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Consignment
flower shop- Do you grow amazing flowers in your yard? Don’t mind sharing
your bounty? Bring your flowers into my shop: I’ll pay you for them, and sell
them to other people on the cheap. That
way even the poorest of us can have fresh flowers in our homes all of the time,
and we can afford to give our grandmas big bouquets of local, seasonal flowers
every time they break a hip. You make money for what’s already growing in your
yard! I make money from selling your flowers! People can buy cheap presents for
each other! WIN-WIN-WIN!
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Caffeine
Truck- I posted about this on facebook a few weeks ago, and I still think
it’s a winner. Here’s the deal: I buy a food type truck. I install some
espresso machines and the like, and then I outfit it with awesome speakers on
the top. As you are rolling out of bed on Saturday morning, you hear some
amazing Sia, or Justin Beiber, or the Les Mis soundtrack, or Kelly Clarkson, or
The Fresh Beat Band (depends on my mood, ok?) and you know it’s me bringing you
some fair trade and local, glorious caffeinated delights. You throw on your
robe and slippers, grab some dollar bills, and run out to greet me. I fulfill
all of your wildest coffee-related fantasies right outside of your home.
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MMmmmm
Salads- Ok you guys, I make amazing salads. There aren’t a whole lot of
things that I know for sure that I’m good at, but making a delicious salad is
one of the few. I know that there have
been salad-themed restaurants before, and honestly they were always boring. So,
keeping that in mind, I’m not sure how I would get people into my restaurant to
try my amazing salads, but once they did they would be hooked. I guess I could
sell other stuff too, like cookies and brownies (hey, all you had for lunch was
a salad! Treat yo’self!). It’s apparently an unwritten rule that women aged 20
and over have to eat mostly just salads whenever they go out to eat , so there’s
a demographic for it. I just need a good name:
“Eat Yo’ Greens”
“Fat Salads”
“Heavy on the Ranch”
“Lettuce N’ Stuff”
“Crunchin’ and Brunchin’ and Lunchin’”
“Our
Daily Veg”
“Rabbit Food”
I have plenty more equally far-fetched ideas about what I
would like to do with my life in a few years. Life is way too short to work a
job you don’t like, or to sit at home and twiddle your thumbs. God didn’t fill
this world with crazy awesome people who have crazy awesome ideas so that we
can all repress our ideas because they are totally crazy, and never become who
we want to be. But if I have to work a “normal” job to pay the bills for a
while, then I’m going to make sure spice up our lives by actually doing everything
on my….
Bucket List.
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Join the
local roller derby for at least one season. Kick butt, get in shape, be aggressive,
have tons of fun.
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Volunteer
for an animal shelter or sanctuary once a week for six months. Bring the
kids along with me (Chad, too) and help teach them that every single one of God’s
creatures is important and deserves our kindness and love.
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Live in
another country for at least three months. Canada does not count. Preferably
a tropical country.
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Volunteer
at a homeless shelter or rescue mission once a week for six months. The
homeless are too often ignored and forgotten… by me. I want to remind myself
and teach my kids that every single person on this planet is deeply loved by
their Father. No matter what, we are called to show them God’s love and to
serve them.
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Build an
adorable tiny house, less than 700 or 800 square feet, and live in it. I am
TOTALLY NOT KIDDING. I want for us to do most of the work ourselves and use as
many reclaimed items as we can. I’m talking all three kids and us in the house.
I think I would love the challenge of
the tiny space, being forced to live simply, and being in very close quarters
with our kids. Chad would love building his own house, and starting small
(tiny) makes it actually seem achievable. We may have to get a hotel room every
now and then, but hey. I think it would be worth it.
This is, of course, after Trapper goes to
be with Jesus. His farts would suffocate us in that small space.
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Take
voice lessons and get my pipes back. Maybe my kids will eventually stop telling
me, “No more singing, Mama!!!!”
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One of my lifelong dreams is to give someone a house. I’m not sure why
I’m so attracted to this idea, but owning a home is a dream for so many people
and one that seems to be becoming more and more difficult to achieve. Our house
is definitely a starter house, “our-first-home” type material. I would die of
happiness if I was able to pretend that we were selling our house, and surprise
the people who want to buy it by just giving it to them. What if someone did
that for you, wouldn’t that MAKE YOUR LIFE??? I get excited just thinking about it. It’s
ridiculous, but I really want to do it. I’d need a lot more money, but man. It
would be awesome.
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Volunteer
at our local hospital as a baby holder in the NICU. A friend of mine had
her babies in the NICU for a while and mentioned to me that some of those
babies NEVER had a visitor and were rarely held. Hearing that just about ripped
my heart in two. Every life, every single life, is precious.
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Volunteer
(or get a job at) a community garden or a small farm. I really feel like it’s
important to learn about how to grow food, I just have no idea how to do it and
don’t think I can learn it from a book. The kids would LOVE it. It will be
awesome and teach us all how to respect God’s amazing creation.
So, there it is. There are of course about 600 other things
that I’ve thought of, but these particular ideas keep popping up in the murky
waters of my tired brain. I believe that life really is what you make it to be,
and I want our lives to be full of giving, learning, traveling, serving, taking
chances, and lots of silliness J
Carpe Diem, Y’all!!
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