I have been to the stadiums of the Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers. I have a ton of work to do here to get to all of them.
Goldenpaperclip's Life List
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1. Barter for Bigger or Better stuff
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2. make my own stationery
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3. Quit my day job
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4. plant my own garden
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5. be scuba certified
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6. volunteer at a homeless shelter
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7. Cure Male Pattern Baldness
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8. Devalue Sports from my life
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9. empower my daughters
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10. visit all baseball stadiums
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11. go to Cuba
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12. Date my wife more
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13. Have lunch with my mom once a month
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14. Watch a NASCAR race from on top of an RV
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15. Give away 10 $10 bills to strangers this Christmas
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16. Write to my grandmother at least monthly
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17. lead someone to Christ
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18. write a one hit wonder
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19. Help my friend Todd meet Jay Leno
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20. fish more with my dad
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21. own my own boat
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22. Move out of the suburbs
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23. Go on an African Safari
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24. complete my Ph.D.
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How I did it: I put a list like this together when I started college and it is fun to think about my old goals. One of my goals was to live with palm trees in my yard. I saw a way to accomplish this after my sophomore year of college at Northeast Missouri State U in Kirksville, MO. They had an exchange program with Newcastle University in Australia so I signed up to study abroad. The trick was that I went there with no place to live so I spent the firs… Read how I did it…
How I did it: Googled Build My own website and did website tonight on go daddy. It was not too hard, they do the dorky HTML stuff for you. My site is www.goldenpaperclip.com Read how I did it…
My friend told me one day, “You have to go golfing with me on Saturday!” I told him he was crazy because golf is stupid. He said, “No, you have to, there is a good looking girl there and she is really cool and she won’t go out with me” So we went golfing on Saturday and when I saw the beverage cart girl he was talking about, my mouth dropped. I got a Sprite and her phone number, dated her for a year, was engaged for three months, and yesterday we celebrated our 8th anniversary!
Your goal brings back memories. I watched the sun rise over Fraser Island in Australia which is the largest sand island in the world. Amazing. Simply Amazing. http://www.fraserisland.net/fraserisland/my-fraser/fraser-gallery.cfm
