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How I did it
How to find an old friend
It took me
14 days
It made me
Ecstatic

How I did it: First I Googled my friend and through reading news articles and other info, got an idea of where she was living. I tried phone listings for her name but no dice. So I posted an ad on Kijiji, a free online classified service, in the "long lost relationships" section. I gave some info about my friend (name, occupation) and within a few days I got an email from someone who knew her from church! He passed my contact info to her and we reconne… Read how I did it…

Dec 10, 2008, 12:08PM PST | 4 comments | 3 cheers


How to visit Flannery O'Connor's house
It took me
1 day
It made me
delighted

How I did it: We happened to be visiting family near Macon when I remember that Georgia was the home state of Flannery O'Connor. Some time before, I had put "visit Flannery O'Connor's house" on my 43Things list, so I just knew I had to go!My family babysat our 1-year-old daughter while my husband and I drove the hour from Macon to Milledgeville. It was a hot day in June, and we wandered the grounds of the farm before making our way into the house. We w… Read how I did it…

Dec 10, 2008, 11:48AM PST | 0 comments


Recent entries
stop wasting time on the internet (read all 2 entries…)
False start, try again

Hey, I did well for about a week and then fell off the wagon. Hard. But I really liked the feeling of staying off the net that first week, getting a lot more done. So after that trial run, February is going to be the real deal.

Here’s what will keep me going:
- email my buddy each day to confirm I didn’t do any extracurricular browsing
- use computer without laptop connection as much as possible
- when tempted, step away from the keyboard!
- if I go 29 days internet-free, I will give myself a nice reward

I think if I can go 29 days on this resolution, it will have helped me break some old patterns.

Jan 31, 2008, 11:13AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments


stop wasting time on the internet (read all 2 entries…)
Goodbye, cruel Internet

It’s simple. I want to spend less time on the Internet and more time doing creative, meaningful things.

Cold turkey is the only way to go. As of January 22, I will only use the Internet for email and work-related stuff until the end of February. Hopefully the mindless surfing habit will be broken by then.

I’ll track my progress here, and also email my mom every day to report in.

Now, to think of a reward for myself …

Jan 21, 2008, 08:06PM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments


Adopt a baby (read all 8 entries…)
Our daughter has arrived!

You can read the whole story at manylives.ca.

Worth doing? Hell yeah!

Mar 29, 2007, 01:37PM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments


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