I'm doing 41 things
9 miles
2 weeks ago
Sunday, Wednesday and Friday mornings this week, 3 miles each time, each run beginning around 5:50am. Plus, I did a 30-minute walk on Thursday morning, so that’s a bonus.
GQkudzu's Life List
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1. re-learn Spanish
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2. reach my ideal weight
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3. finish my novel
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4. get my Master's degree
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5. get an MFA in Creative Writing
3 entries . 38 cheers69 people -
6. run a 5k
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7. brew my own beer
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8. keep chickens
2 entries . 38 cheers62 people -
9. raise my own queen bee
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10. start a Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign
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11. raise cattle
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12. stay at LeConte Lodge
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13. own peacocks
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14. do 50 pushups a day
6 entries . 11 cheers4 people -
15. have a 3 month emergency fund
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16. attend the Sewanee Summer Music Festival
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17. spend a vacation in Chattanooga
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18. learn the constellations
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19. sell vegetables
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20. have a total of 12 beehives
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21. serve as an officer of an organization
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22. start a herbarium
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23. get rid of my inferiority complex
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24. Start a Roth IRA
1 entry . 12 cheers98 people -
25. carve out a little spot on the Web for random observation, the channeling of negative energy and miscellania
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26. do a retreat at Gethsemani Abbey
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27. own an orchid
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28. become intimate with Big South Fork
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29. 43 random things about me
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30. document my Appalachian experience in photographs
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31. finish this reading list
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32. build a picnic table
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33. be the Bono of my little world.
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34. ride a bike around Cades Cove.
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35. subscribe to a blog or two that I like -- read it regularly -- become a fan.
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36. hike a total of 120 miles in 2009.
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37. submit 100 short fiction manuscripts or get 3 published in print journals, whichever comes first.
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38. make dandelion wine.
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39. spend money at that little country store where my grandmother used to shop.
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40. start a conversation with a stranger.
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41. build raised beds.
1 entry4 people
Recent entries
No self esteem better than low?
2 weeks ago
I ran across a book at the library entitled, THE MYTH OF SELF-ESTEEM. The point of the book: if we applaud ourselves for our successes, then we’re naturally going to beat ourselves up for our failures.
Smoking honies
2 weeks ago
Alright, here’s a confession: in spite of all the bad stuff about cigarettes…in spite of the fact that we’ve all progressed beyond the Camel and Marlboro ads…in spite of how we now live in a culture in which fitness is chic…I have to acknowledge that, to me, a woman smoking a cigarette can be kind of hot. Granted, it has to be the right woman in the right situation, but still.
