I'm doing 28 things
baby step
5 months ago
I’m considering volunteering at the local park’s greenhouse on Friday mornings as a way to get a taste for horticulture and see if it is something I’d like to pursue more seriously.
ckd's Life List
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1. speak another language fluently
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2. find and pursue a true career
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3. learn and understand finances/money
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4. read "The Story of Mankind"
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5. learn the constellations
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6. learn geography
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7. learn to drive stick shift
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8. put up hose reel
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9. plant hosta and put up black fence
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10. paint gates rustolium black
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11. get proper flood and home insurance levels
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12. find someone to share my life with
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13. get certified as a master gardener
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14. surf like a real surfer
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15. Go to Australia & New Zealand
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16. repaint my home's interior
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17. edit and print out my journal to date
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18. find an activity for my dog Klaus
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19. put all my photos in organized albums
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20. put screens on my home windows
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21. flatten my stomach
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22. write a full length play and see it performed
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23. read all the books on my bookshelf
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24. read and recycle all the Wall Street Journals in my closet
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25. landscape my front yard
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26. landscape my back yard
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27. get my mom to complete the "book of myself" about her life
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28. do a reading on The Moth podcast
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How I did it
It made me
ATHLETIC! 
How I did it: I've had this goal on my list for a while and it seemed like one of the easier ones to knock out. On May 1st, I set a deadline of June 1st to get it done. (And I'm trying to set time deadlines for one goal at a time going forward. Makes it more manageable.) I'd stop swimming laps after 35 minutes and spend my last 10 minutes working on the turns. I started first just relearning how to do summersaults in the pool --NOT at the wall, but in … Read how I did it…
It made me
Popular!
How I did it: Did this in college and it was such a success I did it again. Guests are asked to bring a poetry "piece" which should be the lyrics from a pop song. The more stupid the lyrics the better. Each "poet" reads their selection as though it is the most serious piece of poetry ever composed. It's pretty hilarious. I gave iTunes gift cards to the best ones (as voted by other party guests) and played the real songs after the slam part of the party… Read how I did it…
It made me
Relieved
How I did it: My lower back was becoming progressively more and more sore and more and more weak. I was 37 years old and some days moved around like I was 80. Getting out of bed after an active day before might take up to 10 minutes. I had sharp pains sometimes reaching for things and had less and less flexibility in my back. I thought maybe this was par for the course from playing soccer all these years or from my scoliosis. But finally I didn't accep… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
This is going to be my June 2009 goal
5 months ago
I subscribed to the WSJ for over a year off and on and only got around to reading it about 10 times. But I saved all the newspapers because I’m a tiny bit of a hoarder and because I hate the idea of not getting that knowledge in my head and “wasting” them. I really like reading it, but it takes me about an hour per edition, and I never get around to it. This month I’m going to read through all the 100+ WSJ’s stacked in my closet and recycle them. I will be a lot smarter at the end of this month, and I’ll also use this as a way to spend less time online.
halfway through
5 months ago
I’ve made a lot of progress. My dogs had torn up half my backyard, and on the area they decimated I built a raised garden bed and put down pine straw. Pine straw is AWESOME for a yard with dogs. I highly recommend it. I put the pine straw along the path they’d worn from my back porch to the back gate. I’ve cleaned up some flower beds and put mulch in them, and planted some lovely white hydrangeas.
But what I still need to do is prune back/out the weedy bushes and things growing on the sides of my back yard property. And get rid of a pile of broken bricks in one corner.
