List 43 things I have done as a result of being on 43T

The benefits of porridge for healthinessfulllllllness have been often spoken about on 43T. The reminders of the health benefits have encouraged me to include porridge in my diet more often.

^{and also oats in the bath is good for the skin…mmmm a porridge bath}

Because I have Shamelessly ask my 43 friends to help support and sponsor me for the past 3 years in the Take Steps for Crohn’s and Colitis Walk. It has been very successful.

I had some lovely postcards sent to me from Gemm and Sherlock after their recent meeting in Scotland. What was great about these is that Gemm made them herself and incorporate some favourite views of Scotland with pisctures of theur day together. It was great to be able to share their meeting in this way. Thanks gemmword and Sherlock

I have to try this goal again as I have been lacking in the crunch department.

We all know I’ve given more cheers than this but due to deletions our cheers counts continually shrink backward as though those cheers were never given in the first place. So here tonight the first time I’ve officially given 100000 cheers, the cheer went to Gypsiewriter.

Gypsie and I go back a long way. All the way back to 2005 in fact. She was among the first couple dozen 43ers that I subscribed to when I became active, and we actively interacted on this site during those months of late 2005 and early 2006. As with anything though, our lives get busy and we see less of each other nowadays as we focus our energies with other people. Still I try to check in with her now and then, and I think she does the same with me.

I chose her goal of Surround myself with positive people as the lucky recipient of the landmark cheer. This goal truly represents the spirit of 43Things: People helping other people in positive way to accomplish their goals. I can think of no better goal to mark with such a momentus event.

So thank all of you who have cheered me these past four plus years and I look forward to cheering you all in the future… though maybe not for a few days because I’m kind of tired now after all these cheers.

_{I should note that if I had not gone the let it fall where it falls route for this cheer, my plan was to give it to Robot Josh Peterson (even though we’ve butted heads at times) because without the Robots there would be no 43Things.}

I actually signed up for NaNoWriMo a couple years back because of seeing people having goals to do it here on 43Things. Of course that whole month came and went without me writing a single word because I couldn’t come up with a concept for the novel. When I saw RuthG and the others signing up for NaPoWriMo I immediately contacted Ruth for an invite to the team because I knew I could easily accomplish a poem a day for a month since I already had a goal to write 43 poems about 43 people, and this would be the motivator for me to do it. There were a couple of days during the month when I delayed the posting of my poem, but I did write 30 poems in 30 days. I would not have done that without 43Things.

Must download the photos. A great day was had by all.

There’s been so many different postcard goals that I’ve participated in here. I’ve helped people get postcards from all 50 states. I’ve helped people get postcards from 43 different 43 Thingers. Back before she became IWABMY (or is that IWAMBY, I always get those two letters confused), she was once known as SoCalLifer. And there was a goal to mail her a postcard for her collection. The wonderful entries she made for all those postcards are now gone from our view, but the memories still remain.

I started out with the run 43 days in a row, but noticed the 100 day goal on Matty’s list, so when I finished the 43 days I kept on running. I took Matty’s approach at times documenting even short runs to have a run count for that day, like when I flew into Chicago for the 43Things Meet and went for a quick run outdoors to get my run in for the day. The shortest run that I counted was a mile. Over those 100 days, I clocked more than 430 miles. I guess I should go buy a new pair of running shoes now.

Long after I had already hosted Rufus the Gnome, Flirt gave birth to Snickerdoodle who she sent on his way to have adventures of his own along with his passport. He and I did all kinds of things, and he did get in trouble tussling with a raccoon here, but fortunately he got all patched up. (See photo.) Snicks joined us at the NYC 43Things Meet where he was handed off by hostess Segsy to me. I don’t recall where I sent him to after me, but I’m thinking it was California.