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update: 101 in 1001
start date: 01.march.2008
end date: 27.november.2010
completed: 8
in progress: 11

i think that's going pretty well. you can view my list if you'd like.

alright, i know everyone is dying to know how the impact orientation went yesterday. [initial interest, mutual selection, pre-service training, assessment, continuing development, teamwork] there were two couples there wanting to foster to adopt and a mother and her son interested in fostering and us - adopting. :) first we watched a video that went into detail about what impact stands for, etc. afterwards we filled out our paper for the back ground check and turned it in and then we had to put our information on other form for records and such. we were given two cards each to take with us to the sheriff's office for fingerprints for our criminal record check. there are two packets we got with all kinds of information. the case worker told us that in the end she'll be handed a 2inch folder filled up completely with everything about us in it. lol. she gave everyone a check list with steps on it, but said that alot of the forms we'll be getting aren't even on the check list. for my sanity i'll be making a virtual list and keeping up with it that way - it's much easier and more organized that way. [i'll link said list when i have it posted.] wayd's finally getting excited about it now. ;) it's so cute!!![!!!!] we have to have 20 hrs. of impact training. they're split up into two weekends, one 7hr class and one 4hr each weekend. this weekend starts a session, but since i'm working we opted to go to the next round which she said should be in june. that's fine though, we still have to bust our booties to get our house done b/c once you start the training they start the home studies. o.O

wayd posing before heading for dfcs;

my mum gets her new car tomorrow. i'm jealous because it gets 50mpg. [it's a hybrid] so tomorrow/friday we'll have two running vehicles. now maybe wayd will start working on his bronco. we went and looked at jeeps yesterday, but didn't really find anything that was worth what it was going for. hopefully we can find one he really wants and is willing to pay even a little too much for -welllll- before the year is up. changing subjects abruptly here, we still don't know anything on mike. :/ the coroner's office is still waiting on the toxicology report to come back. it's almost been three months, that's just unreal. having to wait like this is the worst thing there could be. if you don't know what i'm talking about b/c we're new friends feel free to add my old journal[iamdionarenee] and you can catch up and find out more about me... and see what a sucky lj friend i was when things started getting so rough at the beginning of the year.

the 28th, a week from this friday, will be my last day of first shift. the following monday i start 2nd. i'm pretty excited because i'll be working the same hours as jennie, my bestfriend. she, amanda and i will be going to the gym after work too. yay! plus i'll be able to sleep in instead of getting up before dawn! i'll also be my own supervisor since our area only has one for 1st shift. once we get our child/children i'll be switching to 3rd, which as of now only has one person working on it. lol. that's in our area, the nozzle area tho, the rest of the wax room has a full crew for all three shifts.

ohhhhh i wanted to share a video from youtube that i found while stumbling:

isn't she adorable!?! and the video is awesome. i ended up going and watching 80% of the videos her mummie has posted.

how many of you view postsecret every sunday? did you have a fav this week? i usually do, but the only one that i really liked was the first one about and it wouldn't even make it into a top most liked list. i was disappointed, is that weird?

mission: complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days. 
criteria: tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

start date: 01.march.2008
end date: 27.november.2010
completed: 8
in progress: 11

[001] send a postcard into postsecret
[002] visit friends and family in california
[003] take wayd to disney world
[004] move into our new house
[005] take another trip to illinois
[006] become a parent
[007] read twilight
[008] see tori amos in concert again
[009] go to a real beach
[010] finish remodeling our house
[011] visit a museum
[012] pay for someone's meal
[013] place flowers on an old unattended grave
[014] have professional photos taken
[015] take a road trip with no real destination
[016] go to a masseuse
[017] join and participate in bookcrossing hereinsilence
[018] have family protraits taken
[019] go on a camping trip outside of the county
[020] host a dinner party
[021] go to an aquarium
[022] redo my scrapbook and actually finish it
[023] join either an aerobics, pilates or yoga class
[024] see regina spektor in concert
[025] make a will
[026] go to a chiropractor
[027] buy stock
[028] trace and blog my family tree
[029] get a passport
[030] go hiking on a mountain trail
[031] host a game night
[032] read from my bible when at home, at least 100 days of the 1001 (0/100)
[033] start the 365 day challenge and stick with it
[034] go to dragon*con
[035] vote in election
[036] join a gym and go several times a week
[037] go to a tattoo convention
[038] take pudd and lil'bit on a trip with us to rocky city gardens
[039] join and participate in postcrossing hereinsilence
[040] get contacts and learn how to put them in
[041] go on a cruise
[042] try a new food
[043] find a pen-pal
[045] get braided hair extensions
[046] do something with my mum
[047] participate and complete 100 snapshots (0/100)
[048] go bowling with friends
[049] donate blood
[050] get a wii
[051] get my teeth bleached
[052] have a house warming party
[053] go to five other concerts (0/5)
[054] finish writing my book
[055] have a girl's night out
[056] get life insurance with pcc
[057] get a robe
[058] buy 10 lottery tickets (1/10)
[059] draw a floor plan of our new house in psp and add a few rooms
[060] join librarything and participate
[061] try sushi
[062] floss daily for 30 days (2/30)
[063] try something new at el'potro
[064] sign up at the local library, take out 10 books (0/10)
[065] make a youtube video
[066] sing karaoke
[067] attend warp tour
[068] say yes instead of no
[069] join a bible study group
[070] get my baby book from my parents
[071] grow herbs (the legal kind!)
[072] finish painting our bedroom
[073] go back to a blue's bar
[074] go to the state park at least 20 times (1/20)
[075] drive around to view christmas lights
[076] register a dollar at where's george
[077] repair my hope chest
[078] participate in relay for life
[079] take a trip to okefenokee with wayd
[080] go on a picnic
[081] take wayd to st.augustine
[082] donate clothes that we no longer wear
[083] let my hair grow
[084] finish the kitchen
[085] put all my photos on my computer onto a dvd
[086] paint our bathroom
[087] put all my photos in albums
[088] spend more time with my family
[089] cook at least two meals during the week for two months (0/8)
[090] go to a film festival
[091] learn to knit
[092] get the kids rooms decorated
[093] go a whole week without fast food
[094] build that koi pond we've talked about
[095] finish something i start
[096] catch a lightning bug
[097] do something daring
[098] go to a renaissance fair
[099] get wayd his jeep
[100] reconnect with an old friend
[101] visit a zoo

How far from your last home do you live? Why did you move and are you glad you did? 
Submitted by Matthew 25.

My husband and I currently live 3,000 miles from our last real home. However, if you count moving less than a mile then we could go with that, but I rather think that's not exactly a move.

The Day of the Dead (Día de los Difuntos or Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a holiday celebrated mainly in Mexico and the Mexican immigrant community living in the United States, with variations of it also observed in other Latin American countries and other parts of the world. The Mexican celebration occurs on November 1 (All Saints' Day) and November 2 (All Souls' Day).

Though the subject matter may be considered morbid from the perspective of some other cultures, celebrants typically approach the Day of the Dead joyfully, and though it occurs roughly at the same time as Halloween, All Saints' Day and All Souls Day, the traditional mood is much brighter with emphasis on celebrating and honoring the lives of the deceased, and celebrating the continuation of life; the belief is not that death is the end, but rather the beginning of a new stage in life. In Mexico and Mexican immigrant communities in the United States and Europe, the Day of the Dead is of particular cultural importance.

The Day of the Dead is celebrated to a lesser extent in other Latin American countries; for example, it is a public holiday in Brazil, where many Brazilians celebrate it by visiting cemeteries and churches. In Spain this holiday has great festivals dedicated to it also, there are big parades, and at the end of the day people all gather around cemeteries and pray to their loved ones that have died. Most of them are Catholic. The holiday is also observed in the Philippines. Observance of the holiday in Mexican-American communities in the United States has become more important and widespread as the community grows both numerically and economically each generation. Similarly-themed celebrations also appear in some Asian and African cultures.

per wikipedia

the party saturday rocked.

bigger versions of pictures can be seen @ my 'space.

monday i had to get up early and go pick up my heart meds and get wayd some medicine. i also bought some kick rear lotion, man that junk is awesome. c brought his xbox 360 over so they could play on the new tv wayd's parent's got over the weekend. it's a 42" hd. luckily i did my workout before he got here because there's no way anyone was going to get the tv away from them once they started playing. of course, it being monday we had our "party-at-our-house-heroes-night". last week was our first one, but since b was sick and ama had to work only c showed up. :/ this time we had several ppl here. :) jus got off work around 2100, so ama picked him up and they came over. c was already here and j was sick, so she left work early and ended up at our house around 1800 or so. b got off at 2130 and then came straight over. c & i made three way spaghetti, so once everyone ate we all sat down and watched heroes. (we record it on the dvr so we don't have to watch commercials.) afterwards the guys all played halo3 online while us girls watched and talked. ext. the house finally cleared out close to 0200. it was great. i'm glad we're going to be doing this every monday! i'm sure we'll eventually start rotating between our place and c&j's, but that's all fine.

yet again.