Jennifer




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Jennifer's Life List

  1. 1. change my name
    496 people
  2. 2. knit a pair of socks
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    82 people
  3. 3. Buy a House
    12,584 people
  4. 4. publish a book
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    2,149 people
  5. 5. take a sculpture class
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    16 people
  6. 6. see more live theatre
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    28 people
  7. 7. Make new friends
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    12,789 people
  8. 8. learn german
    4,533 people
  9. 9. learn chinese
    2,375 people
  10. 10. write a book
    26,119 people
  11. 11. learn to sew
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    3,644 people
  12. 12. see the northern lights
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    16,927 people
  13. 13. Improve my marriage
    106 people
  14. 14. Learn to can fruits and vegetables
    47 people
  15. 15. Make homemade Kahlua
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    2 people
  16. 16. draw more
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    2,160 people
  17. 17. eBay all the junk I don't need
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    63 people
  18. 18. learn to quilt
    301 people
  19. 19. Read the Bible
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    3,232 people
  20. 20. Attend a genealogy conference/workshop
    1 person
Recent entries
Finish a tube of chapstick before losing it
Not as Exciting as I Had Hoped 14 months ago

Just screwed it up, and said, “hmm, no more.” Then threw the tube away. Somehow I expected confetti to pop out or something.



walk every day
Such a Great Thing 14 months ago

I’ve been walking pretty much every day for about a year now, and it does change my outlook on life. The benefits of regular exercise on your mental as well as physical state cannot be over-emphasized. Walk on soldiers!



Worry less.
So Worth Doing 2 years ago

I’ve been an anxious person most of my whole life… something that started in the midst of family troubles when I was around ten years old and kind of clung to me like a musty smell throughout my life.

I guess it takes something very instructive in how “out of control” we all really are to make us stop worrying. For me, this was becoming pregnant with my first child. What an awesome, horrible responsibility! What a terror when you think of all the things that could go wrong! Well, you know what? I woke up one day, and realized that the pregnancy was progressing despite my worries, that I had no control over the growth of this little person outside of some very basic and meager to-do’s and not-to-do’s.

Once I realized this, I stopped worrying. If the process of life (chance, fate, whatever) can proceed without my interference or anxiety in this matter, it can in the rest of my own life, too. So, really, I’ve stopped worrying, and realized that there are limits to how responsible I am or can be for what happens to myself and those I love.

Good luck to everyone on this! It’s worth reconsidering the habit of worry.



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