Perlle




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Perlle's Life List

  1. 1. visit every winery on the CT Wine Trail at least once.
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    1 person
  2. 2. visit & find something to do in every town in connecticut
    3 entries
    3 people
  3. 3. Photograph every town in Connecticut
    1 person
  4. 4. watch all movies on AFI's 100 Best movies list
    2 team members . 1 entry . 3 cheers
    444 people
  5. 5. visit all 50 states
    4 entries . 3 cheers
    8,527 people
  6. 6. Run the NYC Tunnel to Towers 5K
    2 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. write a nonfiction book and have it published
    4 cheers
    2 people
  8. 8. create a theory
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    1 person
  9. 9. Go and see a SHUTTLE Launch in person
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    16 people
  10. 10. write with ease with my left hand
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    3 people
  11. 11. learn to ride a bike
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    666 people
  12. 12. find people to play volleyball/badminton with
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. own a hard-top convertible
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    2 people
  14. 14. visit all the major religious denominations' services
    4 entries . 6 cheers
    2 people
  15. 15. see the aurora borealis
    6 cheers
    2,003 people
  16. 16. see a play I've written be performed
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    4 people
  17. 17. go hang gliding
    4 cheers
    468 people
  18. 18. design my own house plan
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    8 people
  19. 19. be an audience member for a TV show taping
    2 cheers
    66 people
  20. 20. take a hot air balloon ride
    2 cheers
    252 people
  21. 21. kiss the blarney stone
    5 cheers
    328 people
  22. 22. spend the day at Walden Pond and read Thoreau
    5 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. attend the Emerson Reading Circle in Concord
    2 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. visit every continent
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1,892 people
  25. 25. try doing stand-up comedy at an open-mike night
    4 cheers
    14 people
  26. 26. Drive the entire length of route 66
    7 cheers
    17 people
  27. 27. create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.
    4 team members . 1 entry . 3 cheers
    1,073 people
  28. 28. have an article published in a well-known magazine
    6 cheers
    1 person
  29. 29. Find a geocache in every state
    2 entries
    2 people
  30. 30. Pay off my student loans and credit cards
    1 entry
    15 people
  31. 31. perfect my pilates routine
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  32. 32. Ride a Camel
    2 cheers
    512 people
  33. 33. learn calligraphy
    3 cheers
    617 people
  34. 34. Attend the olympics.
    4 cheers
    315 people
  35. 35. buy an old farmhouse in Missouri
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    3 people
  36. 36. invent something
    2 cheers
    1,432 people
  37. 37. write a fiction book and have it published
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. do a charity walk
    53 people
  39. 39. Take a wine tasting class
    86 people
  40. 40. take a fencing class
    17 people
  41. 41. read a book about every country in the world
    1 entry
    4 people
  42. 42. create a butterfly & hummingbird garden
    4 people
  43. 43. Watch 12 Criterion Collection films each year.
    1 entry
    1 person

How I did it
How to get a new job
It took me
4 months
It made me
Weeeee!


How to run 2 miles
It took me
2 months
It made me
happy


How to exercise at least once a week for a three months
It took me
7 months
It made me
Woohoo!!!


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Recent entries
read a book about every country in the world
My list so far...

1. China
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

2. Japan
Several by Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, Wind-up Bird Chronicle

3. Austria
Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard

4. Czech Republic
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

5. France
Quite a few: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

6. Germany
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

7. Italy
Too Much Tuscan Sun by Dario Costagno

8. Sweden
Millennium Trilogy

9. USA
Too many to recount

10. England
Second only to the US



Watch 12 Criterion Collection films each year.
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I started this challenge back in 2006. There are so many of these films I don’t think I could ever watch them all. But watching a dozen a year will eventually make a dent in the list.

I have watched a total of 62 Criterion films, not counting the 10 I had seen prior to starting this challenge. So far, I have met my goal every year, but I am quite behind this year. It’s May and I haven’t gotten around to watching even one film from this collection this year. So, I need to spend some time watching some movies!



Participate in a book club for a year.
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I have never been much of a joiner, but I am happy I stuck with this for the time I allotted. I definitely learned a lot along the way.



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