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Katchoo




I'm doing 31 things
  

Katchoo's Life List

  1. 1. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
    11 entries . 54 cheers     		5,959 people
  2. 2. convert to judaism
    12 entries . 49 cheers     		191 people
  3. 3. become a top 500 reviewer on Amazon
    17 entries . 39 cheers     		2 people
  4. 4. read the entire patrick o'brian series
    2 entries . 10 cheers     		2 people
  5. 5. start swimming again
    2 entries . 31 cheers     		132 people
  6. 6. go to the gym regularly
    2 entries . 18 cheers     		739 people
  7. 7. Become a better investigator
    4 entries . 13 cheers     		1 person
  8. 8. be an excellent shot
    4 entries . 30 cheers     		3 people
  9. 9. Learn to speak Spanish
    3 entries . 28 cheers     		2,008 people
  10. 10. learn to knit or crochet
    3 entries . 67 cheers     		53 people
  11. 11. make art every day
    2 entries . 64 cheers     		39 people
  12. 12. create altered art
    1 entry . 46 cheers     		13 people
  13. 13. Take more photos
    2 entries . 29 cheers     		2,941 people
  14. 14. scrapbook more
    1 entry . 18 cheers     		349 people
  15. 15. Organize scrapbooking materials
    2 entries . 12 cheers     		6 people
  16. 16. take a scrapbooking class
    1 entry . 17 cheers     		7 people
  17. 17. make more hand made gifts
    3 entries . 32 cheers     		5 people
  18. 18. learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals
    3 entries . 38 cheers     		791 people
  19. 19. write more hand made notes to those I love
    2 entries . 38 cheers     		10 people
  20. 20. Write thank you letters to all the people who have inspired me in my life
    4 entries . 42 cheers     		3 people
  21. 21. ride a scooter
    4 entries . 23 cheers     		15 people
  22. 22. Visit more Atlanta museums and galleries
    1 entry . 28 cheers     		1 person
  23. 23. organize a 43Things meetup in Atlanta
    1 entry . 16 cheers     		49 people
  24. 24. Get more efficient with my online business
    4 entries . 16 cheers     		1 person
  25. 25. move to Florida
    1 entry . 16 cheers     		183 people
  26. 26. Actually USE my cookbooks!
    2 entries . 15 cheers     		3 people
  27. 27. list 43 words that describe me
    6 cheers     		123 people
  28. 28. get back in the 43T groove
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		2 people
  29. 29. Re-evaluate and re-vamp my goals list for 2008
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		1 person
  30. 30. read 52 books in 2008
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		28 people
  31. 31. Celebrate Adar's Accomplishment on 43Things with Cheers and Toasts
    1 cheer     		2 people
Recent entries
go to a film festival (read all 2 entries…)
Finally! 6 months ago

After several years of getting excited about the lineup of this or that film festival in Atlanta, I finally went to one. Spent most of the day today at the Jewish Film Festival and saw one full length documentary, 9 shorts, and two features. All well worth it. Loved it, glad I did it, wish I could do it more often.

Now I want to get to Toronto or Sundance…

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read 52 books in 2008
I can do this... 6 months ago

I tried 100 books last year but fell way short thanks to sudoku, magazines and podcasts taking up a lot of my reading time. But one book a week? I can do it!

First book for the year:

1. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

You’d think a book about what happens to human artifacts, from art to architecture to ubiquitous plastic detritus, if humanity disappears through extinction, rapture or implosion, would be depressing but this book is oftentimes oddly hopeful. Although the radioactive remnants of our nuclear power plants and the unyielding plastic chemicals we’ve strewn everywhere would be problematic, it seems that the rest of life on earth would adjust pretty well to us vacating our overgrown niche.

The best part of the book, though, are the suggestions of things that we can do to lower our impact before the earth shakes us off like a dog getting rid of an annoying tick. I loved the author’s edenic vision of an earth in which women limit their childbearing to one child each—by the end of the century earth’s population would subside by several billion people, and the rest of the biosphere would exhale a deep sigh of relief as our pressure eased up accordingly. Would that it could be made to happen some way…

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Get more efficient with my online business (read all 4 entries…)
Feeling good about this... 6 months ago

Got a bunch of stuff out on ebay and out the door. I’ve been trying to get into a daily routine of updating old listings and listing a few books each day. I slacked off this week because I’ve been working on our Etsy project, but I plan to move between them.

I’m really excited right now because our Etsy shop, Life at the Rancho, is finally up and running. We decided to do it as a collective shop (me, my partner and our two best friends who live next door). I’ve been hard at work on Valentine cards and Deb is getting ready to post some of her pottery. Eventually we hope to have a variety of stuff since we all dabble in lots of different crafts. For right now, I’m just happy to have the doors open!

If you are interested, you can check it out at lifeattherancho.etsy.com.

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