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Laurel Fan's Life List
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1. Hike the West Coast Trail
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2. Hike the pacific northwest trail
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3. Visit all of the parks in Seattle
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4. Make 43 Things Faster
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5. Speak at a conference
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6. Fix up my apartment
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7. Make 43 Things better
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8. Learn chinese
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9. Try 43 new recipes
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10. knit myself a hat
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11. pay off my mortgage
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12. Improve the 43 Things iPhone app
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13. climb 5.12
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14. climb the ceiling route at Stone Gardens
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15. ripen bananas
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How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: The quiz can be taken at: http://43things.com/book#quiz. Just check the boxes and see what you get.I found out that I'm a Spiritual Extroverted Tree Hugger. What are you? Read how I did it…
It made me
blue-haired
How I did it: I'd heard a lot of horror stories about bleaching black hair, so I went to a hipster salon and had them do the bleaching and first dyeing. It took almost four hours for the foils and bleaching process, so I'm pretty sure I got my $100 worth. I chose a really dark color (Special Effects Blue Velvet) for a more subtle effect.They don't make permanent blue dye, only semipermanent. I expected the color to gradually wash out, but I… Read how I did it…
It made me
How I did it: I have Backpack send a reminder to my cell phone at 8:35 every day. I don't always get it at exactly 8:35 (and sometimes I have my phone off or aren't in range), but I don't really feel like I need to be on the second with the 8:36 thing.I take a picture of the most interesting thing within reach, and poke a short message in the phone (I don't have a fancy phone so it only lets me enter 40 characters in the subject of picture messag… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
#14 buttery garlicky oniony mashed potatoes
2 days ago
Maybe this doesn’t really count as a recipe because I made it up, but I want to post it anyway.
Dice up 1 onion and 1 head of garlic. Melt 1 stick of butter and sauté the garlic and onion over medium heat (turn to low to keep warm when the onions are browned).
Meanwhile, cook about 2 pounds of potatoes until they’re really soft. I use the pressure cooker so it takes about 15 minutes, and by then the onions are done.
Dump the water out of the potato pot, and put the potatoes back in, and pour the butter and onion mixture on top. I don’t peel the potatoes. Peeling boiling hot potatoes is not fun.
Now mash! With a potato masher or whatever handy mashing implement. This is the fun part because a pile of potatoes and onions magically turns into mashed potatoes! Add salt to taste and mash it in.
