I'm doing 39 things
After a year and a half of college, I dropped out for a year. I waited tables for a month, trying to make ends meet, and then i got into the car business. I sold cars for 10 months, and the first few were pretty hard, not making any money, and trying to figure out how to budget myself. Luckily, my parents had given me a credit card when I was 16 that I’d used here and there for gas and stuff when i was in high school (i didn’t have it after high school), and I’d paid off half of a student load when I dropped out of college (since I dropped out mid-year, I didn’t the money for the second semester), both of which helped my credit, so I got a credit card of my own, which, between a low APR and affordable monthly payments helped with keeping my expenses in check until my cashflow caught up to them. I’ve got my budget all set up now, slowly putting money away each month, and my credit card debt is only a couple hundred bucks, which i’m intentionally paying off slowly to improve my credit. Everyone makes a big deal about credit cards and young people, but if you’re smart about what credit really is and what it means to spend money you don’t have, it can be a useful tool.
Ed's Life List
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1. Make people happy
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2. Marry the love of my life.
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3. get fit
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4. make love in the rain
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5. learn more about my heritage
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6. graduate college
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7. travel around the world
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8. see the northern lights
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9. Drive across the USA
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10. change the world
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11. live passionately
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12. learn Danish
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13. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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14. take a trip on the old route 66
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15. keep in touch with old friends
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16. Make love.
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17. Stop Drinking Alcohol
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18. write music
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19. write more music
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20. make better music
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21. gain weight
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22. write a novel
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23. finish my degree
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24. be remembered
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25. learn how to tie a bowtie
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26. own my own home
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27. write to a soldier in iraq
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28. Save money
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29. make love on a beach
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30. get another tattoo
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31. live in a house with a secret passageway
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32. Write my name in wet cement
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33. put my pants on
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34. Write a song that I'm proud of
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35. Learn to tie a Bow Tie
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36. learn fencing
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37. learn to swordfight
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38. become a better singer
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39. learn to SCUBA dive
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The absinth you see in things like the movie “Eurotrip” is the kind sold in old soviet republics, the reason people hallucinate when they drink it is because the laws in those countries are more lax, and it contains things like formaldehyde. You can’t get it in most western european countries like England, France, and Germany. The kind of absinth you can buy in countries like the U.S., England, Canada, etc. (countries with food safety laws) doesn’t contain any hallucinogenic ingredients, and is mostly an anise or black licorice flavored liquor (similar to Jaegermeister, but not as good-tasting)
