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Best of 2009, #7) Blog
That gem of a blog you can't believe you didn't know about until this year.A sort of disappointing year in blogs, wasn't it? I've moved away from being obsessed with particular people to being obsessed with certain blog topics. Like blogs on cognitive behavioral psychology. Or blogs by authors of books I like to read. Or blogs about pregnancy or ( Read more... ) -
Best of 2009, #6) Workshop or conference
Was there a conference or workshop you attended that was especially beneficial? Where was it? What did you learn?Let's see, did I go to any conferences this year? Not unless you count that one that I felt obligated to go to because I was newly self-employed and sort of thinking about stretching my networking skills and trying to ignore the fact ( Read more... ) -
Best of 2009, #5) Night out
Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?Uh oh. This is a tough one. So many fun nights this year. Was it New Year's Eve at LoFi? My bingo birthday? Katie's Bathazar birthday? Kellianne's dance birthday? Ingo's Zombie birthday? Any of the weddings? Our ( Read more... ) -
Best of 2009, #4) Book
What book - fiction or non - touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?
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Best of 2009, #3) Article
What's an article that you read that blew you away? That you shared with all your friends. That you shared and referenced throughout the year.
It would definitely have to be this article:
What Makes Us Happy?
Is there a formula-some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation-for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been ( Read more... ) -
Best of 2009, #2) Restaurant moment
Share the best restaurant experience you had this year. Who was there? What made it amazing? What taste stands out in your mind?
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31 days of reflection on 2009
Here are the questions and the rules:
This is The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge... which I learned about via skamille, capricornia, smapple, alicetiara, and labrujah (in reverse order). Apparently it started here.
How to participate:- Write on one or all thirty-one of the prompts below for the month of December
- A post can be a sentence, photo or 3,000 word essay
- Tag your posts and photos # ( Read more... )
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New idea: Big Checkin
So I have this new idea that's something I can work on in my spare time. The idea is to make it easier and more interesting to do those end-of-year "this is what happened in the past year" checkin sorta reflections. And, to turn it into a longitudinal study, something that people can return to every year to compare, reflect, and add on to ( Read more... ) -
Lazy LJ: social winter gym attendance game
I wish there was a social game that involved going to the gym during the dark winter evenings. I know joshc thinks the Gym Rat badge on foursquare is the lamest thing in the world, even beating Love, Actually and 20 questions games where the answer is a spontaneously invented object, but so far that's about as close to social winter gym attendance game ( Read more... )
