So, I asked myself, what do I want to do in this life?
In no particular order. Some are stolen from Birthday letters (3): the best of intentions, a littel life list I wrote on my 27th birthday.
- Ride a horse and dismount in a controlled manner.
- Wrap my hands around a steaming cup of coffee while staring at St. Peter's in the snow.
- Finally tour New England.
- See the Carolinas.
- Successfully complete a Mariner's Compass quilt.
- Learn to read music.
- Finally take that decades-delayed trip to London.
- Go back for a master's degree. But in what?
- Finally, actually, really, and truly -- write the novel.
- Then write the next one.
- Visit China.
- Camp overnight within earshot of the ocean.
- Live close enough to a winery so that I might make friends with the owners, and watch the years pass through their wine.
- Learn to drive on snowy roads.
- Learn to make the perfect biscuit.
- Skydive.
- Successfully order beer. In German. In Germany.
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Learn to blow glass.November 2009. Learned the basics, at least. -
Learn to juggle.July, 2009. Thanks, Jacob. -
Go intercontinental.August 2009. France. - Stand on top of Great Wall. Turn to $traveling_companion and say, "Once upon a time, a random raging Mongol horde looked at this and said, 'Hmph. We'll just climb over it.'"
- Finish off seeing all 50 states.
- Figure out why in the world I'd go to North Dakota.
- French Laundry. Dinner for one if necessary.
- Now that I finally have contact lenses again, go snorkeling.
- Drive across Canada.
- Find some way of making the drink-and-snarkfest with Matthew a yearly event.
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Spend at least half of dragon*con in costume.Did it a couple of years ago. - Without embarrassment or shyness.
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Find out how billboards are put up. -
Continue to avoid going on a cruise of any kind.This is sort of an ongoing thing. - Be a bit more forgiving of others. (Except when I'm talking to Matthew.)
- Stop getting quite so twitchy when other people in the same room crunch ice.
- Make the perfect mix CD.
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Find out what the contents of a >$100 bottle of wine taste like.October 19, 2007. See the twitterlog. - Occasionally buy a piece of clothing not because I'm replacing something similar that I just wore out, but because it was pretty and I liked it.
- Tone down the shyness a bit.
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Finish Quarto.Done - and moved on to Drupal. - Make fewer lists. Live more.
- [Open for suggestions. Tomorrow's another day.]
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I learned how to juggle out of a book. You can too.
1. Practice with one ball (actually, I like hackeysacks). Just throw it back and forth, a couple feet up in the air, until you get really comfortable with it.
2. Now bring in the second ball. Hold one ball in each hand. Throw the first ball up in the air to your other hand, just like you've been practicing, then when it's about 2/3rds through its arc, throw the other ball to the other hand, and immediately catch the first ball. Then catch the second ball. Notice there are two "directions" you can go with this, left hand first and right hand first. Practice both of those until you get comfortable with them.
3. Third ball. Hold one ball in one hand, two balls in the other. Throw the extra ball up in the air toward the other hand. When it gets to be about 2/3rds of the way through the arc, throw the ball you have in your hand up in the air, and catch the one that is falling towards your hand. Repeat.
If you have any questions we can go over them when you come to Minnesota. At the very least, practice step 1!
Oh dear. You and Jacob, jugglers both. I sense this is going to happen in MN.
But ....
#15 is impossible...there is no such thing. All you can hope for is to get close
I should put together one of those at some point.
You, me and Sooz are going to one of the many beaches in the Carolinas. Let's pick some dates.
I should see what my holiday schedule looks like...
I can certainly help you with #'s 1, 5 and 12.
I smell a road/camping trip to an SC beach!
http://joyeuse13.livejournal.com/267216.html
I can help you with the German. :)
That's awesome :) I have some of my own for that kind of list.... Visit Japan/learn Japanese is part of it
Umm, yes please to all of the above. Okay, so 6 and 11 and 15 are already checked off for me, and DAMN that's a great list! Coincidentally, I'm working on number 5 myself right now. And oh dear God, I'm never going to be able to go near 16, but I'll cheer for you when you do!!!!
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