I'm doing 13 things
1. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
3. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway
4. Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words, Phil Cousineau
5. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
6. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff—and it’s all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life, Richard Carlson
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7. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
8. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Party Dress Book, Adams
10. Started and still reading Of Time and the River, which is about 900 pages, so don’t feel too bad about not technically reaching this goal this year.
SweetPea7's Life List
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1. Be the best possible version of myself, everyday.
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2. Take riding lessons again
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3. Talk to my dad about our ancestry.
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4. Go skydiving again.
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5. Go camping on Angel Island
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6. learn to fly a plane
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7. Visit all 50 states.
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8. see the northern lights
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9. see an active volcano
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10. learn how to sail
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11. Learn Adult First Aid and CPR
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12. enter a writing competition
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13. read at least 12 books in 2011
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How I did it
It made me
Happy 
How I did it: SO: July- 1. My best friend's younger sister had been wanting to learn how to cook, so I had her over before July 4th to help prep/ give her some lessons/advice in the kitchen-- it took some planning & patience-- but a definite win-win all around!! :)2. Also joined a flag football league/team & got to meet some new people & have a blast!!3. Just had a ton of trips/travel in July/Aug--so I definitely took advantage… Read how I did it…
It made me
feel charitable
How I did it: One of the board members donated her beautiful new apt for the location, board members all brought a bottle of wine or an app and we invited all the members of the alumni assoc & had it open for friends as well—terrific time had by all!!! Entry = 5 dollars or 2 cans of food. Entry into the raffle: add’l $5 or add’l 5 cans of food. I made a bunch of choc chip cookies, brownies, and sea salt caramels and packaged them up in take out b… Read how I did it…
It made me
feel warm and fuzzy
How I did it: Ppl either had to bring a book or an extra 5 dollars as a part of admission. Really easy, everyone loved it, and helped out a great cause. www.rif.org for more info or to donate online. Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
So I fell off on reading a couple of books I had down…and now feel like I’ll need to start afresh, so current status:
1. Training your Retriever
2. The Art of Possibility
3. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
5. Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them
6. Africa: A Biography of the Continent
7. Frost: Poems
8. Latin Love Lessons
9. Tender is the Night
10. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)- EXCELLENT!!!
11. How the Two Ivans Quarrelled (Nicolai Gogol)—Also great!
12. The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)- FAVE BOOK in a long time!!!
13. Three Black Skirts: All You Need To Survive (Anna Johnson)- Good chick “is my life on track book.”
14. Good Poems for Hard Times (Selected & introduced by Garrison Keillor)—BEST anthology of poetry I’ve ever read!
Sooo…not too bad! :)
Great read. Read this while some girlfriends and I were in Cannes for my best friend’s wedding. Really fun reading a story that mentions places you’re visiting…just 80 odd years later…wow…80 years…what a strange/bittersweet idea to ruminate on. It really all is just that fleeting. :)
