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mps6006




I'm doing 34 things
  

mps6006's Life List

  1. 1. Re-visit Italy
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  2. 2. be a better llama-mmama
    5 entries . 6 cheers     		1 person
  3. 3. get the barn built by July 2006
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		1 person
  4. 4. stop obsessing about the things I can't control
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  5. 5. do more imaginative scrapbooking
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  6. 6. take more photos
    3 entries . 2 cheers     		2,941 people
  7. 7. read books WITHOUT guilt
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  8. 8. create a backyard I'd like to live in
    6 entries . 8 cheers     		1 person
  9. 9. BREATHE!
    4 cheers     		209 people
  10. 10. spend more time with my grandchildren
    5 entries . 7 cheers     		15 people
  11. 11. Finish knitting the baby blanket I've ripped out 3 (now it's 6) times
    3 entries . 6 cheers     		1 person
  12. 12. Keep up with the bookwork
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  13. 13. make more efficient use of my time
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  14. 14. be more conciencious toward my family and friends
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  15. 15. Give myself credit for what I have accomplished so far.
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  16. 16. LEARN THE TRUE MEANING
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  17. 17. create a team of 43 crazy cat lovers
    29 team members . 3 entries . 2 cheers     		26 people
  18. 18. become more aware of (little, insignificant) my relationship to the complete universe
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  19. 19. walk in the Breast Cancer walk this year.
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		1 person
  20. 20. remember all the birthdays this year
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  21. 21. go to the grocery store on a regular basis so I "have things on hand"
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  22. 22. Photograph 43 Sunsets
    5 entries . 2 cheers     		52 people
  23. 23. finish more knitting projects
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		139 people
  24. 24. Cook more adventurously
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		5 people
  25. 25. think before i speak
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  26. 26. do something with the zillions of pictures of Huff and Puff which I took
    1 entry     		1 person
  27. 27. RELAX a little
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		6 people
  28. 28. make a photobook
    6 entries . 1 cheer     		12 people
  29. 29. encourage others to reach their potential
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  30. 30. post randomly
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  31. 31. RE-USE, RE-INVENT, RE-CYCLE
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  32. 32. Show 43 Things Why I Love My Normal Animals
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  33. 33. limit my 43 things time to 30 minutes a day (well, maybe 45)
    1 entry     		1 person
  34. 34. declare 9/12 to 9/19 reconciliation and common humanity week in order to bring people back together after five years of complicated feelings
    9 team members . 1 entry . 1 cheer     		2 people
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post randomly (read all 3 entries…)
OK 1 year ago

Heres my link to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamamama…
I hope you all get the same smile in your heart when you view what I see out here on top of our hill..Kansas blesses us with quiet, unassuming beauty every day of the year and I welcome the chance to share it with you

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create a backyard I'd like to live in (read all 6 entries…)
Gosh 1 year ago

I already HAVE a “back yard”....Silly me, I didn’t see the yard for the pond….Such a lovely place in the Fall….

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declare 9/12 to 9/19 reconciliation and common humanity week in order to bring people back together after five years of complicated feelings
I think 1 year ago

I’ll start in my own head on this goal….
My husbands eldest daughter is hard to describe… She has married well and is very fortunate in that day to day worries about money are not an issue…She has a husband who adores her and two lovely healthy children…
When her father and I married she was 16 and I remember several conversations where she was quite emotional and told me that since I moved in life was now normal….I worried over her , but allowed her her space…I ran interference for her between her and her Mom, to whom she did not speak….always encouraging her to make a relationship and NEVER trying to mother her …. (Well…I am a motherly type and to be honest, I do tend to mother everything….but truly, I worked hard at being her Dad’s wife and his childrens’(3) respectful friend….)
At any rate, at one point she tried an end run around her Dad, using the formerly despised Mom as a back up…and I called her on it…(She was 17)...and from that day forth no matter what…. I am no longer on her radar…..She does not come to the house, She does not call the house or me….She even calls her Dad on his Cell phone in the evenings… If I plan an occasion and notify all of them a month in advance, she calls Her father the week before the occasion and says they can’t come and sets up an alternate date for an additional affair at her convenience. Any time we are together as a family, anything I say or do is matter for ridicule, or just plain rude disrespect…it is very uncomfortable for me to be around her….This all makes my husband sad and he wishes we would “get along” He has stated he wants “some kind of a family life with her” I would like the same but my attempts at seeking common ground are generally rebuffed….going to her house ALWAYS results in some kind of contest over whatever and when they do come here (about once a year, even though they live 1 hour away) she avoids dealing with me so much that the last time they were here, they left without even saying good bye….She comes to town and calls him for lunch and I am not included EVER unless my husband thinks to call me ..Small deeds, but rude and calculated, I feel….I decided a year ago, that these things only upset me if I let them and I would never try to make him choose…and She is HIS daughter and they deserve time together…I have a very busy life without the stress of that relationship, or non-relationship….so live aND let live is the way to handle it…
My husband loves to ski. The daughter and her husband have a place in Vail and like to take Dad along…I do not ski, but I am going to go because my husband really wants me to go along…I am going to NOT notice rudeness and I am going to especially notice kindness, and I aM going to work on MY acceptance of her….rather than trying to deflect competition before it starts….
Reconciliation and common humanity has to begin in your own personal relationships before it can spread to the World, I think.

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Bellamafia wants to Wake up next to someone I love everyday get 8 hours of sleep every night Get a job that I enjoy and get paid what I am worth hug a wombat create my own computer game be an actress write go skinny dipping focus Learn to play Victor's Piano Solo create background live on my own ride in a limo clean my room and keep it clean plant some trees Learn to cook SunshineTX wants to go to bed and go to sleep, instead of lying in bed for hours staring at the ceiling because my brain won’t stop Reduce my ecological footprint Mend my broken heart do the splits Live on the beach Watch all the episodes of Supernatural forgive someone learn blender knit a clapotis take better pictures Move to New York