Another perfect Christmas… better than any we can remember, though, thanks to our new NO STRESS—NO MESS strategy. Went eco-friendly with the gift wrap as much as possible to minimize waste. Bought one big family gift and lots of little ‘favorite things’ for everyone else. Came out with money set back for Spring and Summer trips and kept things quiet and perfect for everybody. Pushed off nearly all social commitments until January and February—and are planning to do more of the same for next Christmas already. Fa + la*8 equation worked perfectly.
Amazingkae's Life List
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1. Video document #snowmageddon and share with weather watcher friends.
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2. Be All My Fortune Cookie Says I Can Be.
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3. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Everything Tasty.
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4. Be more like Einstein (out of clutter, find simplicity).
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5. Empty the storage shed and sell or give away all unwanted items.
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9. Actively research, strategize, and write more chapters for regional history pieces.
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10. Photodocument more tombs and headstones in graveyards and do historical research on the people's life stories as a way to preserve their memory.
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11. Stay at the Waldorf-Astoria.
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12. Write a novel of epic proportions that even Dante himself would endorse and admire.
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13. Travel the world's finest art galleries and museums with my family regularly.
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14. Complete 3000 goals listed on 43things.
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15. As a future goal, plan to spend at least a year of my life studying in Hawaii--and go surfing or body boarding (even if I'm 90, I'm still going, seriously).
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16. Develop really great wrinkles and laugh lines as I grow old (and be able to remember the stories behind each one of them).
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17. Retire overseas someday when I find the perfect place that suits me and I don't have to worry about being too far away from friends and family.
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18. Get my partner to admit that hybrid exotic cars are way cooler than the ones that run on gasoline (even if they aren't as noisy).
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19. Host one or more big event for charity in 2010.
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20. Enjoy every minute of being snowed in for my first big strom since I was a little kid. #snowtoriousbig
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How I did it: A few weeks ago I finally broke down and decided to get my hair cut shorter. Unsure about what I wanted, I had them take an inch off at a time. The longer I thought about it, the easier the decisions were; I ended up having seven inches cut off. I can't begin to tell you what a liberating feeling it was doing it... When I caught a glimpse of myself from the side in a mirror last week, I was pleased with what I saw but for a few long secon… Read how I did it…
How I did it: Shopped early. Set up a gift wrap station in the corner of the living room and kept it stocked and organized. Wrapped one or two presents at a time in advance as the days and weeks before Christmas rolled by... all in view of the TV so I would remember to do it when watching movies. Used a different paper for each person so it did not matter what was in the package (I could easily tell who it was for from the wrapping). Watched lots of Ch… Read how I did it…
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
- Anais Nin
I keep my fortune in my wallet and it comes with me wherever I go. Only my family and closest friends know what it says.
It has become a very personal item on my list of tasks to complete for me.
The little paper reminder serves to help me organize my self reflections and thinking.
Hopefully, I will be able to mark this goal done over the next few years with absolute certainty in my thinking that what my fortune says really does describe me completely!
The perfect words that sum up all the Pronoia forces at work each day in my life are…
Thank you.
After all, since so many wonderful things have happened to me in this lifetime (thanks to all the things I thought I wanted not happening so many things I never knew I wanted have come along subsequently and unexpectedly), did anyone really think I would not figure this particular life mystery out eventually?
I said these words once a long, long time ago to another person and meant it with every fiber of my being related to one specific thing… funny that now I see it really applies to everything. That’s why I suppose this time I am really here to say these words to the universe and the higher power me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything. Seriously.
I can’t imagine how my life could have been happier or more complete any other way. The universe has conspired to bring just the right things in life to me that I need.




