A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other

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A Staggering Rat of Heartbreaking Something or Other's Life List

  1. 1. Complete Napowrimo, 2013
    26 entries . 16 cheers
    0 people
  2. 2. resolution for 2013: RECLAMATION
    2 entries . 26 cheers
    1 person
  3. 3. do something
    476 entries . 37 cheers
    111 people
  4. 4. learn "Take Five" on clarinet
    5 entries . 15 cheers
    1 person
  5. 5. Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.
    116 entries . 14 cheers
    899 people
  6. 6. be a (less derivative) painter
    40 entries . 100 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. drive, she said
    15 entries . 27 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. try Manhattan clam chowder to everyone's horror, heaven only knows why
    3 entries . 19 cheers
    1 person
  9. 9. create another 10 episodes of my not-for-money, just-for-fun comic strip "Loser Girl"
    18 entries . 69 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. polish my knowledge of Canadian history to a shine
    32 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. do something neat with synesthesia: give me another 43 words and I will tell you what they taste like
    7 entries . 66 cheers
    1 person
  12. 12. rat + pet writeology
    2 team members . 38 entries . 32 cheers
    2 people
  13. 13. embrace my inner Canadian
    31 entries . 97 cheers
    1 person
  14. 14. visit Claude Monet's house at Giverny
    2 entries . 122 cheers
    16 people
  15. 15. read Proust
    13 entries . 86 cheers
    80 people
  16. 16. learn to sew and hand-embroider
    5 entries . 94 cheers
    2 people
  17. 17. have a beautiful garden
    26 entries . 134 cheers
    169 people
  18. 18. build a walk-in cocoon
    6 entries . 67 cheers
    2 people
  19. 19. publish cartoons in the New Yorker
    3 entries . 78 cheers
    2 people
  20. 20. go on ad finitum about feminist issues
    4 entries . 57 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. become computer savvy
    6 entries . 41 cheers
    5 people
  22. 22. embrace shibumi and wabi-sabi in my surroundings and life
    16 entries . 32 cheers
    2 people
  23. 23. Grow a Secret Garden
    9 entries . 115 cheers
    3 people
  24. 24. be an unapologetic fusspot about basic grammatical niceties - is bothering to know the difference between there, their and they're truly unimportant and/or impossible?
    7 entries . 25 cheers
    2 people
  25. 25. taste every flavour of KitKat from around the world
    45 entries . 54 cheers
    1 person
  26. 26. Make steamed puddings
    11 entries . 33 cheers
    2 people
  27. 27. read finnegan's wake
    4 entries . 33 cheers
    82 people
  28. 28. learn secret spy skills
    10 entries . 58 cheers
    277 people
  29. 29. fully restore my century house
    6 entries . 48 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. chronicle ballet, 2010 through at least 2044
    14 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  31. 31. learn the "Thriller dance"
    1 entry . 61 cheers
    2,745 people
  32. 32. learn to play chess well
    3 entries . 46 cheers
    86 people
  33. 33. embrace Nadsat in common vernacular
    7 entries . 17 cheers
    2 people
  34. 34. keep a food gournal
    8 team members . 799 entries . 13 cheers
    12 people
  35. 35. make up another cool typeface, with serifs
    33 cheers
    1 person
  36. 36. Learn to tango
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    1,155 people
  37. 37. get knitty
    7 entries . 11 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. Tell the events of my life-story, linked by themes of redemption
    7 entries . 7 cheers
    2 people
  39. 39. make a hope/treasure chest
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    2 people
  40. 40. note 43 quirks of the past and current conversational
    3 entries . 7 cheers
    1 person
  41. 41. invent a cocktail worthy of being dubbed "the Epic Sunshine"
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person

How I did it
How to wear Red for Women - February 1, 2013
It took me
1 day
It made me
on-kilter!


How to mend a broken heart
It took me
10 years
It made me
suffer no more


How to plan and organize a Rat Birthday Celebration of life, love, wisdom and more, always more, September 3, 2012 and beyond
It took me
31 days
It made me
y' know... trippy!


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Recent entries
do something (read all 476 entries…)
Friday, Marmoreal Day

1. Visually articulate with pencil and feminine wiles a witty, swift, urbane and irresistibly, fetchingly enigmatic composition for three portraits.

2. Wait for client approval of same.

3. Conjure up, utilizing charm and feminine wiles, a witty and urbane batch of enigmatic cupcakes for garden party tomorrow afternoon.

4. Get strings for classical guitar and cautiously approach it.

5. Tootle on clarinet, to re-acquaint us.

6. Take tea (Earl Grey if I have it) in the afternoon with my sous chef and an old friend.

7. Write a poem of affections and attentions for dear Mr. Sunshine.

8. Start painting that fake New Yorker cover.

7. Maybe write another poem if there’s time before the late evening begins.



Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful. (read all 116 entries…)
Thurs. 5/23

1. New Yorker cartoons.

2. The Performing Arts Festival. When did all middle school kids become lovely and talented? When I was that age, we were all kind of sitting geekily around drinking Tab.

3. Determination to live well, pirouette, breathe deeply and have a glass of garden posies on the nightstand.

4. Affections, attentions, intentions.

5. Rediscovering music: classical guitar, clarinet.



do something (read all 476 entries…)
Thursday, Victorian-Style

1. Conceive an urbane, coyly symbolic and whip-smart composition in which to place three pastoral portraits.

2. Realise I can run rings around, if I want to.

3. Make plans for a month of heigh-ho!

4. Attend a performing arts festival, in which the sous chef performs festively.

5. ...five! Yes! Five! Affections! Attentions! Open and unbridled!



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