So, I have news. News that warrants a celebratory hair flip:
(It’s helpful to have one of those on hand.)
The news is that Verizon Wireless is sponsoring my Mighty Life List! Yes they are! We are getting this done, y’all.
I’ll be working on three items this month, and I’ll tell you all about them right here. What I’m hoping is that you’ll commit to doing three things this month too, and keep us updated via comments. At the end of the month, I’ll do a roundup about all the living we got done.
I’ll tell you more about my goals as we go along. Verizon gave me a new phone and the idea is to use it to help me tackle my Mighty Life List, so I chose goals that are more about living my daily life thoughtfully, and less about jet setting. Also, I’ve added “Tattoo a Verizon logo on my bicep” to my list, so I’ll be starting there.
Oh, but I kid. It will be on my ankle next to the Celtic gecko.
Now for you! What are you doing this month? Something awesome? Tell us.
A huge thanks to Verizon Wireless for sponsoring my Mighty Life List and helping me achieve my dreams. They’re making my site more interesting by helping me cross off few more goals, and they also gave me a Palm Pre Plus. One that completes calls. Thanks, guys.
Mighty Girl 
1. I will be delivering a baby. 🙂
2. I will see my husband holding our first born.
3. I will figure out how to change a diaper while sleep-deprived.
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Congrats on the sponsorship! I promise not to tell them that immediately below this post was an advertisement for Sprint.
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Congrats Maggie! I like the idea of focusing on daily life this time.
This month I will:
1. bake bread from scratch
2. Learn to use a sewing machine
3. Create a Terrarium
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Congrats!
In March I will:
1. Like Tasha, learn to use my new sewing machine.
2. Set up my Fodzie account to sell my bake goods.
3. Write my Life List
Can’t wait to hear what you’ll do!
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How exciting! I’ve signed up to join a Habitat for Humanity build this month. My orientation is next week! If it doesn’t stop snowing, though, my list might have to include Learn to Build an Igloo.
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Maggie that is amazing!! So exciting! I can’t wait to see what you do this month.
In the month of March I will
1. Get engaged (squee! yes I squeed)
2. Made headway in the preparation for the opening of my store on bigcartel.com
3. Get my drivers permit (despite being 26 years old!)
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Oh – I’d love to know your take on your Palm Pre Plus – My ‘new every two’ is up April 13 and I’m counting down the days until a new phone (considering my current phone is a replacement from a family member and dates well past 2000 and you have to, like, dial through the ABC, to text..ugh!LOL) But I just found your site today and am totally going to create a 100 list of things to do… Thanks for the inspiration! ❤
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That’s SO exciting!
And what good inspiration for me to get to work on a couple smaller projects…
I’m going to:
Knit a whole scarf
Learn to like just tea, no honey
Write a letter to my grandma
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Awesome, another sponsor! I can’t wait to see what you get to check off your list next.
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Yay! I love to play along.
1. Finish my research paper for this damn grad class
2. Learn how to compose a book proposal
3. Throw my daughter’s first birthday party
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I’m in. In March, I’ll:
1. Make baby blankets for a pregnant friend
2. Clean out the filing cabinet
3. Get my worm box back in working order
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Maggie you really do inspire me.
This month I will:
Get 3 photos matted and framed for display in my first show that isn’t in a place that sells coffee.
Add 1k to my “6 Weeks in Europe later this year” fund
Start working on a new photo series that celebrates spring.
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Congratulations! This month I will:
1. Finish and defend my master’s thesis (come hell or high water).
2. Every week, call at least one person that I’ve fallen out of touch with.
3. Finish writing my life list.
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1. Stick to my monthly budget (for once!)
2. Will not check my blog stats for 14-days – the obsession MUST STOP.
3. gather the courage and tell at least one person in my life what I really want…directly…no hinting.
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Getting sponsored is so very exciting (and by a company that gives you free phones)! Hooray for you!
My three things for this month:
1. Write more meaningful articles on my blog
2. Bake bread from scratch as well! (I just came across an awesome recipe).
3. Fill all the empty frames in my house with pictures!
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I love it, love it, love it!
This month I will:
– Throw my husband a fantastic birthday (our first as a married couple)
– Get crafty and try to make a buck at it
– Send that email I have been putting off for sooooo long!
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Well, we’re halfway done with the bathroom remodel…as in the half with no shower. So hopefully I’ll have checked “Renovate the Bathroom Into a Peaceful Oasis” by the end of the month. Right now, it’d be an oasis if it had a door.
Neighbor called this morning to set a date to rent a chipper, so perhaps I’ll be able to cross off “cut down those $#*!& trees.” The trees are down, but until the debris has been cleared, I won’t cross it off. Some has been burned, some has been sold, and a lot is waiting to be chipped. Next week, apparently.
I’ll make at least 1 lovely thing this month. I have a care package to send to a friend’s grandma, and I really want it to be pretty. I made one cake, it was lovely, but since there was no room in my freezer, and I didn’t get it out right away…I just don’t want to send her a stale cake. So I’m giving it to the neighbors and will make it again and get the package out…before Passover!
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I will:
Give 31 Gifts in 31 Days
Pass the MPRE
Drink a Kir Royale at Crown and Crumpet
Hooray!
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OMG! This is soooo amazing! Congratulations Maggie! Please do share how you feel about the phone (especially since I know your eehh-hemm iphone) – in the market for a new phone in the next month.
Can’t wait to hear about your adventures!
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This month I will:
1. Knit my very first baby sweater (I’m scared of the more complex stitches)
2. Ride 20 miles on my bicycle (in preparation to ride 50 miles in July)
3. Post to my blog at least once a week in hopes of resuming regular posting someday
(I’ve changed my blog address and twitter handle, but I used to be at twitterpated.org, just for reference)
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This March I will:
1. watch the godfather movies
2. have sex outside (come on spring!)
3. buy a stock.
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Maggie,
Congrats on the sponsorship!
1. Learn how to knit
2. Participate in the lovely package swap over at http://ohhellofriend.blogspot.com/
3. Fill the new wooden frames I bought with awesome pictures of my friends and family.
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@megan (great name BTW) LOVE LOVE LOVE my new Palm Pre – it’s easy to use and must say I am loving the “red map” service… ha ha. Mine actually completes calls!
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1. Plant a raised bed vegetable garden before the Houston heat sets in!
2. Make at least a B on my next physics exam!
3. Throw a huge couples shower/BBQ. For my BFF!
God help me!
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Only two for me this month:
1. See the Hall of Fame for Great Americans
2. Build My Own Chicken Coop
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Almost forgot! Here are my three for the month:
– Stick to my diet
– Book a trip to Bahamas
– Start organizing care packages to send to our soldiers serving
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What an awesome sponsor indeed! I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday and looove it.
I’ve been kind of playing along on the Life List thing but I am starting with a 2010 Goals list – mostly because I am 5 months post-op (gastric bypass) and have lost a ton of weight — so my goals have been a mix of just things I want to get done and things I’ve basically never been able to do, at least for my adult life up to now. (Last year was The Year Of Jen where I set out to get the help I needed for my health and totally accomplished that!)
This last weekend I learned to ski – it was the first big goal I completed and I was so proud of myself I was all teary-eyed when I thanked my instructor.
So, this month I will accomplish:
1) Finish one month of workout bootcamp (3 days a week for 4 weeks)
2) Have a costume party for my 30th – Alice in Wonderland themed! I’m wearing a DRESS and getting all gussied up.
3) Get back to swimming! I used to swim competitively in high school – I loved it. So it’s time to get back into it.
I have a bunch of other goals to accomplish this year – my list is on my site (jenguin.com).
Thanks Maggie, you are really an inspiration to me – the mix of fun and determination to accomplish so many things.. it’s so great!
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Ok, so interesting. You’re doing smaller goals then? My life list is a little on the “start a business” “buy a home” front… which I’m working on…. but totally can’t join you on three a month.
So, it should be interesting, seeing you go closer to home and smaller.
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All righty! You’re on! This month I will:
1. Learn to make amazing pizza dough
2. Launch a really cool website
3. Cook with a really great chef
Stay tuned! Can’t wait to see what your adventures bring you —
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My hair don’t flip.
I’m giving you a celebratory ‘fro-waggle, though.
And I don’t give those out to just *anybody.*
(congrats!)
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1. I will start another project 365 photo project using just my iPhone
2. Travel with a 5 month old to San Antonio for a long weekend and see a friend I haven’t seen in 20 years!
3. Bake something with ganache.. Inspired by Cake Boss Buddy.
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I started writing my life list on Sunday and was planning on posting part of it on Thursday. This month I will try to :
1. Try 52 new recipes (I’ve done two so far)
2. Try 100 new wines (this may be a bit difficult to accomplish in just a month)
3. Mastering that move in yoga where you flip back to plank pose from boat pose.
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OK. Maybe posting this in public will actually encourage me to DO the following, rather than just THINK the following:
1. build mad jewelry fabrication skillz (bezel setting and riveting among them)
2. plant my avocado tree before it dies of neglect
3. run around Lake Merritt at least once. ONCE! Seriously, I should be able to do this once in the month of March, right?
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congratulations maggie!
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Excellent! I look forward to reading your adventures. This month, I will:
1) Sign a contract for tenure-track job.
2) Write a budget for the rest of 2010.
3) Try at least five new recipes that I’ve been bookmarking in *Food & Wine*
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Hey There –
I’ll throw my hat in the ring!!
1. Lose 10 lbs
2. Learn to shoot with a bow and arrow
3. Finally start my own blog!!
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This month I will:
1) Complete my dissertation lit review!
2) Make a photograph look amazing through post-processing
3) Properly season (and use for amazing purposes!) a cast iron pan.
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I am going to:
1. Have a baby (hopefully – I really want her to be a March baby and not an April baby. Also, I want her to be a Pisces like my hubby and not an Aries like me, but she’s already showing signs of STUBBORN so I may have to concede this battle.)
2. Learn to breastfeed. (This scares the shit out of me like nothing else. Thus far in life, I’ve only used those things to make my dresses look great. Now I have to use them how God intended. Eeek!)
3. Learn to block out the negativity from my mother and mother in law while I teach myself to be a mother. When they tell me that I’m DOING IT WRONG (and they already have been for the past 8.5 months) I want to ignore them or laugh it off or tell them to shove it. But, I want it to stop bothering me.
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1.) Curate/build an archival photo book of all my grandfather’s 1950’s Kodachrome slides.
2.) Get a nice haircut.
3.) Learn/read more about Nikola Tesla.
Many congrats Maggie!
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in the month of march i’m going to:
1. buy my husband that motorcycle he’s been wanting for years, just in time for his 30th b’day
2. make it through childbirthing classes without passing out
3. hold myself to cleaning the bathroom once a week and not try to push it to two like i so often do!
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Yay! This month I will:
1. Send the first of many fabulous care packages
2. Buy a new kind of flour and learn to cook something delicious with it
3. Institute Personal Office Hours to write quietly at home once a week
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Okay, I’m going to tackle at least 2.
1. Do the splits (yeah, and I’m super inflexible)
2. Knit myself a sweater.
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Well, Lets see….
This month I will
1. Apply for a passport for me and for my daughter!
2. Grow an apple from an apple seed (although it’s gonna take some time!)
3. Learn to whistle really loud with my fingers.
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This month I will
Give blood
Learn to make towel animals
Make paper
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I just re-introduced my grandmother’s mink into the world and SURVIVED. http://bit.ly/9597Y4 (plus it looked great).
Aiming for low hanging fruit this month with:
Learning to poach
Fixing my web situation
Make a travel guide for Vienna (off to check it out next weekend)
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Congrats. How fun. This month I will:
~Watch as my youngest child loses his first tooth. I will be both happy and sad.
~Jazzercise 3-4 times/week cause I signed up for the Jazz it Off competition.
~Work hard to improve our site http://www.ecosizeme.com and our environmental education programs
Thanks for the inspiration.
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Well, I am running my sixth marathon in eight months this weekend. I am working on eliminating cheese from my diet to live in a healthier fashion. All while trying to make a baby.
Yep, I think that is enough.
CONGRATULATIONS on the sponsorship! Way to go!
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congratulations! hip hip!
this month I will…
1. write my Life List
2. finally watch “Citizen Kane”
3. book a trip to Geneva to visit my best friend, who is finishing her PhD experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. this will also be my very first solo international travel. weee!
huge thanks for the encouragement.
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Way to rock that list.
I’m publicly committing to:
*Finishing a Blurb book project
*Exercising at least 2 times/week
*Making a city date with my mom
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I know this isn’t a competition, but NicoleT wins! (congrats and good luck!)
This month I will:
go to San Diego for the first time.
Show my 20 month old daughter exotic animals (and hopefully get her to say giraffe)
start losing the 10 pounds I’m desperate to lose.
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