At first I thought og, how am I going to come up with 43 ‘things?’ It turns out it wasn’t hard. I took the Really Bad Cleveland Accent – Christine Bourne challenge. You can read about the challenge (and maybe do your own list. Today I am doing the list here, I will possibly go to the ‘43 Things’ site and add it, but since one of my items on my ‘to do’ list is limit my social networking sites, well, dunno. I know that Trula Breckenridge (as I mentioned before) also has a 43 Things goals list. Here is my list:
1. keep meeting new people also interested in grass roots solutions to Cleveland’s challenges
2. attend more Meet The Bloggers events (on my mind, just signed up for another one)
3. figure out a way to not have a car; it’s a challenge, being a Realtor®. Even City Wheels thinks it’s not possible. Moving closer to RTA would help….see later ‘things to do’ lol
4. do a better job staying in touch with family 5. do a better job staying in touch with friends
6. learn as much as I can about Cleveland’s government and how it can be lead to affect needed results by grassroots efforts
7. organize my closets – I don’t even have real closets in my bedrooms but that can be corrected
8. paint two living room walls; I found a cool paint color at a broker’s open – Spring project
9. put my ten speed back in working order
10. clean out my garage; there are things in there from the previous owner of my house, need I say more?
11. exercise
12. do better at meditation – I’m so much better than I was but still need to work on it
13. go to more concerts
14. make more money so I can go to more concerts
15. get a few friends and go hiking in the Emerald Isle parks this summer, or even somewhere more strenuous
16. take the RTA to work when I have no plans to show homes. Hard to convince myself as a Realtor but good for the environment.
17. learn how to make tasty beef soup; I make kick ass chicken soups and others but good beef soup is elusive to me
18. if I have to have a car, buy a mini cooper; that fantasy is pushed back to Fall now
19. keep fixing up my house so I can move by 2010 – yes I will be staying in Cleveland but on RTA line
20. meet out of town friends for the first time (we met on social networks)
21. figure out what my best efforts should be to help get The Ohio Hub up and running
22. learn a few on line organizational systems; my friend Linda Davis is the queen of this stuff; maybe paperport®?
23. actively work on three networking/social media sites and forget about the rest of them. I even removed my posts from Landbrkr
24. become more limber; seems like the best preventive medicine I can practice
25. get health insurance before the end of the year!
26. start going to movies at the new Capital Theatre in Detroit Shoreway. I can’t wait for it to open
27. buy an ipod and enjoy filling it up with music
28. hang the paintings, artwork on my walls. I know I know, I’ve only been in this house three years LOL
29. hold a picnic in the park for all my friends and past clients. A nice late summer party.
30. go to the CSU debate between Hillary and Barack….I hope this can happen!
31. get back to running three miles every other day
32. ride a steam engine at least once this year
33. take a train somewhere!
34. take the dust off my guitar and start playing
35. go to Lola’s. I mean really, I can’t believe I haven’t gone yet
36. attend as many of the CSU Levin College Maxine Goodman Forums as I possibly can, they are awesome
37. drink a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne with at least one good friend. It’s been a while
38. go on the Detroit Superior Bridge Tour
39. walk more; I love walking why don’t I walk more?
40. still debating this one but I would love a dog.
41. earn another designation; maybe ‘neighborhood’ – alternatively, just learn something useful!
42. figure out how to convince an entreprenuer to open a coffee house near 150th and Puritas. I mean, that intersection has more traffic than you can shake a stick at. People in that neighborhood deserve good coffee (well, I’m not that far from it either). I’m just sayin!
43. Tell each of my friends they are important to me and why. Life is short
Peace Out – 3C
0 responses so far ↓
1 Christine // Feb 10, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Here is my favorite beef stew recipe (just add more liquid and it’ll be “soup”):
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001414irish_beef_stew.php
Also, please tell me I misread #25 and that you have health insurance!
2 Carole Cohen // Feb 10, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Nope you did not misread. But the recipe sounds wonderful ! I have a brokers open in two weeks, I think I need to make it thanks!
3 Elaine Reese // Feb 10, 2008 at 10:19 pm
OK, I’m with you on #’s 4, 18, 19, 25, 30. I’ve already got #40 taken care of.
4 Carole Cohen // Feb 10, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Elaine and quite the photogenic dog too! We can check each other’s progress on the others…stay warm!
5 Elaine Reese // Feb 11, 2008 at 12:09 am
Re: stay warm … it’s really, really cold and last night’s winds were AWFUL!
6 jackie // Feb 12, 2008 at 9:43 am
nice list. so many admirable things. i hope i can go to the debate as well! i called csu again yesterday, and they said an announcement would come out in the PD and online about tickets. didn’t say when, though. good luck:) also, what is the detroit superior bridge tour? –jackie
7 jackie // Feb 12, 2008 at 9:44 am
aaaaand…i just saw your latest blog post. that is really a shame if this is true.
8 Dena Stevens // Feb 12, 2008 at 2:47 pm
#25 is true for most Realtors, including this one.
#3 sounds like an interesting challenge.
Peace out…………
9 Dena Stevens // Feb 12, 2008 at 2:48 pm
You don’t have a dog? I have 2! You should get a dog, I highly recommend the little monsters. Yep, I call Nestle and Hershey monsters – and they come to me when I call them monsters too!
10 Carole Cohen // Feb 12, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Hi Jackie your list was terrific, makes me wistful for warmer weather just reading some of your recreational items. Going back to your film fest post tonight too very cool
Dena I have missed you, I have to go in and check out your blog posts. How have you been? For sure a lot of us are waiting for @ 25….watched some of Westminster last night wanted to take a bunch of dogs home!
11 Kristal Kraft // Feb 13, 2008 at 10:12 pm
You forgot the most important one: Meet George Clooney!
12 Carole Cohen // Feb 15, 2008 at 1:28 am
Kristal
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