outoftheclouds




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  1. 1. Maintain my integrity
    5 entries . 24 cheers
    7 people
  2. 2. find out if I can transfer credits
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    1 person
  3. 3. walk into the first class of my bachelors degree
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    1 person
  4. 4. spend the summer making new plants
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    1 person
  5. 5. spend time caring for my pets and plants everday
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    1 person
  6. 6. finally get my drivers lisence
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. write a 20-page research paper - yikes!
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    1 person
  8. 8. have shoulder muscles
    4 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  9. 9. Walk in a rainforest
    2 entries . 16 cheers
    9 people
  10. 10. repot my Haworthias
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    1 person
  11. 11. clean my room
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    2,666 people
  12. 12. become a filmmaker
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    106 people
  13. 13. Learn to do mehndi
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    10 people
  14. 14. be unafraid to speak my mind
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    2 people
  15. 15. be beautiful
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    1,008 people
  16. 16. stand tall
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    11 people
  17. 17. Grow a bigger heart
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    1 person
  18. 18. thank my teachers
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    15 people
  19. 19. enjoy pomegrantes everyday while they are in season
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    1 person
  20. 20. Paint what I see
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    4 people
  21. 21. control my temper
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    621 people
  22. 22. Pronounce better
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    2 people
  23. 23. ride in a hot air balloon
    3 cheers
    1,981 people
  24. 24. scuba dive in a kelp forest
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    3 people
  25. 25. see the bison again!
    4 cheers
    1 person
  26. 26. relearn bird songs
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    1 person
  27. 27. dye my hair purple
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    272 people
  28. 28. eat a fresh gooseberry
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    1 person
  29. 29. build a boat
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    171 people
  30. 30. raise a flock of single serving chickens
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    1 person
  31. 31. build my home from scratch
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    1 person
  32. 32. touch my forehead to my knees
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    3 people
  33. 33. buy a car
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    2,804 people
  34. 34. make homemade mayonnaise
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    1 person
  35. 35. make homemade cheese
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    51 people
  36. 36. make homemade marshmallows
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    3 people
  37. 37. wear my hair down
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    4 people
  38. 38. put $2,500 into my Roth IRA
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    1 person
  39. 39. breed Cherry Barbs
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    1 person
  40. 40. conquer the Beehive
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    1 person
  41. 41. Join the Peace Corps
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    2,386 people
  42. 42. endow a scholarship
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    10 people

How I did it
How to grow a cactus from seed
It took me
3 months
It made me
awed


How to win an award
It took me
3 months
It made me


How to graduate from college
It took me
5 years
It made me
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Maintain my integrity (read all 5 entries…)
ran into a road block 1 day ago

so this week i have been doing great with my intergrity goal as far as staying out of the mindless trashing and working at work – which is probaly why they call it work;) – but i’ve hit a road block, or more specifically a unexpected hurdle.
at the end of the workweek i experienced the fallout of changing the status quo. even though i never got to comlete last weeks goal of standing up for myself, the same people who i have been trying to get away from at work where able to affect my belief in myself greatly. they threw at my all the passive aggresiveness and malice they could muster. and i took it real hard. i’ve never been good at handling that kind of anger/hatred and i definetly did not handle it well that day. even when i came home i was still questioning my entire being, of whether i was in the wrong career or did i make mistake along the way.
after a couple days of digesting what happened did i realise that what they did only shows how small they are and shows how much better i am doing – i am ruffling feathers and it is not appreciated. or this is just my residual anger from the event speaking.
so next week my final week of this challenge i will, after mustering considerable courage, speak to the aggressors and air my thoughts and see if it is not something else that is bothering them and i just happen to be a convenient punching bag. if that is the case i will inform them that no i am not a place to vent your anger.



have shoulder muscles (read all 4 entries…)
able to do more now 5 days ago

did my workout yesterday at 1 set of exercises. today the only place i can feel it is in the back of my arms – which i am told is the weakest spot on women anyways. next time it is going to be 2 sets of exercises and am going to add chin ups!

last week i turned my garden under for the winter and added the amendments. normally i will usually pull something in my back or hips but this time i didn’t pull anything and whan i woke up the next day only a small area in my lower back and and the sides of my legs were sore – but a good muscle soreness.



Maintain my integrity (read all 5 entries…)
getting closer to finishing my goal 6 days ago

this past week i was able to stay away from the mindless trashing that goes on in my workplace. i was also able start speaking my opinion when it was ok to do so and ended up impressing some people who are worth getting respect from. i still need to work on it though, because it’s still not an automatic response.

i want to keep working on giving my opinion this week. i want to use it more for standing up for myself when someone has comprimised my integrity or those around me. i’m going to keep it soley for extreme circumstances though, so i don’t end up as an old witch hounding on everyone about how they should act. just for those occasions when someone has spoken about me in a way that is not charcteristic of my work or behavior. and not in a blowout fashion, just pulling them aside and speaking quietly about the matter.



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