acutewit in Brooklyn is doing 40 things including…

document my life better

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MAN!

I have been documenting my life lately but not here. I miss it. I owe my LIFE! to 43things.com. The support I have gained here has been incomparable to anything in my history. It put me in the place I needed to be. I need to revisit more often to give support to all the others in the early stages of getting where I’m at now. Thank you 43things.com. I am no longer an alcoholic, I have lost more than 40 pounds, I have learned to set goals and follow them through! I am LIVING and all I needed the whole time was a little support. Thanks to ‘make new friends’ I have my own support network these days and HONESTLY I couldn’t have pulled myself out of the darkness I was in if not for help.

xoxo,
Heather Rae Hatton



So I'm documenting it pretty decently but...

...I have to figure out some kind of system to organize the documentation so I feel more in control of things.



Really being good lately!

I haven’t left my house w/o my cam and notebook. Feel like I will actually be able to remember these days in the distant future when I look back. Go me!



Revisiting the past for encouragement!

Being reunited with my old stuff has also put all of my childhood and teenage journals into my hands! I used to write EVERY day. I hope that reading some of this stuff will encourage me to start again.



Weird dream last night.

I can’t remember the last time he crossed my mind but last night Stirling was in my dream. He’s an ex-bf from when I was 15. I was visiting PA and I went to church w/my grandmother. He happened to attend her church. I saw him in the parking lot and at first he tried avoiding me. He wouldn’t talk to me until I convinced him that I was over him and had a boyfriend of 2yrs who I was living with. We had a very strange interaction over a dinnertable during which you orally gave me a written survey concerning my life. One question was regarding my boyfriend, whether or not I planned on being with him forever and none of the answers seemed appropriate so I chose other. Then he seemed more interested in me and moved closer but there was a flood and we all had to escape on wooden boats. I also had a little dog in the dream and there was a ton of great food at the dinner. I sent him a message telling him that I dreamt about him and he responded with the following,

“I had a dream that I came home and there where these huge rats everywhere. My wife hates rats, so I had to try and get them to go back in to the walls so she wouldn’t see them. I was chasing them around with a pillow yelling at the top of my lungs, but I lost my voice so I sounded just like a donkey.

I think the rats had human faces. But none of them where you. Thats probably a good thing though.

Thanks for thinking of me?

Cheers,
-stirling”

I haven’t talked to him in years or thought of him either so this little interaction is a little strange and uncommon. Just wanted to jot it down.



I feel I have accomplished this goal...

But I am going to leave it on my list for awhile yet… At least until I am ready to check the ‘update my 43things list daily’ off my list which will be after I’ve been consistent for 28 days.



The 'positive things I did today' list has been sitting blank.

Not because I haven’t done positive things, but for some reason I just haven’t been doing it since I originally started. This is something I would like to work up to making habit. Maybe I’ll make it a goal when I clear one off the list. I am however documenting my life better. I have been coming here to 43things every day since I joined and it has definitely been a good outlet for documentation.



I need a smaller notebook.

I like my ‘Positive things I did today’ list but I find that if I don’t write things down consistently through the day I can’t come up with as much stuff for the list. If I had a smaller notebook it would be more accessible to keep tabs on.



New list!

It’s entitled ‘Positive things I did today’ and I envision this being the best documentation possible. I don’t want to focus on or remember the negative, right?



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