This is coming along nicely for various reasons. I have left my old life behind, started a university degree and moved house, leaving all my furniture behind. I don’t even own my own bed! But it’s all fantabulous – really. Finally I feel as though I have some control over my own life. I’m still having problems with stuff like presentations, but I’m working on that and am seeing some progress – had to do a whole seminar presentation on how the usefulness of the national census in academic historical research, and didn’t fluff once. Yay me!
Tiggerlet's Life List
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1. be brilliant at just one thing, or two
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2. Take photographs every day, as a means of recording my life
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3. plant a herb garden
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4. have more self confidence
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5. learn to make the perfect chicken salad
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6. improve my memory
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7. walk in high heels
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8. Do a sky dive
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9. I want to go to Venice
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10. I want to learn to repair and bind old books
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11. learn Latin
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12. get a degree before I'm 50
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13. learn to drive
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14. write
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15. go to florence
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16. drop another couple of dress sizes
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17. Read all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets
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18. extend my network of friends
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19. I want to firewalk
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20. write letters
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21. I want to be a teacher
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22. go to india and be blessed by an elephant
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How I did it: I got a place at the University of Birmingham, then I just HAD to find somewhere for me and my 3 kids to live. That wasn't the easiest thing, but if you want something enough the world provides it. I saw a house advertised on the university property site - it specifed post grad students and I'm an undergrad - but not to be deterred I nagged the landlord and sure enough here I am. Can't say it's the easiest thing I ever did. But then again… Read how I did it…
Well, not quite there, but today I bought some potted herbs and re-potted them in my garden. I’m living in temporary student accommodation, so no point digging up the garden, want to be able to take them with me. I’ve thus far potted Oregano, Mint, Parsley and Thyme. I do want to grow some from seed, but am so rubbish at watering I need to practice on a started one first!
I’m living in Birmingham now – not been easy, I’m in student accommodation and am in the, perhaps enviable position, of no longer owning anything much – not even my own bed! Glad I did it though. Onwards and upwards
