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Everybody said, "don't get a goose."

#100 Things in 20 Minutes

By Meagan DionPublished 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago 3 min read
Everybody said, "don't get a goose."
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This was inspired by Judey Kalchik’s #100 Things in 20 Minutes Challenge.

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1. Everybody said "don't get a goose."

2. I have a goose her name is Golly.

3. She cuddles me and thinks I'm her momma.

4. This challenge should be easy, I'm ADHD- I'm shooting for ten minutes.

5. Welcome to my mind.

6. This is the rabbit hole.

7. I love Alice in wonderland.

8. Lewis Carroll wasn't on drugs.

9. I did a paper on this in college.

10. He wasn't on drugs, but he was a creepy person.

11. The Cheshire cat was based off a cat carving in the church he worked at in Cheshire.

12. That cat had a big grin, looks like the moon.

13. We study space every year for homeschool.

14. I homeschool four kids eleven down to 6.

15. I have four kids, ten chickens, one goose, two cats.

16. I babysit two kids.

17. My house is pretty loud.

18. We have a "no yell bell."

19. It works about half the time.

20. My mother in law comes over and looks out my window and announces when she sees a squirrel.

21. She's ADHD and so am I, so is my son, and probably my daughter.

22. Her name is Eden, after the garden in the Bible, she will tell you that.

23. When she was born she was born in three min. I am at five.

24. Planets, I took astronomy in college.

25. The professor was really dry. Think Ferris Bueller.

26. It was a night class. I fell asleep.

27. I didn't get good grades but mysteriously he gave me a B on the exam.

28. Space-time theory is super interesting.

29. Sometimes I want to be an artist.

30. Sometimes I want to be an astrophysicist.

31. Einstein was cool.

32. He had crazy hair.

33. He had ADHD.

34. Time is irrelevant.

35. So maybe I'll make my deadline.

36. Depends on your perspective.

37. Did you know the particles from the beginning of the world, from their perspective, are one month old?

38. So everybody is right.

39. I have a degree in Bible.

40. I work at a hotel.

41. Sometimes people tell me their beds aren't beds.

42. Once someone got stuck in the elevator.

43. She was screaming.

44. There were kids who said to me "I don't know if you know, there's a lady stuck."

45. Someone's kid puked up their meal.

46. The parents refused to move.

47. They were eating.

48. I work with a lot of rich people.

49. Their credit cards are heavier.

50. I'm at ten min.

51. Pride comes before a fall.

52. Sometimes our mailman leaves the mailbox open.

53. Once he left a package in the snow.

54. There was a flood recently.

55. The water lifted a Subway off it's supports.

56. I watched an empty car get sucked under a bridge.

57. Someone was looking for an emu.

58. I live in the woods.

59. We have a bear.

60. There is also probably a fox snipping our chickens.

61. Swipper no swipping.

62. We have 8 chickens.

63. My goose is turning white.

64. We are at out of milk.

65. Did you know you can make a roux and make any sauce?

66. I make my own Mac & Cheese.

67. I call the baby I watch Mac & Cheese.

68. I wrote a story about a squirrel.

69. I have an ADHD super power.

70. Most people I work with have ADHD.

71. Our key system sucks.

72. I always have to remake keys.

73. Don't put your key next to a magnent.

74. I had someone with an old school, red, horseshoe magnent.

75 It was in their pocket.

76. They said " would this do it?"

77. Yes.

78. Sometimes our pools close because of lighting.

79. Sometimes people smoke in the smoke free rooms.

80. Sometimes people call to ask me the weather.

81. Someone once asked me the weather for tomorrow.

82. He asked if I was there.

83. I said "in tomorrow?"

84. The bar serves really good lemonade.

85. I get them for free.

86. The guy at the bar has a scar across his face.

87. Sometimes security calls to tell me they went in and out of the garage.

88. I don't care.

89. I have a line!

90. Three minutes left.

91. I have a cat named Nusa.

92. She is a nuisance.

93. We just got them fixed.

94. Hopefully they'll stop peeing on stuff now.

95. My kids are watching me.

96. My timer is shaped like a macaroon.

97. It is pink.

98. It's actually my daughter's.

99. Someone ate Oreos.

100. I can smell it on their breath.

Did it in 18 minutes.

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About the Creator

Meagan Dion

Hi, my name is Meagan. I am a mom to four kiddos whom I homeschool. I am also a glassblower, creator, and writer. I aspire to finish and publish my memoir, but it's going to take a lot of time and coffee. Coffee is a verb, do you coffee?

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