I'm doing 29 things
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According to my elder daughter (who is 8 and doesn’t know what an aura is but does see colors around everyone) – purple or lt purple.
Problem solved. Haven’t looked into what that may mean.
WideAwakeDreaming's Life List
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1. develop a household budget
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2. keep moving forward
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3. be a better advocate for myself
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4. develop my illustration portfolio
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5. list 100 things about my children
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6. slow down
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7. become financially self-sufficient
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8. be more present
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9. take up more space
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10. do 15 minutes of yoga 5X a week
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11. make sleep a priority
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12. declutter my life
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13. make new friends but keep the old...
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14. write and illustrate a children's book and get it published
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15. plan a trip
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16. finish all those half done knitting projects
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17. read 30 books by 2010
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18. develop an ongoing short term goal list
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19. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
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20. find out the color of my aura
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21. learn to swim with more confidence so I can learn to surf
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22. learn to play the piano
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23. draw or write everyday
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24. floss every day for a year
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25. keep a journal
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26. take ballroom dance lessons
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27. get every single thing unpacked and put away in my new house
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28. Pick a week to buy no groceries and only use food already in my house
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29. keep the TV unplugged for a year
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How I did it
It made me
Weary. Stressed. 
How I did it: The actual procedure was simple. My sister and I spoke by phone and email. She emailed me when she found cheap flights from the East Coast for herself and her two youngest. I blindly told her to go for it and she bought the tickets (perhaps I was also in a bit of denial about my impending move?). I only realized my mistake once the die was cast. I organized with my parents and brother's family to meet at the coast. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
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29 and 30)Last two of the Twilight series
31)The Secret Garden
32)Fearless Fourteen -Janet Evanovich
33)Finger Lickin’ Fifteen -Janet Evanovich (these hardly count really)
34) The Elegance of the Hedgehog -Muriel Barberrry (still reading)
35) Anna Karenina -Leo Tolstoy (almost done – should read one at a time)-needed to read this after being at dinner with 3 women friends ALL of whom had read it! Very beautiful.
36)The Maytrees -Annie Dillard (love LOVE)
Budget deadline...
8 months ago
We had our first 4-way meeting today – the two of us and our two lawyers. Surprisingly cordial, not surprisingly exhausting. The homework for each of us is to develop a household budget based on what we are currently spending, then enter it online into this database for the lawyers to help with. So I guess my timeline on this needs to speed up (it’s due at our next meeting next week). First, I am going to search desperately for the budget I had almost completed before I moved (yes, it was on paper). Although a lot of it was guesswork, I think it would help to locate it. Second, I plan to devote at least one good hour per night to formulating a new one (more if it becomes necessary).
