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Where Does The Time Go?

Time just gets away from me. One day it's Monday and when I look up it's Friday. My Time List Needs To Be Done! Procrastination will get you every time. It's a biter in the hind end if you don't have a list according to this covert procrastinator. So do it....right now. Make a list. Here's my current list for the next 704 days (two years) of things I want to do:

1.    Finish the basement. Now only has wallboard done.
2.    Read Charles Dicken's Great Expectations again.
3.    Every time I complete on of these list subjects, put a $20.00 in a special savings box and then buy something special on day 705.
4.    Go for one month without buying junk food.
5.    Go on another cruise without having a hurricane come up like last time.
6.    Have new counter tops put in the kitchen and a new floor too.
7.    New Carpeting up the stairs and maybe all bedrooms too.
8.    Get a bigger camper.
9.    Lose weight and weigh 140 again. (HA HA HA)
10. Take a photography class.
11.   Go on a roadside picnic like we did when I was a kid.
12.   Finish my autobiography book which includes history of my town.
13.   Go through my email and unsubscribe to a bunch.
14.   Have a neighborhood party/block party to meet some who have lived near us for a long time.
15.   Replant some perennials which died with the drought.
16.   Get a knee replacement.
17.   Exercise more.
18.   Put paint a mural on the basement wall.
19.   Finish some genealogy books for my husband's family.
20.   Go to New Orleans and eat oyster po' boys again.
21.   Become the housekeeper I used to be. (HA HA HA)
22.   Pay down debt.
23.   Find more vintage pictures of my town.
24.   Invent something.
25.   Get a bonsai tree.
26.   Publish a cookbook.
27.   Take a gourmet cooking class.
28.   Go to a rodeo.
29.   Go eat at the Old Luxemburg for old times sake.
30.   Visit Busch Gardens.
31.   Go to Las Vegas.
32.   Help someone and not want anything in return.
33.   Catch a big fish.
34.   When at Olive Garden, don't tell them to stop when they are grinding cheese.
35.   Track everything I spend for 60 days for budget purposes.
36.   Give up drinking carbonated drinks with calories.
37.   Have a midnight picnic.
38.   Drive the old Route 66 from Chicago to Springfield.
39.   Have a short story published in a magazine.
40.   Go see Abraham Lincoln's home again.
41.   Learn a small amount of spanish.
42.   Have a Tea Party for friends.
43.   Declutter every room.
44.   Buy an external hard drive.
45.   Go on a bus trip somewhere.
46.   Make some head caps and donate to cancer patient unit.
47.   Finish framing my old vintage photos for wall hanging.
48.   Watch the old vintage Peter Pan movie again.
49.   Give a stranger a $20.00 bill.
50.   Be a contestant on a game show.

There's my list. Obviously some I can accomplish and others I would need more than 704 days but at least I will try to get some of these done. Time to start. One, two, three.....go!

Abraham Lincoln

1854 Taken in Chicago during campaign for Senate.

Abe Lincoln's favorite photograph. Was used heavily during

his 1858 campaign.

Last photograph of Lincoln taken on April 10, 1865, just days before his death. The only photograph where he is smiling.

Quote For The Day

He who trims himself to suit everyone

will soon whittle himself away.

--Raymond Hull

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Trouble no one about their religion,
respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the the service of your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place.

Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

Chief Tucumseh (Crouching Tiger)

Shawnee Nation 1768 - 1813

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