I'm doing 35 things
My approach to Lent is that it is a season where I can be more mindful of all of my lifestyle, and I have the opportunity to adopt a new healthy practice into my days while giving up something else.
This year I decided that my obsession with checking my e-mail immediately after every activity or any time I’m around the computer has been taking up much of my time. So I committed to checking personal e-mail once a day (I still check school e-mails three or four times because there are work and community things that I must attend to).
So far it has been healthy and I’ve been discovering that nearly all of my e-mails are impersonal/junk – which I could not see when I was checking all of the time.
ricefun's Life List
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1. Find my passion
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2. Propose and finish my Thesis
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3. Graduate from Seminary
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4. learn German
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5. Visit Liz in England
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6. Fall in love
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7. Find my Volunteer Calling
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8. Figure out what I want to do with my life
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9. Apply for the Fullbright
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10. get my PhD
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11. Never stop learning
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12. Get a Corgi
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13. Stay in touch with distant friends
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14. Go Camping in Tobermory
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15. Visit "The Mount"
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16. stick to my budget
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17. Pay off my car loan
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18. Take a Silent Retreat
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19. See "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me"
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20. Spend a whole day reading
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21. keep a list of all the books I have read
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22. read every book I own
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23. Make a decision to walk one place a week that I could have driven to
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24. Finish Cobblestone Quilt
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25. Scrapbook Rushford pictures
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26. oppose the death penalty
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27. stop homophobia
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28. Choose what picture/symbol I would want to get tattooed on my body
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29. Get a Tattoo
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30. Read all novels written by Joanne Harris
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31. Meet Joanne Harris
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32. Grow a Blueberry Patch
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33. Live in Chicago
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34. Publish in "Brethren Life and Thought"
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35. Get a Dwarf Hampster
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How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: I am seeing someone that I trust who I know has my health as his top priority. I chose to expect that acupuncture would make me healthy just as much as I expect that Western Medicine will make me healthy. It has worked so far, I feel much healthier. My life seems to be in better balance and the Crohn's disease, the original reason for trying acupuncture, has gone into remission for the time being. Read how I did it…
It made me
feel accomplished
How I did it: I set reasonable goals, and when I did not feel like doing something I reminded myself, "It's only for February." Now I will re-evaluate and decide what to keep/change for March Read how I did it…
Recent entries
For the last year and a half I’ve been corresponding with a prisoner on Death Row in Ohio through DRSP. It has been both rewarding and draining, but offering connection to this person is one small way I’ve been able to show my opposition to the Death Penalty. Through DRSP over half of persons on Death Row are written to. If you’d like to get involved the website is:
http://www.brethren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=witness_issues_drsp
Over the last month I’ve started to make entertainment and time-management decisions based on where I can walk. I’ve situated my life in a way that other than a couple of times a month I would never NEED to drive. However, particularly for safety concerns, it’s necessary to drive at night often.
All this said, since Christmas when my mom reminded me, “didn’t you take your apartment so that you could WALK to school?” I’ve been making a conscious effort to walk whenever possible. I know that it’s saving gas money and I’m feeling like it is helping my physical health as well. Yay for walking!
