Meredith

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Meredith's Life List

  1. 1. treat my partner with love and respect, even in my worst moments
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    2 people
  2. 2. make it through the whole summer on one tank of gas
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    1 person
  3. 3. list three things every day that made me happy
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    314 people
  4. 4. record my dreams
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    309 people
  5. 5. stick to a schedule
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    60 people
  6. 6. read fall semester books over the summer
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    1 person
  7. 7. refinance my house
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    20 people
  8. 8. write a novel
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    8,255 people
  9. 9. be the best female uilleann piper in the world
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    1 person
  10. 10. become an early riser
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    173 people
  11. 11. organize my house
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    429 people
  12. 12. keep my house clean
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    1,127 people
  13. 13. save $5000
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    131 people
  14. 14. write a will
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    717 people
  15. 15. respond to emails and messages promptly
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    18 people
  16. 16. have an amazing wedding
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    8 people
  17. 17. work in a library
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    42 people
  18. 18. graduate with a 4.0
    6 entries . 11 cheers
    30 people
  19. 19. get a master's degree
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    2,440 people
  20. 20. take an official IQ test
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    573 people
  21. 21. make my own Christmas gifts
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    21 people
  22. 22. have clear skin
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    883 people
  23. 23. have a flat stomach
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    2,115 people
  24. 24. get over the past
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    140 people
  25. 25. preserve the tradition of writing thank-you notes
    3 entries . 19 cheers
    1 person
  26. 26. reconnect with old friends
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    389 people
  27. 27. be a good stepmother
    4 entries . 7 cheers
    9 people
  28. 28. be a bridesmaid
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    81 people
  29. 29. have a baby
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    4,691 people
  30. 30. learn Japanese
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    8,515 people
  31. 31. act in a play
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    300 people
  32. 32. have a beautiful garden
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    144 people
  33. 33. get my house painted
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    7 people
  34. 34. have a "one-earring party" at which the women get to wear those singleton earrings they've lost the mates to but can't bear to part with
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    1 person
  35. 35. pay off my house
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    122 people
  36. 36. visit Ireland
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    2,066 people
  37. 37. visit Japan again
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    48 people
  38. 38. see the Salinas Valley to better understand Steinbeck
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    4 people
  39. 39. take the Lord of the Rings tour of New Zealand
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    4 people
  40. 40. learn to sew
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    3,005 people
  41. 41. be on Jeopardy!
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    150 people
  42. 42. start a Diogenes Club
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    1 person
Recent entries
record my dreams (read all 3 entries…)
Dreams from August 15, 2008 3 weeks ago

I don’t remember much of what I dreamed last night, but there is one thing I recall clearly. There was a girl about my age standing in a doorway crying. Somehow I had a feeling it was related to her love life. I felt bad for her and gave her a dime I’d just found on the ground. “It’s a lucky dime,” I told her, “and you looked like you could use some luck.”

When I woke up, I was dreaming that I had bits of glass embedded in one of my feet….


record my dreams (read all 3 entries…)
A dream from August 13, 2008 3 weeks ago

Some fictional friend of ours was moving, in this dream, and needed a car in which to pack her things. For some mysterious reason, my fiancee Jason and I had to sandblast – yes, sandblast – her car and get all the paint off before the friend could use it. Don’t ask me why.

So the two of us were on the driveway at my parents’ house, sandblasting away. We got into a big fight because apparently, he had promised to play a game with me that day – like, a video game – and was now going back on his promise, choosing to spend more time working on the car instead. I was absolutely obsessed with getting him to play the game with me and wouldn’t take no for an answer, even though I knew it was hopeless. I just kept saying over and over, “but you promised you would!”

Eventually, I was shouting it, and at my instigation we actually got into a fistfight – like, rolling around on the driveway pummeling each other! (And no, that’s never really happened.)

In that moment, the dream switched to a new scene: I was standing in a cave in front of a set of shelves. On the shelves there were rows of long boxes, about fifty in all, each a different color. Someone – it was just a disembodied voice, I think – was telling me that each box contained a sword and that I should choose one. I also knew somehow that each sword had a different word or phrase on it – things like FREEDOM, COMPASSION, etc.

I immediately chose a box from the top shelf – it was olive green. I pulled the sword out, and the words on the sword were SONG OF THE SOUL.

The dream ended just as I was internalizing those words – I woke up with them echoing in my head very clearly.


record my dreams (read all 3 entries…)
Setting this goal 3 weeks ago

I’d like to make this a habit. I have – and have always had – really odd, interesting, amusing dreams, and I usually remember them (although the memory will fade if I don’t talk or write about them right away). They’re usually positive or neutral dreams – just weird, and vivid too. I had one two nights ago that I really think is worth writing down, which is what led me to set up this goal.

If I record all the dreams that I remember for three months consistently, I’ll consider myself to have formed the habit and accomplished this goal, but I’ll probably continue doing it, as it’s always fun to go back and look at dreams I’ve had in the past.


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