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Challenge!!!!!


 “Imagine how powerful and how visible our world would change if everyone kept just one more promise each day, week, month, or year.” – Manish

Although I may not know who he is, he has a point.

My Challenge, should you choose to except it, 

Do one thing extra, everyday till Xmas to help someone, keep a promise or just do that thing you said you would do and haven’t done it yet????

I do it, Because I Said I Would……

Now of course I have no way to keep track or check to see who’s actually doing it but, I figure I will post what I did that day, and you can comment with yours!!!! 

So, Is anyone up for the challenge????


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Trying to survive 


I know I really have no close family. I have friends but honestly most are to busy in there own lives to even call unless they need something. I always had my boys but now one is gone and the other hardly comes out of his room. I know I’m depressed and I crave adult companionship. The changes I have been trying to make have been up and down and I keep thinking how I’m not living. I’m just surviving. 

I do what I can to take my mind off stuff. I decided today would just b a create stuff day. I am doing three different projects at once, and I’m still lonely.

My son didn’t come home today. I miss him so much. My other son is confusing. I know he doesn’t know who he is yet but, he does not care when I get upset, he does not care when I ask him to go with me somewhere so I’m not going alone, he says no. I wanted to go to a corn maze we had free tickets for, I have never been but since it was just him and I he said no. I’m glad he’s independent but at the same time he keeps his room so bad. Dirty dishes, empty food containers and getting him to clean is horrible. 

So, is it just another day? No, it’s worse. 

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Grammies strong little love


My beautiful boy, he’s so strong. This should have been done when he was one so he would not have had to suffer so much. He was born with a kidney block. They put a stent in and the bag. He’s so miserable, hurts, can’t get out of bed to play. I just hope it will help him be stronger as an adult. He’s going to need it. Grammie will always watch over you Hunny, even after I’m gone.

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Back, Forward & Back again


3 weeks and 3 days…. 

I have been into my cleaning and organization for well, 3 weeks and 3 days. I have taken days off and some days I have just been lazy but, I got the stuff I needed to do outside to winterize the yard……DONE!!!!

The kitchen is still at the knick knacks and decorations phase which means the cleaning and organizing is …..DONE!!!!

The upstairs hallway that was cluttered with all the things I needed to get rid of has been moved around some and I just got rid of a 18 gal tote full to the top of toys! That cleaned out 2 totes and half of another. Sorting through them took lots of time, those little plastic army men!!! Wow!! All the action figures with the tiny guns and things. I still have more to do but I feel good about how far I have gotten. My goal is to have it done by Xmas. The reorganization of the upstairs hallway into my craft storage area will be after Xmas is over, and my son’s bday on Dec, 31. 

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Countries 


​I’m going to italy. To live. I’m watching a show, the way they work, the way they get paid. They have the longest life expectancy. They get paid to honeymoon. They get paid so much differently. The company treats the workers as they deserve to b treated. 2 hr lunches. They say it’s important to make the workers happy. They dropped there mouth when they found out there is no paid vacation time by law. 8 weeks vacation to get married, 5 months paid to raise new baby, wow. It just keeps going. We don’t take enough vacations. The us and Italy produce about the same but we work twice as much!! The Italians have more vacations to enjoy life. They believe people need to be happy!! Wow.

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The French teach children how to eat healthy from day one in school. They get 5 course meals and have 1 hour lunch that is just like a class. The kids looked at pics of us kids school meals and they said those poor kids. The chef at the school spends less but the kids eat way better.
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In Germany they have free collage, they work 36 hours but get paid 40. If a worker feels stressed they get a 3 week stay at a spa. Nobody knows anything about a 2nd or 3rd job. They also believe to have good work then you need happy workers and this is all from a place that makes pencils.Oh my. It’s against the law to contact employees on vacation or after work hours. This is still germany. This show is called Were to invade next, on epix2. I’m awed at seeing how other countries do things so different and the people r so into living life to live!! But they think America is the place to be, not so much anymore. Tons of American students go out of country to get free school. They have plaques outside each house to name the Jewish family that lived there. They believe germany needs to remember there past so they can change the future.
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Finland kids go to school 3 or 4 hours and yet do better. No multiple choice, they just no the answer. Wow. They go about education so much better. The us only cares about the standard testing. None of the schools are different. No paying to go to school, no privite schools. They all go together. The us has made schools a business.
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In Portugal,  using drugs of any kind is not illegal.Human dignity is above all else, that’s what the police in Portugal are taught.

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Norway has the lowest murder rate but they don’t do death penalty and they don’t need guns because the prisoners are treated w something they say they stole from our Constitution,  no cruel or unusual punishment. They do not lower themselves to the criminals to think they have the right to treat anyone cruel. They send them to prison and show them, love. They have less than a 20% rearrest rate!! The hardent prison on the outside looks like ours but inside, wow. They again, don’t use guns. no fights, no rape, no stabbings, nothing. The prisoners loose the freedom but are still human beings. It works. 

I never do anything political. I don’t get into any of these things usually I change the channel but this is all blowing my mind. How has America changed from love to so much hate.

It almost makes me ashamed of how we have become. The US is supposed to be the country of dreams and the country every wants to run to, why?. our crime is high, our majority rate of criminals returning is high, our education is low, our workers are not happy, we have high welfare, no free health care, we have low and middle classes. All of these countries doing these things and got the ideas from us!!!! But we don’t use them. I wish Donald Trump could see this show. We are not the land of opportunity ,  we tell our kids they can be anything they want but they cant. In America it is I, in the other countries it is we, our, always looking at things as equals. 

I am disappointed. 

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Back, Forward & Back Again…


Since I started my cleaning and organizing the house journey I have had some set backs. I took a few days off to spend time with my grandkids and have simply slacked .  My kitchen did get done but that was the easiest room in the house so almost doesn’t count. I have regained my determination and am back on path. I am trying to make more of a schedule to it, sort out days and projects. 

2 weeks and 4 days…..


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Cardinal 


This beautiful baby has been eating at my feeder for a bit now, sometimes w the other birds sometimes not but always w the other cardinal. I watch how one watches while the other eats, it’s amazing to watch them interact with each other as a husband and wife would. The wife is very quick and just can’t seem to get a picture of her but he is definitely not camera shy.

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In love with a mouse


One thing I don’t talk about is my obsession with all things Mickey Mouse. not minnie. nope. Just Mickey. I have a huge collection, one which my cleaning and organizing will hopefully result in it being unbound and displayed. I can’t wait to make these this year. 

My little joke as to why I don’t like minnie is because she’s been cheating on mickey for years with Mortimer mouse !!!!! 

Some get it, some dont.