 I'm doing 42 things |
| 1. |
see a ballet
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49 people |
| 2. |
Eat more fruits and vegetables
2 cheers |
1,113 people |
| 3. |
get a massage
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1,093 people |
| 4. |
learn to identify the constellations
1 cheer |
76 people |
| 5. |
Build some form of furniture with my bare hands
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50 people |
| 6. |
Get a tattoo
1 entry |
20,235 people |
| 7. |
fly in a hot air balloon
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323 people |
| 8. |
live in a house with hidden rooms and trap doors, and some kind of secret tunnel
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31 people |
| 9. |
learn to sew
2 cheers |
3,645 people |
| 10. |
Spend the night in a treehouse.
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20 people |
| 11. |
go skydiving
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6,572 people |
| 12. |
Send a message in a bottle
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3,642 people |
| 13. |
Go through a hedge maze
1 cheer |
2 people |
| 14. |
spend the night in a haunted house
1 cheer |
243 people |
| 15. |
go rock climbing
1 cheer |
696 people |
| 16. |
go to berlin
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72 people |
| 17. |
write a book
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26,096 people |
| 18. |
be more independent
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593 people |
| 19. |
drop off a toy a la "the toy society"
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2 people |
| 20. |
Get accepted to graduate school
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19 people |
| 21. |
write an indulgent chick lit, science fiction, fantasy or western book
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1 person |
| 22. |
visit san francisco
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323 people |
| 23. |
read all of Proust's In Search of Lost Time
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2 people |
| 24. |
Read every book on my list
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44 people |
| 25. |
take trapeze lessons
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10 people |
| 26. |
have a daguerreotype taken of myself
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2 people |
| 27. |
Do NaNoWriMo
1 cheer |
604 people |
| 28. |
Visit Portland
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63 people |
| 29. |
Go to Buenos Aires
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34 people |
| 30. |
Visit Paris again but this time speak more French
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1 person |
| 31. |
paint again
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137 people |
| 32. |
learn another language
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3,734 people |
| 33. |
sew a bra
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1 person |
| 34. |
leave a smaller ecological footprint
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11 people |
| 35. |
brew my own beer
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616 people |
| 36. |
go on a trip completely by myself
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1 person |
| 37. |
fall in love
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24,438 people |
| 38. |
bake my own bread
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66 people |
| 39. |
have my palm read by a creepy old woman
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1 person |
| 40. |
ride my bike more
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985 people |
| 41. |
knit mittens
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33 people |
| 42. |
Read 1 book a week
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66 people |
How I did it: I just started looking up contests that I would like to submit to for emerging writers. I think it's best for me to go about it that way because it provides me with mini deadlines. Read how I did it…
While I probably will never be a “full time” freelance writer (I don’t think that’s possible when you live in New York City, unless you’re a successful novelist or contractual worker), I make nearly $200 extra dollars each month freelancing, which is great. I think if you can just land one good gig it helps a lot. I have also done a fair amount of work for free to build up clips.
Having seen how easy it can be to travel, I definitely plan on doing more of it! My coworker and I bought tickets almost 9 months ago to go to Berlin, Germany. Closer to the flight, however, he ended up landing an internship in London and living there for a month. I didn’t want to fly into Germany by myself to meet him there because I have never been out of the country, so we decided I would meet him in London and then we would go to Paris for three days. It was amazing!
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madamwitty wants to do 100 crunches a day for 100 days
live in a foreign country
The body is a gift and a piece of art; present it that way by taking care of it and feeling beautiful.
go on a zero gravity flight
Send a care package to a soldier
helenting wants to go to college
don't stop believin'
golf
Write more
become popular
Lose 20 pounds
Exercise at least 3 times a week
make my own game
make money from home
find my biological father
start learn hacking
Get my nose pierced.
pay off my car
