I'm doing 43 things
And someone had asked for dance classes.
So I hope that they bring this in.
Lark1's Life List
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1. kiss the most beautiful women in the world
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2. visit sacred sites of the world
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3. visit Edinburgh again
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4. take a bath in a tub without corners
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5. Search for Buried Treasure
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6. Plant some buried treasure
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7. Become a stronger swimmer
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8. Try something new every week
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9. see the northern lights
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10. Visit Culloden Moor again in Scotland
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11. Visit Robert Owen's Mills at New Lanark
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12. Run with the bulls
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13. Swim with sharks
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14. see a shakespearen play @ the globe theater
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15. get a shares and investments portfolio
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16. become independently wealthy, a man of means
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17. learn a variety of professional dance styles
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18. learn martial arts
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19. Learn sword fighting/fencing
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20. Take up long distance running
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21. Send a postcard to Postsecret
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22. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
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23. improve my knowledge of first aid and medicine
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24. witness something majestic
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25. have a 6 pack
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26. Learn to cook something each week
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27. watch more black and white classic movies (pre-1950)
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28. spend the night in a haunted house
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29. Make 2013 a year of accomplished goals
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30. collect 1000 postcards
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31. Visit all my friends in the US in 2013
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32. identify 1001 things I want to do before I die
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33. Learn a new card trick each month
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34. Learn some musical instruments
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35. Read Ripley's Game
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36. obtain & maintain a Body Mass Index (BMI) within the range of 20-25, which experts generally consider to be healthy.
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37. Stop buying books until I have read all the ones I have, so help me God
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38. Attend 43 Different Festivals
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39. Read 13 books suggested by other 43 Things folks
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40. Attend 43 Different Religious Ceremonies and Celebrations
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41. Try 43 Different Sports
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42. learn to sing some songs
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43. Stop visiting online forums, limit my time online.
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Intrigued. 
How I did it: I got this idea following the articles on Cracked.com about pictures you would not believe are not photoshopped, then I just discovered things which I thought were interesting like carved fruit or fruit arranging on a par with fine flower arrangements. Read how I did it…
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Happy, insightful
How I did it: I reread the Routledge Classics edition which was the copy I had read the first time I read this book. I had been thinking about making this an annual thing, you know the way there are some people who choose books and say they plan to reread them annually at least or quarterly. Read how I did it…
It made me
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Recent entries
A little over a stone in weight I will be fit enough to brave the local swimming pool again.
Then it will be time to get this done. So looking forward to it.
And after that on to plunge pools, ocean and wild swimming.
And I’m bringing it back.
It is a collosal time suck but it also is self-defeating in a lot of other ways, the levels of discussion online are just slightly better than most of the opportunities offline, some are a lot worse.
For me personally it just brings home to me that while I dont meet that many intellectual people offline that the intellectual people who’re available online to discuss things with are not that thoughtful or interested in thinking things out from all angles. Nope. Most of the time its all about trying to find myriad ways of shoring up prejudice, emoting and rationalising after the fact.
All in all that’s pretty disappointing and depressing, so I’m going to forget it and ignore it as best I can. Concentrate on something else instead.
