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I Cannot Live Without….

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What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

First and most important would be my husband! He has been my Ride or Die for 35 years and is the Ying to my Yang. Sometimes I’m the Ying to his Yang. One always brings the other up when it’s needed or gives them a smackdown when that’s needed too. I don’t mind when he goes away for a weekend and I’m sure he feels the same but I couldn’t bear any more time without him.

The second would be my Peloton Bike+. I have never loved riding a bike so much in my life and the number of workouts available to me is amazing! I’m learning so much about my strengths in so many forms using my bike.

The third would be my Mac laptop that I bought after longing for one for a few years. It has everything I need and I’m finally learning where everything is and how to access things from all my devices and my work computer! It just puts everything I need at my fingertips!

Love to my son and daughter-in-law and family – I’d be lost without ALL of you!

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Thoughts on Writing

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blank pages

My best ideas come to me when I’m in the shower. I know I’m not the only one who feels that way. I think they are so amazing and I cannot wait to get them out of my head and on to paper. But when I get to that paper with pen in hand – I question why ANYONE would be interested in what I have to say.

I have notebook upon notebook of ancestral information. Names, dates, and places of people I have been researching and discovering for over 20 years – not too easy when paternal grandparents have been dead since 1927 and 1935 – all ready to be written about. Yet I spend weekend organizing instead of writing.

I do what I do in every situation, I spend more time reading about something than doing it! It’s time to just put one foot in front of the other and see what comes out.

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Taking Notes

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Daily log from trip to New York State 2019

I am a list maker and note taker. At the start of a meeting, I have my notebook and pen ready to go. I don’t write to the extent that I miss what’s going on – I get the gist of it. As long as I can read my handwriting while I’m transcribing!

When we take trips, I like to keep a record of what we did, where we ate, and what we spent. The problem is, I don’t do anything with them, or the pictures taken, and brochures collected. They are all kept in one place but just sit there.

The problem might be two-fold. One – I can get stuck in “my routine” and forget there are other things I really want to do! Hopefully my new bullet-journaling will correct that. The second problem is – especially for the motorcycle trips like the one above – some trips are “with Chris” and others are “after Chris”. Chris being our friend who had a motorcycle accident at the end of our 10 day trip to Nova Scotia in 2017, ending up with a TBI and passing away a year and a half later. My stomach hurts just writing that. It hurts to remember the trips and look at the pictures. He is the motorcyclist in front of us in the heading picture and to the right of us in my first post. Great guy who was ready for a ride anytime.

I’m adding one trip to my September tasks and will put one on the list every month and hopefully that will help me get through them.