RECENT NOTES
Note added to Cliff jump or deep water solo (and take a fall):
I jumped off a tall-ish rock... I don't think that quite counts, but I'll call it progress. Kinkaid Lake in Southern IL is where it will really happen. DEEP WATER SOLO!
11 months agoNote added to Read 10 classic books:
1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac2. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
11 months agoNote added to Keep a BJJ techniques book:
Count as done when one mini-comp book is full.
one year agoThis will count if anything I didn't wear during the month I donate to charity.
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 25 words:
These can be words I didn't know before, or words that I know, but never use in real conversation.
one year agoNote added to Get a visible 6-pack:
Task is complete when my husband agrees that I have a 6-pack.
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 100 words:
These can be words I didn't know before, or words that I know, but never use in real conversation.
one year agoNote added to Ride every main loop in Palos:
Orange west trail
Yellow trail
Blue south trail
Black trail
Blue north trail
Brown west trail
Green west trail
Purple north Cemetery Hill trail
one year agoNote added to Take etiquite classes to become super classified:
Use YouSwoop coupon
http://www.etiquettefemme.com/#!events
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 25 words:
7. omakase - from Japanese "entrust" - how to order a meal of sushi entirely chosen by the chef
one year agoNote added to Follow 5 authors' work (read all their books + background info and interviews) and meet at least 1 of them:
2. Milan Kundera - read The Unbearable Lightness of Being
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 25 words:
6. kitsch - Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, ...(more)
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 25 words:
5. kerning - adjusting the spacing between letter pairs so that the way they fit together is visually pleasing and does not leave the appearance of gaps.
one year agoNote added to Mix a drink blue blazer style for a guest:
I can't say I did it well.... but I did it!
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 25 words:
Well, I'll try anyway. Litost is intense longing (and associated visceral pain) for what you believe cannot be.
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 25 words:
4. Litost - Czech word that doesn't have a good English translation.
one year agoNote added to Read 10 novels by authors from 10 different countries:
1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
one year agoNote added to Eat a raw rutabaga:
I got a rutabaga from the store, intending to wash and bite into it, but it turns out they are preserved with wax, so I had to peel the darn thing. It was fairly tasty (like ...(more)
one year agoNote added to Improve my posture:
Chiropractor gave me 3 exercises that seem like they may actually do something. Woo!
one year agoNote added to Go to all the major Chicago museums:
Have seen the Art institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
one year agoNote added to Improve my posture:
Saw a chiropractor. She says she can fix me. We'll see about that.
one year agoNote added to See 10 live music acts:
2. Reginald Robinson - jazz piano
1. Roy Haynes and the Fountain of Youth band - jazz quintet
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 25 words:
1. Alacrity - willingness, excitement, zeal
2. Prevaricate - fail to tell the truth
3. Fungible - interchangeable
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 100 words:
I like a lot of these: http://trevinwax.com/2009/11/16/10-words-to-add-to-your-vocabulary/
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 100 words:
2. Prevaricate (verb): to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead.
one year agoNote added to Expand my vocabulary by 100 words:
1. Alacrity (noun): eager and enthusiastic willingness.
one year agoNote added to Ride every main loop in Palos:
Rode purple north cemetery hill trail in previous years.
one year agoNote added to Eat a raw rutabaga:
Obtained and ate a smaller turnip variety.
Identified a rutabaga at the Treasure Island grocery store.
one year agoNote added to Eat a raw rutabega:
This is difficult and will take effort because:
1) I don't eat a lot of raw veggies and
2) I have no idea what a rutabaga is.
one year agoNote added to Follow 5 authors' work (read all their books + background info and interviews) and meet at least 1 of them:
1. Khaled Hosseini - read both books, impatiently awaiting the next
2. Milan Kundera - read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
one year agoNote added to Get a visible 6-pack:
Eating healthy and training BJJ. Task is complete when my husband agrees that I have a 6-pack.
one year ago