The Bridge Fairy

is writing a standup comedy set... I'm not procrastinating... really!



I'm doing 38 things
 

The Bridge Fairy's Life List

  1. 1. Be sugar-free!
    13 entries . 41 cheers
    2 people
  2. 2. Walk my dog everyday
    6 entries . 39 cheers
    131 people
  3. 3. walk 10,000 steps a day
    11 entries . 40 cheers
    156 people
  4. 4. Go swimming twice a week
    12 entries . 24 cheers
    17 people
  5. 5. Floss every day
    4 entries . 23 cheers
    1,241 people
  6. 6. Get up when my clock goes off
    2 entries . 10 cheers
    74 people
  7. 7. Go to bed by midnight every night
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    2 people
  8. 8. Minimize existing clutter and excess possessions
    14 entries . 48 cheers
    398 people
  9. 9. Live below my means
    7 entries . 41 cheers
    94 people
  10. 10. Reclaim my garden
    3 entries . 28 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. Be early
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    23 people
  12. 12. write more letters
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    1,846 people
  13. 13. Try a new recipe each week
    13 entries . 8 cheers
    181 people
  14. 14. See the northern lights
    13 cheers
    19,100 people
  15. 15. go to Hawaii
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    1,940 people
  16. 16. See the US Open
    8 cheers
    7 people
  17. 17. visit paris
    12 cheers
    1,436 people
  18. 18. visit antarctica
    6 cheers
    510 people
  19. 19. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    8 cheers
    21,508 people
  20. 20. not crash and burn at Christmas
    5 entries . 16 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. Train my crazy cat to drink out my guests water glass and to lick the cookies I served to them.
    5 entries . 13 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. write a book
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    31,073 people
  23. 23. Build my own cabin
    5 entries . 17 cheers
    15 people
  24. 24. Win a story slam!
    1 person
  25. 25. write thank you cards
    42 people
  26. 26. Be a better person
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    3,936 people
  27. 27. Think more about others and less about myself.
    1 cheer
    1 person
  28. 28. Update my 43 Things list
    1 cheer
    1 person
  29. 29. write an entry a day for 30 days
    1 entry
    1 person
  30. 30. Be less obcessive about food
    2 cheers
    1 person
  31. 31. Enjoy every moment
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    72 people
  32. 32. Lose 25 pounds
    5 entries . 2 cheers
    1,584 people
  33. 33. make a smaller ecological footprint
    5 entries . 11 cheers
    1,014 people
  34. 34. turn my porch into a porch again -- not a storage facility
    6 entries . 6 cheers
    1 person
  35. 35. LAUGH EVERY DAY
    4 entries . 13 cheers
    396 people
  36. 36. learn origami
    7 cheers
    403 people
  37. 37. Admire the beauty in every day
    3 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. Get rid of one possession every day
    14 entries . 10 cheers
    31 people
Recent entries
Compete in a story slam
The newbie placed third!

And I didn’t fall off stage! or wet my pants!

I told a 5 minute story in Durham, NC at The Monti: www.themonti.org

Everyone in the audience and the host Jeff Polish was great. They were all very sweet and supportive of the newbie.

Here is the story I told – it was a hard one to get through. #kleenex

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=367553399950491



declare Feb 1-7 Hasselhoff Avatar week (read all 5 entries…)
Hail! Hail! The gangs all here!

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



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

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. ;-)



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