I'm doing 33 things
I do this now and then, mostly when I’m too tired to do anything else, and I want to do a little time-traveling, get in touch with the ancestors.
Catherine's Life List
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1. create a computer game
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2. Do archery.
1 entry . 23 cheers6 people -
3. Organize and digitize photos.
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4. Relaunch or sell TGW.
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5. Organize and update my genealogy reasearch.
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6. Work on my photo diptychs.
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7. Grow a vegetable garden
1 entry . 12 cheers404 people -
8. Stop dating
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9. Paint some heraldic pictures.
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10. Exhibit my photography
2 entries . 13 cheers79 people -
11. Publish a book on kindle this year
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12. Buy a House
1 cheer13,863 people -
13. Have a mad tea party.
1 entry . 27 cheers15 people -
14. Design and paint some furniture.
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15. paint portraits
1 entry . 9 cheers9 people -
16. Get an electric cello.
1 entry . 8 cheers3 people -
17. Do lithography.
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18. Sculpt.
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19. Take golf lessons with my mom.
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20. Run my house on solar power
2 entries . 15 cheers92 people -
21. Send a doodle board around the world and have people doodle on it, take a picture of themselves with it, and send it on, and post the photos on 43things.
1 entry . 2 cheers1 person -
22. Attend a Japanese tea ceremony.
12 cheers6 people -
23. make handmade paper
1 cheer58 people -
24. See the Northern Lights.
1 entry . 7 cheers18,961 people -
25. Learn to fence.
10 cheers519 people -
26. Write an opera libretto.
1 entry . 5 cheers1 person -
27. See The Ring cycle at Bayreuth.
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28. Go to all three races of the Triple Crown.
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29. Ride on the Orient Express
1 cheer45 people -
30. Go on an archaeology dig.
1 entry . 7 cheers18 people -
31. Donate $1,000,000 to Save the Children.
2 entries . 9 cheers1 person -
32. See the Seven Wonders of ancient, medieval and modern worlds.
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33. Go to all the places in my 43 places.
4 cheers1 person
How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: First, I cleared everything out of the garage. I rented a PODS unit and just left it in the driveway to keep the stuff in temporarily. Then I hired a contractor to put drywall on the walls. Then I painted the drywall with Super White, and did the window sills with a vermillion color. Next came the longest process: cleaning and painting the concrete. I actually had the contractor do the first, hardest level of cleaning with a special concr… Read how I did it…
It made me
Amazed and happy.
How I did it: All I had to go on was my father's memory of his father's full name and that he came from Philadelphia. The rest I tracked down from antique street directories, federal censuses, genealogy resources, and finally, a genealogist who specialized in Philadelphia.Then I used Ancestry.com to find the English side of the family, but I couldn't have found them without the previous work on this side of the Pond. Read how I did it…
It made me
How I did it: I had dreamed up the idea of a cat-cam a couple of years ago but couldn't get anyone technical to help me realize my dream of building one. A few months ago, I searched for something like it online and found Mr. Lee's Catcam, so I bought it. I finally figured out how to use it, bought a memory chip for it, waited for a dry day, and put it on my cat's collar. When Nicky got back home from his travels, I took the camera off him, plugged it … Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
I finished the perestroika today. The room looks so darned tidy! I put the CDs in categories like: opera, symphonies, sonatas, concertos, etc., and alphabetized each section, mainly by composer or soloist. I think I’ll be able to find whatever I’m looking for now quickly—let’s see how long this order lasts!
As is the case with these organizational things, I had to do several pre organizing things that ended up taking most of the day. I took all the CDs off the shelves, put all the CDs that had no homes back into their proper homes, then I cleared and put away about 50+ books that had started to pile up and stack themselves in front of one of the bookshelves.
Now all the books have homes, and all the CDs too, but the CDs aren’t in order. I’ll do that manana. Now, some drugs for my back!
