I'm doing 29 things
There was a woman that lived next door to us when I was growing up. She is from Denmark and my brother and I used to spend a lot of time playing with her kids. She was an amazing cook, and often made things that I thought were very exotic, like pate. Anyway, I have not seen her since I was about 15 years old and yesterday my mother and I stopped by a small street fair and we ran into her there. I didnt even know it was her at first, I was just drawn to her booth by the stacks of beautiful baked breads and jars of jellies and preserves that looked like jewels. She had the most unusual whole grain bread I have ever had. Full of walnuts, pecans, cranberries, spelt, wheat berries, and seasoned with cardomom, fennel, cumin, and poppy seeds. Anyway, long story short, I was inspired. I want to learn to do all of that myself. We bought a lot of stuff. My Mother spoke to her later and told her that I would really love to learn how to do all of this, and she said she would love to teach me. So now I have to contact her. Slightly awkward for me… I havent really seen her in so many years, should I pay, offer to bring ingredients? Well, I will wait a few days and see how I feel.
Chiva's Life List
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1. Learn to make preserves, bake bread, and make pate. Express the gourmet in me
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2. Lose 18 lbs
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3. Start an excercise routine
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4. Work on my Secret Goal
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5. learn to play acoustic guitar
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6. plant a garden
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7. Start saving money
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8. Go regularly to my Dr appointments
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9. Learn Spanish
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10. Express my Creativity
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11. Compost
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12. stop collecting art supplies and start creating art
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13. Help J with his occupational therapy
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14. Make pickles
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15. Have A Jeff Shelton house someday or at least be inspired by Him
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16. Be more involved with my church
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17. build a patio
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18. Sponsor a child
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19. Help my son become proficient in math.
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20. make a mosaic
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21. COUNT MY BLESSINGS
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22. Avoid the Cult of Oprah
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23. help everyone see that PETA is crazy
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24. Get the dogs neutered
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25. go out more with my friends
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26. pack bento lunches
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27. be a flylady
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28. Learn how to make Norwegian food
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29. Get my cavity fixed
4 people
Though I had it visualized as a big beautiful pottery pig from Mexico, I have something different. My inlaws recently came to visit and said they had practically paid for their plane tickets from NY by saving change in one of those huge water jugs for a year. 700 plus dollars. Sooo… I now have one. Conveniently located in the living room where everyone can dump their change into it.
It bothers my Mother that I have never felt the desire to learn how to make lefsa and carry on that tradition. I am going to learn from her this year AND I shall start being the one to make it for the holidays. It will mean a lot to her and to my Grandfather. I also plan on doing some research and having my parents over for dinner, something Norwegian or Scandinavian.
