I'm doing 37 things
well i realized being a travel writer won’t work out for me, since it leaves little time to do stuff and see things that I want to. plus, I don’t like writing
Holzstein's Life List
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1. learn to drive manual
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2. crochet a beanie
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3. brew my own cider
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4. Learn How to Use a Slide Rule
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5. learn to be ambidexterous
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6. Have something named after me
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7. dance in the middle of stonehenge
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8. live in a loft
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9. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
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10. whistle between my fingers
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11. Learn to speak Gaelic
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12. study and retain vital parts of Lonely Planet's guide to Dublin BEFORE i get there
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13. Backpack Ireland & Scotland
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14. see the northern lights
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15. Build my own versions of Hero's automata
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16. learn how to read and write enough Chinese to understand a Chinese newspaper
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17. Win the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Clunies Ross Award
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18. do scrapbooking
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19. sell all my junk on ebay
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20. Float on the Dead Sea
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21. have a CAREER instead of just a job
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22. never lose my sense of wonder
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23. recall 75 memories and lessons I learned from them
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24. live in london
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25. be written about in Wikipedia
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26. To live instead of exist
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27. Find a four-leaf clover
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28. build my own lightsaber
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29. smile more
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30. learn to do a handstand
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31. read more, write more, create more
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32. Walk on the Great Wall of China
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33. find a message in a bottle
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34. learn. learn. learn something everyday
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35. Be a finalist for an Australian Museum Eureka Prize
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36. Learn to french plait my own hair neatly
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37. Find a balance between the things I want to do and the things I need to do
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How I did it
It made me
Smiley! 
How I did it: There was a postal workers strike, so I thought there wouldn't be a better time to knock this thing over. I had sent mail surprises before, meaning sent snail mail without letting the receiver know in advance via other means, but felt that I shouldn't tick off this goal until i did something a bit more meaningful.Well last week a friend asked her facebook community to tell her what everyday things made them smile. Most people emailed or c… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Walking back to the hostel from dinner one night, my group got caught in a sudden massive downpour. It got so bad (and people in their cars were laughing at us) that we climbed onto a window-sill (tiny shelf of shelter) in that crooked little alleyway for a bit.
The cruise wasn’t that amazing: two-level boat (Captian Cook Cruises), a few circuits of Sydney Harbour (not to say that Sydney by night isn’t beautiful, but I’ve seen it before, and we went past the same things again and again), pizza dinner.
BUT it was a NYSF reunion, and the DJ wasn’t too bad: he played the official NYSF song (aka Everybody Dance Now) which mean we got to do our mad routine, TWICE in the middle of the Harbour (slightly cooler than doing it in a Woolshed)
