I'm doing 15 things
this goal seems elusive. It doesn’t sound particularly difficut, but trust me, I’ve struggled and can’t seem to do it. Last night, for instance, I planned to go to bed at 9. Didn’t sleep until 12:30, and then the dogs woke me up at 3:30 for a while and then again at 5:30. I got up for good at 7:15 and rushed off to work, just barely in time. Have been fighting to stay alert all morning.
flying irishman's Life List
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1. read, read, and read some more
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2. keep a food gournal
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3. keep in touch with my family
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4. Post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :)
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5. have a beautiful garden
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6. fix up the house
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7. organize my pictures
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8. 2013, the year I get into shape
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9. Compile a history of my family
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10. have a superfab weekend.. every weekend!
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11. Read a poem every day in 2013
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12. Watch TV on the weekends
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13. recycle
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14. Write for an hour six days a week
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15. Improve Sleep
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How I did it
It made me
introspective 
How I did it: I wrote at night, often after midnight. I don't remember ever starting with a subject. I let my thoughts wander, hoping something interesting would emerge, whether it was a memory or story or just a word or phrase I liked. I spent between 30 minutes to an hour drafting and then I revised the ones I wanted to post. Receiving encouragement on 43T turned out to be a wonderful thing for me. I will miss reading the poems of my fellow napowrimo… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
researching my wife’s family. Her ancestors on her father’s side of the family were tenant farmers and mechanics. They barely scraped by. On her mother’s side there appears to have been quite a bit of wealt at times. But generation after generation, the families tended to be huge, up to 12 kids, so everyone had to go out and make their own way in the world.
We should have new carpet on the stairs and new, more secure front and back doors. Am pretty sure these will get done as scheduled since we’re having the pros do it.
As for our kitchen cabinet refinish, we completed it last weekend, only about two months later than we’d planned. The cabinets look pretty good, and the whole project cost about $1000, instead of the 10k the pros would have charged.
