I'm doing 37 things
I like veggies better than fruit and I have a hard time eating my daily fruit allowance. What is it supposed to be anyway, five? I’ve been eating a lot healthier lately and really cutting down on meat – this is good because I also eat more vegetables (i.e., I made burritos last week with bell peppers, cilantro, fresh homemade salsa, avocado, cheese, and homemade refried beans – but no meat).
But fruit is hard for me, so I’m trying to eat at least one serving per day. I had been in a bit of a slump until yesterday, when I ate a peach and a strawberry-raspberry smoothie as well as strawberry jam on my bagel and a slice of raspberry cake (topped with raspberries). Eating fruit mixed with sugar and/or marsala wine isn’t the healthiest serving, but it’s gotta count for something. And the raspberry marsala cake is to die for.
hornbreaker's Life List
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1. get Bank of America to give me my $45
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2. stretch every morning
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3. eat fruit every day
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4. read a book a week all summer
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5. organize my apartment
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6. be more punctual
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7. move to a different continent
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8. become fluent in Mandarin
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9. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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10. read the National Book Award winners
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11. Read all Pulitzer Prize winning novels
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12. read the Roman histories
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13. read the Greek tragedies
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14. write a novel
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15. bench press the weights of celebrities
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16. play rugby
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17. get out of debt
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18. see a game at each Major League Baseball stadium
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19. read Ulysses
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20. get a dog
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21. Learn to apply makeup
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22. learn to shoot a gun
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23. keep a paper journal
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24. freelance at editing and proofreading
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25. learn to fly a plane
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26. Have a sandwich named after me
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27. read the Bible, the apocrypha, and the Koran
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28. write more letters
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29. Evolve discreetly into a 1950s domestic goddess
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30. write about all of my goals
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31. eat healthier
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32. discover new music
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33. write a Red Sox blog
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34. take my cat to the vet
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35. go on movie dates with my boyfriend
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36. see an anhinga
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37. go outside every day it's sunny
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Recent entries
Gimme a F for FDA
16 months ago
Brazoria, TX
16 months ago
Spotted it perched in a tree during my most-successful birding trip last spring. I love birds of prey – especially tiny ones.
Since the end of school
16 months ago
“The House of Mirth” (Edith Wharton), June 19
“Up in the Air” (Walter Kirn), June 23
“Under the Banner of Heaven” (Jon Krakauer), July 1
Currently reading:
“The Life of the Skies”
“Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters”
