I'm doing 20 things
It’s sobering to read my first post in this thread from a few years ago, which says I hope to complete this goal within the lifetime of my grandfather. Well, my grandfather, god rest him, passed away this January, and I never talked to him about my intention, nor made any real steps toward it. I’m sad about this since I’ve been away from the site and from a real sense of what my goals are for quite a while now, and I didn’t remember that that was part of the original expression of my goal either. Even though I’m older now and I have a more developed sense of the real danger (physical and legal) in achieving this goal, I can’t delete it right now until I have a chance to re-assess early in the new year, when hopefully we have a long-term home again. At the same time, the idea of doing this means more to me now, since I feel the connection to him and to my heritage in Saskatchewan in the Depression through it. Til later this goal.
Killashandra's Life List
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1. Find an apartment where we can be truly happy for a few years!
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2. Settle on business name(s) and register the domain names
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3. Complete my "cookbook" of 7 healthy meals each for breakfast, lunch and dinner
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4. Start exercising again and sort out all the issues!
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5. Set up a schedule for phoning my Grandmother while I am living in Europe
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6. Figure out how to make breaded shrimp and lime mayonnaise without the mayo being grooooss
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7. Find well-paying freelance translation jobs or agencies
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8. Prove that I can make a go of it working from home doing art and translation
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9. Improve communication and romance in my relationship
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10. Brainstorm cheap but meaningful gifts for my large family....eeker
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11. Replace my bleeping computer
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12. Refresh my HTML
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13. Become fluent in Photoshop, hopefully CS4 !
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14. Design and create a website for my future small business
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15. Make the Aboriginal Law Clinic an actually decent website for free
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16. Set up a shop on Etsy
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17. Get deeply involved in sign language again (BSL), and hopefully reconnect with ASL again somehow
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18. Find out about, participate in, and failing that organize as many local Flash Mobs as possible
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19. Set up a website with ESL resources and see whether there's interest
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20. Learn five of Keats and Blake's most personally-relevant poems by heart
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How I did it: Practice, and being in different situations--in one place I lived, lateness was so common and unavoidable because of transportation lousiness that I just became less concerned about it, after my initial few weeks of beating myself up over it. Then later, I was in a situation where I actually didn't need to be anywhere on time (working from home)--meaning I lost the maelstrom of bad feelings associated with knowing I was probably goi… Read how I did it…
...and needs to sharpened up if I want to have steps to follow to make any progress. Onto the back burner until things stabilize after the move to the UK. Then I’ll reformulate later on.
Still the partner issue, jeez, but I’m getting more jerkish and defensive of my liberties now, after the last few years. Onto the back burner with this goal till we get some stability after the move to the UK, a house to invite people to, and until I get some friends to invite!
meanwhile I’ve seriously improved in the cooking department, guess that’s a bonus that will help later.
