niq




I'm doing 33 things
 

niq's Life List

  1. 1. Raise happy kids
    10 entries . 13 cheers
    23 people
  2. 2. help the environment
    2 entries . 8 cheers
    140 people
  3. 3. change world trade
    7 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  4. 4. PhD
    12 entries . 3 cheers
    111 people
  5. 5. complete a triathlon
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    567 people
  6. 6. knit every sweater I wear
    6 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. work because I like to, not because I have to
    7 entries . 12 cheers
    3,166 people
  8. 8. Own only the clothes and shoes that make me feel great
    8 entries . 8 cheers
    71 people
  9. 9. see the northern lights
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    14,270 people
  10. 10. Visit Mali
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    3 people
  11. 11. Make new friends
    10,627 people
  12. 12. see the Tour de France live
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    215 people
  13. 13. increase my flexibility
    4 entries . 2 cheers
    265 people
  14. 14. Travel to New Zealand by boat
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  15. 15. Cycle around Iceland
    3 cheers
    4 people
  16. 16. Grow a walnut tree
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    2 people
  17. 17. bake sourdough bread
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    8 people
  18. 18. listen carefully
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    8 people
  19. 19. giggle more
    1 cheer
    5 people
  20. 20. get to know people better
    1 cheer
    20 people
  21. 21. Be well-dressed
    1 entry
    6 people
  22. 22. eat no refined sugar for a month
    1 entry
    3 people
  23. 23. knit string slippers
    1 person
  24. 24. Learn Arabic
    3 cheers
    1,782 people
  25. 25. Learn Russian
    1 cheer
    2,042 people
  26. 26. try to publish my stories
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    1 person
  27. 27. dip
    1 entry
    1 person
  28. 28. Only have things that I'll actually do in my list
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    1 person
  29. 29. Renovate my house
    111 people
  30. 30. Get in shape
    7,819 people
  31. 31. Laugh myself helpless
    1 cheer
    1 person
  32. 32. Practice mindful consumption
    1 cheer
    168 people
  33. 33. Deal with my partner's depression
    1 person
Recent entries
complete a triathlon (read all 2 entries…)
Ah well 1 month ago

I was doing so well on working towards this goal – registered and trained for this weekend, supersprint, and was making the distance. Then a month ago I got ill – and I’ve spent most of the last month in hospital. I feel so flabby and tired all the time now, and really fed up that my training (and entrance fee) went to waste.

On the other hand, I came through two bouts of surgery with minimal fuss, something I couldn’t have done a year ago when I was still smoking and more overweight. And yesterday I started back into training – I walked up a hill .75km above sealevel, a distance of 12 miles. (I don’t feel so good today physically!)

It’s so hard to pick up after six months of real health struggle. I feel middle aged and that it’s always one difficult step forward then three slips backwards. (Is this what ageing is?)

Don’t want to fight; don’t want to go back to work; don’t want to exercise; just want to sit and eat chocolate and watch TV. I have been out of hospital for 6 days now; I’ve done lots of useful work around the house and walked a lot. But I don’t WANT to do this I want to slob about.


Own only the clothes and shoes that make me feel great (read all 8 entries…)
DANCING SHOES 1 year ago

I bought high heels, purple, in a sale. They’re really lovely but I don’t know if I can really wear these: I’m just not that sort of person.

Having a lot of thoughts about the role of clothes in identity. Clothes are part of how I present myself to other people; I generally present myself as matronly, dowdy, poor posture, tatty clothes, like I don’t care. I want to care, but I also don’t want to buy into the idea that this is what’s important about someone, rather than how they act and interact.

But why should dressing ok make someone a worse person?


Go to a WOMAD festival
Untitled 1 year ago

They’re great. Go once, and you’ll keep going.


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