mmackenzie




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  1. 1. create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.
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  2. 2. identify 100 things that make me happy.
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  3. 3. have a pet pig
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  4. 4. go skinny dipping
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  5. 5. Fill a room with balloons from floor to ceiling
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  6. 6. live without a television for a year
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  7. 7. learn trapeze
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  8. 8. visit the Elliott Smith memorial on Sunset Boulevard
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  9. 9. see Anne Frank's annex
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  10. 10. learn german
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  11. 11. fly in a hot air baloon
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  12. 12. travel through Europe
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  13. 13. Get out of Florida
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  14. 14. show up at the airport with a bag & a passport & take the first flight available.
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  15. 15. get locked in a library overnight
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  16. 16. start a Free Hugs campaign
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  17. 17. Take one picture a day as a way to document my life
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  18. 18. be on Jeopardy!
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  19. 19. have my own tv show
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  20. 20. visit Greece
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  21. 21. Write every day
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  22. 22. Never stop learning
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  23. 23. receive a letter from Hogwarts apologizing for the late owl but informing me that i am actually a wizard.
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  24. 24. never lose my sense of wonder
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  25. 25. Finish the Rory Gilmore Book List
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  26. 26. grow my hair really long
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  27. 27. Speak French fluently
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  28. 28. write and publish a novel
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Finish the Rory Gilmore Book List
Untitled 12 months ago

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzel
How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Extravagance by Gary Krist
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Property by Valerie Martin
Quattrocento by James McKean
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar NafisiThe Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Unless by Carol Shields
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Emma by Jane Austen (NEVER)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Sybil by Flora Schreiber
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse



identify 100 things that make me happy. (read all 30 entries…)
#30 15 months ago

Nutella. ‘Nuff said.



identify 100 things that make me happy. (read all 30 entries…)
#29 15 months ago

Having candles lit when it’s raining and sticking your fingers into the hot wax.

Yeah, don’t judge me.



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