in two weeks and two days, i will be on a flight to England. I’ll be over there for a month! YAY!
maredith's Life List
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1. Keep doing strange, impulsive, irrational things!
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2. create a virus that brings on the zombie apocalypse.
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3. write a love letter once a week
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4. have a secret underground lair
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5. become a professional tattoo artist
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6. Kiss in the rain
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7. tell a taxi driver to "follow that car!"
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8. get out of debt
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9. declutter my life
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10. learn sign language
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11. quit smoking
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12. have another art show
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13. make a coffee table book about my san francisco tattoo
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14. lose 30 pounds
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15. slap someone
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16. visit my aunt
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17. paint 100 paintings
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18. take my daughter camping
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19. take my daughter to auckland NZ for a month
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20. save 6000usd
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21. create a tattoo portfolio
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22. get the otherside of my lip pierced
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23. identify 100 things that make me happy.
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24. be comfortable with my body
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25. win the lottery
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26. have 500$ in my savings account that i DO NOT touch!
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27. Take 5 pictures a week as a way to document my life
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28. Get down to a size 10
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29. build a ship bed
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30. make a glass garden
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31. send a postcard to postsecret.com
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32. create small pieces of art, and leave them for people to find
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33. get my dreadlocks back!
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34. Actually meet face-to-face with someone from 43 Things
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35. love like I've never been hurt
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36. move to England
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How I did it: My friend Simon offered to fly me over for a month in exchange for two paintings that i did. He bought my airfare and i stayed with him and some other friends. Read how I did it…
How I did it: i went to the US government passport website, found out all the paperwork that i needed, filled it out, made copies of the front and back of my driver's license, got all my paperwork necessary, and headed down to the local post office for them to take my photo and all my paperwork. i opted to get mine expedited, so it cost me an extra 60$, but i got it in the mail within a week of going down to the post office. Read how I did it…
How I did it: i arranged for childcare and would find things to do. by the end of november, i found myself having too many things to do and too many people wanting to hang out with me.i tended to overbook myself. i highly recommend this, it was a great way to deal with my depression, to pull me out of it, to help me see that there is life after Jon, and that everything is okay.I sometimes found myself regretting my night out, so i would book another ni… Read how I did it…
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my daughter’s laugh
my daughter’s smile
teaching my daughter new things
sailing
painting something at a coffee shop
burning flipside
watching the westwing
dancing to ABBA
snorkeling
playing scrabble



