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Life List: Organize my recipe collection.
January 9, 2017
in Apartment, KonMari, Life List, Recipes

Life List #167: Organize my recipe collection.

Not all of the things we want to do in life are monumental. Sometimes, a life goal might be seemingly small, simple, mundane, but something we want to accomplish all the same. I've been hoarding cooking magazines for as long as I could remember. In high...

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Life List #41: Learn to knit.
December 19, 2016
in Knitting, Learn Something New, Life List

Life List #41: Learn to knit.

Most times, when there's something you want to learn, you seek out a class, a teacher, a workshop, a YouTube video. Or, you know, you procrastinate and don't do anything about it at all...

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Swallow tattoo - in traditional sailor tattoos the swallow represented how far he'd traveled and that he'd always find his way home.
November 21, 2016
in 40×40 List, Chicago Life, goals, Life List, tattoos

Do the things you always say you’re going to do.

I've been on this kick lately to do the things I always say I'm going to do. You know those things. Maybe you were watching an improv show once and thought to yourself, "this is so much fun, I wish I could be up there." Or maybe...

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Chicago Cubs World Series Victory Parade in Grant Park, Chicago.
November 7, 2016
in Chicago Life, Life List, sports

The Cubs and those bucket list items you can’t control.

Most of the things on our bucket lists are things we can, to at least some degree, control. If you want to learn Spanish you can take a class, you can download an app, you can check a book out at the library. If you want to...

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TLife List: See a psychic. Getting a tarot card reading in New Orleans. arot cards in a voodoo shop in New Orleans.
September 29, 2016
in Life List, Louisiana, New Orleans, travel, United States

Life List #119: See a psychic. (New Orleans tarot reading.)

I may be one of the most skeptical people you'll ever meet. For every extreme political meme you post on Facebook I immediately go to Snopes to fact check. I assume all news stories are grossly exaggerated. I assume all personal stories are grossly exaggerated. I...

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Life List #115: Eat beignets from Café Du Monde in New Orleans.
September 26, 2016
in food, Life List, Louisiana, New Orleans, travel, United States

Life List #115: Eat Café Du Monde beignets in New Orleans.

When you think of New Orleans you might think of The French Quarter, Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras, streetcars, jazz...

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40x40: Forty things to do before forty.
January 21, 2016
in 40×40 List, Life List

40×40: Forty things to do before forty.

It came to me while doing my yearly binge watch of My So-Called Life: I'm almost as old as Patty Chase. Let's let this sink in for a moment. I'm almost as old as Patty Chase. Have you never seen My So-Called Life? I don't know if...

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Chicago Hardy Fig Tree in a Chicago Apartment
December 2, 2015
in Apartment, Chicago Life, fig tree, figs, Life List, Living Room

Life List #69: Keep a plant alive for six months.

When I was young, maybe eleven or twelve years old, I got a cactus. I named my cactus Mr. Bean and put it near the window of my bedroom. And it sat there, for a while, until it eventually died because I never remembered to...

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The Baby-Sitters Club 26 - Claudia and the Sad Goodbye
July 20, 2015
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Val Reads Baby-Sitters Club #5: Weeping, Weddings, and Welcoming.

It's back! It's been over a year since my last installment of Val Reads The Baby-Sitters Club. And I have one bad reason and two good as to why it's taken me so long to continue. 1. I've been lazy. (That's the bad reason.) 2. I left to...

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Machu Picchu, Peru
September 1, 2014
in Latin American Adventure, Life List, Machu Picchu, Peru, Round the World, South America, travel

Life List #120: See Machu Picchu.

I had written it there, I swore. "See Machu Picchu," was on my life list. I was sure I had added it at some point but, as I scrolled through the list on my phone, as I googled my web address and "Machu Picchu," it...

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Hi, I’m Val. I spent most of my 20s in a standstill, unable to pick which path in life I wanted to take. I wanted the nomadic life of a traveler but also wanted the husband, the condo, and the teal couch. Unable to decide which life I wanted more, I did nothing. I lived my life in limbo. When I turned 30 I’d had enough of putting my life on hold and decided to start “choosing my figs.” So, I quit my job and bought a one-way ticket to Europe. After 3 years on the road I’m back in Chicago, exploring the city, learning guitar, decorating my apartment in too much teal, cuddling my cats, and planning my next adventures.

            

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