I'm doing 39 things
Personal web pages at www.sunnypad.com. It’s ideas are from when web pages first came out; it looks rather childlike and I’ve not gotten away from that look but would like to revamp it some time. Anyway it serves its purpose for now!
Stargazer's Life List
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1. Make money blogging
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2. Live in a home in the country with my husband and kids and lots of pets and animals
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3. exercise daily
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4. Lose 20 pounds
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5. Get out of debt
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6. Work successfully from home
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7. eat more vegetables
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8. Return to eating a macrobiotic diet
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9. Spend time in nature
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10. get a masters degree
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11. Create and maintain a clean, peaceful and positive environment in my home
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12. get a cat
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13. own a lovely white-faced cinnamon cockatiel
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14. have a duck pond with my pet ducks swimming in it
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15. Buy a telescope powerful enough to do some decent astrophotography
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16. learn astrophotography
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17. see the northern lights
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18. Find my first Geocache!
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19. Visit Japan
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20. Learn Japanese
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21. Drink tea in Japan
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22. Visit Vermont in the Autumn
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23. visit Switzerland
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24. Think Positive
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25. Write a book
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26. Write a children's book
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27. Start a company that survives longer than 2 years
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28. live passionately
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29. Design and build a house
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30. take better photos
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31. work because I like to, not because I have to
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32. create something beautiful
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33. make a difference
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34. learn to garden well
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35. Live long and prosper
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36. become a millionaire
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37. get a patent
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38. make my orchids bloom
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39. Get back into Martial Arts
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How I did it
It made me
Eh... 
How I did it: I went to a yard sale, and saw a touring bike. It was $35 and I bought it. It's not in great working condition, so I have to fix it. I achieved the goal of actually buying a bike that's kinda close to what I wanted. But because it was in need of repair, and I didn't have the time to do it, I let the bike sit. This bike sat for years and got in worse condition. I've just now set the goal to fix the bike, and I have to go parts for it. I ho… Read how I did it…
It made me
Feeling connected! 
How I did it: Keep up with the current trend of social networking by using it! Sign up for accounts with Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.Use Twitter, Facebook (don't really like it but I jumped into it for a couple of weeks to test it out), and test out the other social networking programs. See how they work. Think how you can make them work for you. Visit RSS and Twitter links in your subjects you like - while you're reading about… Read how I did it…
It made me
Happy!
How I did it: I took all my salary and put it into the bank as a downpayment, and we lived extremely tight off my husband's money.Then, we realized we would never be able to buy a home in the Washington DC area where we lived. We loved it there but all we could see is more years of renting expensive places until we got old. So we moved 2 hours away to Pa. He still works in DC area, and I work at home. He comes home 3-4 days a week and works there 3-4 d… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
I’m working on a project that’s nearly done but haven’t forgotten this, my main goal. I need to make money from having something online, preferrably a blog.
I’ve already started pointing people to my webpage as much as possible. Mostly people from gaming forums I’m on, etc. It’s sorely in need of a redesign, but it is what it is right now. Stop by! www.sunnypad.com
Here are my ideas:
Non-blog:
1. Make a top-100 list. List of games, list of technical tools, something like that. Pop some ads on it and get the list out there to start generating some revenue.
Blog ideas:
I’ve had two blog ideas. Would appreciate feedback on which are better ideas:
1. A regular ol’ technical blog. Pros: people like them. I do. Cons: there are a bazillion of them out there. What will make people want to come back to mine regularly?
2. A knowledge-type of blog. Kind of a learn-with-me thing. I take a subject that I don’t know anything about and just start learning about it and blogging. Anyone interested can learn along with me.
Problems with blogging: People like me use news aggregators. I only go into the blog entries if they hold my interest or have more information that I want to see. People that skim links in an aggregator won’t bring in revenue for me.
Another thing – what will make someone want to read my blog? I have a bazillion feeds in my aggregator. But which blogs make me want to rush to them first? Also there’s not enough time in the day sometimes…even the things I’m dying to keep up with, I just can’t. So the updates are piled up in my newsreader. I’m sure I’m not the only one having this issue.
Things to think about and tackle.
For anti-spam (a HUGE problem I’ve had on my personal Wordpress blog, which I actually stopped using because it was so time consuming cleaning out all the spam) someone suggested that Akismet http://akismet.com/ is great. I plan on installing this on any future blog.
