10. Travel. Somewhere. In Finland or abroad. Or maybe even both.
11. Lear some new type of grafting, quilting for example.
12. Go to see a movie, play, concert or something like that at least once per month.
13. Get my own kitchen herb "garden" on the windowsill.

There. Lets see how I'll do.

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En tee uudenvuoden lupauksia, mutta ohessa on lista 13 tavoitteesta, jotka asetin itselleni tulevaksi vuodeksi. Saas nähdä, miten näiden kanssa menee.

GISHWHES, or, am I out of my mind doing this?

A screenshot from the GISHWHES hope page.

I'm pretty nervous today. I'm pretty nervous and excited because in less than 11 hours will begin something pretty crazy and awesome I was lured into taking apart of. That crazy/awesome thing is called The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt The World Has Ever Seen or GISHWHES for short. Damn you my dear nerdfighter friends who got me so excited that I can't back out anymore. :)

How does GISHWHES work then? People are forming global groups of 15 between friends or strangers. These groups are given a huge list of all kinds of strange items that they'll try to create withing the given timeframe, photograph or film them and submit those photos or videos. (To get an idea what the list is like, see last years list here.) The teams get points based on which items they have created and how creative they've been. In the end, the team that has the best score wins a trip to a haunted castle in Scotland.

So yeah, that's what I'll be doing all my free time for the rest of this week. I'll share with you some of our items after all the mayhem!

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Olen osallistumassa kansainväliseen GISHWHES nimiseen kilpailuun, jossa 15 hengen joukkueet haastettaan tekemään erilaisia erikoisia tehtäviä.