• ulysses s. grant
• ari graynor
• david lascher
• chris carpenter
• laura ortiz
• william moseley
• allison iraheta
• sheena easton
• kevin mcnally

wow. i googled this and these were some of the results. i only recognized one name, but if you look them up on imdb, they are all pretty successful actors! surprising.

• my heart is purple and pink. mommy, what color is yours heart?
• did you know, when you close your eyes you see on the tv?
• me: "did you have fun today?" mya: "ja. mommy, did you know, 'ja' means 'yes' in swedish?"

• maybe i will just buy her after she is dead, stuff her and lean her in the corner so i can look at her all the time.
  • i could dress her differently every day.
  • maybe at christmas i can dress her as an angel (not that it is necessary) and put her on top of the tree.
• i really hate it when i glow.
• i just got a full body shiver, even in my mouth! how does that happen!?
• i had a dream that i was leaking.

• To be or not to be? That is the question. The answer? Chuck Norris.
• Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.
• Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him.
• When the boogeyman goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
• Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
• Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its decendants are known today as Giraffes.
• They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn't take shit from anybody.
• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
• Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

i am not looking for perfection. i am not just looking for more good than bad. i am looking for what i want and deserve. i have rational expectations and i refuse to settle for less than that because i know it is attainable. everyone has that right.

• for her party, she decided on a disney princess/hello kitty theme.
• she also decided that we would be serving spaghetti for dinner.
• there will be 15 family members in attendance at her party.
  • we ended up with 13 people.
• when she wakes up in the morning, she will be served breakfast in bed with candles and then she will decide on what we will do before everyone comes over for dinner. so far, the suggestions have been going to the inside play ground, swimming or the park. we will see what she decides.
  • she had müsli, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and chocolate milk. when i typed this, i learned how to type a german ü on my computer. ü ñ ô. über cool.
  • she decided on going to leo's lekland.

items that can be purchased at the LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY MUSEUM GIFT SHOP:

• shirts:
  • t-shirts $10
    • xxl $12
    • child's $8
  • striped shirt $12
    • xxl $14
    • child's $10
• souvenirs
  • fans $1
  • keychains $4
  • mini fans $5
  • coffee mugs $5
  • click pens $2
  • usa pens $3
  • pencils(foot long) $1

i love this girl's page (!) and will probably use some of her list ideas, so i thought i should post her here... (and will reference her when i use her list ideas!)

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these are pretty much things that stay in the forefront of my mind. i think about them every single day.

• either of my children dying or getting hurt.
• spiders.
• snakes.
• dying before my children are old enough to remember me.
• being in a car accident.
• an intruder in my home.
• mirrors.
• eyes in photos, sometimes.
• flying, even though i do it a lot.

things that explain who i am every single day.

• wife.
• mommy.
• sister.
• aunt.
• daughter.
• friend.
• creative.
• thoughtful.
• practical.
• organizer.
• compassionate.
• trustworthy.
• addicted.
• empathetic.
• bored.
• investigative.
• resourceful.

• i have a fear of being chased. i can not even play a game with my 3 year old that involves her chasing me. it freaks me out.
• i can move my ears without touching them.
• i put salt in my ketchup when eating french fries.
• i recently switched from pepsi to coke after being faithful to pepsi for about 7 years.
• i have lived in 10 different towns, 3 different states, 1 province and 3 countries.
• i am a picker. i will pick anything. scabs, dead skin, blackheads, glue, dry skin around my fingernails, chapped lips, chunks of excess dried paint, peeling paint...
• i currently have 9 piercings ( i have endured many more) and 7 tattoos, but i am ...

this is what it takes for mya, isabel and myself to go away for the weekend. we will be gone 3 nights. we will be out and about all day friday and saturday we will be going to disney on ice.

• isabel:
  • ✔ lots of diapers.
  • ✔ baby wipes.
  • ✔ pack-n-play.
  • ✔ blankets.
  • ✔ bath soap.
  • ✔ burp cloths.
  • ✔ 4 outfits. (she spits up on everything!)
  • ✔ 2 sets of pajamas.
  • ✔ slippers.
  • ✔ stroller.
  • ✔ diaper bag.
• mya:
  • ✔ pacifier.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to." Jim Jarmusch

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• Finding money you didn’t even know you lost.
• Being the first table to get called up for the dinner buffet at a wedding.
• Really, really old Tupperware.
• Picking up a q and a u at the same time in Scrabble.
• The Gas Arrow.
• When you pull to a red light and the guy in front of you nudges up a bit so you can make a right turn.
• That pile of assorted beers left in your fridge after a party.
• Picking your nose.

• 6 pacifiers.
• chap stick.
• sunglasses.
• 2 diapers.
• empty wipes container.
• dirty burp cloth.
• mya's glitter lip gloss.
• pair of socks.
• 2 hats.
• 1 baby slipper.
• my headband.
• sharpie marker.
• pink pen.
• 1000 kr.
• pads.
• clutch purse.
• flower pot decor. (thanks, macy.)
• hair clippie.
• packet of salt from sonic. ??

i need to clean out my diaper bag.

• discover sweden.
• dress up more.
• listography. blog.
• go to bed earlier.
• get up earlier.
• eat better.
• get in shape.
• finish the reno upstairs.
• replace the missing hubcap on the beetle.
• work on the outside of the house.
• shave more often.
• find new recipes.
• burn candle more often.
• make awesome memories.
• meet people.
• do laundry more often.

• things in life are not black and white. they are shades of grey.

• is there really acid in margarine? really???????
• is there something on my face...or something? ! i feel like i am in the twilight zone!
• i could sit there and watch him eat all day long. mmm.
• i guess I was interested in anal sex when i was younger, just as something to do but i never did. never really gave a shit. 
• if your eyes and the back of your head hurt, go to the hospital or you might die. you probably will. 
• it is cold but i prefer it this way. helps me lose weight. 
• "so, how do chickens get full of eggs?" "the boy chicken puts his little white meat inside of her dark meat?" "anyway, how do hey do it? i mean, you have never heard of chicken style."

• i made a difference in your life.
• you knew the real me.
• i was a giving person.
• i helped you somehow.
• i inspired you.
• i was trustworthy.

• blue eyes.
• big hips.
• finger-like toes.
• the lack of lips.
• crazy.
• curly hair.
• rae/ray.
• very fertile women.
• zoloft.

happy 3rd, birthday, mya!

• doutzen kroes.
• larry hughes.
• tiffani-amber thiessen.
• mariska hargitay. (i love her!)
• princess caroline of monaco.
• humphrey bogart.

• she attended 10 years of college over a period of 15.5 years.
• she earned her phd in sociology.
• she eats sunflower seeds with the shell on.
• her college roommate's nickname was Satan and she love it. rae named her that. so sweet.
• she is thoroughly uncreative and not only sucks at it, but HATES scrapbooking, arts and crafts, and the like.
• she is a perfectionist.
• i thought she was emetophobic, until i saw this site and read the checklist. wow.
• when asked to assist in this list she provided: "i have absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever, ever, ever, ever, at all. none. in fact, where was i going with this???"
• her only photo album on facebook (until i went into her account and added more) wa...

here are a few commonly used ones to start with:

• beige
• codeine
• conscience
• deify
• deity
• deign
• dreidel
• eight
• either
• feign
• feint
• feisty
• foreign
• forfeit
• freight
• gleization
• heifer
• heigh-ho
• height

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than we have to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw
• The way we see the problem is the problem. - Albert Einstein
• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson
• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -Harvey Fierstein
• My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words. - Arthur Scargill
• To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. - Oscar Wilde
• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having ...

• post secret
• the gift closet
• design dazzle
• moda bake shop
• the best apple crisp, ever
• little green notebook
• stumble upon
• journal of secrets
• writing prompts
• little moments of win

• winter < summer
• internet > television
• dinner > breakfast
• cold > hot
• burgers > hot dogs
• pencil < pen
• dogs > cats
• waffles > pancakes
• owning > renting
• texting > calling
• guitar players > singers
• shy < outgoing
• messy < neat
• rain < shine
• later > sooner
• swings > slide
• walking > running
• window > aisle
• diet coke < coke
• gold < silver
• vintage = modern

• grinding my teeth.
• picking my chapped lips.
• picking a scab.
• cleaning out my ears.
• popping my knuckles.
• popping my wrists.
• popping my ankles.
• popping my toes.
• popping my back.
• popping my neck.
• a baby moving around in my belly.
• going #2. come on. who doesn't?
• the burn of coca-cola or pepsi in my mouth and throat.
• really really hot bath water.
• milk letting down.
• getting a tattoo.
• scratching an itchy spot.

• the cat's front paws have 5 toes. the back paws have 4.
• cats can not taste things that are sweet.
• isaac newton invented the cat flap door.
• cats can see in the dark.
• cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine, around 26 purrs per second.
• cats can hear ultrasonic sounds. humans and dogs can not.
• cats use their whiskers to gauge whether or not they can fit through an opening.
• cats can run at 30mph!

• we both have blue eyes.
• we both have a mole on the left side of our left leg.
• we both grew up on darracott road in aberdeen, ms.
• we both have divorced parents.
• we both hail from crazy families. crazy.
• at separate times and not associated with one another, my dad and her mom both moved 2,000 miles away to the same teeny tiny town in wyoming!
• our younger siblings are the same age.
• in both of our families, the children are: 2 older girls and 1 younger boy.
• her step-mother and my sister graduated high school together.
• we both dated a jared. she married hers. :)
• we had babies 2.5 months apart.

do you think we were destined to be best ...

• i cream. (ice cream)
• ingafing. (nothing)
• maciyony. (macaroni)

• live life. embrace it all.
• live in the moments. be in the here and now and let the past be the past.
• learn how to let it go when it is time.
• be more aware of myself and who I am.
• do things for myself.
• feel beautiful.
• be OK with being me!
• live for me.
• live for my family.
• figure out the balance.
• stop feeling guilty.
• be a better everything.
• be OK with not being the best.
• be inspirational.
• learn to love my body.
• read this list over and over until i realize it is OK to be and do all of these things.

one thing i miss the most about america is cheddar cheese. last year my sister visited and saved her tiny piece of cheddar from the plane for me. what could i have made with my tiny cheddar?

• the smallest batch of cheese gravy.
• a 1/2 helping of homemade mac-n-cheese.
• a teeny tiny loaded new potato.
• shred it for use on a tiny taco.
• shred for use in one spoon full of chili.
• 1 sausage/cheese ball.
• 1 cheese straw.
• ..but now i have found cheddar cheese in the grocery store. i will survive.

• people often ask me...what is the most effective technique for transforming their lives? it's a little embarrassing that after years and years of research, my best answer is just be a little kinder.
• at least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
• experience teaches only the teachable.
• there's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
• after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
• experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

- To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

• 5 pillows.
• tricot-slen baby wrap.
• blanket.
• fiser price fun-to-learn computer that macy gave mya.
• empty baby wipes container.
• a tinker bell spinny thing that mya got at disney on ice.
• my little fancy purse that i used last night when we went out.
• a children's book in swedish. won't be reading that.
• niklas' sweater.
• a rubber animal thing that mya got for christmas.
• a onesie that isabel hasn't been able to wear for at least 5 months. ?
• ANOTHER one of niklas' sweaters.
• tv remote.
• many stains from mya's apple juice, baby spit up and food. note to self: next tim...

• the food. mm. the food. i am packing my stretchy jeans.
• everyone meeting the iz!
• the warmer weather.
• mya and macy playing together. it just makes me sad that they can't visit more often.
• seeing my family in mississippi. not much else about mississippi excites me.
• finally seeing new orleans for the first time!
• the new food adventures in new orleans.
• visiting with a friend that i haven't seen in 10 years! p.s.-thank you to the ugly person that told that horrible lie. it only brought us back together!
• seeing my sister's new house...and school...and car...and macy's new school.
• late nights on the couch with rae.
• many many adventures in wyoming!
• seeing my dad's house since he added on t...

• the people that you think are your friends now, are probably not. when you graduate high school, almost instantly, these people will become part of your distant past. if you can die and ever say that you had 1 TRUE friend, then you are fortunate.
• accept now that people are different. everyone is entitled to their own opinion. that doesn't mean that you have to respect their point of view, but you should respect that they are entitled to have it.
• be everything that YOU are to the fullest.
• don't have regrets. have lessons.
• everything will happen for a reason. years from now, you will look back and see all of the major turning points in your life. most of these will be the hardest things you will ever have to go through, but they will result in the most beautiful ...

• he has super genes. have you seen our kids?
• once, in mexico, he peed on what he thought was the ground, when in fact it was a straw roof of someone's house.
• in a period of 3 months, he wrecked 2 rental vehicles in new york. once by falling asleep and once bc he was playing with his ipod.
• he grinds his teeth in his sleep, resulting in some mild abuse.
• he speaks, swedish, german and english.
• he cuts his toenails straight across because he is convinced that if he doesn't, he will get an ingrown toenail.
• he clips his nails into the toilet.
• he has a vertical split down the middle of his pinky toenail.
• he occasionally reads the newspaper in the shower.
• he pierced his ear when he was 15 and onl...

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!

I love it when people are so comfortable with themselves that they never feel the need to make excuses to others about what they do/what they like/how they look etc...

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it's snowing outside right now.

• summer.
• how much i wish i knew how to ski.
• how i would probably break my leg if i went skiing.
• when rae, scott, macy and niklas went sledding during the holidays.
• some scene from "the bodyguard." don't remember it exactly, but it was a creepy scene.
• how happy i am that i live in a part of the world where it snows, and not in the hot hell where i grew up.
• when mya was born. it was the first snow we got that winter.
• how much fun it would be to go drive crazy in the car in a big open area.

• month: may.
• day of the week: thursday.
• time of the day: 3am.
• direction: east.
• color: red.
• liquid: bath water.
• weather condition: snow flurries.
• emotion: empathy.
• sound: mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
• food: a fun chip dip.
• place: on the couch.
• material: plain old cotton.
• scent: apple cinnamon.
• body part: hands.
• key on keyboard: !
• instrument: a brass instrument.

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use you waffle iron for more!

• waffle burgers.
• twice-waffled bread pudding.
• waffled hash browns.
• s'moreffles.

• amazon mechanical turk
• sell your sperm.
• sell your eggs.
• contact a temp agency.
• return items that you still have a receipt for.
• etsy
• recycle scrap metal
• be a lab rat.
• pawn something.
• sell your plasma
• go hunting with a metal detector for metal items to be recycled.
• gamble...?
• consign items.
• garage sell.
• ebay
• craigslist
• mow yards.
• have a car wash.
• become a moving billboard

• take every opportunity to visit friends and family.
• be more active outside with my family.
• fall back in love with my husband.
• be a better wife.
• be a more patient mommy.
• stay in contact with extended family more.
• learn more swedish so i can keep up with mya.