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Ok, this week I came up with a list of 4 names of people I strive to imulate for different reasons.  I know one wasn't a wonderful person and one is fictional, but that isn't the point.  The point is to have a goal, a mind set per say.
1.  Porverbs 31- the perfect wife
2. Mother Theresa- the perfect missionary
3. Mathra Stewart- able to make the most beautiful creative things
4. June Cleaver- the perfect mother with the perfect string of pearls

It is all about goals, no matter how lofty.

Over Acheiver

I am beat.  Beat down, face in the dirt, BEAT.  And it is only October (school calander mind you).  I have been saying no and yet things keep coming at me.  Ok, there are the occations where I was not given the oppertunity to say no and hence have been burried deeper, but come on!!!  Where is this all coming from?  I did get roped into the Clothing Sale, and although that is over things keep trickling in.  Then there is what was supposed to be the simple thing of Boy Scouts of which I wanted nothing to do with it.   Girl Scouts where the events just keep coming in one of which I am hosting.  Parent teacher confrences, easy?  No, we have to supply dinner for the teachers.  Making playdoh (which I love to do) & make colored pasta (which I don't remember how to do) for preschool.  Then there are sick kids!!  No free time in 2 weeks.  And this "free time" I was expecting... I am running to Boy/Girl Scout Council, grocery shopping, or other such nonsense.  I have this lovely gift certificate for a massage waiting for me.  I saved it to use after the Warrior Dash...  that was in August... and I am still sore.  Now, I would love/need a hair cut, but some how can not fit either of these 2 simple things into my 6 child free hours a week.  The hair cut was going to happen today, but alas, I had a sick kid home from school.  I shouldn't complain.  It is an honnor to be able to do these things right?  This is why we SAHM do just that...stay at home.  We want an active part in the raising of our children right?  Right???  RIGHT?????  But we are cranky and exhausted, because 10% of the people do 90% of the work.  And I am starting to see that within that 10% is a smaller community of over acheivers we will call them the 1% that do 50% of the 90%.  That has to be gramatically incorrect, but you get the idea.  Don't get me wrong, I love doing things like the yearbook, but the dang website is so slow I could race it against a snail and I dare not leave the computer while I am trying to upload pictures, because if the computer goes to sleep I have to start all over.  Sigh.  Ok, tomorrow an upbeat post.  Promise.

Blogging

I was just looking back on my blogs.  In early years, I had 100 plus blogs, but in recent years, with the help of Facebook I am sure, I am down to just a hand full in the last few years.  I wouldl ike to see this number go up again.  There is so much more you can say in a blog.  Much more than just a status.  A status is more what are you doing at this very minute.  Blogging is about recording your life, your thoughts, your dreams.  Now, don't think I am giving up Facebook,  not yet anyway.  Where else can you conect with gradeschool friends, co workers and family with a single click?  There are events here in my blog that I hold dear, but wouldn't even reember if I hadn't writen them down years ago.  I was just looking back over the past years since I began blogging.  I have lead a somewhat interesting life.  I think my next blog will be my birth list.  The oppisite of my bucket list hat I posted the other night.  My birth list will include all the awsome things I have done since birth.  And there have been a few.  Some I must say I might not be so proud of, but others are stinking awsome.

My Bucket list

My Bucket List in no particular order:

1. Go to Italy
2. Run the Bolder Boulder
3. Learn to swing dance
4. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
5. Finish my Degree
6. Learn to play the flute
7. Learn how to use a sewing machine
8. Make a standing rib roast
9. See the monuments in DC
10. See a whale
11. Work in a zoo
12. Forgive someone
13. Read the bible in 90 days
14. Sell a photograph
15. Grow an apple tree
16. Go Christmas caroling
17. Build a dollhouse
18. Support a missionary on 6 different continnents
19. Write a book
20. Ski black powder
21. Photograph an endangered species in the wild
22. See the Red Woods
23. Go to Las Vegas
24. Rappel
25. Visit all 50 states- 20 down 30 to go
26. Donate blood
27. Sleep under the stars
28. See the Northern Lights
29. Ride in a hotair balloon
30. Do 100 push ups
31. Go white water rafting
32. Go on a home building mission
33. Go on a spay/neuter mission
34. See the pryamids
35. See Machu Picchu
36. Do a multi pitch climb
37. Use a pottery wheel
38. Walk the Great Wall of China
39. Meet the President (or a previous president)
40. Meet the Pope
41. Restore a ragtop '57 Chevy Belair
42. Help Night Lights open 10 sites
43. Have a chemical free home
44. Help a Girl Scout get her Gold Award
45. Call into a radio station
46. Get on a jumbotron
47. Get a part in Fiddler on the Roof (even if it has to be Yente)
48. Volunteer 500+ hours at the Denver Zoo
49. Get a hot stone massage
50. Develope a Sunday School Curriculum VBS counts, right?

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First Mammoth Home Winn of 2011

It finally happened. For the first time this year the Mammoth walked away with a win at home. The crowd went absolutely wild. Don't get me wrong I was just as giddy as the rest of them, but I can't help but miss the old days where we lost one game a season instead of winning just one. It is just not the same with out Gait (obviously) Stilley, Miller (or Nash), and the rest of the old retired foggies. I still love the game, I mean I did sit through many a 1 point loss the season, but I miss the days of old. I guess even in lacrosse it is never as good as the "good ole days."

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apps

"There is an app for that" or so they say. I must admit I rarely look for an app I can't find. I write this post from my Droid using the Blogger app. I currently am using a gardening app to track where I intend to plant my seeds and to track harvest time. Then there is Pandora app that allows me to rock out to a little Brooks and Dunn as I write this. You can't forget Jorte, the calender app that work with Google calender and has an awsome widget. How would I keep track of my grocery list without Colornote? I can't get over my Craiglist app that sends me new listings from my searches. My newest Tasko is like a calender, but better! For recurring tasks like anything from changing the sheets to changing the anon rod in the water heater can be set up to have a due date and a recuring after completed option anywhere from repeat in 1 day to 9 years! Want to watch a movie? But what is playing close? Open up moviefone! Oh, but how do we get to the theatre? Um, navigator, duh. Then there is the fb app, email app. What I am getting at is... hang on... I got a new email.

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