The Bridge Fairy

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I'm doing 42 things
 

The Bridge Fairy's Life List

  1. 1. Be sugar-free!
    13 entries . 39 cheers
    2 people
  2. 2. Walk my dog everyday
    6 entries . 40 cheers
    129 people
  3. 3. walk 10,000 steps a day
    11 entries . 39 cheers
    152 people
  4. 4. Go swimming twice a week
    12 entries . 25 cheers
    15 people
  5. 5. Floss every day
    4 entries . 24 cheers
    1,231 people
  6. 6. Get the schedule done for work by 11pm Thursday evening
    7 entries . 10 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. Get up when my clock goes off
    2 entries . 10 cheers
    80 people
  8. 8. Go to bed by 11pm every night
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    12 people
  9. 9. Get the oil changed in my truck every 3000 miles
    3 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. Minimize existing clutter and excess possessions
    14 entries . 49 cheers
    406 people
  11. 11. live below my means
    7 entries . 43 cheers
    94 people
  12. 12. Reclaim my garden
    3 entries . 28 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. Be early
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    20 people
  14. 14. write more letters
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    1,527 people
  15. 15. Try a new recipe each week
    13 entries . 9 cheers
    161 people
  16. 16. See the northern lights
    13 cheers
    16,927 people
  17. 17. go to Hawaii
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    1,676 people
  18. 18. See the US Open
    8 cheers
    7 people
  19. 19. visit paris
    12 cheers
    1,212 people
  20. 20. visit antarctica
    9 cheers
    438 people
  21. 21. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    9 cheers
    18,607 people
  22. 22. not crash and burn at Christmas
    5 entries . 16 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. List my favorite western movies
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    2 people
  24. 24. mail a postcard to The Robots from one of my 43 Places
    5 cheers
    28 people
  25. 25. Help Katchoo achieve her goal of becoming a top 500 reviewer on Amazon
    34 team members . 3 entries . 3 cheers
    2 people
  26. 26. get as many people as possible to send Cathibeth a $10 gift for her new addition/renovations. She deserves it !
    3 cheers
    1 person
  27. 27. Train my crazy cat to drink out my guests water glass and to lick the cookies I served to them.
    5 entries . 14 cheers
    1 person
  28. 28. write a book
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    26,119 people
  29. 29. Build my own cabin
    5 entries . 17 cheers
    13 people
  30. 30. Think more about others and less about myself.
    1 cheer
    1 person
  31. 31. Admire the beauty in every day
    3 cheers
    1 person
  32. 32. Be a better person
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    3,574 people
  33. 33. Lose 25 pounds
    5 entries . 1 cheer
    1,459 people
  34. 34. make a smaller ecological footprint
    5 entries . 11 cheers
    1,042 people
  35. 35. Be less obcessive about food
    2 cheers
    1 person
  36. 36. learn origami
    7 cheers
    357 people
  37. 37. Support the Heifer International charity
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    2 people
  38. 38. write an entry a day for 30 days
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  39. 39. turn my porch into a porch again -- not a storage facility
    6 entries . 6 cheers
    2 people
  40. 40. Enjoy every moment
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    68 people
  41. 41. Get rid of one possession every day
    14 entries . 11 cheers
    34 people
  42. 42. LAUGH EVERY DAY
    4 entries . 13 cheers
    362 people
Recent entries
declare Feb 1-7 Hasselhoff Avatar week (read all 5 entries…)
Hail! Hail! The gangs all here! 9 months ago

Hi guys! Everyone is looking fine in their HOFF-ness.



learn how to drive stick-shift
Danger: newbie stick driver teaches self. 17 months ago

I taught myself to drive a stick. When leaving church one Sunday, my brother wanted to take me out and show me. I know my brother well. In front of everyone so he could laugh? I refused.

At school the next day, I asked my cousin and his friends what and how. And then I waited. One night when no one was home, I took the car and went around and around the block. After 8-12 trips around, I was just about a pro.

The next day at school I had to get some more advice from my cousin because the car hiccupped just a bit I let the clutch out. I was “popping” the clutch he said. Let it out slower – feel it catch – then gradually let it go.

I went out another night around and around the block again. I still had to practice getting started on hills for another month or so. (It helps if you use the parking brake.) But unless on an incline, by the end of the second night, I shifted gears as smooth as silk.

The next Sunday came and brother put me in the drivers seat. I put on a great show: I protested and whined—it was the worst thing ever. Were my parents (in the station wagon with the other kids) going to let him humilate me like this? And they drove off. If I wanted a ride home I had to drive. SO I put the car in gear and drove out of the church yard gracefully. For the first and only time in our entire lives my brother was hacked. “Somebody’s been teaching you.” I still don’t know if he believes I taught myself.

I did kill the engine once on the way home – he got in laugh – but just a small one. (1) One. ;-)



write an entry a day for 30 days
29 minutes until I turn a half century. 17 months ago

For several years I have almost dreaded the party that would be throwed. Now it seems it will be very quiet.

My dad died March 18 – actually he stopped breathing a few minutes before midnight on March 17 – St. Patricks Day. We have named March 18th, St. Calvin’s Day. I spent three weeks at home holding his hand most of the time before.

I am in a tender place. I was worried I wouldn’t have the energy for the birthday hoopla – or would spend the night sobbing at every kind thing someone did or said. I am in better shape than that now – but I didn’t know a month or so ago – so I asked the friends, no party.

Besides the blubbery-er-ness, I really want to turn old by myself this time. I want to savor it like a good glass of wine – with my favorite reading glasses, a good book and my dog at my feet. I have become something of a marshmallow in my dotage and I rightly don’t care.

I laugh. A few months ago I signed up for Myspace so I could leave and get messages from my nieces and nephews. I got three love letters from guys the last time I checked. One doctor, one achitech, and a general contractor – but I think he was trying to drum up some carpentry work. (I always hire my carpenters from social networking sites.) So this marshmallow still does something for someone – abeit prompting near anonymous love letters from unknown souls on Myspace. :-)

This birthday and year are going to be fun. I am not expecting too much of my self these days. I have turned off the hyperthrust afterburners. I am paying attention more. I am savoring life.

If there is anything good I learned from my dad’s last days it was, time is too short. I need to pay attention and enjoy life as it comes. Savor it.

Ok thanks for listening. Happy birthday me. woo. hoo.

b.



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