I'm doing 40 things
I was drinking one a day at work and while I did enjoy that it was making my groceries too expensive. Now, I’m making a game of it – I’ll buy one a week and I take a shot of Odwalla once or twice a day. It’s the little things that will help me to save money.
germander's Life List
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1. Never never never give up
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2. Take good care of myself
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3. Visit Barcelona, Spain to see the works of Antonio Gaudi
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4. 8 People Goals
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5. Decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
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6. The 10,000 Hours
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7. Create a second stream of income somehow
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8. Investigate Careers
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9. Learn guitar
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10. Learn Spanish
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11. Meditate
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12. Have a place for everything, and put everything in its place
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13. Reduce my grocery bill
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14. Read from the New Lifetime Reading Plan books on Sundays
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15. Write essays on topics that interest me
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16. Learn French
8 entries . 26 cheers12,770 people -
17. Learn Farsi
7 entries . 51 cheers334 people -
18. Watch all the movies in Roger Ebert's "The Great Movies II"
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19. Watch, read, or listen to all of Shakespeare's plays
9 entries . 38 cheers103 people -
20. Write a book
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21. Read all the books I own
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22. Read all the Spanish books I own
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23. Learn music theory
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24. Begin my entomology collection
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25. Build my Red Dawn Adventure Kit
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26. Save First
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27. Master my relationship with money
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28. Pay off my student loans
7 entries . 19 cheers3,034 people -
29. Do yoga
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30. Reawaken my dream life
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31. Have fun
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32. Be on time
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33. Try hand sewing
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34. Have pretty arms
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35. Write a will
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36. Write a living will
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37. Write an advanced directive
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38. POTUS Project: 44 Presidents, 44 Books
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39. Find out if I am meant to become a sculptress
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40. Learn to play the piano
2 cheers8,231 people
How I did it
It made me
Oh wow! 
How I did it: I have Google Reader RSS feeds and found this article, which mentions a Jon Stewart interview of Elizabeth Warren so I found that here and in her interviews on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she talks about the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) which has a page called the Student Debt Repayment Assistant here so I went through it and it has a link for the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) - and … Read how I did it…
It made me
more secure 
How I did it: . I clip coupons. I record how much money I spend every month and know the amounts of my recurring bills. I budget amounts to save each week, and I try to keep extra spending to a minimum. With all of this, I have been able to earmark the money for my checking floor as non-spendable money. If I have to live paycheck to paycheck, at least my low point won't be zero! Read how I did it…
It made me
turkeylicious
How I did it: I found a local Turkey Trot online and registered there. For the 9 or 10 weeks prior to the race, I jogged 4 days per week, increasing my mileage slowly and taking easy weeks twice. My clothes aren't fancy and my shoes aren't pretty, but the running is good for me, and the race was very exciting and fun. Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
I’m reading The Hunger Games in Spanish right now and I’m to book 3, Sinsajo. I totally don’t have time for this right now but I need the sanity measures so I’m doing it anyway. Watching Pan’s Labyrinth in the theater when it came out tipped me off that the collective unconscious is bubbling up some true villains again for us to wrestle with, and I see this series as a clean continuation of that thread. Looking at it that way helps me stomach some of the violence – we have some real darkness to clear so we can liberate the light (ie wars in the Middle East and Africa, and all those other private wars that will never make the news – yes, yours too). All I can say is, it’s gonna be so bright, so keep doing the work.
Spanish Proficiency Exercises from the University of Texas at Austin: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/
I have to do this first before I can go internet exploring – every day. These are great practice in listening!
