I'm doing 43 things
Why?
16 months ago
Because one good thing filters through and alters so many other aspects of one’s life and as far as getting the old bod back into shape goes, this one is a biggy!
3NilDown's Life List
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1. Have a completely new hairstyle
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2. Watch "The L-Shaped Room" again
1 person -
3. run a 5K in under 30 minutes
41 people -
4. run a mile under 7 minutes
1 entry6 people -
5. Lose Weight and Get Healthy
269 people -
6. Take my children on the train to the seaside
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7. Swim 1 kilometre without stopping
1 person -
8. Run 10 miles
76 people -
9. Visit my sister without stroking the dog
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10. Watch a Shakespeare play that I don't know
1 person -
11. Start a course with the Open University
1 person -
12. see Belle & Sebastian in concert
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13. Fall in love with some music I have never heard before
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14. Own a digital copy of "One Man Clapping" by James
1 person -
15. Visit Stone Henge
11 people -
16. Visit my boss and make her a curry
1 person -
17. Write out a big list of things to do - and do them all by this time next week!
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18. run for 30 minutes straight
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19. Eat 100 packets in a day - just like Tank!
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20. blow bubbles in the rain
2 people -
21. Visit Droitwich, Measham and Darley Dale - all in one day!
2 people -
22. To actually do the things we plan to do
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23. exercise every day for the next week
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24. Get my body back
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25. Own a car that my children actually feel comfortable being seen in
1 person -
26. Write an odd series of short stories for my sister
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27. Have a totally different life by this time next year
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28. run a 6 minute mile.
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29. learn guitar
1 entry . 1 cheer3,062 people -
30. Be able to cry in front of my best friend
1 person -
31. Stop smoking
6 cheers3,050 people -
32. Watch Liverpool play at Anfield
3 people -
33. Make some pottery from clay that I found in Rutland Water
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34. Play golf with my Dad
5 people -
35. Read Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
1 person -
36. Buy a croquet set and have a game with family in the park
1 person -
37. Light a fire by rubbing two sticks together
3 cheers5 people -
38. Surprise my mum with a chinese takeaway
1 person -
39. Do some volunteer work at Christmas
2 people -
40. Do something unusual for charity in 2009
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41. Ride a horse
1 entry . 1 cheer740 people -
42. Find that friend who I lost touch with 24 years ago and pay him back that £5 I owe him
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43. See James live
1 entry1 person
Recent entries
So far so good.....
16 months ago
It’s now Wednesday – day 3. On day 1 did gymn with roid and day 2 swam on tod(30 lenghts). Today is looking like riding with Roid, so should easily get 3 days on trot. Also not aching today, which is nice!
Write out a big list of things to do - and do them all by this time next week! (read all 3 entries…)
The List
16 months ago
1.Compile this list, putting on a minimum of 43 things -done sunday
2.Clean car
3.Sort out work paperwork
4.Mend bike puncture -done
5.Get records from garage
6.Take records to Rita
7.Sort out and complete laundry
8.Wash and redo bed linen
9.Finish “Ferney”
10.Complete and send of application form
11.Get together Time sheet and MOT and insurance cert
12.sort out sponsor form and money
13. Hand in above 2 to office
14.Sort out and file pad notes
15.Clean up fag buts from garden -done sunday
16.Write out new plot idea and file
17.Sort out bag of stuff in car
18. Post woolly hat through Howard’s door
19.Go and see Ian -done monday
20.Meet up with Pete
21.Go to gymn with Roid
22.Either do 20+ cycle ride or with Roid & Froid
23.Run for 30 mins
24.Do warm up run and hill training
25.30+ length swim
26.one X Mill Lane run
27.Go to gymn again
28.Cycle old big course that Shawn and I used to do (38 miles)
29.Re string guitar -done monday
30.Spend a couple of hours working on Dave Dark
31.Swim and sauna
32.Run 4 miles
33.Apply for mobile broadband
34.Check out garage
35.Take library book back
36.Inform finance company of change of circumstance
37.Clean shower room
38.Clean downstairs loo
39.Get haircut
40.Read Therese Raquin
41.Visit Mark and Jan
42.Take mum to visit brother
43.Put a pic on 43 things
44.Do all excersises in Paul Mackenna’s no smoking book.
45.Smoke no more
46.Email a person I like the look of
47.Get daughter’s birthday present.
Whoops! Have done 47 rather than 43. Never mind. OK, the challenge here is to see to at least 43 of these things before next Sunday. Yes, the deadline is Sunday 10th of August. Can I do it?
