 I'm doing 42 things |
| 1. |
remember that I am free and alive
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2 people |
| 2. |
spend less time online
10 entries . 36 cheers |
562 people |
| 3. |
Look at the sky
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7 people |
| 4. |
stop drinking alone
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6 people |
| 5. |
get through this
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7 people |
| 6. |
picnic
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11 people |
| 7. |
figure out my life
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66 people |
| 8. |
ask for what I want
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22 people |
| 9. |
Think of all the things I would do if I won the lottery, and then look for ways to work towards them now, even without a multimillion dollar bank account
4 entries . 40 cheers |
5 people |
| 10. |
see fireflies
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52 people |
| 11. |
improve my blog
5 entries . 2 cheers |
66 people |
| 12. |
get out of this funk
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18 people |
| 13. |
be more frugal
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126 people |
| 14. |
reduce my bills
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4 people |
| 15. |
Identify and Rid Myself of 43 Items of Überclutter
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23 people |
| 16. |
be excellent at my job
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3 people |
| 17. |
Go to bed by 10:30 on weeknights
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64 people |
| 18. |
Develop an exercise routine that works with my new schedule
1 entry . 12 cheers |
1 person |
| 19. |
have better posture
9 entries . 55 cheers |
7,686 people |
| 20. |
Give up each of my vices for one week on a rotating schedule in effort to teach myself how to avoid them
40 entries . 18 cheers |
2 people |
| 21. |
read some books about feminism
2 entries . 14 cheers |
1 person |
| 22. |
train my cat
9 entries . 4 cheers |
11 people |
| 23. |
learn to meditate
3 entries . 16 cheers |
1,614 people |
| 24. |
learn about buddhism
3 entries . 11 cheers |
394 people |
| 25. |
learn to identify trees
13 entries . 74 cheers |
20 people |
| 26. |
construct a family emergency kit and put it where I'll find it when I need it
4 entries . 74 cheers |
57 people |
| 27. |
replace the kitchen floor
5 entries . 7 cheers |
2 people |
| 28. |
Read 50 books in 2009.
10 entries . 12 cheers |
247 people |
| 29. |
learn about beer
22 entries . 34 cheers |
4 people |
| 30. |
learn how to drive stick-shift
3 entries . 12 cheers |
4,458 people |
| 31. |
Volunteer often
9 entries . 35 cheers |
4 people |
| 32. |
Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
8 entries . 7 cheers |
72 people |
| 33. |
Bowl over 200
12 entries . 9 cheers |
22 people |
| 34. |
wake up when my alarm clock goes off
19 entries . 44 cheers |
7,514 people |
| 35. |
get my hearing checked
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8 people |
| 36. |
buy a new dishwasher
3 entries . 3 cheers |
4 people |
| 37. |
Do an energy audit on my home
1 entry . 15 cheers |
1 person |
| 38. |
move to Portland
8 entries . 25 cheers |
263 people |
| 39. |
Build a cat tree for my cat
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61 people |
| 40. |
Go skydiving
1 entry . 5 cheers |
6,556 people |
| 41. |
think more serously about writing that book
9 cheers |
1 person |
| 42. |
Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
1 entry . 3 cheers |
437 people |
How I did it: Boyfriend and I looked around for inexpensive flights and picked the cheapest international flight that corresponded to the dates we needed. We ended up in Cancun and even scored a free place to stay!We took a few side trip and on the day of my birthday we traveled to a nicer hotel in another town and spent the whole day on the beach. It was bliss. And we ate a fancy dinner where the wait staff totally ignored us and didn't ev… Read how I did it…
How I did it: This was a fundraiser for Washington Trails Association. I had picked a goal of 40 miles in the hike-a-thon thinking I could weekend warrior it with 10 miles each weekend. Things didn't go as planned when I had to go out of town 3 times during August! I ended up getting 20 of my 40.1 total miles done on weekdays after work. I learned a lot about what trails are close enough and short enough to walk before dark, hopefully I'll … Read how I did it…
How I did it: I followed the recipe on the back of a packet of pectin.4 cups chopped cherries1 package pectin1 1/2 cups sugar.Sir for 3 minutes. Ladle into container, let sit for 30 minutes. Freeze for up to 1 year. Read how I did it…
My grandma is dying.
And I’m also considering having my cat put down.
It’s not been a good week, and it’s not going to get better for a while. I need to be able to keep myself going, get to work, get my work done, get some sleep and exercise, not drink my troubles away, not take out my depression on the boyfriend. Attmept to learn and grow. But mostly just get out of bed every day.
It’s another week until the vet appointment, but I’m going to try to get it moved up. I canceled most of my upcoming travel because my grandma is dying. That means I’m home to take him in. And home to be kept up all night.
Tonight after him keeping me up for 2 of the 5 hours I planned to sleep, I was bawling my eyes out and he comes over and sits next to me and makes some noise. I couldn’t hear him over my own crying and got the idea that he wanted in my lap. Awe how sweet, he’s going to give me some cuddle comfort. Nope. That noise was a hiss, and my cuddle was a face full of claws and more hissing. I can only assume he was freaked out by my own gasping and thought I was hissing at him or something…
Yeah, so my eyelid won’t seem to stop bleeding and it’s all swelling up. My alarm is going to go off in about an hour and a half from now, ya know, so I can get up refreshed and do all the work I procrastinated on all day long. And if I attempt to sleep anywhere but at the kitchen table he’s going to start in on the howling again. So I’m up for the night. I really wish I had some coffee in the house! Green tea is not going to cut it.
We’re going to the vet next week. And unless the vet can give me some kind of TREATABLE medical reason why he’s turned from an ordinary low-level demon cat into a fully formed devil from hell, he just might have to go down. I wonder if he’s in pain himself and thats whats going on. Do I have it in me to go through more testing and trial and error and treatments.
I can not live like this. I don’t know if I can live through experimenting with drugs that might help, that require me to give him a pill (why aren’t all cat drugs injectable?!?).
I’m deliriously tired and panicked and my face is bleeding and I can’t concentrate on work that I really really really need to be doing right now. So who knows if I’ll take all this back and delete this entry after a couple nights in a hotel this week.
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jenmiwri wants to get rid of all my clutter
take a culinary class
Fall in love for real
Watch the top 250 movies on the Internet Movie Database
Lose 20 pounds
create music with frooty loops
Visit the desert
find the perfect travel partner
go to London
be more culturally aware
lindsey8218 wants to master cleanse
Learn to play "Imagine" on the piano
be a man
learn graffiti
be a cosmotoligist
be healthy
write a graphic novel
Learn to surf
improve my spoken english
be charismatic
Build a garage
go to university
carpe diem
Save money, not waste money!
learn voice modulation
