katie_marie

is back from Africa and moving to Alberta!



I'm doing 38 things
 

katie_marie's Life List

  1. 1. find a career that I love
    5 entries . 95 cheers
    213 people
  2. 2. scuba dive
    28 cheers
    2,480 people
  3. 3. write a letter to the editor
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    49 people
  4. 4. make a pinhole camera
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    140 people
  5. 5. Take more photos
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    3,729 people
  6. 6. 10 pushups
    3 entries . 30 cheers
    4 people
  7. 7. Commit a poem to memory
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    3 people
  8. 8. get a cat
    1 entry . 37 cheers
    900 people
  9. 9. pay off student loans
    2 entries . 7 cheers
    486 people
  10. 10. go to India
    2 entries . 30 cheers
    1,255 people
  11. 11. See a play at Stratford
    1 entry . 18 cheers
    3 people
  12. 12. make cheese
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    125 people
  13. 13. become multilingual
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    186 people
  14. 14. participate in a flash mob
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    38 people
  15. 15. live simply
    1 entry . 34 cheers
    3,287 people
  16. 16. work on a crisis helpline
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    1 person
  17. 17. see Dave Matthews Band live
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    38 people
  18. 18. Sew one of my designs
    1 entry . 21 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. learn how to drive stick-shift
    2 entries . 15 cheers
    4,525 people
  20. 20. master the comma
    2 entries . 34 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. Get organized
    13 cheers
    6,494 people
  22. 22. donate bone marrow
    22 cheers
    129 people
  23. 23. Learn to play a musical instrument
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    717 people
  24. 24. study physics
    14 cheers
    58 people
  25. 25. shave my head bald
    11 cheers
    63 people
  26. 26. show up at the airport with a bag & a passport & take the first flight available.
    19 cheers
    597 people
  27. 27. Have a baby
    9 cheers
    6,260 people
  28. 28. have a photo published
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    30 people
  29. 29. use cloth diapers
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    3 people
  30. 30. get laser hair removal
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    493 people
  31. 31. learn html and css
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    53 people
  32. 32. Crochet a sweater
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    28 people
  33. 33. Learn how to use an abacus
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    153 people
  34. 34. Become a member of The Travelers’ Century Club
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    1 person
  35. 35. Run a half marathon in every Canadian province
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    1 person
  36. 36. live next to the ocean
    8 cheers
    35 people
  37. 37. Attend a Massey Lecture
    1 person
  38. 38. be a tour guide
    1 cheer
    11 people

How I did it
How to become a speech language pathologist
It took me
3 years
It made me
Proud


How to raft the Nile
It took me
1 day
It made me
terrified


How to visit the Middle East
It took me
26 years
It made me
Super happy


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Recent entries
Mend my broken heart
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This one has been hanging out on my list for a long time because I guess I have no way to measure it. Is it mended? The part that the relationship ripped open is more or less healed but it did manage to reveal other tears that I can’t ignore anymore. Deeper issues. Can I consider it completed? I think I”m going to check it off as a sign to myself.



give up aspartame (read all 2 entries…)
Done.

Basically I realized that I hated the taste of aspartame in everything except diet pop to which I was hopelessly addicted. Then came africa: diet pop is not common there and it is hot and you can’t get tap water so if you’re going to pay for a drink it might as well be pop, right? Ok, maybe faulty reasoning but in Africa 1) got fat, 2) got over my diet pop addiction. Now I drink regular pop and I have much less pop period. Hopefully I can keep this up but with the addiction terminated I’m counting this as done!



pay off student loans (read all 2 entries…)
My very first payment!

Got my first paycheck this weekend so I made my very first loan payment! I have a chunk that I owe to the Ontario government and another more-sizable chunk for my parents. Since the OSAP one has interest on it I plan to pay it off as fast as possible. Anything I pay between now and March will come directly off the principle! Booyah. I should stop eating out so much….



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