My overall supply of tea has since become almost completely the teas that I love and enjoy as compared to the ones that distract me from what I enjoy best when I feel the need to finish them off before they go stale. As for my teaware, I still have every piece that I had before including the ones that I haven’t used for ages. Rather than seeking to dump the unused teaware for the sake of doing so, I have decided to hold on to them long enough to find good people to give it away to who will put them to good everyday use.
Celtic_Christian's Life List
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1. live with no boundaries between the sacred and the secular
2 entries . 113 cheers8 people -
2. Be the mystic I want to be
1 entry . 19 cheers3 people -
3. pray the daily office
3 entries . 13 cheers8 people -
4. regard discipline as a gift I give God and myself
1 entry . 18 cheers3 people -
5. become a monk
3 entries . 25 cheers76 people -
6. become ordained
1 entry . 18 cheers8 people -
7. question each expenditure of time and/or money, as often as possible, asking myself, "Does this choice make me closer to or more distant from who and what I want to be?"
54 cheers23 people -
8. Learn how to love my girlfriend in a better way that makes her feel loved and respected
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9. keep my virginity until I'm married
2 entries . 69 cheers148 people -
10. get my weight below 200 pounds
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11. Get my weight loss back on track
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12. Lose 30 pounds
6 entries . 26 cheers5,151 people -
13. lose my man boobs
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14. make homemade beef jerky
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15. Write a book and get it published
1 entry . 52 cheers440 people -
16. Write 5 short stories
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17. fill my sketch book
2 entries . 32 cheers41 people -
18. let one of my readers pick a goal for me to complete
1 entry . 4 cheers3 people -
19. swim under a waterfall
1 entry . 107 cheers144 people -
20. Buy a kilt
2 entries . 75 cheers32 people -
21. shave my head
2 entries . 10 cheers944 people -
22. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
36 cheers1,107 people -
23. watch all episodes of Home Improvement
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24. watch all the Firefly episodes
2 entries . 21 cheers85 people -
25. read a book a week - 52 in a year
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26. read Jack London's short stories
1 entry . 14 cheers2 people -
27. Read The brothers Karamazov
1 entry . 12 cheers60 people -
28. read at least 43 of the World's 100 Greatest Books
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29. declutter my room
1 entry . 12 cheers65 people -
30. lower my blood pressure
1 entry . 11 cheers134 people -
31. be part of a 43T Success Team
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32. read the NT, Psalms and Proverbs again by the end of 2009
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33. have an online Bible study group.
5 team members . 1 entry . 11 cheers21 people
How I did it: I used a computer program to generate a month reading schedule that took chapter length into consideration. Each day for the month I slowly read through the day's reading aloud as a prayer to God while taking in the beauty of the Hebrew poetry in the process. Read how I did it…
At first I was thinking about doing a bit of renegade NaNoWriMo by instead of writing a novel working on knocking out the remainder of my ordination papers, confirmation class materials and work on my short story goal in the month of November. But then I realized that while it sounded like a good idea it was actually a horrible idea as all of those things require careful writing and rewriting with revisions to ensure that they get right. Which of course will never work as NaNoWriMo is all about speed writing and putting off proofreading till next month.
