I'm doing 27 things
I have been stratifying some of the remaining seeds in the fridge (not the right time of year, I know, but I got excited) and will be trying this again. They’ve been in there for 3 or 4 months now and I think it’s time to take them out and get them germinating. Hopefully the seeds aren’t too old : S
pineapplejelly's Life List
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1. Sleep on a trampoline at an all-nighter.
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2. Travel to every country in the world
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3. Send 100 shoeboxes through Operation Christmas Child
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4. Do the A-Z author challenge
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5. Backpack through Europe
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6. Visit all 7 continents
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7. Make a living from my creativity
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8. Make love in the rain
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9. Make a pencil table
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10. Kiss in the rain
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11. Grow a bonsai tree from seed
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12. Build up the herb garden in the back of my house that my parents let fall to ruin
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13. Learn to juggle
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14. Complete 43 things
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15. Build a fort in my living room
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16. Go skinny dipping
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17. Learn to paraglide
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18. Get someone to dance in the rain with me
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19. Drink Champagne with a crazy straw
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20. Sell a photograph I've taken
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21. Get a commission for art or crafts
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22. Ghostwrite and publish a book on my dad's RTW trips for him
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23. Sword fight with bread in front of the Eiffel Tower
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24. Make and eat a meal that is completely local from start to finish
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25. Write a wish... tie to a balloon... let it go
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26. Job Search, Monday through Friday until I get one.
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27. Complete 5 things that nag at me and feel tremendously pleased with myself.
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How I did it
It made me
accomplished 
How I did it: I bought a cheap diary (it was about 99p as I started this in February) and started writing all the happy things in the book. Each night before bed I wrote them down - some nights were harder than others but gradually over the year I completed the whole book.I did forget to do it on the day a few times but usually remembered the next day and wrote it up then. Sometimes I made a note on my phone if I didn't have the book to hand or if it w… Read how I did it…
It made me
uplifted
How I did it: I saved spare pennies whenever I got them and in batches of five I stuck "good luck" messages on them and dropped them (usually one or two per trip). I did it in batches of five (after the first three) so that I could keep count of how many I'd dropped. Read how I did it…
It made me
feel more organised 
How I did it: Firstly, I organised my list a bit better - it's now got "life goals" (like backpack through Europe, make a living from my creativity, etc.) grouped together, "ongoing" goals (get really good at origami, learn to paraglide, become fluent or semi-fluent in Mandarin, etc.) grouped together and "one-offs" (make love in the rain, build a fort in my living room, etc.) grouped together.I also cleared out the goals that were unrealistic, that I … Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
After about a year and a half of reading that stupid book on and off I have finally finished it and can move on to finding an interesting Y and getting the Z out of my bookshelf where it’s been sat waiting for a couple of years now.
So far I have completed: 1. Fall in love
2. Make Firefox my default browser
3. Go camping
4. Read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
5. Live abroad
6. See the pyramids in Egypt
7. Type with 10 fingers
8. Dance in the rain
9. Judo (= start learning judo)
10. Eat sushi
11. Read the Harry Potter books
12. Escape light pollution and really see the stars
13. Grow cacti from seed
14. Donate blood
15. Fly first class
16. Learn to make fire
17. Make a snowman
18. Get completely soaked in the rain
19. Live in a foreign country.
20. Identify 100 things that make me happy.
21. Revamp my goals for 2009.
22. Drop 43 pennies in random places so that people can find them and feel lucky
23. Find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
24. Identify 100 things that make my partner happy.
My “How to” entries can be found here: http://www.43things.com/people/completed_things/pineapplejelly
