I'm doing 41 things
So last week some time, my son strats drawing on himself (not a rare occurrence). After working at it for a few minutes, he shows me his handiwork: McDonald’s-style M’s, on the backs of his hands and on his legs. And each one: crossed out. I asked him what he had drawn and what it meant. “Those are for McDonald’s and I hate McDonald’s.”
FootFace's Life List
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1. shield my son from commercialism
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2. continue to encourage the separation of church and state
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3. become a published writer
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4. ride the Alaska ferry from Bellingham
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5. take an extended train trip
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6. see the northern lights
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7. learn to kayak
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8. start having soup night
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9. Go to sleep earlier.
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10. declutter my house
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11. learn how to drive stick-shift
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12. see a cure for insulin-dependent diabetes
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13. get in better shape
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14. visit Finland
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15. know everything about something obscure
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16. have Strong Bad answer my email
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17. adopt a dog
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18. find a pen pal
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19. go camping
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20. Keep my HbA1C below 7.0 ALL the time
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21. have a tree house
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22. Stick it to The Man
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23. visit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (in Utah)
1 entry . 11 cheers8 people -
24. have my ring re-sized
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25. Destroy the capitalist beast that resides within me
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26. outsmart the raccoons
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27. practice discardia
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28. master the art of manifestation (quit talking and DO)
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29. try orienteering
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30. Raise my son to be a good man
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31. See a moose in the wild.
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32. stop using the refrigerator as a temporary cupboard before I throw food away
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33. read more poetry
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34. find vegan friends for my son
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35. make some new friends
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36. finish writing my novel
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37. wear a black armband in mourning for my country
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38. be listed on Wikipedia's "People from Seattle" page
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39. get my finger fixed
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40. stop reading all the comments on blogs about issues important to me and then getting mad and feeling like I just HAVE TO respond so they all see how stupid they are!
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41. find parents of kindergartners assigned to Kimball (Seattle) for the 2007-8 year
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Recent entries
We had our basement redone recently, by a company I will not name. (They employ a certain pinkish panther as their advertising, um… thing.) Okay.
So.
As part of the remodel deal, we agreed to let them show people the job they did on the basement. That went fine. No one came into our actual house, just the basement.
But a couple days later I found some (company)-branded, pinkish panther coloring books down there.
I don’t want those things in my house. They are now in the recycling pile and I have done my part for world sanity.
No, really. I have.
Read this, about the possibility of more product placement in commercial television.
The solution is simple: continue with the no-commericial-television policy for my boy.
