Burninglight

I'm doing 30 things

2010 resolutions

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Burninglight's Life List

1. write a book
26,118 people
2. program an MMO
2 people
3. learn to play guitar
4,289 people
4. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
5,504 people
5. stop procrastinating
26,982 people
6. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
7,529 people
7. Do NaNoWriMo
593 people
8. leave notes in library books
541 people
9. Fall in love
24,445 people
10. talk to strangers, all the time
169 people
11. learn Latin
1,882 people
12. open my own restaurant
101 people
13. take a dance class
808 people
14. write an operating system
44 people
15. go to burning man
1,439 people
16. start my own business and make good money at it
19 people
17. write more short stories
64 people
18. excercise daily
94 people
19. Stop eating refined sugar
1 cheer 17 people
20. cook everything from scratch
4 people
21. eat less meat
257 people
22. read all the books I own
1,138 people
23. become more organized
842 people
24. write daily
237 people
25. become fluent in German
1 entry 347 people
26. Make the most of my 20's
608 people
27. be more organized
3,246 people
28. finish my degree
2,540 people
29. floss daily
386 people
30. be in an anime
22 people

Recent entries

become fluent in German

I'm going to practice more... 16 months ago

I plan to expand my vocabulary by reading more german books… without facing page translation, etc. I’ll start by reading my copy of Die Unendliche Geschichte. Michael Ende schreibt sehr guete Bucher, ja?

Jul 19, 2008, 02:17AM PDT | 0 comments

stop drinking caffeine

Hard, but worthwhile. 16 months ago

I was seriously addicted to caffeine—drinking sometimes as much as two 2-liter bottles of diet coke a day.

About five weeks ago I decided to quit, being sick of all the ups-and-downs in energy levels and the insomnia. I went cold-turkey, muddling my way through 4 days of headaches before finally coming out the other side—I think this worked better than the other times I’ve tried to quite (by slowly reducing intake) because I now have a strong negative deterrent.

The end result? I’ve found that it’s easier to sleep at night and (paradoxically) easier to remain “awake” during the day. Plus, I probably save $5 a day doing this, adding up to almost $2000 a year. Definitely worthwhile.

Jul 19, 2008, 02:01AM PDT | 0 comments