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How I did it
How to create my own stimulus plan by doing at least one NEW AND FULFILLING thing in July, August, and September 2009
It took me
3 months
It made me
Happy


How to have the canned food drive I'm in charge of be a wild success
It took me
1 month
It made me
feel charitable


How to seriously think about how I can incorporate philanthropy into the holiday party I'm helping to plan & encourage others to do the same with their holiday parties
It took me
1 month
It made me
feel warm and fuzzy


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read at least 12 books in 2010
Progress Report: 8/12 mo, 6/12 books...updated 1/19/11

1. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
3. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway
4. Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words, Phil Cousineau
5. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
6. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff—and it’s all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life, Richard Carlson
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7. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
8. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Party Dress Book, Adams
10. Started and still reading Of Time and the River, which is about 900 pages, so don’t feel too bad about not technically reaching this goal this year.



Read at least 12 books in 2009 (read all 3 entries…)
Okay...revised list...

So I fell off on reading a couple of books I had down…and now feel like I’ll need to start afresh, so current status:
1. Training your Retriever
2. The Art of Possibility
3. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
5. Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them
6. Africa: A Biography of the Continent
7. Frost: Poems
8. Latin Love Lessons
9. Tender is the Night
10. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)- EXCELLENT!!!
11. How the Two Ivans Quarrelled (Nicolai Gogol)—Also great!
12. The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)- FAVE BOOK in a long time!!!
13. Three Black Skirts: All You Need To Survive (Anna Johnson)- Good chick “is my life on track book.”
14. Good Poems for Hard Times (Selected & introduced by Garrison Keillor)—BEST anthology of poetry I’ve ever read!

Sooo…not too bad! :)



Read at least 12 books in 2009 (read all 3 entries…)
11. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great read. Read this while some girlfriends and I were in Cannes for my best friend’s wedding. Really fun reading a story that mentions places you’re visiting…just 80 odd years later…wow…80 years…what a strange/bittersweet idea to ruminate on. It really all is just that fleeting. :)



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