I'm doing 34 things
I have never been...
1 week ago
...so farking terrified. Five more weeks before I get lad off from my job and I still haven’t solidified my plans. Eeep.
Tindomiel--43T keeps dropping my acute "o"!'s Life List
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1. undo all the bad messages my parents programmed into me
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2. lay out my Life Plan
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3. Finish what I start
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4. pay off my student loans
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5. get rid of unnecessary possessions
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6. Get organized and Stay organized!
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7. rebuild my art portfolio
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8. draw comics
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9. write a graphic novel
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10. Save $50,000
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11. quit my job and be an artist
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12. sell things on etsy
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13. write songs
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14. stand up for myself
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15. learn Quenya
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16. learn Anglo-Saxon
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17. Learn Japanese
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18. reread lord of the rings
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19. make a bag
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20. make a costume
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21. learn to belly dance
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22. be a model for a budoir/bdsm photo shoot
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23. learn to type without looking at my hands
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24. become ambidextrous
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25. Learn Shibari.
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26. find my family kamon
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27. come out to my family
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28. be someone's angel
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29. take a self defense class
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30. Learn Sindarin
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31. correct all the misspelled goals on this site
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32. manage my fibromyalgia
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33. build a solar food dehydrator
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34. build a solar water distiller
1 person
How I did it
It made me
good! 
How I did it: In a word: drugs. I've been extremely reluctant to take antidepressants for my chronic depression because I heard all the horror stories about endless trials and bad side effects. But getting fibromyalgia forced my hand; I had to try a bunch of neurotransmitter reuptake inhibitors because they're the first line of treatment for fibro. In addition to alleviating the pain, they also lifted my mood. Since I'm probably going to have to take p… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
awesome
1 week ago
So there’s a local charity that does door-to-door donations pickups for their thrift store once every two months. Clearing out old stuff has never been easier! Well, for me anyhow. Getting the housemates to haul out the rest of their stuff in the garage so I can set up my workshop is going to be a little more difficult.
I'm on drugs!
2 weeks ago
By convenient coincidence, the med I am on for fibro is a SSNRI, which, unsurprisingly, has also lifted my mood and made me more motivated to go do things. I think the norepinephrine side of this has been extremely important. On SSRIs I was chipper and pain-free but didn’t get much done. Being able to be productive is a positive spiral; being productive makes me happy, which lifts my mood and makes me more productive, etc. I’m still taking Omega-3 pills, and notice that this still has a substantial effect even though I’m already on cymbalta.
