I'm doing 31 things
Actually I ended up painting it robin egg blue and making it a play shelf for my little. Looks adorable.
space0cadet's Life List
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1. practice at least one instrument every day
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2. send more snail mail
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3. Maintain my long distance friendships better
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4. Learn to play the guitar
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5. go to bed on time
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6. try 43 new recipes
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7. exercise regularly
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8. be mostly on time for a month
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9. run a 5k
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10. read scriptures daily
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11. plan & shop my menus a week at a time
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12. learn spanish
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13. don't let us run out of bread
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14. combat SAD this winter
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15. stop grinding my teeth
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16. go to europe
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17. finish my degree
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18. blog again
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19. That story I keep telling myself in my head, start writing it
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20. And if I'm not writing that story, at least write something. Every day.
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21. Organize my home
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22. finish decluttering/organizing kitchen cabinets & counters
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23. declutter/organize laundry room and broom closet
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24. spring clean the yard
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25. landscape the back yard more beautifully
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26. home like water
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27. mind like water
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28. start using this site again!
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29. rearrange my room
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30. paint my room and do something different with the window
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31. Study every day
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How I did it
It made me
improved 
How I did it: These were easier than I thought they would be. I just cut the bedskirt off, cut and hemmed it to the length of the window, hemmed the top, and sewed the ribbon. La. Read how I did it…
It made me
feel talented
How I did it: My kitchen table is pine, a soft wood. After six years of homework, meals, games, art projects and everything else a busy family of 7 can inflict on a piece of furniture, the poor thing looked totally hacked. Now let me preface that I am not really talented in the crafty department, but this project was so easy, I'm sure anyone could do it. Before beginning, I took the upholstered chair seats off the chairs and cleaned the table well. The… Read how I did it…
It made me
feel awesome!!!
How I did it: During the past 5 months I've lost 31 pounds, going from 141lbs to 110lbs, and from a *very* tight size 10 to a very easy size 6. As it turned out, there were no tricks, just simple math. One pound of fat is about 3500 calories, so that has to be the deficit in what you eat vs what you burn. I tried to keep my calories between 1000 and 1500 each day, doing better some weeks than others. I didn't use any drugs, not even caffeine, but… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
this should be marked done. The room does look pretty cute, all pink, cleaned up, organized, nice bedding. The baby (who is now 2) has been sleeping in there a couple months. The curtain rod I have is too short, so I’m trying to drum up a way to fix that for the valance, but the window has blinds. I still want to paint a tree and put the bench in there, but those might be better as individual goals, since they are each projects in themselves. I’m checking this off as done.
I’ve been doing pilates a little for the last three weeks. This week I did pilates twice and walked a couple miles with a friend once. I guess I’ll do pilates again tonight, that will make 4x exercising this week. Better than a poke in the eye.
