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  2. 1. love my neighbor
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		10 people
  3. 2. encourage other people
    2 cheers     		68 people
  4. 3. Do something about educational inequality in the United States
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1 person
  5. 4. learn to eat intuitively
    2 cheers     		1 person
  6. 5. pay off student loans
    1 entry     		339 people
  7. 6. get a job i love
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		860 people
  8. 7. start exercising regularly
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		278 people
  9. 8. ace the GRE test
    		5 people
  10. 9. Learn Spanish
    2 entries . 2 cheers     		14,885 people
  11. 10. Make new friends
    1 entry     		12,239 people
  12. 11. learn to dance
    		6,250 people
  13. 12. watch every episode of the Simpsons
    1 cheer     		133 people
  14. 13. knit a sweater
    		624 people
  15. 14. Do 10 REAL pushups.
    1 cheer     		15 people
  16. 15. Dress better
    		1,184 people
  17. 16. get better at DDR
    1 cheer     		185 people
  18. 17. learn to cook better
    		385 people
  19. 18. Improve my French
    1 cheer     		1,315 people
  20. 19. improve my German
    		479 people
  21. 20. speak 5 languages
    1 cheer     		135 people
  22. 21. Write more thank you notes
    1 cheer     		446 people
  23. 22. send a card or letter each week
    2 cheers     		39 people
  24. 23. be a better friend and email/phone/see friends on regular basis
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		221 people
  25. 24. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
    1 entry     		7,434 people
  26. 25. Kiss in the rain
    		14,424 people
  27. 26. Take more photos
    		3,374 people
  28. 27. Learn to surf
    		7,107 people
  29. 28. visit all seven continents
    		475 people
  30. 29. learn to play piano
    1 cheer     		1,665 people
  31. 30. take an art class
    1 cheer     		320 people
  32. 31. go back to Paris
    1 cheer     		182 people
  33. 32. hike the appalachian trail
    1 cheer     		1,583 people
  34. 33. run a marathon
    2 cheers     		9,922 people
  35. 34. live on the east coast
    2 cheers     		36 people
  36. 35. own a hybrid car
    1 cheer     		594 people
  37. 36. have better posture
    1 cheer     		7,443 people
  38. 37. drink more green tea
    1 cheer     		181 people
  39. 38. stop wasting time
    		3,485 people
  40. 39. save money
    		14,238 people
  41. 40. apply to grad school
    1 cheer     		151 people
  42. 41. adopt shih tzus
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  43. 42. lose weight
    		35,285 people
  44. 43. get my teaching contract renewed
    1 cheer     		1 person
Recent entries
adopt shih tzus
LSSTLAR 2 years ago

I found the website for our local shih tzu/lhasa apso rescue. I cried…several times. These poor little guys have been so mistreated and unloved. I want dogs. Too bad I live alone and have crazy hours (until the summer, at least). Maybe when I move into a house…someday…

Oct 24, 2006, 08:19PM PDT | 0 comments


start exercising regularly
Untitled 2 years ago

Ok…I have once again embarked on my exercising journey. I worked out 5 out of 7 days this week, and I still plan on doing a yoga video before bed today, which would bump me up to 6 days. I found a latin aerobics class which is absolutely amazing. The instructor is actually from Latin America. She is actually more of a choreographer than instructor; most of the diehards in the class have all of the routines memorized, and newbies like me hang on for dear life as we try to keep up with all the bouncing, shimmies, and booty shaking. There is, in fact, so much booty shaking that a group of at least 5 men stands outside of the class staring in at the gyrating women. Thankfully, I scouted out a place as far from the window as possible.

Oct 15, 2006, 04:59PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


love my neighbor
An excerpt from "The Weight of Glory" by CS Lewis 2 years ago

The last bit of this essay is so profound:
“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal…And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner – no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”

Oct 02, 2006, 08:36PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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