cheekykitten




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  1. 1. Write more
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  2. 2. travel
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  3. 3. drive cross country
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  4. 4. build a teepee
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  5. 5. Learn to cook
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  6. 6. Commit.
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  7. 7. have more adventures
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  8. 8. pay off my credit cards
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  9. 9. start keeping promises to myself
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  10. 10. volunteer
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  11. 11. learn Spanish
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  12. 12. go surfing
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  13. 13. have a better attitude
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  14. 14. finish my novel
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  15. 15. simplify
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  16. 16. name a star
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  17. 17. swim with dolphins
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  18. 18. sleep in a haunted house
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  19. 19. send a message in a bottle
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  20. 20. ride in a hot air balloon
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  21. 21. read everything William Faulkner wrote
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How I did it
How to belly dance
It took me
18 months
It made me


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pay off my credit cards (read all 3 entries…)
whittling 3 months ago

My balance is now under $3k on my “big card” and is getting pretty close to the balance on my other card, which I am hoping to also have mostly paid down by the end of the year, since I’m planning on doing some traveling. Imagine…this time next year I’ll be posting that my balance is below $2k, and then the next year…Maybe I’ll even get really serious and pay it off sooner.

Since I’ve been doing this, I’ve gotten totally out of the habit of using my credit cards, and I haven’t missed them. Once I get them paid down their only use will be travel and emergencies, which should have been the case from the beginning.



read everything William Faulkner wrote
Starting with the novels 14 months ago

I don’t know if this is the best way to go about reading such a huge body of work, but I have decided to start with the novels. Dang, it’s a long list. Initial goal is to get the “big ones” read by the end of the year:

Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
The Unvanquished
Light in August
Intruder in the Dust
Sartoris



pay off my credit cards (read all 3 entries…)
bigger dents 17 months ago

The fun thing about actually making progress paying off a credit card is that the lower the balance gets, the more of a dent each payment makes. This month’s payment will put me below $4K on the one card, which I can hardly believe. I don’t remember when the balance was that low. Yes, I realize how crazy it sounds to think $4 is low, but considering I was starting at $8K, I’m pretty mtherf_ing proud of that.



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