Perlle




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Perlle's Life List

  1. 1. visit every winery on the CT Wine Trail at least once.
    2 cheers
    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 . 4 cheers
    8,958 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
    682 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
    2,026 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
    63 people
  20. 20. take a hot air balloon ride
    2 cheers
    251 people
  21. 21. kiss the blarney stone
    5 cheers
    329 people
  22. 22. attend the Emerson Reading Circle in Concord
    2 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. visit every continent
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1,924 people
  24. 24. try doing stand-up comedy at an open-mike night
    4 cheers
    14 people
  25. 25. Drive the entire length of route 66
    7 cheers
    17 people
  26. 26. create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.
    4 team members . 1 entry . 3 cheers
    1,075 people
  27. 27. have an article published in a well-known magazine
    6 cheers
    1 person
  28. 28. Find a geocache in every state
    2 entries
    2 people
  29. 29. Pay off my student loans and credit cards
    1 entry
    14 people
  30. 30. perfect my pilates routine
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  31. 31. Ride a Camel
    2 cheers
    519 people
  32. 32. learn calligraphy
    3 cheers
    696 people
  33. 33. Attend the olympics.
    4 cheers
    315 people
  34. 34. buy an old farmhouse in Missouri
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    3 people
  35. 35. invent something
    2 cheers
    1,442 people
  36. 36. write a fiction book and have it published
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    1 person
  37. 37. do a charity walk
    53 people
  38. 38. Take a wine tasting class
    80 people
  39. 39. read a book about every country in the world
    1 entry
    4 people
  40. 40. Watch 12 Criterion Collection films each year.
    2 entries
    1 person
  41. 41. take a fencing class
    18 people
  42. 42. create a butterfly & hummingbird garden
    4 people

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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Watch 12 Criterion Collection films each year. (read all 2 entries…)
2011

It took some effort but I was able to finish up the year and watch all 12 I needed to meet my goal. I’ve already gotten a jump on 2012 with a couple more watched.



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. (read all 2 entries…)
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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!



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