Melissa B.

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I'm doing 43 things
 

Melissa B.'s Life List

  1. 1. Make 2009 My Best Year Yet
    1 entry . 38 cheers
    116 people
  2. 2. consciously create my day
    4 entries . 78 cheers
    49 people
  3. 3. Write every day
    5 entries . 172 cheers
    848 people
  4. 4. Give 4000 cheers
    3 entries . 13 cheers
    7 people
  5. 5. learn how to thread my sewing machine
    2 entries . 33 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. run a marathon
    17 entries . 95 cheers
    9,889 people
  7. 7. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
    4 entries . 28 cheers
    5,441 people
  8. 8. Save money for a car.
    3 entries . 27 cheers
    49 people
  9. 9. write a short story.
    1 entry . 64 cheers
    949 people
  10. 10. Send a postcard to Postsecret
    2 entries . 27 cheers
    2,770 people
  11. 11. volunteer at an animal shelter
    1 entry . 43 cheers
    486 people
  12. 12. Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock's movies
    3 entries . 21 cheers
    204 people
  13. 13. read all of Jane Austen's novels
    1 entry . 57 cheers
    148 people
  14. 14. Watch the top 250 movies on the Internet Movie Database
    9 entries . 20 cheers
    442 people
  15. 15. See at Least 1 Movie by the They Shoot Pictures Top 100 Directors
    16 entries . 12 cheers
    2 people
  16. 16. learn french
    1 entry . 38 cheers
    10,097 people
  17. 17. write a sonnet
    1 entry . 45 cheers
    25 people
  18. 18. Grow my hair as long as possible
    4 entries . 34 cheers
    133 people
  19. 19. learn sign language
    1 entry . 59 cheers
    7,416 people
  20. 20. learn to sew
    2 entries . 45 cheers
    3,466 people
  21. 21. Learn Spanish
    1 entry . 37 cheers
    14,853 people
  22. 22. go to Disneyworld
    1 entry . 36 cheers
    201 people
  23. 23. go on a cruise
    2 entries . 25 cheers
    3,888 people
  24. 24. sell a screenplay
    1 entry . 37 cheers
    148 people
  25. 25. win an oscar
    1 entry . 23 cheers
    286 people
  26. 26. Write a poem that's also a palindrome
    1 entry . 47 cheers
    2 people
  27. 27. Read the Bible
    2 entries . 27 cheers
    3,080 people
  28. 28. Read Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    34 people
  29. 29. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    542 people
  30. 30. Write a book (nonfiction)
    1 entry . 31 cheers
    95 people
  31. 31. meet new people
    1 entry . 61 cheers
    4,030 people
  32. 32. Write a Sestina
    1 entry . 23 cheers
    18 people
  33. 33. go camping
    1 entry . 25 cheers
    2,428 people
  34. 34. Edit my most recent script and send it into this year's Nicholl Fellowship
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    1 person
  35. 35. Watch all of Woody Allen's films
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    110 people
  36. 36. Become an eccentric old lady
    1 entry . 15 cheers
    8 people
  37. 37. read A Clockwork Orange
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    59 people
  38. 38. read Catch-22
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    46 people
  39. 39. Catch up on reading my newspapers
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  40. 40. quit world of warcraft
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    50 people
  41. 41. publish a short story
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    310 people
  42. 42. Read 50 books in 2009.
    8 cheers
    257 people
  43. 43. organize my recipes
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    101 people

How I did it
How to clean and straighten my house enough that if someone pops over I don't feel required to apologize for the state of my living space
It took me
1 month
It made me
Content


Recent entries
watch less tv
Two Things Made This Easy 1 week ago

(1) My cable breaks all the time, about every other day, sometimes two to three times on the same day. After 17,000 visits from the cable company, it seems that the only way to reset it is to undo and redo some cords in the closet to release static electricity build-up. I.e., you have to go mildly electrocute yourself to get the TV to run again. So, when my husband is out of town (and when isn’t he?), I find myself going days without any TV at all . . . because I’d rather skip it than get shocked twice a day to watch a rerun I’ve seen already. It’s basic aversion therapy, lol.

(2) There’s very little I want to watch. I checked out a few shows I heard about from other people, and found them dull/pointless (the shows, not the people). I’m not a fan of most reality TV shows, and that’s what is crowding up the TV networks these days. I liked a few cable shows on HBO and Showtime, but most of those either ended or were cancelled.

With Netflix’s instant-watching service and TV shows coming out on DVD when the seasons are over, I think I could live entirely without cable or even without a television set and just rent or insta-watch online the very few shows worth seeing.



consciously create my day (read all 4 entries…)
Good Goal 1 week ago

My best days are when I can manage to achieve this goal, so sitting at the #2 spot on my list is a good place for it.

I feel very productive and happy when I do this.

The lazy part of my brain has a delusion that doing productive things is icky and tedious, but no, no, no! It is satisfying to get things done.

Nice to see you all, I’m off now, going back to continue on my consciously created day. :)



publish a short story
Been A While Since I Sent Out a Short Story 1 month ago

10 years, to be exact . . .

Bad, bad me.

I’ve been working on a few lately, some I actually kinda sorta like.



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