I'm doing 40 things
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6 months ago
‘cause in the hospital, all I could do to de-stress was read!
“Dune”
“Dune Messiah”
“Children of Dune”
By Frank Herbert
Angel's Life List
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1. get my masters in library science
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2. Create some entries for Erowid's Experience Vaults.
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3. Make my own cute accessories to jazz up outfits I already have.
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4. become fluent in jive, and then speak nothing else to any and all authority figures
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5. be a pin-up girl
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6. fold poems and quotes into origami and leave them on public transport
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7. do more with my hair
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8. add safety pin wings and additional decorations to an otherwise plain zip-up hoodie.
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9. make "unripe" drunken cherry gummies in time for B's return!
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10. Continue to never, ever purchase ANYTHING from Walmart unless it is an emergency.
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11. sit somewhere with a great view, a great friend, and a damn decent bottle of wine.
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12. Get the matching black bass clef tattoo with my brother that we design
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13. Start analyzing and and writing essays on poems I find striking to keep up all my skills from college . . . and for fun.
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14. Rememorize "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvel
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15. Acquire a Shiba Inu puppy and adopt a kitten at the same time so they can be partners in crime . . . and cuddling.
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16. leave a note in a library book
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17. Purchase some black organza ribbon with satin edging to sew on like pointe shoe ribbons and also create an outdoor sole for my new adorable black ballet flats.
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18. Have a figure like Pam Grier in "The Big Doll House"
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19. Read Elmore Leonard's Novels!
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20. Submit a letter to unsentletters.org
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21. live frugally, but richly and deliciously.
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22. make a simple but sturdy quilt of the memorable clothes that is now too small for my son.
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23. create more perfectly romantic moments for my fiance.
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24. choreograph an album-length contemporary piece.
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25. find the perfect colbalt blue vintage wedding dress.
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26. breastfeed my 7 month old for at least 5 more months.
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27. get published
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28. get back into dance class
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29. write the great american novel
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30. Put a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea
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31. Keep track of all the books I read in 2009
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32. be someone's muse
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33. see the northern lights
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34. get my drivers licence
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35. make some wooden peg dolls
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36. write a daily haiku reflecting the abiance of the moment.
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37. Go to a Radiohead concert
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38. see more live music
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39. Become a better Scrabble player
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40. learn Latin
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How I did it
It made me
shameless! 
How I did it: I have been with my fiance for about ten years, and during that time we lost our virginity together as adolescents. Seeing as neither of us had a car early in our relationship, the only way we could be intimate was to be creative. Low traffic suburban parks and single stall bathrooms, civic symbols of our fair city and forest trails, the back row of empty movie theaters and our elementary, middle and high schools . . . even the church wer… Read how I did it…
It made me
inspired!
How I did it: I spent a good deal of time learning the very basics of a dead language (Ancient Greek) and researching various philosophical texts by the great philosophers of Athens. I then had to make sure the weather in my rainy corner of the world was agreeable and find time when my young son was not too demanding to construct the piece. Read how I did it…
It made me
in awe! 
How I did it: It may not be easy to remove your focus from a mediocre performance by an out-of-shape prima ballerina, and by all means ignore her extensions! However, Nureyev's glory and genius shine, both as a mindful partner and a lovely soloist. Read how I did it…
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Perhaps . . .
6 months ago
I will make some so nicely that I can give them as a Mother’s Day gift to my man’s mother, who enjoys hanging clothes out to dry old school on a clothesline.
