I'm doing 11 things
June Goal
1 month ago
My goal for June will be to practice more conscious eating habits, using the “hara hachi bu” concept of eating until you’re 80% full as a guide.
handygirl's Life List
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1. live simply
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2. practice hara hachi bu every day for a month
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3. use 2009 to build 12 great habits, one month at a time
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4. practice the guitar three times a week for a month
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5. Take the one hundred pushups challenge (hundredpushups.com)
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6. take the two hundred situps challenge
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7. update the family recipe book
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8. do the A-Z author challenge
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9. knit a real, wearable, non-embarrassing sweater that fits
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10. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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11. learn to sew
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How I did it
It made me
Less sleepy 
How I did it: Ten hours was a purely arbitrary number, but it ended up being a pretty good goal. I was a bit over or under that each week for the month of May, but the specter of "10" kept things mostly under control. More important than any specific number, this exercise helped me break the habit of vegging, mindless channel-flipping and falling asleep in front of the television. That was the real goal here and it was accomplished. I'm going to keep d… Read how I did it…
It made me
Dirty and liberated
How I did it: My husband and stepson went on a camping trip for Spring Break, which required them to pull out all of our camping stuff and look it over. That was the perfect opportunity for me to start shifting through everything else, figuring out what we really needed to keep and then finding a home for it that didn't involve a pile on the floor. Now, absolutely everything has a place and a use. Read how I did it…
It made me
How I did it: Working from a great example found at the Angry Chicken blog, I used Numbers to create a single-page layout that includes 11 recipes we use fairly often. Just basic ingredients and the most basic instructions are included because these are recipes that we make often enough to know the technique, if not the exact ingredients or temps and times. Read how I did it…
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Just a reminder to myself
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I’m working on the excellent “Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin now, but want to remind myself when I’m finished that Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” was something I wanted to read. Conveniently, I need a “K”!
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Gibson is usually listed first on “The Difference Engine,” but I think that’s just alphabetical ordering, so I have listed this under S since I already had a G. It was interesting, although the ending left me pretty cold. The entire book seemed to be a big build-up for…I’m not sure, something trying too hard to be mysterious and interesting and failing to be either. 20 more to go in the year and it’s already mid-May? I’d better get cracking!
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E: Eichoff, Randy Lee, “The Feast”
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G: Gaiman, Neil, “The Graveyard Book”
H: Hahn, Thich Nhat, “The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology”
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P: Pollan, Michael, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”
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S: Stirling, Bruce & William Gibson, “The Difference Engine”
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W: Willett, Walter, “Eat, Drink and Be Healthy”
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