I'm doing 36 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
-
1. get Bank of America to give me my $45
2 entries . 8 cheers1 person -
2. stretch every morning
48 people -
3. eat fruit every day
1 entry . 1 cheer28 people -
4. read a book a week all summer
5 entries . 3 cheers3 people -
5. organize my apartment
3 entries . 9 cheers101 people -
6. be more punctual
2 entries . 5 cheers231 people -
7. become fluent in Mandarin
1 cheer60 people -
8. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
1 entry . 3 cheers582 people -
9. read the National Book Award winners
5 entries . 3 cheers4 people -
10. Read all Pulitzer Prize winning novels
3 entries . 2 cheers91 people -
11. read the Roman histories
1 entry . 5 cheers1 person -
12. read the Greek tragedies
1 entry . 6 cheers2 people -
13. write a novel
6 cheers11,368 people -
14. bench press the weights of celebrities
3 entries . 5 cheers3 people -
15. play rugby
1 entry . 2 cheers134 people -
16. get out of debt
2 entries . 8 cheers12,157 people -
17. see a game at each Major League Baseball stadium
3 entries . 7 cheers73 people -
18. read Ulysses
1 entry . 5 cheers318 people -
19. get a dog
2 entries . 8 cheers4,020 people -
20. Learn to apply makeup
2 entries . 5 cheers380 people -
21. learn to shoot a gun
4 cheers483 people -
22. keep a paper journal
7 cheers39 people -
23. freelance at editing and proofreading
9 cheers24 people -
24. learn to fly a plane
1 entry . 3 cheers1,162 people -
25. Have a sandwich named after me
1 entry . 9 cheers20 people -
26. read the Bible, the apocrypha, and the Koran
3 cheers1 person -
27. write more letters
2 entries . 3 cheers1,847 people -
28. Evolve discreetly into a 1950s domestic goddess
8 cheers52 people -
29. write about all of my goals
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person -
30. eat healthier
3 entries . 1 cheer11,151 people -
31. discover new music
4 cheers282 people -
32. write a Red Sox blog
1 entry1 person -
33. take my cat to the vet
2 cheers13 people -
34. go on movie dates with my boyfriend
3 cheers1 person -
35. see an anhinga
1 person -
36. go outside every day it's sunny
1 person
How I did it: I got a teaching job and I live in China now. I went to Thailand twice in 2009 but I haven't left Asia since I got here. I think that spending a year in a place counts as living there. I spent four months in Italy in 2002 but since it was study abroad I don't think it counts as "living" there. In China, I have a job and an apartment and pay bills and deal with things that a 20 year old in a dorm with all her activities a… Read how I did it…
Spotted it perched in a tree during my most-successful birding trip last spring. I love birds of prey – especially tiny ones.
“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”
