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I found this list while going through some stacks of old papers. Sometimes I get way too caught up in my head and if I take a moment to write things out like this, it helps.

If life could be any way I want it to be, how would I want it to be

• I would want to wake up each morning feeling refreshed after having gotten a good night’s sleep
• I would like to have the time to enjoy a nice cup of something hot and soothing, while sitting in the morning sun, breathing in some fresh morning air
• I would like to take a nice morning walk and enjoy the fresh air
• I would like to begin and end the day with a tidy home
• I would like to earn my living by doing something that nourishes my heart and soul, as well as my mind
• I would like to live in a beautiful and peaceful home
• I would like to have the time and the energy to prepare delicious and healhty meals for my family
• I would like to have a happy and healthy family
• I would like to be a good mother
• I would like to have strong, loving and communicative relationships
• I would like to laugh with mirth
• I would like to make somebody smile
• I would like to be content with who I am and how I look
• I would like to have time to play
• I would like to have what I need
• I would like to have a place to put everything, and be able to find anything that I need
• I would like to feel healthy, energetic, and peaceful
• I would like to have no financial anxiety
• I would like to live in a peaceful place
• I would like to live in a place where the air is clean and fresh
• I would like to make it through the day without becoming angry, frustrated, annoyed, hurt, or anxious
• I would like to make it through the day without causing anybody else anger, frustration, annoyance, hurt, or anxiety
• I would like to begin and end the day with no residual resentment in my heart
• I would like to go to sleep at night knowing that I have lived the day thankfully and have honored the gift of life that I have been blessed with.

I’m new to Blogland and can’t help but follow links from here to there and back again. There are so many people out there in Blogland who share their beauty, be it photographs, musings, poems, crafts, paintings — all manner of creative pursuits. I see lists of what people have been reading, what they’ve been listening to. All these things blow my mind! Not that my mind is that small, but I am in part inspired by this outpouring of creativity that surrounds me, and in part baffled as to how people possibly find the time! (…Not to mention the inspiration and of course the ability…) I’ve made a few paintings here and there through the years, and I’ve taken a few decent photographs. I’ve written one or two poems that I might not be too embarrassed to publish. I’m merely a dabbler. I have no strong bent to any of these wonderful pursuits, yet I have a yearning. Oh to find my art, she muttered wistfully as her thoughts meandered off to other things.

I went to Costco yesterday to place an order for a birthday cake, and left the store with three sets of canisters (they were only $9.97 so how could I pass that up ), some tie downs and a cold heat welder gizmo (these are gifts for a brother-in-law), a huge pasta stock pot with a neat draining sieve lid thingy (gift for a sister-in-law) and a set of cookware pour moi. I stopped to admire a nice looking pan and fell victim to the peddler and her sales schpiel. I’ve been looking for the perfect ‘everything’ pan, as I’m trying to simplify my life and belongings and equip my kitchen with only the essential things that work perfectly for my cooking needs, but there was such a deal on the complete set package that I took the bait. I parted with quite alot of $$ that day, and have just found an interesting article about this cookware. This site, Cooking for Engineers appeals to my analytic side for sure. I think I’ve been had. (I must say that the non-stick demo was very impressive, though.) At least it’s Costco and I can return it if I decide I can’t live with being had, even if I make that decision months, or even a year from now. I still love Costco. I confess.