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Flash




I'm doing 31 things
  

Flash's Life List

  2. 1. Live in gratitude & be happy even if the rest of the things on this list never happen
    162 entries . 312 cheers     		60 people
  3. 2. Meditate every day for 43 days
    9 entries . 26 cheers     		2 people
  4. 3. Think of all the things I would do if I won the lottery, and then look for ways to work towards them now, even without a multimillion dollar bank account
    8 entries . 50 cheers     		12 people
  5. 4. Meditate daily
    23 team members . 32 entries . 205 cheers     		4,556 people
  6. 5. practice intuitive eating
    13 entries . 37 cheers     		6 people
  7. 6. be a better lover
    6 entries . 19 cheers     		177 people
  8. 7. Educate, enlighten, inspire and empower others (and myself) about sexuality and gender
    20 entries . 125 cheers     		1 person
  9. 8. Practice healthy consensual nonmonogamy
    6 entries . 35 cheers     		10 people
  10. 9. Arrange a sexy adventure as a gift for my partner
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		1 person
  11. 10. have a simple yet memorable wedding
    2 team members . 3 entries . 32 cheers     		5 people
  12. 11. Build a strong and healthy marriage
    2 team members . 33 cheers     		2 people
  13. 12. Create a nurturing love nest with my partner
    2 team members . 27 entries . 118 cheers     		3 people
  14. 13. Find a spiritual home
    2 entries . 34 cheers     		6 people
  15. 14. Approach financial planning as a team with my partner
    2 team members . 32 entries . 30 cheers     		2 people
  16. 15. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
    10 entries . 26 cheers     		55 people
  17. 16. Give 43 compliments to men
    2 team members . 23 entries . 124 cheers     		5 people
  18. 17. give myself monthly breast exams
    2 team members . 15 cheers     		4 people
  19. 18. Be mind-numbingly hot at 40
    6 entries . 40 cheers     		8 people
  20. 19. Get a tattoo
    6 entries . 5 cheers     		22,047 people
  21. 20. Take dance lessons with my partner
    2 team members . 1 entry . 21 cheers     		7 people
  22. 21. Live outside the US for at least a year
    24 cheers     		9 people
  23. 22. Make a workout mix for CrookedLetter
    5 entries . 2 cheers     		1 person
  24. 23. Reawaken my dream life
    5 entries . 11 cheers     		13 people
  25. 24. update my will
    2 entries . 6 cheers     		27 people
  26. 25. Come up with a backup plan in case I get laid off
    3 entries . 5 cheers     		1 person
  27. 26. Explore/understand/enjoy my sexual kinks
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		1 person
  28. 27. Get my groove back
    6 cheers     		29 people
  29. 28. work less
    1 cheer     		302 people
  30. 29. Get through holiday candy season
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  31. 30. teach my baby sign language
    4 cheers     		85 people
  32. 31. be a great mom
    4 cheers     		512 people

How I did it
How to get pregnant
It took me
4 months
It made me
thrilled & terrified

How I did it: I consider myself fortunate, at 38, to have gotten pregnant this easily. When we weren't pregnant after 3 months of trying, we set up a few tests with our doctor to find out if anything specific was preventing pregnancy. (Turns out I was already pregnant at that visit.) In fact, I had an ultrasound test scheduled for yesterday, the day I discovered I was pregnant, just to make sure everything was all right down there. Needless to say, I c… Read how I did it…

Jun 12, 2009, 03:38AM PDT | 2 comments | 11 cheers


How to make a duct tape dress form
It took me
1 day
It made me
a better seamstress

How I did it: I covered my friend, dressed only in her underwear and a plastic garbage bag, in water-activated packing tape. The tape was really easy to work with and dried really fast. I tried to tape carefully to match the contours of her body, as if I were doing paper mache.Less than three hours after we started, I cut up the back of the tape and pulled it off her. We resealed it with tape and put on another layer for good measure, and the worst was… Read how I did it…

Apr 18, 2009, 01:05PM PDT | 0 comments | 8 cheers


How to finish my bachelors degree
It took me
10 years
It made me

How I did it: I felt a lot of pressure from my parents (who were paying the tuition) to finish school in a timely manner, so I just picked a major that seemed like it would be done as quickly as possible. I walked across the stage in my robe at graduation, but I never finished my senior project. I got a job and worked for three years, torturing myself about that project. Then when I discovered that my employer had tuition reimbursement for all employee… Read how I did it…

Sep 16, 2008, 05:32AM PDT | 1 comment | 20 cheers


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Recent entries
Have a waterbirth (read all 2 entries…)
Wow, it looks like I never wrote about this

And never posted any pictures of my precious one, as far as I can tell.

The waterbirth was lovely and amazing. I only labored for about 6 hours, and I gave birth to a perfect healthy 9.5 lb. baby boy without as much as saying “ow” until the last 5 minutes or so. My partner was there in the pool with me to catch the baby (who didn’t cry at all, he just calmly went to sleep).

The more I hear other women’s hospital birth stories, the more grateful I am to our intuition for guiding us in this direction and to our wonderful midwives for making our birth experience so peaceful and calm and beautiful.

Dec 04, 2010, 06:33PM PST | 11 cheers | 1 comment


Get through holiday candy season
... which starts now and lasts through Easter

Yikes! I am not kidding when I say I feel a sense of impending dread about all the candy coming my way and either a) how much effort it will take not to eat too much of it, or b) how my body I will feel if I decide not to expend the effort to resist, and go ahead and eat whatever I feel like eating.

I am bracing myself now.

Oct 18, 2010, 12:06PM PDT | 5 cheers | 0 comments


get tested for celiac disease (read all 2 entries…)
The test they did isn't 100% reliable

But results indicate that it’s unlikely that I have Celiac Disease. Yay! Bring on the gluten!

Oct 08, 2010, 10:08AM PDT | 0 comments


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