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Pirate_of_the_flats




I'm doing 43 things
  

Pirate_of_the_flats's Life List

  1. 1. Recover From Childbirth
    3 entries . 2 cheers     		1 person
  2. 2. Read My Stack
    1 entry     		1 person
  3. 3. Do the Splits
    		1,690 people
  4. 4. Go On a Bike Ride With Callum
    		1 person
  5. 5. Find Five Recipes That Both Callum and I Enjoy
    		1 person
  6. 6. Run a 10k Race
    1 entry     		66 people
  7. 7. Make a Video Record of the Present
    1 entry     		1 person
  8. 8. take a short course in Arabic
    1 entry     		1 person
  9. 9. keep my house clean for at least a week
    2 entries . 1 cheer     		3 people
  10. 10. Pass Indonesian 211
    2 entries     		1 person
  11. 11. plan my meals on a weekly basis, and follow my meal plans
    1 entry     		3 people
  12. 12. Get a Job at a Bookshop
    4 entries . 1 cheer     		4 people
  13. 13. Run a Half Marathon in Under Two Hours, Five Minutes
    1 entry     		1 person
  14. 14. Find an Indonesian Conversation Partner
    		1 person
  15. 15. take self defence classes
    2 entries     		5 people
  16. 16. run a marathon
    1 cheer     		8,325 people
  17. 17. Learn a Free-Reed Intsrument
    		2 people
  18. 18. volunteer for the rspca
    1 entry     		4 people
  19. 19. Master my Uke
    3 cheers     		1 person
  20. 20. Learn to tango
    		1,017 people
  21. 21. Take Drum Lessons
    		25 people
  22. 22. Make Callum a Birthday Cake
    3 cheers     		1 person
  23. 23. improve my upper body strength
    1 cheer     		17 people
  24. 24. Make a Bag
    3 cheers     		63 people
  25. 25. Compile my Stories
    1 cheer     		1 person
  26. 26. Make a Goal in Floorball
    		1 person
  27. 27. clean and organize my closets and pantry
    1 cheer     		5 people
  28. 28. Lessen My Dependence On Petrol
    		1 person
  29. 29. Start History Club With Emma
    		1 person
  30. 30. Make Construction-Paper Likenesses of Katharine Ross
    2 cheers     		2 people
  31. 31. Come Up With a Laundry System
    3 entries     		1 person
  32. 32. grow my hair down to my waist
    1 cheer     		55 people
  33. 33. Buy Some Actual Clothes That I Actually Like
    1 cheer     		1 person
  34. 34. Learn About Make Up
    		1 person
  35. 35. plant an herb garden
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		147 people
  36. 36. take first aid classes.
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		5 people
  37. 37. Build an Aviary
    		6 people
  38. 38. Get a Motorcycle license
    		83 people
  39. 39. Study in Yogyakarta
    		1 person
  40. 40. Learn to Swim Properly
    		80 people
  41. 41. Become Financially Independent
    		4,487 people
  42. 42. Do NaNoWriMo
    		500 people
  43. 43. sew a dress
    		155 people
Recent entries
Read My Stack
Untitled 2 months ago

I can’t remember which books were in my original stack!

Oh well. This is my new stack:

Island- Aldous Huxley
Women, Islam and Modernity- Linda Rae Bennett
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
Sixty Stories- Donald Barthelme
Language and Mind- Noam Chomsky
Midnight’s Children- Salman Rushdie

I don’t have much free time. I’ll try to do twenty-five pages a day.

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Recover From Childbirth (read all 3 entries…)
Untitled 2 months ago

Physically:
I’m only one kilo over my pre-pregnancy weight. I am recovered, for the most part. My pelvic floor muscles are still a bit weak, and I’d still like to regain some fundamental fitness before I tick this off. Let’s say I am physically recovered when:
- My pelvic floor muscles feel normal again,
- I am 55 kilos or less,
- I am able to run for 30 minutes,
- My doctor says so.

So, what I can do is continues with pelvic floor exercises and continue with my run/walk training program. That is easy.

Emotionally:
Admittedly, I have been depressed. I would rather not go on antidepressants. I don’t want to become dependent on a drug, you know? So before I resort to antidepressants I will do these things:
- Talk to a counselor. They have a free counseling service and King Edward Hospital, where I gave birth. I will call them today.
- Make long term plans. One of the reasons I’ve been depressed is that- I don’t know- I don’t know where to go from here? I’m deferring my next semester at university, I have no job, and I’m not going on another trip overseas for I don’t know how long. It feels like I’m not moving forward and I don’t know what to do with myself or look forward to.
- Make interesting fitness goals. I won’t be able to train up in time for a marathon or even a half marathon this year. (I usually enjoy the training, and I miss it). So! I will just have to learn to do something physically that I couldn’t do before.
- Buy new clothes, get my hair done, feel pretty.
- Read.
- Listen to music.
- Get out of the house occasionally. With baby or without. There are some nice parks around for walking with strollers, and some good bands coming to town for when I can get Callum to watch Hero. Maybe I can do something new, too.

Birth Control:
I get my IUD in on the thirteenth.

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Fatten Hero Up For Surgery (read all 3 entries…)
Untitled 2 months ago

I haven’t had Hero weighed in a couple of weeks- last I checked he was four kilos.

I think he’s doing pretty well, though. he’s on about 130ml of milk (or formula) every four hours. I’m slowly working him up to 150ml.

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