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SallyKitt

"Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez



I'm doing 35 things
  

SallyKitt's Life List

  1. 1. exercise 5 times a week
    48 entries . 48 cheers     		165 people
  2. 2. Visit 10 cultural institutions in 2009
    6 entries . 6 cheers     		2 people
  3. 3. Learn Photoshop Elements 7
    5 entries . 12 cheers     		2 people
  4. 4. Keep track of all the books I read in 2009
    2 team members . 20 entries . 14 cheers     		39 people
  5. 5. Keep track of all the movies I watch in 2009
    52 entries . 7 cheers     		29 people
  6. 6. List 43 books or writers that have influenced me, and say why
    40 entries . 88 cheers     		2 people
  7. 7. Write about writing and the writing life
    36 entries . 55 cheers     		1 person
  8. 8. thank people
    51 entries . 87 cheers     		11 people
  9. 9. Publish a novel
    5 entries . 76 cheers     		913 people
  10. 10. Tell about 43 shots that got away
    25 entries . 14 cheers     		2 people
  11. 11. take a whitewater rafting trip
    1 entry . 38 cheers     		18 people
  12. 12. Take 43 Photographs of Doors
    27 entries . 29 cheers     		10 people
  13. 13. Take 43 Photographs of Hands
    23 entries . 27 cheers     		2 people
  14. 14. Design and create my own ugly doll.
    2 entries . 21 cheers     		36 people
  15. 15. Document some of the adorable stuff my parrot says.
    15 entries . 9 cheers     		1 person
  16. 16. organize my photographs
    5 entries . 13 cheers     		115 people
  17. 17. try another 43 new recipes
    39 entries . 15 cheers     		2 people
  18. 18. put a positive spin on everything
    7 entries . 22 cheers     		2 people
  19. 19. Remain open to the possibilities which the universe presents
    11 entries . 27 cheers     		1 person
  20. 20. re-gain my self-confidence
    6 entries . 24 cheers     		5 people
  21. 21. take 43 self portrait photographs where you cannot see my face
    10 entries . 10 cheers     		84 people
  22. 22. Rewrite my NaNoWriMo 2006 Novel
    42 entries . 70 cheers     		1 person
  23. 23. Make MP3s from my LPs
    4 entries . 10 cheers     		14 people
  24. 24. regularly do nothing
    9 cheers     		2 people
  25. 25. Make an ugly doll for Colin
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		1 person
  26. 26. Write to 12 people I don't know, but whom I admire in 2009
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		1 person
  27. 27. Average at least one submission a month in 2009.
    2 entries . 5 cheers     		1 person
  28. 28. focus
    2 entries . 6 cheers     		412 people
  29. 29. practice 'Happiness Manifesto' periodically
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		47 people
  30. 30. drink 43 types of tea
    8 entries . 13 cheers     		52 people
  31. 31. Take a cooking class
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		672 people
  32. 32. make cheese
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		107 people
  33. 33. Revamp my herb garden
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		1 person
  34. 34. Wish RuthG a Convivial Frugal Birthday on July 4th with Fresh Poetry
    1 cheer     		29 people
  35. 35. Do 43 things i've never done before!
    2 entries . 6 cheers     		15 people

How I did it
How to go to my high school reunion
It took me
1 day
It made me
Happy and wistful

How I did it: Planned my vacation trip home to include the weekend of the reunion.  Contacted some of my old classmates on Facebook.  It being my 30th, it made me reflect on my life quite a bit. Almost everyone else has children, and some have grandchildren.  I wish I'd been able to have more in depth conversations with some people...really know what gets them excited about their lives.  There was a lot of talk about our jobs.  Read how I did it…

Jul 01, 10:37AM PDT | 0 comments | 3 cheers


How to go sea kayaking
It took me
6 weeks
It made me
Strong & Happy

How I did it: Took classes at the UCLA Marina when I was an UCLA employee.  They lasted about 3 hours every weekend for six weeks.  I took the intermediate course, too.  Our regular instructor was gone the day we did kayak surfing, which was too bad because the guy who took over wasn't into it.  Paddling 7 miles round trip one day was intense. Read how I did it…

Jun 09, 11:28AM PDT | 0 comments | 2 cheers


How to create moo cards
It took me
2 days
It made me
Kinda thrilled!

How I did it: Logged onto the website.Looked at available designs.Uploaded my own photosUsed their editing softwareOrdered (using a discount code I found online) Waited for the mail. Read how I did it…

Jun 08, 10:33AM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer


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Recent entries
Do 43 things i've never done before! (read all 2 entries…)
2) Attend a free concert on the Santa Monica Pier 47 minutes ago

Saw the amazing, energetic, moving, fabulously talented Playing for Change band last night. Wow, what a perfect setting, with the lights of the amusement park behind us, and this great bunch of singers belting out tunes.

Perfect weather. These are performers from that viral video that went around not so long ago.

Lucky us. I cried when we all sang “One Love” and “Stand By Me” together.

Jul 03, 06:35PM PDT | 0 comments


Write about writing and the writing life (read all 36 entries…)
Getting knocked off the horse 2 days ago

When I was home I was visiting a good old friend I’ve known since I was 18 years old. She said, “I just don’t get blogs…people writing about mowing their lawns.” Which seemed really insensitive considering that writing my blog is a way that I feel I am making it happen for myself and not sitting around waiting for someone to give me permission to publish.

It really hurt me, and I don’t think she knows that it did. I know she doesn’t read my blog, but she’s aware of it. What if I said all her gardening and canning seemed like a worthless boring pursuit? I can’t imagine saying that.

I was so stunned I didn’t respond. Ugh, it’s still bothering me a couple of weeks later.

Jul 01, 10:55AM PDT | 8 cheers | 9 comments


re-gain my self-confidence (read all 6 entries…)
I guess just making it a goal doesn't make it magically come true. 2 days ago

I feel like a failure in so many aspects of my life. Intellectually I know that I am doing fine, but I feel stuck in my job—which I love and hate by turns—and I want to do something to be of service but can’t quite figure out what.

Visiting family on vacation was wonderful. They are great for my self-esteem. We’re a loving bunch. I wish I didn’t live 2000 miles away, but I don’t really want to live there again.

I find myself feeling desperately sad. I used to be the Pollyanna in every group. What happened?

Here are the things I see as eroders of my self-esteem:

1) 40 pounds overweight (there, I said it out loud)
2) Increasing isolation from friends (so many have drifted out of my weekly life, and my dearest local friend is moving to the opposite coast this month)
3) Isolation from my supportive family (although I do call them often)
4) Lack of recent publications of writing or photography
5) Work situation less than stable
6) Not particularly flattering hair cut.
7) Middle age in general
8) Lack of a current writing project that I really believe in…lack of ability to muster faith in myself as a writer due to continued indifference from publishers
9) Sudden onset of uncharacteristic sense that I have wasted my life. Never wanted kids, but I see people getting so much good out of their relationships, and I am sad to be on the periphery of all that all of a sudden.
10) Lack of involvement in my community

Okay, so I guess that gives me an idea of what to work on. I have started (another) fitness/weight loss program and am trying to feel optimistic about it. Gonna go work on my writing…No matter how little it seems to matter, at least I can say I’ve written.

Jul 01, 10:50AM PDT | 16 cheers | 73 comments


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live in England Build a space ship live on a sailboat AdonisEsquire wants to show him how much I love him go to iraq read 5 books this summer Be debt free Learn to run up a wall and do a backflip go on a cruise Participate in a triathlon get corrective eye surgery or lasik Practice yoga regularly shirleynature wants to buy a laptop watch the exorcist movie watch all Smallville episodes get my driver's license learn how to graffiti cook new foods learn how to massage jump out of a plane handstand pushups Earn Money play guitar learn how to identify wild plants and mushrooms learn to sing Learn how to remember peoples' names Fly a plane
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