I'm doing 13 things
Christmas socks 2009 are now birthday socks for 2011… but they fit well, or so I hear, and look pretty good!
midnightsun's Life List
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1. Read non-first world fiction
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2. Visit a new place in the world.
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3. learn massage
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4. Decide on a musical instrument to learn
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5. Crossfit
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6. Learn Portuguese
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7. Make a hula-hoop
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8. contribute to an open source project
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9. turn off the internet (sometimes... eek scary)
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10. Start Finnish lessons again
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11. Learn the C programming language
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12. Do a long distance hike
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13. listen to the Today programme in the mornings
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How I did it
It made me
committed 
How I did it: I started going swimming off and on, and then saw a brochure for the Aspire swim challenge at the pool - 22 miles in 12 weeks. This is equivalent to 1416 lengths of my pool - works out to about 60+ lengths 2 or 3 times a week. I'm at 900 lengths now, going strong! It's a charity swim, so I'm supposed to be collecting funds for Aspire - they work with spinal injuries- but I'm not very much good at that kind of money so probably… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
I’ve been fortunate in the past to have travel fall into my lap – as I get older I’m realizing that I need to take (and plan!) holidays like normal people, and can’t just rely on getting everywhere I want to go “eventually one day”.
These days Portugal and Lebanon are looking like likely doable trips. South America is a much longer trip that won’t happen this year, but I can start dreaming about it…
