Melissa B.

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Melissa B.'s Life List

  1. 1. make 2011 my best year yet
    1 entry . 52 cheers
    0 people
  2. 2. consciously create my day
    4 entries . 200 cheers
    54 people
  3. 3. read 25 books in 2011
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    0 people
  4. 4. Write every day
    5 entries . 236 cheers
    991 people
  5. 5. master the law of attraction
    1 entry . 62 cheers
    310 people
  6. 6. live my life by answering this question every day: "what would you do if you knew you could not fail?"
    100 cheers
    116 people
  7. 7. learn how to thread my sewing machine
    2 entries . 106 cheers
    4 people
  8. 8. run a marathon
    17 entries . 154 cheers
    12,815 people
  9. 9. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
    4 entries . 67 cheers
    5,461 people
  10. 10. volunteer at an animal shelter
    1 entry . 136 cheers
    704 people
  11. 11. Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock's movies
    3 entries . 60 cheers
    249 people
  12. 12. read all of Jane Austen's novels
    1 entry . 103 cheers
    170 people
  13. 13. learn french
    3 entries . 62 cheers
    12,762 people
  14. 14. write a sonnet
    1 entry . 67 cheers
    25 people
  15. 15. Grow my hair as long as possible
    6 entries . 76 cheers
    158 people
  16. 16. learn sign language
    1 entry . 76 cheers
    8,500 people
  17. 17. learn to sew
    2 entries . 59 cheers
    4,063 people
  18. 18. Learn Spanish
    1 entry . 55 cheers
    18,159 people
  19. 19. go on a cruise
    2 entries . 49 cheers
    4,756 people
  20. 20. sell a screenplay
    1 entry . 45 cheers
    160 people
  21. 21. win an oscar
    1 entry . 37 cheers
    344 people
  22. 22. Write a poem that's also a palindrome
    1 entry . 58 cheers
    2 people
  23. 23. Read the Bible
    2 entries . 46 cheers
    3,782 people
  24. 24. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
    1 entry . 22 cheers
    582 people
  25. 25. Write a book (nonfiction)
    1 entry . 41 cheers
    90 people
  26. 26. meet new people
    1 entry . 75 cheers
    4,413 people
  27. 27. Write a Sestina
    1 entry . 35 cheers
    21 people
  28. 28. go camping
    1 entry . 46 cheers
    2,916 people
  29. 29. read A Clockwork Orange
    1 entry . 20 cheers
    67 people
  30. 30. read Catch-22
    1 entry . 31 cheers
    49 people
  31. 31. publish a short story
    1 entry . 24 cheers
    369 people
  32. 32. find a good used bookstore
    2 entries . 51 cheers
    2 people
  33. 33. Read more non-fiction
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    96 people
  34. 34. get a passport
    32 cheers
    1,687 people
  35. 35. be happy
    30 cheers
    24,867 people
  36. 36. invent something
    17 cheers
    1,442 people
  37. 37. Give 10,000 cheers
    3 entries . 14 cheers
    0 people
  38. 38. go to the library more often
    1 entry . 22 cheers
    47 people
  39. 39. pay off my mortgage
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    440 people
  40. 40. write more letters to my grandma
    1 entry . 30 cheers
    11 people
  41. 41. move to Las Vegas
    5 cheers
    82 people

How I did it
How to quit Facebook
It took me
2 weeks
It made me
Relieved


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


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Recent entries
Give 10,000 cheers (read all 3 entries…)
Forward March

Cheers given: 6105.

Finally moving in the right direction!



learn french (read all 3 entries…)
Learning Again

I stopped working on this for while, but as part of some improved motivation I have been enjoying lately, I am listening to my French lessons again. I have a set of “Learn in Your Car: French” CDs that I uploaded to my MP3 player so I can listen to the lessons while I am doing other things. I’ve been listening to the lessons for the past few weeks while doing yardwork. Repeating the words and phrases out loud helps me to remember them. I’d worry that my neighbors will think I’m crazy, but I’m pretty sure that they already do, so it doesn’t matter. :)



Grow my hair as long as possible (read all 6 entries…)
Up-Keep

Currently, my hair hits my back just below the bra line. It would be longer, but I cut off a few inches that looked a little old and tired; surely the result of some chemical processes I did some years ago. More specifically, the “OMG I want to be a redhead a la Julianne Moore/Ginny Weasley” exphairiment that went horribly wrong. Closest I’ve ever felt to shaving my head, lol.



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