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- Spend a week up a mountain learning to ski
- Visit Karoline's place in Moravia
Hold a conversation in Czech (only)
- Drink 500ml of each of the following beers:
Pilsner
Staroprammen
- Budvar
- Velke Popovice
- U Fleku
Gambrinus
Krusovice
Respond to at least one GOARN request (WHO and MSF are
also acceptable)
Travel across the Atlantic
Return to South America
- Read a book to, or with, an impressionably aged child
- Participate in one NanoWriMo Challenge and come within at least 10,000 words of the goal length
Have my nose pierced
- Have my next tattoo drawn
Purchase the perfect jeans (x 2 pairs)
- Attend a spin class 3 times a week for 8 consecutive weeks
- Bake Viv's cheesecake
Make David's casserole
Make David's Chicken Cashew-nut Stirfry
Invite 4 people who don't know one another too well to dinner
- Ride from Vienna to Venice on a motorbike (pillion acceptable, those less desirable)
- Attend a book group for at least two books
- Go on a choir weekend (learn and perform difficult piece in two/three days)
- Visit Madame Tussaud's (in London)
- Take an architecture appreciation course
Join an all-girl group and sing a solo
Publish in a scientific journal (top two authors)
Cook a duck or other 'waterfowl'.
Locate the Al-Timimi's from Doha Veterinary Practise
Have a pedicure
Maintain a Brazilian (ouch) for three months.
Find a trustworthy Czech hairdresser
- Treat my inner-6-year-old twice a week (at least)
- Do the liver-cleansing diet properly (12 weeks)
- Don't eat out for one month
Find a flat and flatmate
- Purchase one Joseph sweater
- Purchase one of the following pairs of
designer shoes (they MUST also be COMFORTABLE, and be able to be worn with 4
different outfits and 2 types of occasion): Jimmy Choos, Manolo Blahniks,
Christian Louboutin (Ebay or 2nd hand are acceptable)
- Send 5 books to the booksphere and track them.
- Go hanggliding
- Read 10 'classic' books (from 1001 Books to Read before you Die)
Moll Flanders
Everything is illuminated
Madam Bovary
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
Catch-22
Odysseus
On the Road
- Run (non-stop!) for 5kms outside (preferably in a street race thingy)
- Send Christmas Cards on time
Make a collage/mural out of street lights on my wall
Buy a bed, build it, and sleep soundly in it
Go to Africa
Host an 'event' (classified as and when)
Organise a 30th Birthday Party
Wear a costume
- Sing on stage
- Buy a painting that evokes memories of Prague (cannot involve queues!)
Learn a god-damned card game that stays in my memory (other than fish/snap)
See sunrise. Be sober. Have woken for it. Excludes months Nov-Mar
- Take a walk and flip coins at each intersection
Win something
- Draft a will
- Take a roadtrip
Go to Italy already
- Sea Kayak around Abel Tasman Park (NZ)
Get plants
Take a train to another Eastern European Destination (accession countries are acceptable) alone preferably.
- Get UK to give me a provisional motorcyclists license and simultaneously get a 'card' license.
- Go SCUBA diving again - at least two dives lasting 30mins each.
Go to a dentist. *sigh*
- Do a Czech Wine Trail. And live to tell the tale
- Make an 'outbreak emergency kit'.
- Go to bed prior to 11pm every night (inc weekends) for four consecutive weeks.
- Marvel over lack of tiredness
- Dine at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant (or Nobu)- preferably for free.
Bet on the nags
- Do something for charity (applying and getting a 'red card' will count)
- Walk along the Champs Elysee
- Do 100 sit ups in a row
- Do 50 pressups (arms in tight)
- Make branston pickle (or nearest substitute)
- Cook something 'new' and 'adventurous' at least once a month
Find a mentor
Be a mentor
Learn what mentoring is all about
Meet an online person in real life
Resist the flirt. Once. Just one night. It's okay if people don't immediately succumb to my natural charm. Really it is.
Spend time at a spa (spa towns in the CR don't count)
- Send a care package to someone
Get a Tata Bojs CD
- Take a French/German/Dutch course and SPEAK THE DAMNED LANGUAGE WHEN I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY EVEN THOUGH IT MAKES ME SOUND
LIKE AN IDIOT!
- Order new contact lenses.
Make a list of things I take with me when I pack for different occasions
- Eat lobster. Prepared by someone else.
Back up the blog
Put everything onto an external hard drive
- Find a DDR mat and console and 'dance, I say dance!'�
- Go to the beach and lie on the warm sand. For an hour. (with sunscreen on, natch)
- Take and complete a course in either: Tango, Salsa or Flamenco
- Join the Municipal Library of Prague
- Move to another country
Go to a live concert of a band I actually like
- Pay off debts (student loan excl.)
Send thank you cards for every gift I receive (other than the gift of happiness, blah blah blah).
- Get an agent (literary or theatre)
- Go to a sports bar without cringing, by personal choice
- Ride a rollercoaster
- Hold a snake
Spend a day wandering around a museum (not art gallery!)
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
No, not the weather: me. I have one. But it's okay, relax. It's just a common cold, not an exotic one. Nothing to write home about (and yet...).
Living in the flat may hurt me more than I originally anticipated. I've tripped twice on the mat at the bottom of our stairs, and almost impaled myself on whatever I was carrying at the time. Not to mention the state of my liver if we continue to cook and entertain as we have this week...(roasts, italian food, tapas...leftovers!).
Recently, I won (!!) a free ticket (singular) to see Juliette Lewis and the Licks play in Prague. That concert occurred last night. You know me, I'm marginally dazzled by the glitter of Hollywood, so I went along (alone) to see whether she could actually sing. Bear in mind that I'd describe the music as heavy rock, or perhaps punk rock, and you can imagine my wrinkled nose. However, her energy on stage (plenty of limbo moves, talking and singing to the crowd and hair flinging) and her lead guitarist (Todd Morse: photos 3, 18, 23, 54, on their site - not that I looked...) MORE than made up for the sound threatening to pierce my eardrums. And yes, being in Prague means being at a smaller stage: so much so that yours truly could ALMOST have reached out and bumped my hand down his abs. Or, you know, vomited on his converse - whatever it is you do to indicate talent-for-groupiness to a rock band.
But tonight, tonight I go big. There'll be approximately 14,000 people crammed into the T-Mobile arena tonight at this. And my attendance and enjoyment will not falter over mere mucus...Labels: What to do, what to do...? |
posted by Nomes @ Friday, April 13, 2007 |
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(hee hee - have you clicked on the English version of the site? And Chinese translations get such a hard time...
"Eddie Halliwell let us know: Fire it UP! To the Amazing City is 8 days left. We have already another interview - with Eddie Halliwel. In despite of his low age he is great and sucessful DJ"
Giggle - sorry, immature I know, but hey...)
mx
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Man, you should see SOME of the stuff that comes on English versions of websites here. Jo almost took a job that was designing something that would translate it, but thankfully (for all our sanity) didn't.
It's immature, but hey. We're native english speakers, and we're damned lucky for it too!
Peace out bro'.
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(hee hee - have you clicked on the English version of the site? And Chinese translations get such a hard time...
"Eddie Halliwell let us know: Fire it UP! To the Amazing City is 8 days left. We have already another interview - with Eddie Halliwel. In despite of his low age he is great and sucessful DJ"
Giggle - sorry, immature I know, but hey...)
mx