I'm doing 36 things
...and it’s exhausting, but wow, what beautiful boys they are!
mejaka's Life List
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1. get the Barbie Project going again
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2. alter books
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3. be a good wife
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4. play the piano again
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5. arrange a home exchange vacation
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6. learn to play hymns on the piano
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7. Attend more cultural events.
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8. cruise the Inside Passage and vacation in Alaska
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9. enter the Playwright's Forum Festival -in 2006- (change to "the next time their call is for short plays")
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10. play more old-fashioned games with my kids
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11. write a column again
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12. take a photography class
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13. try the 21-day happiness plan
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14. practice compassion
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15. see the northern lights
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16. have a simple photo studio in my house and take inexpensive pictures of people's children
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17. grow asparagus
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18. pour concrete steps for my hot tub and mosaic them
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19. entertain more
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20. see every film adaptation ever made based on Dickens' _A Christmas Carol_
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21. Facilitate personal-history writing
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22. start submitting mss again
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23. learn gourdcrafting
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24. perform with my boys
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25. edit my NaNovel
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26. go on a windjammer cruise
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27. learn to knit again
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28. get away regularly, even on short notice
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29. make cool stuff with the kids, like those from the instructables website, beginning with a "cola gondola"
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30. couchsurf
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31. espalier an apple tree
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32. buy a DVD projector
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33. practice calligraphy daily
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34. kayak in the Galapogos
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35. train with my son for the Independence Day two-mile--and beat my two former times
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36. develop a personal education plan
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How I did it
It made me
feel tough! 
How I did it: By breaking the distances into 26 segments, I was able to complete the entire distance of an IronMan in 26 (active) days. I didn't work out on Sunday, and there was a little incident with a splinter of glass that had me sitting on the sidelines on doctor's orders for a week. But I just allowed an extra week to finish. Part of the reason we (my kids and I) chose the name "AluminuMan" is because aluminum is lighter and mor… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
but we are very unexpectedly expecting twins. They’ll be our 5th and 6th children, our 4th and 5th boys, and our daughter (currently the youngest) just turned 9.
I suppose the shock will wear off at some point…
I had to choose between “worth doing” and “not worth it,” and I think babies are always worth it. That is—once they’re on their way, you just have to know that it will all work out. :^ )
How weird to be able to say I’ve done this. I had no real goal to do it, but back when I was younger a few things just fell into my lap. Admittedly, my journalism jobs weren’t glamorous or anything—a short stint at a small-town weekly newspaper as a reporter/photographer, followed a few years later by back-to-back periods at two different radio stations as a news reporter and anchor. I covered city and county news, school boards, stuff like that. Nothing groundbreaking, no assignments involving travel to foreign countries, just basic legwork and the chance to be in print and on the air. Pretty heady stuff for a small-town 19-to-21-year-old with no experience.
