I’ve been doing this for almost 12 years now. At first, the urge is to plan big fancy meals every night. Fight the urge. I’m careful to only plan one or two meals a week that will produce leftovers (we use them for lunches). The rest of the nights are small meals where I only cook as much as we need. It’s just such a relief to come home from work already knowing 1) what we’ll have, 2)that I have the ingredients to make it and 3) the recipe is ready to go. No last minute trips to the grocer!
ribarnica's Life List
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1. get out of debt
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2. learn to properly cook meat
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3. finish my basement
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4. Sell stuff on ebay
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5. write a novel
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6. compile a 100-things-about-me list
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7. volunteer
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8. make a dorodango
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9. Learn Serbian
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10. learn to play the ukulele
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11. Lose 75 pounds
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12. Send a message in a bottle
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13. write a zine
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14. invent a food
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15. make a winter solstice mix disc
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16. brew my own rootbeer
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17. become a master gardener
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18. see the northern lights
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19. Swim with dolphins
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20. visit the Mayan and Aztec ruins
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21. travel (see 43 places)
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22. Learn to play a musical instrument
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23. Raft through the Grand Canyon
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24. Buy a kilt
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25. get my palm read
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26. learn to watercolor paint
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27. ride in a hot air balloon
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28. be an audience member for a TV show taping
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29. go whale watching
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30. place a geocache
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31. Get a tattoo
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32. Get a new job
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How I did it: Setting up was easy - just follow the step by step instructions. No sales yet, but feeling good about my stuff - small monster sculptures based on ping pong balls, mostly. I call them PingPonsters Read how I did it…
How I did it: 365 days is one day more than 52 seven-day weeks. 52 weeks would correspond to 13 28-day months. In the Fischer Universalist calendar, that is precisely how the year is divided. Each month is named after the corresponding element of the periodic table (for example, today is the first of Hydrolun, after hydrogen-lunation. New Year's day is not a part of any month and is renamed Festivus. It is still… Read how I did it…
I’ve decided on what I want – just a short motto “Ancora imparo.” Meaning “I am still learning”. Somewhat more appropriate for 70 year old me than something related to my current interests. Now I just need to decide where I’d like to place it. I’m leaning toward someplace on my arm – still thinking about size, font, orientation and exact placement. And wondering if, in the end, I’ll chicken out.
Thanks to sites like swap-bot.com, I’ve been sending a lot more mail art. Right now I’m fascinated by myrioramas… myrioramii? whatever. So, this is an ongoing thing, but I’m going to retire the goal to make room for others!
