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Cloudberry

It won't be a 10 until a little less than a week from today.



I'm doing 41 things
  

Cloudberry's Life List

  2. 1. develop my composing, singing, and performing career
    10 entries . 87 cheers     		1 person
  3. 2. write a string quartet
    13 entries . 102 cheers     		9 people
  4. 3. practice 'Happiness Manifesto' periodically
    32 team members . 397 entries . 41 cheers     		47 people
  5. 4. love men but eliminate sexism
    7 entries . 73 cheers     		2 people
  6. 5. do mitzvot and tikkun olam
    6 entries . 32 cheers     		2 people
  7. 6. Go back to Israel
    8 entries . 40 cheers     		60 people
  8. 7. treat my body as a temple and honor it daily
    7 entries . 60 cheers     		1 person
  9. 8. each evening, make a plan for the next day
    8 entries . 64 cheers     		6 people
  10. 9. overcome hypochondria
    1 entry . 83 cheers     		16 people
  11. 10. stay connected to people I like
    6 entries . 75 cheers     		2 people
  12. 11. keep my house neat
    14 entries . 52 cheers     		4 people
  13. 12. see the big picture and work toward it
    11 entries . 34 cheers     		3 people
  14. 13. get my apartment in saleable condition
    4 entries . 19 cheers     		1 person
  15. 14. read a novel in Spanish
    5 entries . 29 cheers     		25 people
  16. 15. Practice "And How Am I Like This?" when judgementalism, impatience or annoyance raise their smug heads
    1 entry . 27 cheers     		20 people
  17. 16. post random stuff
    66 entries . 12 cheers     		16 people
  18. 17. qualify as a life coach
    2 team members . 2 entries . 23 cheers     		3 people
  19. 18. turn off the computer
    6 entries . 18 cheers     		16 people
  20. 19. For Girl in the Curl: Prayers for a full recovery & Wellness Energy
    10 cheers     		18 people
  21. 20. have fun
    7 entries . 23 cheers     		2,756 people
  22. 21. leave the house by 8:30 and walk to the Metro
    2 entries . 8 cheers     		1 person
  23. 22. take advantage of weekends to move forward in life
    2 entries . 16 cheers     		3 people
  24. 23. not let middle age get the better of me
    2 entries . 14 cheers     		1 person
  25. 24. look for a job in England
    5 entries . 3 cheers     		1 person
  26. 25. make 2009 my best year yet
    3 entries . 14 cheers     		116 people
  27. 26. weed out and donate clothes that don't fit
    14 cheers     		1 person
  28. 27. develop a sustainable relationship
    4 entries . 4 cheers     		2 people
  29. 28. get out of this job gracefully
    8 entries . 8 cheers     		1 person
  30. 29. stop homophobia
    21 cheers     		122 people
  31. 30. Attend the first international 43T Chianti party
    1 entry . 6 cheers     		6 people
  32. 31. GLBT Pride Avatars Fortnight Plus 1 From June 16 to June 30 (Gay Pride Month, and you don't need to be GLBT to take on this goal, straight people can show their support too.)
    6 cheers     		5 people
  33. 32. turn the page
    10 entries . 4 cheers     		3 people
  34. 33. write a book
    2 entries . 24 cheers     		24,923 people
  35. 34. save the fishes
    2 entries . 22 cheers     		1 person
  36. 35. give Wren cheers and hugs
    5 cheers     		18 people
  37. 36. bond with other INFPs
    7 team members . 2 entries . 11 cheers     		3 people
  38. 37. wish Moose a birthday full of songs, laughter and notebooks on 27th May
    1 cheer     		2 people
  39. 38. not get buried in paper
    2 entries . 11 cheers     		1 person
  40. 39. List 43 things I have done as a result of being on 43T
    1 entry . 8 cheers     		4 people
  41. 40. list something I learned each day
    17 entries . 16 cheers     		1 person
  42. 41. adopt a cat
    1 entry . 35 cheers     		182 people

How I did it
How to plan my trip to England
It took me
3 months
It made me

How I did it: Spent a couple of hours interacting with a lovely British guy when he was over here. Shamelessly regaled him with email and Facebook attention. Invited myself to descend on him, once I'd decided that his resistance was probably futile, and regardless of that it was a good time for a holiday, and made plans to meet up with other lovely Brits as well. Booked plane ticket, taking advantage of strong dollar, and not worrying too much about th… Read how I did it…

May 18, 05:12AM PDT | 1 comment | 7 cheers


How to do napowrimo 2009 (a poem a day during April)
It took me
30 days
It made me

How I did it: I only ended up submitting 3 or 4 poems over the course of the month. I really didn't have the time required, but that's OK. I liked most of what I produced, and really, reading other people's stuff was so inspiring. RuthG's leadership and prompts were fabulous! Read how I did it…

May 01, 04:38AM PDT | 0 comments | 8 cheers


How to participate in earth hour 2009
It took me
1 day
It made me

How I did it: It was sort of a last-minute thing. I turned on a timer for one hour, lit some candles, and sat on the couch with a beer and my guitar, and ended up writing a nice melody, and thinking again about a haiku cycle I'd written a couple of weeks ago. Read how I did it…

Mar 29, 06:55AM PDT | 0 comments | 3 cheers


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Recent entries
practice 'Happiness Manifesto' periodically (read all 397 entries…)
6/25/09 grateful for 1 week ago
  • having energy to get a bunch of stuff done
  • clean laundry and dishes
  • getting my neighborhood pizza joint to make me an eggplant sub (and quite a good one at that)
  • my intern telling me the story of leaving Somalia with her family, and how it shaped her into the wonderful human being she is
  • the enjoyment of making things a little prettier around here for Mr L’s visit… tomorrow!

Jun 25, 08:18PM PDT | 7 cheers | 3 comments


turn the page (read all 10 entries…)
hmm, well... 1 week ago

Bored and unmotivated at work today, I decided to make good use of my time stuck at my desk. Thus far completely confused about my visa situation, I did some more poking around on the UK Border Agency website, and found a points calculator for the Highly Skilled Worker category.

Sure enough – if I’m understanding it correctly – I seem to have ample points to apply to show up in the UK and look for work, either for a UK organization or as self-employment! (And I am assuming the latter means I can do contract work for my current employer; I’m sure they’d be happy for me to bring money into their economy and pay taxes on it, right?)

So much better than one alternative, which is to broach the topic of getting engaged to one particular UK resident in order to get me in the door… eek! and frankly I don’t think he’d go for that either. I mean, it could happen, but when it does, it’ll be for the right reasons.

Jun 25, 01:52PM PDT | 7 cheers | 0 comments


turn the page (read all 10 entries…)
all of a sudden... 1 week ago

I seem to be the beneficiary of a whole new, close, happy, and rather large family.

Mr L’s sister just friended me on FB. I’ve never spoken to her, know little about her,and her only other friend so far is their mum. She has two brilliant kids I’ve seen lots of photos of, and she and all the siblings, aunts, uncles, &c are super-happy for Mr L – who has been making the rounds to tell them his news – and, by extension, me.

All this is pretty nice. I’m starting to feel bad, though, that my own mum is choosing to stay home from the party by not showing the least bit of curiosity about Mr L and what’s up with us. At first I was upset that she couldn’t seem to be happy for me (either because she’s assuming the whole thing is ephemeral – given my past history – or because he’s obviously not Jewish so why bother? although she doesn’t know the first thing about him. Apparently my trying to move to England is not enough of a sign that this is serious.). So now I’m mostly sad for her.

Jun 22, 12:32PM PDT | 9 cheers | 1 comment


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Go Back to Alaska build a telescope nyx86 wants to lose weight Find Spirituality in Nature do yoga regularly Swim with a dolphin Help others more watch more classic movies buy more vinyl build a lightsaber feel beautiful watch the exorcist movie watch Grey's Anatomy Season 3 run through a field find a cell phone number buy a car finish driver's ed make a scrapbook to illustrate my '100 things that make me happy' list Misty Sierra wants to get my cosmetology license drink more water learn to swing dance meet new people Live within my budget do a pullup Go to Britain taylorthetagger wants to learn how to graffiti shoot a gun learn reiki
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