I'm doing 41 things
~1000 ft climb, in 1/2 hour
woohoo! :D
Now to add the altitude and the 35-lb pack. And to get the pack down to 35 lbs….
Kalibebti's Life List
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1. Re-start Ballet before Valentine's Day 2012.
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2. No carbs, no coffee after 2pm.
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3. Meditate ~ an hour per morning for the next month and see what happens.
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4. Yawp barbarically.
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5. Submit poems & etc. (bimonthly).
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6. Condescend to meet deadlines even though they are abhorrent works of evil whose very existence at the nexus of art and economic enterprise is antithetical to creation.
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7. Vipassana
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8. Summit Mt. Whitney 2012. : )
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9. Pacific Crest Trail segment hike
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10. Kiteboarding lesson: Summer 2012 :D
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11. Vengeance au Mark Twain.
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12. Get chased by crazed fans.
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13. THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE.
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14. Apply for Amnesty International positions that would teach me new stuff.
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15. Believe 10 impossible things before breakfast.
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16. Make more money. (Goal formerly known as "Budget").
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17. THRIVE IN DIFFERENT WORLDS
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18. Do what I do because that's who I am.
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19. Identify 10 skills I've forgotten/never use and exercise them in at least one quantifiable way every month: play flute in a woodwind quintet again.
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20. Lyra/Book-a-Day
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21. Memorize all the songs I want to know.
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22. Enjoy every sandwich.
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23. Climb as many mountains as possible mentioned in Woman on the Rocks.
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24. See and be seen. Hear and be heard. Read and be read. ; )
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26. Scuba a cenote.
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27. See the Northern Lights from the Yukon.
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28. Celebrate my 42nd birthday with a Life, the Universe and Everything party!
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29. Be Poet Laureate of Anywhere.
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30. See the Bolshoi at The Bolshoi.
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31. Hike or bike around Scotland drinking whiskey and sleeping in castles (or hostels) with my man.
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32. Meet Brian Cox.
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33. Spend a fortnight on Mallorca.
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34. Write a play. Write a screenplay.
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35. Prepare for and participate in a Latin and a Greek intensive.
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36. Set foot on all 7 continents before I'm 50.
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37. Build a house shaped like a four-dimensional labyrinth with lots of moving parts
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38. Know one factoid about every country in the world.
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39. Project Codename Atalanta: due February 29, 2012
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40. Project Codename Oya: due March 21, 2012
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41. Project Codename Galadriel: due March 15, 2012
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How I did it
It made me
Delirious :D 
How I did it: I thought about the mountain trail a lot, its challenges and undiscovered (to me) beauty, while slogging away at the gym or up and down lesser (to me) heights.~bottom pic is just above Outpost Camp (my profile pic is nowhere near Whitney!!)~ Read how I did it…
It made me
Dancealicious
How I did it: Maundered around online looking at tango lesson options. I put that this goal took 3 months to complete because originally we searched unsatisfactorily for a way to take a single private lesson during our honeymoon, instead finding that the dance schools in those vicinities operated sort of like used-car salesmen: willing to sign us up for rather infinite periods of time in exchange for the single private-lesson option. … Read how I did it…
It made me
Happy!
How I did it: We were lucky enough to find a secular celebrant online who understood what we wanted & how to work with our differences; plus she was affordable and willing to take a ferry with us to our secret island location. She made the ceremony both literary and personal, and even threw in a Buddhist blessing which was the sort of thing I'd searched and searched for myself without success. Even more surprising/gratifying was my husb… Read how I did it…
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but I fortunately read the books long before I knew what pop culture was, so I get a pass this time, haha. Hey, it happens to wildly popular archetypes. Not her fault.
I also get a pass because I was so unfortunate as to happen to read The Adventures of the Great Gilly Hopkins BEFORE I encountered LOTR...very sad…but it did give me an unusual perspective
for a very long time. Lately he is sounding a little impatient, as if he’s worried I will never take the next step. Men never understand Oya.
But he has a point. Seven weeks is the gestation period. This will be done.
I love this image, and it is far and away the best one I found, so I’m going to post it. I never say this, but since I myself tend to dislike it when others here post overly explicit art, I’m willing to change this image if anyone has a problem with it.
Oya
from readersandrootworkers.org
random Oya factoids: Sacrifices to Oya include: she-goat, hens, pigeons and guinea hens. Altar offerings for Oya include eggplant, chocolate, pomegranate, plums, and multi-colored flowers. Her shrine is a glazed ceramic pot, usually maroon or multicolored, filled with her mysteries and 18 loose cowries for diloggun, through which she speaks. The pot is topped with a copper crown from which hang 9 different tools. A large, dried seed pod from the red-flowered flamboyant tree (also known as the flame tree or royal poinciana) is used to speak with her.
