matt5522 on 43 Things

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1. paraglide
1 entry 164 people
2. give and get more backrubs
6 cheers 2 people
3. Take more vacations
1 cheer 49 people
4. go skiing in the alps again
1 entry . 1 cheer 5 people
5. work less than full time
1 entry . 6 cheers 4 people
6. Hike more
5 entries . 8 cheers 277 people
7. camp more
2 entries . 5 cheers 109 people
8. learn a second language
1 entry . 5 cheers 368 people
9. take an art class
6 cheers 259 people
10. Take an Alaskan cruise
3 cheers 87 people
11. attend the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR
8 cheers 9 people
12. Learn to play the drums
2 cheers 1,731 people
13. write a book
2 cheers 21,077 people
14. learn pottery
3 cheers 114 people
15. travel more
3 cheers 2,496 people
16. Go on an archaeological dig
1 entry . 4 cheers 117 people
17. learn to paint
6 cheers 965 people
18. ride a unicycle
2 cheers 141 people
19. Read The brothers Karamazov
7 cheers 48 people
20. Learn to play a musical instrument
1 entry . 6 cheers 533 people
21. learn stained glass
9 cheers 32 people
22. go heli-skiing
3 cheers 48 people
23. Learn to weld
6 cheers 392 people
24. go to burning man
4 cheers 1,237 people
25. Quit my job
1 entry . 10 cheers 1,057 people
26. Drive across the USA
5 cheers 2,018 people
27. Sky Dive
2 cheers 1,590 people
28. learn to draw
3 cheers 1,679 people
29. live simply
4 cheers 3,001 people
30. firewalk
1 cheer 31 people
31. start a fire without matches
1 entry . 4 cheers 43 people
32. ride in a hot air balloon
4 cheers 1,624 people
33. take public transportation when possible
4 cheers 9 people
34. Volunteer
4 cheers 3,872 people
35. run a marathon
8,147 people
36. Eat more fruits and vegetables
3 cheers 1,015 people
37. read "The Jungle"
1 cheer 5 people
38. Read Joyce's Ulysses
4 cheers 25 people
39. see the Democratic Party reinvent itself and take back America!
1 entry . 5 cheers 396 people
40. Walk the crosswalk at Abbey Road
2 cheers 16 people
41. start a woodworking collective in Seattle
1 cheer 16 people

Recent entries

I think I've done it? 1 year ago

I don’t weigh myself a lot, but when I added this goal I’d been at a gym and hit 208 on their scale. Last week I was at a gym and stepped on the scale and was 190. Lots of my friends have commented over the last couple months that I’ve lost some weight. Its nice to hear, and its good to lose some weight, but unfortunately its been on the stress diet. I’ve had some bad stuff happen in the last couple months, and have been worried and upset a lot, and don’t eat. I guess there’s a good side to everything, losing weight is good, its probably good for my blood pressure, I just wished I’d done it a different way.

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take a vacation alone

Untitled 1 year ago

I’ve done a couple solo vacations, a month in England, Ireland and Scotland, and a week long ski vacation in Innsbruck Austria, and a couple camping trips in Glacier Park in Montana. The freedom is great, go where you want, see and do what you want. They both were vacations that I’d been wanting to do for a long time, but couldn’t get any friends or relatives to go with me so I decided to go on my own.

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finish my garden shed (read all 4 entries…)

Done!! 1 year ago

I finished up siding the front and installed the window today!! All thats left is some small little cleanup touch-up things, but its useable now, and I’m declaring victory!!

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