amaniellen




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  1. 1. Try out 43 Things
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  2. 2. learn my impact on the earth and plant enough trees to counteract it
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  3. 3. watch all the movies on my netflix list
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  4. 4. get rid of all the Things in my home that I don't love by 2006
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  5. 5. judge less
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  6. 6. download 50 songs from emusic.com for free, then remember to cancel the account
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  7. 7. publish a book
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  8. 8. co-create a collaborative, sustainable world
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  9. 9. Stop smoking cigarettes
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  10. 10. Fall in real love: ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love.
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  11. 11. 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?"
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  12. 12. do a vipassana meditation retreat
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  13. 13. cook my way through a book
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  14. 14. increase my flexibility
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  15. 15. be in the audience during Oprah's favorite things show
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  16. 16. stop wasting time
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  17. 17. garden more
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  18. 18. have a drink and smoke with Tom Waits
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  19. 19. floss daily
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  20. 20. learn spanish
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  21. 21. learn Italian
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  22. 22. practice yoga regularly
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  23. 23. make enough money
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  24. 24. write and publish a book
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  25. 25. live in either New York or Boston for a year
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  26. 26. learn to make perfume
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  27. 27. spend a year in France studying perfume and writing
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  28. 28. dive the red sea and the Great Barrier Reef
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  29. 29. live only on cash, debt free
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  30. 30. travel Egypt and learn my heritage
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  31. 31. live to be at least 100 years old
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  32. 32. own a cabin close enough to retreat to, far enough away to feel like a retreat
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  33. 33. spend six months driving around the USA
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  34. 34. eat only homemade food for a month, 3 meals a day
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  35. 35. test this site
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Recent entries
own a hybrid car
I didn't give up, I changed my mind.

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.



own an iPod
iPod

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?



whistle with my fingers
I love it!

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.



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