I'm doing 43 things
Randy Pausch – The Last Lecture
Amazing. Inspirational. Very quotable.
Sarah3112's Life List
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1. get my LLM in Construction Law and Arbitration
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2. have fun falling and being in love
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3. have the courage to hold hands with someone in public
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4. be more sexually adventurous
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5. make at least one person smile every day
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6. have a day when nothing bad happens
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7. work to live, not live to work
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8. help someone else achieve one of their 43 things
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9. fill all my empty photo albums with pictures depicting great/fun/memorable moments in my life
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10. make more female friends
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11. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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12. be a character in a book
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13. see the northern lights
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14. be a Bond Girl
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15. do more scuba diving
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16. meet Wentworth Miller
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17. get a helicopter licence
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18. get backstage passes to a gig
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19. Send a message in a bottle
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20. buy a big run-down house and make it into a home, my home
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21. start a trend
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22. buy a digital camcorder
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23. go to Japan before I am 35
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24. Find a Bookcrossing book or two
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25. Go on a blind date
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26. take more time to respond to messages that people leave for me on 43T
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27. stop feeling so tired all the time
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28. be able to get out of bed when my alarm clock goes off
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29. never have to use an alarm clock
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30. be good at something
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31. stay in an ice hotel
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32. travel to every continent
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33. achieve 'Commando' status at Military Bootcamp training
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34. feel settled
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35. own my own home in Australia
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36. do at least 30mins exercise every day for 7 days
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37. get back to my pre-Dubai weight
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38. reduce my alcohol intake to less than 10 units per week
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39. be able to deal with heartbreak better
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40. work out new passwords for everything that are not related to a guy or anything negative
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41. not allow myself to be defined by my relationships
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42. read 12 books in 2009
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43. watch 25 movies in 2009
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How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: Just went into the airline office and booked it!It was with Emirates airlines on one of their new planes so first class was private suites with individual minibar, huge TV, fully flat bed, duvet, PJs and slippers, basket of chocolate bars and snacks, a la carte dining on demand etc etc etc. Brilliant. Read how I did it…
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PROUD
How I did it: I spent 4 days walking on the Great Wall of China in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support in the UK.The first day was a very ruined part of the wall and was very rough and challenging.The second and third days were on steep and challenging sections of the wall.The fourth day was on the most touristy part of the wall which was renovated in 1984 and even had handrails! This section meant we had to walk up 1,050 steps to get to the wall. Once on … Read how I did it…
Recent entries
This is mainly for health reasons. I don’t want to be pickling my liver. And it is easier to get fit and lose weight when not drinking alcohol.
I hate the out-of-control feeling when really drunk and I certainly hate the hangover the next day (although I tend not to have hangovers as often these days which could be a worrying sign that my body is getting used to the alcohol intake!).
So I have decided to start keeping my alcohol intake to within the healthy limits for a woman and to avoid binge drinking.
I’ve seen some Ice Hotels on the TV and my partner has stayed in one and I would love to try it. Even the glasses you get your drink served in is carved out of ice! Your bed is a slab of ice covered in reindeer skin and you sleep snugly in a sleeping bag suitable for the cold extremes. I might even combine this goal with seeing the Northern Lights.
