I'm doing 34 things
My mother, who is from Ecuador, always spoke Spanish at home, and my grandparents never spoke anything else. Being the eldest and a second mother to her 8 brothers and sisters, my mom always put an emphasis on family, and we often went to Ecuador to spend time with those who didn’t come to Canada. Now I’m the only one of about 40 1st cousins (+ too many 2nds to count) on 2 continents who knows them all. Even though I live in Germany (where my dad’s from) with my German fiance. I have no doubt that it is Spanish I will speak to my children, because to me it is a big part of the bond with my family. And yes, my dad speaks Spanish too, and after meeting my family, my fiance decided he wanted to learn too :)
tatjana's Life List
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1. be consistently happy
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2. build a sustainable house
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3. take more photographs
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4. dance like no one is watching
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5. surround myself with good people
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6. pay off my student loans
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7. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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8. see the northern lights
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9. climb a mountain
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10. learn to spin
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11. forgive my parents
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12. Beat my depression
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13. Learn to tango
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14. Learn to play the guitar
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15. Spread joy
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16. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
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17. sell things on etsy
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18. leave this town
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19. Learn to spin wool
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20. write in my blog regularly
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21. buy a corvette
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22. Improve my French
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23. improve my German
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24. speak 5 languages
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25. be a teacher
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26. worry less
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27. make more art
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28. learn to bellydance
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29. exercise more
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30. Read one book a month
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31. build a house
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32. sew more
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33. learn basic car maintenance
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34. laugh more
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Recent entries
I was first diagnosed when I was about 4 or 5. I don’t remember this, but my parents had to take me to a shrink because I said I wanted to kill myself. I’ve just been doing my best ever since, sometimes with meds, sometimes without. Growing up my parents reacted very badly to my being sad, so I learned to hide it. Very few people know about my condition, or how bad it sometimes gets. Recently I’ve been learning to talk about it, and accept that it doesn’t make me weak or ungrateful to admit that I feel like shit sometimes. I think this will help.
Abby and Lily are a daily source of joy, and sometimes a bit of stress. if i could just get them to stop tearing up the wallpaper, we’d be the happiest thing going :)
