I'm doing 43 things
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.
Lyssa's Life List
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1. feel my grief
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2. make a to do list
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3. create a daily to do list and do it
1 person -
4. learn German
1 entry . 1 cheer5,235 people -
5. learn Russian
2 entries . 3 cheers2,750 people -
6. manage my Bipolar disorder
1 cheer142 people -
7. become a personal trainer/life coach
2 people -
8. write a book on fitness and nutrition
1 person -
9. become a Budokon teacher
1 person -
10. Work out a very easy, very cheap and very healthy diet.
2 entries . 2 cheers7 people -
11. get a recumbent spin bike
1 person -
12. join a gym
1 cheer611 people -
13. get over this injury
2 entries2 people -
14. give 100 cheers
38 people -
15. dye my hair red
338 people -
16. take and upload a new photo of myself with my new haircut
1 person -
17. laugh every day
1 entry . 1 cheer398 people -
18. get rid of the ants in my house
1 cheer1 person -
19. Make new friends
13,823 people -
20. cure my insomnia
1 entry192 people -
21. attend a Budokon workshop
1 cheer1 person -
22. clean my house
708 people -
23. control my IBS
3 people -
24. get a mammogram
1 entry . 1 cheer35 people -
25. Learn a martial art
2 cheers1,574 people -
26. write a novel
11,081 people -
27. visit Yosemite
1 cheer49 people -
28. get the laundry done
3 people -
29. learn to ride a horse
3 cheers700 people -
30. get a part-time job
129 people -
31. Get pregnant
2 cheers960 people -
32. get another tattoo
2 entries3,487 people -
33. crochet gifts for Christmas
2 cheers1 person -
34. take my nephews to the movies
1 person -
35. get fit
1 entry . 1 cheer3,356 people -
36. teach my niece and nephews to do their makeup
1 entry1 person -
37. create small pieces of art, and leave them for people to find
476 people -
38. make it through a budokon workout without stopping
2 entries1 person -
39. get to know my neighbors
85 people -
40. participate in Avon's Walk for Breast Cancer
1 entry . 2 cheers1 person -
41. read a book every week
2 entries . 1 cheer161 people -
42. start driving again
26 people -
43. lose 75 pounds
3 entries . 3 cheers310 people
Recent entries
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.
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.
