Finished An Intimate History of Humanity last night. Thank goodness. I’m glad to be heading back to fiction. Am now going to start Tommo & Hawk by Bryce Courtenay. I’ve read quite a few of his books and have never been disappointed. They are very varied in subject matter.
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1. Stay in touch with my friends more
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2. Practice being happy everyday
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3. Read two great books a month
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4. Have another child
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5. find my passion, and follow it passionately
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6. live a life that excites me
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7. finish my projects
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8. stop caring what other people think
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9. create my own website
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10. write poetry again
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11. write fiction
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12. stop daydreaming
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13. raise a loving, creative and responsible child
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14. go on at least one country walk a week
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15. practice my flute more
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16. Make some close friends in my new home town
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17. challenge my musical abilities
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18. stop looking like a slob
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19. practice tai chi
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20. learn some conversational Maori
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21. renovate our house
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22. grow my own fruit and vegetables
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23. develop a cleaning routine and keep my house clean
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24. Create a photo album each year of my daughter
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25. create a garden to share with others
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26. be a better gardener
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27. sew more
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28. scan our travel photos onto CD
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29. Have started my business by the end of 2006
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30. Design a series of books for the tourist market
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31. Create personally bound anthologies
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OK, I spent the weekend sorting out a routine for keeping up with the housework. My house certainly wouldn’t qualify for one of those grotty homes you see on the TV cleaning programmes (but then I suspect they’re deliberately made to look so bad). All the same I can’t currently keep up with the spider webs and dust that an old house seems to encourage. My routines are based very loosely on www.flylady.net. If you haven’t looked at this website before I can recommend it. It’s a bit happy/clappy for my personal taste, but I got a lot of useful ideas, such as creating a control diary. Now I have to put it into action.
Currently been reading this for a week. I’ve had it on my bookshelf for ages. It’s non-fiction. Quite interesting, but not a light read, so bedtime probably isn’t the best time to try to make inroads. Still, now I have an aim of two books a month, I’ve got an incentive to get it read ASAP.
