I'm doing 38 things
Did It!
2 years ago
Went, got checked out, got new glasses and new contacts, and I am good to go for the next couple of years. Now for the dentist…
2JennLee's Life List
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1. finish Drew's baby scrapbook
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2. eat healthier
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3. reduce my environmental footprint
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4. live in Senegal
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5. visit Amman, Jordan
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6. go to the dentist
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7. improve my relationship with my mother
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8. adopt a redheaded baby girl
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9. take some editing courses to prepare for a career
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10. show my husband how much I love him
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11. grow my own vegetables
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12. write the story of my family's faith heritage
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13. learn to play the castanets
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14. get out of debt
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15. stop drinking Coke
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16. quit spending so much time on the Internet
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17. clean up the computer room
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18. get a massage
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19. go to the Alhambra
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20. get into a daily pattern of prayer
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21. read Moby Dick
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22. burn a CD of hymns my family has loved
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23. archive my Texas Monthly magazines
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24. buy a string of really good pearls
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25. spend a weekend on a silent retreat
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26. learn to play the piano... or the fiddle
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27. write a book
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28. buy some land in rural Texas
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29. teach my kids about God
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30. keep the house clean
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31. get rid of all our junk
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32. stop biting my fingernails
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33. walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
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34. type up Beri's journal
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35. promote unity of spirit at church
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36. spend more time outside
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37. be more patient
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38. praise more, criticize less
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Recent entries
Only summer issues left!
2 years ago
I finished archiving before we left for vacation… and then summer issues came, which I have now read but need to archive. Still, this is major progress. Only 3 months’ worth of issues to cut up. Piece of cake.
Going, going, almost gone
2 years ago
Bit by bit I am getting rid of all our junk. The worst part for me is that I get so bogged down when I start sorting. The FlyLady is helping with this, too. She says set a timer for 15 minutes, or 30 if you are feeling really motivated. Pick up one thing at a time in a chosen area and sort things into 3 boxes: Put Away, Give Away, Throw Away. When the timer goes off, stop. Take the Throw Away items to the garbage can immediately. Take the Give Away box to the car immediately so you can drop it off somewhere next time you are out. And then run around the house putting all the Put Away items where they belong. Slowly, as we sort through things and as we are keeping the house neater, I am losing my near-panicky feeling of the stuff in our house “swallowing” me.
