I'm doing 41 things
#21 The Thin Man
1 day ago
by Dashiell Hammett
QueenoftheHighway's Life List
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1. cross something off my to-do list every couple of days
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2. read 24 books in 2009
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3. do at least one difficult thing per week until the end of 2009
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4. hike half dome
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5. plan my meals and go to the grocery store with a list
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6. never throw food away
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7. keep a daily rule of prayer
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8. grow an herb garden on my windowsill
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9. scan and fix all the photos I've ever taken that are worth saving
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10. Learn about spices and use them
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11. make a list of 43 memories
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12. learn to whistle with my fingers
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13. significantly increase my vocabulary
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14. read every book I own
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15. learn Latin
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16. Learn Anglo-Saxon
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17. taste a lot of wines until I can really tell if one is good or not
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18. get stung by a bee
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19. love God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength
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20. live with integrity
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21. stop feeling guilty about EVERYthing
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22. contemplate
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23. Read the Bible through.
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24. completely understand and apply St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul
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25. buy an expensive bottle of champagne for no particular reason
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26. celebrate traditions from my ancestral cultures
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27. go back to the Vietnam Memorial and find the name of the soldier on my POW bracelet
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28. see Venice before it sinks
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29. eat a gelato on the Spanish Steps in Rome
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30. See the Eiffel tower at night
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31. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway.
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32. have a Beowulf-themed dinner party, with no silverware, a few outrageous fights, and lots of mead
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33. Stand on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
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34. buy Mike Ness a drink
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35. recite a Shakespeare soliloquy in front of lots of people who aren't expecting it (like in an airport terminal, or in a movie theatre line)
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36. drink absinthe (actual, good absinthe) in Paris.
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37. go punting in Oxford
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38. sail the wine-dark sea
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39. see the midnight sun
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40. have a darkroom in my house someday
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41. own an old house with wood floors and "interesting" rooms (like the sunroom in my sister-in-law's house and the quirky library in a friend's house)
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I finally put together an Anglo-Saxon study group. We’re using Pollington’s First Steps in Old English.
