I'm doing 31 things
almost there
3 years ago
I did 17 on Nov 7 06. Shouldn’t be too much longer.
essent's Life List
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1. run a marathon
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2. improve my guitar skills
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3. Live in a foreign country for at least a year
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4. Learn to fly
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5. grow my own food
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6. write a book and have it published
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7. juggle 5 items
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8. write a song
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9. get out of debt
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10. see Björk in concert
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11. get a 6 pack
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12. pay off credit cards
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13. Create a budget
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14. pull ups
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15. drop bodyfat percentage to 10%
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16. do the splits
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17. do a handstand
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18. Summit Mt. Rainier
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19. hike the wonderland trail
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20. scuba dive
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21. learn to speak french
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22. memorize poetry
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23. bicycle across the country
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24. visit all 50 states
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25. read every book Jose Saramago ever wrote
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26. travel to every continent
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27. Earn a graduate degree
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28. learn to sew
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29. do 20 pull-ups
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30. run a 6 minute mile.
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31. mt hood
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How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: I had built up some experience as a CNA (I've been a CNA now for 10 years). I talked with a lot of recent nursing grads about their experience and how they got in. I went to the websites of all of the nursing schools that I would consider attending, and looked carefully at their prerequisites. I found, applied, and went to other schools to get the prerequisites I needed finished (I need 3 courses of Anatomy & Physiology, a Chemistry c… Read how I did it…
It made me
How I did it: I figured out how cable knitting works from dummies.com. I experimented on some swatches, then made a basic sweater with a pattern from Stitchionary 2. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
worms are satisfying
3 years ago
I don’t know why it makes me feel so good to put egg shells and banana peels in a bin, and watch the worms convert it to dirt, but it sure does.
Don’t give’em meat, spicy foods (including onions), oily foods, citrus. Other than that, they can break down almost anything that was once alive (e.g. paper towels, newspapers, cardboard).
finished degree
3 years ago
I had one of those “just need to finish a couple of classes” things happening for a good 6 years after I left school. I finally got it done, and now I don’t feel like as much of a loser.
