I'm doing 22 things
I have ostensibly straight teeth- nice smile, all that good stuff. but I have enough of an overbite that it causes me to grind at night and now I have some very serious problems with TMJ. I have to sleep with a splint, and I’d really like not to have that for the rest of my life. As soon as I can afford it, I’m going to get braces (and have them for two years, so I hear. I’m 25!) to correct my alignment!
blackunicorn's Life List
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1. Draw every day
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2. Keep working on my Japanese and Spanish
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3. visit several foreign countries
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4. Pay off my student loan in less than 10 years.
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5. Read more books
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6. learn to make stained glass
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7. Learn Gregg Shorthand
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8. get orthodontic braces
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9. publish a zine.
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10. start freelancing
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11. officiate a wedding
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12. lose about 20 pounds
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13. post more pictures to flickr
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14. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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15. Improve my typing/wpm score
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16. get better at keeping in touch with people who are important to me
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17. drink more wine
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18. Read "Snow Country" in the original Japanese
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19. Make at least my monthly loan payments with money earned from arting
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20. be aware of what is wonderful about today.
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21. quit biting my cuticles
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22. quit working for The Man
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How I did it
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How I did it: I set aside some vacation time specifically to do this and to recover from it. I started at sunrise, with the thought that finishing up by the next sunrise would be a pretty profound experience (I ended up finishing a few hours early, at about 3am, which was still pretty moving). I didn't plan out a story, I just set pen to paper and started writing, so rather than telling a story, I ended up with a series of essays about doing creative w… Read how I did it…
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Planning menus, cooking good, wholesome meals, and saving a ton of money in the process. Also, the crockpot is one of the benchmarks of modern civilization.
