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SallyKitt

"Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez



I'm doing 29 things
  

SallyKitt's Life List

  2. 1. Visit 12 parks/cultural institutions in 2012
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		1 person
  3. 2. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
    3 entries . 7 cheers     		25 people
  4. 3. Control my cholesterol
    6 entries . 17 cheers     		1 person
  5. 4. Attitude of Gratitude: Make Note of 3 Gratefuls & 3 Did Wells Each Day (43T)
    8 entries . 4 cheers     		8 people
  6. 5. get paid for writing
    2 entries . 5 cheers     		153 people
  7. 6. Publish a novel
    6 entries . 87 cheers     		1,074 people
  8. 7. re-gain my self-confidence
    9 entries . 32 cheers     		7 people
  9. 8. take 43 self portrait photographs where you cannot see my face
    11 entries . 13 cheers     		74 people
  10. 9. Take a cooking class
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  11. 10. Write a will
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  12. 11. Do 43 things i've never done before!
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  13. 12. Book - Type all the material from the yellow pads and journals into one file
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  14. 13. Take Action Regarding Our Food Supply
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  15. 14. Photograph 43 Dogs
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  16. 15. practice compassion
    4 entries . 3 cheers     		73 people
  17. 16. keep track of all the books I read in 2012
    5 entries . 2 cheers     		10 people
  18. 17. go on a yoga retreat
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  19. 18. Participate in a Getty drawing class
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  20. 19. Share 50 poems, quotes or passages that speak to my heart!
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		12 people
  21. 20. identify 100 things that make me happy.
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		2,563 people
  22. 21. Find more support for my writing
    3 entries . 5 cheers     		1 person
  23. 22. paint the bathroom
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		45 people
  24. 23. Finish the codename short story
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  25. 24. Write and sell a travel essay
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  26. 25. Attend at least 6 live events in 2012
    2 entries . 1 cheer     		1 person
  27. 26. Best year yet - 2012
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  28. 27. hope and pray for the abolition of the Orange Banner of Doom and celebrate when it finally goes
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  29. 28. volunteer for the local NPR station pledge drives
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		2 people
  30. 29. Read 12 books of poetry in 2012
    2 entries . 1 cheer     		1 person

How I did it
How to critque Antipasta's book by January 9th
It took me
4 weeks
It made me
more self assured

How I did it: Since I was being paid for this, I figured I needed to devote a reasonable amount of time to it.  Neither so few that I felt I wasn't giving my client/friend her due, nor so many that I wasn't making a decent wage.  The novel is 189 pages long.  I decided to read it in 50 page blocks, which worked well.  It took about two hours to do the first block, and the rest were more or less the same.  That gave me a way to … Read how I did it…

Jan 11, 07:18AM PST | 0 comments | 3 cheers


How to go to at least six live events in 2011
It took me
12 months
It made me
Entertained!

How I did it: Kept my eyes open for acts I might be interested in, in my price range.  Subscribed to the mailing lists of several venues in my area that offer live performances, invited friends to join us for the evening to make it more of an event.  Read how I did it…

Jan 04, 08:30AM PST | 0 comments | 6 cheers


How to keep track of all the books i read in 2011
It took me
365 days
It made me
smug...ha ha

How I did it: Used Good Reads:"www.goodreads.com" which makes it easy because the book titles are almost always already there.  Sometimes took notes in my journal about my feelings about a particular book and transferred them to Good Reads and here later. Read how I did it…

Jan 03, 12:38PM PST | 0 comments | 3 cheers


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Recent entries
volunteer for the local NPR station pledge drives
We have two great NPR stations in my area

I’ve always subscribed to the bigger one (KCRW), but have recently discovered that some of the original programming on the other (KPCC) is really amazing, too. So I’m going to subscribe to both and volunteer at the smaller one next pledge drive if I can, since it’s a bit easier to get to. Both are more than 50 miles from my house.

I volunteered for a pledge drive at the bigger one years ago and it was fun.

Feb 03, 08:16AM PST | 3 cheers | 0 comments


Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (read all 3 entries…)
Almond Milk

I think I like almond milk better than soy.

Jan 30, 08:06AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments


keep track of all the books I read in 2012 (read all 5 entries…)
5) Ballistics - Billy Collins

“Despair” made me laugh. “A Dog on His Master” made me cry. I copied “Ornithography” into my journal, I loved it that much. “China” hit the nail on the head regarding the way I feel about being a citizen of the world these days.

The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is that I grow weary of Collins’ self-referential poems (in which he writes about writing a poem or being a poet.) One or two, okay, but more just begins to get on my nerves.

Jan 30, 07:58AM PST | 2 cheers | 0 comments


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