I'm doing 26 things
It became necessary to buy a new monitor when I was watering the plant that sits above my monitor on the shelf on my desk and the water leaked into the holes in my old CRT monitor. I put up with a tiny monitor from my nonboyfriend (Are we back together? Your guess is as good as mine!) since he had an extra just lying around. (They are geeks in every sense of the word, he has a desktop at school with two monitors and his laptop. He runs multiple websites and they are constantly buying extra hard drives for their server. He runs Linux on everything. But no running it on my computer. I must play Sims 2. He goes to RIT.)
I could not deal with that thing. It was tiny. My old one was 17 inches.
Now I have a 19 inch widescreen flat panel beauty. Not the best by any stretch of the imagination, but it works. I can see things on my screen. I don’t have to scroll over to read every website even with my book marks closed. AIM doesn’t take up almost half of my screen. I’m content.
kimmp12's Life List
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1. Get a digital SLR camera
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2. Get a tattoo
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3. Save money
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4. go back to school and get my bachelor's
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5. pay off my credit card
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6. take better photographs
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7. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
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8. lose weight
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9. never get married
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10. drink absinthe
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11. write amazing poetry
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12. make a difference
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13. reduce my environmental footprint
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14. live in a commune
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15. study wicca and witchcraft
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16. raise my son to respect all religions
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17. raise my son to respect the environment
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18. be a good mom
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19. design my own tattoo
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20. be genuinely happy for others, not secretly jealous and bitter
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21. quit thinking that cutting my hair is a good idea
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22. get a better job
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23. get a tattoo on my wrist
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24. Quit thinking I think too much and embrace my thought process
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25. be with him
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26. play my violin again
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Obviously love.
And with that love comes a protectiveness.
But what can we do to be truly good moms?
Spend time with our children is a general thing, something that we all believe.
But do some ways of being a good mom rely on our lifestyles and our personal beliefs and, more importantly, our child’s personality and individual needs?
I have my own thoughts, and they’re what work for he and I right now.
I don’t watch TV, nor does my son. He’s only 13 months and doesn’t need to anyways.
There is no meat allowed in my house. I don’t feel that it’s very healthy or right to eat meat. I also believe that meat may have something to do with our high cancer rate.
I try to buy organic food frequently, when my son was eating baby food I made his food or bought organic baby food.
I cloth diaper since it’s better for him and feel that it will help to teach him later on about things that are good for the environment.
I want to educate him about the state of this world and what he can do to help.
I’d love to home school him, but only if it’s right for his personality.
I want to teach him about all of the religions out there and let him choose, if he would like to, rather than force one down his throat because I feel that it’s the right one.
And how do we know if we’ve accomplished this goal?
Certainly it’s about animal rights in many cases. It’s also about being healthier and reducing your risk of cancer. But did anyone know that it’s also about the environment. I recently read an article breaking down the facts of the meat industry. The amount of land used to raise the animals and to grow the crops to feed the animals is far greater than what one would expect and covers a significant percentage of the earth’s surface area. Animals emit harmful gases during digestion, but these gases will cycle out of the atmosphere within about ten years. Using animals for food has a greater impact on global warming than all of the world’s transportation combined. Switching to vegetarianism will have a more significant and much quicker impact that driving a hybrid vehicle.
I do understand that the world will not give up eating meat, but the more people who do the bigger the difference that we can all make.
