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Well, I didn’t know she was going to win a bronze medal at the time. I went to watch her compete. It was definitely, definitely worth going. It’s actually the third time I went to watch the Olympics – once in Los Angeles, once in Athens and once in Beijing. It was awesome every time.
drannmaria's Life List
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1. explore the city where I live.
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2. write in my blog every day
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3. be grateful every day
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4. Read one book each week
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5. Pay off my credit cards.
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6. Finish my wiki
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7. Clean my house
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8. clean up my life list every week
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How I did it
It made me
Pleased. 
How I did it: I wrote my first book in hotels and airports while I was away from home on business. Since I had worked all day, I didn't want to work in the evenings. The book is Wizard and Spy: Book 1The Ex-Apprentices It's available on Amazon for the Kindleon Smashwords for other ereadersand in print The second book in the series is almost ready for publication. I am also working on a non-fiction book with a traditional publisher. Read how I did it…
It made me
Happy ! (and richer)
How I did it: I've written very many. I wrote three this year. One was funded, two were not. I wrote one last year that was funded. The difference is that I took more long shots in the last year. Often, if I don't think I have > 50% chance I won't write the grant. Basically, I follow the instructions to the nth degree - usually the instructions are 25- 100 pages long. Also, I allow myself ample time to complete the grant. For a major grant, I need a… Read how I did it…
It made me
Proud
How I did it: First was getting the grant funded, then the data collection, data entry and analysis. All of that took two years, although most of that was getting the funding, finding people to collect data in the region and getting the data. It probably took a total of 160 hours of writing and revising, spread over a year from submission to getting the first reviews to revision to acceptance. Read how I did it…
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The first book I had published was a novel, aimed at young adults (and immature older adults, like me). I wrote it in my spare time when I was bored in hotel rooms on business travel in the middle of nowhere. You can buy it on Amazon, CreateSpace or Smashwords.
What’s to be grateful about that, you ask?
1. It is the shortest day of the year, which means every day from here on out there is more sunshine – woohoo!
2. I don’t live someone it is cold and snowy, unlike many of my friends.
3. That means no snow shoveling, no driving on ice, no scraping ice off my car and no freezing my ass.
4. It’s only a few more days until Christmas with midnight mass, a mountain of presents, the family here and Christmas dinner with turkey and all the trimmings.
5. I’m on vacation – woo hoo!
