I'm doing 28 things
1. My daughter “doing” my hair…and the fact that she’s old enough now to do it without causing me tremendous amounts of pain.
2. I’m ahead of the curve at work, for now.
3. I have a job that’s challenging enough that I’ll have to stay on my toes to keep ahead of the curve for long!
4. Thing 2 makes really cute noises when she uses mouthwash. Her face is even better than the sounds she makes!
5. I’m turning into a morning person, I think…
Princess K is Back Again...again!'s Life List
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1. ride my bike to work whenever the weather permits.
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2. engage telemarketers in friendly but futile conversation
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3. Participate in a 43 Things Haiku Contest.
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4. remember the things I used to believe in as a kid
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5. become rich
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6. go toe to toe with myself
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7. list 30 things I want to do before I turn 30...and DO them!
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8. Make sure my daughters know I'm proud of them.
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9. Stop comparing myself to other people
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10. create a world where women can walk ANYWHERE, EVERYWHERE
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11. eat healthfully 6 days a week.
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12. share tidbits from the veritable pleothora of useless information that exists in my brain.
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13. Finish what I start
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14. quit smoking
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15. Catalog yummy quotes
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16. List 43 Songs that are Important to Me
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17. disclose 43 dirty little secrets about myself
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18. Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.
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19. Remember what REALLY matters
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20. Support efforts to end genocide in Darfur
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21. die laughing my ass off
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22. feel the fear and do it anyway
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23. declutter my life
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24. post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :)
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25. make a difference
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26. teach my children to appreciate nature.
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27. cuss rarely and only when it will have high rhetorical impact
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28. Look as exciting as I feel.
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Recent entries
share tidbits from the veritable pleothora of useless information that exists in my brain. (read all 4 entries…)
used to be measured far above ground level, when I was a kid.
Today, it is measured at ground level, at the place where actual human beings hang out to experience it.
Typically, the wind is stronger at any altitude than at ground level.
That would lead the casual observer to believe that the wind chills of recent years haven’t been so bad. The casual observer is wrong. It’s cold. Freakin’ cold.
was in a tree on the shore of a very large lake, on a branch that hung way out over open water. I wanted to freeze time that day. I knew that summer was almost over, that fall would melt into winter. I knew that the heat of youthful passion would fade to a memory, that soon enough my first love would be just a memory—perhaps a silly one, at that. I believed that if I could stop time, I would always own the magic of that day. I would always be loved.
Now I know that the moment was never mine, nor have any of life’s moments been mine to manipulate. Time unfolds as it will. It surprises and shocks and crushes and astonishes. Moments delight and overwhelm, and they cannot be stopped or frozen.
Nevertheless, I had it half right—I have always been loved. It just took me decades to realize that it wasn’t about the moment. It was about ME.
