I didn’t get the allotment thing I applied for, but now I got a balcony! When I moved in four weeks ago, it was just a few square meters of concrete. So I went and bought some nice pot plants, got some more from someone who had to move away, sowed the herb and flower seeds I had collected from my mother’s garden last year, bought herbs in way too little pots from the supermarket and gave them bigger pots and more soil, bought more seeds… Now it looks very nice, and it’s so much fun. I love watching plants grow. Next year I’ll try strawberries, tomatoes, beans… I can’t stop… I hope I’ll get an allotment before I overload the balcony and crash into my downstairs neighbor’s.
Girlbrush Freakwood's Life List
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1. become more energetic
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2. be more decisive
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3. watch my breath
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4. connect with my body again
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5. be strong and healthy enough to donate blood
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6. practice to roll the RRR
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7. acquire basic fluency in Finnish
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8. keep a food diary
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9. have a garden
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10. speak more clearly
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11. avoid using English whenever possible
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12. learn to play the blues harp
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13. buy a sailboat
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14. live on a sailboat
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15. learn to sail
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16. sort all my travel photos
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17. relaunch my homepage
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18. Use the 'clean sweep' checklist to improve my life
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19. join a theater group
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20. build up a network of Celiacs to facilitate gluten-free traveling
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21. write a Celiac travel guide
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22. improve my English vocabulary
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23. Become fluent in Icelandic
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24. identify 100 things that make me happy
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25. create a peaceful and nice computer game with lots of beautiful landscape
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26. I want to go into any restaurant and be able to order gluten-free food and have the people working there understand what that means
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27. get out of Europe
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28. become fluent in swedish
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29. make money with creative stuff
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30. be able to sustain myself doing what I like
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31. meditate
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32. close the gap between who i am and who i want to be
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33. crew on a sailing boat to basically anywhere in the world
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34. sail the oceans
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35. travel to every continent
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36. be a singer
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37. Learn to surf
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38. learn lojban
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39. have a piano
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40. live off the grid
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41. Spread the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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42. save the world
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How I did it: I'm not a very resentful person in general. It takes a lot to make me upset for more than a day. Yet there were a few people who I thought I could never forgive. Or, even worse: I knew it would be a part of growing up to forgive them, but the sheer thought made me cringe and filled me with disgust. How could I ever do that? In the meantime, I moved away to build up my very own life. I managed to fix myself, to heal the wounds, to overcome… Read how I did it…
After eliminating grains and sugar from my diet and getting off the pill, I miraculously started to tolerate fructose, histamine and some lactose again. Yay for fried vegetables with garlic and fresh herbs! Yay for low-lactose yoghurt with fresh fruit! Yay for apples, peaches and even grapes! :)
“Definitely” – did you see that?! Hehe. Yes, I’m sure.
I’m wasting a lot less time breaking my head about those little choices that don’t really matter. I decide for one of them, then don’t think about whether the other one might have been better.
I ended my relationship (very good decision), and I resumed the friendship I’d ended in my last comment (it was the right decision back then, and an excellent decision to change my mind now).
I’ll still keep this goal in my list for a little longer, though. Or maybe I should consider it finished..? – Ha, right decision to keep it then :)

