Monday, April 8, 2013

Updated Life List.


I don’t blog much anymore, but every now and then I get the urge to update something. And today I am experiencing that urge. 
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a Bucket List. And it's changed since then… 

These are the things I've accomplished:

#7. Buy a house.
33: See Memphis on Broadway {Again}.
#80: Play on another water polo team. 
#104. Have a fire pit in my backyard
#50: Get fortune told to me by a fortune teller/psychic.
#79: Shoot at and hit a clay pigeon.
#37: Ride a bike across the Golden Gate Bridge
#85: Own a pair of legit cowboy boots.
#40. Grow an herb garden. 
#68. Grow a vegetable garden.
#28: Ride my bike around Central Park.
#88: Ride a mechanical bull for 7 seconds.
#73: Have a concealed weapons permit. (I'm packing now. Don’t mess with me.)
#9. See Les Misérables on stage.
#94: Re-Read the entire The Work and the Glory series.
#44: Ride a street car in San Francisco.
#55: Learn to sew on a sewing machine.
#24: See Wicked on Broadway {Again}.
#16: Tell Walter Fife “thank you” in person.
#38. Spend a week in Belize and go cave tubing again. (Okay, So technically I didn't spend a week there, but I did go cave tubing there again. And thats good enough for me to consider this one checked off.)
#19: Swim with dolphins.
#4. Marry my soul mate. 
#6. Start a book club. I LOVE THIS BOOK CLUB. Started when Oakcrest Elites were flaky. 
#57. Teach a Russian class. Thanks Winterim. 


Look at me go.
I must say I am quite pleased with my progress 


These are the things I changed my mind on, and don't care about accomplishing:

#10: Live in San Francisco for a year. (I wrote this before I’d ever been to San Fran. I thought it would be an enchanting city to live in… Now that I've been there… Not so much.)

#34: Live in San Diego for a year. (Same reason as above.)

#41: Go to culinary arts school. (I pretty much taught myself how to cook already. And I rock at it. So I don’t need some culinary certificate to prove that. Just come over and let me make you dinner.)

#48: Have lunch with Ashley. (While I still love her and her blog, she is not my favorite blogger anymore nor is she someone I admire so much that I’d like to meet her. She has disappointed me from time to time. Now I’d say the blogger I admire most and would like to have lunch with is La Vie Petite)

#70: Get my house decorated by a professional. (I’ve since discovered Pinterest. With all the DIY stuff online, who needs to pay anyone to decorate anymore?)

#72: Read the original Les Miserables book by Victor Hugo. (For some reason this 1000 page book doesn’t appeal to me anymore. I get the story enough from all the video’s I've seen depicting it.)

#75: Have my very own crafting room. (I'd love a room of the house to myself still I guess, but I don’t craft really much anymore so that would not be its purpose…)

#21. Own a real expensive camera. Like the ones photographers use. (I just don't care. Technology these days gives me more than adequate photos.) 

#71. Take a photography class. (I'm just not that into photography anymore.) 



And the remaining ones: 

1. Cook a Thanksgiving dinner {turkey and all} all by myself.
2. Become a foster parent {after my own children are grown.}
3. Own a horse. Name him Whiskey Pete.
5. Own a truck. A hot one.
8. Ride in a rodeo.
11. Make my own baby food {for future babies}.
12. Hit a homerun in softball.
13. Travel to all 50 states and photograph myself at every “Welcome to ___” sign.
14. Live in Manhattan for a year.
15. Ride a motorcycle all by myself.  
17. Watch a MLB game in every MLB stadium in the country.
18. Take a road trip with no predetermined destination.
20. Ride on a camel.
22. Spend an entire day at a spa getting every treatment available.
23. Travel the country in a giant RV.
25. Take a trip to England.
26. Go Marlins fishing in Cabo San Lucas. {And make-out on Lover’s Beach}
27. Take a boat tour of Venice Italy.
29. Go to the Temple in Ukraine.
30. Take a 30 day cruise around Australia.
31. Take my babies to Disneyland.
32. Go on the Sound Of Music tour in Austria.
35. Write a thank you note every day for a year.
36. Take a trip to Africa.
39. Live in a home on the beach for at least a year.
42. Take a trip to Niagara Falls.
43. Attend a World Series game
45. Master the art of couponing and budgeting.
46. Learn to sail on a real live sailboat.
47. Take a trip to Coney Island. 
49. Be in a musical theater production again.
51. Ride a century bike ride {100 Miles}.
52. Be able to see my abs.
53. Organize a ginormous family reunion in Lake Tahoe when I have babies.
54. Take a trip to Catalina Island.
56. Eat in a restaurant that Robert Irvine saved in a Restaurant Impossible episode.
58. Be a SAHM.
59. Learn to dance.
60. Watch the birth of a baby horse.
61. Become a mother.
62. Go on a weeklong river rafting and camping-on-the-beach trip.
63. Spend a summer living and working on a dude ranch.
64. Host an adult dinner party every month for a year, without repeating guests.
65. Ride on an elephant and have said elephant pick me up in his trunk. 
66. Go to Disneyworld.
67. Organize a fundraiser for Operation Smile.
69. Have a walk in closet.
74. Be in better shape at 40 than I am at 30.
76. Read the {entire} Bible.
77. Adopt a child from Ukraine or Russia {Preferably a teenager}.
78. Be the coordinator/planner for a good friend checking off something on his/her bucket list.
81. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
82. Have a hammock in my backyard.  
83. Take a road trip by myself.
84. Do this bike ride around Lake Tahoe.
86. Put 1500 miles on my bike in one season. {Roughly 12-15 miles a day. Cake.)
87. Create a family tradition that husband, kiddos and I can do for every holiday of the year.
89. Make Husband’s dreams come true.
90. Keep a houseplant alive for at least a year.
91. Become a Carnival Elite cruising member. (After 16th cruise)  
92. Take my babies to Ukraine.   
93. Catch a foul ball or a homerun ball at a major league game.
95. Go to Mt. Rushmore.
96. Learn how to cook a lobster.
97. Go help clean up somewhere after a natural disaster.
98. Go an entire year without repeating a recipe.
99. Go topless at a nude beach.
100. Ride my bike from Northern California to Southern California
101. Go to Alcatraz
102. Take my Hubby to Ukraine
103. Go to the Nationals Rodeo held in Las Vegas
105. Watch a plane land at the St. Maartin Airport
106. Go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Ohio
107. Teach an institute class
108. Go to a SYTYCD audition at the Capitol Theatre
109. Go on a tour of American History cites in Virginia, DC, Gettysburg etc.
110. Learn how to surf
111. Read a biography of each President of the United States
112. Go to Broadway Con
113. Do this Disneyland Scavenger Hunt (CityRace Disneyland) 




Thursday, March 21, 2013

Number Sixteen


Today I checked #16 off My List

My soul needed that. 

Number 16 was probably the most enriching that I have checked off thus far. 


Thanks again Brother Fife. You have literally changed my life. 

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Dear Daniel,


Boy I knew this song was yours the minute I heard it. 6:00 AM on Saturday.
Still groggy and trying to wake up, this song came on and I knew the tears were on their way.
Tears are usually only a few memories away. Still. 7 months and 6 days later.
I will always hate that you still mean so much to me. I wish I was over you.

This song-- it was written for me and my LB. And I hate every minute of that reality. 
And it only gets worse with every date I go on. 
They are nothing like you.
I'm so tired of comparing every other guy with you.
It's not fair to them.
It's not fair to me.
But the fact still remains.
They are nothing like you.



I will never forgive you for the choices you make that keep us apart. 
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