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How I did it
How to try geocaching
It took me
1 day
It made me

How I did it: I asked for a GPS unit for my birthday one year. Obviously that's essential. Then I got my boyfriend excited about trying it out as well because it's way more fun (and safe) to go on these adventures with other people. We went hiking, we found caches, and we got hooked. Read how I did it…

Dec 19, 10:22AM PST | 0 comments | 1 cheer


How to start a worm compost
It took me
18 months
It made me
exhuberant

How I did it: This has been a wonderful experience. I now have three bins in rotation. The worms have not been difficult or bothersome and I'm starting to reap the benefits of all the great worm castings. I'm going to have more difficulty using up all the castings than I had in producing them. I have a patio but no yard. I keep my plastic storage bins in a storage area that's under the stairs to the apartment above us. Once a month I drag the bins out … Read how I did it…

Dec 19, 10:12AM PST | 0 comments | 2 cheers


How to build a garden
It took me
3 months
It made me
regretful

How I did it: I planted vegetables in lots of pots and used my worm castings to fertilize them. Watering was difficult because I had to carry it out from the kitchen sink, and the area gets a lot of sun so I was always trying to save dehydrated plants. Read how I did it…

Sep 26, 11:59AM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer


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do what I am afraid to do (read all 3 entries…)
I'm not sure what this means anymore. 6 months ago

In general, it’s probably a good goal. But it’s so vague that I’m “giving up” on it. I’ve done things I’m afraid to, but I’m not done doing them. I won’t be done doing them any time soon and I think I’d like focus on a different task.

Dec 19, 10:15AM PST | 0 comments


leave my city once a month, leave my country once a year (read all 9 entries…)
Travel: Letting it go 6 months ago

It’s coming up on December and I haven’t left the country at all this year. I also haven’t left my state the last few months. I think travel is wonderful . . . but I’m conflicted on a few points. For one, I don’t travel for work and so traveling is quite an added expense in my life. For another, I have to travel 280 miles just to leave my state by car. That’s a long way to go and that just gets me to Lake Tahoe. It takes a lot of fuel to drive or fly pack out of the state and this conflicts with my goal to make a smaller ecological foot print. So I’ve decided to let go of this goal in favor of a personal goal that would still encourage me to travel but doesn’t require the frequency or distance that this one does. There’s so much for me to explore within a hundred miles of home . . . and not just in the natural world. So here’s to letting go.

Dec 19, 09:57AM PST | 0 comments


become more active in my community
I'd like to be more involved 9 months ago

My area has a million ways to participate in civic life, and I feel like I would enjoy making that part of my life.

I’m not sure where to start, but I’m sure I’ll thing of something.

Sep 26, 12:05PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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I want to:

The world wants to...

eat my lunch in the snow have a flat stomach Make new friends learn a Korean karaoke song, including the hangul lyrics stop wasting time Buy a Telescope Improve my geography adopt an animal learn a second language brahma wants to Learn astronomy whiten my teeth paint a self portrait exercise regularly Finish Anna Karenina finish high school S a r a h wants to Read one book a month learn reiki Finish my website bathe in a waterfall streak meet alicia simmons Host a dinner party lose 50 pounds visit all 50 states snowboard reinvent myself start a savings account
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