tatjana




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tatjana's Life List

  1. 1. be consistently happy
    2 people
  2. 2. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    18,534 people
  3. 3. climb a mountain
    1,740 people
  4. 4. learn to spin
    62 people
  5. 5. Improve my French
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    1,349 people
  6. 6. forgive my parents
    160 people
  7. 7. be a teacher
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    621 people
  8. 8. Learn to tango
    1,147 people
  9. 9. Learn to play the guitar
    12,621 people
  10. 10. laugh more
    1,762 people
  11. 11. see the northern lights
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    16,850 people
  12. 12. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
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    1,892 people
  13. 13. Beat my depression
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1,681 people
  14. 14. speak 5 languages
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    140 people
  15. 15. Read one book a month
    703 people
  16. 16. Spread joy
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    45 people
  17. 17. pay off my student loans
    2,840 people
  18. 18. dance like no one is watching
    214 people
  19. 19. write in my blog regularly
    22 people
  20. 20. buy a corvette
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    45 people
  21. 21. improve my German
    484 people
  22. 22. Learn to spin wool
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    100 people
  23. 23. worry less
    4,548 people
  24. 24. make more art
    485 people
  25. 25. learn to bellydance
    560 people
  26. 26. exercise more
    5,112 people
  27. 27. build a house
    1,229 people
  28. 28. sew more
    248 people
  29. 29. learn basic car maintenance
    74 people
  30. 30. leave this town
    87 people
  31. 31. sell things on etsy
    152 people
  32. 32. build a sustainable house
    71 people
  33. 33. take more photographs
    1,705 people
  34. 34. surround myself with good people
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    85 people
Recent entries
Learn Spanish
to me Spanish means family 3 years ago

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 :)



Beat my depression
One day at a time 3 years ago

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.



Get a kitty!
not one, but two!! 3 years ago

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 :)



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