calypsatic




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calypsatic's Life List

  1. 1. learn to play chopin's fantasie impromptu
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    109 people
  2. 2. Do the A-Z author challenge
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    178 people
  3. 3. learn Latin
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    2,001 people
  4. 4. memorize five pieces on the piano
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    7 people
  5. 5. pay off my credit card
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    1,541 people
  6. 6. pay off my student loans
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    3,044 people
  7. 7. Save money
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    16,111 people
  8. 8. learn Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
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    11 people
  9. 9. complete 100 lessons on japanesepod101
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    1 person
  10. 10. complete 50 lessons from koreanclass101
    1 person
  11. 11. Pass JLPT N3
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    2 people
  12. 12. read a whole manga series in Japanese
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    1 person
  13. 13. complete Remembering the Kanji 1
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    14 people
  14. 14. read a novel in japanese
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    5 people
  15. 15. finish cross stitch projects
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    50 people
  16. 16. run 5 miles
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    179 people
  17. 17. Read my Bible more
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    568 people
  18. 18. be fluent in French
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    916 people
  19. 19. learn jazz piano
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    154 people
  20. 20. get a black belt in a martial art
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    29 people
  21. 21. do 50 pushups
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    124 people
  22. 22. write a book
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    30,182 people
  23. 23. learn Korean
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    1,310 people
  24. 24. get my bellybutton pierced
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    161 people
  25. 25. learn about the stock market
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    38 people
  26. 26. Visit the Galapagos Islands
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    258 people
  27. 27. do a backflip
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    852 people
  28. 28. paint a masterpiece
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    214 people
  29. 29. get a motorcycle license
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    138 people
  30. 30. learn to crochet
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    1,136 people
  31. 31. learn the thriller dance
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    2,778 people
  32. 32. feel beautiful
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    2,217 people
  33. 33. be confident in a bathing suit
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    77 people
  34. 34. be ambidextrous
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    133 people
  35. 35. learn guitar
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    3,568 people
  36. 36. memorize poetry
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    83 people
  37. 37. write a kids book
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    34 people
  38. 38. learn more about politics
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    110 people
  39. 39. do a cover song
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    2 people
  40. 40. Go zip lining
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    47 people
  41. 41. learn about real estate
    7 people

How I did it
How to lose 10 pounds
It took me
1 year
It made me


How to make my bed every day
It took me
2 months
It made me
Yaaay!


How to eat less junk food
It took me
2 years
It made me
feel energized


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Recent entries
Do the A-Z author challenge (read all 22 entries…)
V: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

A: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
B: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
C: The Stranger by Albert Camus
D: Sinner by Sara Douglass
E: Silence by Shusaku Endo
F: Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
G: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
H: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
I: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
J: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
K: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
L: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
M: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
N: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
O: Starbook by Ben Okri
P: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Q: Mistress of Rome by Julia Quinn
R: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
S: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
T: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
U: Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
V: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

This book was as good as I thouht it would be. Definitely gonna read more Vonnegut!



Do the A-Z author challenge (read all 22 entries…)
U: Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

A: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
B: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
C: The Stranger by Albert Camus
D: Sinner by Sara Douglass
E: Silence by Shusaku Endo
F: Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
G: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
H: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
I: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
J: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
K: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
L: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
M: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
N: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
O: Starbook by Ben Okri
P: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Q: Mistress of Rome by Julia Quinn
R: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
S: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
T: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
U: Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

One of my least favorites so far. I didn’t want to read Updike, mostly cause he was half of what I found with the U authors. This book got high reviews on Amazon and sounded interesting, but I couldn’t really get into it and was really bored by the time I finished. =(



Read 50 books in 2011 (read all 40 entries…)
42-50!!

For the first 1-41 books I posted the book with the cover, but I got lazy with updating 43 things =(. But Yay!!! I finally finished 50! This is the first time I’ve done it since I started this goal 4ish years ago. Definitely worth doing, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it again for a while.
Having many books ready on my bookshelf really helped me. I also became a goodreads.com member and posted all my updates there instead of here.
Here’s the rest of the list:
42-44. The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
45. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
46. Morality Play by Barry Umsworth
47. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
48. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
49. Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
50. Season of Passage by Christopher Pike



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