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1. Try out 43 Things
3,299 people
2. make enough money
26 people
3. write and publish a book
750 people
4. live in either New York or Boston for a year
1 person
5. travel Egypt and learn my heritage
1 person
6. own a cabin close enough to retreat to, far enough away to feel like a retreat
1 person
7. floss daily
371 people
8. garden more
56 people
9. get rid of all the Things in my home that I don't love by 2006
1 person
10. practice yoga regularly
1 cheer 687 people
11. learn to make perfume
1 cheer 9 people
12. download 50 songs from emusic.com for free, then remember to cancel the account
11 people
13. publish a book
2,045 people

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question each expenditure of time and/or money, as often as possible, asking myself, "Does this choice make me closer to or more distant from who and what I want to be?"

23 people

15. do a vipassana meditation retreat
65 people
16. increase my flexibility
282 people
17. be in the audience during Oprah's favorite things show
15 people
18. dive the red sea and the Great Barrier Reef
1 cheer 5 people
19. cook my way through a book
1 cheer 2 people
20. learn spanish
14,884 people
21. live to be at least 100 years old
5 people
22. live only on cash, debt free
1 cheer 3 people
23. have a drink and smoke with Tom Waits
4 cheers 5 people
24. test this site
2 people
25. watch all the movies on my netflix list
1 cheer 5 people
26. learn Italian
1 cheer 5,538 people

27.

Fall in real love: ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love.
1 cheer

1,299 people

28. eat only homemade food for a month, 3 meals a day
4 cheers 1 person
29. co-create a collaborative, sustainable world
1 cheer 33 people
30. Stop smoking cigarettes
3 cheers 130 people
31. stop wasting time
1 cheer 3,486 people
32. judge less
1 cheer 74 people
33. spend six months driving around the USA
2 cheers 4 people
34. spend a year in France studying perfume and writing
3 cheers 1 person
35. learn my impact on the earth and plant enough trees to counteract it
4 people

Recent entries

own a hybrid car

I didn't give up, I changed my mind. 2 years ago

I’ve learned that about half of the pollution that any vehicle adds to the atmosphere happens in the CREATION of that vehicle.
So I’d rather convert an engine to veggie oil or drive biodiesel.

May 01, 2007, 10:04PM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments

own an iPod

iPod 2 years ago

I wasn’t sure if I’d use an iPod if I had one, and was hugely hesitant to invest the $300+, just to see if I’d use it.
Enter the mini shuffle, stage right.
Perfect! $80 and holds 2G of music, all I think I’ll ever need, since I like the idea of programming what I listen to, instead of carrying it all around with me. I love it! I have only used it twice, and I’ve had it three months. I don’t live the kind of life that needs musical accompaniment all the time, and I like listening to the radio (talk).
When I go for more walks in the spring, I imagine I’ll use it more. ditto road trips maybe?

May 01, 2007, 10:02PM PDT | 0 comments

whistle with my fingers

I love it! 3 years ago

I tried for years to whistle with my fingers. I’d drive around, basically spitting on my hand, down my arm, with nary a toot.
One day I was on vacation with a friend in New Orleans, and we got separated. I could see her, but she couldn’t hear me from two blocks down the street. I stuck my fingers in my mouth as I’d been instructed by many finger-whistling friends in the past, and blew.
I got the perfect New York taxi driver whistle, Stephanie turned around, we were reunited and all was well.
For a few years after that, I could only get the whistle when I needed it- lost a friend in a crowd, needed a taxi in NY (that was satisfying), etc. Now though, I can muster the whistle when I need it, and I love it.

Jul 14, 2006, 02:02AM PDT | 2 cheers | 2 comments

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