Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts

Friday, 25 November 2011

nov, 25th - your opinion, please....





day 632:

i've decided to start a new global tradition.....oh, i wish that i had that kind of declare-a-new-national-holiday power...but i don't. so this may just have to be a new personal tradition. it's to flip New Year's Resolutions on their head. i think that January is a bad month to make these types of lists and then they drag on through the year, you break them.....you don't live up to them and before you know it the end of the year has come and you feel like you've failed...once again.

this year, i've realised that we need a different approach....in fact, we need to make End of Year Resolutions not New Year's Resolution. these should be quick wins.....made in November.....with the idea that 'if you end your year having done...' you will be in a better place than you were at the start.

i've made a few of these End of Year Resolutions and that's where i need your help. one is to send out Christmas cards.....homemade Christmas cards and the above pics are what i've come up with.....what do you think? which one gets your vote....A, B or C?

ps. one year A. and i sent out what we thought was an innocent e-Christmas card....until a friend asked if we were naked......we weren't but in retrospect in my strapless dress, the head and shoulders shot did look a bit naked.....and our naked couple Christmas card got sent to everyone....grandparents, friends, old colleagues. so you can see why i need your help. i've been scarred from sending Christmas cards ever since. 

Thursday, 17 March 2011

mar, 17th - more lists....


day 404:

there's a constant flurry of list-making going on in my head.....these are lists of things that i would love Limi to experience, to learn about life and to grow up believing in......constantly growing, these lists are are a collection of my own experiences....my own childhood,...things i've read....things i've learnt so far.......and things that i wish i had learnt soon.......

here's a few things off these lists in no particular order.......

Experience:

  • tumbling into bed with an exhausted grin after a day spent at the beach swimming, running up and down dunes and digging holes
  • licking the cake mixing bowl clean
  • dancing till your feet hurt
  • falling in love and breaking up (because it makes you appreciate the former more)
  • camping
  • a messy mud fight
  • laughing so hard your stomach muscles hurt
  • coming first
  • coming last
  • delicious calamari on the deck at Chapman's Peak Hotel in Cape Town


Learn:
  • to have a sense of humour
  • manners
  • how to accept a compliment graciously
  • how to say sorry graciously...and mean it
  • to be a team player but also confident as an individual
  • to be able to laugh at yourself
  • how to negotiate with a smile/ barter like a Berber woman
  • more than one language

Grow up believing in:
  • Love
  • Family
  • equality no matter who you are, where you live and what you believe in
  • individuality
  • the Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas


what would you add to the list?

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