I FINALY signed up for rewards memberships with a couple hotel chains. Should have done that ages ago!
energy's Life List
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1. remember that I am free and alive
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2. spend less time online
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3. be excellent at my job
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4. Develop an exercise routine that works with my new schedule
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5. stop drinking alone
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6. figure out my life
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7. ask for what I want
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8. Think of all the things I would do if I won the lottery, and then look for ways to work towards them now, even without a multimillion dollar bank account
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9. Practice generocity
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10. be more frugal
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11. get out of this funk
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12. Go to bed by 10:30 on weeknights
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13. have better posture
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14. practice meditation
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15. move to Portland
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16. Give up each of my vices for one week on a rotating schedule in effort to teach myself how to avoid them
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17. fix my bike
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18. get better at mountain biking
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19. train my cat
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20. reduce my bills
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21. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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22. learn the constellations
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23. picnic
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24. learn to identify trees
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25. construct a family emergency kit and put it where I'll find it when I need it
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26. replace the kitchen floor
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27. read some books about feminism
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28. learn how to drive stick-shift
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29. learn about buddhism
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30. Volunteer often
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31. see fireflies
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32. get my hearing checked
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33. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
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34. Get all my music off my old computer and get rid of it
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35. learn about beer
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36. Go skydiving
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37. do the 2010 TBR challenge
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38. Do an energy audit on my home
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39. avoid high fructose corn syrup
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40. Bowl over 200
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41. implement GTD
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42. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
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43. 20 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Sunday
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How I did it: I didn't do it. She did it. My grandma wrote an autobiography years ago. She printed out one copy on regular printer paper and bound it in a 3-ring binder and it haphazardly got passed around. I got my hands on the digital copy. Read it multiple times. Formatted the hell out of it Got my mom to sneak some old photographs to me and scanned them and inserted them into the book. Mildly edited Grandma's work.… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I've been reading and learning about meditation a lot lately.At this point, I know that what I used to think of as "attempting to meditate" is real meditation. As long as I'm trying, I'm succeeding. A part of my want so reach meditation milestones, but as I learn more, I see how that is not a productive attitude. Still, I'm not feeling really complete in this. I might set a new goal about making meditation a regula… Read how I did it…
How I did it: Boyfriend and I looked around for inexpensive flights and picked the cheapest international flight that corresponded to the dates we needed. We ended up in Cancun and even scored a free place to stay!We took a few side trip and on the day of my birthday we traveled to a nicer hotel in another town and spent the whole day on the beach. It was bliss. And we ate a fancy dinner where the wait staff totally ignored us and didn't ev… Read how I did it…
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I just figured out what is so hard about this: I don’t know how to describe what is upsetting me without being really rude or at minimum usually hurting someone’s feelings. I know this, so I stay quiet.
How do you say: “your house is a filthy pigsty and I’m sick of being in the same room with your slimy greasy unwashed dishes and the ants are giving me the creepy crawlies and I’m worried you’re going to end up like one of those people on the news who is killed by an avalanche of newspapers” without being a bitch?


