one goal

One of my goals for the new year is to work on decorating the world, starting with my neighborhood. I am making banners with words on them and attaching them to utility poles. No more harmful than an event poster or lost pet flyer! Also they will withstand the elements. So far the red one has been up just a day and the pink one has been up over a week.



I am contributing to a zine my friend, Sarah, is making about goals for 2014. Watch for it in about 400 days from now!

Some of my other goals for MMXIV are...
  1. learn to turn a heel (make socks!)
  2. make a quilt top (full size, for my bed)
  3. figure out how to make a rug that isn't lumpy (then make a few)
  4. re-do my small cookbook
  5. make a new tips and tricks zine each quarter
  6. set up (& keep stocked) an etsy store
  7. try to shine my sink every day 
  8. document goals for goal zine
  9. make a second "I wonder what you're doing..." project & make zine of both projects
  10. make two more zines (moon zine issue one and flying zine)
  11. digitize all master copies of my zines that I have (back up)
  12. figure out how to efficiently make something I currently buy and start (mostly) only making my own* (lotion? bread? crackers? underwear? limitless possibilities...)
*I realize that making socks, rugs and quilts are also learning to make things I use instead of buying them, but these things will ultimately be much much more expensive than the ones I would buy at a store or yard sale (because my time is worth money!!!). BUT you can kind of think of it like the time spent working on said project would be kind of like working extra hours at work to buy a nicer custom made thing. 


advent


so I was really bad with the advent thing this year...

here are the rest of the days with their facts. I gleaned the them from here



DECEMBER 6

1820 - US president James Monroe re-elected
1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the 2nd and final time
1866 - Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1922 - 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
1957 - 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
1969 - 300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones


DECEMBER 7

1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1842 - NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1967 - Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"


DECEMBER 8

1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1966 - US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 - Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1997 - 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win
2010 - With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.


DECEMBER 9

1875 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
1907 - 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1953 - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres
1968 - NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1985 - Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow


DECEMBER 10

1582 - France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1799 - Metric system established in France
1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered


DECEMBER 11

1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1719 - 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
1844 - 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1909 - Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1961 - "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space


DECEMBER 12

1791 - Bank of US opens
1800 - Washington DC established as capital of US
1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1915 - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
1937 - NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1955 - 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by Brit eng Christopher Cockerell


DECEMBER 13

1759 - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1879 - 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
1928 - Clip-on tie designed
1978 - Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
1988 - 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC


DECEMBER 14

1819 - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
1901 - 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
1934 - 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)
1938 - Major leagues agrees on standard ball
1967 - DNA created in a test tube


DECEMBER 15

1791 - 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1792 - 1st life insurance policy issued in US
1854 - 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1939 - 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
1964 - 1st time 4 people in space
1973 - American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness


DECEMBER 16

1835 - Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
1897 - 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
1907 - Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Bkln Navy Yard NY)
1908 - 1st credit union in US forms (Manchester NH)
1970 - 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
1997 - President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"


DECEMBER 17

1791 - NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1862 - Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1875 - Violent bread riots in Montreal
1924 - 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
1947 - NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
1954 - 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)


DECEMBER 18

1777 - 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1796 - 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1839 - 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
1892 - "Nutcracker Suite," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, premieres
1920 - 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
1936 - 1st giant panda imported into US


DECEMBER 19

1795 - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
1910 - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
1928 - 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1991 - 6,000th episode of One Life To Live


DECEMBER 20

69 - General Vespasian's troops occupy Rome after defeating the Emperor Vitellius
1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
1850 - Hawaiian post office established
1977 - 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut


DECEMBER 21

1829 - 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1909 - 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1913 - 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1919 - J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1937 - 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
1968 - Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage


DECEMBER 22

1882 - 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1910 - US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1956 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.
1962 - 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1984 - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1997 - Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5


DECEMBER 23

1867 - 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
1907 - 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
1919 - 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 - Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1947 - Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
1968 - 1st US case of space motion sickness


DECEMBER 24

1893 - Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1948 - 1st US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Mass)
1951 - 1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
1956 - "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
1970 - Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
1997 - 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City


DECEMBER 25

1 - 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
337 - Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
352 - 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
1758 - Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1818 - 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
1963 - Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
1997 - Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show