YamiNoSensei




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  1. 1. act on my ideas
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    7 people
  2. 2. drink more water
    1 entry
    20,256 people
  3. 3. reconnect with old friends
    4 entries . 3 cheers
    504 people
  4. 4. Visit Angel Falls
    25 people
  5. 5. read more books
    1 entry
    11,837 people
  6. 6. write a photo book about graffiti art
    1 cheer
    1 person
  7. 7. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    7,903 people
  8. 8. Drink absinthe
    1 entry
    634 people
  9. 9. work through "One Day My Soul Just Opened Up" by Iyanla VanZant
    1 entry
    1 person
  10. 10. be drawn as an anime character
    7 people
  11. 11. go to a Metallica concert
    1 entry
    48 people
  12. 12. get Gary's painting of me framed
    1 cheer
    1 person
  13. 13. take someone's garden gnome traveling
    1 entry
    1 person
  14. 14. Start a new blog & be serious about it
    1 person
  15. 15. Get my special education endorsement
    3 entries
    1 person
  16. 16. get out of michigan
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    16 people
  17. 17. get a custom tightlacing corset
    1 entry
    2 people
  18. 18. join a spiritual community
    2 cheers
    5 people
  19. 19. Start reading tarot cards again
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    3 people
  20. 20. Meditate daily
    3 cheers
    4,732 people
  21. 21. Visit Japan
    2 cheers
    6,010 people
  22. 22. build lasting friendships
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    6 people
  23. 23. get my book published
    1 entry
    151 people
  24. 24. Visit Africa
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    813 people
  25. 25. take a tai chi class
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    22 people
  26. 26. Have lasik surgery
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    50 people
  27. 27. get a memorial tattoo
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    13 people
  28. 28. have more confidence in myself
    1 cheer
    574 people
  29. 29. buy Rachel's bass & make music with Josh
    4 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  30. 30. get my teeth fixed
    5 entries
    772 people
  31. 31. Get a minigrant for my classroom
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person

How I did it
How to find veggies that I actually enjoy eating
It took me
6 months
It made me
feel good


How to get a new Computer
It took me
1 month
It made me
Happily productive


Recent entries
reconnect with old friends (read all 4 entries…)
Facebook rawks!

So in the past year I found Dru and a shitload of other folks from the old East Lansing crew on FB. Also tracked down MoDell. Tatha seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. Can’t find anything about him after 2006, and heard a VERY vague rumor that he’s gone to join the ancestors. Also talked to some of the Ann Arbor folks, namely Hiawatha and Art. Reconnecting after all these years (20+ since I’ve seen/heard from some of these folks) is a truly wondrous thing.



Have Lasik Surgery (read all 2 entries…)
on hold...

... for the forseeable future. This kind of depended on being able to finance it. My credit rating is trashed after my year of unemployment and coming a hairsbreadth from losing my house, so it will have to wait ‘till I’ve pulled things together a bit more.



get my teeth fixed (read all 5 entries…)
SO frustrating...

I now have almost no molars left and my front teeth are starting to decay. It’s really heartbreaking. Problem is my dental insurance is so crappy, I max it out by spring and then have to wait till next year to get more work done… in the meantime my teeth are rotting away even more. I finally got extra insurance through AFLAC but there’s a 1- to 2-year waiting period for the kind of work I need. If I’d signed up last year when I had the chance I’d be getting some of the work done now! But, no use beating myself up about it. I’m also chipping away at the loot I owe my dentist. Getting that paid off will give me more options, too.

Despite what “they” say, I truly believe there is a connection between methadone and weakened teeth. In my case it is NOT simply an issue of “you just didn’t take care of your teeth all those years you were an addict”, which is what clinic staff, etc. always blame it on. That isn’t true for me, I always had decent jobs with insurance and took care of myself. And I’ve talked to so many people with the same experience- a few years on methadone maintenance and the teeth literally start crumbling away. If they would acknowledge that this is a real issue, maybe something could be done to prevent it! I wonder if anyone’s ever even done a serious study on this. Too late for me but if they could save other folks down the road from my fate, I’d be happy.



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