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I really like 43 Things, I find it a really handy way of keeping track of all the things I want to get done, both long and short term stuff. And it’s great that it’s more about the fun side of life than actual tasks, so it’s not really a ‘to do’ list, which is daunting and boring, but a ‘aims I want to achieve’ list, which is interesting and quirky.

Well, maybe quirky is the wrong word.

My current list has 27 items, I’ve just crossed two off:

1. Wear more skirts - I crossed this off because it is happening! I am wearing more skirts and dresses nowadays which I love, and also, when I go shopping, I purposefully look for skirts and dresses. I went away last weekend and I didn’t take a single pair of trousers with me (except pyjamas and they don’t count). So yay. Plus my new skirt rocks:

2. Learn Dutch - I crossed this off, not because I am fluent in it (ha I wish), but because I have crossed that line now of no return. Well, not ‘no return’. But I mean, I have come so far now that I couldn’t give up learning it, even if I wanted to! I now feel somewhat confident in it, when I talk to Nic or Joris on msn, our conversations are mainly in Dutch, they help me with my errors, and I learn from the way they write how to improve my own Dutch So yes, far from perfect, but I think when I go to Belgium I will be able to get around by myself all fine

Some of the things I have on 43 things are really life-long ambitions, like writing a book, living in france, get married, learning to play the piano (tho I’m hoping I can get a cheap keyboard when I go to uni and thus play all day/night instead of doing essays), but others are more short-term, including:

1. watch all the DVDs I own but have never seen
2. find the perfect pair of jeans (still looking!)
3. grow my hair long (getting there :))
4. fly a kite
5. stay up all night talking

If you want to see the full list, please click here.

I want to add some more, I’ve never had a full list of 43 things! I’ll think about it tonight and maybe update tomorrow Night! x

Yep it’s a huge big commercial piece of rubbish. Everyone agrees that it is no different to any other day, yet single people still moan about being single, and people in a relationship feel happy they have someone to “be their Valentine”.

So yes, although I don’t go in for the whole tacky and commercial issue of Valentine’s, forgive me that I do feel happy that for the first time in my life I have someone to spend it with, and I know that if I was single I would be saying “pfft Valentines, so cares!” while inside wishing I DID have someone to be with on that day, wishing I had someone to spend it with. But it doesn’t mean that just because I do have a boyfriend that I will go and buy lots of overpriced consumerist rubbish which is pink and fluffy and is in the form of a huge great teddy bear which is holding a heart saying ‘I LOVE YOU’ or something equally sickly. Being Feb 14th doesn’t mean that I suddenly love him more than I do any other day, or that we should do something special just because it’s Valentines. Valentine’s is a poor reason for people to be all lovey-dovey and stuff: if you love someone, you love them every day!

I’ve only ever had one Valentine’s card, but it hardly counts because it was from Amy last year at college, and she wrote it in a German lesson, so it came out as “frohliche Tag des Valentins” haha.

I’m going to listen to my mix CDs from Bob all day and then I shall meet him at the train station tonight. And I can’t wait to see him.

Happy Valentine’s Day.

This picture’s got a woman who looks like you, and a guy who looks just like someone I’ve seen. When it turns out, I hope that it turns out the way that you dreamed.

I changed around my 43 things a little bit, some stuff needed updating.

I crossed off ‘kiss in the rain’ and in a couple of weeks will be able to cross off ‘have a valentine’. What else? I left ‘wear more skirts’ on there as a reminder that not only do I need to wear more skirts I also need to buy more. I took off the silly ones about publishing photography, cos in all honesty I don’t really care about getting published anymore. And I do have 3 photos up on the wall at Clare College, Cambridge, so mebbe that counts anyway? Haha.

I left on ‘learn Dutch’ cos I can’t take it down til I am confident enough I can get by. In a few months ‘live in France’ will be ticked, and that’s probably all there is for that.

I added one to watch all the DVDs I buy and never watch. The list is as follows:

• A Very Long Engagement
• Pride & Prejudice
• Tailor of Panama
• Princess Mononoke
• Only Yesterday
• Martha, Martha
• The Squid & The Whale
• Memoirs Of A Geisha
• Schindler’s List
• Battle Royale
• Spaced
• Brick

Hmm not as long as I thought it would be

Hmm bit delayed but better late than never.

Just a quick ramble about Christmas.

Edit: okay maybe not that short…

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