 I'm doing 34 things |
| 1. |
Live in gratitude & be happy even if the rest of the things on this list never happen
144 entries . 310 cheers |
70 people |
| 2. |
Meditate daily
25 team members . 32 entries . 202 cheers |
3,981 people |
| 3. |
be a better lover
6 entries . 11 cheers |
176 people |
| 4. |
have a healthy pregnancy
10 entries . 13 cheers |
33 people |
| 5. |
have a healthy baby
8 cheers |
187 people |
| 6. |
Educate, enlighten, inspire and empower others (and myself) about sexuality and gender
20 entries . 139 cheers |
1 person |
| 7. |
Practice healthy consensual nonmonogamy
5 entries . 30 cheers |
10 people |
| 8. |
have a simple yet memorable wedding
2 team members . 2 entries . 14 cheers |
5 people |
| 9. |
Build a strong and healthy marriage
2 team members . 20 cheers |
2 people |
| 10. |
Create a nurturing love nest with my partner
2 team members . 27 entries . 127 cheers |
4 people |
| 11. |
Approach financial planning as a team with my partner
2 team members . 32 entries . 27 cheers |
3 people |
| 12. |
Pay off my credit card debt
14 entries . 95 cheers |
629 people |
| 13. |
Make a $500 donation to charity
6 entries . 34 cheers |
2 people |
| 14. |
Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
8 entries . 20 cheers |
72 people |
| 15. |
Find a spiritual home
2 entries . 33 cheers |
6 people |
| 16. |
Give 43 compliments to men
2 team members . 23 entries . 132 cheers |
5 people |
| 17. |
give myself monthly breast exams
3 team members . 16 cheers |
6 people |
| 18. |
Be mind-numbingly hot at 40
2 entries . 38 cheers |
3 people |
| 19. |
get boudoir photos taken
2 entries . 16 cheers |
6 people |
| 20. |
Take dance lessons with my partner
2 team members . 1 entry . 23 cheers |
6 people |
| 21. |
sew my own clothes
9 entries . 8 cheers |
409 people |
| 22. |
Live outside the US for at least a year
19 cheers |
7 people |
| 23. |
Make my cat happy
8 entries . 11 cheers |
1 person |
| 24. |
Make a workout mix for CrookedLetter
4 entries . 3 cheers |
1 person |
| 25. |
Find a better breakfast routine
1 entry . 6 cheers |
1 person |
| 26. |
Find a better sleep & waking up routine
1 entry . 5 cheers |
1 person |
| 27. |
Reawaken my dream life
3 entries . 7 cheers |
8 people |
| 28. |
Open my heart, wider and more often
1 entry . 4 cheers |
1 person |
| 29. |
Organize and lead a camping trip in spring 2010
5 cheers |
1 person |
| 30. |
Build an art shanty
2 entries . 4 cheers |
1 person |
| 31. |
update my will
2 entries . 2 cheers |
25 people |
| 32. |
Come up with a backup plan in case I get laid off
3 entries . 1 cheer |
1 person |
| 33. |
Meditate every day for 43 days
3 cheers |
2 people |
| 34. |
List things I refrained from buying
1 entry . 2 cheers |
1 person |
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…
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…
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…
And my first ultrasound is in 4 days! I can’t wait to get a look at what’s going on in there. Plus I’m getting the H1N1 vaccine too, while I’m there.
I went off my prenatal vitamins on the advice of my nurse, and am now taking a children’s chewable multivitamin instead, plus folic acid separately. Those vitamins were just too much for me: They made me feel nauseated and constipated and crabby. I’m feeling much better now!
Yay! Hopefully this will be fun. And it will be cool to have something to look back at and reminisce about how hot I was before my belly started to get huge!
And not expecting it to be “all about me.”
This is a big change we’re adjusting to, a big change I am a bit more excited about than he is. One of his fears is that he’s somehow expendable in this process, that his part in it is done and now it will just be all the women (and eventually the baby) in the red tent and he’ll be shut out. We need to nip that fear in the bud: both by keeping him in the emotional intimacy loop, and also by keeping him involved in the babymaking process all along, leaning on him, and helping him to see that I couldn’t do this without him!
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rockstarlady wants to learn to speak french
learn hacking
make the dance team
get in shape
increase my knowledge of arcane vulgar vocabulary in 2007
Work in Fashion
donate to locks of love
Own a muscle car
write a play
be a fashion designer
Start my own business
Have a three-way (MMF)
work at Abercrombie
make my own wedding dress
Be kissed in the rain
have two kids
read 1 book every 2 weeks
Flash wants to pay off my credit card debt
visit my friends
to learn French
autumnkiss wants to Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
Create My Own 3D Game(s)
exercise regularly
become president
stop eating fast food
