Matthew

There's nothing to it but to do it.



I'm doing 35 things
 

Matthew's Life List

  1. 1. Live in New York City.
    37 cheers
    2,861 people
  2. 2. go to bed before midnight
    3 entries . 18 cheers
    125 people
  3. 3. bicycle across the country
    13 cheers
    62 people
  4. 4. volunteer for habitat for humanity
    20 cheers
    84 people
  5. 5. renew my passport
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    258 people
  6. 6. Hike Mt. Ellinor again.
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. become a certified teacher
    4 entries . 9 cheers
    24 people
  8. 8. read "the shining"
    10 cheers
    14 people
  9. 9. buy a sailboat
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    115 people
  10. 10. go to Antarctica
    3 cheers
    411 people
  11. 11. Buy a kayak
    2 cheers
    157 people
  12. 12. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    53 people
  13. 13. Participate in Climate Ride 2014
    1 cheer
    1 person
  14. 14. learn the violin
    1 cheer
    161 people
  15. 15. buy a new house.
    231 people
  16. 16. Complete a Tough Mudder
    10 people
  17. 17. Put all my CDs into iTunes
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    38 people
  18. 18. Finally play Final Fantasy VIII.
    2 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. try 43 new recipes
    19 entries . 10 cheers
    44 people
  20. 20. Run the New York Marathon.
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    111 people
  21. 21. Learn to play the guitar.
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    13,800 people
  22. 22. Get a pilot's license.
    8 cheers
    245 people
  23. 23. Travel to Norway.
    5 cheers
    50 people
  24. 24. Learn to play the piano.
    5 cheers
    8,231 people
  25. 25. Take up kite aerial photography.
    2 cheers
    2 people
  26. 26. Sleep under the stars.
    4 cheers
    4,236 people
  27. 27. Fly in an autogyro.
    2 cheers
    1 person
  28. 28. Ride in a hot air balloon.
    6 cheers
    2,728 people
  29. 29. Be listed in a movie's credits.
    10 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. See a tornado.
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    330 people
  31. 31. Donate blood.
    19 cheers
    2,893 people
  32. 32. Pilot a zeppelin.
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    1 person
  33. 33. run a half marathon
    4 entries . 7 cheers
    2,481 people
  34. 34. read Moby Dick
    3 entries . 6 cheers
    96 people
  35. 35. Run at least 2 5k's in April
    1 person

How I did it
How to be vegetarian for a month
It took me
1 month
It made me


How to do the Seattle to Portland (STP) ride
It took me
5 months
It made me
sore, but happy


How to watch lost
It took me
90 days
It made me
Emotional


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Recent entries
Volunteer
Volunteering A Green Thumb

I guess I forgot to mark it off, but I spent a Saturday in November planting trees! I found an opportunity through The Nature Conservancy to help restore the area around a salmon stream. I guess a team had come in before and cleared the area of invasive plants (blackberry bushes, etc) to make room for trees and other plants.

So I drove out to Issaquah to met up with a group of a dozen or so people and we started digging holes and filling them with the hundreds of potted vegetation that was donated. I think I must have personally planted 30 – 40 separate plants. It started to rain a bit before we were finished so I ended up quite muddy. It was quite a fulfilling experience!



read Moby Dick (read all 3 entries…)
Read Or Die

Just bought another copy – this time for my Kindle to read at the YMCA, which is where I do most of my reading lately. So this WILL get done.

just after i finish the shining, that is… but i’m almost done with that :)



Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org (read all 2 entries…)
The First International Bank of Matthew

Last month I made my tenth and eleventh loans, so I’m a quarter of the way there. It seams to be getting much easier to make loans now that they are beginning to be paid off. I can just turn that money around and loan it to someone else!



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