tatjana




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tatjana's Life List

  1. 1. be consistently happy
    2 people
  2. 2. build a sustainable house
    70 people
  3. 3. take more photographs
    1,753 people
  4. 4. dance like no one is watching
    204 people
  5. 5. surround myself with good people
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    95 people
  6. 6. pay off my student loans
    3,034 people
  7. 7. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    21,512 people
  8. 8. see the northern lights
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    19,106 people
  9. 9. climb a mountain
    2,125 people
  10. 10. learn to spin
    65 people
  11. 11. forgive my parents
    158 people
  12. 12. Beat my depression
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1,970 people
  13. 13. Learn to tango
    1,153 people
  14. 14. Learn to play the guitar
    13,797 people
  15. 15. Spread joy
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    52 people
  16. 16. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
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    1,911 people
  17. 17. sell things on etsy
    180 people
  18. 18. leave this town
    88 people
  19. 19. Learn to spin wool
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    109 people
  20. 20. write in my blog regularly
    22 people
  21. 21. buy a corvette
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    52 people
  22. 22. Improve my French
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    1,446 people
  23. 23. improve my German
    527 people
  24. 24. speak 5 languages
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    166 people
  25. 25. be a teacher
    682 people
  26. 26. worry less
    4,749 people
  27. 27. make more art
    502 people
  28. 28. learn to bellydance
    594 people
  29. 29. exercise more
    5,605 people
  30. 30. Read one book a month
    808 people
  31. 31. build a house
    1,392 people
  32. 32. sew more
    263 people
  33. 33. learn basic car maintenance
    81 people
  34. 34. laugh more
    1,869 people
Recent entries
Learn Spanish
to me Spanish means family

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

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!!

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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