Driving to USC to pick my daughter up last night, it was just the most beautiful sunset. It was late so there was no traffic, just the sun going down behind the skyscrapers, all lit up with the lights on in every window still. (You don’t get an office in the 20th floor downtown if you only work 40 hours a week.) The weather was perfect, it was just a lovely evening.
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1. Have an article accepted for publication in an academic journal.
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2. Finish website on SAS Enterprise Guide by end of March
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3. Finish that book proposal by March!
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4. Clean my house
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5. Master survival analysis
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6. Learn more about categorical data analysis
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7. Finish my wiki
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8. Pay off my credit cards.
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9. Have at least six articles accepted for publication this year.
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10. Read one book each week
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11. be grateful every day
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12. write in my blog every day
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13. explore the city where I live.
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14. Beef up the SPSS section of my site
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How I did it: Sat down and read it. I was in junior high school and no doubt I was supposed to be reading something else, like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or Anne of Green Gables, neither of which I could stand. My daughter, Jenn, when she was about 11, did like Anne. No one ever liked Rebecca.I remember my mother disapproved of my reading choices. She thought Ayn Rand was "selfish". Read how I did it…
How I did it: I saw the northern lights many times, as (too) much of my career and education has taken me to the Great Plains states, near the Canadian border. Each time, I marveled at how beautiful it was and was surprised that some people who live on those regions just take a ho-hum attitude, like I do about earthquakes.I never went looking for the northern lights, I would just see them on a business trip, on my way home from work, or walking back to… Read how I did it…
This was a very interesting book about a complicated subject. In short, she reviewed the choices women make and looked at the question of what makes people happy. The quick answer is that being single is better than an unhappy marriage, children are a blessing for most people and how important work is to your happiness pretty much depends on your personality, values and situation. I liked it because there were no simple answers, just like life.
I paid off the one that had a ridiculous interest rate. Paid off $12,000 in a year ! Whoo-ee. Now I have two smaller ones left, both with 0% introductory rates. My goal is to pay off the smaller one of those in six months.
I am also socking money into my 401k and paying off loans from putting two daughters in college. Should owe $0 within two years and have two daughters through college, one through graduate school.
Two kids down, two to go (-:
