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OmgsItsTashaRose
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
MN
USA
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 Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 12:36:09 PM
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So I see these threads for farmgirls in certain decades of life...40's and 50's...how come no 30's? or 20's for that matter??
So here we go...30's farmgirls, holla!!!
I'm 31...32 on Jan 8 :-D
Were you afraid to enter your 30's? What has been the highlight so far in your fourth decade? Are you afraid as you get ever closer to 40?
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one_dog_per_acre
True Blue Farmgirl
1572 Posts
Trish
Sandpoint
ID
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 12:46:53 PM
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I am 36. I am hoping for a skunk stripe if silver hair. They are starting to come in, and look like silver lighning, against my black hair. I don't there is anything wrong with looking like Witch Hazel from Looney Tunes. It probably helps that DH is 10 years older than I am.
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
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OmgsItsTashaRose
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
MN
USA
44 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 12:51:03 PM
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I keep covering my skunk stripe! It's hereditary and I am just not ready for it yet!! Travis does not like that I color my hair. He gets really hot under the collar about it actually, because fo the chemicals...but I am just not ready for gray hair yet!! He is thinning and graying a little and he is younger than me (26)...just because he has accepted his doesn't mean I have to accept mine, right?
Formerly GaiasRose |
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one_dog_per_acre
True Blue Farmgirl
1572 Posts
Trish
Sandpoint
ID
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 1:27:31 PM
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Your face is beautiful. You will be the kind of lady that ages well, I can tell.
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 1:34:17 PM
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Maybe we're the only 30 somethings? How old am I?.....I just had a birthday on October 20th and to be truthful, I really stopped counting after I turned 30. My husband is 39, so that makes me 38.
No issues to speak of, still get carded when I try to buy alcohol.
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
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Lieberkim
True Blue Farmgirl
839 Posts
Kimberly
Sunnyside
WASHINGTON
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 4:10:22 PM
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38 but lots of people think I'm much younger, helps that I have young children!! :)
I dye my hair. You can get dye that isn't so nasty. I can't use the stuff in the store or hair dressers, makes me seriously ill. I use herbatint, it doesn't make me sick and doesn't have some of the nasty chemicals in it. Folks always think it's my natural color. I was born to be a redhead!!!
Jonni, I hear you. Just the other day I was trying to figure out how old I was. I just don't think about it anymore. I'm to busy living life to concentrate on my number. Something that used to be so important has become nothing. Weird huh? I must be getting old. :)
Excuse the mess & the noise, my children are making happy memories |
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22angel
True Blue Farmgirl
498 Posts
Pam
Manitoba
Canada
498 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 4:48:01 PM
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I'm going to be 32 at the end of the month...as my nephew (8) likes to put it: "You're younger than Dad, but older than Mom...and aunty Shell, and Uncle Clayton...Nana's older 'n you, right?" (I look exactly like my mother!). But yeah. I'm going to be 32 & single forever :p. More later...gotta go have some fun tonight!
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
427 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 8:57:50 PM
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32 for me. Enjoying a four year old and two year old (girls). My new favorite activity is skipping through parking lots holding the four year old's hand. It feels great and it makes so many people smile. Not sure it would have the same effect if she wasn't with me though. I like the idea of a thirties group. I find myself jealous of how busy the chatter is in the fifties group.
Emily
Farmgirl # 3591 |
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bvfarm
Farmgirl in Training
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Christine
Santa Fe
texas
USA
27 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2011 : 9:33:00 PM
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Hiii!
well I thought I was one of the few under 40 too! splendid - you already dared to cover it! I did put it in my post though - new from TX here.
I'm 32, fiance is 39??geez...he's almost 40. Ha! anyhow, look way younger too and sometimes act like it. Tired of being serious already. No kids. 2 big dogs that are like my kids - a 90 lb lab furgirl named Sara & an 11 mo. old 90lb Cane Corso Italian Mastiff furboy who is waiting to put on another 20-30 lbs. And there are the 2 senior cats. My guy hasn't actually asked me to marry him yet, but we've been together for 7yrs (this time, 6 or so the other time-long story)and bought this place together. Has almost 9 acres...totally beautiful. No other animals yet other than Oppe the possum, his cousin, the mean mama racoon who we flushed out of the attick, the 2 owls, and a few rabbits. The mice aren't welcome and I think I've about killed them all, as my mission since buying it in June. Yuck!!!Haven't moved the cats here yet(still at my old house), so they BETTEr do their job otherwise I'll be posting them for adoption. (not really, but sounds good.) So, thats all about me for now...how cool to have some other 30's...I'd love to know what brought ya'll here & where you're from!!
God is the only cure without sideeffects. Gratitude and Coincidence are His footprints. - CMV
I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
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22angel
True Blue Farmgirl
498 Posts
Pam
Manitoba
Canada
498 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 06:40:10 AM
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I think I'm getting a sinus infection now :(. Who has a worse immune system than the 2 year olds? Oh yeah, the person who works with the 2 year olds! This is ridiculous! Can't blame it on lack of vitamins, it's those darn tonsils! Waiting to see when I get them out (I'm thinking in January sometime :s). But anyhow. Better go get something for breakfast before work.
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
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OmgsItsTashaRose
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
MN
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 06:47:02 AM
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I have RA and I am only 31...took me 30 minutes just to sit up in bed this morning....ouchie! Doesn't help that the cold has moved in to Minnesota!
Other than that it's a great start to a great day! How are all of you today??
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 08:33:39 AM
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I was wondering about the 30 somethings, as well! I beat TashasRose by 3 days HAHA! I will be 32 on the 5th of January.
My Old Man turned 30 a year and ten days after me, and talks some times about feeling "old". He's had a hard knock life, though, and works really hard.
As far as greys, I don't color mine. They're not actually grey, they are snow white! I have mistaken a few of the new ones for being fur from my cat back at Momma's house (we call him our lil dirty snowball because he's all white except for his tail, a spot on his foot, and a dot on his head are black).
We aren't married yet, but we're planning on it. We want to start a family, and I told him I wasn't going to wait till I was 37 to start having babies.  I'm a lil feisty some times.
As far as feeling my age.... I think I got left behind some times. Some times I feel it, other times I don't. I'm enjoying the thirties, as my mother taught me something long ago: When you're in your thirties, you're still young enough to have fun, but you've gained the wisdom to know how NOT to get in trouble doing it. 
There are times like I feel as if I am waiting too late to do everything, but other times, I feel like I'm right on schedule.
Good to know there's a group of gals on the farm who can relate!
Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 08:38:38 AM
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Well, this 30 something is a bit bummed today (ref. to my post about my 13 year old cat passing yesterday) but the sun is shining here, even if it's chilly.
My friend is coming to pick me up for fish tacos, so that's something to look forward to--toasting my kitty with a fish taco seems like something he would well approve of :)
As far as "feeling" 38, I can't say that I do--my pregnancy was super easy, but even with the bone structure of a 55 year old due to many years of strenuous (and debilitating) classical ballet training and performance, like most of us, I just take some advil and get going. I haven't any grey hair whatsoever, which is nice--no dyeing to do yet, and I don't know that I'll have much, if any--my grandmother and great grandmother never did--Theodocia had mousy brown hair with a few greys well into her 85th year.
As for everything else, there's nothing a good eye cream can't fix!!!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 08:51:30 AM
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I'm so sorry about your kitty  I have a ten year old blue exotic short hair living with my mother... decided not to take him with me because he's been in that house since he was 4 weeks old, and he does NOT care for our room mate (he loves the old man, just not the room mate). I go check on him when I can because I worry. He's from a feral litter, so ten years is already up there, for him!
I guess I should not worry about having kids... I still don't want to wait so long, but my body is in good shape, save for my creaky knees, and that's mostly genetics and a weight problem. But, people think I'm in my 20s. I have kids 10 years younger than me flirting with me, some times. Kinda makes me giggle! My Momma is much the same... 62 and people think she's in her mid to late 40s. She out does most of the kids a third her age and only has to take one prescription. I think that's where I get a lot of my "farmgirl" spirit.
I don't really plan on coloring my greys, even if they get thicker. I have a natural chestnut colored hair, almost black in the winter when I'm not in the sun as much, and the white strands are quite pretty.
My sister in law stopped coloring hers because my brother likes her "skunk stripe". I always wanted to look like Helen Munster and so far, it looks like that may happen for me LOL
Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 09:00:16 AM
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Thanks, Miranda--he was such a good boy, the house seemed so different this morning, without him greeting me at the bedroom door, ready to eat. Will be tough to get used to for a while...
For me, I have a small frame, so when I was pregnant, I made sure to eat really healthy and that way I'd have a lot less joint issues because I already have those due to dance injuries. I think a healthy pregnancy weight is really important for you AND your baby.
My mother is 64 and she looks amazing--but she's also a real stickler for washing her face every night and day and using 10 kinds of creams and repairative solutions. She sure looks great, though, and like her mother, she has the energy of a toddler--she works full time and has a cleaning business on the side so that almost every free second is taken up by moving around!
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
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tiff-tiff
True Blue Farmgirl
78 Posts
Tiffany
Austin
Texas
USA
78 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 09:03:58 AM
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hmmm... It's been a while since I have been on with you farmgirls! I just turned 35 a week ago. I don't know how I feel about it. Some days it doesn't bother me in the least, but I have a 9 month old (and 4 teenagers)so I feel every ounce of 35 - every day! Ha
Farmgirl #164
www.itsatippinthing.blogspot.com |
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 09:18:51 AM
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haha, TiffTiff! I can imagine! Even without being a mother yet, I still feel my "age" some times. I think a lot of that is just the stress I have been through since '07.
Violet, I know the feeling of being without a fuzzy companion I had a Japanese Bobtail when I was a kid that disappeared, and even now, I miss him. They get to us! Even my father cried when the exotic shorthair we'd had since I was 5 died. Sackett was one heck of a cat, and got to my big, strong Daddy.
This has been such a treat! I haven't been with the Sisterhood very long, but I am so refreshed! We don't all have the same hopes and fears, but I'm so happy to see how we can relate! *wiggle dance!*
Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX |
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OmgsItsTashaRose
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
MN
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 11:59:44 AM
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I have had three and Travis and I are planning on three more :-D I am 31 and we want three inside the next 6 years roughly...so I will be 37-38 by the time I am done making babies...I'm ok with that. I always thought I wanted to be done at 30....but my whole life long I always wanted 6 babies. Always...So I thought I was done...had my babies and ended up divorced....then this beautiful man who worships the goddess within me (and I worship the god within him likewise...) tells me one day he wants to have babies with me and my uterus jumps alive and says, yes yes!! pick me!! please fertilize me!!! lol....so now here we sit, planning. We are planning just after the start of the new year to start trying. I am typically fertile myrtle as many of you know...so it shouldn't be too difficult. He is even taking daddy prenatals to increase count and motility! We are so into this baby making thing, and loving one another and worshiping together, it's insane...
So whoever said having babies in your 30's was dangerous ought to be smacked, hard. I'm gonna do it and I am gonna do it how I always have...au naturale and at home.
In other news, I found an herbal hair dye at the coop I might try...see if that assuages Travis enough so he isn't mad each time I dye my hair....we shall see. Report to follow.
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Edited by - OmgsItsTashaRose on Nov 17 2011 12:10:21 PM |
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 12:18:54 PM
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I think for me, it's mostly the FIRST baby thing in my late 30s. I know it's been done, but my aunt waited till she was 40 or 41 to even have her first kid, and it caused a lot of complications. Then again, it may have been the rough living earlier on in life.
Josh and I are waiting a little bit so we can afford it a little easier, but I am excited to see him as a Daddy. It makes me a little misty eyed, seeing him play with his nephew, and he's good at disciplining when he has to.
About a month ago, we were visiting some of his family friends in Lubbock. Mr. John was sitting his great granddaughter, waiting for his wife to get home, and I kept an eye on the baby while he and my old man talked. She kept wandering off to go look at the neighbor's goats, chihuahua at her heels. Well, we left maybe 20 minutes after Ms Sam got home, and as we walked back to my truck, the baby followed me, bawling her eyes out. I picked her up and hugged her and took her back to Ms Sam, and she tearfully waved bye-bye. UGH!! Even now I'm all weepy eyed thinking about it! LOL I'm such a sucker.
Some day!!!!!
Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 1:59:51 PM
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I was 36 when I had Violet--my pregnancy was a breeze, not even a smidge of nausea. In fact, I felt better than I ever had, so empowered, so strong. The only problem I experienced was that she was overdue by a week and my blood pressure, for whatever reason, sky rocketed and I had to be induced.
Prior to having Violet, children were sort of "iffy" for us--I loved my nieces and nephew, but really, you can give them back, so you don't have to deal with all the other stuff. But I wouldn't change my life after Violet--it's like I don't even know what we DID before she came--none of it seems significant, any how.
Take your time, and truthfully, you can NEVER afford it--babies only need full tummy's and loads of love. The rest of it is marketing ;)
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
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22angel
True Blue Farmgirl
498 Posts
Pam
Manitoba
Canada
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Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 6:19:07 PM
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Well, my "fun night" of painting ceramics turned into a sinus infection...so I'm feeling a bit more like a million years old, never mind just about 32!
Speaking of kids/pregnancy, I get reminded often that "I'm not getting any younger" and "the older you are, the harder it is/the more risk for complications and/or preemies" (I was a preemie by 2 1/2 months, but I'm fine now - for the most part :p). I haven't quite decided if I want kids or not, and especially considering that I am single with nary a prospect in sight, it's not like it's going to happen any time soon anyways. I think that if I did have kids, I would find another job to do - or my dream - stay at home mom. That would be great. Guess it all depends on what God has in store for me & when....
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 7:01:44 PM
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people keep reminding me I'm not getting any younger. I think that's part of the reason it has me antsy. I listen to criticism too easily.
I used to say that if I wasn't married by the time I was 30, I'd give up. then, I met Josh. I was 30. ha!
"I'm not trying to be mean or cantankerous. I just wish people would do the right thing, and use a little common sense." ~ Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX |
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vmfein
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Valerie
Dale City
VA
USA
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Posted - Nov 18 2011 : 09:55:03 AM
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My husband and I have been married for a few years, we have no other family here besides us. The rest of our family all live in the midwest or west coast. We don't have any kids yet, but have what I called kids in training, one cat and one dog. Sometimes they get along, while other times they don't =0) This year I started college and it is quite different then when I was in school years ago, that is for sure. This year and the beginning of next, I will have four new second cousins born so excited about that. I plan on making something for each one, and then sending it to them. I have two wonderful nieces, that I like to spoil when I get the chance.
Farmgirl Sister #2619
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amethyst
Farmgirl in Training
49 Posts
Amberly
Suwanee
GA
USA
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Posted - Nov 18 2011 : 3:44:41 PM
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I turned 30 this April! So I'm just barely touching this new decade of my life. I wasn't thrilled about turning 30, especially as the day came closer and closer. My husband is just 6 months younger than me, but I didn't want to be thirty before him, for some silly reason. Right before my birthday, A dear friend of mine told me that 30 is when a woman comes into her own. That really rang true for me and helped turn my attitude around. I found a quote by Robert Frost that I've been using as my email signature since my birthday. It makes me smile, so I'll share it. "Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty."
Farmgirl Sister #2581
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22angel
True Blue Farmgirl
498 Posts
Pam
Manitoba
Canada
498 Posts |
Posted - Nov 18 2011 : 5:14:43 PM
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I had issues with 25....I think because I was in a thankless job that I didn't like, nor want, I wasn't doing anything productive with my life, nor was I happy.
30, I was ok with. I had a new & better job, new friends, new town. Not everything has changed - I'm still single (& will be forever at the rate I'm going! I need to have more faith!), and I'm still not 100% happy, but I'm working on it. Trying to get my family on board with my idea of living on my Grandpa's farm....I don't know the whole process that needs to be done, so it's taking a long time. But it's winter now, so it's not like I could move out there anyhow. And I'd need a truckload of cash for it too!
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
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woolgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Elizabeth
Great Lakes
IL
USA
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Posted - Nov 19 2011 : 04:41:45 AM
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Oh boy girls, I am so close to being able to join your cool kids 30 year olds club! I turn 30 this year. I am not too worried. 28 I freaked about. I always felt like by 28 one should kind of have their life in order, be done with college, all settles down, you know, the societal norms. I was just getting out of the military, still did not have my Bachelors, my husband and I were going through a rough patch. I have gotten over all that crazy thinking and am just fine with whatever 30 thinks it wants to dish out. Bring it on!
Liz
Farmgirl #1947
www.militaryfarmgirl.blogspot.com
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