I hope you’ve had a spectacular celebration and a fun day spent with loved ones. Wishing you a great year ahead willed with love and laughter. (You’d better eat this cake quick, it’s an ice cream cake!) Happy birthday!
Carm's Life List
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1. go to bed earlier
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2. Leave my office at 6:30 every day
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3. Get organized
4 entries . 96 cheers5,786 people -
4. Declutter my office
7 entries . 92 cheers16 people -
5. Declutter my home
6 entries . 72 cheers116 people -
6. clean up my house and keep it clean
1 entry . 60 cheers489 people -
7. deal with my mail when I get it
2 entries . 110 cheers9 people -
8. go through the newspaper daily and recycle
9 entries . 89 cheers1 person -
9. put my clothes away every night
1 entry . 70 cheers5 people -
10. clean my sink every night
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11. organize my photos
2 entries . 61 cheers1,237 people -
12. be out of bed by 6:00 each morning
5 entries . 47 cheers1 person -
13. Create a to do list every night and do all the things on it the next day
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14. take care of myself
13 entries . 109 cheers266 people -
15. lose weight
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16. Don't eat fast food
12 entries . 137 cheers120 people -
17. eat at home more often
4 entries . 79 cheers25 people -
18. exercise more
20 entries . 62 cheers5,002 people -
19. lower my blood pressure
4 entries . 83 cheers128 people -
20. Take vitamins daily
6 entries . 74 cheers785 people -
21. watch less tv
4 entries . 103 cheers1,829 people -
22. get better at keeping in touch with people who are important to me
2 entries . 77 cheers696 people -
23. reconnect with old friends
2 entries . 57 cheers431 people -
24. write more letters
1 entry . 72 cheers1,515 people -
25. mail birthday cards/gifts on time
2 entries . 53 cheers2 people -
26. go on dates with my husband
5 entries . 93 cheers19 people -
27. List 100 things I love about my husband.
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28. take good care of my husband
4 entries . 48 cheers2 people -
29. take good care of my Mom
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30. Buy a House
3 entries . 74 cheers12,136 people -
31. improve our financial situation
7 entries . 49 cheers2 people -
32. go to Hawaii
2 entries . 88 cheers1,610 people -
33. go to San Francisco
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34. ride The Duck in Seattle
2 entries . 36 cheers6 people -
35. eat healthier
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36. Engage in a tidying zone for 15 minutes daily
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37. Catch up on my blog entries
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38. list five ( 5 ) self-help / self improvement books I've read that I think others might enjoy
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39. get broadband
3 entries . 18 cheers17 people -
40. Wish RuthG a Convivial Frugal Birthday on July 4th with Fresh Poetry
1 entry . 2 cheers19 people -
41. join Linkedin and make some connections there
1 entry . 8 cheers1 person
How I did it: I believe it was in about 1994 when our office first got computers with mice. At the time I was working in Word Processing and was having some significant carpal tunnel pain in my right wrist from all the typing.Before we got the new computers and while we were evaluating systems, I visited a friend in another law firm to look at what systems they had in place and how they were using them. I noticed my friend was using the mou… Read how I did it…
I haven’t seen any Jones Soda bottles with Ru’s lovely pictures in these parts. I will keep my eye open, but marking this one give up for now.
I have so much stuff it doesn’t even all fit in my own office. Granted, my office is the tiniest possible space you could call an office, but that’s no excuse.
My latest idea for how to approach getting rid of stuff is to start going through boxes of old stuff. Materials so old it should be easy to review and get rid of a lot. If I could do one box per week it would be great progress for me. I’ll try to make the majority of my progress on my weekend work day. Some boxes have too much paper to get through in one long work session, but I’ll see if I can make some progress every week.
Of course going through boxes of old stuff isn’t going to do any good unless I can at the same time keep up with processing all the current and incoming piles of material. Somehow I always generate a lot of paper.
Today I got my start. I actually managed to do two boxes this week. I doubt that will happen again. In this case the contents of those boxes were easy to toss. They contained books and training materials for software that we don’t even use any more.
I have some current piles on the desk I want to sort through in the next week. We’ll see how it goes.


