I'm doing 33 things
She’s beautiful, big, brown, yellow-eyed, looks a bit like a Doberman and her name is Nora after Norah Jones. When we first met her two days ago and took her for a walk, my mum wasn’t convinced because she didn’t seem very friendly and wouldn’t even look at either of us. Nevertheless, we were told she spent so much time in the stinking box she was too excited about going out to notice who she was going with – especially that almost every time she would go with a different volunteer. My mum was almost in tears as we watched her being locked in the box again. When we got back in the car and started driving back home, warm feelings towards the dog started building up in us both and before we even reached the ring road, we knew we wanted to adopt her. And so we went back to tell the staff at the kennels we wanted to have her neutered and that we would come back the following day to take her home. Now, I have her right here under my feet!
ladystockbroker's Life List
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1. live in the UK/Ireland
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2. perfect my french
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3. dye my hair
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4. learn to play jazz piano
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5. pass the CPE exam
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6. Take pride in being straightforward
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7. learn to speak with three different British accents
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8. be more analytic when necessary and be less analytic when it's not
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9. Learn to drive
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10. become an English teacher
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11. Learn old English
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12. learn Scots Gaelic
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13. create the soundtrack to my life
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14. Change at least one foreigner's attitude towards my country
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15. Daily: Reflect on 5 things for which I'm grateful.
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16. obtain & maintain a Body Mass Index (BMI) within the range of 20-25, which experts generally consider to be healthy.
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17. go to dinner with Hugh Laurie
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18. find my beloved Waterman fountain pen
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19. get a scholarship
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20. be completely honest
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21. Learn Yiddish
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22. play tennis on the Wimbledon courts
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23. marry a lecturer
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24. make history
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25. get the perfect wine-coloured lingerie set
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26. practice zen
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27. read Ulysses
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28. Be more sociable
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29. Get a Skoda Octavia (or Felicia)
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30. see pink floyd live
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31. repair a broken friendship
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32. go jogging every morning
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33. invest in stocks
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I used to take French classes at a local university. Did that for a year and a half, then withdrew. Now, after a year’s break, I’ve grown to miss it. Anyway, it’s high time I learnt to speak a third language fluently.
I’m not really fond of nonspecific goals like “perfect my french” or “be a better mother/lover/Jew” – you need to come up with something more definite – otherwise, how will you know you’ve completed your task? I will mark this one as DONE when I’ve passed one of the DALF exams, be it DALF C1 or DALF C2 – that’s probably going to take a few years – and you keep your fingers crossed!
It’s one of the achievements that are hard to verify, but I feel I’ve completed the goal. Over the years, I’ve become much less sentimental – well, of course, I didn’t grow emotionless, which never was my intention. I simply learnt to turn on and off the Cold Calculation mode and curb the emotions when necessary. I don’t let them depress me too much and they don’t get me exaltedly extatic anymore. I guess that’s simply part of growing up.
