BQOCS




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BQOCS's Life List

  1. 1. Plan mini sabbatical
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    1 person
  2. 2. Plant holly bushes
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    1 person
  3. 3. Plant shrubs for birds
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    1 person
  4. 4. make bird list
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    1 person
  5. 5. find time for poetry
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    1 person
  6. 6. Read Howard Nemerov's book of poetry
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    1 person
  7. 7. write nonfiction book
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    1 person
  8. 8. start making a list of music that I hear that I really love
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    1 person
  9. 9. Reconnect with cousins
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    2 people
  10. 10. keep track of poems I like
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    1 person
  11. 11. Find true love at age 57
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    1 person
  12. 12. make collages
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    84 people
  13. 13. make wiser food choices
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    2 people
  14. 14. reseed lawn
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  15. 15. Lose 20 pounds
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  16. 16. finish rereading Robert Fitzgerald translation of the Odyssey that I started in North Chatham this summer
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  17. 17. Lose 25 pounds
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  18. 18. Buy sexy lingerie
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    7 people
  19. 19. lower cholesterol
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    17 people
  20. 20. Simplify and reorganize kitchen
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    1 person
  21. 21. Lose 30 pounds
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  22. 22. organize my house
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    515 people
  23. 23. take some used books to book exchange to make room for more books
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    1 person
  24. 24. Lose 35 pounds
    437 people
  25. 25. Lose 40 pounds
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  26. 26. Place a personal ad when I have lost 40 pounds
    1 person
  27. 27. do flylady
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    9 people
  28. 28. lose 45 pounds
    335 people
  29. 29. Lose 50 pounds
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  30. 30. keep track
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    1 person
  31. 31. remember I like to design things
    1 person
  32. 32. Stop dating theologians.
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    1 person
  33. 33. Get one half hour exercise every day Feb 11 to 29
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    1 person
  34. 34. spend less time on computer and more time living
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    1 person
  35. 35. focus and spend part of every day working on goals
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    1 person
  36. 36. get stronger
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    213 people
  37. 37. reach out to elderly and shutins
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    1 person
  38. 38. organize photos from my mom's surprise 80th birthday
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    1 person
  39. 39. Have more goals that don't involve losing weight, at same time congratulating myself for success so far.
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    1 person
Recent entries
make bird list (read all 14 entries…)
two new this morning 18 months ago

new: red winged blackbird
new: rose breasted grosbeak
red bellied woodpecker (male) didn’t stay long at feeder
starling
grackle
cardinal (male)
cardinal (female)
downy woodpecker (male)
downy woodpecker (female)
chickadee
crows
sparrow

blue jay
robins (mostly female on crabapple tree, pretty picture in the snow in upstate NY)
pigeon
sea gull
junco
mourning doves
wild turkeys
tufted titmouse

small hawk (seen harrowing a sparrow in low bushes)
plus unidentified Italian bird (maybe kite)



make bird list (read all 14 entries…)
First big snow brought more visitors 20 months ago

new: red bellied woodpecker (male) didn’t stay long at feeder
new:starling
new:crackle
cardinal (male)
cardinal (female)
downy woodpecker (male)
downy woodpecker (female)
chickadee
crows
sparrow

blue jay
robins (mostly female on crabapple tree, pretty picture in the snow in upstate NY)
pigeon
sea gull
junco
mourning doves
wild turkeys
tufted titmouse

small hawk (seen harrowing a sparrow in low bushes)
plus unidentified Italian bird (maybe kite)
red winged blackbird



Simplify and reorganize kitchen (read all 2 entries…)
Working on it 21 months ago

Cleared off a 1950s serving cart. Put away most of collectibles and put commonly used pots and pans on cart next to stove. more logical.



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