I'm doing 20 things
Finished Chrono Trigger
17 hours ago
Great game. I’m looking forward to playing through it again.
slickgl's Life List
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1. Become a vegetarian
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2. Daily: Reflect on at least 5 things for which I'm grateful (Happiness Manifesto #2)
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3. Read an entire book on DailyLit
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4. Read 50 books in 2009.
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5. pay off credit cards
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6. Stop getting screwed by credit card (and bank) fees and interest rates
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7. Don't buy another video game until I beat what I have
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8. Read 1,000 books
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9. Learn to juggle
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10. Read all of Kurt Vonnegut's books
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11. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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12. pay off my car
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13. Have 43 goals
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14. Get a Bachelor's Degree in English
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15. Pay off my dental bills.
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16. Do NaNoWriMo
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17. stop living paycheck to paycheck
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18. Save and plan our honeymoon
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19. watch every episode of MASH
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20. Begin writing daily
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How I did it
It made me
feel handy 
How I did it: My wife and I found a book that had a lot of different ideas for projects it in. I chose this one, bought a huge sheet of plywood, a circular saw, etc., and started on it. I hadn't done anything like this before, so I was learning everything as I went. I've learned a lot and could make them a lot better if I had it all to do over again, but I'm quite happy with how they turned out. Read how I did it…
It made me
Relieved
How I did it: Focus. I would have had it done soon anyways, but I took out a personal loan to consolidate many of my credit cards. Now, I'll be focusing on the two credit cards that I have remaining, then on the loan. Read how I did it…
It made me
feel better
How I did it: I read a book called "Skinny Bastard," and changed many of my eating habits overnight. I quit soda on the spot, and that along with generally avoiding refined sugar and the other dietary changes I've made have resulted in my losing almost 20 pounds in about 3 weeks, and I haven't even started exercising yet! Soda is absolutely horrible for you, yet many people make it a daily habit. There's nothing worthwhile in soda, an… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
27. The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
3 days ago
This was a book of short stories. I read almost all of it, but it gets kind of old reading short stories sometimes.
