merouda




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merouda's Life List

  1. 1. lose weight and keep it off
    9 entries . 11 cheers
    1,025 people
  2. 2. Publish a novel
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    976 people
  3. 3. read more fiction
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    118 people
  4. 4. reduce my dependance on oil
    3 entries . 11 cheers
    1 person
  5. 5. go hiking regularly
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    9 people
  6. 6. organize my life
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    918 people
  7. 7. finish up my project lists
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. create a graphic novel
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    248 people
  9. 9. write more letters
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    1,525 people
  10. 10. Get a PhD
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    2,817 people
  11. 11. be myself again
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    84 people
  12. 12. dress with style and panache
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    14 people
  13. 13. catalogue my books
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    20 people
  14. 14. learn to play the violin
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    1,667 people
  15. 15. work for a museum of fine art just for the fun of it
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    14 people
  16. 16. In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all, I intend $1,000,000 to come into my life and into the lives of everyone who holds this intention.
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    6 people
  17. 17. learn Spanish
    15,792 people
  18. 18. find myself
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1,836 people
  19. 19. Become Financially Independent
    5 entries . 3 cheers
    5,506 people
  20. 20. run a small press
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    3 people
  21. 21. finish my NANO novel
    6 team members . 1 entry
    28 people
  22. 22. leave it all behind
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    7 people
  23. 23. throw or give away thirty things I don't need
    8 entries . 6 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. learn to fix cars
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    123 people
  25. 25. be daring and passionate, to hell with the consequences
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    70 people
  26. 26. create a podcast
    1 cheer
    40 people
  27. 27. Shower in a waterfall.
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    436 people
  28. 28. Make positive things happen
    1 person
  29. 29. Put my photos in albums
    103 people
  30. 30. organize my notebooks
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    4 people
Recent entries
Get a PhD (read all 2 entries…)
Which way should I go. 13 months ago

I’m kind of at a loss regarding this. The odd thing is that Marquette did offer me entry into the program, but I turned them down—the economy was turning bad and I couldn’t see myself taking that kind of debt on when it would so greatly interfere with my other goal of financial independence at a time when money, jobs, and credit was all getting tighter. So that was about a year ago, and I’ve spent the last year trying to figure out what I want to do instead, in a way that will let me get that PhD without having to quit working. Oy.



lose weight and keep it off (read all 9 entries…)
since I last recorded my progress... 13 months ago

It’s been two steps forward and one step back, with the ultimate outcome being another 4 pounds gone and an overall loss of 26 lbs since my last recorded high point. For the first time in a while, I have a goal, rather than just making lifestyle changes that will encourage weight loss. I’d like to loose about 20 lbs by April. To do this, I’ll have to make actual diet noises, so I’m viewing this as a short term attempt to speed things up for my own encouragement.



Become Financially Independent (read all 5 entries…)
More long term ness 13 months ago

Okay. 401(k) in place.

No consumer debt.

6.5 months of salary saved.

And the stock market crashes. So much for investment strategy as a way to get this goal met in the next few years! On the other hand, steadily keeping my eye on this goal has allowed me to be in a good, safe financial place in these very trying times. I guess my next step is to keep saving all I can until such time as I can figure out how to make what I save grow more efficiently.



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