JudithKD

"I ask to be made beautiful, like trees are beautiful" J Cameron



I'm doing 40 things
 

JudithKD's Life List

  1. 1. Allow myself
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    1 person
  2. 2. Finish the writing I've started, make it something I can be proud of, and sell same (or try).
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    1 person
  3. 3. Get rid of my camoflauge
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    1 person
  4. 4. Explain...
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    2 people
  5. 5. Post something great every day
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    4 people
  6. 6. Remember every day that I have a reason to smile.
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    1 person
  7. 7. Figure out what happens next.
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    1 person
  8. 8. Do the things I'm putting off
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    1 person
  9. 9. Get paid to write (again)
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    1 person
  10. 10. Make a 43things Cookbook
    5 team members . 27 entries . 49 cheers
    7 people
  11. 11. learn how to can fruits and vegetables
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    3 people
  12. 12. Get rid of my extra books!
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    1 person
  13. 13. Practice "And How Am I Like This?" when judgementalism, impatience or annoyance raise their smug heads
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    24 people
  14. 14. Be a better steward of my time, talents, and treasure
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    6 people
  15. 15. Get a copy of the complete score to "Classical Gas" (orchestra version)
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    2 people
  16. 16. Find the right paper for my cards
    3 entries . 14 cheers
    1 person
  17. 17. find and cooperatively cheer-bomb 43T newbies
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    42 people
  18. 18. Recruit and encourage others to save money from each pay check to provide for recurring expenses such as Christmas, Insurance, Retirement ETC.
    11 team members . 13 cheers
    7 people
  19. 19. Turn my blog or website into a "frugal book" review site
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    1 person
  20. 20. Get a peg loom and USE it!
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    1 person
  21. 21. Start a Buddy Check 12 team here on 43things, in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Do your self-exam the 12th of every month.
    221 team members . 1 entry . 10 cheers
    189 people
  22. 22. Figure out some way to thank the robots and the others in the 43t community
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    1 person
  23. 23. Find (and unleash)my passion
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    1 person
  24. 24. Make a plan and then follow it
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    1 person
  25. 25. Smile! Because it's the next step
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    1 person
  26. 26. Buy a bottle of Jones Soda with Ru's picture on it
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    10 people
  27. 27. Become NEARLY self sufficient
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    6 people
  28. 28. Support Trauma_Junkie in her November 14 Marthon run in support of Doctors without Borders
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    3 people
  29. 29. Do 55 things in my 54th year
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    1 person
  30. 30. Visit some of my favorite people. Make the plans for this part of a budget!
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    1 person
  31. 31. Do a holiday card exchange in 2008 among my 43things friends
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    26 people
  32. 32. Get well
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    78 people
  33. 33. Learn to write something, not in the key of "me"!
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    1 person
  34. 34. Get my cards made
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    1 person
  35. 35. Finish my poster.
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    1 person
  36. 36. Shove away from the false port of my family, build my own dock, elsewhere.
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    1 person
  37. 37. Write an essay for the "This I believe" series.
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    1 person
  38. 38. Give a buck or two to worthy causes
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    1 person
  39. 39. Figure out what to do about the person using our phone number on orders.
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    1 person
  40. 40. A place to list what I'm going to try and do today
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    1 person

How I did it
How to make Christmas Bread & maybe something else for our neighbors.
It took me
1 day
It made me
happy!


How to wish MelissaThinksAgain a Negative-Energy-Free Birthday December 10
It took me
2 months
It made me
embarrased but happy


How to do 54 things in my 53rd year (starts 11/25)
It took me
1 year
It made me
happy and dismayed!


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Recent entries
Get rid of my camoflauge (read all 49 entries…)
I need to get to it this a.m. 6 hours ago

I am supposed to take a box of books to the counselor at 2 this afternoon. That’s like 50-60 books and I don’t have any cataloged although I know where to find the box full that I’ll use (in the van).

But getting books from the van means that I need to get dressed, go out take the snow off the back of the van and haul the box inside. Not too hard, but I need to get started!

I also talked to my contact person at the hospital yesterday. I promised her the box for the hospital on the 15th, so that’s now a firm deadline too.

Also today, I need to:

Get to the storage and get the collectible paperbacks that I have a dealer interested in.

Get the cc machine which is probably going to be donated to the gallery DH and I are involved with.

Maybe grab either more bins and/or the bin rack to be butchered here and turned into a recycle rack.

Get the huge bulletin boart out for DH’s office, that can wait until this weekend.

Go by the bookstore and the storage and pay my January rent, pick up any unwanted books from the box I left yesterday and payment for whatever he bought.

Who knew that GIVING books away could be almost as much work as SELLING them?

I’m off—

jkd



get well (read all 17 entries…)
Pre-Op Testing and such 7 hours ago

Yesterday I did a 10 minute phone interview with a nurse as a part of the pre-op.

Then I drove to the clinic and we talked some more. She tried to get the anestheaologist to talk to me, but they had an emergency. She DID document my concerns and tell me the order things will happen next Friday.

I got an EKG, which at least preliminarily seemed to be ok, a chest xray, and more blood work.

Next week, effectively around noon on Thursday, this whole thing starts. That’s when I have to take the 1st bottle of damnable stuff that makes me gag. Sometime before 2 that day, I call the hospital and find out when I’m supposed to be there on Friday.

The preop nurse talked to me about what will happen once I get to the hospital on Friday and at least preliminarily will be there to answer questions and help me out. It will be nice to have a familiar face. She assured me that I can get a chance then to talk to the anestheseologist. Also, I can have DH along.

DH is covering for someone else who’s on vacation. Their major customer is a customer that is used to having rather instant service from DH’s company. They wanted him to go down every day next week and he said no. He has his own customers to deal with on Monday (something he does every week) and I’m in surgery on Friday, so he may go down there Tues-Thurs next week, but not otherwise.

I have a counselor appt. and a full-body massage on Thursday aside from emptying my colon and getting told when I actually get to the hospital. It’d be nice if they could tell you more than one day in advance when you’re supposed to be at the hospital. Why add to the stress? But they didn’t ask me, and if they do, I’ll tell ‘em so!

I’d really like DH with me on Thursday too, but that is apparently not going to happen, alas. If there wasn’t a customer (or 2) breathing down his neck for one thing or the other, I know his boss would let him go, but as it is—no.

jkd



A place to list what I'm going to try and do today (read all 5 entries…)
1//8/09 1 day ago

Preop testing @ 1 this afternoon, leave by 11:30

FIND folder hospital sent w/data before you leave.
Take books for sale w/you, so you can get rid of those at least!
Call Air & Space Museum to see if they want artifact. (left message)



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