Jyssa




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Jyssa's Life List

  1. 1. learn to striptease
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    26 people
  2. 2. Become a tattooist
    14 people
  3. 3. learn to dance salsa
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    229 people
  4. 4. Train the men in my life to give me regular massages and flowers
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    1 person
  5. 5. live as my true self
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    2 people
  6. 6. study naturopathy
    6 people
  7. 7. Make money playing poker
    4 people
  8. 8. Go skydiving
    6,577 people
  9. 9. become an interior designer
    176 people
  10. 10. Climb Mt. Cook
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    4 people
  11. 11. write haiku on fridays
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    172 people
  12. 12. be a better parent
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    355 people
  13. 13. be a good mother
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    789 people
  14. 14. stop yelling at my kids so much
    62 people
  15. 15. get another tattoo or two
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    45 people
  16. 16. make more friends
    5,084 people
  17. 17. go to bartending school
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    93 people
  18. 18. silkscreen
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    62 people
  19. 19. teach my sons to fish
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    1 person
  20. 20. Teach myself guitar
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    19 people
  21. 21. study psychology
    257 people
  22. 22. Learn kick-boxing
    293 people
  23. 23. find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
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    1,343 people
  24. 24. learn zbrush
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    7 people
  25. 25. Clean/Declutter (maintain the gumption)
    6 people
  26. 26. display my art in public
    1 person
  27. 27. get my driver's license
    5,028 people
  28. 28. Buy a House
    12,585 people
  29. 29. Learn how to perform an emergency tracheotomy
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  30. 30. have regular quality time with myself
    1 person
  31. 31. Own a successful business
    90 people
  32. 32. publish a book
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    2,146 people
  33. 33. be complete...alone
    2 people
  34. 34. see Japan in the spring
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    1 person
  35. 35. Learn Japanese
    9,741 people
  36. 36. learn to poledance
    65 people
  37. 37. learn to bellydance
    562 people
  38. 38. learn Italian
    5,738 people
  39. 39. Heal
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    226 people
  40. 40. sing my heart out in a cathedral
    1 person
  41. 41. Write and record an album
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    253 people
  42. 42. Fall in love
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    24,437 people
  43. 43. climb a 5.11
    13 people

How I did it
How to pierce my lip
It took me
1 day
It made me
feel less of a nana


How to bungee jump
It took me
1 day
It made me
closer to complete


How to love big
It made me
ommm...happy


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Recent entries
live as my true self
It's the hardest thing, I've been told 5 months ago

To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
e.e.cummings

I want to fight that battle, every day, til it’s so second nature that I think no more of it than breathing.

I want to be unashamedly, unabashedly, ME. Everything that is me, and nothing that is not.

I don’t know why so many people don’t want to be themselves.

I am the the only me the world has ever seen, or will ever see. I need, I MUST be me.

Plus, I totally love it. :) I get such a kick out of being me.



dive the great barrier reef
It was like another planet... 5 months ago

I got my SSI Open Water Diver’s Certificate on the Great Barrier Reef, off Cairns…

It was one of the sweetest experiences of my life – it really was like visiting another planet.

There were SO many fish, everywhere, all kinds and colours, all around us. We were also lucky enough to see sharks, dolphins, and green turtles.

We were able to feed the fish too, which meant they were close enough to touch…we also got the chance to give one of the turtles a scratch on the back. We cuddled a pineapple sea cucumber (omg that was so strange) and touched giant clams, a black sea cucumber, and stayed WELL clear of the 3 cone shells we found (covered in a very deadly neurotoxin, and they also shoot darts that will paralyse you too).

I would reccommend it to anyone who has the chance to do this. I can’t wait to go again one day.

It took me 3 months to prepare for the trip over there, and we spend 2 days diving out on the reef. I only wish we’d had a whole week out there.



find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
Day One: 25 June 2009 5 months ago

I wonder what today will be like , in a year…?

What makes me happy today: knowing that I am an amazing, unique, true-to-self and interesting enough person, that I have NO idea where I’ll be on June 25, 2010. I could be on the moon…



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