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matriarchy

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  2. 1. Blog my 50th birthday year
    3 entries     		1 person
  3. 2. Plan 55th birthday party.
    		1 person
  4. 3. Find the right therapist
    1 entry     		1 person
  5. 4. Improve the bathroom
    1 entry     		1 person
  6. 5. Do NaNoWriMo
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		690 people
  7. 6. Take the NRA Basic Pistol Course.
    1 entry     		1 person
  8. 7. get a passport
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1,687 people
  9. 8. make a bucket list
    1 entry     		78 people
  10. 9. implement GTD
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  11. 10. Read the books on the UK Gaurdian list.
    1 entry     		1 person
  12. 11. Read Poust's "Rememberance of Things Past"
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  13. 12. Transfer bookmarked recipes to my recipe site.
    		1 person
  14. 13. Attend Philly Fringe
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  15. 14. look into lasik eye surgery
    		1 person
  16. 15. build a solar cooker
    		5 people
  17. 16. learn to re-wire lamps
    		2 people
  18. 17. learn to can food
    1 entry     		14 people
  19. 18. Improve my photography
    1 cheer     		648 people
  20. 19. find a dressmaker
    1 cheer     		1 person
  21. 20. Walk 3-4x per week
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  22. 21. write more letters
    2 cheers     		1,846 people
  23. 22. practice tai chi
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		124 people
  24. 23. Prepare for short-term energy outages
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  25. 24. Store 6 months of food staples and water
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  26. 25. Build a rain barrel watering system for the garden
    		1 person
  27. 26. organize my print photos
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  28. 27. collect an oral history of my family
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		21 people
  29. 28. make a keepsake out of my grandmother's clothes
    1 entry     		1 person
  30. 29. write a book
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		31,070 people
  31. 30. Go on a long road trip.
    		17 people
  32. 31. take a train trip
    1 entry     		80 people
  33. 32. attend more film festivals
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  34. 33. visit Belize
    1 cheer     		52 people
  35. 34. Help find the cure to Huntington Disease
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		5 people
  36. 35. Plant 500 Trees
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1 person
  37. 36. Expand my worm composting
    		1 person
  38. 37. have my mitochondrial DNA checked to discover my 'Eve" mother
    		6 people
  39. 38. Build solar back-up for my CPAP machine
    1 entry     		1 person
  40. 39. paint the hall
    		5 people

How I did it
How to take more day trips
It took me
1 year
It made me
cosmopolitan

How I did it: First, get yourself a teenager.  Then, have the teenager sign up for a big regional youth organization.  Then, follow your teenager around to all the events and meetings as a driver, advisor, and/or chaperone.  When you go, leave early, so you have time to visit things in your destination city.  Voila!  You are taking day trips! Read how I did it…

Jan 28, 2009, 05:25PM PST | 0 comments | 1 cheer


How to make a smaller ecological footprint
It took me
6 months
It made me
Productive

How I did it: By blogging.  I started a blog that recording the daily struggle to find the right things to do.  I challenged myself to report on various aspects.  I found other bloggers that were participating in the Riot4Austerity, the Independence Days Challenge, and various local eating challenges.  We trade ideas and encourage each other.I am not "done" with this goal, but I am taking it off my 43Things list.  I will contin… Read how I did it…

Dec 17, 2008, 04:07PM PST | 2 comments | 2 cheers


How to find my birthmother
It took me
1 year
It made me
Answered

How I did it: I located my birthmother in California, more than 10 years ago, via the Maury Povich show.  A friend in the adoption "industry" hooked me up with the show when she learned I was looking.  They found my mother in about 20 minutes - but she refused to be on the show.  So, they put us in contact, but no one got to fly anywhere and meet anyone. She and I exchanged letters, calls, and photos for a while, and it was very nice. I … Read how I did it…

Dec 17, 2008, 03:51PM PST | 0 comments


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Recent entries
Find a permanent home base
Not what I expected

I didn’t expect it, but I guess I have ended up with my childhood home as my permanent home base. I was living here and caring for my elderly mother. I expected Medicaid to take her house when she went into a nursing home, but now it appears that I can keep it, if I can catch up the house taxes. A free and clear home? Duh – doing it.

I have bad credit and will probably never be able to get a mortgage. So this looks like my best-and-last chance to own a house. The house I didn’t like when I was growing up – LOL!

But now I can change many of the things I didn’t like, slowly, as I have the money. I already had it insulated through a funding program for the elderly when Mom was here. It is centrally located for travel, on a bus route, basic stores are walkable. A quarter of an acre to garden. 4 BRs and one bath – adding a powder room and renovating the full bath are very, very high on my list.

Even if I decide to live elsewhere for periods of time, I could rent this and have it as a fallback residence.

Sep 17, 04:37AM PDT | 0 comments


Find the right therapist
Closer

I started a search. Spent about 6 visits with a woman that just wasn’t a good match. Had about 4 visits with one that was closer to right, but then I lost my insurance coverage. I hope to get coverage back again – so I will think about what I learned in the meantime.

I don’t need medication, so my goal is to find talk therapy with someone that is a good match of personality, liberal with regard to lifestyle, and collaborative rather than prescriptive.

Sep 17, 03:58AM PDT | 0 comments


Blog my 50th birthday year (read all 3 entries…)
Too little, too late

OK – this just didn’t happen – nor did much of anything else I thought I would do in my 50th year. I am now well into my 51st year. But before I forget, I will at least write down some of things that did happen. So, I am substantially reducing the scope of this goal.

Sep 17, 03:49AM PDT | 0 comments


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find the symbol for my next tattoo pass biology fall in love again createkg wants to Lose 30 pounds be more patient Share a night under the stars Lose Weight and Get Healthy Run around town in a bear suit learn to play bass guitar visit every MLB stadium write music watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies play the game halo online make a free layout for my imvu home page Lolly wants to get rid of things I don't need financial independence Appreciate people for who they are lose 20 lbs Read every Far Side Comic Strip stop procrastinating hotwire a car lose weight meditate daily be more outgoing celebrate my benign schizophrenia Buy a House Clean out my closet.
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