Melissa B.

Will be away for a little while.



I'm doing 42 things
 

Melissa B.'s Life List

  1. 1. Make 2010 my best year yet
    1 entry . 91 cheers
    71 people
  2. 2. Read 50 books in 2010
    11 entries . 60 cheers
    155 people
  3. 3. consciously create my day
    4 entries . 173 cheers
    52 people
  4. 4. Write every day
    5 entries . 221 cheers
    933 people
  5. 5. master the law of attraction
    1 entry . 43 cheers
    304 people
  6. 6. live my life by answering this question every day: "what would you do if you knew you could not fail?"
    85 cheers
    124 people
  7. 7. learn how to thread my sewing machine
    2 entries . 92 cheers
    3 people
  8. 8. run a marathon
    17 entries . 142 cheers
    11,649 people
  9. 9. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
    4 entries . 53 cheers
    5,654 people
  10. 10. write a short story.
    1 entry . 90 cheers
    1,115 people
  11. 11. volunteer at an animal shelter
    1 entry . 118 cheers
    636 people
  12. 12. Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock's movies
    3 entries . 61 cheers
    243 people
  13. 13. read all of Jane Austen's novels
    1 entry . 95 cheers
    185 people
  14. 14. learn french
    2 entries . 58 cheers
    11,602 people
  15. 15. write a sonnet
    1 entry . 62 cheers
    26 people
  16. 16. Grow my hair as long as possible
    5 entries . 62 cheers
    147 people
  17. 17. learn sign language
    1 entry . 78 cheers
    8,230 people
  18. 18. learn to sew
    2 entries . 57 cheers
    3,902 people
  19. 19. Learn Spanish
    1 entry . 51 cheers
    16,697 people
  20. 20. go on a cruise
    2 entries . 43 cheers
    4,500 people
  21. 21. sell a screenplay
    1 entry . 49 cheers
    152 people
  22. 22. win an oscar
    1 entry . 37 cheers
    324 people
  23. 23. Write a poem that's also a palindrome
    1 entry . 59 cheers
    3 people
  24. 24. Read the Bible
    2 entries . 41 cheers
    3,476 people
  25. 25. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
    1 entry . 20 cheers
    586 people
  26. 26. Write a book (nonfiction)
    1 entry . 37 cheers
    95 people
  27. 27. meet new people
    1 entry . 75 cheers
    4,361 people
  28. 28. Write a Sestina
    1 entry . 34 cheers
    19 people
  29. 29. go camping
    1 entry . 49 cheers
    2,759 people
  30. 30. read A Clockwork Orange
    1 entry . 18 cheers
    67 people
  31. 31. read Catch-22
    1 entry . 25 cheers
    50 people
  32. 32. publish a short story
    1 entry . 20 cheers
    356 people
  33. 33. revamp my wardrobe
    3 entries . 19 cheers
    264 people
  34. 34. find a good used bookstore
    2 entries . 42 cheers
    2 people
  35. 35. Read more non-fiction
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    94 people
  36. 36. get a passport
    25 cheers
    1,851 people
  37. 37. be happy
    26 cheers
    23,563 people
  38. 38. stop using shampoo
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    50 people
  39. 39. Give 10,000 cheers
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    14 people
  40. 40. Visit the Grand Canyon
    4 cheers
    565 people
  41. 41. invent something
    8 cheers
    1,382 people
  42. 42. go to the library more often
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    49 people

How I did it
How to skype
It took me
3 weeks
It made me
Connected


How to quit world of warcraft
It took me
2 months
It made me
Giddy


How to clean and straighten my house enough that if someone pops over I don't feel required to apologize for the state of my living space
It took me
1 month
It made me
Content


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Recent entries
find a good used bookstore (read all 2 entries…)
I Spy . . . 4 months ago

I took a different route home the other day and saw a Used Book Store along a side street that I hadn’t been down before.

I’ll have to check it out, although the knowledge that I’ll likely move in the next year has me thinking I’ll just need to start over in the new place anyway and now is a bad time to collect new things; now is a time to purge.



facebook
Facebook 4 months ago

As usual, I am a few years behind everyone else. Eh . . . it happens. Mostly I think my negative experience on MySpace a while back (crazy person contacted me) has made me wary of Facebook.

I got a few Facebook invites here and there and this time decided to finally bite and see what it was all about. At least at first glance, it seems less annoying than MySpace.



learn french (read all 2 entries…)
No Smoking 4 months ago

I have been listening to my French CDs a bit lately. I have seemingly committed some words and phrases to memory; for example, “No smoking.” I actually had a situation a few years ago where I wish I had known how to say that . . . and now I do!



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