 I'm doing 43 things |
| 1. |
Declare this Kalibebti Week since NOVEMBER 1 was yesterday...showering her with stuff like brilliant quotes and dazzling images!!!!
4 cheers |
10 people |
| 2. |
see Paris again
18 entries . 146 cheers |
9 people |
| 3. |
write a spleen-laced or quasi-romantic poem, be it short, tall, grande or venti, each day or so in October
2 entries . 9 cheers |
1 person |
| 4. |
be a tragic Romantic heroine (on weekends, from Thursday night to the first sweep of sad civil twilight on Sunday )
36 cheers |
1 person |
| 5. |
be a (less derivative) painter
18 entries . 85 cheers |
1 person |
| 6. |
post 43 portraits drawn on 43 serviettes at cafes 'round the city
35 entries . 44 cheers |
1 person |
| 7. |
do something neat with synesthesia: give me another 43 words and I will tell you what they taste like
4 entries . 31 cheers |
1 person |
| 8. |
make a Bacon Explosion, document it with pictures and explosive commentary, then further the expansion of the bacon universe
14 entries . 25 cheers |
1 person |
| 9. |
rat + pet writeology
2 team members . 18 entries . 9 cheers |
2 people |
| 10. |
embrace my inner Canadian
18 entries . 48 cheers |
1 person |
| 11. |
create another 10 episodes of my not-for-money, just-for-fun comic strip "Loser Girl"
11 entries . 54 cheers |
1 person |
| 12. |
nudge Rat's Emotopoloooza
13 entries . 42 cheers |
1 person |
| 13. |
visit Claude Monet's house at Giverny
2 entries . 85 cheers |
12 people |
| 14. |
read Proust
12 entries . 63 cheers |
78 people |
| 15. |
learn to sew and hand-embroider
4 entries . 77 cheers |
1 person |
| 16. |
learn classical guitar
12 entries . 65 cheers |
30 people |
| 17. |
learn more about wine
17 entries . 50 cheers |
312 people |
| 18. |
have a beautiful garden
14 entries . 102 cheers |
160 people |
| 19. |
build a walk-in cocoon
3 entries . 46 cheers |
2 people |
| 20. |
publish cartoons in the New Yorker
2 entries . 55 cheers |
2 people |
| 21. |
go on ad finitum about feminist issues
4 entries . 41 cheers |
1 person |
| 22. |
feng shui my house and garden
2 entries . 41 cheers |
1 person |
| 23. |
become computer savvy
5 entries . 29 cheers |
5 people |
| 24. |
make a mojito
5 entries . 68 cheers |
2 people |
| 25. |
embrace shibumi and wabi-sabi in my surroundings and life
5 entries . 20 cheers |
1 person |
| 26. |
Grow a Secret Garden
6 entries . 82 cheers |
4 people |
| 27. |
Make steamed puddings
6 entries . 22 cheers |
2 people |
| 28. |
read finnegan's wake
3 entries . 23 cheers |
77 people |
| 29. |
learn secret spy skills
9 entries . 47 cheers |
258 people |
| 30. |
fully restore my century house
4 entries . 32 cheers |
1 person |
| 31. |
give free hugs
2 entries . 71 cheers |
31 people |
| 32. |
learn the "Thriller dance"
1 entry . 46 cheers |
2,716 people |
| 33. |
arrange an evening of chocolate tasting
2 entries . 57 cheers |
1 person |
| 34. |
learn to play chess well
2 entries . 32 cheers |
76 people |
| 35. |
taste every flavour of KitKat from around the world
31 entries . 39 cheers |
1 person |
| 36. |
embrace Nadsat in common vernacular
7 entries . 13 cheers |
1 person |
| 37. |
keep a food gournal
9 team members . 446 entries . 11 cheers |
7 people |
| 38. |
identify and list 43 things and activities Virgo
22 entries . 15 cheers |
1 person |
| 39. |
knit a wool and mohair sweater with skulls-and-crossbones on the arms
9 entries . 29 cheers |
1 person |
| 40. |
make up another cool typeface, with serifs
15 cheers |
1 person |
| 41. |
Be a gourmet cook by making home-made sauces like our Dear Rat (in fact, recipes provided by RatUnderPaper). Thank you Rat!!
2 team members . 3 entries . 11 cheers |
2 people |
| 42. |
Envision the life that I want
3 entries . 34 cheers |
4 people |
| 43. |
Zonino! Celebrate with LL and Fishboy as they live together finally!
1 entry . 1 cheer |
27 people |
How I did it: The recurring themes of quasi-romance and semi-spleenitude drew the would-be poet into a trance of late nights and early mornings. Or something or other. Read how I did it…
How I did it: It was a majorly delightful task to find a Sadielike illustration to send Wren on her special day. (And I could not help but throw in homage to Julia Child.) Wren is brave and kind and special as all get out. It was an honour to salute such a wonderful Virgo! Read how I did it…
How I did it: I do not have a clue how poems write themselves. I think sometimes they must bathe in a spleen-bath before bottling themselves and distilling for a few days. More often than not they bubble up from the core of some small interior planet. They're there waiting for me to poke 'em out. I don't write consistently, but I had breathless hope to do so, with someone once, and it took every fibre of my being to pick up that shattered breath (it fe… Read how I did it…
morn:
breakfast karaoke: Phantom Limb (“And they could float above the grass/In circles if they tried/A latent power I know they hide”)
two mocha smoothies
sweet gummi clown heads
one and a half red and orange hard candies
evening:
tea
probiotic yogourt drink thing
Korean fire soup with beef and tofu
glass noodles with sesame oil
rice, kim chee
petite raspberry salad
concord grapes
Bro Fish took his dear bride and danced
Under the scars of Jovian
Moons. “True love is worth waiting for,
Innit? I shall clink glasses to
You both tonight,” I said, and gulped
Down a brace of tako wasa!
L’chaim!
<:3==~
O House of Leaves, I am sorry to be so late, but I send you heartfelt wishes for a splendid year of adventure, beauty, laughter and joy. May your artistry continue to shine forth as wonderfully as you.
Many happy returns!
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constantfluxintoto wants to take a yoga class
BE IN GREAT SHAPE
learn to paint with oils
Keep my bedroom clean and organized
Love without fear
upload music
control my anxiety.
Quilt more
learn to write with my left hand
cinto wants to Become a vegetarian
have a daughter
make a new LJ layout
be more creative
karatekidIV wants to pass the JLPT 2 test
write my name in other langauges
wear sunscreen
do the splits
get rid of my acne
Be kissed in the rain
