Lyssa




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Lyssa's Life List

  1. 1. learn Russian
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    2,437 people
  2. 2. crochet gifts for Christmas
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    1 person
  3. 3. visit Yosemite
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    35 people
  4. 4. get rid of the ants in my house
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    1 person
  5. 5. Learn a martial art
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    1,447 people
  6. 6. participate in Avon's Walk for Breast Cancer
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  7. 7. feel my grief
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  8. 8. get over this injury
    2 entries
    2 people
  9. 9. get a mammogram
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    42 people
  10. 10. laugh every day
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    360 people
  11. 11. attend a Budokon workshop
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    1 person
  12. 12. Get pregnant
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    899 people
  13. 13. get to know my neighbors
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    74 people
  14. 14. lose 75 pounds
    3 entries . 3 cheers
    268 people
  15. 15. Make new friends
    12,717 people
  16. 16. take my nephews to the movies
    1 person
  17. 17. manage my Bipolar disorder
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    149 people
  18. 18. create small pieces of art, and leave them for people to find
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    492 people
  19. 19. write a novel
    9,665 people
  20. 20. get the laundry done
    3 people
  21. 21. get another tattoo
    2 entries
    3,422 people
  22. 22. learn to ride a horse
    3 cheers
    617 people
  23. 23. Work out a very easy, very cheap and very healthy diet.
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    6 people
  24. 24. create a daily to do list and do it
    1 person
  25. 25. become a personal trainer/life coach
    2 people
  26. 26. write a book on fitness and nutrition
    1 person
  27. 27. become a Budokon teacher
    1 person
  28. 28. clean my house
    682 people
  29. 29. control my IBS
    2 people
  30. 30. teach my niece and nephews to do their makeup
    1 entry
    1 person
  31. 31. start driving again
    21 people
  32. 32. make a to do list
    4 people
  33. 33. learn German
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    4,521 people
  34. 34. get a recumbent spin bike
    1 person
  35. 35. get fit
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    2,770 people
  36. 36. give 100 cheers
    56 people
  37. 37. read a book every week
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    136 people
  38. 38. make it through a budokon workout without stopping
    2 entries
    1 person
  39. 39. dye my hair red
    294 people
  40. 40. take and upload a new photo of myself with my new haircut
    1 person
  41. 41. cure my insomnia
    1 entry
    199 people
  42. 42. join a gym
    1 cheer
    582 people
  43. 43. get a part-time job
    115 people
Recent entries
feel my grief
I haven't yet managed to cry 2 years ago

although I can feel it lurking inside me. I’m sure if I can just let go and cry I can start to get through the grief process and get back to remembering the good things about my father and how he’d want me to experience the moment and embrace life as he did.



get over this injury (read all 2 entries…)
It's so frustrating! 2 years ago

I’ve had an issue with inflammation of the sacroiliac joint for about 16 years, a big reason why I was a couch potato for a good part of the last decade, but now I am determined to end that pattern. Now it flares up worse than ever. I can barely stand in the mornings, hobbling around like a 90 year old woman. My doctor has been through all the non-narcotic treatments and they aren’t working. The only non-narcotic with any effect is Toradol injections and those aren’t meant to be used long term, as in for more than three days. Vicodin works for the pain, but I really hate taking any narcotic: vicodin, demerol, any of them. I’ve tried chiropracty and steroid injections to no avail. My insurance provides a discount for non-traditional treatments, so if my doctor can’t come up with a non-narcotic solution when I see him on the 20th, I’m going to find an acupuncturist in hopes of seeing some improvement through a more natural means. I want my body back.



scan photos of Dad for his memorial service and put them together on a collage
Very cathartic 2 years ago

It turned out beautiful. All of us, my stepmom, brother, sister-in-law, husband, and oldest daughter worked on it together. We used a tri-fold board and painted it with a suede texture paint, then arranged the photos along with some scrapbook cutouts that represented his passions and hobbies. I think he would have definitely approved of the end result, very manly and western.



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