I'm doing 41 things
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10 hours ago
July 26! I’m directing the prologue to our new film. And I’m co-directing the rest of it. Should be fun (and crazy).
LittleButton's Life List
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1. Make 2009 the Best Year of Our Lives
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2. Show my husband every day how much I truly love him
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3. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
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4. have nothing in my house that I do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful
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5. Switch to re-usable grocery bags
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6. Eat better
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7. tone my body
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8. pay off my debts
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9. Own our own home
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10. Have a baby
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11. Do Pilates every day
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12. cook my way through the Donna Hay cookbooks
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13. Learn to cook Indian food
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14. read all of Stephen King's books
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15. Travel
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16. have sex on the beach
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17. Kiss under a waterfall
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18. get a tattoo
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19. go skydiving
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20. take voice lessons
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21. learn the harp
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22. start dancing again
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23. pole dance
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24. learn to speak Welsh
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25. Learn to speak French
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26. improve my latin
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27. Try absinthe
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28. spend the night in a bedouin tent and then watch a sunrise over the desert
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29. have a house with hidden rooms and trap doors, and some kind of secret tunnel
1 entry . 14 cheers494 people -
30. stop pulling my hair
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31. make the most of (the rest of) my twenties
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32. do kegels every day
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33. Direct a film
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34. Give periodic lessons in common spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes
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35. someday be one of those old couples who still hold hands.
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36. drink 43 types of tea
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37. list 43 accomplishments in 2008
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38. Share my favorite recipes with people on 43Things
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39. organize my recipes
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40. make a beautiful, inviting, uplifting home
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41. grow my own herbs
1 cheer170 people
How I did it
It made me
thrilled 
How I did it: So many fantastic things have happened to me this year, and mostly it's been amazing because I have spent most of my time with my best friend - now my husband. He's encouraged me to try new things, and take on challenges I would have been afraid to before. I've increased in confidence, and in how I feel about myself. I planned our wedding, which turned out perfectly, and did it on a dime. We moved into our first place together. I produced… Read how I did it…
It made me
rejuvenated
How I did it: My mom has a lady named Denise clean her house every two weeks, so I asked her to see if Denise could come and do our place. It turns out she lives less than 15 miles from us, so it worked out really well. We have just been too busy (with the film, Erik's job, my job, etc.) to do it ourselves, and too tired when we DID have the time. Plus, we had the film crew of around 15 people in and out for two weeks, then a pipe burst in our cellar (… Read how I did it…
It made me
proud
How I did it: It was a short documentary about the making of our movie, ROULETTE, which I am producing and my husband is directing. We've been doing "Video Diaries" which various members of the crew have been shooting and editing, to show what life is like on the set of a low-budget film - the different challenges and successes, and how you overcome whatever obstacles your lack of money and time may throw at you, to end up with a beautiful finished pro… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
Coronation Chicken Salad
4 days ago
There are many recipes for Coronation Chicken, but I experimented and this one most closely approximates the salad I had while in Scotland.
3 c. cold diced cooked chicken (I use 2-3 bone-in chicken breasts, poached)
1 small yellow onion, diced finely
Light olive oil or butter
2-3 tsp. curry powder (not hot)
1/2 c. heavy whipping cream
1/2 c. mayonnaise
1 Tbsp. apricot preserves
Salt and pepper
Saute the onion in a little oil or butter until it is soft and clear (but not brown – a little salt can prevent the browning). Stir in curry powder to taste. Set aside to cool.
Whip cream with a hand mixer until it holds stiff peaks. Carefully fold in the mayonnaise, cooled onion mixture, and apricot preserves. Season to taste with salt and pepper, adding more curry powder if desired. Carefully fold in chicken. Refrigerate for at least one hour to let all the flavors blend.
I like to serve it on Kaiser rolls, but you can serve it on white toast, or by itself with lettuce as a lunch platter.
Makes 3-4 sandwiches, depending on the size of the bread.
Delicious.
I marked this as done some time ago...
1 week ago
but I feel like now I’ve really succeeded. She has removed just about every vestige of herself from the internet. She closed every page/account of everything she had: Myspace, Facebook, 43things (her second account, which she thought was “secret” and which I found in about 4 clicks), her blog (which she also thought was secret), her Tatooed Nation page, everything. So while I don’t care who is looking at my stuff online, she apparently feels that she can’t have anything visible. As far as the online community goes, she does not exist. Not sure what she’s scared of…
But it makes me smile a little inside (I am evil, I know, but after all she did to my husband and me, I feel justified in my evilness).
I do miss the amusement of following her very “important” life, though.
