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I'm doing 43 things
 

????'s Life List

  1. 1. spend less time screwing around on the web
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    217 people
  2. 2. Pay off all of my debt
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    549 people
  3. 3. Learn to speak and write Japanese fluently
    3 entries . 9 cheers
    153 people
  4. 4. learn the okinawan dialect
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    2 people
  5. 5. Learn to speak Spanish
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    1,995 people
  6. 6. learn to play shamisen
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    15 people
  7. 7. Donate blood more often
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    29 people
  8. 8. lose another 40 pounds
    3 entries . 2 cheers
    5 people
  9. 9. go to the gym regularly
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    740 people
  10. 10. be a better vegan
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    69 people
  11. 11. learn to cook delicious vegan meals
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    6 people
  12. 12. understand macrobiotics intuitively
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    1 person
  13. 13. develop social skills enough to hold a conversation with anyone
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    12 people
  14. 14. make everyone laugh as much as possible
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. make more friends
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    4,244 people
  16. 16. Write a book or screenplay
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    9 people
  17. 17. become a filmmaker
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    83 people
  18. 18. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
    1 cheer
    6,189 people
  19. 19. live in tokyo for a few years
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    1 person
  20. 20. Live in San Francisco for a few years
    2 cheers
    12 people
  21. 21. visit more museums
    3 cheers
    71 people
  22. 22. Read more books
    1 cheer
    9,259 people
  23. 23. Improve my photography
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    528 people
  24. 24. have nicer clothes
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    2 people
  25. 25. increase my capacity for patience and tolerance
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  26. 26. learn to SCUBA dive
    2,203 people
  27. 27. learn to mountain bike
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    16 people
  28. 28. Explore California!
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    12 people
  29. 29. Drive across the USA
    2,011 people
  30. 30. visit all 50 states
    2 cheers
    5,800 people
  31. 31. see the Mayan ruins
    14 people
  32. 32. explore Japan
    2 entries
    9 people
  33. 33. Walk the Great Wall of China
    1 cheer
    415 people
  34. 34. see the remains of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
    1 cheer
    8 people
  35. 35. play in the snow
    1 cheer
    128 people
  36. 36. See the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis
    114 people
  37. 37. convert my web sites to CSS
    1 entry
    71 people
  38. 38. Start playing guitar again
    1 entry
    79 people
  39. 39. Minimize existing clutter and excess possessions
    1 entry
    385 people
  40. 40. learn to play bass
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    654 people
  41. 41. Run a mile without stopping
    261 people
  42. 42. be on Flickr's interestingness
    17 people
  43. 43. Go camping and hiking more often
    1 cheer
    8 people
Recent entries
Learn to speak and write Japanese fluently (read all 3 entries…)
not much improvement, but improvement nonetheless 4 months ago

I don’t live with my mom anymore so I don’t speak Japanese on a daily basis but I’ve been writing actual letters to a relative and I’m much more involved with using Japanese on the computer. I have found online dictionaries which has made me super lazy from picking up an actual dictionary. Very briefly I even had a temp job at a Japanese company so I’ve discovered the joy of Japanese on a PC rather than a Mac, which makes me a bit sad. (I know of no Mac way to look up kanji by writing it with your mouse.) I’m listening to music in Japanese much more often and since my last entry have been active in the Nikkei community though I’m stepping down my involvement this year. (being Nikkei isn’t hand in hand with knowing Japanese) I even found among my stuff a photocopy of the poster in my mom’s restroom of the required kanji so maybe I should mimic her and contemplate kanji even in there. Though that poster is better for native speakers as a reminder rather than a learning tool. That is helpful though since most Japanese abroad forget kanji from lack of seeing it on a daily basis and god knows that’s me too. (I have sumo wrestler names in a restroom as decoration but that’s not helpful at all.)


make more friends (read all 2 entries…)
losing friends not making friends 4 months ago

In the past year I’ve been losing friends so I’m failing this goal miserably. But I’ve also had some life changes like a new job that gives me the chance to meet more people. There’s a couple people on my possible friend list so I’m hoping I can make at least as many friends as I’ve lost recently.


Minimize existing clutter and excess possessions
sell or trash 4 months ago

My biggest obstacle from getting rid of stuff is I feel that there is some value I could get, no matter how small, if I sold things instead of just getting rid of it. (Better to put money in pocket than throw it out.) I’ve been mostly selling CDs but recently opened it up to books and DVDs, of which I have much less. I learned DVDs sell the best and books don’t sell. So I should just give away the books and sell all DVDS I’m not 100% in love with. Then there’s boxes of emotionally attached junk—liked things I used to collect or ‘I know it’ll be useful one day’ crap. But it’s time to stop that sort of thinking and let go. A motivator would be to think of people I know with lots of crap in their home and how I want the opposite of that. I never take the time to target decluttering so that’s what keeps the boxes move after move. No more. Decluttering is now a priority.


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